skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly isn't. Nothing in the category of reinforcement of self-delusion can possibly be. No "affirmation" can change reality. They can only fit into it or induce living in an hallucinated one.
Thank you. That makes sense
The Novice's LLM Training Guide
Do you also see getting a pet as pathetic?
Also celebrities.
I'd contribute to Bookmarks and History features if Orion.app was open source.
We don't need M&Ms in the checkout aisle to feed and house 8B people on this planet. Don't conflate what I'm saying with a general anti-business sentiment.

There are many kinds of economic transactions that occur. The best kinds are the win-win transactions. I have an excess of X and a dearth of Y, you have the opposite, and we swap them to our mutual benefit and walk away happy in the long term thinking that we both made a good deal, and even a third party analysis by experts would agree it was a good deal. This is basically the kind of transaction that happens when I swap $2 for a bunch of fresh cilantro at the market, to cook a meal with. Or when I pay a skilled mechanic a reasonable fee to do maintenance on my car that I can't do myself.

Then there's the other kinds of transactions: the exploitative ones. One person substantially and noticeably wins and the other person equally loses. There is no upside for the loser in the bigger economic picture of our lives. Lots of basic examples of this are common, and some are borderline fraud. An example would be the mechanic who charges 10x what he really /needed/ to make a healthy margin, because he's the only mechanic in town and I'm immobilized by my failed car, and I'm poor, and I'm putting it on a credit card because I don't have the money but have to get the car working to keep my job.

I'm positing that, in a larger holistic sense, the transactions for the candy in the checkout aisle (all the advertising that goes into it as well!) are like that. They're not so much economically harmful: it may in fact be a "good deal" in a basic math sense to pay $2 for the candy's ingredients and manufacturing process. But at the end of the day, they're turning a profit and you're continuing an unhealthy sugar addiction and eventually dying of diabetes. It's a transaction that's explicitly designed to exploit you and harm you for their collective profit. This is not a win-win, at least not in a larger, holistic sense.
“It” wasn’t pointed out at all in the original post. Just “look on the far left” with no indication of what.

I’m not convinced this 3/E means anything. If they’re making HL3 or HL2:Ep3 then we’ll find out soon enough. Many people have tried to read the tea leaves by scouring textures and images in GTA V over the years, and every time they’ve been made to look stupid. If there’s an announcement to be made around HL, Valve won’t hide it in a Steam sale banner
In Finland you can go to any corner store to get a 300mbps 4G SIM or even 600 mbps 5G SIM and use it as your home internet in a LTE modem (which is very common)
We were young and we did the trip in 7 hours for 1300 KM but it was exhausting indeed. It was fun but it's insane.
Export function + training your new one based on that.

Next somebody enters conversation he had with a real human.

Black mirror documentaries.
Childish and idealistic mindset. Grow up
GaussianEditor: Editing 3D Gaussians Delicately with Text Instructions
They used to happen all the time with Mac OS 9 and earlier, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them with OSX/macOS.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of the little mind
I'm still morning Tata.
Is that a question? If so, I did and it wasn't explicit.

My point is that people used to compiling their kernel have a different idea of what just working means from the rest.
I supoose it depends on how its implemented. Mental healthcare is less accesible than ever while at the same time the population is being squeezed in a way where most have less energy than ever before in recent memory to deal with other peoples emotional labor. This means AI might be a useful tool for helping people feel heard and supported, which is often enough to get people motivated to make a change. However, if capitalistic interest is behind it I anticipate it will result in a product that holds your short term mental health hostage through a subscription service randsom. The problem isn't Ai, it's profit incentive in a field which is inherently perverse to profit from.
Itd impossible to give a general yes or no here since every state is different. The states determine what the city / county / town divisions are and what powers they have. Some places, like philadelphia the town, county, and city are all one thing, but the rest of pennsyvlania is not like thay. Somw states its an act of legislature but others its a state constitution which may be difficult to change.
> We needed to settle a technical debt : v6 removes support for WebTorrent to focus on HLS (with WebRTC P2P). Both are technical bricks used to get peer-to-peer streaming in web browsers, but HLS is more fitted to what we are doing (and plan to do) with PeerTube

Sad to see WebTorrent support go. I'm a big believer in the idea of Torrent over WebRTC, and PeerTube seemed like a great use of the technology. It really solves the "this video is going viral and I'm being hugged to death" problem. I haven't heard much about P2P HLS... Hope to hear more.
In the long run, relating to others might become one of those obsolete skills (like reciting epic poetry or writing in cursive).
I would guess security passes that they should be doing anyway. If they open source and there are enough sec issues it might kill good will.
There are several aspects that make the search for non-water based life untenable. Multiple comments are pointing out the practical aspects.

A separate aspect that is very important to know is that inorganic chemistry (non-carbon chemistry) is actually quite limited overall: we have a pretty good grasp of the possible inorganic compounds and their properties, at least within certain ranges of temperatures and pressures. And a huge number of those compounds require water to be present in some way.

Now, organic chemistry is far richer and far harder to explore thoroughly. But, given all we know about inorganic chemistry, creating organic compounds in ways that don't involve the known inorganic ones, and doing so without water, seems extremely unlikely.
if you've uploaded a video to youtube is one of the exceptions
I never used Polymer but as far as I understand it was always an experimental project for the then very young technology of Web Components. And it was a rather opinionated framework also. Lit is just a very lightweight layer on top of the now matured Web Component API. And you are not really dependend on a strong community releasing occational security updates and new features and bugfixes, because it's very small and simple, and it won't really need much new features, because Lit doesn't want to be a opinionated framework, but a simple tool for a single job: rendering a web component.

So because it's small and doesn't need much new features, it's also easy for the community to maintain it. I think not much has changed in the Lit library over the last few years. So it's also easy with upgrading.
The safety certifications are particularly interesting. It's a lot of work to develop "safe software" - that is software that is developed according to a safety standard and certified to a "safety integrity level". Having an RTOS which is both open source and safety certified is pretty great.

They say they want to maintain the certifications - that will be tricky unless there's some investment coming from somewhere. It's a lot of fairly bureaucratic work to understand the safety standards, put the right development processes in place and maintain those as your software changes. It's not nearly as simple as just writing code and running it. It's definitely not the kind of software development someone would do as a hobby. I hope Microsoft are going to fund some of that development effort.

Interestingly although FreeRTOS isn't safety certified, SAFERTOS (https://www.highintegritysystems.com/safertos/) is - which is a commercial implementation with the same APIs.
I don't think so because domains can still be suspended. It does solve some of the issues though
The Germans are aware, but there are tons of people on the road from other countries that forget sometimes.

And we may feel fancy at 200KM/h but you really have to watch out for the anry BMWs/Audi/Merc and so on that will want to pass you at 250-300KM/h.
The Overloaded Equals Sign
Looper: Meta's End-to-End ML Platform for Product Decisions [video]
You can also just keep your own compost heap in your back yard. (Municipal composting? Sounds like a scam where I separate my garbage and the city just throws everything into the same landfill anyway.)
I recommend giving this recent video a watch on PeerTube/Mastodon if you're interested!

https://urbanists.video/w/n7xyeV1kbW8mUKr4ncchhs
I’d recommend reading Effective C++ books from Scott Meyers and trying to interview for the jobs you’re looking for over taking a course!
From the perspective of a single person, every other person is just an agent. The only thing distinguishing delusion from reality is how convincing and sustained the delusion is. If the delusion is indefinite and perfectly convincing throughout, it is reality. What I experience as blue doesn't really exist. The wavelengths exist, but the sensory experience is illusion and highly artificial.
You still need to be able to play the "real people" social games to have a seat at higher stakes tables.
Saving space and removing hassle of managing data that is not being used (and likely will never be used)? I think 18 months is way too little but I think the decision is valid
the handles can't be reused.
The latest numbers I could find stated $4.50 per quarter, but those are pretty old. Do you happen to have the source for the new number?

Old number is available here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/how-much-...

EDIT: Nevermind: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

Around €70 per year seems to be the new number, it has also been clarified that this is revenue, not profit, making it a pretty good indicator of how much Meta needs to charge for Facebook to turn a profit (about four times less than what they are actually charging).
Real-time AI-powered drawing on tldraw x fal.ai
> A whole new level of emptiness and loneliness.

Also notice it wasn't just created. It was there already. Criticizing virtual friends is just shooting the messenger.
This finally resolves my unanswered question of why the music file in Blue Shift was called "prospero01.mp3" !
Yeah, I have text discussion with friends that go back more than a decade.

I could probably use those textes to teach an AI and give it that friends personnality in a way...

Black mirror stuff indeed
Most CDNs have services for that but also that stuff matters much less if you’re not Netflix or YouTube. A basic HTML5 video tag has better UI than half of the complicated players, H.264 at phone and desktop sizes will cover almost everyone, and you’ll be fine for most businesses, conferences, etc. You need to have a LOT of traffic before the money you’re paying for bandwidth is greater than the cost of screwing around with complex infrastructure, and unless you’re streaming live events at high resolution having a CDN serving cached content is going to be faster than messing around with dynamic quality or trying to provide dozens of codec / resolution / quality permutations.
I understand the notion here that opening up ThreadX will start to allow visibility into VideoCore, since ThreadX runs the thing. But an RTOS/scheduler is only a miniscule part of a GPU and since Broadcom never opens up anything, I believe it's a false hope.

Opening up any GPU code, from any maker, invites patent lawsuits from competitors. And then the injunctions start flying.
ah well gmail is dead to me
Yes, it's better, but you cannot share a browser tab, only a window or the full desktop.

Edit to add that the suggestion of using Orion for everyday browsing and FF or Chrome/EDge for Google Meet is totally reasonable, but somehow I find quite a lot of friction doing that.
Because of the app wants to “un-person” you all they have to do, intentionally or unintentionally is set a flag in a database and now you cease to have an identity.
I have cloned the repository then combined the chapters using pdftk:

pdftk *.pdf cat output Modern_Cpp_Programming.pdf
The reality can just hit you over the head, the delusion cannot.
Damn that's the perfect analogy for it.

So let me flip that. What about the dark side of society that can't express themselves legally or physically in whatever their jurisdiction. Those people may be able to gain some facsimile of intimacy instead of execution etc.

Not sure how that fits into the welfare scenario though.
The Monroe Institute and early pioneers like Jose Silva normalized the method amongst a small group of “Psychonauts” and self improvement hobbyist that were willing to dive deep enough into the unknown to form their own opinions on the topic. I’m not sure that knowing or experiencing the ability actually improves your life but it is an interesting study if you are willing part ways with a well padded and comfortable reality.
That's why I prefer syncing to Veracrypt instead. If the Arm/M1 Macs didn't throw up such a fuss when installing MacFuse (which Truecrypt required too), using it would have been much easier.

The alternate suggested by Tinyapps was to use Parallels or VMWare running on an M1/M2 Mac and use the Windows version of Veracrypt which is a universal app that runs x86 and Arm, to mount your volumes.

Veracrypt is evolving and I think the latest release dropped some Truecrypt compatibility though.
I like the approach. I assume dividends are re-invested?
I agree with you. If those tool actually enforced good quality it would be one thing but what is actually being enforced is mediocrity and enforcing the power play of some individuals who have decided for all others what is good.
Hum I have my Cloud Drive linked to My NAS; it is not Google Drive(), but a similar event can destroy all my home backup too I suppose.

Is it a quite dangerous idea to link your NAS go a Cloud drive?

() It is OneDrive.
Remember "Wilson" from Cast Away? That felt realistic to me. A psuedo-relationship in which the partner can actually reply intelligently is just an optional feature.
This article is about companion AIs but a similar issue will probably arise around conversational AIs for older and lonely people.

I guess this is a very individual decision, but I can’t see how you can devise someone to just sit lonely in an (maybe not so great) elderly care home who finds comfort in chatting with an AI to “just find other friends”. For some people it’s that or nothing.
Define “cheating”.
All that sounds reasonable, but you have much more faith than I do that the studios won’t just do whatever they want anyway. This is the same YouTube which will demonetize or take down any content for having seven seconds of a song overheard in the background just because the rightsholder asks them to. YouTube’s very existence is only at the mercy of content rightsholders to not sue them into oblivion like they almost did 15 years ago. In my experience, those entities will do whatever the fuck they want and YouTube will happily comply.
Carmack the pizza guy. He did not have any computer science education at a formal institute.
Absolutely, this is required reading.
Because increasingly, we don't own or control our phones. Carriers can push any software they like to it, or can be compelled to. Operating system vendors can add, remove or edit features that can restrict our freedoms or for pernicious purposes. App developers have had free reign over tracking our use, despite changes to the rules from big app stores. Simply viewing an image or opening an SMS can trigger a remote code execution, giving our device to an attacker who never knew us, saw us, or targetted us.

Everything in your wallet is yours, it doesn't change unless you make the change. No-one can decide what the contents do or what they are, how they watch you or report your behaviour. The contents of a wallet are free.
Dtan.xyz. BitTorrent on Nostr
Thank you for your detailed answer. Would you be up for a 20 min google meet call ? This is my email, nouri (at) e-nouri (dot) com, would love to chat more.
But notice is not an opinion that most fonts you see everywhere are not using ligatures. They are a subset which is the opposite of being universally adopted as norm. Which is the point I'm raising: The norm expects you to unambiguously interpret certain symbols and ligatures dilutes that normal convenience to read symbols unambiguously. Your brain acquired a taste to adjust the parsing of these symbols, that taste isn't universal nor is it the norm.
You brought in Elon Musk's personal credibility. That makes lies he told in the past relevant to the question of whether we should trust his unverified assertion. FSD being ahead just means his lie was unnecessary.

> ? Like how in the hell does the official border even relate to this

You said "The geoblocks ... [are] limited to not allow access in Russia due to US sanctions!" US sanctions apply at the official border, so that can't have been the real reason.
People have been waiting well over 10 years for the open source to get good enough: OpenStack, RHEV, Proxmox, etc.

Billions of have been wasted trying to get rid of the vTax. It has been rarely successful.

The open source will be eventually "good enough" like Postgres is "good enough" over Oracle, but this doesn't stop Oracle from taking in $50 billion every year.
But it's not flippant, it's genuine, that is the answer for these people. It is really that simple (for 99% of people). Yes there will be outliers that this doesn't work for, but those are outliers.

HN comments always give the shitty outlier response whenever anyone says something like I'm saying. (e.g. 'What if I'm quadraplegic and autistic', etc) It's a shitty contrarian take that I don't have time for.

Edit: for a literal example someone has posted about old people sitting in care homes and how this is a great tool for them. Completely ignoring the fact that they're in a care home full of people, in a city. It's shit takes like this that make me regret posting anything, because some HN wanker will have some shitty contrary take, because they think this is an argument 'to win' or some nonsense like that.

Go out, get a hobby (or many), you will meet lots of new people, and some of those people will become your friends.

People just like to make excuses. I have childhood friends who do the same. Sit at home playing video games all day, no other friends, no job, no life. Waste of a life.

They live in their mind, and their mind is a prison.

These tools can be used for good, but used in this way (AI girlfriends), I can't see it as anything but a problem.
If an app is a front end to a service that by its nature must be a service, a subscription model makes sense. Outside of that, though, a subscription model is a showstopper for me. I may subscribe to a service if it's important enough to me, but I will never rent software.
Says “The Atlantic”, the biggest competitor.
I've made a demonstration video and made some screenshots that are not possible to post here.
I think these help to make it less abstract, since my explanation about cmaps may not have been very good.
I did not ask for votes, just feedback
Lessons from going freemium: a decision that broke our business
They will seem perfectly normal too! Except for the subtle product placements :)
I don't understand your point. The EU and all of the stuff associated with it was part of the agreement. Brexit was the UK backing out of that agreement, which means now they need to negotiate with individual countries (and the EU as a bloc). Which means now they need to figure out how the borders are going to work, how immigration/travel is treated, how imports/exports should be treated etc.

Why is it baffling that they need a deal when that's exactly what they wanted? It sounds like you want the ability for a country to leave the EU, but then not have to negotiate all of the benefits that came with being in the EU. Which, isn't exactly how it works.

As a similar analogy, it would be like if one of the states here in the US successfully seceded. The US would be under no obligation to make deals with said state, they would have to negotiate as two separate countries and all of the geopolitical stuff that comes with it.
Oh, that was easy. Thx.
"New" Value Terminology (2010) [pdf]
A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now operational
I'd love a short ID standard of some kind. There are so many situations where I just want a quick, ephemeral ID. Doesn't need to be cryptographically secure, collisions are expected. It would be nice to have something to import from the standard library in most languages.
That's discussed at the end of page 4, and it comes from the Noci et al (2023) reference.
I get 404d on that page. For others: you can download it (in various formats) through here: https://fbb-git.gitlab.io/cppannotations/

(You might have to jump through some links)

Also, fancy seeing someone else from RuG here :)
If you need a startup idea, Faraday cage mattress covers might be a hot thing in a year or two.
What variation? (and how does it address the "genuine" problem?)
Show HN: Meeting Navigator – do you think this is useful?
Hi HN - we built this simple tool as an experiment in a hackathon here at DailyBot. It is a tool to help you plan the agenda for a meeting, it can also calculate the potential cost of the meeting and tell you if perhaps that meeting is not necessary.

Do you think this can be useful in any way? Does it make sense to develop it further? any ideas to integrate?
If you have any staff whatsoever, or if you're trying to make a product, you have already lost your "biohacker" card.
There’s nothing saying that they can’t track based on your preferences. But it needs to be opt-in, and the information processed to do that needs to be only used to do that (i.e. the consent is per functionality). The default is always no processing.
Of course we can put it back, or some parts of it, in the box.

Look at things like tetraethyllead and cholorfluorocarbons. Widely known to cause damage, limited upsides. I'm not suggesting we do away with these tools entirely but we can definitely restrict aspects of them for a greater good.
Give GPT access to your terminal so it can fix your problems
It's strange the latest black mirror season kept away from tech so much, just while the real world tech is catching up with the original black mirror seasons
It’s like taking something unhealthy and turning it up to 11.

The toys, plants, animals, characters will now talk back to them.
Thanks for all the links, Don. I have four vacation days coming up and if you keep this up you'll soon have filled them for me :-D
I personally don't, and I think it's because pets make demands of you. Walking a dog, making sure your cat is up to date on vaccines, feeding your fish, etc. These all require some level of sacrifice, which strikes me as inherently un-pathetic.

Which points the way to a new Turing test. Something like: "Can an AI credibly make a demand of the user?"
You mean people wanted to get rid of stinky coal and polluting noisy cars in the city and therefore invented climate change? If true, this would be my favourite conspiracy ever.

But actually, I rather believe the scientific consensus, which is not 100% made up by scientists hold in chains by evil corporations and governments, but rather contains a quite diverse bunch.

https://xkcd.com/1732/