skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I don't have the rights to Zero Punctuation"

Thats sad. Nothing gamurs does with it will be successful. Yahtzee, both in his voice and in the video content itself, is far too linked to Zero Punctuation.

I'm sure whatever Yahtzee does next will be successful but it will be lesser without the ZP name attached.
There's 100s of literary magazines (litmags) that publish in print and/or online. They tend to focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. But you'll also get commentary, news, art, comics, works in translation, litmags that focus on certain genres etc. etc. Below is wikipedia's list. "One Story" is a good example of micro in the mail, literally one fiction story sent in small print format once a month. Also below is one writer's take on which are "the best" litmags, including what they could find about each's circulation numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_magazines
http://www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouses-ocd-ranking-o...
Sure, but they do that anyways, and it's not like holding the documents in secrecy is somehow crippling the ability of bad-faith actors to act in bad faith. If anything, it allows them to claim things _without_ good faith actors being able to scrutinize their claims.
Yeah this is really silly IMO.

We know that transformers can generalize within the training set. We know that transformers can make connections between wildly different domains (at least when prompted).

Of course it can't generalize beyond training - why would it? But at the same time, there is probably huge amounts of value lurking INSIDE the training data that humans haven't unlocked yet.
Y Combinator is big tech.
Do humans generalize outside of their training data?

Absolutely not. Never. If that happened, you'd get programmers thinking they could solve every type of problem in the world, based on wildly oversimplified mental models. It would be utter chaos.
The thing is that some of these treaties are expiring (e.g. one of the tribes in Snohomish county, I forget which) and, per the treaty, the land must be returned to them. This is why these treaties are seen as problematic.

Once these treaties expire, assuming they are ignored, the land does become stolen.

I don't expect the tribes to be unreasonable about the land and take up land-grabs, it will likely just be a matter of taxes going to one entity instead of another.
People are massively dishonest about this, though. Like there are occasional Ask HN posts where someone is outraged that their bank/payment account was closed for “no reason”, but eventually it comes out that they’re in North Korea selling cannabis to Iran or something.

But it does seem like the world lacks a manual on How Not To Get In Trouble With Your Bank. “Structuring” in particular is something someone might innocently do just because they like round numbers.
MX linux is quite a nice compromise between Mint and Ubuntu.
Relatively in the total lifetime of the Earth, there are theories that Earth possibly is a second generation planet within Sol's lifetime.
If enough doesn't get returned, the gov/centeral bank gives it to you as a bailout. And for many loans you automatically get it from the gov if the debtor can't pay.
I've done variations of this, including using an e-ink monitor outdoors. Type driven design works well with pen and paper. Sketch out the types, sketch out the function signatures. It's great for bringing some non-intrusive work with you to social things.
Grok AI Guide
> Meanwhile NYPost breaks the Hunter Biden Laptop story and gets banned from every major social media and tech site for saying the truth, while NYT and Washington Post get Pulitzer Prizes for telling lies

"Truth" and "lies" mean something different than "things that emotionally resonate with me based on my a-priori beliefs" and "things that make me angry". It's weird that it's so easy for us humans to forget that. Or perhaps it's "things the correct people say" vs. "things those other people say"? Not sure which definitions you're using here.
What should we use for all the other government services that need to uniquely identify you?

(This a trick question, not a rabbit hole you actually want to go down, because no matter what you suggest, I'll happily poke a thousand holes in it.)
Whether you like it or not, this is not your determination to make.
You don't need documents to tell lies. You can invent arbitrary secret sources. However you need documents to disprove lies.
If Element explodes by whatever mechanism, other folks can fork the AGPL code to keep it going. We’re looking into mechanisms to ensure CLA’d code stays published under an OSI compatible license regardless of the type of explosion, which I guess is a kind of dead man’s switch.
There is, however, a world where they might've been bought up by Comcast and/or Charter and turned into a real 4th competitor

DISH is about 12-24 months from bankruptcy and is losing subscribers, and does not have a true national network

The cable companies are just MVNOs riding off Verizon, so that is kind of limited in how much actual competitive pressure they're applying to the market
At risk of over-generalizing, the way you phrased this reminded me of the prior knowledgebase grand projects like Cyc.

As a fence-sitting skeptic, I sometimes wonder if all "solve it with scale" projects are just using different syntax to reproduce an analogue of the experiment we're continuously executing as a whole civilization. Can our joint artifacts and social systems understand something more than we do? Can they exhibit any emergent rationality that exceeds the participants?

Or are all these systems fundamentally a chaotic and contradictory mix? Is the understanding and rationality always an illusion, only coherent in localized extracts? Does it always need us (the homunculi) to monitor and steer it, fundamentally limited by the understanding of our best individual minds?
Huh. I completely agree with this justification for spying, to the point I would be upset if they weren’t spying in this way. To me spy craft is where personal ethics become less important than realpolitik. The most powerful country in the world should have an inside track on whats going on in important markets, by hook or by crook. That’s the governments job.

On what grounds does Petrobras have any right to privacy from the USG?
Every problem you solve takes time away from solving other problems, and this one is a particularly difficult coordination problem with very little payoff.

You might be imagining two banks coordinating together, now scrap that and imagine ALL banks coordinating, because you don't know which two are going to merge.

Banks have been born at different times (think centuries - or even millenia). So they'd all have to move in lockstep from clay tablets to papyrus to printing press to typewriter before they even decide whether or not they want to bet on computers as a way forward.

To some degree banks already have 'a shared operating system' in the form of clearing houses and central banks. I don't know enough about that stuff. But it's the reason why bank transfers have mostly taken days to complete, rather than seconds, in the past few decades.

Come to think of it, there's a huge incentive not to stay in lockstep with all the other banks if you can offer customers instantaneous transfers when other banks make you wait for days.
Some extremely good GPU devs in Finland, demoscene prob has a lot to do with it. Remedy rocks.

Isn’t CD Projekt Red moving to UE5 for future titles? Shame, Cyberpunk was gorgeous - would have loved a multiplayer game with that engine.
"Scientology, but for hedge funds!"
Remedy has 360 employees.

CDPR has 1236 employees.

DICE (makers of Frostbite) has 714 employees.

Epic has 2200 employees (before the recent layoffs).

all numbers from Wikipedia.
> But their own numbers show

This is part that keeps this potato diet stuff interesting to me is that they've been extremely open with the numbers, from the very beginning. Most fad diets you have no idea how many people participated or the particulars of their habits during the participation period and there was no follow-up at all beyond the participation period.

I don't think SMTM has "cracked" anything with the potato diet yet and I don't expect to see useful "answers" from SMTM, but they've been good so far at some of the raw bits of science: finding ways to ask interesting questions and recording as much data as possible about it, publishing that data, and then finding interesting new questions from that.

Sometimes I feel rather cynical that we'll not see any answers in my lifetime, but I appreciate a blog asking interesting questions and then trying to data science what they can around them to find more useful questions.
Yeah, memes aren't necessarily those images with the top and bottom text in Impact font anymore, y'all.
They asked for a positive review and we refused and threatened to contact Ebay, so yes... exactly that.
I agree this comes off as patronizing and profit driven. Only 1% of the documents are relevant today. They're holding the 99% until they feel they're relevant to current events so they can break the story.

I wonder what motivated this story to be published.
by the reverse of the incomprehensibly large realization is how incomprehensibly small we are. kind of humbling. of all of the petty animosity within human civilization, it doesn't mount to a hill of beans to the cosmos.
When will Postgres be supported?
Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

I find encrypting data in DB challenging, as you often still need to run queries on that data in a performant way.
A large part of this guide is totally unimportant to me. I don't think I would detect a change in some of these policies. It's probably already changed in the past years, and I've never seen it while reading the Guardian daily.

The problem with this focus on design consistency and cosmetic features is that they loose the global view. I pay for the Guardian, and I'm glad to pay for their content, yet I still have to use uBlock to hide some annoying blocks. I've also painfully configured uBlock to disable carrousels (how am I supposed to read anything with images sliding next to it?). And I still prefer their website with JS turned off, though it breaks a few things.

I'd prefer an ugly and inconsistent frontpage, even a plain table of titles, if there was a way to, for instance, display the most important news of the last X=5 days in the category Y=International, etc.
> Might even be the same bunch of people.

it is the same people. these people, here. you're talking to them.

literally the kinds of people who post on, and regularly read, HackerNews.
Tokenization like this is why LLMs are also bad at math.
I guess the implication is that Oracle is a den of thieves.
I've made https://leaderboardhq.com for general scorekeeping. Main use case was a scoreboard that kept track of rounds and sets.
There was a very LARGE sign on the printer 'DO NOT PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE PRINTER' and once a day, someone would put their cards on the printer, it would run out of paper, and automatically open up for more paper... scattering the cards to the wind. I would only spend one day punching a week, so as to avoid saying..."You have a printout... just start sorting by hand, and then put a red mark diagonally down the top... My father used cards too, and his decks became Christmas trees.
> You've found your mate, so less incentive to go to the gym / stay in shape.

This is a common trope, like the boomer "I hate my wife" meme, but it's such a bad attitude. For us, it's been more incentive to stay in shape. You have someone that you care about, and it's unfair to them to pull a bait-and-switch and get fat after you've committed to each other. Your spouse deserves to be married to a hottie. Also you should want to be around and in good health for each other and your kids for as long as you can.

We both quit drinking when we started having kids. Her for obvious reasons. Me for solidarity I suppose, but then also because once they're here, they're a 12 hour job every day, and you never know if they'll wake up and need you after bedtime, so there's no good time for alcohol anyway.
So your argument is that cops should have weapons because some extraordinary circumstances sometimes happen and we should hope that instead of acting like the cops at Parkland did they take it upon themselves to circumvent the justice system and instead dispense "frontier justice"?

I am going ignore the part about grizzly bears because I dont believe that is in good faith and is basically just a non-sequitur

I fail to see how thats any better than disarming the bullies and letting specialized teams IE SWAT teams take care of extraordinary situations. That is if they even manage to show up in time to do anything which is in doubt.
We're all going to have to wise up real fast in a short period of time. This is not something in the future. It's already happened. If anyone understands walking two roads it is the buddhist. They will come around.
What about the "marines" robots in Interstellar?
It just doesn't make sense to me why anyone tries these things. The reality of the situation would be very obvious. Just because everyone in the EU is in the EU, doesn't make them one big happy family. Do the French want the Germans to be able to spy on their citizens? Seems unlikely. And at a larger scale, the US isn't going to go with that. So the browsers will simply be updated to distrust all of these CA's whom no longer can be trusted and... those EU CA's are out of business. Poof. Hell, if it were reverse you'd see the EU up in arms. "Why should we trust the USA?" - And rightly you shouldn't. That's why Galileo exists.

But on the Internet, it doesn't work that way. You can't just do your own thing, lest you kneecap your citizens. How will the Europeans citizens react if their own "free and democratic" governments take away their access to Wikipedia? Or Facebook? Or Tiktok?

Using known suspect TLS Certs would also violate basically every B2B contract. When businesses sign contracts for SaaS applications, it involves some verbiage about encryption and best practices and data security in transit and at rest. What business will WANT to sign a deal that says "Yes, it's ok to use a TLS cert that we know our government can intercept" when they have the option to use a cert from someone else that's secure? Cool, shoot your own businesses in the foot too, while you're at it.

Freaking politicians. Can't be bothered to do anything about the issues we citizens ACTUALLY want, but instead are too busy meddling in shit that no one wants.
I got some AirPods Pro 2 knock offs from Temu for £16.

Paired exactly like AirPods, was super shocked. Work great with an Apple TV. They don’t have multi connect though. But are actually more comfortable than the real deal. I find the originals hurt after about 45 mins.
That the NSA engages in industrial espionage on behalf of US industry has been known since the European Parliament’s ECHELON report in 2000. There it was a matter of spying on Airbus, the major competitor of Boeing. But considering that that report made few waves outside of the nerd community (cypherpunks, readers of John Young’s Cryptome site and Slashdot, etc.), and was soon forgotten, I don’t think dumping the whole Snowden archive would trigger the large-scale controversy that you might hope for.
why is the tech advisor a capybara?
In a total of three comments, this guy (and it IS a guy, for sure) accumulated -9 karma and provided another data point that crackpottery is always interdisciplinary: 2 on vaccines, and one on FEMA conspiracy theories. Bravo. Take a bow.
I really like his point about how our realized future of the "robot companion" is so lifeless and utilitarian compared to what we used to imagine. I guess it makes sense given how the adoption of voice assistants predated widespread LLMs by about 10 years, and voice assistants were never even close to feeling "alive" in any sense.

I'd love to see something like this manufactured at scale once the LLM ecosystem matures a little bit. As someone who has never quite felt comfortable using voice assistants, it might actually be the ingredient I need to make the whole thing feel enjoyable.
ah, the ongoing extortion continues!

> Bell protests, says it will cut fiber spending
Probably more likely:

1. Buy a new pair off Amazon.

2. Return the fake and get a refund from Amazon.
As a fellow "small web" fan, thanks for linking blogs.hn! Great resource; I like it. Will submit mine shortly.
> I don't think the merger should have been approved, but once that bell is rung I think the standard for judicial intervention needs to be very high

Why? What particular harm are you worried about here? If there's harm to market participants then why should the players be immune? Why is a merger approval so inviolate?

> and I don't think bare market forces apply.

Why _wouldn't_ they? What forces _would_ you invoke to achieve justice? Or are you saying that because it's too inconvenient, we have to ignore the harms?

Market's don't exist for the benefit of companies. They exist for the benefit of citizens who both participate in them as consumers and as laborers. We wrote a lot of anti monopoly law for very good reasons, if shareholders are inconvenienced by having to unwind bad deals that shouldn't have been approved in the first place, I see no reason to afford them greater protection or deference than the fundamental participants of that market.
The largest musical instrument in the world is underground in a Virginia cave
Great longevity as they tend to be for club / dj environments but I find they have way too much pressure on the ear to be comfortable as regular headphones for use at a computer.
While understandable for code bases where you have access to the underlying code, with iOS and macOS development, you have no such luxury. Good documentation is a must. I’d argue it’s a huge time saver even for open source libraries.
Do anti-money-laundering laws apply to BitCoin? It would have the same problem because exchanges could share blacklists of high-risk wallet addresses.
I googled 'regus buy day pass' and the first result was:

https://www.regus.com/en-us/membership
Agreed, though it can be annoying if you're trying to directly migrate from another system already updated to Sonoma.
XNUMX looks like a placeholder for a number you'd find in a document where the actual number is supposed to be inserted later.

There might be a glitch or it's just a weird coincidence
I got my first AirPods off eBay recently that I was expecting might be fake, but they arrived new in the package with all the usual Apple paperwork and pull tabs and registered normally, even the Apple warranty, and everything seems to work, except if I get a notification when I'm playing audio, it just goes silent until I pause and resume the audio. It seems like other people have the same issue. Is this a real issue with genuine AirPods Pro 2, or is this potentially an incredibly good fake?
happy to provide feedback when i get a minute! i’m also utterly useless in elisp so not sure how useful it’ll be but ill try and make it helpful :)
I don't understand your second sentence but you might want to look at Office Space - it's a movie about software developers made by the same creator as Silicon Valley (Mike Judge).
The escapist was just purchased a few months ago and the new corporate overlords were trying new things to monetize.
No Information Bad Grammar Random Capitalization Overuse of “Humorously Speaking”.
Might not even technically be “fake”. Apple has ghost shift problems just like every other major manufacturer that contracts out semiconductors to China.

I’ve heard that Apple drives such a hard bargain with some of their suppliers that selling ghost shift parts and the parts that fail QC to counterfeiters and repair shops is the only way they make any profit. The Apple contract pays for the factory and the bills but they make the real money on the side.
> The telecommunications system is capable of transferring 850 gigabits per day. It uses the Ka band and CCSDS File Delivery Protocol to send scientific data at a rate of 55 megabits per second during the allocated period of 4 hours per day to the 35 m dish Cebreros ground station in Spain, when the telescope is above the horizon.

To put this feat in perspective: it can be a pretty difficult job to install working WiFi in a warehouse a few hundred meters on a side. And the transfer rate at that distance is really mind boggling.
> The implication that their data is more important or something just seems like a ploy to get more eyeballs on the research.

If I had to guess at a motivation, it's jockeying for reasons for congress to care about data privacy issues.

I am sure some enterprising person is going to purchase all the data on members of congress and release it at some point.
It was me. I used it to collaborate with someone on a pointless college project about 14 years ago.

I think we even uploaded a few files and sent a few messages.
.. because it is not. Social groups agitating in the public sphere, with real life consequences involving real people, real places and real things.
There are DOD ID numbers, but they've updated the forms to just ask for both.
I think it could backfire in the long term because people will stop believing any videos at all because they will assume that eveything is AI-generated.
Console Fonts from Linux and BSD Distributions
All this talk about AI outstripping humans is beside the point.

The immediate risk is that unscrupulous corporations and governments will use it as a tool to further entrench their power. AI might or might not be seriously dangerous on its own in the far future, but it together with humans is going to be dangerous quite soon, if not already.
Adversarial Intercompatibility is the existing tool the governments used that I like most. Facebook and Google both exist because they scraped the existing web (Myspace and all of the web, respectively), yet that capability is often a 'criminal violation of buissneas model' today, with harsh DMCA penalties.

Users shouldn't ever have to be locked into an app. Like they shouldn't have been locked into just Ma Bell telephones. Carterphone should apply here.

What tools that Lina listed did you like most? M&A (Mergers & acquisitions) was the main focus seemingly but she did go through other tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWbc6pekd8#t=37m3s
It could have just been that one team labeled the housing according to the requirements, and another team built the internals to meet (or exceed) the requirements.
Remedy are basically Future Crew famous for Unreal/Second Reality (demo). Who else should push GPU to its limits than the ones who defined/popularized modern computer graphics?
Plane availability.

Jetblue and Spirit both have a strategy of lowering costs by only running one aircraft type, the Airbus A320 family, which means that their pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, only need training on one type of aircraft and can be flexibly deployed, they only maintain one set of spare parts, etc.

The Airbus order backlog is several years long. If you need planes earlier than that, your only recourse is to buy someone else's planes.

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FWIW, Q2 2023, JBLU reported highest quarterly net profit: https://simpleflying.com/jetblue-record-quarterly-revenues-q...
Unless you worked at Apple in a team involved in this, there is no reason for you to need to feel embarrassed or ashamed here. Binding your self-image to the actions of an organization puts you at risk of harmful outcomes when – not if – their position eventually conflicts with your own. If their actions are so egregious that you decide to end your support of them, then that’s perfectly understandable. However, judging you to be at fault for their actions would be nonsensical, and has no place here.