skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also believe in objective morality, I believe forcing your subjective beliefs on other people is immoral. Therefore in my system you are immoral.
Yes but it doesn't need more commits I guess, it does what it does very well.
It's not merely an _assumption_

I wish Valve actually spoke up against this EOL date, yet what they've done is just follow that date so far.
Newsletters.

Ben's Bites is a pretty good one.

https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/
The changes to Kynes and Hawat removed subplots to focus on the primary plot. They don't even mention Paul's mentat training.

I feel that removing the Arabic names from Fremen is to make it palatable for modern audiences. Herbert did respect Arabic cultures and (in my opinion) did not have an insulting representation of them. It is still a caricature of a people made by someone who is not of that people. We do give up some context, but we also avoid insult in our now-global world. I don't think there was any winning move here, but I think they gave it thought and made a careful decision.
I'd forgotten the university and I've been hearing about the story for weeks. And nobody would know about it at all if they hadn't been fired. So I think the reputational concerns are way overblown.
Is December normally a good month for sales? I'd imagine it'd be the worst- budgets exhausted at EOY, yourself and your potential customers taking vacation time, etc. plus I imagine there can be latency with boring logistics like getting paperwork signed.
Here is a question I asked about concrete examples of doing agentic things, because I think that concrete examples are necessary to expand your horizons:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/umJmRfcJndY3Gsr36/concrete-e...
It's on Twitter with all the tags at the same username as here.
To me, they're in an odd balance between Lynch's version, and the Villeneuve version. The visuals were much better, but because it was broadcast, were mostly experienced on TV's that couldn't do them justice -- but at the same time, they also weren't good enough for cinema anymore. And in a similar vein, unlike the Lynch version, they followed the books much more closely, which to me made them lose some of that warm fuzziness charm. I also can't say that the acting was particularly memorable to me, which is to say that nothing stood out as so bad as to be memorable, but I can also barely remember who was in it.

And as far as the sequel, Children of Dune goes, that year BSG blew it out of the water for me.
Big deal. It's Boeing's fault. Maybe they and the airlines shouldn't have defrauded the public and regulators. If they hadn't, this would indeed be in the background noise.
Everybody with a shred of industry knowledge links the issues at Boeing to the MDD merger and resulting management and culture changes.

Musk has, as usual, no idea what he's talking about.
Curious - how much does it cost you to host this sort of app(since we are not providing OpenAI keys)? Thanks.
>Plane makers should believe one faulty decision could completely ruin them

In that case nothing will ever be done, improved or innovated. The optimal is close, but greater than zero on faulty decisions.
There's almost always security issues to maintain. Software is never "done".
"if Gow really thinks his porn appearances don't impair him in his job as university Chancellor in small Wisconsin city, he's probably also too social judgement impaired for the job anyway."

He clearly stated, he was aware of it:

"We think our sex is beautiful and have no qualms at all about other people watching us make love,” they wrote. “But our establishment colleagues likely would be shocked … and we’re fairly certain we’d be shunned in our community. Our careers likely would be ruined.”"

He simply thinks it should be allright and accepted behavior even for a university chancellor and I agree with that.
You can't just claim porn is immoral without providing any arguments and then using this to reach a logical conclusion. It doesn't follow.
This is disingenuous. The issue isn’t, in a vacuum, whether college leadership needs to weigh in on the Hamas massacre. The broader context is that university leaders jump in with both feet regarding literally everything else. The question isn’t whether universities should be opining on every issue - it’s that they do, and have for years, and the explicit omission here was itself a signal that Jewish life means less than others.
Her ability to "just move on" may be compromised by having a very short stay on her resume, and no reference.

I hope she finds something else quickly but many companies look for any red flags as sufficient reason not to take the risk. This kind of experience has real implications for a person's future prospects, at least for several years.
It wasn't a surprise. She knew it was coming because others on her team were let go (she says this). She would have had a calendar invite with 2 random HR attendees...she also had her video recording setup.

Totally not a surprise.
I still haven’t settled on what to do next, but for sure I will continue with educational material for now as I don’t have concrete goals to contribute to “real world” projects (yet). I also like having some structured path layed out for me, it makes it easier work on it every other day and not get stuck wondering what best to do next.

As for more serious projects I am interested in and could be a potential follow up to contribute to a bigger kernel, there are SerenityOS and RedoxOS.
Yes, he doesn't realise that proof-of-stake is no good as a store-of-value compared to truly decentralised proof-of-work (bitcoin).

And any network that doesn't base itself around the best digital store-of-value asset (bitcoin) won't be able to compete with one that does i.e. ETH is going to 0. And by the same token so are USD, GBP, EUR, YEN etc. unless they change to be backed by bitcoin.
In a perfect world I think that people wouldn’t be resorting to OF or porn.

Imo people today do that to make fast money and well… I don’t personally know why I should be forced to accept or approve that kind of way of money making. I don’t respect drug dealers, corrupt businessmen, nor YouTube scammers. I also don’t respect people who perpetuate mental harms by producing porn and contributing to these issues. I do respect startup founders that solve actual problems, teachers who help improve failing schools, or scientists who don’t accept corporate funding to paint an inaccurate picture.

I value persistence, virtue, and meritocracy and no amount of social force will make me accept certain behaviors.

Just being honest with my opinion.

And people are free to disagree with my pov as well, and do whatever they want.
> You could ask them to design a more deadly coronavirus

If I'm a shadowy org with a lab of the required genetic engineering equipment and a team of highly knowledgable virologists, is the make-or-break factor really going to be whether I can access a local LLM trained only on the public Internet?

I suspect that it's this kind of group that may get secret military contracts for unfiltered access to powerful closed-source LLMs regardless of what the public gets. Or the budget to train a model better suited for their application.
It’s not just HN, you all seem to be upset with basic human nature here. Something happens, and then you notice related events more often because they feel more salient. You might as well be upset that people recognize patterns, it’s just part of how people are wired.
I often agree about the animated bit, for example I'd much rather see the Alastair Reynolds novels as an animated series. I just don't think any movie can do them justice.

But personally I thought the new Dune movie was really good, I can't wait for the 2nd part.
That's awesome! Happy that it turned out well.
> You can use StringBuilder more easily than this ugly thing. When you write code in IDE (I hope so), writing `.append()` is actually easier than this `\{}` dreadful thing.

How long have you been using string templates? If you've had a bad experience, please report it to the amber-dev list. If it's speculation, I suggest you actually try the feature for a while.

Also, I think you may have misunderstood what this feature actually does (please read the JEP). StringBuilder produces strings, but string templates are most powerful when you're not producing strings (and `append` does enforce sanitisation/escaping). This feature is not string interpolation (although it could also be used for string interpolation as a special case), and its function is completely different from that of StringBuilder. StringBuilder simply cannot do what this feature does regardless of your thoughts about the syntax, which may or may not be formed after actual experience.

> But what about the `}` after the expression? Who/what is escaping that?

You don't need to. `\` in Java means that the next character triggers some special interpretation, and `\{` means that the interpretation mode continues until the `}`. The closing curly bracket should require no more of a special treatment than the characters inside the curly brackets.

> Putting it in here feels wrong.

When you say "feels wrong" do you mean you've tried the feature for a while and ran into problems or that you simply fear that you might?
Well I guess you'd have to find a really good director and team of writers.
I have this same problem.

I am a 'kinetic-Social-learner' - I learn by doing with others.

When I hit a roadblock on learning programming, and I am alone - I still get mired in failing to resolve the problem with search and I do well when I have others to speak to and learn from (which is why I love having smart engineers around me) - but when I am not working (like now, and alone, like the pandemic - learning was ROUGH) and it doesnt help that I am older and a bit burned out on the idea of the greater tech space - the AI-Bros are going to eat my lunch money.

--

I do have an idea that I'd like to share - something I cant pull off alone - but Here is the idea for a a Solution to your Question by builing the Answer:

If you are open - I'd am willing to learn with you - (I had a long career in OPs - but never as a dev - I managed REALLY talented devops people because I was good with talking to the Engineers to the C-Suite didnt have to.

---
One of my biggest problems is finding a singular idea to focus on building, no matter how small - and my ShinyThing.exe kicks in and I get distracted.

What I'd like to do is collaborate on an idea that we can build together while we learn.

And I propose learning, by building the platform/app/whatever that youre discussing and we are both suffering from - and give it a go. Who cares how crappy it turns out - but I need a buddy student as well.

If you're interested. FirstInitialLastName (from my username) at Proton. me.

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For a fair comparison, this should be measured against flight hours per manufacturer
The extent of material is what made me think it would be enough input to get useful something out.

There were also Midjourney images generated for 'Jodorowsky's Tron[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Yfv4kedD8
> It's confusing that folks are upset about this. If it doesn't work for you, don't work for Apple.

While you are indeed free not to work for Apple (that is what I do!), policies in FAANG companies have significant influence on smaller companies who tend to cargo cult them without much thinking. That is how we end up with leetcode-style interviews, now I'm afraid we all might end up back in office, only even worse one than before where you don't even have assigned table in the open-space.
Yes.
ChatGPT is a debate club kid, you can get it to say anything.
After reading the entire essay (including the external links with which Gelman says he now agrees), I understood the point to be that it's OK for administrators to express opinions in a personal capacity, but it's not and should not be part of their job.

See Steven Pinker's twitter post (linked to by Gelman) and Michael Baily's essay (linked to by Pinker):

https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/1716098101830676854

https://hxstem.substack.com/p/kalvenizing-northwestern-unive...

I added quotes around "shut up and do their job" in the root comment to make it clear that those are Pinker's words, not mine.
I'd be really surprised if it was just one loose bolt that would allow this to happen, but I don't know. It would be hard to believe they were that stupid, so I'd rather not assume.
And until last year, most of the planes in the sky were also Boeing. And the Boeing planes in the sky, on average, are older.
I agree, I don't think it's a particularly interesting Dune film. One could say my perspective is a 'cope'.
Having the whitelist all peers on all peers is a chore.

I stick with Resilio for this reason. For over a decade now it had been a 100% reliable fire and forget tool.
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Let's see. One is a brutal, colonial invasion with the intent of totally replacing the local population. And the other is Israel responding to the rape and murder of hundreds of their civilians.
IEEE Spectrum has a fancy new look, clean nice, maybe fonts adjusted for people that don't like to wear their glasses. Overall good.

However, the link highlighting with a red underline looks like a MS Word document with lots of typos or like my literature tests in primary school.
> I'm not sure why is everybody so after C++

Not everybody; those who have tons and tons of existing C/C++ code, want to move away from it, and realize the only way to do that is gradually.

Swift’s C++ interop makes it possible to add a Swift class to an existing C++ code base and have code from either language call into the other, mostly without having to copy or convert function arguments.

You can write Swift functions that work with C++ std::string today, for example, gradually replace all code using it by Swift code, and then change the type of the value to Swift’s string. Easy? No, but easier than a ‘big bang’ rewrite.
Your reply just reinforces the impression I got from the original post.

Someone with twenty years experience writing compilers could not "explain ... what they did" in any reasonable amount of time, and not in a way you would understand it at their level, or at the level needed to write a compiler. That's true of all complex skills. You might think you understand or "grok" something because you don't have to produce value with the expertise you think you have. What you describe usually gets called "book learning," an often necessary but usually insufficient degree of familiarity with a subject.

Hundreds of thousands of people who took university classes or read a book or went to a boot camp believe they can write professional/commercial-quality software. They delude themselves, and employers understand the difference between reading a book about programming and having experience writing production code, working in a team, understanding and delivering on business requirements. The increasingly high unemployment and diminished job prospects for junior and inexperienced developers reflects that reality -- employers want people who can walk the walk, not just talk the talk.

Humility and modesty come with maturity and age for most people. We all figure out eventually that a lot of smart and curious and talented people inhabit the world, we're less special than we think we are, or our parents and teachers told us we are.

Good luck with the "hard parts" of mastering complex skills. Practice and some humility will probably pay off better over the long term than telling yourself you can "grok" everything in a ridiculously short time compared to everyone else.
True, but nothing necessitated it, either. New features are tested by users for a while (and this one has even been a preview feature in a released JDK for some time), and the people who have actually used the feature didn't report that typing `.` was a problem to them. If further experience shows otherwise, then we could allow dropping the dot.

In other words, security vulnerabilities due to string manipulation are a real and pretty serious problem that this feature aims to solve (or, at least alleviate). If the dot character also proves to be a real problem, which it hasn't yet, then that could be solved later.
Even if they are not in a position to change anything, it is still always good to make them feel uncomfortable so that the task is not too easy!
With that title, I was expecting something more along the lines of how delegates work under the hood, rather than a brief overview of how to use delegates.
> you began to see how it work behind the curtain, how it pulls your strings and it loose all it's magic forever. (...)

> That agnosticism is the only rational position.

Please tell us more about the insights you have gained leading to this conclusion
Precisely the model minority problem
"A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years"

Phone OS developers: Challenge accepted.
FYI: 737 NGs were also manufactured shoddily says whistleblowers from 20 years ago. Bear straps and other falsely approved, deficient structural components were beaten into place with hammers on the assembly line ("preloaded"). There have been 3 737 NG accidents where people died because the fuselage broke up when 737 Classic fuselages would've survived similar scenarios.
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I think regionally this story is still a big deal, especially in a more blue-collar sales role.
To drawing things (yourself) it compares by not stealing. Yes, I know that’s not what you meant but with that name, I couldn’t not write it
I would love to be able to read more about the personal journey people have taken to arrive at their opinions.

Like how does one person end up on one side of the debate, and then someone else on the polar opposite. They are both human. How did the process differ between the two.

There was a time when they had no opinion, and then there is a time when they are waving flags in the street and thinking about it all the time.

What are the critical moments? What are their contact points with news and propaganda?

Why don't journalists ask about this? Instead we hear each side explain their understanding of the situation in a subset of points that ChatGPT could basically have written.

What is more interesting is to ask people why they think other people have a different opinion.
Both Russia and Israel are widely agreed to be on the wrong side of international law - Israel is of course continuing its illegal occupation, illegal settlements, illegal blockade, etc. Why are the circumstances so different?
Is the main reason they are motivated to blame performance so that they can avoid paying out disability (edit: unemployment) insurance?
I am pretty sure Lynch’s Dune was incomprehensible if you didn’t read the book either

Also, the sci-fi dune has a good take on the scene you mention as well
Good review, I really didn't care for the new Dune, or even Villeneuve's Blade Runner film and I'm not sure why exactly cause both are universally praised it seems. I don't know if I'm just being an old fogey or what but both films are competently made with top notch special effects but missing the souls of their source material.

Sterile and devoid of life would be probably where I'd start like you do but I'm waiting for someone with a better understanding of the art form to really dig into why these films don't really work despite having insane production values and great mise en scene.
Segways are dangerous, just look what happened to the one time owner [1].

ITYM "segue".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
"Truffles" usually means sclerotia of magic mushrooms. They're a different growth pattern of the same organism, but for example in the Netherlands, the fruiting bodies (what people commonly mistake for "the fungus") are forbidden, but the sclerotia are allowed.
We used methods akin to this back in 2019 for creating low-level HALs for insanely complicated SoCs (think experimental switch fabric controllers). We wanted the compiler to reject any program that was attempting to access the hardware incorrectly because the dev-test cycle was slow, the hardware was very fiddly, and debugging was miserable. The register definitions were all generated from the supplier data sheet (a clojure program we wrote parsed a PDF then emitted Rust).

We wrote a blog post about the Rust type-level programming part of the approach: https://blog.auxon.io/2019/10/25/type-level-registers/
For context, this is a parody of the infamous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Open models are a thing. Rather than attacking the technology (which is great) with litigation to hurt a few bad actors, we should attack the capitalist rules that enables rent seeking middle man parasites to flourish.
So much assumption based upon so few words that I put into this website
If you read the history of the conflict, Palestine only exists today because Israel gave them land that they (Israel) won from wars that neighboring countries started.

Additionally, Israel called dibs first, that is Palestinian/Arabs could have declared themselves a country as soon as the British mandate ended but chose not to. Instead Israel did first and was attacked by neighboring countries which caused the majority of the Palestinian diaspora.
> I am a PhD student in theoretical physics and almost everyone in our field has no choice but to use it

I got my theoretical physics Ph.D. in 1987. I’ve never met anyone who uses Mathematica, except to try it out a bit out of curiosity. Perhaps you’re referring to a particular research group?
Richard Rhodes' books are essential reading for anyone interested in the history of nuclear weapons and their development. I will add a second reference, "The First War of Physics" by Jim Baggott which covers the American, German and Soviet weapons programs. Not much on Japan's plans though.
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If you build rustc with MIDI support enabled, it goes up to 100.
For euclidean distance, we have (q-v)^2 = qq + vv - 2qv. The qq and vv don't tell us anything about the relationship between q and v, so are irrelevant to search. So really we are mostly trying to maximize inner product when we search.

Additionally, the scale of q (the query) is constant across any given search, so might as well normalize q; the results won't change.

Then the only question is whether the scale of v matters... It, again, doesn't tell us anything about the relationship between q and v. So, might as well normalize... And then we are just doing cosine similarity.
Honest, unpaid word of mouth might serve that function if not for the hired shouters and resultant ambient dishonesty.

Flipping the microscope, paid promotions distract from honest testimonials with no profit motive.

"We are improving your search results by prepending sales brochures."
If I told you that I had moral views about the legal and consensual stuff you get up to in your private life (whatever that may be), and I told you I thought it was reprehensible and that you should lose your job over it, would you perhaps think I was being overbearing and that I should mind my own business?

Eg, if you were a person of faith (I have no idea if you are), and I was a militant atheist (to be clear I'm agnostic), and I told you that I thought all religion was harmful and said something disrespectful like, if you believe in an imaginary friend who grants wishes you aren't qualified to be a doctor/engineer/etc (this is not a position I actually endorse or an appropriate way to talk about religion) - can you see how you might tell me to get lost?
Like the other comment indicated, moral judgements are subjective.
Are you a Boeing stock owner? The buzz is deserved because 20 documented, serious deficiencies in the 737 MAX have escaped widespread press. Furthermore, few people are aware of the 737 NG Ducommun scandal. The rot at Boeing stretches back to the 90's.
I love seeing backporting efforts like this.

> But by some accounts, less than 50% of devices are on iOS 17

What are the current numbers? My reflex has been to check Mixpanel, but I don't know what a good source is these days. They have it at around 64% at the moment.

https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_17