skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. I loved that there were no loading times. I always thought PS1 games felt cheap and slow compared to N64 games. Nobody really used the CD space for game content, they just filled it up with ugly prerendered cutscenes, which I didnt care about.
> That's a small difference in a single incremental component, but it represents a difference in learning rate of a whopping 35%

I guess I see the glass as half full, because that’s easy to overcome.

If a top learner is only 30% better, an average person could study for an hour and a half instead of an hour and easily surpass them. Time management is the ultimate superpower, and it’s something you can get better at, not something you are born with.
I've never seen it be buggy, but it will often remove unnecessary parens. For example: (a * b) + (x * y) becomes a * b + x * y.

This the same code, but I often use parens for semantic grouping or to be 110% sure the operator precedence is correct for a particular formula. It's not a dealbreaker, but it does remove some of the meaning I was trying to imbue on the code.
I would pay $1 or $2 a month, not $5.
"More popular" is wrong, in a deliciously ironic way. Android by far eclipses everything else in terms of consumer computing.
This is the main problem I see with American politics.

Too afraid to fully make something public, so we end up with a half baked public/private hybrid that is disastrous.

I think healthcare should be fully public or fully private. What we have now is a joke and leads to massively bloated healthcare costs.

Exact same with education. Thanks to government loans and subsidies tuition costs have exploded. Either make it public or private.

The public/private hybrid takes taxpayer money and enriches the private corporations offering near-monopoly services of poor quality.
TLDR: I agree with everything you said - on the spectrum of regularity, english is at the extreme end of irregular. The exceptions are words from other languages that are part of english. Pointing out that UK english differs from US english is not an example of irregularity. Someone who learned one of them, learned one of them.

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But, that being said, it still has mostly patterns. After all, we started this conversation with you throwing out examples of what you thought were non-regular words, which all turned out to be pattern-based anyway.

You had make multiple attempts to find a non-pattern word.

IOW, you are still learning patterns, mostly - you found 1 exception in colonel below; I offer 2 more with the words 'soldier' and 'lieutenant' (mostly to demonstrate that, yes, I agree with you that english has some non-regular words).

> And there are easily some that are not part of a pattern: “colonel” (pronounced “kernel”).

This is a good example of an actual non-regular word. All the other english words that are borrowed from other languages probably are each an example of a non-regular word (for example, rendezvous).

There's nothing you can do about this sort of thing. The only alternatives I can think of are:

1. Keep the language pure and not borrow any words from other languages,

2. Make up new words.

In this regard, borrowing seems to be the better option, with the result that non-regularity is introduced.

> American “herbal” (pronounced “erbal”),

Still a pattern: honor, homage, heir, all with silent 'h' for US english and and non-silent in UK english.

Even for something with a larger pronunciation difference, such as 'solder' ('sodder' vs 'solder'), 'sodder' still fits some pattern - a silent 'l' (yolk, salmon, walk, talk).

> autophagy (with the emphasis on “to”, unlike any other word that starts with “auto”).

Autonomy/Autonomous, Automaton. There may be more, but that's certainly a pattern.

> If you need an order of magnitude more patterns to properly pronounce words (and you do) it’s a difference in quality, not just quantity.

Speaking as someone who is bilingual, I don't think it's even the number of patterns that matter (for someone speaking a language, the difference between knowing 10 patterns and 100 patterns is negligible - ask any native english speaker if they have problems with communication with other english speakers).

For example, in Kanji, for common usage, you still need to memorise around 3000 patterns. Native english speakers get by on maybe 300 patterns.

The problem isn't the number, I think, it's the ambiguity: which pattern to use for a specific word. It's still only a few patterns compared to a highly regular language like Kanji, but the ambiguity means that a little native language knowledge is necessary to determine the specific pattern.

Anyway, I think we've both said enough on this topic, so Cheers :-)
I really can't figure out what relation the doodle has to what's generated. I draw a dot, I get a cat as per the prompt. I add another dot, or a line; the newly generated image changes, but there's no predictability. We can call this 'AI', but is there really any intelligence here?

Seems like a call to stable diffusion's API without any real intent.
This may sound stupid, but from my perspective renting random VMs on vast.ai is safe in general and might be safer than using traditional cloud providers in particular. Consider this: on your VM a new image starts several times a day, each time with a new volume. It downloads tens of GBs of data and weights for training. Once training is done, everything gets cleaned up and the process starts again for a new tenant. This constant cycle makes it kind of difficult to track and extract any meaningful data from it.
I'd love to see a browser natively and deeply integrate a 3rd party password manager like bitwarden or 1password, instead of just supporting Keychain.
Parking minimums are local rules, not state law, so wouldn’t be a thing if you are building in unincorporated areas.

And in fact, California has passed some laws putting restrictions in place on where you can have parking minimums

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2022/10/12/california-law-...
Yes, Microsoft:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/customers/mlnet
They're working on it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200196497/locals-push-back-a...
By what mechanism is it possible for this to be true when Firefox doesn't even support Firefox extensions?
please try to change your prompt(textbox on top right)
the default prompt is about a cat
Introduction to AppleScript
Las Vegas, Phoenix and LA were able to get big because there weren't already cities the size of Vegas, Phoenix and LA hogging all the water.
Well, that's how you go about relearning old lessons. It reminds one of Chesterton's fence, where the ignorant tear down the fence and after much suffering end up building the fence back up.
It's the acrylamide: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide
As is the LA Metro (the rail, not Metrolink, the subway)
Still besides OoT the best N64 game and vastly underrated when released near the end of the console lifecycle as an adult game.
Emma Watson read that letter to you :)

The demo site showcases intuitive UI interaction designs. It uses pseudo data to prevent token consumption.

For genuine AI responses, you may want to set up your own instance following the instructions at https://github.com/proxoar/talk
Answering my own question: Alex Gerko (who's behind the $10M prize here) says:

> "It came about as me checking on the status of IMO Grand Challenge (which was launched in 2019 https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io) and deciding that it's time to give this idea a boost"

https://twitter.com/AlexanderGerko/status/172920793662562733...
Maybe, but SFMTA will just drag its feet on blocking of parking for construction.
I'd have said Bajo Kazooie and GoldenEye.
This article looks like it is written by ChatGPT
If you believe that restrictions on use of property is immoral, then you necessarily do not believe in property rights. Either someone can dictate the terms in which other people use that thing, or they do not own that thing.

That's fine, but it's not very compatible with capitalism.
Well now I'm mostly going to conclude that Wayland proponents are remarkably unpleasant if you dare disagree with them. But cropping out the personal attacks and addressing substance:

> "hey, we don't want to keep supporting this product so we're going to stop" is not the same as "we want to make this go away, let's sabotage it."

From inside Red Hat, that's true. From outside, they look similar. As a user, they're functionally identical; anything not actively maintained and supported will degrade or die, because users are forced to new hardware that needs to be supported (if nothing else, by old hardware dying) and new software and OS versions (by company policy, audit requirements, and vendor support). If and end-user was using, say, an accessibility tool that doesn't work on RHEL 10, the motives and mechanism are secondary to the fact that the tool no longer functions.
The End Game is to make Windows “Cloud Only” [1]

Then they will have the users by their balls.
Charge money for every click.
Insert ads where they see fit.
Dynamically adjust prices to squeeze the max amount of money.

Time for quarterly reports?
“Sorry our Excel servers are under ‘heavy load’,
Excel now costs 4x the usual hourly rate…”

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/could-windows-12-become-micro...
I have the 2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro. I've loved this thing and it's worked great while letting me play a couple of the Mac supported steam games ever since I purchased it. But man I empathize with you about the fans turning on almost immediately after turning on. Lightroom finally became unusable because the slider changes would lag for every single photo and Xcode no longer supports iOS 17.

I jumped to a 16" M1 Max that I found at a pretty decent sale price. You won't regret it if you can swing the cash. The fans have only turned on when I've played Civ 6. I think they maayyy have turned on during Lightroom use but I'm not so positive.

It's said because my old 15" still operates, hardware wise, without any issues. I plan to turn it into a linux or a windows machine to play other old computer games.
Fuck the poor
We are owned by greedy people who get a free ride off our labor. The whole world has been built around our function as machinery for the ruling class. They do everything they can to make sure the vast majority of people live more-or-less the exact same standard-issue life. And as payment for our back-breaking labor we get a mass extinction event which was caused directly by the things they made us do.
Microsoft's lawyers are busy
Ahem.

> Fair use is also a restriction on the ownership. A big one. So if it's this simple, then "they do not" must be the correct answer for how the world already works.

Ownership has restrictions, and ownership on ideas has the most restrictions.

This is very compatible with capitalism.
As it happens, I'm working on an approachable tutorial on LLMs using a custom GPT2 implementation in Excel. It's still a work in progress (only two lessons so far) but would love feedback:

https://spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/

The goal is to quickly get the viewer up-to-speed on what all the components in the Transformer are conceptually doing. Having something interactive like a spreadsheet also makes "playing" with the guts of a transformer more accessible. That being said, it focuses on inference and is unlikely to ever cover the training process.

Having been where you are before, I'll say the most rightfully and universally acclaimed videos are Andrej Karpathy's zero to hero and Jeremy Howard's fast.ai courses. I have watched both. My characterization is Jeremy Howard's is very practical and gets you productive quickly ("top down" so to speak) while Karpathy's builds everything in detail from the bottom up. My mind is more compatible with the bottom up flow of Karpathy's videos but Howard's might be better if you want use this immediately in a project or job context.
I've been using this as a daily driver on iOS for about a month now and it's been great. A few random teething issues but no crashes or real bugs. Supports extensions well.
Why should someone care about the laundry list of features that Wayland has if they don't need those features, and the feature that they do need doesn't work?
It's the normal use of goto in C: you run into some exceptional circumstance, you don't know how to deal with it, so you goto some code that cleans up any unfinished business you might have, like memory allocations – and then you return some error code as soon as you can, once everything is in a good state.
I am not well versed in any of this, but from reading the counterarguments, I think two good points are being made:

* Analogies aside, neurons are quite different than NN nodes, because each neuron has an incredibly complex internal cellular state, whereas an NN node just has an integer for state.

* A brain is not a "function" in the way that a trained LLM model is. Human life is not a series of input prompts and output prompts. Rather, we experience a fluid stream of stimuli, which our brain multiplexes and reacts to in a variety of ways (speaking, moving, storing memories, moving our pupils, releasing hormones, etc). That is NOT TO SAY a brain violates causality; it's saying that the brain is mechanically doing so much more than an LLM, even if the LLM is better at raw computation.

None of this IMO precludes AGI from happening in the medium term future, but I do think we should be careful when making comparisons between AGI and the human brains.

Rather than comparing "apples to gorillas", I'd say it's like comparing a calculator to a tree. Yes, the calculator is SIGNIFICANTLY better at multiplication, but that doesn't make it "smarter" than a tree, whatever that means.
If this is legal why not? What if I store it in a car and park near by?
Granted, however this doesn't solve your problem with ownership. Either a person can dictate the terms of how something is used (excepting "fair use" or whatever other exceptions apply) or they do not own that thing.

No version of what you've said supplies sufficient exception to remove a person's ability to stipulate conditional use of a thing.
Doesn't surprise me that much. I'm on tirzepatide, and I still enjoy the occasional drink, but it hits harder, the hangovers are worse, and I no longer get the sugar rush I used to.

Same as candy, in a way -- I still like to have an occasional frozen yogurt, but I no longer crave a second one immediately after I finish the first, and it doesn't sit that well, so it's become a sometimes treat rather than something I have to make a real effort to stop myself ordering at the end of the day.

I have a friend who works on reservations in Canada, who says they hand it out like candy there -- the health outcomes for people who are obese are like magic, and I have to imagine a reduction in AUD is a massive side-benefit for a population notably at risk.

Lost ~20lbs in 10 weeks.
There was actually "RPG Tsukūru Super Dante", an RPG maker on the Super Famicom in Japan in 1995.
I can't vote for 10 out of 11 of SF city supervisors, but they get to prevent my neighborhood from building more housing. I feel like whatever ideals you have about democracy here, they don't exist in practice in San Francisco for various reasons. I'm extremely glad my elected state government can step in for the greater cohesion of democratic voices across the state and override the hyper-local politics.
EDIT: Nevermind, I somehow totally missed the "beta" plastered all over the place.

I just gave Orion a try because of this HackerNews post --- what a buggy mess.

I've already seen three crashes using it, mostly by bookmarking things or deleting old bookmarks.

I'm very grateful that there are good players entering the space (from what I hear Kagi is amazing), but Orion just is not ready to be a daily driver.
I'll criticize Apple when it's due, but I'm glad the OS isn't filled with absolute trash all over the place on a fresh install.
I can't even bring myself to build a new PC for gaming, because whenever I turn on a Windows box I get disgusted by what it's become.
Better article https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23977673/bytedance-nuver...
> Linus Torvalds said that he was seeing a divide between the filesystem and driver maintainers. Developers on the filesystem side tend to be more conservative, while the driver world "is the wild west". Driver authors tend not to understand concurrency, he said, and a lot of the code there is broken and unfixable. So it is unsurprising that there is interest in bringing in a language that better supports the writing of correct and safe code.

> Torvalds answered that, while he used to find problems in the LLVM Clang compiler, now he's more likely to find problems with GCC instead; he now builds with Clang.

> At the conclusion, Torvalds pointed out that there have been problems over the years with GCC changes breaking the kernel; the same will surely happen with Rust, but it will be the same thing in the end.

Based Linus Torvalds.
Wait, so why are they even using Wayland?
And that's what chafes me about using San Francisco as an example. SF is already far more dense than the other eight Bay Area counties. Look at Brisbane in San Mateo County for instance. A developer wanted to build out some mixed use stuff on a plot of land including about 4,500 homes and the city countered with a plan for zero homes. San Francisco alone cannot remedy a regional housing crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_Baylands_development
Pedantry: https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/pardon-the-expression/to...
But why would you expect the non-exclusives to be better on console A instead of console B?
So you can not even point to any independently verifiable systems or even evidence that supports your claim that products from those vendors can be used to make high assurance systems. In the entire world, not even a single one.

But, despite the fact that every competent offensive software specialist claims that everything is easily hacked and demonstrate that repeatedly on the software made by the giant commercial IT vendors, we should just take it on faith that those same vendors can totally make high assurance systems even though they have failed every time they tried in the past, but this time for sure they figured it out.
You guys seem to ignore that apple is an ads broker itself so no idea what are you on about https://www.wired.com/story/apple-is-an-ad-company-now/
Has wage theft ever put someone in jail? My impression is that the thief simply has to pay back the stolen wages and that's enough.
> Granted, however this doesn't solve your problem with ownership. Either a person can dictate the terms of how something is used (excepting "fair use" or whatever other exceptions apply) or they do not own that thing.

Fair use is a whole category. And there's also public domain, eventually.

I could definitely frame my suggestion, for downloading when purchase is unavailable, as a type of fair use or public domain, or something in between.

If it's fair use, does that make it compatible with ownership?

I think it's compatible with ownership.

> No version of what you've said supplies sufficient exception to remove a person's ability to stipulate conditional use of a thing.

Are you familiar with the first sale doctrine? You are largely not allowed to stipulate conditional use of media you are selling.

You get the tools copyright gives you, and that's it.
I did not even know this was possible. So CSS has microtypography features after all!
Though piracy was also much easier with CDs.
Agreed. In the first picture, you can see it stands for "Java FlightRecorder," but there's no explanation of what that is or does. A profiler?
In the Netherlands there’s a log of self censorship by the newspapers themselves. This is particularly true of the smaller local region papers. These papers are often fed a steady stream of crime related stories from the police. They are quite afraid to criticise the police or government as a result.

For example the Limburger. I had a story about serious corruption within the justice department. But they wouldn’t print this unless they had three independent sources they said. No matter how good the proof was. The proof is to be a source in this you pretty much had to be involved or a victim. And the source would have to be prepared to incriminate themselves and break confidentiality with serious implications to themselves.

That’s an assuredly high bar and thus they silence themselves.
Is the Sikorsky helicopter-style naming a trademark violation?
the fact that the iranian regime blocks telegram, messenger, instagram, signal, etc. but has no problem with whatsapp makes me worried that the app probably cooperates with the regime and complies with their data requests.
The world needs ditch diggers as much as it needs PhD’s. We can come up with fictional stories about how robots or AI will magically do everything, but in the real world you need people to dig holes.

Training people to follow instructions is a necessary kind of education. You can already see problems forming as a result of how education has changed in the last few years. Lots of people who can code but a massive shortage of anyone who can put up drywall or service a boiler.
There's no definition of "fair use" that would allow someone to agree not to share something, then deliberately break that agreement and have their action be moral.

This goes beyond digital/physical goods, and beyond copyright. You give your word as part of the agreement of sale that you won't do something, except you then go and do that very thing. That is not a moral act.
> In a big block quote it looks the part, like a magazine.

Doing a google image search for "magazine blockquote" isn't giving me anything with hanging punctuation, just oversized decorative quote marks, mostly at opposite corners of the blockquote box, sometimes even just the opening one. Most of them are also in a different color than the text.
> Wayland already works, and is great for a lot of use cases; it's the default on distributions like Fedora, and has been for a while. It has nice things. For 90% of users, it's better than X in most ways that matter.

> I exclusively use X11 because of an extremely niche use case, and I can admit that Wayland is perfectly fine for 99%

I am also married with a nice girl, but the girl next door, looks much better. /s
> Recently, attention has turned to the possibility that semaglutide may have broader applications, including its potential impact on addictive behaviors such as reducing drug craving and alcohol consumption.

Makes sense when your consider over-eating as addictive behavior. Considering there is a strong correlation between psychological trauma and addictive behavior as a coping mechanism, I wonder what happens to such people on Semaglutide.

Will they find alternative coping mechanisms? Or does the physiological effect of of Semaglutide somehow soften the impact of the trauma underlying addictive behaviors? If these drugs cure trauma-derived addictive behaviors, that's just so extremely interesting, mechanistically. Really curious to know if this is true, and if we'll ever find out in which direction the causality goes.
Plus I was told by someone that should know that they receive subsidies to be in Sittard.
If you're running malicious applications, you're already fucked, and your compositor pretending to protect you is the last thing you need.
"Org Table" gave me flashbacks to a cross-functional corporate "hierarchy" that was almost implemented at a company I once worked for.
vast didn’t work for me despite installing their certificate on macOS.
macOS has native password autofill which opens the Keychain experience to 3rd party password managers. Unfortunately browser support is limited to Safari (even though the API itself is open), while Strongbox [1] seems to be the only option on password manager side.

Maybe this will improve with the adoption of passkeys, where browsers are actually trying to integrate with the system passkeys API (a neighbor to autofill).

[1]: https://strongboxsafe.com/updates/macos-big-sur-autofill/