skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. I also loved the simplicity. It’s not that different from Serverless, if you look at it.

There is an HTTP server handling all the HTTP stuff and process launching (which is handled by API Gateway in AWS, for example), and the communication between it and the “script” just uses language or OS primitives instead of more complex APIs.

The 2000s were quite wild in how things changed… suddenly you have giant frameworks that also parse HTTP, a reverse proxy. At some point even PHP became all about frameworks.

I wonder if we wouldn’t have a more open, standardized and mature version of CGI/Serverless if it had been a more gradual transition rather than a couple of very abrupt paradigm shifts.
I think it's more nuanced. Pinochet was a cruel dictator but he implemented necessary market reforms to fix the Marxist rules of Allende. He goes in the box with other "controversial, but necessary" figures like Lee Kuan Yew and Park Chung Hee.

And the US did not overthrow Allende. To allege so is to deprive Chileans of any kind of political agency
"A new study reports 309 lab acquired infections and 16 pathogen lab escapes between 2000 and 2021"
Great video, awesome execution and I'm really grateful for how much mitzela shares.

That said, I'm always sad to get shot in the eyeball by bare LEDs.

After giving this idea a little thought, I'd love to see an iteration that diffuses the LED light through the skin...

Wow - subtly glowing ears, noses, lips, etc?!
I found it very easy to learn these principles once BASIC taught me loops and functions. Once out of BASIC, a tough concept to grok was passing pointers and different data types, because BASIC made global and local variables so brainless. Object-oriented languages are in many ways further from assembly than BASIC, but even VB teaches you objects and methods and properties albeit in a very simple form. Leaving the virtual box framework of basic was also somewhat difficult, but I don't think learning basic made it any harder or easier, just more frustrating because it seemed so pointless at first. It's like learning to drive an automatic and having someone tell you that you must now learn a manual transmission with manual brakes and steering, and how to change the oil/clean the carb. Seems silly at first, but ultimately rewarding.
I love this, was thinking about paying for an artist to create some music for my project but now I can do this all myself for free (for now).

There may be an open source version of Suno somewhere but this will do.

Most of the music on Suno is really indistinguishable from music that has been made by humans, but doesn't really matter to me anyway.

The TTS needs a bit of improvement but nonetheless, great work from Suno.
You can: with Signal. It runs on both iOS and Android.

No one in this thread so far as adequately demonstrated why Apple should be forced to provide a free service — at their own expense — to non-customers. Has any company ever been forced to do that?
This isn’t about JavaScript vs no JavaScript.

It’s about serving different pages based on User Agent.
> During a job interview, I was once asked "oh, but you don't actually run too much, right?"

That would be a massive red flag for me. If they checkout my private life to that degree, even if running is on the C.V. (unless maybe running is a property of the job, like a pro running team or applying for Strava community person)
> But the reasons why you do it, to which extent you do it, and by which means you achieve that are vastly different.

Not so: the two points of view boil down to the exact same thing logically, even though MMT proponents sometimes fail to highlight this. Again, see FTPL which precisely explains the logical consequences of what you referenced above ("taxation [as] an instrument to control demand and inflation") without abandoning the neo-liberal framework.

Simplified, the fiscal stance (taxation + government spending) is indeed one factor in demand and inflation but the central bank "moves last" in that game, so we are free to let other considerations determine the best mix of taxation and spending. It's only when monetary intervention is ineffective that less conventional policies may be needed, for some reason or other. (Deep deflation, or hyperinflation would be examples of this.)
Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
By skimming through, it is obvious that require familiarity with linux network namespaces and docker/kubernetes networking stack (virtual interfaces and what-not).

I don't blame the author though. When you write a technical post, at a certain point you need to assume the readership has some level of context otherwise you'll never complete the post.
This seems broadly accurate, in the sense that middle class wage earners cheat on taxes the least, and have the least ability to. Lower income workers don't cheat out of much taxes either, because they don't have much money and don't get taxed much, but it's widespread for the under the table or cash economy of course. Which yes, leaves consequential tax evasion as mostly the province of the more well off, where it is rampant.
> Why can't I get my messages from Apple using friends in a secure way on my Pixel without serious hackery?

Because you bought a product that doesn't allow that. In fact, goes out of its way to prohibit it.
Not necessarily.

If you hatch a songbird, feed it, take care of it and later record it, then you’ve generated music.

If you resample it and arrange it into a new song, then you’ve added your input and made a new musical piece.

And sure, this can get blurry at times.
The Kia Carnival - it seems to lane center just fine, but maybe the Odyssey can do better.

When looking, the Odyssey just didn't have the price/value ratio, it really needs an update and refresh. The Sienna just doesn't exist.
Public health agencies are using chatbots to ease workloads. Is it a good idea?
I was like this as a kid. Are they using a computer or doing something else while you talk to them? Computers (especially phones) are attention hogs. It's easy to forget everything when you're dividing you're attention like that.
> I bought my first Java book and started digging into i

Herb also has a Java book ;) And it's fairly well written. Hope you give him another chance. Herbie is a nice fella
I'm not sure what I saw but it looked like India has a pipeline for cult leaders.
If this thread about (presumably) being a visionary constitutes the wielding of power, I dispute how much power is actually invested in this topic.
Pixel 8 Pro's Temperature Sensor
This is the real question. Mountaineers use scales, not calipers, when packing.
One really cool thing Atari Basic did was that you could list lines x,y and just move your cursor up to the line you wanted to change and insert/delete/overtype characters. It would even handle line-wrapping of the logical line up to 3 physical lines. Press enter and that's the new line (or change the line number and it's a new source line).

It was often used for renumbering a few lines to make room for more as there was no built-in renumber utility.
Google's MusicLM is still the only one I've seen that can do a virtuoso shredding electric guitar solo of speedmetal arpeggios
A skilled data analyst would never even attempt that before having a very strong theoretical model for the kind of signal they are looking for. Otherwise you could end up with countless "discoveries" that in reality are just statistical noise. LIGO's discoveries were only possible because of decades of theoretical research in General Relativity and simulations of black hole dynamics. They already knew precisely what the signal would look like before they ever saw it.
That article seems to describe a system where public uses were prioritized over paid. Like in any system, some degree of favoritism/corruption existed, but at least initially it seemed to still serve the public at large quite well. Especially when one considers many of their contemporary equivalents or what followed for centuries in Europe.
I think most libertarians argue holds water that weed and dealing weed is a victimless crime. Now redo that with "how many people are in for dealing weed (and only weed) and other drugs" and that number goes way up. Obviously people found with guns and doing violence while selling drugs is another thing, no longer victimless. The War on Drugs is multidecade failure
Learning BASIC made me feel OO, clear variable names and clean code was unnecessary and I made no effort learning that back then. I’d regret about that much later
> For decades, the standard Soyuz survival pack included a deluxe all-in-one pistol called the TOZ 82 with three barrels and a folding stock that doubled as a shovel and contained a swing-out machete. There were a few dozen rounds of three types of ammunition—rifle bullets, shotgun shells and flares—in a belt attached to the gun.

I’m not really a gun enthusiast, but I kind of want one of these!
The NixOS change seems to be still stuck in staging-23.11, and not released:

$ git log --grep=CVE-2023-45866 origin/nixos-23.11
$ git log --grep=CVE-2023-45866 origin/staging-23.11 ^origin/nixos-23.11
commit 8ba508ba10d27f61fe9f40eb8513d8d0864fbe14
Merge: f5cf92f30bd7 8fb1486901a3
Author: Martin Weinelt <hexa@darmstadt.ccc.de>
Date: 2023-12-11 13:02:10 +0100

Merge pull request #272751 from leona-ya/backport-272672-to-staging-23.11

[Backport staging-23.11] bluez: apply patch for CVE-2023-45866

commit 8fb1486901a3f4e7cbdee5616f7d1a39a5dc7a99
Author: Leona Maroni <dev@leona.is>
Date: 2023-12-07 13:44:59 +0100

bluez: apply patch for CVE-2023-45866

(cherry picked from commit 7d7f66dfba9f239f15aaec6512afb3443bbae915)
> I also ask questions about any aspects that sound sub-optimal, which is useful in its own right, but it's just as likely to uncover gaps in my own understanding - and I have that in mind when formulating the question.

And this framing is important: Even if you think you've found a serious problem in the proposal, treat it as if it's a gap in your own understanding and ask the other person to explain, as opposed to framing it as you fixing their faulty ideas.

It's a social lubricant, in that it reduces emotional noise caused by people getting defensive, and it saves you embarrassment if you are, in fact, missing something.
I'm surprised I don't recognize a single one of these companies. Isn't YC most famous for companies like AirBNB, Reddit, Twitch, Instacart, Dropbox, Doordash, etc. all things I use and that broke into pop culture? Or is that entirely from pre-Altman era and now it's just all tools for developers?
I prefer Sison's definition, pretty much that neoliberalism is a set of BS jargon used to rationalize the greed of monopoly capitalists. Neoliberals are monopoly capitalists and their stooges that promote free trade by using free competition logic, when in reality we're in the age of imperialism. For example, neoliberals argue for comparative advantage, and maybe their was a basis for this in the world of Ricardo, but today it amounts to the crippling of developing economies: export-optimized industry for low value additions in the global value chain of large corporations. Take the banana wars for example.
> I sub on patreon to creators watch a lot, or directly on YouTube for ones who have that enabled.

Content creators deserve to be paid, even if you don't watch them often.
If we thought Hollywood pretty was unrealistic for young people, just wait until we have AI pretty.
Sam Altman controls billions of dollars in assets, and attends Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove events. He's sort of the walking definition of social and economic power.
I like this technique for even less-complex conversations. A simple checksum of sorts.

One (somewhat related) example: after scheduling a meeting for "next Tuesday at 7pm" it's worth repeating back "Tuesday the 26th, at 7pm EST" (or something similar).
I would think, at least for under the table cash transactions, that it would be more lower income, not higher. That includes the fly by night electrician who will install a new outlet for you as long as you don’t need it certified, cash only, the guy also lives out of his truck. Or is consequential excluding those cases?
> “The pistol is still on the official list of kit contents,” she recalled him saying. “But before every mission we meet to review that list and vote to remove it for this specific flight.”

> The reasons for this remain obscure. Her crewmate, Terry Virts, told me he suspected it was connected with the transfer of the cosmonaut training center from military to civilian jurisdiction. And there is growing pressure in Russia to return the center to military control.
I think you mean Discord rather than Facebook, but yeah. Weird thing to gatekeep.
I care in that we are at one of the historic inflection points in tech history - so I waant a very salient truth as to what decisions (and by whom) are steering what is going to be the next era in the information age. I love it.

So, what I care about is a true lens into how we will be getting to the next step in the path.

Thats all I care about...

And obviously SA is a master at ensuring the engineers in his harem are well fed (paid).

But its really important to note who his closest bodies are in his orbit. There is no question about Thiels propensity for imbuing his views in his interests - and, personally, I'd really like to know what SA's goals and views and desires are especially WRT how they are colored by those he trusts, or advises him, such as Thiel.

Its critically important to see the path ahead - because there is no going back from the level of entanglement AI is causing, and will cause. I love how Tristan said it regarding AI, and where it is today

>"It the worst it will ever be" (meaning its only going to get stronger and more entangled, and thus, this is the only optimal time to check our rudder)

And SA and Thiel have a solid grasp on the inputs to that rudder.

I hope that all the youngin's in tech (like the actual teenagers, like my children) are really paying attention to where we are in tech history with AI in general - and with OpenAI in particular - as SA can attempt to look like a Carnegie but actually be a Rockefeller.
I had it with 2048 as well. I kept having urges to mush nearby objects together (cars, trashbins) to make a larger object.
HN title should contain (2020).

TL;DR: nobody denies that the air in Lahore is bad, but there is controversy about who gets to measure it, and how that information is disseminated.

In particular, the author seems to be criticizing AirVisual for offering data and recommendations in a way that's 1) not properly contextualized (i.e. telling people they could breathe cleaner air without addressing that buying an air purifier is out of economic reach for many), and 2) tainted by commercial interest (they sell monitoring devices for what the average resident of Lahore would surely consider an exorbitant sum)

I understand those criticisms, but... is that really the most salient point to make about this whole situation?

Spend five minutes looking into it, and it's completely fucking obvious that the air is terrible and it will take years off your life. Perhaps attention should be diverted away from the question of how to do measurement perfectly, to the question of how to not kill tens of thousands more people this season.
$80/year isn’t much in the context of most sports that people use Strava for.

I can see how casual, frugal runners might be put off by $80/year, but casual users aren’t the target audience for competitive apps.

I’m amazed at how many people will buy $10,000 bikes and wear $600 of specialized gear and then scoff at paying $80 for a service that tracks exactly what they want.
No mention of layout? Often the Verilog/VHDL is the easy part.
You might like the US version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M6_Aircrew_Survival_Weapon
> A skilled data analyst would never even attempt that before having a very strong theoretical model

I know for a fact this generalisation to be false
So they can rely on the (imperfect) bot defense of those services rather than rolling their own, maybe?
Shouldn't it also recapture moisture as well?
Not really. Many wanted Vulkan for the web. But Apple virtually had a veto, apparently:
https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-web...
And then companies outside the US or wherever these laws are passed will train without "copyright" burden.
I'm saying that it's always going to be in the back of your head that it's an AI regardless of how it acts.
In this comment I miss something which I also miss in the article, and that is any kind of discussion of voters and their views, in this case their dislike of debt, their view of debt as an exception, as something that has to be repaid at some point.

"Neoliberalism" embodies an academic mindset, where a group of academics imagines an opposing group of academics, which has opposing views but is otherwise structured the same, around ideas, books, conferences and so forth, but ignores the ordinary voter as an explanation for "neoliberal" policies.
My solopreneur story: 0 to $65K/mo in 2 years
Ive been deep down the HVAC rabbit hole. You really need 3 separate systems to do it right:

- ERV
- Dehumidifier
- HVAC

And basically no regular installer does it right. Lots of efficiency nerds over at Green Home Builders, subscription required.
The cinematographer will say, get the right screen then.

Heck, I've got a curved 21:9 screen. Great fun. I do like it when stuff I watch fills the screen, and I've made videos that do that. When I do that out of regular widescreen footage, I'm the one who has to determine what will go where in the frame. Then when it's watched on a phone held upright, it's a very very teeny horizontal line :) and if I'd wanted to serve that screen, I'd be making TikToks…
Santa can legally enter the U.S. this Christmas, per USDA permit
I'm not the GP, but newer Hyundais seem to do a good job at this as well. And by extension this probably applies to Kias too.
It can learn from the prompt string vector and reimplement.

People don't realize how close this is with the rate of improvement and GPU builds being upped to full plaid.
Honestly it's a lot of artificial complexity and over engineering.
> he just posted a thread on how much of a visionary he is

The thread you linked is from 2020.
I doubt this once Bloomberg, Netflix, and Hollywood fully jump abroad the AI train.

They'll probably just lobby to change the laws, seeing this happen already.
This agrees with my experience using GPT for software engineering. In the nontrivial case it usually bullshits nonexistent APIs and so on, but as an experienced dev that bullshit often still serves to point me in the right direction. This is particularly true for languages that have poor documentation, but substantial presence on Github.
>Perhaps the faux intellectualism is on the other side... <_<

It really isn't. Nomenclatures in the sciences and other fields are used for the purpose of clarity and concision; they make communication more effective. For example, when a mathematician mentions an Eigenvalue, other mathematicians know specifically what this object is. That is the point.

When people borrow words from these nomenclatures and change their meaning, it makes their writing pretentious and bloated, not to mention less clear.
BASIC was responsible for sparking the interest in computers for a generation. One of the most harmful falsehoods about it is that somehow GOTOs and line numbers would turn you into a bad programmer for life. I think that even today there is nothing like BASIC to get kids interested in computers.

But it's not a language just for kids. While most dialects are somewhat limiting, there is nonetheless a TON of real useful stuff you can do with it.
I think the biggest issue here is that Apple seems to be deliberately undermining SMS, which is an open standard. Now don't get me wrong, SMS is a terrible standard in several ways, but they seem to have built a service where they pretend to fix SMS, and they do it in a way that makes it basically impossible to actually fix the SMS standard.

That said, I am beginning to think that companies of Apple's size should be required to offer interoperability with their network. I don't think they should be forced to do it for free, but Beeper charges $10/month and Apple's fee probably should be low enough that Beeper is only paying at most 10% to Apple. (Of course, Apple could offer their own third-party client if they want to compete.)
Nothing stopping individuals from training on their own hardware either.
HuggingFace Ceo's just said open source gpt4 level models coming this year.
Why does that matter?

And when we look at great songwriters, do we need to know their educational background and what music they’ve listened to in order to determine how much of their work is created out of thin air versus arrived at by reasoning over theory and inspiration from other work?
It's a shame Runalyze is no longer open-source but the old version is still there

https://github.com/Runalyze/Runalyze
Yup I see my son enjoying time on the tablet and teaching himself scratch which is great... But it clearly has an effect on his emotional state and overall quality of life if he spends too much time on it. We try and keep things balanced - he has plenty of time to do more programming in his life!
Then I guess we disagree on the definition of "skilled." What I'm trying to say is you definitely won't find something like that published by the LIGO collaboration or other serious astronomers.
I'd disagree with both Apple and Moxie here and say, yes, for messages or anything else that induces a network effect, interop should be mandatory.

The thing is that I can't choose freely which messenger I want to use like I could with other services: I'm restricted by which messengers the people I want/have to talk to actually use.

So yeah, build your walled gardens if you have to, but then don't force me into them.

Of course forcing people into their walled gardens is something Apple's leadership is very much interested in, as evidenced by the "don't make it too easy for an iPhone family to buy their kid an Android phone" email.
Wingspan tends to trip people up alot on the first play. It seems more complicated than it is
This. Many people act as if copyright is eternal and never expiring and that fair use does not exist, but that is not (or was not) the intention. They have time limits, and fair use mean you can use content without permission and in ways the creator "did not intend".

And to your point, we cannot copyright style, only the exact content itself.
Can I read critical discussion about these articles, or articles with the opposite conclusion?
It's what's not in the article that's exceptional. Soft-balling Thiel in Bezos' paper is the first of the lacunae.
I'd say Scratch is the #1 way kids to day are introduced to programming in 2023

For parents that have some 8bit experience, Pico-8 (LUA) is also relatively popular. It's basically like running an Apple 2, Atari 800, Commodore 64 as if it booted into LUA instead of Basic. You can trivially draw things, and peak and poke bytes into "Screen memory" if you want to feel like you're "touching the hardware"

JavaScript is also available everywhere a kid might be and it's easy to draw stuff with literally millions of examples all over the net. Processing.JS is also a thing https://thecodingtrain.com/
> Take taxation as an example. Simplified, Neoliberal = taxes bad. MMT considers taxation to be an instrument to control demand and inflation (by proxy).

I mean oversimplifying is something we can do confidently after a set of ideas has lived up to the standards we expect from a macroeconomic framework.

One big problem with MMT is that it’s been basically whatever Stephanie Kelton et al. says it is each time they hop on a podcast and argue for some policy positions.

For a while it was hey spending more won’t cause inflation.

It sounds like you’re saying now it’s hey taxation is how we control inflation?

So with MMT it’s historically been difficult to make definite statements about anything and seems more a tool to argue for policy.