skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The models do not update based on input yet and the context windows are still relatively small, ie. no one has an actual "friend" longer than the context window?

I can understand losing an assistant that you have confided years of information too, but a few pages? Then you can just talk to the same model and have it "be the same" in a few hours?

Or are they actually in love with some simple fine tuning of some standard models done by these companies + a simple AI generated face?
in some ways it might actually be better, if only because para-social relationships with actual people have led to them (the para-celebrity, for lack of a better word) getting hurt
Ahh yes. I will fight labels using my labels. Then it's simply a label race to the bottom.

My partner recently bought a label maker and I find it quite entertaining how obsessed he is with stereotyping our objects in the house.

I will probably never understand the duplicitous logic that comes with sexual identity and why being attracted to the same sex somehow not only labels you but also means you become an advocate for labels.
This is ridiculously well-done. Thanks for sharing.
If I had $2 for every time I heard a news story about how some kind of honey bee variant was going to wipe out the US as we know it, I could go ahead and retire. Keep in mind I stopped watching TV around 17 years of age.

Now in my mid 30s, I know exactly 0 individuals who have ever had an issue with bee swarms of any kind.

Meanwhile I grew up in an area with what is known as "RIFA", a variety of ant imported to North America. Despite being immensely painful and aggressive the consensus is to avoid them when possible and to use ant killer if need be to remove them from areas near the house. No one reports on the fact that native ants in many areas have been completely extirpated by this invasive species.
We actually have an internship program with English graduate students to be tech writers for our data science groups. They're wonderful, and I will sing their praises anywhere I can. Having people whose primary skill is knowing how to write is extremely undervalued in Corporate America. If you're only using technical writers to help with documentation, you're doing it wrong.
Is blacks law dictionary addressing the incorporation of US corp in Puerto Rico?
we need the equivalent of ipv6 privacy extensions for phone numbers
> Unions are extremely powerful entities with no regulations so you have to limit it a bit

Why?

> just like you have to limit the power of private corporations.

Not the same thing. Unions act in the interest of their members and even other workers non-members. Corporations act in the interest of their shareholders, against workers (lower salary => profit) and ordinary citizens (polution, monopoly, prices, lower quality => all profit).

Or maybe you are not interested in all that?

> If a private corporation could block your access to essential government services then that would be a big problem

Like how my internet service provider could (if they wanted to) block my access to government sites? Yes. True. Big problem. But they can. Right now, they can.

> the same applies to unions

But they only block it for a company, a specific company. Why should companies be treated like natural persons?

> The government is supposed to be impartial in this case

Wrong. So wrong I'm shocked anyone could say this. Are you paid to troll?

Did you ever hear of a concept called "DEMOCRACY"?

Goverments should act in the interest of their citizens (who voted!), not be impartial to citizens vs. corporations. More than that they should be impartial and act for the good of ALL their citizens, not doing favors to Tesla customers who didn't receive their toy before Christmas.
And from Paulg, "White's Medieval Technology and Social Change is the most fabulous book. http://goo.gl/cPujcr
"
Right. But if AI girlfriend doesn't make demands to you, then it's just a boring novelty, isn't it? Why engage with something like that, it's like cheating in a computer game. How it can make you happy?

I feel the problem you paint will solve itself. It doesn't seem to me it will have worse outcomes than computer gaming.
Isn't it pretty trivial to look for toolmarks on shaped stone? This should be a slam-dunk.
Depends on the kind of work you do and the competition. A former employer was really desperate for pretty journeyman-level Django Dev help a few years ago and for some reason it was just super tight. Ended up paying more like 350% after looking a few weeks. We obviously weren't going to hire someone at that rate for a 6 month contract but for short term help? Sure.
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> it required devs to build an entire game engine from scratch for each platform

No it didn't, please stop saying untrue things.
They don't. They fly by. Like New Horizons did with Pluto.
The best way, IMO, would be by comparing it to the wages of the rag and bone man, or the median income at the time, and potentially by comparing that to modern incomes in the UK and US.

In 1875, per [1], [2], and [3], a common laborer's average annual income was on the order of £30-£50. (DDG found no data on the income of Victorian rag-and-bone men specifically.) So when the article says:

> To do so was punishable with a fine of £50 (approximately US$65), which at the time was a substantial sum of money.

The "approximately US$65" is only meaningful at the December 2023 exchange rate, and "substantial" is carrying all the information and doing a poor job of it. But the important, comparable thing is that it was on the order of his annual income.

It might be more accurate to say that it would be comparable to fining a British person the median household income of £32,300 [4] or an American $74,580 * 0.75 = $55,935 (after taxes) [5]. Quality of living, cost of services, and various baskets of goods were more or less expensive at different times, so there are certainly additional comparisons or modifications you could do.

I'm not much of a historian, but when I want to understand how much of a disincentive the fine was to a rag-and-bone man, that is a start to the kind of context I need. I don't have the context for the savings or borrowing power available to a Victorian laborer - did most people have savings accounts, an estate, retirement account, or other assets they could draw on? Did the government run installment agreements, or did a convict have to borrow from a bank and repay the loan over time? Were they just thrown in a debtor's prison until their family and friends paid the fine? I don't know.

Regardless, it wasn't equivalent to me imagining a loss of $65.

[1] http://www.afamilystory.co.uk/history/wages-and-prices.aspx

[2] https://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages.html

[3] https://www.victorianweb.org/economics/wages2.html

[4] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...

[5] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27...
If questioned, AI will readily tell me it was wrong. If questioned, my dad will hit me
this is very much an issue in Canada, where the lack of deeply cold winters allows a bunch of critters, notable mosquitoes, ticks, and the pine beetle, to have explosive population growth in the summers.

the pine beetle in particular is problematic because it will swarm and kill tons and tons of pine trees -- which is fodder for massive forest fires.
Can you maybe share some paid/unpaid resources to learn C++ from scratch for someone coming from Java and JS?
Sure. But no seal is 100%. Have you ever saved an opened glue or epoxy container? It'll eventually dry out.
There is a provision that works using new content which could instruct the player to add certain keys to a revocation list. So if you buy a new Blu-ray and play it your player can be longer work with that key.

These systems are so thoroughly broken though that as far as I know this has never been used and the protection is more of a legal one.
The three? That's not episode 3, its Half Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, Portal 3, Team Fortress 3, CS3, Dota 3, all confirmed.
How does this compare to fastbase64[0]? Great article, I'm happy to see this sort of thing online. I wish I could share the author's optimism about portable SIMD libraries.

[0]: https://github.com/lemire/fastbase64
Mobile numbers are the obvious choice for large tech companies. They provide a pretty good user identifier for tracking and advertising purposes. And they allow outsourcing the hard parts of verifying a user to some one else. It isn't much wonder why they went this route and usually fall back to it even if you've setup something else.
Couldn't this be related the side of the car you drive on? In Sweden & America your left arm would be more exposed to sun.

Here is an example:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trucker-accumulates-skin-damage...
Just don't? Needing to add "which at the time was a substantial sum of money" means the value is so out people's experience that a foreign currency isn't any more confusing.
Probably makes your information easier to query in XKEYSCORE
Finally, confirmation of HL 3!
Languages are not tools?
That it wasn't great doesn't matter, the claim is refuted by its existence.
Then why wouldn't any LLM trained on real data have structure?

I mean we don't live in the chaos realm, atoms make molecules, those molecules make structures, those structures make cells, organs, lifeforms.
This is also in the article.
I don't think it's too much of a stretch to ask why? A few people have made this point as if it's self evident, but what is unhealthy about it?
Perhap @dang could merge this into this other thread on the same topic but has more activity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445020
While still not citing sources, I'd seen hypotheses that the leftward bias in USians may be due to driving on the left and consequently getting more rads through open windows on the left side. That seems at least less ridiculous than the proposed mechanism here.
So many comments here discussing the pre-AI precedents for pseudo-relations, but there's an important point to remember here: there's a company making money and/or harvesting the data of those who sign up that's invested in deepening the emotional dependency. It's manipulative.
I did not know this, or forgot, thank you for saying! There's applause and laughter after the short version of the quote, so it struck a nerve, and not without reason.

There are comments on Smalltalk at various places in the talk, but after the quote, all he says is, ..."There is one really important thing about Smalltalk, and some of languages like it, that we should pay really really close attention to, but it has almost nothing to do with the syntax and accumulated superclass library," ....

Quote is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=634s
The other thing that doesn’t make sense to me here is Japan’s ISDB-T broadcasts are on 470-710 MHz, which seems like it would map even better to the length of mattress coils and bed frame parts than the longer wavelengths used in America.
Yeah it's easy to take the new emotional-support technology and demonize it. Then go back to drinking, smoking and looking at cat pictures.

I endorse this - who says everybody has to have a certain life plan? A digital friend, lover, child, boyfriend is another way to do it. You be you!
There's not a single piracy user which has to bypass this though, they already get non encrypted files in full quality, this is only affecting legitimate purchases.
Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (Babbage, 1830)
A nice summary from a bookseller here:

https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/reflections-on-the-decline...
If you get thrown into the pool with a wallet in your pocket, no big deal. With a cellphone, it’s a $current_iphone_price loss.
Thank you, it's insane how much pushback "touch grass" gets on this site
Right at the beginning, when they're still on paid only customers:

"In just five months, we were able to raise a $16 million Series A funding round from one of the best investors in the world, a16z."

... strongly suggests that the customer was not their actual focus at all, doesn't it?
This is almost correct. Most EU countries require that you register your SIM card with your ID, before using it. This was a very controversial move from the EU, taken to the European Court of Human Rights, where it was given the green light [0].

Only a handful of EU countries didn't follow through with the ruling [1]

Landline is a bit different, as you need proof of residence to contract it anyway.

[0] https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-200442%...}

[1] https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Registration_P...
Have a backup just in case.
It’s more cost effective, assuming the mass driver is taking most of your budget. Both driver length and force required scale with the square of launch velocity.
GP is basically saying that the upkeep of a local server should be less than it is. And that if server upkeep isn't as easy as it should be, that's because the people whose duty it is to provide that have shirked their duty, and they are to blame.

Personally I'm happy that he doesn't include me in the set of shirkers to be blamed.
> If an account hasn't been used for an extended period of time, it is more likely to be compromised.

Oh right, let's prevent a minority of people losing their accounts by making 100% of them lose their accounts.
My cat's "context window" is pretty small, but I'm still talking to her every day. People do very strange things when you look at them analytically.
I guess the fact there isn't a US Army nor Navy nor CIA nor FBI "clairvoyant" corp, or that the US struggled to find Ben Laden for a decade, is proof enough that either this is all bullsh*t, or that it was propaganda to lead the Russians on a wild goose chase (like they seem to do today with reactionless engines - and the Chinese seem to have bitten, hook and sinker).
Couple of years ago 1k context was remarkable.

Now we have public domain models with 200k context.

Soon they will figure out how to fine tune the context in while conversing. Then context is only relevant for the current inference.
> I will fight labels using my labels.

And you did just that! Congrats on racing to the bottom.
It is more like phone based 1FA at this point. My Google account cannot be recovered at all even though I know the password and still control the recovery e-mail because at one point I made the mistake of adding a (now inaccessible) phone number.
I think for most hiring, regardless of industry, the secret is searching for passion, focus, (I would add) ability/willingness to learn new skills, and a positive attitude toward other humans.

Specific job skills can be taught or learned. If you have the right attitude, positive outlook, and are inherently someone who learns things, you can be very successful in most jobs.

Too often, hiring filters for specific job skills/credentials. Because these are supposed to be a proxy for the softer skills. It's not as effective, but much easier to deploy at scale, I think.
The analog doormat has been there for years, last month added a pumpkin but didn't expect it to last this long. About to manually uninstall the pumpkin and go back to barebones.
Is there a CSS setting for links not wrapping and instead being justified to a new line on Android devices?

Input:

- URL1
- URL2
- https://longurl3

Output:

- URL1
- URL2
-
https://longurl3
Difficult times are fertile ground for the cult of personality.
I think I’m going to bow out because it’s clear this discussion isn’t going anywhere, but you should look up what transclusion means because it makes no sense to say that you can do it in CSS.
Yep. There was an incident with this in 2015 when a Netflix movie was leaked in perfect 4K, horrifying movie studios. They found out that the pirate had used a HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 splitter; and immediately sued the manufacturer of the device.

They then quickly settled out of court when the manufacturer of the device showed in their own licensing manual that downgrading the HDCP version for compatibility wasn’t prohibited. Oops.
Electronic books (EPUBs) are literally just HTML, CSS (plus some more standards specific to EPUBs).
Ban commercialization. You can still get CFCs and leaded gas today if you try hard enough, yet we've drastically reduced their usage.
Something like a GAN is closer to what we'd consider evolution.
I genuinely wonder if this could be a good thing in the long run. Humans are insanely social creatures and if someone is very lonely would an AI be enough to objectively make their life better? I don't think it's a replacement for actual human relationships, but is it better than nothing?
What a vendor lock-in basically means is that your integration with the vendor is so specific, that it's very hard to transfer to another vendor.

Lit is basically a library that makes use of the native Web Components APIs in modern browsers. If someone else would make a similar library, it would most probably have similar functionality.

So I don't really see the issue with vendor lock-in here. Most logic regarding your app is not gonna have anything to do with Lit. Only the way the templates are structured is a bit specific. But it is way less specific than JSX. Because it's just normal HTML with a few specific attributes to easily bind event listeners on HTML elements.

So Lit basically just gives you easy access to powerful browser APIs, making it really easy to build complex webapps without using a big framework.
>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.

None of that seems to have anything to do with a digital ID.
I'm still waiting for Windows / Linux / Android support.
I understand that view, but it's just not that simple. Firstly you don't "own" any of the apps you've bought: you've not bought the executable, you've bought a license to use the executable, a license which may be terminated for any number of reasons: some by the developer, some by Apple. Second, due to Apple making changes to their OS, that app you've bought will require updates and I've chosen my word very carefully there, it will require them. Those updates take work; believe me I've held a few apps in maintenance mode in my time, it is not idle work. It involves a lot of testing of new iOS builds and updating projects/implementations of Apple's code, on and on. It is not a nothing job.

So you has my theoretical customer who've bought an app for a fixed one-time purchase would presumably have something to say to me in the form of an email if Apple drops a new iOS update, and the app no longer works, right? Because you paid your money and you want to use this software. And I totally agree! I want to update it and keep it working for you. But the one-time purchase model is not conducive to this relationship, because it's effectively infinite time investment for me, and a one-time payment for you. And the amount of money I can make to justify that time investment has a natural ceiling: people only need to buy my app once to use it on all their devices, and no matter how good it is, there's a natural ceiling in terms of sales I can achieve, because only so many people are going to want it.

Again, I don't really have a solution to this. The economics of app development are tricky.
A paragraph... of what? Just think about it for a minute...
> going for groceries...

I really this analogy. It feels weird especially when Google and Brave both have their own browser and ad programs, so it's in Kagi's favor to stay as far as possible from inventing their own browser.
Sierra is an interesting company. In the video game industry has very few well known female game designers, and that was even more true back then. Yet the adventure game genre had several - Roberta Williams, Lori Cole, Jane Jensen, and Christy Marx (not as well known, but her games are well regarded), all of whom worked for Sierra. One has to wonder if Roberta Williams being co-owner of the company (and the designer of the first graphical adventure game) is one of the reasons for this.

Another interesting story is when Ken Williams (Roberta Williams husband, the other co-owner of the company) hired middle-aged retired police officer Jim Walls to design the Police Quest adventure games (he designed the first three). Ken apparently was talking to his hairdresser about his idea for a police adventure game, when she mentioned that Walls, her husband, might be an interesting person to talk to.
So you propose tyranny of the minority instead?
1) Real-Time C++ by Christopher Kormanyos. - For using C++ in embedded systems.

2) Software Architecture with C++ by Adrian Ostrowski and Piotr Gaczkowski. - Gives the overall picture of how to use C++ plus relevant modern tools as a complete development system.

3) The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup. - The bible/reference with programming techniques for the language.

Learning C++ is not difficult and don't let the size of the language intimidate you. Survey the different ways of programming in C++ i.e. Imperative/Object-Oriented/Generic/Meta-programming and use them as needed in your project without trying to master everything; that will only happen over time as you gain more experience.
It'll never catch on unless it's got other uses. Consider the kitchen--
Has been done and amusingly documented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35540154 (izzymiller, 7 months ago)
Now I have a funny vision in my head of a WWII radio tech standing in a field, wearing an absurdly large RADAR rig, with a big sweeping antenna protruding from a backpack and a massive screen on his chest, turning this way and that, all confused by how the sweep doesn't look quite right...
In the right locations, developers can benefit from a profound lack of competition, especially if they have some enterprise software bullshit on their resume and some less savvy company nearby refuses to hire someone to do it remotely.
My 11-Year Quest for Finding the Ideal Career
"Interstellar plasma braking", as mentioned in another comment? The ship can slow down, but the passengers will all have died from the plasma radiation.
Is your argument that in trying to avoid war as a source of external work, people are following anyone with an alternative vision for external work with Elon Musk being one person putting such a vision forward?
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Data races are generally UB because to make them defined you have to implement some form of locking on all use which is CPU expensive. With a good architecture you can make those data races impossible in the first place in most cases (not all, but most) and this is considered best practice in general: even when there is no data race, it is difficult to reason about all the possible states of your system when data is shared across threads. As such C++ has decided that data races as UB is the correct thing: in most cases the data race doesn't actually exist - the compiler just doesn't have enough information to prove it doesn't exist. When there is an exception you do have to manually add something to your code to force the synchronization, but hopefully that is rare, and when it happens you want to audit that code more anyway.

I don't know how Java does data races, but often the language doesn't actually prevent data races the way you want it to. That is A=something; B=SomethingEles; can ensure A is updated before B, but will it ensure that either both A and B are both updated or neither are - which may be what you really need, and of course if you don't need that guarantee having it will slow down code that needs A until B is updated even though it doesn't care.