skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> couldn't see difference between beef and lamb or veal vs pork

From 6 to 26? What changed at 26 lol? Are you saying that you stopped eating sugar? I’m surprised by the beef vs lamb comparison. Lamb has so much iron in it that it tastes like blood to me.

Maybe “sugar” isn’t why you couldn’t tell the difference. Especially if you’re saying your daughter doesn’t have that issue lol. I’m honestly perplexed by your comment.

I read that too much sugar can dull the taste of sweetness, which makes sense. I can’t see how it can dull the taste of blood though lol (unless you’re a mosquito).
Let's see, I think Lasermoon and Zipslack were on the cover CD with Computer Shopper in about what, 1993? Pink and yellow CD. I think I only binned it a couple of years ago - stupid of me!
Yes, that's what I did (and said so in the top post)
I think they mean, why introduce this new piece of infrastructure when you can create this internally with a singular table and probably a queue somewhere if we're being really fancy.
i dunno. i work on completely cross platform things and use a system76 laptop and the experience is still pretty garbage. the real problem is the linux userspace. its a huge arbitrary mess that is made worse by the insane number of packages that have to work together for a remotely usable desktop experience.

it's possible of course, but invariably breaks, especially if you need to install any single third party thing.

i hate flatpak etc but it really makes u think about why people are putting effort into fat packages for desktop stuff
That one is actually genuinely true and why so many price comparison and search websites artificially load slowly with fancy loading screens.
This doesn't really make sense to me as a ransom target. If it was a business that is losing $$$ per minute of downtime then a DDoS for ransom would make more sense, but a volunteer-run hobby site? If I were them I'd be happy to take a vacation and let the attacker spend all their money keeping the site down.

This has "Nobody move or the bunny gets it" vibes. What are they (the attackers) thinking?
I mean they already do that right now.
https://github.com/clickvote/clickvote/blob/main/libs/nest-l...

And yes - Twitter for example?
Is there some Firefox mod that reads that y8Onox... part and displays something like "galactus" for easiness to reference?

The fact that one has seen the video doesn't make the link recognizable. (And that's a problem with Youtube.)
Ya, sounds dark, as in dark pattern.
In theory maybe, but all the best designers I know concern themselves with the small details, while the ones who grandstand about information architecture and 'big picture' thinking frequently make glaring mistakes.

On the subject of doors: there was once a professor of architecture who made a point of asking every senior thesis presentation "where is the door?". It was always shocking how many people would overlook this basic detail while focusing on something like the hermeneutic of teleology implicit in a vast spiral corridor.
Architects who focused on doorknobs always got this one right.
Good design requires a tremendously high dynamic range between the micro and the macro. People who understand the importance of motion/animations generally make better decisions about how to structure information architecture at the large scale because it all needs to line up.
While lots of things in macOS are missing or broken, I more frequently see OS components spontaneously break down on Windows. On the Windows laptop I'm getting rid of shortly, I have to routinely kill dwm.exe because over time it comes to lag so much that it can't keep up with window movement. Colleagues report daily lockups of the start menu which further result in explorer.exe crashes when the Windows key is tapped.

The last time I used macOS professionally, I also experienced what I'd consider poor stability there, so maybe I'll feel differently after more time. But so far, after several weeks, it seems obvious to me that my new work MBP is much more stable than the Windows laptop they gave me a year ago.
Awards are powerfully gratifying and motivational, for some of us especially so. Symbolism is present in every civilization of every era for a reason.
Good luck at tearing apart things I can point to VOLUMINOUS real world examples of. Because, while Libertarians can talk a good game, their actual actions demonstrate what they are very clearly.

Your denial of reality to defend your ideology being one example itself. Face it: you’re just feeling emotional that your pet faith isn’t respected.
>>Oracle just sent a legal threat to "Rust for Javascript" to remove "Javascript" from their name.

Bullshit.

As a Reddit comment pointed out, they sent the legal notice because the person had Javascript in their Limited Company, not because they were selling a Javascript course. You can't create a Limited company violanting someone's trademark.

And in fact there are dozens of Javascript courses online
Queering the Map
It is wild how seriously people are taking the development of these LLMs. There is talk of them leading to the extinction of life while neglecting to consider that we can't even build self-driving cars, let alone have a robot clear the table after dinner.

Also, many people seem to be mistaking "artificial intelligence" for "actual intelligence".

You know that these LLMs are not actually intelligent, right? Right???
So what's the equivalent for choosing a distro?

99.999% of people don't need to go off road, and only need a bog standard desktop distro.
I just like the little retaining clips, and the satisfying little click you hear/feel when plugging them in.
The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.

GitHub needs a Participation Badge.
> The US is the opposite of "mostly flat". And large swaths of the mostly flat part have low population density.

Eh? Most of the population lives in the Atlantic coastal, Gulf coastal, and Midwest plains. Only a minority of Americans live in places that could be considered "mostly mountainous", methinks.

Even Denver, the most populous city in (arguably) the most mountainous state, is actually a Great Plains city.
When you kill a monolith you kill a random selection of inflight tasks from every part of your application.

So a rare bug in your mailing list signup workflow that hangs the process and causes it to be killed causes a random selection of inflight webpage requests, payment transactions, message handlers and business processes to fail. And if those failures aren’t all cleanly handled, your mailing list signup bug could propagate into a much wider issue.

Whereas if you have a ‘mailing list service’ that has its own processes that can be killed and respawned, that bug only takes our mailing list processing. Which is good because the bug was probably made by the team who owns mailing list processing. And they can roll back their code and be on their way, with nobody else needing to know or care.
I wish 2.5 SATA SSD could be powered with one data/power cable.
Scientists look at feasibility of power beaming through the Venus atmosphere
Looping was more natural to me, but learning Elixir (I've been using Learn Functional Programming with Elixir) made it so much easier to grasp and more natural. It's a fun language to use to boot.
> How does this make anyone feel any better? What happens after 10 years?

What happens in less than 10 years if they don't abide by it?

Does Activision get split back out? I doubt it.

We're long past the point where you can just set rules/laws and companies will abide by it. We need to be at the point where we also list the punishment ahead of time.
It's very inconvenient at first.

I've had mine for about a week now, and am using it more than I use my laptop. The "desktop" mode works more than well enough for web browsing and such.

The biggest thing that changed for me was learning that you can use both trackpads on the keyboard at the same time, and use the trigger buttons to "press" a key - or to press shift if you use the opposite trigger from the side your finger is moving.
That adds some interactivity, but I still wouldn't call this a game yet. Games generally have some sort of challenge you must overcome. This is more like a highly polished interactive simulation of a distributed db. Still really cool and well done.
I love this diatribe! But to be fair, this kind of engineering historically can at least lead to science.
I think you can def do it on a low scale.
You would not need this tech.

At least not the Kafka / Timescale feature.
It would place nice if you were a bit bigger - a news website, a social media and so on.
Right, I'm quite amenable to the idea that this war is functioning as a gigantic test bed for modern 21st century weapons systems, and we are - generally speaking - in a WWI scenario where a lot of new technology is clashing for the first time and we don't know what beats what. That's all well and good, but it has some interesting moral implications because it presupposes that we (the US) are keeping this war going intentionally as a means to allow our defense industrial base to tool up for a war in the pacific and test new technologies against the old Cold War adversary. If that is the reason, we should just be honest about it. Prior to 2016 Ukraine didn't exactly get the "bastion of freedom and democracy" treatment that it gets in the US press today, which has left me pretty skeptical of how its discussed in general. The war goes on if and only if the US continues funding it which suggest to me the opposite of your point, as an active war in Europe should distinctly reduce relative security in Europe. At what point do we "have enough data" and can stop the bloodshed?
Or you can write the tail-recursive version which starts from 1 and builds to n; no need to memoize.
2026 Android doesn't even exist yet.

To me this is a ludicrous and premature claim. They can claim this AFTER 2026 gets here and their device still runs whatever Android looks like in 2026. And runs it well, with acceptable performance and battery life. Not before.
So people who have financial interests can't be trusted, but also people who don't have financial interest can't be trusted.

All new tech starts as purely hypothetical. (Not to mention concrete milestones like quantum supremacy, gate infidelity trends, etc.)
> You can install other OS on the phone if you want.

Not with a kernel that wasn't provided by the manufacturer you can't. This massively constrains your options. I can pull a Debian or Ubuntu image off their website and install it on any old laptop, but for phones you need an image specifically tailored to each device, and it'll only get kernel updates as long as the manufacturer continues to provide them since they're all bespoke kernel forks per-device.
The AGPL only limits developers, not users. Users can do essentially anything they want with the software package they receive, so using AGPL software is no different for them than say MIT.

Why would an end user, which a company self-hosting something for their own use is, care about the license that applies to developers? And if their reason is that they might want modify the software to work better for them, 1) why would they not want to contribute that back and 2) I have some scary news for them about any other non-FOSS software they use (surely a lot).
Yea but the bench being discussed here is FOSS. Which for me, and many, translates to can i run something useful in my closet or on my phone. I've found LLaMA neat and yea, some FOSS models are getting decent - but they're a far cry from GPT4. I pay for GPT4, use it almost daily and that's my bench.

Yes, when i can run GPT4 in my closet, OpenAI will have GPT7 or w/e - but it doesn't change the fact that i have something useful running in my closed network and that opens up all kinds of data integration that i'm unwilling to ship to OpenAI. In that day i'll probably still use GPT7, but i'll _also_ have GPT4 running in my closet and integrating with a ton of things on my local network.
Can you provide some tangible examples of existential risk materializing?
Unihertz makes a few niche phones, check out their sizes. They are updating the Jelly line (3" screen, might be too small for you, but is what I own) right now for a fall release. The Atom XL is a ruggedized phone with a slightly larger (4") screen. FWIW, those both are thicker than an iphone mini (gotta fit the battery somewhere I guess).

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There is also the Titan Slim. It's a 4.2 inch screen, but has a keyboard, making it narrow, but very tall (5.75").

And if you do go for the super tiny Jelly series, don't get the 2E; it's designed as a second phone and so is less well spec'd than the older Jelly 2 (or the upcoming Jelly Star).
Starting strength is good but Rippetoe is very old school and the community has some cultish vibes. He is totally inflexible about any slight variation like high bar squats and trap bar deadlifts, which are great exercises and often better. His forums are not particularly friendly either. (Example: https://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/mark-rippetoe-q...)

I think stronglifts is generally a better program for beginners:

https://stronglifts.com/
You can track political developments in China, Russia, and Saudi by the price of BTC and foreign housing (esp. places like Vancouver, Canada, or London, England).
I have the same experience with Samsung printers. It's the most reliable and it's multi-funtion M2875FW. Works with generic toners.
That depends on your bandwidth and settings. Several music streaming services offer lossless music with spatial audio that is actually superior to what’s available on a CD and I can stream many movies in 4K UHD resolution that is likewise superior to DVDs and many Blu-Rays.
If your company is of type "enterprise" i.e. large enough to have a compliance department or security-conscious enough to go through a pre-sale vendor assessment, and you intend to "sync" users from LDAP/AD with the intent to use your AD user to log in, I strongly urge against hosting on their cloud platform. The LDAP Sync job pulls the password plaintext using the OpenLDAP protocol encrypts it with an APP_KEY they control, and stores that password in the Snipe-IT database. If you ever had an AD user who couldn't log into SnipeIT, then you "sync'd" users And it magically worked - chances are that user changed their password and the correct password needs to be re-acquired before the LDAP user-bind will be successful.

In our assessment we found that these APPKEYs are also included in the backup file - which makes the SnipeIT backup ZIP files a vector for exposing all users and passwords (as well as all encrypted fields data) because of a default setting by the framework's backup provider.

That said - if you are concerned about security, you will be on-prem or within your own cloud provider to begin with. The SnipeApp company offers an "enterprise" level support at a somewhat reasonable rate for big companies, and they were a great help assisting with our installation and integrating the SnipeIT API to import new devices and licenses automatically in a way that we can control from say a PO.

This password issue may not be a problem for you as I understand they now have connectors for SSO or another OAUTH provider. That and the fact that they asked us to share our backup via email during onboarding and they did not specify to keep the secrets out of the backup made our decision to go in-house. Still a good, scrappy product, and when we asked them if they had access to our company's passwords that was not disclosed, we didn't get a response. That's OK - and it was a good lesson for my team in evaluating an open source framework behind the product vis-a-vis "trust but verify."

Its always going to be a vector of our own partial design (and/or someone we are paying), a rogue backup source of truth that is ejected into the ether like atoms forming salts in an acid-base reaction.
> The Apple Silicon hardware is remarkable, but outside of web browsing, basic web development and video editing - it's artificially limited in it's capabilities.

Name one.
Recently I was saying how much amazing stuff there is in retro computing. One thing that keeps coming to mind for me recently is just how visionary Thinking Machines Connection Machine supercomputer architecture was with its massive parallelism built in, with neural network applications being a key predicted use case at the time. That was so long ago!

Interesting to think about in comparison to the challenges today around parallelizing 'commodity' GPUs. Scare quotes because he A100 and H100 are pretty impressive machines in and of themselves.
"Intelligence" is a word we made up. It doesn't mean much of anything at the end of the day.

If an LLM can compose a poem found in no existing book, paint an attractive picture that no one has ever seen, or write a program that has never run before, it's intelligent enough to be called "intelligent."

Conversely, if you can do these things in the absence of any training or outside influence, you're intelligent enough to be called a god. Assuming that this is not the case, don't hold machines to standards you're not willing to hold humans to.
> Am I missing something

Considering reading your comment gave me whiplash after reading the article, one of us is.

> extremely wasteful

What's the waste?

> almost any other carbon source is much more available

More available than the air?

> on a scale that changes the atmosphere

Because we're filling the air ground and water with carbon and nitrous oxide poisons from burning more and more fossil fuels extracted out of the ground when instead we could use solar to recycle carbon emissions back into fossil fuels without (allegedly) a net increase in atmospheric CO2.

Ignoring the carbon cycle, this still has benefit though, as this solves a HUGE logistical problem with a lot of renewables, and that's storage and transport of energy. Being able to store your electrical potential at standard temperatures and pressures in a fluid form that is cost effective to transport or store is massive in it's own right.

Now, I'm not saying what they claim is as easy, viable, clean, efficient, scalable, and or otherwise possible. It may or may not be, I'm not qualified to make that distinction, it's not my area of expertise. The devil is in the details of course and I've become quite jaded and cynical of such high minded claims by nascent technologoies, but if we assume the process works more or less as they say, the WHY of this seems pretty clear to me.
I just wish there was only one connector. Either HDMI or DP. I don't care.
> Genuinely surprised and confused by “print” and “println”

I was too. Looking at [0], I'm guessing it's meant to bring these benefits over old-school "printf":

- Leverages the type system to avoid mismatches between the format string and the arguments.

- Adds Python- / Rust-style support for position-based substitutions, e.g. "{1}".

- Like Rust (I think; I'm still learning Rust) you can specify per-type formatters.

But I'm still confused about:

- How this relates to the standard library's iostream system. It seems pretty redundant.

- Why "println" exists.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/print
Indeed, all of them were correct. It also rounded up the last digit.
In Japan, plenty of inheritances, but no one to claim them
A summary isn't allowed under US copyright law. The copyright office calls them "condensations", and they are considered derivative works.

His use was likely not within US copyright law. "Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" is one of four factors a judge should use to decide if fair use applies, and it is clear that publishing the main information from an article, information which is not available elsewhere, freely, severely degrades the market for the original.
Connection Between Chewing and Type 2 Diabetes
1. Methane is a much more powerful greenhouse gas, so we should be limiting our emissions.

2. Methane lingers for decades. Short in planetary timelines. Long in human timelines.
> Imagine companies thinking they can scrape all the world's information for free and then package it up and sell it.

That's one of the main business models of the Internet, only usually it's not even scraped. People upload it willingly in exchange for free hosting and free social media.

The other big business model of the Internet is mass surveillance driven targeted advertising.
What's surprising to you about this? I think they are generally regarded as very welcome additions.
https://archive.ph/GFWBJ
It is not for protecting user secrets. It has nothing to do with users.

It is about protecting against "after hours" production runs. If you, as a vendor, order manufacturing 1000 pieces of widgets, you want to be sure that only those delivered to you are really produced. You don't want more, and then your own product competing against you on the market.

Hence, encryption. Only your devices can run your firmware. All those extras cannot.
Red Headed Stepchild Linux
Why do you need Kafka, Redis, Mongo, AND Postgres? Arguably it could all be done with Postgres or Redis: both have great pubsub implementations. But what could you possibly need two databases for and a queue implementation alongside a popular backend for queues?

I don't mean to criticize, but the complexity of this is what I'd expect for something handling hundreds if not thousands of qps. Even then I'd expect you could probably fine-tune a Redis Cluster setup and cross out 2/3 of that architecture diagram. Hell, you don't even need WebSockets: a system like this polling for an integer or two should be scalable to tens of thousands of qps.
I think the colloquial understanding of "science" means studying how the world works. This is more like engineering: exploiting our understanding of how the world works to build new capabilities that we don't fully understand.

I don't think you would call it "science" for a bunch of single cellular organisms to cooperatively evolve a multicellular one. Similarly you wouldn't call it science when humans create digital lifeforms that require actual science to be done to understand how they work.
> as in not giving out dangerous answers that get people killed

Literally taken, that is quite close to impossible.

It was news days ago of somebody who committed suicide after having an interaction with a bot about nuclear risks or similar.

To avoid that, the bot would have to be a high-ranking professional psychologist with an explicit purpose not to trigger destructive reactions.

And that would fail the nature of a "consultant", which is something "under best effort to speak the truth" - incompatible direction with "something reassuring".
>Mastication inefficiency due to diminished or lack of occlusal support is associated with increased blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I really really hope that my LG has a DisplayPort input. They do offer a monitor that is the same size and I believe the same panel, but the price increase does not really justify it. So sad that I have to bear with the hell of DP/USBc to HDMI converters...
I don’t hear good comments on the quality of firejail sandbox, compared to flatpak or snap.
Whether or not the existential risk around AI is real, governments, corporations, NGO's and others will twist this to their own purpose to build censorship, entry barriers, and other unpleasantries. We should be mindful of that.
From /etc. to Database?