skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My argument was that improvement from scale would continue. There is absolutely evidence suggesting this.

Gpt-4 can perform nearly all tasks you throw at it with well above average human performance. There literally isn't any testable definition of intelligence it fails that a big chunks of humans wouldn't also fail.
You seem to keep missing the fact that We do not need an exponential improvement from 4.
The A variant of the F35 doesn’t have vertical takeoff.
I think the correct analogue here are the people saying "open source or GTFO".
would love to get an alternative but it doesn't seem like anyone else is getting anywhere near the flight times that dji has. all the non dji drones I've seen list 8 min while dji is saying 15-20 min.
Conveniently not labeled that the video is all at 4x speed. Using the “playback speed” menu to watch at 0.25x makes the human’s movements much more realistic and the robots movements much less impressive.
I don't think Ghostscript is going anywhere. You should be able to use it
Is anything stopping you from converting them to PDF?
Every time I see these stories I'm glad I keep all my cash in a regulated bank with regulator backed compensation rather than some startup powered by gargling bong water and hoping the fuck they don't get hacked.
Do they actually deliver PS/EPS though? Based on industry standards I'm kind of assuming they all work with AI/PDF, and maybe SVG (but that's pretty specific to web rather than graphics design in general) if they're working with vector deliverables. I can't remember the last time I heard of someone voluntarily exporting to PS (and certainly not ever since PDF became an ISO standard 15 years ago)
To add to other answers:

The enemy only has so many resources to target your resources. War has been, really for most of history, an economic struggle as much as a tactical one.

If they're planning an attack, they have to decide if the risk is worth the reward. They can't just magically hit all targets (or they can but that's because things go nuclear and hey, none of it really matters).

The more redundancies you have, the more likely you are to stop their attack, or to exhaust their ability to extend themselves. Given the absurd size of most road networks, that's a lot of potential targets to worry about, even if mostly undefended.
I was thinking that a quick web app to convert your old EPS file might be a good way to execute the code in a sandbox. I don't know if we can get ghostscript to run in WASM
Bypassing what, sorry?
Just that until now I didn't realize I would need to.
That's the reality of all social media engagement though. There are going to be way more people just viewing or liking a video versus any other form of more active engagement. The average user you're describing is probably not even engaging in these niches at all that influencers are cultivating.
When will we get our own local LLM?
Why? Just install ghostscript, works fine?
Habits, is the number one way. Start small and build up. There is no way you'll be able to set up a long planed routine and stick with it.

Spend some time figuring out what you want and the break it down to small achievable bits. Do one at a time until it becomes a habit and build up. There is no magic. It's a long term project that will take years.

I knew of a guy that would take a walk every day, no matter the weather or his health. He would brag about the strength of his will power. But the reality was that it was a habit since he had been doing it for so long. The real test would have been his ability to stop since it's very hard to break a habit.
I have to admit, I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum there, having had both devices

I loved my 2012 Nexus 7, and was a Day 1 upgrader to the 2013 model (my Mom enjoyed the 2012 for many years for eBooks and Facebook)

My Nexus 5 I was also a day 1 purchase, upgrading from a slowly deteriorating Galaxy S2. Unfortunately I had to replace it much earlier after I slipped and fell on uneven concrete and shattered the screen

If Google could just take the SoC of the Pixel 6/7/8/whatever and stuff it in the housing of the Nexus 7 2013, give it a modern battery and a nice OLED screen it would truly be the best tablet on the market. But instead they want "bigger" and are chasing after the iPad with the new pixel tablet
The jank was acceptable because it was supposed to be a simple 2D game that ended up outgrowing it's diapers as it grew, and being a Unity project a long time ago, was stuck on abysmal physics systems. It couldn't NOT be jank. Everyone always "wanted" a better physics system or game engine entirely, because KSP1 was often held back by Unity, but that would have definitely killed the project.

Then KSP2 is like, still on Unity? Despite massive amounts of budget and like no compelling reason to stay on Unity with the backing of a real game company.
To people outside the UK, when an English person speaks about the UK and mentions “the north”, they are not referring to the north of the UK, but instead to the north of England.
2-factor authentication and session expiry makes it a pain in the neck
Strongly second #4 and in my opinion think #1/#4 should be swapped
Honestly the stakes are a lot lower for a humanoid robot IMO. There's a lot of risk around releasing FSD cars on public roads as opposed to testing out robots in a factory / controlled environment.

I'm actually really excited about the current state of robotics, and wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being the most impactful outcome of the most recent AI developments over the next 10-15 years.

I know there's a lot of hate for Elon Musk / Tesla, but at the end of the day he's just the money guy for some really great researchers out there.
My optometrist was quite skeptical of various claims about blue light & blue light blocking glasses, for example...
> It's just /etc

Some files in /etc have manpages.
I really tried to ride that train, had a Nexus 6, which got stuck in an unrecoverable boot loop after a year, after that a Nexus 6P which bricked itself similarly, and then a flagship Samsung Note something, which couldn't be charged because of "moisture in the port" after a year, despite it being completely dry, after which the battery inflated so much it blew open the whole case.

Then I bought an iPhone 11 Pro and it "just works" to this day, with no replacement needed in sight. After years of being that guy who explains the "dangers" of walled garden ecosystems to my boomer iPhone parents, I joined their gang and have been living carefree since.
I wasn't getting at the Halting Problem or program analysis...
"...in male rats" would be a key phrase to add to the title.
Contradiction: your fiber supplement is also probably a highly processed food.
Definitely did not read the article.

If it ends in "?", I publicly question its validity and denigrate its author & editor by default.
It's really more nuanced than that - from a business/financial perspective.
"goodwill" is a major component of a companies financial accounting. It's an asset and can be invested or squandered like any other asset. A large and well-run public company will have a risk management team evaluate the impact of major decisions on the financial health of the business. Clearly Unity did not do that. They are public, right? Seems to me (IANAL) this is a breach of fiduciary duty that could be actionable.
I looked just now and I actually have an EPS of something I drew on a mac SE in 1993. It's amazing how if you can manage not to lose all your files over time, they become an archaeology site documenting long stretches of your life.
And anyway, I get the impression the real reason we went so hard on drone regulation was that it thought it'd be easier to make unlicensed drones illegal than it was to investigate every time somebody shot a drone out of the sky. That violations of the anti-anti-aircraft-artillery laws haven't risen commensurate with drone usage really speaks highly of the general populace (although there are a fair number of news stories surrounding incredibly dumb people shooting down drones)
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Every time I see these stories I'm glad I keep all my bitcoin in my own self-custodial wallet. Not your keys not your bitcoin.

You keep fiat currency in a bank? HFSP
Is this a new thing?

I had the original Mavic Mini and installed the DJI Fly App (v1.2.1 on my phone now) from the Play Store.

edit: here's the listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dji.go.v5

Though it doesn't show up in search from the web.

edit 2: The Android download on their site is definitely an APK and not a Play Store link: https://www.dji.com/downloads/djiapp/dji-fly

Why in the world would they need to do this?
That's an interesting way of expressing "eating more salad."
In addition to what the others have said, the F-35B is more properly a STOVL aircraft: Short Take Off, Vertical Landing. It can't take off vertically with a useful combat load.
The correlation might still be useful as identifying how society is failing both in providing (tasty, easy, cost equivalent or better, healthy) alternative foods and how rampant a problem this is.
> their literary quality

In one book title of four simple words... "50 Shades of Grey"

The biggest market has always been romance, followed by mystery, and neither of which requires tremendous literary quality. Beware of survivorship bias when claiming otherwise.

As for the rest of the argument... it speaks for itself.
this version doesn't have vertical take off.

Also, in my understanding, B variant doesn't have vertical take off too, it has short take off and vertical landing. It can do vertical take off, but burns too much fuel that way for any useful mission.
> if we just all take MDMA the increasingly fractured world will somehow re-unite.

Seems like a strawman. No one (except for maybe that one spunyun wook at the festival whose life and identity revolves around entheogens and entactogens) is seriously suggesting we all just have to take some Soma and sing kumbaya. These are useful tools, which need to be applied in the right context (not specifically clinical, maybe Burning Man is the right context) to be efficacious.

> It's as my old pappy used to say, you can't fix problems with more MDMA that wasn't created by a lack of MDMA.

Again, weird strawman. That's like saying you can't fix asthma with albuterol/budesonide because it wasn't created by an albuterol or budesonide deficiency. Dents in a car aren't caused by a lack of dent-pullers. Quite often the solution is not the exact inverse of the cause. Lateral problem solving is key.
> Over the past few years, Unity has unfortunately shifted its focus away from the games industry and away from supporting developer communities. Following the IPO, the company has seemingly put profit over all else, with several acquisitions and layoffs of core personnel. Many key systems that developers need are still left in a confusing and often incomplete state, with the messaging that advertising and revenue matter more to Unity than the functionality game developers care about.

> Recently, Unity unveiled a set of unthinkably hostile terms of service and pricing changes for its users. The resounding, unequivocal condemnation from the games industry was unprecedented and Unity had no choice but to rescind some of the most egregious changes. Even with these new concessions, the revised pricing model disproportionately affects the success of indie studios in our community.

That strategy, including hyper-aggressive changes in terms, seems common across different businesses and industries. A recent one in the news was Hasbro's move with some of their leading game products.

I asked something similar in another thread: Does anyone know the story behind this phenomenon? Is there a name for it? A paper or book or 'expert' that is its genesis?
> 4-8% of everything

To be fair Unity is asking you to give them somewhere between 0.05% and 2.5% while Steam/Apple/etc. want 30%.

> AAA studio builds their own client and game engine, it's cheaper in the long run

I don't think it's because of the rev share. If they were able to acquire an engine which fully suits their needs for only 5% that'd would be a great deal. Unfortunately adapting an off the shelf for a AAA game might be just as expensive as building (or at least upgrading) your own engine.
Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to those who might truly be liberated by such software.

I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it. Required running a few different Typescript servers, a Clickhouse instance, Redis, MySQL, the lot of it. I'm sure it was a fully-featured service that made adequate use of those resources, but it also reminded me of why people pay out the wazoo for DataDog: nobody wants to manage all that stuff!

EDIT: the repo linked in the GP contains 3 instances of what you could call databases: MariaDB, Mongo, and Redis. There doesn't appear to be any explanation in the deployment docs for why all three are necessary.
That is usually the response!

From another angle, there’s a lot of hubris in refusing to carry analog backups that are a meaninglessly small addition to a packing list vs their risk benefits… which is the only ultimate job for a pilot.

It takes one oversight to not charge a phone, or it gets cold in the cockpit and battery drops, suddenly you’re down to two systems, risk jumps, odds one fails…

Military pilots still fly with paper charts and darts for a reason.
That's how it starts. Then contractors or unions discover that it's a huge funding source and you get bridges to nowhere, projects that used to finish on time take longer and cost more than claimed but you can't fix it because the contractors or unions are now a large constituency, member states realize that this can be used as a mechanism to spend money collected from taxpayers of a different member state so the number and scope of the projects expands etc. etc.
Gary Kildall – The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates [video]
Interesting documentary about Gary Kildall, CP/M and Microsoft.

Parts two and three:

https://youtu.be/sDJVr8XSZRI?si=F7y7GZ9pluw0GaSn

https://youtu.be/DALx-NuGprU?si=Hz7lxr8n6niv_NnK
> Unity isn't close to profitable, and never has been

Talk about the consequences of letting a bunch of incompetent MBAs loose at the top.

They had more than enough revenue to be profitable.
My Nokia 6.2 got updates from Android 9 to Android 10 and Android 11.
> If people are treating LLMs like a random stranger and only making small talk, fair enough, but more often they're treating it like an inerrable font of knowledge, and that's concerning.

That's on them. I mean, people need to figure out that LLMs aren't random strangers, they're unfiltered inner voices of random strangers, spouting the first reaction they have to what you say to them.

Anyway, there is a middle ground. I like to ask GPT-4 questions within my area of expertise, because I'm able to instantly and instinctively - read: effortlessly - judge how much to trust any given reply. It's very useful this way, because rating an answer in your own field takes much less work than coming up with it on your own.
maybe it's just me but the play buttons take forever to become clickable
I've noticed people who start wearing blue blockers can no longer attract a mate..
Yeah I feel like Samsung has a very good value proposition in 2023. I guess my biggest thing is it requires you to remove all the bloat and adware as a prerequisite.
I always look at these and think I want one but also can't think of what i'd actually use it for. I just picture it sitting in a closet next to my GoPro and Oculus after about 3 days of messing around.

Anyone own one? What do you use it for?
Amongst e.g. PC game nerds who really started playing in the late 90s, there was always a sort of low-level antipathy directed towards Microsoft. It's non-specific, and its certainly not actionable, but there was always a little bit of bitterness that "oh, here's a new update to windows, how many of my games will it break?" Couple that with "I have to buy a copy of windows when I buy a new motherboard?!".
> It feels like the Windows Registry is one of those well-intentioned ideas that ended up being a tremendous mess in actual implementation.

The real issue is that this is known since Win 95 days , yet some people don't get it.
That does indeed sound very frustrating. I have consciously chosen to not have children specifically because being a parent seems so difficult.

So while I sympathize with your plight, you chose this bed. Why should I have to sleep in it?
am I depressed because I'm eating microwavable pizza pockets at 4am, or the other way round?
It's been many years since I worked at a MSSQL shop but at least at the time (2008R2) there were issues with MERGE upsert statements deadlocking with themselves when run concurrently.

Based on https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/187776/merge-deadloc... it seems that's still an issue as of 5 years ago, and not the recommended way of doing an upsert on MSSQL.
The devil's in the implementation details though. The operating system may provide both fully-preemptive threads on which to schedule user space cooperative threads (scheduling on system call). At that point green threads (e.g. threading implemented by a virtual machine on top of the operating system) do not provide the same value. This is actually why Green threads were effectively pulled out of Java for a few decades.

Fibers are distinct in that they have no scheduling and are code being run on a thread - if the thread is preempted, it will resume on that same thread. Unlike cooperative threading, they must explicitly yield.

Coroutines have such varying implementations that you would need to define requirements to know if they count as fibers or not - for instance, whether you mandate a C-compatible stack.
Transportation of the disc to the house would probably use more resources than streaming it from a datacenter. But yea, disks could be reused. Spent gas - not.

> The energy intensity figures for data centres and data transmission networks were updated to reflect more recent data and research. As a result, the central IEA estimate for one hour of streaming video in 2019 is now 36gCO2, down from 82gCO2 in the original analysis published in February 2020.

> New passenger cars generally emit from 90 (smaller cars) to 150 (larger cars) grams of CO2 (yes, it's the weight of the whole carbon dioxide, not just the carbon in it) per kilometer.

Disks could be still better, if you rent 20 of them at once.
They are warrantied for 8 years or 100k miles...but so are most of the others (including Tesla Model 3 standard range).

The ones with better than 8/100k warranties are Rivian (8/175k), Tesla (S & X: 8/150k, 3LR and Y: 8/120k), Hyundai (10/100k), and Kia (10/100k).

Chevy is slightly worse than all the other 8/100k because Chevy's warranty says it will retain 60% of battery capacity, whereas everyone else says 70%.
It was literally very similar to the holocaust camps, and scary that the USG did that.
The title seems to be a bit misleading. I was anticipating a legal analysis of the case, but the actual title "How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial" seems to be more focused on complaints about its lack of transparency. Yeah, lots of things are hidden behind the curtain but we still have lots of useful materials for analysis?
Sorry but that's nonsense. Python 3 has been released in 2008 - 15 years ago. And the last Python 2 version has been EOLed 1.1.2020, three years ago, after a decade of deprecation!

With your argument about compatibility no programming language would ever be able to evolve or deprecate/remove some features. Look at how many things changed e.g. between recent C++, Rust or C# major releases. Python had only one major revision in 15 years in comparison!

If you are using software that still requires Python 2 that's very much a problem of that application and not Python. Complain to the vendor responsible, not about Python. They had ample time to update their code.

End users had no business touching Python 2 for at least a decade now. And upward compatibility between the point releases of Python is (and has been) generally pretty good.
Enough to eat for a couple of years. I keep my fiat currency in property.
fair ≠ moral
I remember this.

This started a wave of lobbying and PR campaigns from industry groups that lasted until ~2013 or so stating that the EU was going to use its leverage its power to "issue fines to extract the wealth of American tech companies because there aren't enough European ones". Worded more eloquently (though I can't recall exactly how, I think they may have said something about the "EU Technology Tax" or something as an allusion to this), but never the less, its what they were conveying

This was targeted at gaining sympathy for the US government to intervene with the EU to make it more friendly for American tech companies, and more specifically, big ones.

I wish I could find the webpage ads I saw around this. It was not a good look.
Clearly the move is to put all AMD and Intel engineers on the inside of the circle. That way they would be visible from all locations on the ring at all times.
I’m not sure I buy this - who is looking to max out their HELOC? Of course one good reason to do that is to buy another property, but of course, this again is a chicken or egg problem where no actual gain being made.
Since this is getting a bit of interest, here's one more demo of this https://youtu.be/cvKUa5JpRp4 This demo shows even lower latency, plus the ability to handle very large menus with lots of complicated sub-options (this restaurant has over a billion option combinations to order a coffee). The latency is negative in some places, meaning the system finishes predicting before I finish speaking.
Well, I had only root canal treatments and luckily with no jaw or heart infections yet, but I have heard of serious issues from people who got implants. The skill of the dentist matters a lot I think.
Hi jaggs, I work in Gmail. Yes a lot of lurk on HN. I don't understand your "Send as" flow. Are you sending email to some 3rd party owned account? Usually that sends as SMTP MSA (login/password), so that should work. Is it broken when someone replies?
I'd argue that "adding spaces to the readme" is really stretching the definition of the word "maintained". If they're not fixing bugs (particularly security bugs), and if they're not adding new features, what exactly are they "maintaining"?
Seems that the post codes of British colonies follow a pattern.

Gibraltar is GX11 1AA (the whole country).
Not a textbook, but Everything and More - A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace is a fun read about infinity. It’s technical but not quite as technical as a textbook that would be used in a college course. I have a PhD in math and I liked Everything and More a lot (but then again I also just love David Foster Wallace).
They did not falsely characterize your argument. They are correct that it hinges on knowing the future when no one could do.
Interesting to me because I was just reading an article from an agent that said TikTok doesn't sell books at all.
Both articles are probably wrong. As with anything, it's not so cut and dry.
Wonderful saying (a new one to me) and appreciate the explanatory article, thanks.
Are you me? Great post, now I feel like I'm in a club!
I'm curious about how they're going to manage this at the same time Linux LTS kernels are returning to being supported for 2 years rather than 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591050
Where do you find authentic sellers?
enshittification? No papers as far as I'm aware