skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd wager with the rise of LLMs then we'll get an immense rise of accessibility as the LLM can interpret a page in context of what the user requires.
How much more improvement can really be eked out of this approach on the pathway to AGI, and is it really sustainable?

Ah yes, the old “criticism via rhetorical question” tactic.
This has been the normal report we've received since the Nvidia 200 days (a decade and a half now).

At this point, we can assume as much. It'll be news when they announce that they are aiming to compete at the high end.
Yep, this is exactly right. Websites benefit from design idioms that have been carefully crafted over many years. Every website that disregards these idioms makes itself harder to use because it doesn’t speak the same language as what the user is (perhaps without noticing) used to. I wrote about the loss of design idioms at length: https://loeber.substack.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design
Even rats know to abandon a sinking ship
The assertion about the Copyright Office's batting average was yours. If you want to make the assertion, the research question's also yours!

As I recall, Skidmore held that what agencies say laws mean gets only the deference it deserves. In other words, the courts will reconsider for themselves how persuasive their arguments are.

Chevron starts with the question of whether the administrative agency's decision was made in a way that a statute gives the force of law. The Copyright Act gives the Copyright Office that power in administering some processes, like copyright registration. But last I checked, which was well after Chevron, questions about whether an application followed the registration process got deference, but the more basic question of whether something's copyrightable in the first place remained with the courts. Just because it's called the "Copyright Office" doesn't mean the courts will defer to it about the whole Copyright Act.

This difference could very well matter for some going issues, like the Copyright Office's recent rejection of some artwork created with the help of generative AI. I would be very, very surprised to see appeals courts handing that legal question over the Copyright Office.
>the poor pay sales tax on almost everything they buy . . . Although this is skipped for items paid for with government food assistance (eg, SNAP).

That is technically correct, but misleading, because even when it is not paid for by government food assistance, the sale of food is not taxed--at least, it is not in any of the 4 US states I've lived in.
That’s a ridiculous statement. Hydrogen fuel cells will eventually power all cars.
Instead of me trying to explain it to you, maybe just try it yourself.

You saying "I've never needed this and I never tried it, so I don't understand why anyone else would" isn't exactly a robust argument. In fact, why would I bother listening to your opinion on a feature you've never even tried? Most websites have info about hours, prices, products, FAQs that are up to date. Your mental model of what's in a website is wildly off, especially in 2023 when everyone's on social media.
> European public pension systems don't work like that

People should have voted for a better system, then. In Spain I've heard the same people complain about the unsustainability of the pension system while also complaining about the "Austrian backpack" approach, which is one way to address that problem.

Personally, I would prefer something like every person born in the same year contribute to the same pension fund, to be invested and redistributed as they turn 65, sort of like a mandatory annuity. It would avoid introducing these sort of inter-generational tensions.

> And given current demographic trends you have very slim chance of ever seeing that money again

That can be solved via immigration. People may not like the solution, but it is available to them, should they choose it.
> So there may be some special casing happening there.

100%. Maths was a notable weakness of earlier GPT versions, so ChatGPT-4 has a layer to direct mathematical queries to an evaluator.
Is “do the needful” correct?
> start throwing in "non-intrusive" ads to balance the books

Here is a personal guarantee that this will never happen with Kagi while I am in charge.

There are too many ad-supported search engines and browsers out there. I would not waste 10 years of my life to make yet another one. If Kagi can not sustain iteself with memberships, it will be the end of it.

The initial reason I started Kagi was to provide my kids with an opportunity to grow up in an ad-free experience of the web. In this interview [1] I talk more about my motivation.

[1] https://dkb.io/post/DEPR_kagi-interview
WASIX: WASI extension with more compatibility for POSIX programs
I met him in the Google Zurich office. He led an "Open Source at Google" talk as part of orientation for our group. Probably the best person to lead that talk at that time.
> trickier thing for Red Hat might be

>> You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein

Is it all that obvious or clear that "if we don't like what you do with our stuff, we will not renew your contract next year or sell you anything anymore" a restriction on the software they already delivered?

The software to which that clause applies was already delivered, and redhat is not, as far as I know, applying any restrictions on that software.

As a company, they are not obliged to sell to anyone who shows up with the sticker price, so this doesn't look, to me, like a restriction on the software itself.

After all, the right to choose your customers is a very basic one that only has few exemptions related to individuals in protected classes.
I haven't read the book. What does it say?

On the matter of probability and science, I like how Karl Popper put it, although I can't find the text now so I must report it from memory. His point was that scientific hypothesis formation is an instance of inductive generalisation while probabilistic inference is a form of abductive reasoning, and so using probability to support an inductively derived hypothesis is basically supporting a guess, with another guess.

Statistics of course is not the same as probability. Personally I think statistics is a bunch of hooey.
WWII paratrooper famous for bringing beer to wounded troops dies at 98
Well it was a poet and just decided to take introduction algebraic structures with a fields metal winner?

There's a lot of liberties taken by the pseudo biographical articles, especially when they're dealing with the gee whiz genius trope in American media which is really annoying.

It's really just anti-intellectualisn cloaked to something else.
So then the tenant has to maintain the property, which increases their costs.

The point is that all of these options are already available, but there are trade offs inherent in them that make them a worse option than renting for many people. If they were actually better, why aren't they doing that now?
I ride the Frecciarossa from Lyon to Paris recently and loved the experience. Reservations are online. Show up to the train station 30 minutes before departure. No airport like security. Plenty of leg room and space for carryon luggage.
“ What does the alternative future look like where we solve the climate crisis by changing the way we live and organize society? Personally, I would prefer to continue having electricity, heat, running water, sewage treatment, shipping, transportation, and the internet.”

This is either dishonest or ignorant. We can make a huge difference by moving faster to solar, eating a lot less meat, living in denser settings rather than suburbs, living in smaller houses, switching to heat pumps, not driving huge trucks and SUVs, avoid so much waste particularly in food, driving less, etc.
I don't have anywhere near the physics chops to debate this in detail, but the usual contention WRT FTL is that our understanding of physics actively precludes the possibility of FTL. Winchell Chung's Atomic Rockets website gives a good account of the basic argument here: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fasterlight.ph...
Their drivers have improved enough that for the old OpenGL/DX9 games they are emulating it's able to just brute force it's way to acceptable performance since those games are really old usually.
Yes it can, they have support for terminating TOR so you don't go over the public internet.
Usual foundations (though it varies in different parts of the USA) would be 8 inches around the perimeter with 6 inches in the "middle" part of the floor. Of course for commercial or multi-story buildings you would see an increase in the thickness.
Hedge Fund Titan – Says ‘Greatest Credit Bubble in Human History’ Is Set to Pop
https://archive.is/SpZUC

<Full Title>

The hedge fund titan who’s been watching for ‘black swans’ for decades says the ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop—but he’s not worried.
It is worth noting the major difference between two types of models: those used in AI and those encountered in theoretical physics.

THIS drives me more than a little crazy. Scruffies vs Neats, stochastic vs symbolic, cognitive vs connectionist, whatever - name the two main AI camps what you want, but naming them “AI” and “physicals models” makes me irrationally frustrated lol
Wrong developer circles, then. What can I say.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zope - 1999

Dr Dobbs' Python Weekly URL, since 2000

Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award in 1999

"Guido van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, and Donald Becker, chief investigator of the Beowulf Project, which achieved supercomputer performance using networks of inexpensive Linux-based PCs. "As creator of the Python programming language," Dr. Dobb's noted, "Guido van Rossum has given software developers a tool that addresses many of the shortcomings of more well-known and mainstream languages...Python makes it extremely easy to build complex data structures out of objects, lists, dictionaries, and the like. It is particularly useful for system administration, building GUIs, scripting, database programming, and rapid prototyping." Erickson detailed Donald Becker's contributions to the programming world by describing the problem Becker set out to solve: "One of the challenges in the realm of scientific computing is to efficiently and affordably handle large data sets," Erickson wrote. "To tackle the problem, Donald Becker and Thomas Sterling launched the Beowulf Project, a cluster computer consisting of high-performance PCs built from off-the-shelf components, connected via Ethernet, and running under Linux. Ultimately, the goal of the Beowulf approach was to achieve supercomputer (gigaflop) performance at PC prices."

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dobb%27s_Excellence_in_Pro...
I think OP is merely suggesting that the tutelage of a Fields medalist had more to do with the subsequent Fields medal than did the poetry. I didn't read the comment as diminishing the accomplishments or suggesting anyone could do the same if they just had the right tutor. It was clarifying the title that misleadingly implies a causal relationship between poetry and math, or that he somehow stopped studying yet succeeded anyway.
Wow, the comments on Slashdot are such a train wreck. Didn't realise Slashdot had become so bad.
Satellite supergroup spots methane super-emitters
Tell HN: Tiptap (YC S23) used my prior employer's code without attribution
I am using a throwaway because I no longer work for or represent the company where I wrote, and who owns, this source code. I don't want to bring them into this. I speak for myself.

Many years ago TipTap asked if they could use our source code. We told them yes, of course, with proper attribution; this is MIT licensed code. Go for it.

Years later I found they had, for a time, forked the code into their codebase, but replaced our copyright with their own while not preserving its commit history. Several public releases included this misattributed code. As far as I can tell (IANAL), this is illegal according to the terms of the MIT license.

They had since rewritten the particular functionality, and I ended up deciding it wasn't worth raising a fuss over since it wasn't being used anymore.

I was dismayed to see a company with such questionable OSS practices get launched on YC yesterday. I'm throwing this out there in case there are other ProseMirror library developers that were approached by this company. They might be attributing your source code as their own.
I did try the Google LLM thing, Bard I think it is called, about the result of a football match that has marked the sporting history of my country (Romania).

According to Bard we did manage to defeat the Swedes by two goals to one back at the 1994 Euro Championships, which, to put it bluntly, is pretty damn far from the truth (the Swedes managed to go through to the World Cup semifinals after winning on penalty shoot-outs, the score had been 2-2 after 120 minutes).

I didn’t make any further inquiries, suffice is to say that there’s no “intelligence” in the concept of LLMs to speak of as long as it can’t even correctly answer a question that non-smart tech had been able answer correctly for years.
Just a reminder dumb phones exist, are still widely available, and very cheap. You may not see them much but you can buy them. It's far from theoretical
Threatening to cut off internet to Ukraine in the middle of a war, casing journalists off twitter, chasing black, queer, and other marginalized people off twitter and allowing racists and bigots to take over, unbanning people posting kiddie porn, or people inciting armed conflict. Firing hundreds of people and not paying them, not paying bills, firing a spotlight into people's apartments from twitter HQ. Starting an entire company to drill tunnels for no reason other than to disrupt plans for a train network. Disregarding all advice and blasting a concrete pad into high velocity fragments and causing widespread damage. Pushing faulty self-driving cars that kill people.

Yeah, sounds great
I agree that some people have biases about poor people. Surely you agree that hate is an exaggeration?
I think it's still a good idea to learn by writing HTML pages, then adding a style and script tag in the head. The scripts and styles become enhancements to the page.

If you go to a code bootcamp, you are learning react. A lot of new developers come from these places. Not a bad thing, but they could spend more time on fundamentals
I think we should compare what best of LLMs can do with what the best of humans can do for a fair comparison.

Else, we will be comparing what the best LLM can do with what the media/mean human can do.

I can also point to tons of language models (both large and small) which don't do anything remotely useful.
At what point did I say that they are beyond judgment? Germany is still paying for reparations, after all.
> no amount of wrong decisions of one person gives another person the right to decide for them. That's what laws, courts and a legal system is there for.

You don't see the contradiction here? Laws, courts, and legal systems are other people deciding for those who have made a sufficient amount of wrong decisions.

(Thanks for the examples. I'm not familiar enough with Shinto et al to comment on what kind of stability such societies are founded upon.)
Take a look at the numbers under DMED --> Content Sales/Licensing and Other --> Home entertainment.

Last fiscal year[1; p. 42], Home entertainment generated $820 million revenue (down -19% YoY) while the overall sub-segment profusely bled -$287 million in operating losses.

This past quarter[2; p. 44], the trend continues at $148 million revenue (down -36% QoQ) with the sub-segment still bleeding -$50 million in operating losses.

Disney's problem within DMED segment appears to be that Linear Networks has been floating Direct-to-Consumer's massive growth burn for several years, but cash flows from the former are fading faster than the latter is tracking towards being operationally profitable.

Speculating, what if what we're seeing is a sort of A/B test in a much smaller market where cutting a revenue stream with relatively high opex is an attempt to steer those high-retention consumers towards Direct-to-Consumer?

In any case, investors have certainly expressed their dissatisfaction by severely punishing Disney's stock. With the residual impact of lockdowns in Shanghai and Hong Kong still being felt in DPEP, all the recent negative press surrounding Disney World/DeSantis feud in Florida, and now union strikes, Disney is without a doubt in a tough situation.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1744489/000174448922...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1744489/000174448923...
> Indigenous Africans were dispossessed, murdered, and enslaved

Yes, mostly by fellow Africans...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa
It is, because the drivers are only supposed to tell about what is actually supported on the hardware, via the capabilities queries.

A critical feature for game engines to actually decide what features to use, otherwise instead of 60 FPS, you might get single digit FPS.
I wasn't aware of MOND's successes beyond rotation curves; the author lists three more. It does seem like LDCM and MOND are both feeling different parts of the same elephant and that someone will eventually see the whole critter. This TritonStation fellow is worth reading.

So many sophisticated experiments have failed to detect dark matter particles. So many theories have predicted still unobserved phenomena. On the other hand, many of us side-eyed LIGO for decades but when it worked, it worked. Black holes were unphysical and abominations until they weren't.
AWESOME software, great readme, saver.
Tiny nit:

SymbolicAI aims to bridge the gap between classical programming, or Software 1.0, and modern data-driven programming (aka Software 2.0).

Citation needed on those names lol. Maybe I’m just unfairly cranky about the stochastic future we’re living in
I think i see the wave at 7:03, it looks like a moving shadow across the ceiling of the cabin, can someone explain that?
Fond memories of using DDNS on old Netgear routers at home in the aughts and port forwarding services with some rudimentary firewall rules and tcpwrappers to try and lock down access.

Now I use a combination of Tailscale[1] for private services only to me and Tailscale Funnels[2], and Cloudflare Tunnels[3] for public service exposure.

This accomplishes the same thing I was doing with DDNS and my ISP IP, but in a much more secure and stable manner.

1. https://tailscale.com/

2. https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/tailscale-funnel/

3. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...
Dioxus: Fullstack GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more
https://archive.is/xdvP7
What is the utility of making art?
In humans, around a million axons [1]. But not every lesion severs all axons. It's very challenging to stimulate individual axons as well, especially at scale.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnana.2017.0012...
> This is the only thing I'm a dictator about. There is zero room for negotiation when it comes to links.

This is a hill I'm always willing to die on. Few things bother me more. Maybe fucking with my browser history...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37008708
The crazy people are the ones that think they can keep the planet's climate constant forever. Never happened, never will
I started using vim about 12 years ago during my first dev job, after challenging myself to learn enough of it to use it for a day. It's very possible that my muscle memory will retain vim keybindings for the rest of my life. His impact on so many people is the kind of thing that motivates me to write software.
Sounds like you have alternative history to what I learned.
"Kill all Boers doesn't actually mean 'kill all Boers'" is stupid and wrong (especially considering the history of SA and what people like Winnie Mandela were up to), but "it's a literal call for genocide" is also stupid and hysterical.
You can also do C-x C-e in bash and it'll open your current prompt input in $EDITOR. You can even start doing multi-line input the easy way through this method.
So can same number of loggers at a location.

The point with beavers is with time the impact is more of complex and emergent system that we find utterly fascinating. Locals hate beavers
No, I actually can, just not for arbitrarily large numbers. And 'paper' is just temp storage, not a tool. A tool in this case would be a sliderule or a calculator or an abacus. Long division requires pen and paper too if you want to 'show your work', just like I would have to show on paper how I did the square root of say 47515, you could simply choose not to believe me if I spat out the answer, but if I showed you step-by-step on paper and you followed every step you would either also conclude that it is correct, or alternatively that I had made a mistake.

That's why I think it is significant that chatgpt gets the addition spot on but gives a wrong answer to the square root problem. I can do better than that off the top of my head and I do not have access to the same computational resources that it has.
Bro, you want me to come up with an example that doesn't have anything similar in the OpenAI training data? They've probably trained it on every single piece of fiction and non-fiction that exists!

I would have to come up with something no human has ever conceived of. I don't think that is possible, or what point it would make, since nobody would be able to assess the quality of the output in that context?
The saving for the zero page is only the more compact encoding which saves one cycle for memory access (for the non-indexed variants, anyway)

E.g. LDA $42 is encoded as $A5 $42, and so takes 3 memory accesses (two to read the instruction, one to read from address $42). LDA $1234 is encoded as $AD $34 $12, and so takes 4 cycles: to read $AD $34 $12, and one to read the contents of address $1234. Same for the other zeropage vs. equivalent absolute instructions.

See e.g. timing chart for LDA here:

http://www.romdetectives.com/Wiki/index.php?title=LDA
I read through the history of the material that caused the blast a while back. I was struck by how people just obeying laws despite the obvious, extreme danger to the city. Judges, the executive, groups like the port operator and the cargo owner all ignored the obvious risk. For years. Until risk became fact.

Notably the customs officials repeatedly warned of the danger and the fact they were ignored just increases the culpability of the rest.
You used the model for fact checking. These models are not good at being used as a knowledge base.
>Stop hijacking my typical browser shortcuts for use in your own app I've seen this happen with ctrl + f for opening a custom in-app search bar. I don't want that. It doesn't always search the page as usual.

You can bypass this by selecting the url bar before using ctrl-f.
Is this for AirPrint or just Bonjour? I see there's a note at the bottom that you were also using handyPrint.
Vim is my daily driver, I'm sorry to hear we've lost Bram so young.
Theres also the fact that to overindulge on alcohol takes a remarkable volume of beer or an amount of liquor that would take a very concerted effort to down fast without sending back up soon after. I don’t know whether or not its possible to “microdose” on a recreational amount of heroin in the same way as drinking a single beer might do, forgetting potential fentanyl contamination, or if you would just be extremely high immediately with a lack of a built up opioid tolerance.
It is definitly possible to corrupt data, even if it is not possible to corrupt the stack.
From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud
I agree that in most cases things like this is a subject of conspiracy-theory-eqsue speculations. However, while rarely, things happen which make you think that under some circumstances even some fantastic scenarios realize. For instance, most people thought that Australian general-governor is purely decorative position until in 1975 it turned out that its latent power can be seized.