skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically what I use my Wikipedia User Page for. Keeping links to all the news websites I happen to have found reasonably interesting content at. Stories I like that Wikipedia will probably not accept. Articles that I want to keep, yet might not be accepted for an article, or I have little faith they'll remain in the article. Probably just need to dump my bookmarks in occasionally.
When that work is done, will it be a strong enough guarantee to use instead of just gpg-signing derivations?

The father I dive into Nix, the more I get the feeling that nixpkgs is only half of a package manager; and that the other half has been perpetually put on hold, while we wait for the eventual perfect implementation of Nix to make that half implicitly obsolete.

The more I use Nix (especially NixOS), the more I feel like that second half of the package manager is precisely what I am missing. Even when it it's obsoleted by guaranteed reproduciblity, I may still find value in it.

I would love to have a nix store that accommodates traditional gpg-signed packages. The usefulness of that would extend beyond Nix and nixpkgs.
Isn't that the same idea as Linux's vdso?

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/vdso.7.html
They used to. For most of the '00s Google'd noticeably exhibit a kind of wave pattern: webspam would creep onto page 1 of results, more and more, then abruptly vanish. Repeat. Cycle of, IDK, a few months.

To all external appearances, Google simply gave up on this cat-and-mouse game around '08 or '09. Big sites get ranked high (whatever changed seemed to give those a huge boost, around that time), everything past that's mostly webspam.
I don't know for the US but in many countries that's just illegal if you have a monopoly.
Some criticisms of the rebuttal are good. Some are not:

>The method for arriving at these “adjusted” (for race, education, etc) percentages is not given.

There is a pretty standard way of doing this: you stratify the sample, then re-weight the subcategories according to their distribution in the population. For example, if your sample had 10% Black people and 15% Hispanic, you would re-weight to 12% and 18%. There are valid criticisms, and then there is objecting for the sake of objecting.

Meanwhile, the original study has its own share of eye-spinners:

>Many in Generation YOLO (you only live once) believe that what happens while you’re young won’t affect your future.

Generation "YOLO" drinks less as teenagers than any generation before them since Prohibition. Generation "YOLO" has less sex in high school.

>There are two other related premarital risk factors for low marital quality in our research sample: Having lived with someone other than a future spouse and/or having been married previously.

The effect shown in the figure is very small. As a rule of thumb, the smaller an effect is, the more likely it can be caused by hidden variables. Smoking causing a 1600% increase in lung cancer rates was probably not hidden variables. A 20% increase in the frequency of "high-quality" marriages could be caused by almost anything.

Following the same logic, there are a few inferences drawn in the study that are likely to be robust: among college-educated adults (but not non-college adults), those who had a child together before marriage were fifteen times less likely to report high marriage quality (Figure 5). Even if we object to the way data were collected and binned, it's hard to put this rabbit back in the hat: it probably means something, even if it isn't causal.

The major weakness of the project is its grandiosity: its assertion that it has identified all sorts of lifestyle factors that can probably lead to a high-quality marriage, and that it can somehow serve as important life advice on these grounds. This drives an excessive optimism about conclusions that, mostly, should be checked again several times before being accepted.
I tried Notion a few years ago. Definitely a slick and polished app. And clearly useful to a lot of people. But I'll never get used to the idea of putting that much of my life or business into a web app.

Between potential terms of service changes, potential security issues and now potential misuse via AI (and I LOVE AI) I just will never be comfortable having that much information in someone else's web app.
> When strikers are harmed and killed, it is police doing the violence.

Are there any examples of that in the United States post-WWII?
OP's point is that it's not, which is why Apple is begrudgingly allowing it. But if they could make you use apps for everything instead of a browser, they would. And they'd use all the same arguments they do today wrt not allowing sideloading etc to justify it.
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That's not relevant. It runs VK as a backend. If it runs in Proton, it's because either Linux or Vulkan let's you do it natively.
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> Given you believe the reason torrents didn't kill the movie industry is because people weren't satisfied with smaller screens: would you be satisfied with content that is stuck in "2020-2030 forever" and can never produce anything "entirely new"?

I fear the enshittification of movies - similar to, say, the situation in video games or residential ISPs: when everyone has silently agreed to a common level of base bullshit, customers won't move (because why move from a pile of cow dung to a pile of dog dung? it's all dung in the end), and everyone can keep fleecing the customers.

> Personally I think novelty in art thrives when the entry barrier is low and experimentation is possible without a huge budget - which AI can help achieve.

Oh even now even utter novices and two-three person teams can produce hours of high quality content, youtube is enough proof of that. Experimentation is not the problem, the problem is all the marketing to get people to sit in the cinema. For a lot of modern movies, music and video games the cost of production is at least on the same order of magnitude as the cost of marketing - even a blockbuster movie like Avengers Endgame [1] reportedly had 356 M$ of production cost vs 200 M$ of marketing cost, and of the production cost at least 100 M$ were compensation for the star actors.

[1] https://collider.com/avengers-endgame-box-office-budget/
Some people don't think about this, and aren't bothered by it. I'm one of them. If I had a million dollars in index funds, I would check on things maybe once a year.

On the other hand, it's exactly this attitude that's resulted in my spouse handling all of our finances. Maybe she wakes up at 4am fretting about the stock market; if so, she doesn't tell me about it.
if you start a Notion variation, let me know. I would love something like notion but offline and secure.
I don't see anything offensive in this:

> And the reality is that there are no absolute guarantees. Ever. The "Rust is safe" is not some kind of absolute guarantee of code safety. Never has been. Anybody who believes that should probably re-take their kindergarten year, and stop believing in the Easter bunny and Santa Claus.

It's an exaggeration. Means that he disagrees with people who blindly repeat something that, on the level Linus operates, is objectively not true.

I have no context on the broader discussion but it seems both sides haven't equalized the plane on which they discuss. In that context I'll agree Linus was a dick.

But, consider what was said upthread: many high-profile open source contributors hear the same crap every day. No matter how gracious you start off, you'll start rolling your eyes and ultimately resort to sarcasm. And some go even further: start insulting. Ask anyone who works in retail.

So again, to me Linus' statement basically uses an exaggeration to illustrate a point: "Stop repeating something as if it's unequivocally true. It's true only in your context (userland application development). It's not true in kernel context."

That people get offended by that says more about them than about Linus.

Finally, I'll agree it can and should be toned down. Not disputing that. But it's also not so difficult to extract out the true point in such a rant and move on.
96% of the web already is not indexed. Clearly there is something wrong with the algorithm they use to determine what should be indexed and what shouldn't. All that AI doesn't seem to help them much
What happens to science when the most talented kids won't be able to compete in ~2 years tops? Would our civilization reach plateau or start downward trajectory as there will be no incentive to torture oneself to become the best in the world? Will it all fade away like chess once computers started beating grandmasters?
I (and I assume most people) don’t know who Sam Kriss is, and the reference was seemingly made as if Pierre Menard was a real person, as it otherwise would not make sense to reference him in that context.
IMHO: this bumps, hard, against limitations of language / human-machine analogies.

But let's try -- TL;DR 262,144, but don't take it literally:

- The output of a decoding function is a token. ~3/4 of a word. Let's just say 1 word.

- Tokens considered per token output = 262,144 Total number of token considerations for 1 output token = beam_size * branching_factor * max_iterations = 512 * 32 * 16 = 262,144.

- Let's take their sample solution and get a word count. https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/B...

- Total tokens for solution = 2289

- Total # of tokens considered = 600,047,616 = 262,144 * 2289

- Hack: ""number of solutions considered"" = total tokens considered / total tokens in solution

- 262,144 (same # as number of tokens we viewed at each iteration step, which makes sense)
This is not a solid argument because it suggests every single social contract involved in human society is not worthwhile, important, or "real".
Hallucination and inaccuracy is a downside, but even so it is often still better.
The only release I knew by name was Woody, but for others curious, here's a page with the releases names listed:

https://www.debian.org/releases/

I love the homages/easter eggs in the *nix world
>capitalism will not offer any incentive to feed the AI with new, creative things.

Disney is already following that thesis without AI, yet it's never looked so vulnerable to the whims of the free market.
I had a sitdown in the sofa today with my seven year old boy talking about 6174 and how all those numbers end up there, as well as three digits with 495. I wrote a simple python sript that we could use to go through a lot of numbers to show this. We also talked about how many steps needed to reach those constants. Then we talked about if there were eight steps for any number and we improved the script further, but found none. Goodl talk and sofa-time ;-)
There are no RCTs to prove that using a parachute leads to better outcomes than not using them when jumping out of a plane. Does that mean you wouldn't use a parachute if in that situation?
"But obviously free access is better for science as a whole"

That's not totally obvious without sorting out the details. Similar to copyright, it seems to be inefficient (in the sense that it artificially restricts supply) but certainly a lot of people think it helps improve the overall supply of creative works.
Bluetooth is indeed very complex, the complete spec runs into thousands of pages. The Nordic SDK has more than 100,000 lines of code in it, and the proprietary stack (which they don't give you source code for) is probably another 100,000 lines of code. Nordic tries to get you to buy their software development services for Bluetooth, which may explain why their example code is not the greatest in my opinion (for example they provide an example of handling interrupts and an example of connecting to multiple devices, but no example of doing both at the same time and you can't just put the two examples together.) Nordic's SDK is a wrapper around the Bluetooth stack, so you not only have to understand Bluetooth itself, you have to learn Nordic's wrapper around it. They kept changing the stack and SDK and the chips themselves every few months (look at their part number histories) as well so any code you wrote went out of date quickly. There is speculation that large manufacturers love Bluetooth because it is a large barrier to entry for smaller companies, unlike say ANT+. I got ANT+ working on an embedded device in a month. I spent two years trying to get Bluetooth to work on the same device (admittedly in a more complicated configuration with multiple simultaneous channels) and I've spent a decade doing embedded programming with wireless radios. Most developers just use an example program with little modification, so they don't handle errors well or think about recovery from bad situations or do security/encryption. Human bodies block Bluetooth signals. I had a test device about 3 feet from a laptop where I was running long term tests of the radio, the data stopped every time I stood between the device and laptop. We were using Bluetooth based body worn sensors with a custom smartwatch so this was a problem for us, if someone put the smartwatch hand behind their back or under their arm all communication stopped. Put your phone in your back pocket and it will miss most packets from your smartwatch. This comes from using the 2.4GHz frequency, VHF radios are much more robust in getting around bodies and through obstacles. Bluetooth is just the wrong technology for many of the things it is used for, but it became ubiquitous in smartphones so now we're stuck with it.
Vendor-specific extensions exist.
Corruption is everywhere, not just in big cities. The more rural the county in US, the greater the chance that "stuff like this only happened in 3rd world countries" is necessary to get anything done [permits especially]. Anecdotal personal experience - living ~30 years in rural Virginia versus ~15 years in a city in upstate NY.
It's really noticeable and really frustrating. A few days ago I've found myself searching in DDG, then switching to Google since DDG gave me no useful results. The first page was blogspam and ads, literally zero relevant links. I suspect most of the results were AI-generated.

I wonder how do people still use google to find what the want on the web?
I don't know what previous commenter you're referring to.

I worry that you're confusing heritability with genetic determination, failing to account for the ways in which environments are inherited along with genetics, tacitly claiming that IQ is fixed at birth by genetics, ignoring epigenetics, and, of course, working under the assumption that IQ testing is statistically meaningful to the point where the kinds of comparisons you're trying to make are valid.

Your argument seems to condense down to "tall people have tall kids, so smart people have smart kids, so any demographic IQ pattern we see must primarily be fixed by genetics". That argument --- I'm paraphrasing it and apologize to the extent it doesn't capture what you're saying --- is weak in a bunch of places that you're not acknowledging, let alone rebutting. But more importantly, it's not a scientific argument; it's just a subjective, intuitive claim. Your intuitions are different from mine.
Any officer that honors these cards is a complete scumbag not fit to wear the uniform.

Yes, I know what I'm implying.
That's a lot of words for "we had to do this because of licensing".
100%. This outage and the (unrelated) bug on the new mobile safari extension were jarring. I definitely rely on snappy & ubiquitous to Kagi!
Sam Altman: human-level AI is coming, will change world much less than we think
Funny enough to the topic title, actual CS topics tend to become useful when debugging.
Do you believe them?

This argument doesn't work if you don't believe the part about getting all the same apps, which is objectively not true.

It's a fun way to mock google, but it has nothing to do with the merits of this issue with apple.
The best way to get rid of these would be for someone to counterfeit them and distribute the copies widely - they could change them, but they'd have to hand out new ones. Then repeat, etc.
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In a year, ChatGPT 5 will point to this thread as proof.
Sigh. Can we please stop hijacking existing names???
i thought i was, but this sentence is too advanced for me
>KVM works great. Do you think major cloud providers are building everything on VMware?

Major cloud providers have huge teams developing their compute as a service, that is what they do, that is the bread and butter.

I don't have the resources and team size to hack our own hypervisor/on-prem cloud solution.

I have a team of 3 people, that is it. I can't put 5 people on designing and maintaining a hodgepodge solution of various tools that get us to where vmware already has us. I need a turn-key solution that a small team can manage.
Are you stealing from your lord, serf? Perhaps you should be churning the butter, not thinking for yourself. (I kid, I kid!)

It's going to be just as easy to make a movie or a song as it was to write this comment. I'm working and researching at the edge, and I promise you that the entire world will be in awe of these next 12 months. Go play with Suno for a taste.

I'm a senior engineer, and now I'm tab completing Rust code 70% of the time. It's hard to believe we've come this far, and it's only going to keep climbing in capability.

You're watching breakneck progress, and the genie isn't going back.

More art will be created per month than the entire human history to this point. Gen alpha is growing up on this stuff and using it to great effect to communicate amongst their peers. The things they build will be incredible.
I never studied math to become the best in the world !
> or otherwise think about.

For us this is by far the biggest factor. Innovation tokens are the most expensive thing there is.
You know how when you first start learning to code, the kids who really "get it" right away start off thinking shorter code = smarter code = better code?

k always seemed like a bunch of those kids managed to become highly accomplished and brilliant engineers without ever breaking that terrible habit. Is there actually a reason to write these array languages (and interpreters for them, apparently) this way, or is it just a cultural difference?
If I read their paper right, this is legit work (much more legit than DeepMind's AI math paper last month falsely advertised as solving an open math research problem) but it's still pretty striking how far away the structure of it is from the usual idea of automated reasoning/intelligence.

A transformer is trained on millions of elementary geometry theorems and used as brute search for a proof, which because of the elementary geometry context has both a necessarily elementary structure and can be easily symbolically judged as true or false. When the brute search fails, an extra geometric construction is randomly added (like adding a midpoint of a certain line) to see if brute search using that extra raw material might work. [edit: as corrected by Imnimo, I got this backwards - the brute search is just pure brute search, the transformer is used to predict which extra geometric construction to add]

Also (not mentioned in the blog post) the actual problem statements had to be modified/adapted, e.g. the actual problem statement "Let AH1, BH2 and CH3 be the altitudes of a triangle ABC. The incircle W of triangle ABC touches the sides BC, CA and AB at T1, T2 and T3, respectively. Consider the symmetric images of the lines H1H2, H2H3, and H3H1 with respect to the lines T1T2, T2T3, and T3T1. Prove that these images form a triangle whose vertices lie on W." had to be changed to "Let ABC be a triangle. Define point I such that AI is the bisector of angle BAC and CI is the bisector of angle ACB. Define point T1 as the foot of I on line BC. Define T2 as the foot of I on line AC. Define point T3 as the foot of I on line AB. Define point H1 as the foot of A on line BC. Define point H2 as the foot of B on line AC. Define point H3 as the foot of C on line AB. Define point X1 as the intersection of circles (T1,H1) and (T2,H1). Define point X2 as the intersection of circles (T1,H2) and (T2,H2). Define point Y2 as the intersection of circles (T2,H2) and (T3,H2). Define point Y3 as the intersection of circles (T2,H3) and (T3,H3). Define point Z as the intersection of lines X1X2 and Y2Y3. Prove that T1I=IZ."
surely we could already do 1khz displays with OLED, but i assumed that the bandwidth required to meet that wouldn't be available on any of todays display outputs.
It's the reverse. DTs allow having a common image, where just the DT differs (and can be selected on boot, or passed from FW if it's not part of the OS image).
I feel the same way, I’ve never been steered wrong just using markdown and grep’ing my notes.

Obviously not advanced as notion but I’m just writing text here, it doesn’t need to be advanced.

The hardest part when writing is the act of writing itself, web apps just seem too bloated for my use case of simple text.
Novels don't exist in a post scarcity world because their writers still need money to live.

I'm not necessarily opposed to moving to a post scarcity model without IP, but we need to actually be post scarcity first.
Chess is immensely more popular since Deep Blue beat Kasparov.
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According to AAA, the average cost of owning a new car is $12k per year [0], and that's just for one car. So New Yorkers can put that extra $1000 per month towards housing. As a New Yorker, $4000 is pretty high. You'd typically see that in hot areas for 1br's with in-unit w/d. Most people, including myself, do not pay that much.

Also, interesting phrasing to make it seem like a "small nyc apartment" is a bad thing. I don't pay for expensive repairs, yard maintenance, or big ticket appliances. Most renters don't pay for heat either (at least not directly). Not to mention interest on a mortgage or property taxes. All costs totaled, living in NYC isn't strictly more expensive than living in a suburb.

[0] https://newsroom.aaa.com/2023/08/annual-new-car-ownership-co...
Not sure if they do, have reached out.
The statistics on that page are interesting.

> Younger people are more likely to consume audio format, as 57% of Americans younger than 50 listened to audiobooks in 2021.

I know I only have anecdata (I'm in that cohort), but that seems off based on my personal experiences and the people I know. Perhaps 2021 was an outlier?

> Over 23% of Americans listened to at least one audiobook in 2021, 15% more than in 2020.

This also seems off. Almost 1 in 4 Americans listened to an audiobook in 2021? That seems... high.

I couldn't find a link to the source data used to generate those statistics.

Based on your link, you'd be looking at something in the range of $24,000 for ASOIAF. Even if you double that you're looking at $48,000. If we factor in 50% (WTF?) rev share with Audible, that's ~2400 units to break even. And then they are clearing ~$20/unit after that. Yeah, I know I hand-waved a bunch of minutia, but my point is that the volume of sales needed to start making a profit, even considering a large rev share, isn't _that_ high.

I can't stack that against sales numbers, but I'll say this, even if it's a legit price based on costs and volume that it doesn't _feel_ legit to _me_. As a result, I won't buy audiobooks. I don't think I'm totally alone. I can't say much past that.
It's amazing how fast the "I want to get paid for my work" attitude disappears when discussing someone else getting paid for their work.
You think you're funny until the IRS back-charges you for 15 years of Arizona property tax.
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