skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, they have a pretty detailed section on possible recipes, including this one purported to be the original:

Ingredients:

1 oz (28 g) caffeine citrate
3 oz (85 g) citric acid
1 US fl oz (30 ml) vanilla extract
1 US qt (946 ml) lime juice
2.5 oz (71 g) "flavoring" (i.e., "Merchandise 7X")
30 lb (14 kg) sugar
4 US fl oz (118.3 ml) fluid extract of coca leaves (flavor essence of the coca leaf)
2.5 US gal (9.5 L; 2.1 imp gal) water
caramel sufficient to give color
"Mix caffeine, citric acid and lime juice in 1 quart boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool."
Flavoring (Merchandise 7X):

1 qrt alcohol
80 oil orange
40 oil cinnamon
120 oil lemon
20 oil coriander
40 oil nutmeg
40 oil neroli
"Let stand 24 hours."
I guess you mean well but this sort of reasoning is borderline offensive. I said math is hard to me and you immediately jumped to "abstract reasoning" as if that means math and nothing else.

Saw plenty of this in school. Not appreciated.
Setting doesn't always open on "home".

Annoyingly so it doesn't even always open on the expected screen, e.g. when opening "Wifi settings" from the network selection you might end up in notifications if it was the last screen you used. Not a consistent bug.
What Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network? (2017)
You see a story how a company manages to build out their internal infrastructure such that there is no appreciable benefit to migrating the whole thing to the cloud, and your takeaway is that "AWS is better"?

I feel like you might not have read the article.
Off site encrypted backups that are audited occasionally would prevent a lot of pain. Sad to see this happen to a library.
That's not really true unless you're ignoring the rest of my points. The process did not just uniformly randomly create programs.

They also don't just keep the best and search from that point but feed the resulting programs and their scores into an LLM.
On the Mac, it was non-updateable separately from the hardware for a while (large parts of the UI toolkit shipped in ROM) :-)

I think there also always was a new OS version for the new hardware, though, with the new hardware not running at all on older versions.

The high speed at which computer tech improved at the time made that a bit of a smaller issue.
rules for thee, but not for me
Well, to take it full circle, they don't dogfood LinkedIn on Azure. How about GitHub for that matter? Wouldn't that indicate Amazon can dogfood more?
No one, because according to current legislation, copyright only applies to works by humans.
Yes it should, and that’s why it’s total BS and not an indication of anything.
> Is whoever wrote that post, specifically, hiring?

Only those applicants who are from Korea.
I bounced from that to the earring project he mentioned, and I'm just happy this guy exists. I'm strangely happy that he and I go through suffering, too. I've long suspected this is part of the human condition, much like this hackiness (in the best possible sense) is part of the human condition.

Talk about sharing the message instead of the mess. Well done, tiny electronic trinket guy :)
Would it be possible to apply MuZero to this?
> I feel like the word engineering is being abused reply

Well yeah, this has been happening for a long time. As someone with a Electrical and Computer Engineering degree it used to bother me. Now I joke that the only real engineers are operating locomotives.
I’ve known two people who did the dumbphone thing. What brought them back to smartphones was not because it made life difficult for them. Rather, it made life difficult for their friends and family. Eventually they succumbed and went back to a smartphone.

Not just phones, but there are a lot of things you can do if you choose to ignore various aspects of society around you. But can’t if you cannot.
Of course if you start without any inductive biases (i.e. a program schema in the case of the FunSearch approach) there will be a "cold start" problem, but FunSearch doesn't start cold, as genetic programming doesn't start cold.

The question is the "cold start issue". That's what I'm addressing. Maybe you're not used to being corrected? Get used to it.
That’s not what the parent said. The wired connection itself is better, but it has the tradeoff of physical wear and tear and ports that break.
* end-of-the-day-code, haven't reloaded all the context

Apparently I couldn't proofread yesterday
One of my ancestors was involved with the “acquisition” of the Elgin marbles, I believe he might have been a secretary to Elgin.

Amusingly, he was also involved in the restoration of artefacts looted by Napoleon during his conquests. So much so that the sculptor, Antonio Canova gifted him with one of 4 Ideal Heads as a thanks for returning works to the Vatican. The bust remained in our family until the mid 90’s and can now be seen in the Ashmolean in Oxford.
Thanks for this comment. I am a big fan of Böll and I still keep discovering interesting things about him.
Women are more likely to attempt suicide, and men are more likely to succeed. Gun ownership is overwhelmingly male.
It's not that cut-and-dry.

If I say to one of my human friends "write me a nursery rhyme", the copyright of the resulting rhyme would obviously belong to my friend - despite me prompting them. Clearly the prompt itself does not universally count as "making" it.

Let's say I made a "NovelSnippetAI", which contains a corpus of prewritten material. You can prompt it, and it will return a page which matches the sentiment of your prompt best. I think we can agree that the copyright of the page will still belong to the original writer - the user only did a query.

What if I did "NovelMixAI", which did exactly the same but alternated lines from the two best matches? What about "NovelTransformAI", which applied a mathematical formula to the best match and fed the output to a fixed Markov Chain? Now we're suddenly at "LLMAI", which does the same using a neural network - what makes it different from the rest?

Long-standing precedent is that any automated work does not qualify for copyright. You can only copyright human work.
> It does give rights to prevent a reproduction, but that is not what an AI model does.

Why would you conclude that ? While an AI model does not ONLY reproduce, it most certainly can make verbatim reproductions. The things preventing the user from getting copyrighted material from chatgpt are probably only rules/guardrails. The most prominent example of this is perhaps the Bible which you could get from it quote by quote within token limit.
Sometimes I fantasize about breaking into the fancy UK and US museums just to give it back to counties it was stolen from.
Wasn’t there this thing that Google collected a list of SSIDs using their Google Maps cars, and that gave them “good enough” geolocation using passive WiFi scanning, which was much less battery intensive and faster than GPS?
Most of the buyers I'm aware of are in the used market - fortunately, they mention this briefly

I'm curious how that market develops. I'm pessimistic about "Car 2.0" for a couple reasons

First, a chance to redefine the idea of what owning a car is. For example, subscriptions to use induction heaters that you already pay to power.

Second, the battery. They're consumable and a considerable size of the value.

I'm not sure their market would remain

I've driven too many four cylinders that I legitimately have a complex over how my car sounds. I'm driving my V8 until I can't anymore
The point isn't specifically having trouble breaking the record, the point is that having to deal with the plasma makes it a completely different flight regime with completely different design considerations, exactly like how sustained supersonic flight requires all sorts of considerations that are very different from what subsonic flight requires.
This PGP thing sounds pretty cool. What is recommended for getting started these days?
We are working to migrate from Azure to on-prem because it's so bad. It is an uncoordinated mess indeed.
I think a sharp knife cutting a donut at an angle through the center is quite enough of a problem to imagine for most people! ;-)
The ability to link image-metaphors/mnemonics to concepts is something that really should spread to other (non-medical) domains.

An example of a picture mnemonic for others: https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/202...

Article: https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/usc-dornsife-alumnus-r...

If you're comfortable saying, did your startup/acquirer have any interest in developing products for other domains?
Hardware (and performance) can always be improved without involvement of users so this is actually pretty useful.
Didn't LinkedIn create Kafka? Was that some of the overengineering?
If you're truly interested in Roman Emperors, that's fine, of course. The warning is more about "I just started spaced repetition, I need cards quick, so let's do capitals, US states, and other random trivia".

I admit birthdays of acquaintances don't quite fit under "random trivia", but I'll still maintain that learning random birthdays seems useless, when the calendar works so well.
I agree and also better gun laws. States with stricter gun laws have fewer gun suicides.

Just to make it clear how much I agree: everyone reading this, talk to your friends, especially male friends, about what you are going through and ask them what they are going through. Be there for them. Everyone needs this.
Right, but I count both as reliability, and while I've had wireless connections be flaky tons of times, I haven't had a physical port break yet.
It’s not perfect, but it’s good. Or better than spending more.
It’s not as cut and dried as you’re making it out to be.

For years we’ve accepted that search engines, for example, can grab all the code on GitHub and use it to build a search index.

Google image search, in particular, ‘regurgitates’ all the images it has indexed when it thinks they match a search term.

It has a little disclaimer it shows next to the results saying that ‘images may be copyrighted’ - figuring out if they are copyrighted and if so by whom is left as an exercise for you the searcher. Depending on what you are using the image search for, the copyright of the images may, after all, not be relevant. Like, if you’re using a Google image search to get inspiration for home decor designs, do you care who owns the copyright of each image? Should Google?

GPT poses similar risks to that. It has the explicit disclaimer that things it produces might be subject to copyright. Depending on what you’re using the output for, the copyright may or may not be relevant.
Don't know about "designed to" but corruption and abuse of power is absolutely a consequence of this, indeed. Almost feel that this was designed to decredibilise unions (which are essential to democracy in my view) because they ended up strongly reassembling mafias: pretending to protect the people while actually only looking out for your own interests...
Two years ago I spend nearly a month hunting for a decent electric vehicle. I had plenty of funds, and could theoretically afford a lower-end tesla. I was, at the time, driving a 2002 Honda Civic Hybrid, because to me, going electric makes sense. I was aware of the range limitations, and even had an agreement with my landlord to get a 220v outlet installed in the garage.

I ultimately abandoned my endeavor because none of the vehicles provided 2 key things older cars continue to provide: Ownership, and Privacy. And key to this is that this isn't just electric cars, it's pretty much all modern cars. My Civic had a replaceable stereo headunit. How many modern cars have the infotainment system so embedded that functions of the cars depend on it? And we know car manufactures take advantage of that. Hell, even judges seem ok with them doing that [1]. Then you have the fact that repairing anything in the car is made not only intentinally obtuse, but illegal is some states. As it stands right now in oklahoma, you can do any work you want on your gas vehicle, but move to electric and you better have a $5,000 yearly certificate to touch that. Simply opening the hood can land you in jail. And we know the car manufacturers can tattle on you [2]. Then there's the fact that these cars are more than capable of moving themselves. And that system is tied to a remote service. Absolutly nothing stops a manufacturer from deciding that your car's "drive train control system" is no longer licensed, and simply shut it down. Permanently. If companies are willing and able to steal your media [3], the next step is easily to just brick your appliances. Hell, microwaves are already doing that [4]. Trains do that if you decide a third party repair station is reasonable [5]. Where does this end?

Point being, till I can truly own my vehicle again, I'm sticking with older cars. I would much rather own an electric vehicle, but so far none of them are even remotely close to being something I can actually own. Price has nothing to do with it.
[1] https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/judge-rules-i...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/07/tesla-int...
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/02/playstatio...
[4] https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-...
[5] https://hackaday.com/2023/12/06/the-deere-disease-spreads-to...
Pimsleur is my favorite system for learning foreign languages, based on spaced repetition.

I'm a casual tourist, who likes to pick up some rudimentary language skills before travel. There are many of us; we understand the importance of smiling at our hosts and getting the words out while more formal learners are stalled in self-induced aphasia.

For us, the design of spaced-repetition systems misses a crucial point: We don't care about measurable process while stockpiling some language skills before a trip, and we certainly don't have time to sit around studying once we're on a trip. The goal is to ingest as much content as we can, in some form that sticks, to recall more flexibly as we struggle to speak in-country.

For this purpose, memorizing a radio play as if one is an actor is more effective than spaced repetition. For example, just the Pimsleur dialogs, edited from audio files one owns. The words are there, slow to access but quicker than opening up a phrase book. Within a week traveling, one's mind reorganizes access to the language one actually uses.

The dig on learning a radio play is one doesn't know the words out of sequence. Yeah, that's why one can learn them so efficiently. For those of us of a certain age, it's the "next song on the album" effect. What did Knuth say about premature optimization? Learn the words one actually needs out of sequence, on the ground, in use.
I apologise if I have caused any offense, because that wasn't my intent.

I feel you missed the main point of my comment, though. Even if abstract reasoning, or certain forms of abstract reasoning, were not natural to you (something that I can impossibly judge), it wouldn't mean, as you initially claimed, that it would be impossible to teach you mathematics.
Yes, that's one problem. The GP said there are two problems, the other one being "we can't reach this speed easily".
And rents have to do with supply of housing relative to demand, which are local issues that can be holding the national economy back.

So one way to frame it would be the national economy is doing well despite significant problems in housing supply/demand.
This is great news now that the industry phased out physical audio connection on phones in favor of wireless.
Good job, guys.
SUSE Adaptable Linux Platform (Milestone 7)
In defense of extreme database-centric architecture [pdf]
I can quote the entire script of Monty Python and the Holy Grail - would you assume I stole it?
The people using AI to write code aren't necessarily former professional programmers, for the same reasons people using AI to make pictures aren't necessarily former professional artists, and those using aim bots aren't necessarily former professional snipers or olympic shooters.

A manager can prompt a chatbot to write a thing instead of prompting me to write the same thing — for the moment, what (I hope) keeps me employable is that the the chatbot is "only" at the level of getting good grades rather than n-years professional experience.

I have no expectation for any specific timeline for that to change. Perhaps there are enough incentives it will never get trained to that level, but also perhaps it was already trained 4 months back and the improvement to capabilities are what caused the OpenAI drama.
90% of civilized world lives in cities which are well-known suppliers of concrete boxes, business in the sense of having no rest and ultra-processed foods.
They've literally been changing the measurements of economic indicators to make things seem better than they are.
I really cannot believe that in good faith you missed all the comments which are not snarks. It's the overwhelming majority...
I can’t imagine they use Teams internally.
I agree. The notion that “They” (big bad publishers/media etc) are afraid of user-generated competition and that’s why we have asymmetric connections and a Web that works mainly for consumption, is misguided. We have those things because most people only have the quality of content to produce that you see witnessed in YouTube comments, or, would use any amplified platform to spam relentlessly their political opinions or some moneymaking scheme. There exist places like Wikipedia that do seem to embody those values of symmetry and democracy, but they require big compromises and a lot of formal processes of enforcement of community norms, in all a ton of work for people, in order to stay good.
Oh for sure. I should have listed that also. We are in an epidemic of disconnected-ness.
> If I say to one of my human friends "write me a nursery rhyme", the copyright of the resulting rhyme would obviously belong to my friend - despite me prompting them. Clearly the prompt itself does not universally count as "making" it.

This is the wrong analogy. The LLM is more like Photoshop and the prompt little more than a filter configuration. A machine cannot copyright its own output but a human guiding that machine can.
I wish they'd always explain 'the initial seed' first. What was the initial thought or idea, that, when
pursued and expanded on, resulted in the concept that im trying to learn right now?

That sort of initial seed would give me so much information...
it happens in the uk as well as the us - university lecturers are bribed by the publishers.
I don't really understand how Apple can say they still support these older devices when there are known vulnerabilities which they don't patch. I just wrote something similar: https://joshua.hu/apple-ios-patched-unpatched-vulnerabilitie...
That shouldn’t matter, regarding copyright violation. Purchasing a book only makes the physical object your own, it doesn’t change anything with regard to the contained work.
I think those are different because they are acquisitions.

It doesn’t mean they will never use Azure, just that they’re being rational about what to use.

It would be very different if they designed GitHub today and didn’t use Azure.
> Let's also not forget that every other website on the planet that relies on npm also relies on the blind trust of unverified UI components.

It feels like you think you're making a really good point here. In reality, it's just a run-of-the-mill appeal to popularity. The programmers doing this sort of thing on other websites are in the wrong, too.
Time for a new (?) theory of regulation (Elon Musk and Starlink)
compared with what?
But you just cancel within the 7 days.
You just cancel right after you sign up. And by the way I'm not defending Adobe just pirate their software plainly just do that instead but this is exactly what I do with everything that is incredibly difficult to pirate is if I feel like doing the free trial as soon as I sign up I cancel because you pretty much always get the trial even if you cancel until the trial period is up you don't have to wait six or seven days you could just cancel right after you sign up and there isn't a penalty because it clearly says you have this many days for a free trial but there isn't a problem if you cancel right after you sign up and there isn't a problem if you cancel the next day or cancel 5 days later just literally don't wait until the free trial is over because that's literally what it says in the terms if you wait past 7 days and then cancel then you are not in a free trial anymore you are in a period in which you can be charged.
The various CAPTCHA implementations are primarily designed to prevent bot submissions, not spiders.
"Astronomers detect 95 new extremely-metal poor galaxies" would have been a better headline IMHO.
Tomas Mikolov on origin of word2vec and seq2seq
Actually there are trivially easy ways to calculate DOW off the top of your head. No one bothers because it was never a real problem. People used to carry their calendar books on them to keep track of their engagements. Now we carry a smartphone.

Nevertheless, my colleague bothered to do it and he could tell you the DOW without pausing. He is of average intelligence maybe a little more intelligent than I (though I was better at mental math)
> knowing that the Windows Bluetooth stack has the architectural equivalent of BlueZ's `ClassicBondedOnly=false`

Did you mean “ClassicBondedOnly=true”?
https://medium.com/blob-streaming/i-am-a-bad-software-develo...
That's unexpected, considering that this problem has been solved in the one of the most ancient p2p protocol - bittorrent.
Obvious new business model providing a human shill service where you look at AI output and say "yep, I made that". Now it's copyright, assigned to the customer of your startup.
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“2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1” https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-...

Overview of the AHAR reports, including data:
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/ahar.html
Think tank tied to tech billionaires played key role in Biden's AI order
Having done volunteer work with the homeless (and helping with these counts in years past), I think the broad term of "homeless" isn't all that useful.

I encountered so many different types of folks. Some were people down on their luck that needed help. Some had mental problems that (I'm guessing) can never really be fixed. Some had addictions. Some simply enjoyed being homeless.

I think addressing the problem would need to address varying underlying causes. For instance, "just give them jobs" will work for some of these folks, but not for a lot of them.
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I had a... suboptimal experience with SQLite's FTS, so here it is for others: match queries don't work with `OR` conditions. You have to do this work around:

WHERE
fa.rowid IN (SELECT rowid FROM address_fts WHERE address_fts MATCH 'google')
OR
ta.rowid IN (SELECT rowid FROM address_fts WHERE address_fts MATCH 'google')

Source https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost?udc=1&name=1a2f2ffdd80cf7...

I'm building a search feature for my app, that parses a user's search query (a la Github search) and returns relevant results. Generating the above workaround SQL on the fly is just... ulgh.
I’m aware. The implication of the sarcasm is there’s no good reason China and western countries have different standards, so that’s what I was addressing.
The line I've often heard from defense enthusiasts is that America appears behind on hypersonics because they're aiming for "true" hypersonic weapons, ie ones which are capable of a wide range of navigation while in powered hypersonic flight, as that's what actually makes the concept so potent, by making the missile so fast and unpredictable that current air defense systems would struggle to intercept it.

Without controlled navigable flight, "hypersonics" are much simpler, as you basically just have a ballistic missile, which can still be intercepted by traditional air defense (Russia's Kinzal being an example of this kind of so-called hypersonic missile).