skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the ocean is unclaimed and unclaimable.

Most of the deserts are technically owned by somebody, but you can easily get far away enough that nobody is going to come looking if you don't call attention to yourself.

"Easily" here is defined as "walking for many weeks through deeply unpleasant territory". Which is, of course, very hard, but orders of magnitude easier than space.

None of it's simple, of course, as you note. But space is always far, far, far harder. You could go McCandless yourself right now. Which, of course, means dead, but even McCandless made it there, and a few (miserable) months. Which is months longer than you'd survive in space without vast armies of people helping.
> Google's key, meaningful homegrown products are Search, Maps, Gmail and Chrome.

TBH Youtube and Photos aren't half bad.

And their cloud-based office suite, while it could be way better, is kind of useful.
They may be on VPN. Google recaptcha has dynamic risk-based friction and is prone to serving effectively impossible challenges to users on VPN.
With a generator or an EV/powerwall a heat pump can keep at least part of the house warm in a power outage. When the gas goes out there’s no alternative. The furnace is just off. When the gas went out my parents survived on electric space heaters and blankets for a week.
“Goldman Sachs Research estimates the EV market could achieve cost parity, without subsidies, with internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles around the middle of this decade”

That would be quite the milestone

I’m curious at what point it will flip and EVs become cheaper than ICE
Yeah the issue is that you're never going to spend money through a voice interface, which is I think what they were hoping.

The other big issue is that it's not smart enough for any random request to work, so you just learn a few useful ones (timers, music, thermostat maybe...) and stick with those.

I think things might change when/if they hook up ChatGPT-level AI to them... but I still wouldn't spend money that way.
You're both contradicting yourself and proving my point.

Eastern Europe. For a non-profit privacy focused company. You're joking right?
This would be the ideal outcome because it would keep companies small, in turn their market shares remain small, leaving room for lots of competition.

Not sure the proposal would actually lead to this outcome, but it is a good outcome in my book.
Of course no one is happy about cuts to vital services like the library. But people are also unhappy with a 3% minimum city income tax and a $5 billion budget shortfall.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.
That was pretty wild. I created a multi-player game and within a few minutes 31 other people showed up.

Then I used alt+tab and the game crashed.
Once you get over the initial hurdle, the syntax is extremely consistent and "guessable." By which I mean, once you know the basics you can guess how to do things that you have never done before - and if it doesn't work there's probably a pending RFC that matches your expectations.

For example, you might learn that you can do `if let Some(foo) = option` to check if some option is Some, but to also extract the value from it. Now you might guess that the let conditionals might work elsewhere, and you'd be right! `while let Some(line) = reader.read()` totally works.

Now compare this to the likes of C, where for example `break` appears in a `switch` for some bizarre reason (yes, I know the actual reason) and `case`s don't have braces.
A flood of giant H200s and MI300s is great and all, but what about personal accelerators?

The current state of local inference/finetuning is insane, where the hardware that makes any financial sense is ancient Nvidia GPUs, like the 3090 (2020) or the RTX 8000 (2018). Or maybe the rare used AMD Radeon Pro, if you can actually find one.

The only hope seems to be the rumored large APUs Intel/AMD APUs and maybe Intel Battlemage, since AMD is seemingly complicit in preserving the low VRAM status quo with Nvidia.
Because the original comment was about the appropriateness of writing Python code according to the reference implementation as opposed to writing Python code strictly according to the reference document. Some people are arguing that the reference documentation is in some sense authoritative and the only resource that should be used to define Python's semantics. In particular the issue at hand is whether the GIL is a part of the semantics of a Python program.

As my position is that the CPython implementation is the reference implementation for Python and as the GIL is an integral part of that implementation, then the GIL does form a part of Python's semantics regardless of whether the reference documentation mentions it or not.

The Python reference documentation is not a specification and it's not intended to be one.
What was the justification for firing people from their jobs or excluding them from public accommodations for not taking a non-sterilizing vaccine?

The USA Today article you link is just a lot of the usual verbal gymnastics that was rolled out at the time: they still work against severe outcomes, sure lots of vaccinated people are getting infected but you have to use Bayesian analysis and compare against the proportion of the base population that was vaccinated, no vaccine is 100% effective so let's pretend these ones are just as good as the ones that are 99% effective, etc.
There are trade offs and harm for nearly every product/thing.

If you can think of something that when used does not have unintended harm please let me know.

I agree that the topic of future liabilities is pretty sticky and seems highly case dependent.
There are several states in which negotiation with realtors is legally restricted.
Except it's just a "pause", so other brands can take it either way at this point
Don't get too hung up on the present technical definition of LLM. Perhaps it is possible to find new architectures that are more suited to ground their claims.
Yes exactly. Nuclear regulation has had diminishing returns on safety for probably 50+ years. Are newer nuclear designs safer than they were in the 80s? Yes. Are they _enough_ safer to justify the increased cost relative those older designs? Almost definitely not. In the same way, we _could_ make wind and solar and coal etc. as safe as nuclear currently is. But it would _dramatically_ increase costs. That was my entire point. Nuclear is only not profitable because it's competing with generation technologies that are not required to meet the same safety standards.

The US nuclear regulatory regime _explicitly_ does not include costs when determining if a new regulatory rule is necessary. Any amount of safety at any cost is always justified. No other generation technology has that mindset.
Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary
My Alexa recently lost knowledge of most rooms, it can't work most lights anymore. A few months prior it suddenly refused to work with "livingroom", apparently some new device of that name appeared after a automatic device scan, but would not react or be removable. In the end I renamed it "main room" which worked until the recent snafu. The only, only good thing about Alexa is the low latency. But if most things just don't work right, what good is it.
haha thanks I would have missed it ! so fun to hear those sounds !
> Be clearly labelled, in its public-facing information, as being offered as-is

If you read the license (for most licenses anyway), that info is clearly right there.
The cables don't go through the brick; they're under plaster. No way are you removing that without destroying the plaster.
I like Valve / Gabe / Steam, but let’s not be false and pretend that they weren’t coasting before the build-up to the Deck release. Steam had gone without significant updates for almost half a decade.
Chrono trigger is a great game, but I don’t think the story actually holds up that well. For one the time travel mechanic is fairly juvenile, and from what I remember the game is missing one of the most important elements of a good time travel story: when you see effects happen before the cause (which presumably is the work of future versions of characters traveling back in time), so you never reach that satisfying loop back where you meet the past version of yourself and realize it was actually yourself that you saw at that point in time. Instead you just do stuff in the past and it results in some changes in the future, but those changes should have actually always been there in the first place if you would have been successful. It employs an alternate timeline type of time travel which is easy to understand but not particularly accurate or mentally stimulating.
What price are they paying?
And the strength of guard rail needed to keep the vehicle in its lane is also proportional to .. the square of the weight (kinetic energy) if I could guess?
Well, give more money to the cops. That'll fix everything.
> The vibe of the website is intentional though

I like it. Keep it like this
Don't shareholders traditionally get wiped out in Chapter 11 and then the bondholders (aka: Banks) become the new owners?

Do you really think Elon would give up control of Twitter that easily?
Yes, famously, the Review is a right-wing student newspaper created (by Peter Thiel) to offset the perceived left-wing bias of the rest of the campus.
But when your storage is full, your email will break.

I'm not confident that warning you about a catastrophe that's a handful of large emails away is a "dark pattern".

It's annoying that they've tied those two things together, but I wouldn't call it dark.
I feel like once the cost drops, it will be just in maintenance alone.
Somewhat interesting that the full context of the thread is not published or any discussion around it, only the one sentence from Musk and a few words from the post to which he was responding.
No, that's a reaction to the employer trying to circumvent the strike. It's an attempt to ensure that the strike is effective, and wouldn't normally happen.

(also, the sympathy strikers object to the hiring of other people _to do the strikers' tasks _, not hiring in general.)

> Force the price of labor to be high and unemployment will increase.

If you don't, there will be a race to the bottom and people won't have a liveable wage.

Besides, Tesla is claiming that their compensation is better than the the collective agreement's minimum, and if that's to be taken at face value, clearly the agreement's cost of labor isn't too high.
The objectively true data part?

Also there's Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/rag :

> For more complex and knowledge-intensive tasks, it's possible to build a language model-based system that accesses external knowledge sources to complete tasks. This enables more factual consistency, improves reliability of the generated responses, and helps to mitigate the problem of "hallucination".

> Meta AI researchers introduced a method called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to address such knowledge-intensive tasks. RAG combines an information retrieval component with a text generator model. RAG can be fine-tuned and its internal knowledge can be modified in an efficient manner and without needing retraining of the entire model.

> RAG takes an input and retrieves a set of relevant/supporting documents given a source (e.g., Wikipedia). The documents are concatenated as context with the original input prompt and fed to the text generator which produces the final output. This makes RAG adaptive for situations where facts could evolve over time. This is very useful as LLMs's parametric knowledge is static.

> RAG allows language models to bypass retraining, enabling access to the latest information for generating reliable outputs via retrieval-based generation.

> Lewis et al., (2021) proposed a general-purpose fine-tuning recipe for RAG. A pre-trained seq2seq model is used as the parametric memory and a dense vector index of Wikipedia is used as non-parametric memory (accessed using a neural pre-trained retriever). [...]

> RAG performs strong on several benchmarks such as Natural Questions, WebQuestions, and CuratedTrec. RAG generates responses that are more factual, specific, and diverse when tested on MS-MARCO and Jeopardy questions. RAG also improves results on FEVER fact verification.

> This shows the potential of RAG as a viable option for enhancing outputs of language models in knowledge-intensive tasks.

So, with various methods, I think having ground facts in the process somehow should improve accuracy.
Lots of danish trains are still diesel
Question about training LLM models: Can OpenAI leverage their existing models when training new ones? Asking because data sources such as Reddit and Twitter are now blocking AI crawlers. So if new OpenAI models can't be trained on those sources then can we expect that future models will be dumber? Or will they be able to leverage the existing models, so future models can only get smarter?
I'm a junior so please take this with a pinch of salt, but yeah this is what I intend to do when I do open source too.

Once I've finished scratching my itch, I will only spend T hours per week on the project:

T = patron_weekly_income / 20

Where:

1 <= T <= 40

Where the min of 1 hour is intended to "get the project off the ground", and the max is for work life balance (any additional income is then either profits, or to be reinvested in other contributors).
The 25th anniversary release is a major update to the engine and may be compiled for newer CPUs. Worth a try.
What if next year you decide to change the img tag to an svg?
it uses docker. im already out
Someone who's different: a collectivist's worst nightmare
> historically cable TV was just transmitting radio signals over coaxial cable instead of radio

Well, to be pedantic, that is still how it works. And it's how cable Internet works. And it's also how a lot of techniques over twisted pair work, too.

The conductor is used as a waveguide and a very-much-analogue signal encoding a digital signal is what is sent over the line. DOCSIS 3 uses up to QAM-4096, which can encode 12 bits in a single symbol on the line, by using multiple steps of amplitude shift and phase shift, to encode bits. Quite similar to how FM radio works, just digital steps, rather than an analogue continuum between 0 and 100 amplitude and 0 and 100 phase, at the decoder.

This has even started showing up for links within a single computer, now. The latest revision of PCIe uses modulated RF (4-level pulse amplitude modulation) rather than simple binary voltage levels.
I have a German magazine/pamphlet from 1985 for IBM's 75th anniversary. It omits any reference to IBM's involvement in genealogical processing, and instead mentions things like the the Mark I, the Z3, and von Neumann.

Low effort photos of the pages for the 30s and 40s:

https://imgur.com/a/m65RCr3
Good point - IIRC it also breaks some uses of visual mode(?)
It's bad at coding and it hallucinates much more than ChatGPT.
The vendor might not agree with that and change the implementation detail at their convenience. In absence of a prescriptive standard, a reference could be reasonably trusted, but relying on only sort-of-documented implementation details is a kind of tech debt.
I'd be happy if they have an easier and safer commute because everyone else is staying home.
Telegram's encryption is opt-in which means most people don't use the encrypted chats at all.
ok_or()
The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers
This. Valve was my favorite game developer but now I don't really care about them anymore.
I guess it depends on who "they" were. An awful lot of the people making predictions didn't want electric vehicles to succeed, and lowballed the degree of economies of scale.

About the only one who seriously committed to it was Elon Musk and his engineers. It may have been the last sensible thing he did, but it was a doozy.
Best resource to learn practical AI 101 for developers?
I don't want to learn the mathematical basics of ML or AI as a science. I only want to learn existing concepts and tools in the practical AI/ML side as a developer. There are lots of resources about LLMs, models, datasets, etc but I don't know where to start. Is there a good 101 resources?
It's an arms race, they need parity with the industry so they can't be starved out.
This is very good news. Now I would like to see western car manufacturers lower prices of EVs in unison.

Remember how in the 90s the intel pc completely overwhelmed and completely destroyed several layers of computing competitors. Intel and their PC manufacturing bretheren did that by providing a decent quality product at the lowest price. Then they used the benefits of manufacturing scale to improve the price quality ratio to the point where the intel PCs were higher performance than even the fancy work stations that cost 10 times as much.

Well the chinese are about to do that with EVs. EVs are very similar to PCs in this respect, because they have a lot of potential for manufacturing efficiencies.

Western manufacturers (other than Tesla) should drop their prices and try to get to scale as soon as possible. Tesla is at scale but it has a bunch of other problems. Elon should stop his public stage embarrassments (latest having to do with antisemitism and neo nazis) and should concentrate on making cars people like.
It's also worth mentioning Photostructure: https://photostructure.com/

Which is also doing excellent work in this space.
Are you somehow equating unions with wokeness?
I think we need to look at it as a throughput question. How do we transport X tonnage from pt A to pt B? What’s more efficient? One truck with more axles or two separate trucks, with fewer, for example; taking into consideration roadwear, tire wear, bridge capacity, etc.
The argument Apple has a monopoly on "iPhone apps" was already considered in Epic v. Apple and the judge rejected it.
> perhaps Rust is not the right choice to make full-stack web apps

This is a good step, but I still wonder if this is the case. I do like some aspects of writing webapps in Rust, but the ecosystem for serious web apps is still woefully immature. There just aren't battle-tested and well-supported solutions for many critical things, including tracing, monitoring, security, etc.
This is true, now. It is the case that Video, Music, and SmartHome teams took over much of Alexa support in middle of 2022/2023 (many other teams were fired), and the result is basic functionality such as "stop" doesn't work (music, timers, alarms), "play" goes to some random incorrect cache of Music or Video, not News. What happened to the data (including your feedback)? It disappears, of course. Nothing but SMILES (a program designed to only report positive trends and feedback) for Amazon leadership.

Alexa devices are spyware; they listen in on you, and if your device has a camera the camera can be accessed without your knowledge too.

Unplug this stuff already...
I find it odd that they feel the need to do that kind of advertising. They seem like the company that has made it as a brand and should be best served by broadcast advertising, word of mouth, paid/unpaid placement, etc.
If the FCC is staffed with discrimination experts we have a serious problem.
they can flag and terminate your account at any time.
What's stopping you from taking the code the maintainers give you for free and running it? Docker is just a bonus.
While every other country comes to that conclusion, somehow in the US we keep deciding that running wires is too expensive and we can save money with hydrogen fuel cells or fast charging batteries.

Probably because the cost numbers for systems that have never been demonstrated can get away with magical optimism, while existing technologies are constrained by historical data.
Red-teaming the SCOTUS code of conduct
Without saying anything else: I’m tired of seeing the word antisemetic used as such a thoughtless hate cliche. Palestinians are also Semites speaking Arabic and Hebrew.
> includes almost the entire American media and political establishment on the Israeli side

For the media I don't know if I agree. I think they have painted Hamas in a much more favorable light then expected. They seem to refuse to run in person interviews with member of Hamas or even random people on the streets of Gaza because of how quickly it would sour any "both sides" narrative.
> So if you are willing to buy used, then yes, ICE is still going to have an advantage for a while.

It does depend on where you are. In the Nordics an EV is definitely cheaper than even a used ICE. Biggest reason being the reduced fuel costs, but also lower tax.
It brings back memories of when I spent six months fighting a company (one person doing the work) writing a cheat package for our game by trying to make his life hell in our binary. Both obfuscation and the opposite are amazingly fun to work on; you have to understand both ends to be effective. Eventually, I made the guy give up as it was too much work for insufficient money (the cheat cost more monthly than we charged for the game, but in reality most people did not use it). In my case, it was not Python (our game was C/C++), but the difficulty was similar. It's hard to cheat in WO* games as the server validates everything.
The author of this article seems aghast at a "blacklist" spreadsheet tracking requests for professors to relax standards, and form letters used to make it easy for students to apply pressure. The author needs to touch grass. This is bog standard organizing strategy; it's what you're supposed to do when you're organizing for a cause.

I happen to think that this particular cause is deeply silly, and that the professors who weren't moved by it were in the right. I bring to that conclusion my general bias that there can be no privilege or equity concerns inside of elite colleges; simply being there is an enormous privilege that transcends the ordinary equity discussions we have.

But the one thing I don't think was silly about the effort was that it was carefully organized. That, at least, is a sign of seriousness, and a focus on an actual objective with a real theory of change.
Obligatory mention: the Black Mesa HL remake using the HL2 engine.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/

Full walkthrough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHKUVdb5YTM
Captchas can be an endless hellhole if you are on a network that the captcha provider happens to dislike. No fault of your own.

I’ve had situations in the past where I tried 10-20 times to complete captcha and it just kept throwing one after the other at me. Whereas when I am at home and not using VPN I always complete every captcha in like one or two attempts.
@PhilosophyTube on Twitter had a great thread (now deleted, I think she deletes her old Tweets) about how she spent weeks getting an actual license for a track for YouTube (and paid for it!), only to get copyright striked anyways, and the resulting delays and lost revenue that followed because of it. It is effectively impossible for normal people, even ones who have significant resources to do so
> Why not close on Tuesday or Wednesday?

Library near my parents' house used to be closed or would close early on select weekdays. It really, really sucked for getting schoolwork/research projects done.

We expect businesses to be open during the workweek. We do not always expect them to be open on weekends.

I don't understand why they don't open late 7 days a week. Who goes to the library before noon? The kids are all at school.
Anything to get more user traffic to Amazon Music, even when you the customer have specified your personal preferences as non-Amazon Music. Pretty lame.
What possible context could have made this any better?
Just link to the app instead of a podcast - https://immich.app/
It also encodes opinions, fantasy, bad-faith arguments and lies without discrimination. Given that LLMs aren't trained to separate their sources, I think it's fair to say today's AI focuses more on language than the integrity of it's answer.