skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ayin (ע) is the letter, and was the original letter used in the spelling of Gaza — עזה is the oldest and original name of Gaza, for as long as it's had that name. The Hebrew alphabet hasn't changed letters in thousands of years, long predating other Semitic languages like Arabic which continue to use the Gh sound; ancient Hebrew is still easily understood in written form by modern Hebrew speakers — much more so than even Shakespeare is to modern English speakers. When people say "Hebrew lost..." what they mean is the pronunciation of letters changed, not that the alphabet changed (unlike e.g. English, which really has lost and gained letters even over very short periods). And in some cases the sounds were only lost in specific communities; Yemenite Jews have done a pretty good job retaining sounds, e.g. their pronunciation of ע, as well as ת. (Similarly, Ashkenazis' much-maligned pronunciation of ת is probably closer to the original than modern non-Yemenite Mizrahi/Sephardic pronunciation — although Yemenite is closer.)

The last time written Hebrew meaningfully changed was when the Paleo-Hebrew script was exchanged for Aramaic block script 2.5 thousand years ago, but even then, the replacement was 1:1 — ע was still Ayin, it was just written with a different character. And Paleo-Hebrew script has been around since the Bronze Age.
Tom Swift Jr. is definitely worth a look, if only for the titles you can't not read in a 1950s radio voice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift_Jr.#List_of_titles
Some of my friends are even already doing the meet ups in VR.
In simplest terms, they solve problems for companies. If your company wants to achieve something and doesn't want to spend the time/effort/money to set up a new department and staff it with full-time experts, you can call a consulting firm and they will figure it out for you.
US Lawmakers Near Taiwan Tax Deal, Risking Anger from China
It's theoretically a medical ethics issue because the system is not ready for deployment, so early use could be counter to competent medical care or the standards of professionalism, both of which would be violations of the AMA principles of medical ethics.
Asset-Light Software Businesses: The New Paradigm for Startups
> I wonder why you just don't use traditional study methods at this point.

Because I'm not a student. Why is it so hard to accept that I know what I want and am just looking for recommendations that do that? If they don't exist, so be it. The point of my question was to find out what exists, not to get a lecture on what I should want.
Cost analysis should of course play the foundation of everything you build, regardless if it's SaaS tooling or infrastructure. But surely it's easier to do a cost assessment and optimization exercise on something that is fundamentally more affordable than AWS and doesn't have as high of margin costs? That's why we have built a platform that creates all the value at a low cost.
Then the search engines will game the benchmarks. A different definition of "Search Engine Optimization" I suppose.
I assume OP means social skill in the sense of “skill with society as the instrument/playground” rather than “skills that benefit social bond”. Same way as a 10x dev at a nonprofit and a Russian hacker can both have “computer skills” while doing vastly different things with their skills.
If they fire him, that will tank the value of the snake oil.
Could it be misdirection?

If the "AI safety people" are criminalizing open source models while being silent about military uses of private models, doesn't that say more about the people calling them "ai safety experts" than the idea of "ai safety" itself?
That’s fair, but TypeScript coupled with modern JS dev tooling makes it actually a pretty palatable experience these days. Speaking as someone who used to want to jump into pits for JavaScript-related reasons.
Model trains aren't toys, that's the problem.

Toy trains are available and cheap(ish) - but they are often not really the same as models.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/freight-train-60336 is a toy train that's $200 for a "full kit"

But I haven't seen an HO-scale toy train in ages, sometimes around Christmas you see the "larger toy train around the train" style thing for $50-150.
It would have been better to write:

Switch to a language/runtime that's not only had virtual threads for decades, but also a saner synchronisation model (transactions) rather than synchronized blocks.
The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop
You mean those fleets that Musk claimed would have a 100% yield?
I know it's been mentioned in this thread but Kagi is a gods damn breath of fresh air compared to the current public search engines. They had a short outage recently and having to go back to Google for 30 minutes was painful. I have no idea what their secret sauce is (likely just being different from Google's algo that's SSO'd to death is enough) but it's now the easiest $10 I spend a month.
No not Big Toasta, but I am highly suspicious of Big Waffle Makah. How do you make a breakfast meal that also is sort of like a desert? This is highly questionable behavior.
Well, they did submit samples to a test house - the Buildings Research Establishment - for fire safety testing. And they got safety certifications from independent bodies like LABC.

Just you know, it turns out while the test rigs were being built, the BRE might have looked the other way while someone put fireproof magnesium oxide boards over the temperature sensors.

And when the manufacturer sent 'all the test results' to LABC for the certification, they didn't include the tests that ended in "a raging inferno". You see, that test was terminated early, so it wasn't a completed test. And when the manufacturer got the certificate granted, which included a bunch of caveats about how the material specifically had to be used, they immediately quoted it in their marketing materials without any of those caveats.

Of course all this fraud was done by some 18 year old junior employee, who was told it was 'industry standard behaviour' by a mid-level employee (who has conveniently since died) and the CEO had 'absolutely no idea' this was going on right under his nose.
soulofmischief's rule: Never take arbitrary heuristics or razors as fact.

It's easy in hindsight to validate when the heuristic was correct, but Hanlan's razor specifically was meant to be tongue in cheek. Understand the context behind something before you apply it to your daily life.

> An interesting example of how little faith people have in Google as an organisation

Well deserved. Google traded credibility and trust for ad money for too many years, and have left a graveyard behind them. Everything they do should be suspect.
> With our wallet, we can only choose between those alternatives which are offered. In many cases, we can only choose between bad options.

One weird thing markets do is make unusual alternatives far more expensive than the difference in cost of manufacture between them and more-common options. The market “chooses” the $80 option because the one that costs $5 more to make but is way better retails for $200.

You also see whole markets (effectively) collude to make cheap upgrades expensive to buy. There are several very-cheap upgrades that make a refrigerator much nicer, but are only available on expensive refrigerators. Think, things like making the drawers open and close much more smoothly. There is no low-end-except-for-$30-in-upgrades option. The car market does some similar things.
We're back to the pre-Google era and suddenly I'm aggressively bookmarking stuff like it's 1995.
You surely know that "generally" does not mean "universally".

You must compare your success with sources like https://time.com/5736789/small-american-farmers-debt-crisis-... :

> For nearly two centuries, the Rieckmann family has raised cows for milk in this muddy patch of land in the middle of Wisconsin. Mary and John Rieckmann, who now run the farm and its 45 cows, have seen all manners of ups and downs — droughts, floods, oversupplies of milk that sent prices tumbling. But they’ve never seen a crisis quite like this one.

> The Rieckmanns are about $300,000 in debt, and bill collectors are hounding them about the feed bill and a repayment for a used tractor they bought to keep the farm going. But it’s harder than ever to make any money, much less pay the debt,

or from https://nfu.org/2017/07/06/from-the-field-farming-is-a-risky...

> Farming is a risky business. A sudden storm, enduring drought, or proliferation of crop disease can decimate a crop. Even when farmers produce a bumper crop, market downturns can still make it a struggle to make ends meet. In Montana’s “Golden Triangle,” farms of all sizes and types are confronting risk amidst a faltering farm economy.

or https://www.fb.org/focus-on-agriculture/farming-is-risky-bus...

> Running a first-class restaurant is risky enough; running a farm is even riskier.

> One would think that with all the advancements in agriculture over the last half century surely the risky business of farming has become more predictable and stable. Farming is less intuitive and more data-driven, but that hasn 't eliminated the uncertainty of it.

> Risk is the probability of an unwanted event occurring, and every year farmers and ranchers brace themselves for these unwanted events. In 2015, the spring outbreak of avian influenza and the western drought were at top of the list. ... Across agriculture, net farm income is expected to drop by more than a third in 2015. The final numbers won't be known for some time, but it will likely be the worst drop since 1983.

and https://www.futurity.org/farmers-agriculture-money-2705292/

> New research digs deeper into the question of why, despite the extraordinary productivity of US agriculture, US farm operators are systematically losing money. ...

> “People who work in the agricultural space already know that it is difficult to make a living as a farmer,” Burchfield says. ...

> The US Department of Agriculture reported in 2020 that the average funds generated by farm operators to meet living expenses and debt obligations, after accounting for production expenses, have been negative for nine out of the last 10 years. In 2017, for instance, median net-cash farm income was $1,035 in the red per farm household in the country.
The idea that you'd need Docker to compile ARM64 assembly on macOS (an operating system which now primarily runs on ARM64 computers) is very funny to me.
Sounds like you still want people to churn butter?

There will be new jobs.

I can't wait to hire a human tour guide on my fully-immmersive real time 3D campaign.
I had to check the standard [0] on this and there seems to be some ambiguity, maybe simply with usage vs intent. The MDN entry states it is simply priority or preference [1]

"12.4.2. Quality Values

The content negotiation fields defined by this specification use a common parameter, named "q" (case-insensitive), to assign a relative "weight" to the preference for that associated kind of content. This weight is referred to as a "quality value" (or "qvalue") because the same parameter name is often used within server configurations to assign a weight to the relative quality of the various representations that can be selected for a resource."

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#quality.values

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Quality_va...
Racism in part but even looking at redlining it isn't how it is portrayed. Redline documents would point out not only where clusters of blacks lived but also Jews, Polish, Italians, Irish, poor whites, etc. And those regions were all difficult to get loans to buy because the homes were often older and the banks were pretty sure that the working and lower class people living in them would not be able to afford upkeep. So they didn't want to lend money to buyers of homes that were likely to decrease in value. There was no Federal guarantee in those days.

Racism played a part too of course but class is often completely ignored in the USA.
Yep! You can do whatever you want with complex modifications. The only tricky part is figuring it out. It shouldn't be TOO different than the above if you replace the appropriate values.
In the age of containers/vms/distrobox, running a specific distro shouldn't really a factor anymore
I didn't make any argument -- at least, not any argument for or against AI x-risk. I am not, and was not, arguing (1) that AI does or doesn't in fact pose substantial existential risk, or (2) that we should or shouldn't put substantial resources into mitigating such risks.

I'm talking one meta-level up: if this sort of risk were a real problem, would all the arguments for worrying about it be dismissable as "hypothetical arguments"?

It looks to me as if the answer is yes. Maybe you're OK with that, maybe not.

(But yes, my meta-level argument is a "hypothetical argument" in the sense that it involves considering a possible way the world could be and asking what would happen then. If you consider that a problem, well, then I think you're terribly confused. There's nothing wrong with arguments of that form as such.)

The comparisons with extraterrestrials, religion, etc., are interesting. It seems to me that:

(1) In worlds where potentially-hostile aliens are listening for radio transmissions and will kill us if they detect them, I agree that probably usually we don't get any evidence of that until it's too late. (A bit like the alleged situation with AI x-risk.) I don't agree that this means we should assume that there is no danger; I think it means that ideally we would have tried to estimate whether there was any danger before starting to make a lot of radio transmissions. I think that if we had tried to estimate that we'd have decided the danger was very small, because there's no obvious reason why aliens with such power would wipe out every species they find. (And because if there are super-aggressive super-powerful aliens out there, we may well be screwed anyway.)

(2) If hell were real then we would expect to see evidence, which is one reason why I think the god of traditional Christianity is probably not real.

(3) As for yeti, cold fusion, etc., so far as I know no one is claiming anything like x-risk from these. The nearest analogue of AI x-risk claims for these (I think) would be, when the possibility was first raised, "this is interesting and worth a bit of effort to look into", which seems perfectly correct to me. We don't put much effort into searching for yeti or cold fusion now because people have looked in ways we'd expect to have found evidence, and not found the evidence. (That would be like not worrying about AI x-risk if we'd already built AI much smarter than us and nothing bad had happened.)
Yes, there is some research suggesting that CEOs exhibit "dark triad" traits more then the general population.
I know that tends to happen for LLMs but I don't know if Google/MS would care enough about some obscure benchmark system to try to game it.
Hosted Gitlab CI/CD and GitHub Actions runners
Continuous has released hosted Gitlab CI/CD and GitHub Actions runners hosted in Europe, targeting companies that can't afford official shared runners or that just don't wanna manage runners themselves.
Surprisingly, Chipotle is it's own layer of hell with it comes to auth. Every time I need to sign-in, I need to reset my password.
Regarding the “plentiful fresh water”, when I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan there were more restrictive water usage regulations than when I lived in Phoenix, Arizona. The lakes can’t be drawn on without affecting shipping, and money trumps environment.
If it’s purely user generated and not something with any defaults, why would they be subject to antitrust concerns?
If you don't need a skill, you won't practice it, and it will atrophy. This frees you to learn different things. Like how most software engineers today don't know computer engineering (hardware) but they can write more complex applications.
This only throttles the speed, it doesn't drop packets, AFAIK.
As aggravating as the NIPS rigor police was, I wish they'd come back
I have the latest version of Outlook with Office 365. There is a 'Try the new Outlook' on the right top which I have glued to 'Off'.

But when I click it I get the PWA version of Outlook shown in the article.

The old Hotmail service is now called Outlook.

The website there is the same as the one on Office 365.

And that website stuffed inside a PWA is the new Outlook meant to replace both the UWP Mail app on Windows 11 and the old paid Outlook desktop MFC C++ application.

Once this has been completed they have ONE version. The same website that drives outlook.com, Office 365 and the PWA.
Because torrents work, so they don't need to switch to IPFS.
I like the timing 'Answers' very much.

And then again you ask the run-of-the-mill SAP consultant how long it takes until an updated data record is available to a connected system and the answer will be something like 86.400.000.000.000ns

or closer to the original wording: 'one day'.
Thanks for the satisfying explanations!
The Brennan Gyro-Monorail
> A lot of people seem to use floats without knowing how inaccurate floats are,

Small nit, but floats aren't inaccurate, they have non uniform precision. Some float operations can be inaccurate, but that's rather path dependent...

One problem with -ffast-math is that a) it sounds appealing and b) people don't understand floats, so lots of people turn it on without understanding what it does, and that can introduce subtle problems in code they didn't write.

Sometimes in computational code it makes sense e.g. to get rid of denorms, but a very small fraction of programmers understand this properly, or ever will.

I wish they had named it something scary sounding.
Just a bug report: You get redirected to localhost on-cancel of Github sign-in.

http://localhost:5173/auth/callback/github?error=access_deni...
I do pay $10/mo for search. Also lol "and click 3-4 ads per month" what? This is HN, who clicks ads? I've never clicked an ad. I spend all day trying to teach people to never click ads. At this point I actually couldn't click ads even if I wanted to because uBlock hard-blocks all the domains they redirect through for conversion tracking.
Yes, ideally.

The problem for me is it used to be an addition to my energy and confidence, but when you "take the magic out of it" it doesn't help out there so much.

In antirez's blog he mentioned how it made things "not worth it, worth it" and I agreed, but that happens much less often if you think an LLM helping you is a fluke.
From what I heard, this provision for public prosecution dates from the olden days when the post office was carrying important and sensitive messages, like that from the royals, and when they had to fight highway robbers and such. In this day and age, such a provision doesn't make sense, and must be done away with. As for the argument, "nothing else done otherwise", we don't see similar prosecution privileges for other essential services in life (health service, public transport etc.).

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
> distrust amongst "techies" is a bigger problem than it might otherwise appear because of how disproportionate an influence we have

If this was true, everyone would be using linux. The "techy" market is completely different from the consumer market and also much less lucrative. Google might as well allow adblockers, since the techies wouldn't click on ads anyways.
Kagi is better than Google, but just yesterday it returned the top link to Amazon-linking “check the price for this item on Amazon right now” affiliate spam. So it’s not perfect.
Exactly! It's the same thing with memory management primitives. If you expose malloc and free directly to an application programmer, things will eventually get buggy.

It's better to hide the locking primitives and let the runtime handle it for you safely.
I doubt it. At any rate, I wasn't claiming to offer "the strongest argument that AI existential risk is a big problem". I wasn't claiming to offer any argument that AI existential risk is a big problem.

I was pointing out an interesting feature of the argument in the comment I was replying to: that (so far as I can see) its reason for dismissing AI x-risk concerns would apply unchanged even in situations where AI x-risk is in fact something worth worrying about. (Whether or not it is worth worrying about here in the real world.)
My GUESS is that it would be something like this:

{
"title": "Hold z or / for control",
"rules": [
{
"description": "Hold z for control",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "z",
"modifiers": {
"optional": [
"any"
]
}
},
"to_if_alone": [
{
"key_code": "left_control"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"description": "Hold / for control",
"manipulators": [
{
"type": "basic",
"from": {
"key_code": "/",
"modifiers": {
"optional": [
"any"
]
}
},
"to_if_alone": [
{
"key_code": "right_control"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
Daimler Truck Fuels Big Rigs with Hydrogen
It's mostly inference: typically on-device training is with classical ML, not deep learning, so no on-device backprop.

For inference there's a whole spectrum of approaches that let you can trade off flexibility for performance. TF Lite Micro is at one end, hand-written Verilog is at the other.

Typically, flexibility is more important at the start of a project, while deep optimization is more important later. You wanna be able to iterate fast. That said, the flexible approaches are now good enough that you will typically get better ROI from optimizing your model architecture rather than your inference code.

I think the sweet spot today is code-generation, when targeting general purpose cores. There's also increasing numbers of chips with hardware acceleration, which is accessed using a compiler that takes a model architecture as input.
Their entire business is gaming metrics. Most of those metrics are ones they invented for themselves, but if there's any advantage at all, they'll game it
I first had this kind of experience with a BBS in about 1987. Email has been around for a lot longer than that, for some people. I think smartphones really transformed things though, and now I think half the world's population has one. For me, there is a chain of events that led to my marriage of 28 years that can be traced back to that first BBS I was on....
It doesn't matter what change you make to your UI, some fraction of your users will freak out about it.

That doesn't mean all UI changes are bad, it just means all user bases have users who are resistant to change.

Not a user of Hey, just an observer of user behavior.
Supreme Court denies Epic vs. Apple petitions, opening up iOS payment options
I'd love to live in Neuschwanstein.
Matrix World [pdf]
The way you put it, it sounds like a phase, like dinosaurs.
A Flaw in Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm GPUs Could Expose AI Data
TSLA is 700B in Mkt cap. How much will it be if Elon is fired/replaced? The diff is value he brings.
"get rich by buying my course!!!"

No thank you, i dont like this kind of advertising

> and the price is accessible to most!

Incorrect
Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and more didn't deserve to be attacked, and yet they were, along with many other nations that have been attacked because the USA thought they deserved it.

Anyway, just because you don't think Ukraine and Taiwan deserve to be attacked doesn't make it objectively true. It's just the opinion you have been given.
This seems pretty normal? If you've forgotten the password, you reset it via a reset email. If you had MFA set up, you still need the MFA with the new password. To reset the MFA, you either log in with a recovery code or you contact support.

Most services I use operate this way.
Fantastic informative comment, thank you for this.
I use 1password but opt out of this feature. Just as described in the article masterpassword creates a single source of failure so I don't personally want to put more eggs in that basket.
I realised after writing it that my thought was a bit out of touch, in Italy I had my Trump, in Berlusconi, and I hated everything he said, even if something made sense