skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small group of judges appointed for life passing down laws isn't exactly a brilliant "check and balance" in my opinion, and UK has the House of Lords for that. Let's not forget that Boris Johnson was eventually disposed by his own party, unlike that blond tit on the other side of the pond.

The electoral system is the problem in both. The nuances are different, but by and large the causes are the same: alternating power between two parties where national issues and "the party" have become more important than "representing your constituency". A lot of the important issues fundamentally are national issues, so that's not really a surprise.
macOS dropped when Apple stopped supporting more advanced OpenGL features.

> linux port is riddled with bugs

That's... interesting... as many of the engine and game devs also play on linux (and a considerable part of the playerbase)

If you're looking for the codebase Zero-K and most previously spring mods are based upon you should look at: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring
This was described in adam smith’s original writings about “capitalism” and he was clear for the need in government intervention to maintain a free market long term.
One could interpret “Capitalism doesn't inherently create monopolies.” like that. :)
I mostly struggled with the fact that OpenAI's influence extends far beyond the borders of the United States. Yet, its board is constrained by the US residents, limiting the ability to cultivate empathy locally. Such a viewpoint is both difficult and rooted in exceptionalism when it comes to designing gov policies.
I assume it's a SOTA version of "talking head generation" or something related.

https://paperswithcode.com/task/talking-head-generation

https://github.com/harlanhong/awesome-talking-head-generatio...
Time handling seems like one of those cases where a type system could really come to the rescue - times with and without time zones in them shouldn't be the same type, and using one in a place where the other is expected should ideally just give you a compile error.
To wit, I live in a mid sized town in the Midwest - about 80 years ago a family started a business that was pretty successful and is on its third or fourth generation of ownership now — that’s all well and good but it’s insane how much of the town is owned or directed by them now. Do you want to buy a car, foreign or domestic? Host a convention? Rent a hotel room in the urban core? Put on a concert? How about go to the hospital or buy health insurance? Go to college? Send your kid to preschool? Build a commercial building?

Capital begets capital.
but it sounds like something like istio and redis should be able to solve
The US is not doing especially well on road safety: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/road-deaths-us-eu/

This is because the "safety" measures focus on cars and drivers, while everyone is switching to "truck" vehicles that are less safe for pedestrians.
Just consider how much worse the alternative must be.
people only drive 120/130 now because that's what seems right. have this conversation 50 years ago and 60/70km/h seems right. oops we'll never increase it and now everyone speeds anywhere because there's clearly no research put into it.
trucks are limited purely on economics €/kmh we do not want the industry racing to use more fuel.
What every paper I have seen so far is missing is that there are many ways to achieve super-human intelligence. (I need to give creidt to Isaac Arthur of SFIA for this.)

Getting results faster is one way. AIs beat me in speed.

Getting results cheaper is another way. AI is cheaper than I am.

Knowledge across many fields is better. AI beats me here too.

Getting better results in one narrow field is another way, but only one of many ways. I love evaluations of human produced work vs. machine produced work. If we had quality evaluations (not the type-oh riddled garbage most people use.) If we compared AIs to people who work in those fields in occupations recognized by the US Dept of Labor. If we asked both sides to justify their answers. If we had statistically significant sample sizes. Then maybe we could get some good results on quality of work. I can imagine the US DOL spending billions if dollars benchmarking AIs against humans i all the occupations the recognize. Alternately, this could be a very profitable company.
Scientists 3D print a robotic hand with human-like bones and tendons
I think there could be other means of getting the desired behaviour beyond letting the LLM do all the lifting. Perhaps original comment is misleading by use of the word configured. But by that I just meant a game setting (ie realism on).
Not sure why it's such a weird assumption that humanity is generally self interested and treats those in their immediate group/area as more important than anything else.

For many people, the issue is that they'll only do anything to change their lifestyle once the problem directly starts affecting them and the people they know. Those in some distant country affected by heatwaves and extreme temperatures? Sadly for many people, their response is basically "not my problem" (even if in practicality it at least partly is).

Is that the status quo? Yes, but for many people, they kinda like the status quo, and don't want to change. They don't seem climate change as a huge emergency (and on some parts of the political spectrum outright consider it left wing propoganda or something from an illuminati style conspiracy) and the political systems of today are not well tailored to dealing with it.

It's easy to talk about re-thinking the world, but how do you think humanity would do that? Why would humanity change their attitudes on these things after centuries of self interest and tribalism?
I was doing dialup internet support when these things hit the market. What a fucking mess. It’s 25 years later and I still get anxious when the phone rings, because my brain thinks it might be a senior citizen who can’t connect after they got a good deal on a new computer. Sometimes we could get them back on line with an init string, but often they needed new drivers. Walking someone through either of those over the phone was brutal.

Getting online as easily as we do today is nothing I will ever take for granted!
Dr. Sbaitso
1. The initial comment was about jews, not the ADL. I've linked it below [0]. "Jews" != ADL, and he was talking about the former, not the latter, no matter how many failing Jedi mind tricks you try while handwaving away elmu's jew hate.

2. Your subsequent sophistry trying to pretend that his later replies somehow cancel out his initial reply (which hated on jews, see #1) is unconvincing, hence why nobody believes it except a few fans of his. It doesn't matter if he regretted his first post and tried to backpedal from it over an hour after he was widely condemned for it. He still made it.

If you are completely stuck on #2 and cannot understand or accept #1 then you cannot be helped any further.

[0]: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299
Most of Antarctica covered by thick ice. To break ground one had to go through ice first.
Benefits of adolescent fitness to future heart health overestimated
IMHO, the ugliest part of local environments is the OS, and fighting with interactions.

But VMs can abstract away most of this, especially in a learning environment where performance isn't a primary goal.

Then you can have a known-good set of instructions that doesn't have to include messing with whatever Apple/Microsoft/Ubuntu changed recently.
Never heard of Mechanical Turk, hahah for a Dutch person it sounds pretty racist. Turk is what we call Turkish people.
We can always fork the last version, and then carry on with EU Linux, or whatever.

As a 70's child, present times are starting to look like cold war times home computers.
I understand this one anime movie's title, which I saw years ago, now!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline_(2009_film)
First chikungunya vaccine approved in US
I am paying for that although I don't use them and don't watch ads.
Guess who pays for the ads other people watch
Does Zero-k or another SpringRTS game support "strategic zoom" or building structures/units with real-time debt (as in you can construct a unit that requires 10000 mineral when you are only making 600 a minute) such as Supreme Commander?
It's been covered but it's quickly flagged, which is presumably why you haven't seen it.

It's old enough that it seems kind of dubious that it's related.
Flying car takes first successful flight
I suspect a lot of financial data code is going to break. I've worked on a number of codebases where the explicit instructions were "everything is UTC, all the time", and enforced at the entry edges of the code. Bringing in timezones was a definite NO for reasons of the unholy mess this would inevitably create:

* India has half-hour timezones

* Countries change their DST rules all the time.

* Conversion between timezones is an utter mess.

As Wes McKinney once said about python datetime: "Welcome to Hell"[0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/13753918
Reflecting a little bit more I don't think it was replit's fault, per-say. But that change should have been made together with a larger adjustment to the program. Like adding a class/unit in the style of [the missing semester](https://missing.csail.mit.edu/) to make sure people came away with a good range of intuitions.
While the latter part of your statement is reasonable, it is also only opinion. Many people would prefer a less technically advanced society. This forum, for instance, is about as simple as it gets and that is to it's credit.

The initial point misses a fairly significant consideration though. A huge number of advancements are publicly funded. That public funding turns into private profit. People largely unaware of that fact, recently were made aware with the massive vaccine development spending that led to record shattering profits for pharma companies. To cite just one prominent example in the last few years.

Edit: shout out to text only
Source? All I've heard about TikTok is that it barely pays out at all so content creators mostly sees it as a way to get eyeballs on things that do generate money, like their youtube channels.
So if there hadn’t been a giant company with ample resources to subsidize YouTube all that time, who could have built a comparable video service and how would it have survived? Wouldn’t that mean they would have had to squeeze viewers for money in the same way sooner?
Or develop his own file system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...

(SPOILER: Note the rightmost column!)
The flawed beliefs of Venture Capitalism, IMHO. (A)GPL scares their money away.
Being supportive of new typefaces doesn't mean you have to like everything you see?

Personally, I'm biased because I prefer the "good old" typewriter-style monospace fonts with serifs, which already eliminates around 90% of "programming fonts". My current favorite (not only for Go) is Go Mono (https://go.dev/blog/go-fonts).
If the platform operators want to offer a service that's free for the user, there are more ethical business models they could use. e.g. implement p2p video distribution (conveniently, they also make the most popular browser, and could bake p2p in, e.g. support for IPFS), and let the uploader pay for the platform to act as a seed box (or just let the uploader seed). For users that don't want to run a p2p client (phones, etc.) offer paid gateway services. Provide other creator support services like patreon.

Note that the above architecture is modular in a way where other businesses could compete within individual components. E.g. a seed box provider, or a gateway provider, or creator services. Obviously, this is not as good for them (they'd like to force their vertical integration), but better for everyone else.

Or they could stop giving their service away for free, but we all know they benefit from network effects and mindshare, so they want to keep everyone there.

As long as they provide a free service that's bundled with malware, people will accept the service and just remove the malware. When you do something unethical to start, you can't be surprised that people don't play along as planned.

Point is, they chose to corner the market and be a vertically integrated platform with all the costs involved. They didn't have to. They do bad things to maintain that position. No need to shed any tears for their decision.
"The United Arab Emirates has launched the Al Dhafra solar farm – now the world’s largest single-site solar farm – ahead of COP28."
That's not really a great encapsulation of the AI safety that those who think AGI poses a thread to humanity are referring to.

The bigger concern is something like Paperclip Maximizer. Alignment is about how to ensure that a super intelligence has the right goals.
Who owns the 51%? Seems like if it’s the non-profit, MSFT can make any demands and suggestions they want, and the 51% perfect can say “that’s nice” and do what they want. Which is probably why MSFT owns _only_ 49%?
Especially considering there isn't a high barrier to entry in the space and there are a hundred alternatives, with more popping up every day. If a polished, fully-featured service charging like $10/mo is too much then it's really your expectations that are the problem.
You're probably thinking of robbed bit signaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbed_bit_signaling

This wasn't quite doubling. Five out of six frames were sampled at full 8-bit resolution, while the remaining frame was sampled at 7-bit resolution (hence the "robbed bit"). The "doubling" is probably that you could run 24 digital lines with the 7/8-bit encoding, over the wires used by just two analog phone lines.
It might surprise you to learn computers are not magic...

I’ve used the CLI tool for a lot of my media library and it really isn’t that hard, there are even wrapper scripts in GitHub that simplify the whole thing and are easier than handbrake
You asserted:

> … TDD is a "design practice" but I find it to be completely wrongheaded.

> The principle that tests that couple to low level code give you feedback about tightly coupled code is true but it does that because low level/unit tests couple too tightly to your code - I.e. because they too are bad code!

But now you’re asserting:

> "Test driven design" in the wrong hands will also lead to a poorly designed non modular implementation in less skilled hands.

Which feels like it contradicts your earlier assertion that TDD produces low-level unit tests. In other words, for there to be a “unit test” there must be a boundary around the “unit”, and if the code created by following TDD doesn’t even have module-sized units, then is that really TDD anymore?

Edit: Or are you asserting that TDD doesn’t provide any direction at all about what kind of testing to do? If so, then what does it direct us to do?
This has to be some kind of committed satire I don’t get.
This game is absolutely insane. There's so many tricks and plays possible with the selection of units available. Ever seen a commander rocket jump and shoot down a bomber plane mid air?
>Is it really worth investing your own time to remove ads?

Yes, because like anything google, pretty soon the few dollars you pay per month to make ads go away will mean "pay to see fewer ads". Exactly like what happened to cable and subscription services.
Surely cursive was developed to make handwriting faster, not to enhance legibility?
Note the first paragraph.
You can try applying to small companies, they probably won’t have coding rounds.
Honestly this seems no different than a software security team. Yes, you want your developers to know now to write secure software, but the means of doing that is verifying the code with another team.
Indian Standard Time
Well, I would have thought the reason for having a board with more than one director is to ensure some diversity of opinion.
Depending on your threshold for "long form", nearly all of them:

Reddit has supported direct video uploads for literal years, maybe 5 years at this point, and up to 15 minutes in length. TikTok also collecting your data doesn't change that it hosts videos, and supports up to 10 minutes, and that limit has been increasing as they try to be a more general purpose video platform. Instagram hosts pictures, but also livestreams and videos, both short-form (a few minutes), and long-form (IGTV supports to an hour). Twitch is the only one that seems to clearly not support long-form video content, but even then it's still a competitor because that's not all Youtube does either.
Would you mind explaining why you have a problem with a clause stating "use our product however you wish, as long as it is not to compete with us"? It sounds reasonable to me and the opposite which you are defending sounds unsustainable and harmful to the open source ecosystem.

(There was a talk given at Strange Loop titled The Economic of Programming Languages by the creator of Elm about this and it sounds like he's hesitant to release something interesting he's been working on because of it. So it's a real issue in my opinion that can lead to a worse outcome for most of us.)
it's illegal for a chinese company to not have ccp drones as part of leadership.
You should not need a sharp knife and nobody should sell it to you. Same vibe.
I mean the other two. And no offense to other no name dopes. Of course, I’m being context sensitive. In the scheme of this scenario, they’re nothing but votes up for manipulation. In regular life, they’re important in their respective fields Yada, yada
Those are 100x (or more) more expensive than what YouTube’s backend is doing.

To do what they do affordably, there are tons of caching layers and videos are chunked into smaller opaque chunks of write-once/read-many data which get so widely distributed your head would spin.

The client code is what stitches those blocks together (and figures out what blocks are part of what), figures out what ads should be where, etc.

Any sort of consistent backend state gets very expensive fast, is often a huge bottleneck, and is avoided whenever possible.

Everything from view stats to metadata is usually even done via CRDT type eventually consistent replicated data to avoid all the bottlenecks other approaches would cause.
It is factually incorrect to call it “scamming”, and this cancer of an idea needs to stop.

YouTube has the right to offer only paying accounts, and stop serving free videos. They are choosing not to exercise that option. In fact, they chose to monopolize video streaming by initially offering free videos with no ads. Demanding ad viewing time is a recent change to their business model.

Consumers also have the right to pay for YouTube, or to not watch YouTube, but when YouTube chooses to serve “free” videos with ads that are annoying and waste time, as long as there are easy technical options for removing the ads, the temptation is pretty high. There is no law that you must watch ads, not on YouTube, not on TV, not for billboards, not on the internet. And basically nobody wants to waste time watching ads. This is why it’s wrong to call it “scamming”.

BTW I’m perfectly fine with the idea of an ad-funded business model for free services. I’m only objecting to your framing that avoiding ads when they can puts consumers in the wrong. YouTube’s funding is YouTube’s business, and they are free to fight against ad-blockers, but please don’t be a shill or vilify people for doing the obvious and legal thing. YouTube wants you to spout this crap because Google and advertisers would love it if there was public support for making ad-watching legally mandatory, and that would be a nightmare dystopian future we don’t want.
Save you some reading, it's about political biases of academia in USA, not about "why Elon Musk renamed Twitter to X" kind of ideas/people.
There's a lot of magic behind being able to write basic code and see the output on the screen.

I hate setting up environments, even with a folder of templates I've assembled over the years. The most frustrating barrier to get to the "magic" of seeing something happen is figuring out the proper/correct way to structure a project.

Towards the end of intro courses seems like an appropriate time to start bringing up tooling.
All of this is covered in the article.
I'd say the vast majority of users think "Office suite" == "Google Docs." I don't know the last time I've touched a locally installed office suite whether MS Office or LibreOffice.
Where did you buy the Coral TPUs? I'm having a difficult time finding them for sale.
You can also redline a car in neutral without moving at all. Even an automatic. What's your point?
My point is: you are at the cashier and there is no connectivity. But in your smartphone there is a app that is like a physical wallet and you can use it to pay like you use physical money. I guess that kind of solution don't need blockchain networks to work.Because outages like this can happen to decentralised blockchain networks too.
Check out Subtitle Speech Synchronizer [1]. This uses speech recognition to listen to the audio track, and make whatever corrections to the subtitles, outputting it as a .srt file. Works great.

[1] https://subsync.online/
CandidAI
Man, this brings back memories - but I'm a little surprised 2001 is appended to the title. In the mid-90's I got my first 56K modem and expected a world of faster connections only to realize every BBS I was on didn't support it anyway.

By 2001 I think I had cable service, and most people in my area could get it (suburb of Chicago at the time)
I'm curious, does anybody else change their terminal/editor font about once every two months only to immediately decide."no I don't like change" and go back to their standard? (In my case JetBrains Mono)

I'd don't know if it's that I genuinely prefer that font, or just that I've spent so long looking at it my brain can't handle anything else.
However, North, South, East, and West are relative to the poles of the Earth. Something living in zero gravity would have to use some object as an anchor to determine the direction.
That comparison doesn't make much sense, they didn't fire the CEO to reduce costs.

What looks quite unprofessional (at least on the outside) here is that a surprise board meeting was called without two of the board members present, to fire the CEO on the spot without talking to him about change first. That's not how things are done in a professional governance structure.

Then there is a lot of fallout that any half competent board member or C-level manager should have seen coming. (Who is this CTO that accepted the CEO role like that on Thursday evening and didn't expect this to become a total shit show?)

All of it reads more like a high school friends club than a multi billion dollar organization. Totally incompetent board on every dimension. Makes sense they step down ASAP and more professional directors are selected.
I mean Total Annihilation pioneered that concept and Spring RTS started as an open source clone of Total Annihilation so definitely some Spring RTS mods do, and Zero-K almost certainly does.
The behavior has changed:

Checking length is now a function call and not a cached variable — a change in call signature and runtime performance.

Consumers of your list class are going to have to update their code (eg, that checks the list length) and your test successfully notified you of that breaking API change.
Yea, this works great on slow burn problems. "Oh, we've been selling you cancerous particles for the last 5 years, and in another 5 years your ass is totally going to fall off. Oh by the way we are totally broke after shoving all of our money in foreign accounts"
That's why the 'G' in AGI is so important.
Your perspective is interesting. The problem is that it doesn't jive with reality. Your amendment is inappropriate because, based on elmu's words, he doesn't seem to "think there are jews who hate", he seems to think jews do, as in the collective people, as in a religion/ethnicity based stereotype.

That's what his post said, and he had room within the character limit if he had anything else to say or clarifications to make before posting.