skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the fun thing though - you can do that whether the respec mechanics exist or not. But people who don't share your preferences will only benefit from one of those paths.
We need to bury the news and we weren't ready on Friday (17th) evening; let's do it Wednesday evening, right before Thanksgiving instead.
I disagree. If Google were to keep its grubby hands off the web, another corporation would step in and lead that effort and maybe even sabotage it. At least at that time Google's "don't be evil" motto was still alive enough that it was genuinely a good outcome. Can you imagine if Google didn't and Apple did? Clearly the outcome would be that Apple would complicate everything and make the web die a death by a thousand cuts and everyone would have had to switch to apps that only Apple can approve.
If you selling Steam keys you paying Valve nothing for these sales.

Keys are free and 100% profit going to you.
Thursday 22 November 1660 (The Diary of Samuel Pepys)
Me:
Solve the riddle: You have three fantastic animals: Aork, Bork, and Cork.
If left unattended, Aork would eat Bork, and Bork would eat Cork. When you are with them, they behave and don't eat each other.
You travel with these three animals and encounte a river with a boat.
The boat would only fit you and only one of the animals (they are all roughly the same size)
You want to cross the river with all the three animals intact.
Solve the riddle, thinking step-by-step

ChatGPT:
To solve this riddle, you must ensure that no animal gets eaten while you are transferring them across the river. Here's a step-by-step solution:

First Crossing: Take Bork across the river and leave him there. Return alone to the original side. At this point, Aork and Cork are on one side, and Bork is on the other. Bork cannot eat Cork because you are with Cork.

Second Crossing: Take Aork across the river. Now, Aork and Bork are on the far side, and Cork is on the original side. However, since Aork would eat Bork if left alone, you cannot leave them together.

Third Crossing: Take Bork back with you to the original side. Leave Bork there and take Cork with you across the river. Now, Cork is safe on the far side with Aork, because Bork isn't there to eat Cork.

Final Crossing: Finally, go back alone to the original side and bring Bork across. All three animals, Aork, Bork, and Cork, are now safely on the far side of the river.

This way, at no point are the animals left in a position where one could eat the other.

I think it does fine?
I ordered mine in February and got it in September. A painful wait, but very fun once it came.
I don't understand why companies don't invest in this. It doesn't seem that expensive to provide headsets, I'm already getting an expensive MacBook.
The goal of Starship is to make Mars missions significantly less capital intensive in the first place, and to make lift to orbit orders of magnitude less expensive. This is going to open up qualitatively different commercial markets that will bring tons of money into SpaceX. They don’t even need to make money off of Mars itself; it’s more that reaching Mars requires them to actually deliver on the other stuff.
They both do. That's the point. You can make up any demon you want to destroy the opposing viewpoint, but that doesn't validate yours.

Games are about enjoyment, and different people prefer playing in different ways. Denigrating that play style as "wrong" or "impure" is just silly.
It should be illegal to say "buy" when you don't get full rights. Call it "rent" or "lease", but "buy" should only mean "buy".
Listen to this guy, great advice. Early in my career, I set out to become an "OpenGL expert" and I'd say I mostly got there. I mean I'm no Mark Kilgard and haven't written any textbooks, but I dove super deep into the technology, and gained at least a decade of experience working on all levels of the API from the driver level to conformance tests and performance tuning, up the stack to game and application code, and across each major desktop and mobile platform.

Where did it get me? Not very far, really. First of all, almost nobody cares about OpenGL anymore--it's kind of dead with the two major OS vendors finally abandoning it. Go to any "HN Who's Hiring" and text search for OpenGL. Sure, I could have gone and re-skilled and learned another similar graphics API, but the second problem is nobody really needs people who write low-level Direct3D or Vulkan or Metal anymore because that's all abstracted for you by engines. And there are max 5 or 6 companies in the world that even have the need for people who can do low-level graphics drivers. It's a career-limiting niche.

The smaller the piece of the machine you focus on, the more of a world-class expert you need to become in order to make it your whole career. So, unless your plan includes becoming the next John Carmack or something, I'd recommend going broad rather than deep.
Akufen - Deck The Halls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKy-V4WVMc&t=1351s

Happy thanksgiving!
It was a whole bundle of things all at the same time but probably started with G+ and "The Social Wars". That was all happening when I first got there, but it set internal crap on a bad path, plenty of bad feelings as the whole organization was pivoted onto that, but it all basically fizzled out and failed.

And then a couple years later, yeah, it was Ruth & Alphabet. And that's when it got progressively stupider and stupider.

When I started it was like 25k engineers, and while it was big I still felt there was a very cool internal thing going on there. And I'm a pretty cynical person.
> a lot of people these days can't truly understand written content because they don't grasp nuance and only interpret things literally.

There seems to be a disconnect between parts of this sentence. "Can't understend written content" because they "interpret things literally."

Why wouldn't they? If you have something to say, say it - or, in this case, write it.

Why leave things open to interpretation?

Furthermore, why not just say things literally in a video call or in-person meeting as well? Surely the only possibility is for less confusion this way.
This matches far better with the board's letter re: firing Sam than a simple power struggle or disagreement on commercialisation.
Seeing a huge breakthrough and then not reporting it to the board, who then find out via staff letter certainly counts as a "lack of candour"....

As an aside, assuming a doomsday scenario, how long can secrets like this stay outside of the hands of bad actors? On a scale of 1 to enriched uranium
> Reasoning about numbers isn't something that exists in "idea space" where all the vectorized tokens exist.

To be fair, we don't know for certain that this is the case.
> be me

> be strong agi
That disclaimer is only there with GPT4-turbo. I assume I could experiment for a while and find something similar that trips it up fully.
https://imgur.com/a/Nc4T0J7
That only sort of makes sense if the part of the game where you can die is the main one. Who would play an RPG that is 50% walking around, talking to people and appreciating the plot with permadeath, meaning you have to redo all this every time and 90% of players will never see the ending?
Valve dont actually demand of developers to run the same discounts everywhere at the same time. You can still for instance sell game cheaper on other store, but eventually you have to run the same discount on Steam.
Ask HN: I'm bad at design, which stops me from finishing side projects. Advice?
I'm a great engineer, but terrible at design. Specifically, terrible at coming up with a design I don't hate from a blank slate. If I'm given a Figma or Photoshop mockup etc. I can implement the design pixel-perfect.

I have realized now that this is stopping me from completing my side projects and launching them. Every time I start working on a new one and do the initial work, I get demotivated because what I'm working on looks like crap.

Recently, for an email project I'm working on I shamelessly copied the look of an existing email product. I noticed that made me more excited and motivated to continue working on the project.

I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same and has any other tips/advice?
No one should be using built in audio IO on their laptops. A proper headset, with a relatively nice attached mic should be considered minimum viable equipment for VoIP calls, and companies should as such supply them, just like they do laptops.
Quantum Information Theory – Lecture Notes
Personally I don’t think AGI is possible. I was thinking more of a model that will be able to do 100 times what you can do now. Like able to answer questions like: what is the most efficient way to attack this front considering this map and this data dump of weapons stats and patrol present, etc…

But even if it was sentient convincing it then shouldn’t be hard. Even the most brilliant people can be fooled and convinced of absurd things. Even when they think that their work can threaten the human race but will still continue and push for it.
This is correct, also the steam keys are free to generate. I.e. when you buy a steam key from sites like greenmangaming, valve/steam gets $0. Steam could easily not provide the keys service or charge their cut as keys are claimed, but they decided to take the loss.
This article is almost entirely unsourced, citing two anonymous people who are “familiar” with a supposed letter that Reuters has not seen. This does not qualify as news. It doesn’t even rise to the level of informed speculation!
GPT-4 Turbo:

When is 2+5=10?

The equation 2+5=10 is never true in standard arithmetic, as 2 plus 5 always equals 7. However, in a different context or under a specific set of rules (such as a puzzle or a riddle where the symbols have different meanings), it could be made to appear true.

GPT-4(phind):

The equation 2 + 3 = 10 is true in a base-5 number system.

In base-5 (also known as quinary), the digits range from 0 to 4. When you add 2 and 3 in base-5, the result is 10. This is because in base-5, the number 5 is represented as 10.

Here's a simple breakdown of how this works:

In base-5, the rightmost digit represents 5^0 (which is 1), the next digit to the left represents 5^1 (which is 5), the next digit represents 5^2 (which is 25), and so on.
So when you add 2 and 3, you get 5. But since 5 is represented as 10 in base-5 (1 digit of 5, and 0 digits of 1), the result is 10.

Therefore, in base-5, 2 + 3 equals 10
1. If filed by a lawyer, no. The clerk will just issue a summons.

2. In order to compel a person to appear a proceeding, the court must have personal jurisdiction over the person as a defendant, or if the person is a witness and not a defendant, they must be within the subpoena power of the court.

3. The order explains the court’s reasoning on this.
Non-FTEs lost access in 2020 or 2021 IIRC
It seemed to solve it first try for me:

https://chat.openai.com/share/ddbd2a36-f6ed-42ea-ad34-6018df...
But if you make the input slightly more explicit:

"Two trains on different and separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?"

...it spots the trick: https://chat.openai.com/share/ee68f810-0c12-4904-8276-a4541d...

Likewise, if you add emphasis it understands too:

"Two trains on separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?"

https://chat.openai.com/share/acafbe34-8278-4cf7-80bb-76858c...

Not to anthropomorphize, but perhaps it's not necessarily missing the trick, it just assumes that you're making a mistake.
Thats why I use google meet : - )
I'm sure there's a set of shaders that will basically let you emulate the fixed function pipeline without having to endure the shitty performance implications of passing a vertex list to the GPU every single frame.
> their store has a lot of value even without selling the game.

Wait, what? If Steam doesn't sell games it has little value. So while Steam doesn't need some random indie game, singular. It does need games, plural. (Especially since being drunk on easy money, they haven't even managed to finish their founding game franchise.)

Indies need Steam far more than Steam needs any one game. It's that power imbalance combined with Steam's terms (designed to entrench their market position) which are on trial.
I'm confused, in your example it immediately got it wrong by leaving the vacuum cleaner and balloon together, and then does it again in step 6.
Generative text AI generates text. How is this a revelation?
I did try adding "parallel" and it didn't answer differently.
Yeah and looks like they're going to offer Llama as well. They offer Redhat linux EC2 instances at a premium, and other paid per hour AMIs. I can't imagine why they wouldn't offer various LLMs at a premium, but not also offer a home-grown LLM at a lower rate once it's ready.
Discussed in another thread, but what OpenAI might call AGI and what other people might call AGI are two different things:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378#38319586
This is your conclusion from the drama at OpenAI? The tech companies are "exploiting our fear of AGI to get voluntary taxes". I don't know what planet you're on, but it doesn't seem to be the same one I think I'm on.
You can build a very solid business empire on a large collection of small offerings.
> To be clear, if you do not hear from us, there is no action you need to take at this time.
The premise here is somewhat contrasting with what Signal just told us in the blog post, *Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive." https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291427 (1108 points, 6 days ago, 915 comments).

Meredith & Joshua say Signal costs $14m a year in hosting costs. Storage at $1.3m/yr, servers $2.9m, registration fees $6m, bandwidth $2.8m, and additional servers $0.7m = $14m. They say their total costs are projected to be $50m/year, soon.

I wonder Signal compares to, say, Whats App: another volume-focused messaging system that at least used to be run very lean.
Are you a graphics programmer, or are you just saying this because that's true in the CPU world (where you have experience)? From both my own and my colleagues' experiences, I would 100% disagree: the nature of GPU architectures means you are forced to deal with super low-level details from the very beginning. Part of this is because graphics (and GPGPU compute) programming is inherently performance-constrained: if it wasn't, you could just do your work on the CPU with much less of a headache. Even just generally though, the path to running code on a GPU is much simpler — the hardware does less work for the programmer, there's no operating system to manage threads, everything's a single binary, etc. — which means that there's less to insulate you from what's underneath.
What stack are you using?

I personally recommend utilizing readily available components:

https://ui.shadcn.com/

https://mui.com/

https://semantic-ui.com/

https://www.radix-ui.com/ (themes)

etc..
If we're going to call these things "AI" (which I absolutely oppose) I think it's not unreasonable to expect them to get this right. A 5 year old would understand you some get pears by adding apples together.
I love Fastmail for my personal email but the spam filtering leaves a lot to be desired.

For my startup we tried to use it but had to move because of deliverability issues.
It's nice to see actual CRT screenshots.
We've also already seen one random Google AI 'safety' employee trying to tell the media that AGI is here because Google built a chatbot that sounded convincing, which obviously turned out to be bullshit/hysterical.

Asking who said these things is as important as asking what they think is possible.
Auroratone, a psychedelic 1940s film that helped WWII vets overcome PTSD
Uh, the first post of this thread specifically asked about the UK. People are talking about the UK under a comment asking about the UK.
From my perspective Mars is kind of a fantasy. If we actually wanted or needed to go to Mars it'd have happened right after the first moon missions. It's very risky and the returns from a manned mission aren't really apparent
ggml.cpp with blast backend could be one example of it
See for instance: https://github.com/ggerganov/ggml/blob/57c468b8655f3630d1749... which are the parts not available in blast
You're describing dead ends that reflect poor game design. Builds should feel different and may demand different player skill, but they should all be passably viable.

Your hypothesized devs should absolutely focus on fixing that broken foundation before slathering plaster over it with cheap respecs.

And I'm not arguing against respecs yourself; just with these "on their head" hypotheticals, which don't actually make the point they're meant to.
Except that there's a fairly large body of evidence that persuasion is of limited use in shifting political opinion.

So the persuasion would need to be applied to something other than some sort of causative political-implication-laden argument.
Larry Summers practically invented this stuff...
I understand what you're saying (I miss Inbox, too). But end users like sameness and "it just works." Normies prefer stability over innovation when they are trying to get stuff done.
There is a YouTube channel largely focused on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/@the_aesthetic_city
You may wish to review Google’s sources of revenue. There is one source which contributes over 50%, and it’s not the ad exchange.
I just tried to Google the Open AI definition of AGI and found a reddit thread about someone editing the Wikipedia definition of AGI to match the OpenAI one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/s/64wGaH0P9C
Because unless you take half an hour to write 500 words you're always leaving things open to interpretation. A huge part of human communication is interpretation and inference.

When you have a verbal communication people bring up things they don't understand in realtime and you correct as you go so that, by the end of the conversation, a mutual understanding has been reached.

In writing - especially if you're sending emails - people are often reluctant to come back for more info as they think it'll make them look dumb, plus there's the 'inertia' factor plus the factor of not knowing whether you'll get a timely reply.
[[ is bash only. If you know you’ll only use bash, use it.
For details, the article is nice.
> people would use Steam as a storefront to find games and then buy them on a different platform

FWIW I do that anyway whenever I can find a platform that lets me buy and own the game outright, rather than depending on Valve having then good graces to continue allow me to log into Steam.
I, too, have had a Kindle since 2011 and never read a book through Amazon. Every time I purchased a new Kindle, I put it in airplane mode the moment I took it out of the box. Then, I just loaded books onto it over USB.

In fact, I have never paid for an ebook at all – already in 2011 the ebook filesharing community was well developed, and today LibGen and Anna’s Archive have 95% of everything I want to read in English. Through Internet Archive scans of library holdings, Anna’s Archive now has loads of fairly obscure twentieth-century publications that I never expected to see in digital form unless I, or some other member of the community, had scanned and uploaded them ourselves.
The glibness of this superficial comparison doesn't change the fact that anyone who actually thought seriously about crafting laws to deal with both of those would find themselves dealing with very different scenarios, both from a practical and moral/philosophical perspective.

But of course, if one just wants to say snide things on the internet, yeah they're simply the same in every major respect, why bother thinking that hard about it.
I'm a contractor and mostly work in BYOD settings. My computer is my work tool and it's been set up in a way to maximise my workflow and productivity.

I don't need to think in order to interact with it and the tools I have installed on it. Anything different and it gets in the way. A little is fine but each annoyance compounds on the others.

If the client requires me to use their machines, my preference would be Mac first, Linux second. Windows kills my productivity, my mood and my will to work.
there is no such thing as intelligence in humans

creating a robot that is as intelligent as a human is straightforward but then you have a computer whose fallibility is the same as a human, plus the fallibility of those who created the computer doubles the poportunity for error

these are all people who don't understand god at all, and it shows

anyone who worships a computer because other people say it's intelligent deserves what happens to them

butlerian jihad is coming not because AI is a threat, but because those who believe in AI are a threat to everyone around them.
Game theory but where the wooden pawn now starts to be a little more than a wooden pawn and in fact a little more than a classic AI. It’s not the same rules as any classic literature in Game Theory.

I do agree with the weapon up until the atomic bomb. Game Theory, stats, probability, and psychology also tells us that sooner or later you maybe have a big enough weapon and someone may press the button.
Smart mattress CEO reminds everyone his company collects customers' sleep data
I feel the same. What I do is just start with a template. Tailwind had a lot of good templates around it, many are free. But same is probably true of bootstrap etc.
Someone got nuked for asking why the court is explicitly not allowing Gabe to wear an n95 mask. I think it's a legit question.

Weirdly , it seems to come down to some belief in the courts that lawyers can determine credibility through some combination of face and body language? I didn't realize courts still believed in that kind of thing, but then again, the notoriously mutable eyewitness testimony is still considered a gold standard for evidence apparently.

So first of all, they reject remote because they can't determine credibility over a camera:

> While other courts conclude that a deponent’s credibility can be comparably assessed
through remote means, see, e.g., Henry v. Tacoma Police Dept., 2023 WL 5530201, slip op. at 3
(W.D. Wash. 2023), this Court is not of that opinion.

And in that case, it was believed you can determine credibility better over camera with someone not wearing a mask, than you can with in person but wearing a mask:

> attorneys have a better opportunity to observe and assess witnesses who are deposed in person as compared to video depositions—particularly where the witness’ [sic] credibility is an issue.” Dkt. No. 71 at 5. To the extent that statement i s intended to demonstrate prejudice, it fails. To the contrary, “it may be easier for [Defendants] to evaluate the credibility of [a] witness who appears via video conference without a mask than it is to evaluate the credibility of a witness who wears a mask while testifying in person

This court decided no to both, they want the lawyers to be able to exercise their superhuman facial tic analysis skills in person and uninhibited apparently.
I've learned to only use [[ when I want to do a regex match, e.g.

if [[ "${foo}" =~ ^bar$ ]]; then echo Yes; fi

Otherwise, just stick with "test" or "[".

85,000 lines of bash and counting... Not saying bash is great, but it's still meeting my needs for a lot of stuff. Shrug.
Grok has taken over their entire system and is now sending out fake security bulletins. Only logical explanation. It's like son of Anton all over again.
Unfortunately my present manager loves meetings. The worst part is after we get through the agenda he starts rambling about whatever topic is on his mind, like one of those old people you see at the supermarket who talk to the cashier and who are in obvious need of social interaction. The man doesn't know how to end a meeting.
DataColada people already had a lot of work prior to this.