skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you want “ok google read my texts”.

> Pulling off the highway every buzz isn't a solution either

I don’t know if you’re American, but you’d make a good one. Putting small conveniences over others safety is kind of a national pastime here.
Companies settle all the time without being guilty.

If it’s cheaper to just settle than fight it out, you settle.
I'd be curious to see what your top ~5 CRPGs that are better than BG3 would be.
It surprises me that this obvious solution is the one the government avoids the most. I would expect salaries to keep pace with the private sector. Especially when the cost of mistakes by a CEO (company goes bankrupt) is much less than the cost of a mistake by an officer (many people die). Might also stop the systemic corruption in the military AKA the revolving door between the military and private contractors.
"Is it even possible? It's the best kind of possible: theoretically possible."
The title should be edited to include a year.
Nobody writes code in terms of Nands but there is Nand to Tetris course ("The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles" book) https://www.nand2tetris.org

pytorch to LLMs has a lot to show even without Python to pytorch part. It reminds me of "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"
Andrej Karpathy https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9...
Prerequisites: solid programming (Python), intro-level math (e.g. derivative, gaussian). https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
Which is great as it documents that there aren't any real ones.
Dick Bove, Famed Banking Analyst Now Retired, Says Dollar Is 'Finished'
Haven't had the chance to play Disco Elysium yet, but Planescape Torment, Fallout 1 and 2 are definitely in my top 5 ever. I'm genuinely curious to see what kind of games the OP is thinking of (besides BG1/2, probably?).
The War on Drugs helps subsidize the cartels and drug dealers by creating a market that only they can fulfill. We pay an obscene amount of money for sustaining that market.

It's semantics: instead of giving money directly to the organization, let them make money and have the public money be spent to clean up the mess they made. Same difference: private profit and public expenditure for it.
It’s really not that far off from the truth, this varies slightly depending on the utility (I’m on a notoriously more expensive one in my area). Very recent gas price increases have also pushed gas closer towards electricity but not by nearly enough.

Source: https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/natural-gas-heat-vs-electric...
Omg is this fix had to be this bloated?
You Should Blog Even When No One Reads it (2022)
At my org -

I've been using it to counter disappointing performance reviews in a professional way that aligns with policy to "further develop the employee". I've use it to create first drafts of proposals for changing business processes (saved me hours of time just outlining an argument). I've uploaded most of our PDFs and had it do some "fuzzing" in a sense to find logic errors, or slightly diverging interpretations of policy terms. This has been used to feedback to our policy and planning folks to cover a hole, or clarify some random document. I've definitely used AI to respond to a bad coworker or supervisor when I'm depressed I have to suffer under/around them. I still proofread the mistakes, but I make more mistakes when I'm trying to sound professional and just depressed about the work. Took this to a dark place, but there's more success than papering over BS. I've helped get 4 new benefits for our employee type with my proposals and the supporting "evidence" the LLM can drag up and justify in an opening brief. The type of employee I am is expected to receive 22% higher pay this year.

I used to think I don't have the bandwidth or headspace for understanding our collection of policy documents. There are rare experts. LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry for m e to contribute. I wish I could be specific, but I helped uncover that certain benefits were not available to the type of employee I am, and how previous pay comparisons were done assuming something about total compensation. Well, my employee doesn't have benefits so the numbers they were comparing against were not representative of us. Got a proposal in there, an got a few executives to say "ohh".

It's been fun.
"... don't let anyone gaslight you to believe otherwise" states website called "hottakes.space".

Funny.
> This internet-based ecological study, revealed that this use of artificial shells is a "global phenomenon".
"We saw it in two-thirds of all terrestrial hermit crab species," said Prof Szulkin. "That's what we could identify just by using pictures taken by tourists."

That’s going to be biased. Social media users are probably more likely to post about hermit crab with human made shells.
Windows 95 remains the pinnacle of clear, discoverable GUI.

It's like the companies rolling out UI elements don't even bother running them past people, and are guided solely by what the design department thinks looks cool that day.
> If the law does not penalize selling that information

This is a different proposal from what you made before. This proposed law would not require users to be paying customers (so apps could still have a free tier). It would just require that sensitive personal information gained from apps not be sold to third parties for profit, as is now required for phone records. The effect would be similar, since the ad-supported business model largely relies on such selling of information. But it would be a narrower restriction, because there are many apps with free tiers that do not use the ad-supported business model.

That said, the obvious way to game this law is the definition of "sensitive information". This was never an issue for phone operators because their users are already their customers; people pay for phone service. So there is no incentive for phone operators to try to monetize whatever sensitive information they could harvest, so for them "sensitive information" basically means "whatever information you collect from phone calls" and there is no pressure to manipulate that definition. But it would be a huge issue for Big Social Media, and I would expect them to work very hard to gerrymander the definition of "sensitive information" so it doesn't really restrict their operations.

If they failed and a law like this got passed, would they then actually do the hard work to make all their users paying customers? I still doubt it, but perhaps somewhat less than for the broader law I took you to be proposing before.
IMHO spaghetti and linguine optimized the shape for cooking to al dente perfection and if one handles them correctly they can hold as much sauce as the cook desires.
I concur in principle in consistent word usage, but I'm not aware of one other than externalities for this issue, and that is too vague to convey the fact that public money is spent in support of their profit.
Mr. Beast Videos Are Frying the Brains of Zoomers
From YT comments:

… this kid appears to know what he’s doing. He even built a fairly outrageous DC power supply specifically for this project.

… It was smart to use the remote control to keep away from the X-rays! … hence, why he was across the yard … Protip man, build a little lead or steel vault for that thing to protect yourself AND remove background radiation that is noising up your image. Then get yourself a survey meter and make sure you are keeping exposure outside the vault to 5mr/Hr or less.

… Excellent work young man. When I read the title of your video, I thought perhaps you misunderstood the complex nature of the reconstruction algorithm. Turns out I was the one trying to keep up with your explanations and logic.

… I fix CT scanners for a living. This is pretty darn cool!! When you started out, I was trying to figure out how you were going to make all of that rotate around your “patient.” You simply rotated your “patient” itself. Well done!

… While not medical grade, it still demonstrates the working principle and actually extremely useful for imaging internal structures of all sorts of things!

Consumer electronics imaged by industrial CT scanner: https://www.lumafield.com/article/inspect-electronics-indust...

Precursor videos:

Building an X-Ray power supply, https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppIhQ0ZldZ0

Turning TV parts into an X-ray machine, https://youtube.com/watch?v=LXnK_lMQbYc

Building an X-Ray machine in my backyard, https://youtube.com/watch?v=oxfPK6PlyRY
Yeah the formulation is quite biased, but to some extent there is some truth in the statements:

> Your codebase is old, large and has been working fine without static type checking for years. While Python’s type system is designed to allow gradual adoption of static type checking, the total cost of adding type annotations to a large extant codebase can be prohibitive.

That's a convoluted and quite dishonest way of warning that you're trapped if you don't enforce types from the start; but it does have the merit of being on the list.
Ben from Applied Science did this 11 years ago too: https://youtu.be/hF3V-GHiJ78?si=I6xH7WrrqVaDK-Hv
I like index.php type websites, that are not verbose.

but PHP code that consists of 30+ composers modules, each with 10+ classes with overengineered OOP crap does not encourage me to touch this code with a 10ft pole.

This has devolved into js type of crappy coding, and I can use JS for that, dont need PHP.
The author is using the word “proprioception” differently from its established meaning. It’s not just a general idea of where you are in the world. That includes so many other senses. It’s specifically the sense of the body’s position in relation to itself. Is your arm straight or bent? This is a proprioception question. Having the feeling of being in a shack is not proprioception.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
"And that's the cunning of history; when you're at the bottom, something can happen that gives hope. After the 1973 war, who would have thought that before the end of the decade, Egypt would sign a peace treaty with Israel?"

so at least the list is obviously > 0. That's a good starting point for you to reconsider where else you've made a mistake.
This article attempts to contribute something novel, rarely discussed, namely how to organize a long term refactor in a team. There are already many great posts and books focusing on the code part.
Could they learn from the mining industry? Terrible job, long hours in the middle of no-where (in Australia) and poor family life, but the salaries and benefits are huge. There is no shortage of people wanting to work in the mining industry.
The fact they wrote this sentence would tell most people a lot about the agenda missionlocal has always had.

They always knew it wasn't a death wish but knew they could frame it this way for clicks.
I'm gonna guess that these guest accounts might be the reason 'usage is at an all time high' according to musk, but seems to be falling according to everyone else.
https://handmadehero.org/

It's very low level C (almost no third party libraries and using only emacs.)

Casey Muratori is quite experienced and codes everything live. So you can see his thinking process, including debugging bugs. (All recordings freely available)

Source code (plus the game) available for only $15

It started out writing to raw 2D graphics buffers, but somewhere it evolved into a pseudo-3D project.
But can you now run it in a homebrew “tiny sheet” running on a tiny sheet version of your 16-Bit CPU?

I love that people do these ridiculous but inventive things. Never would have imagined this one.
I also hallucinate. Turns out aggregate hallucations go down when it's the union of me + AI instead of me by myself.
If the EU starts making similar noises in the direction of Sony, Nintendo, and the makers of most TVs and car infotainment systems, then I might start taking the EU seriously. Until then it's objectively correct to say that they're arbitrarily singling out one multinational corporation as a direct result of lobbying from other multinational corporations.

(If they really wanted to be taken seriously I'd insist they apologise and rescind their Luddite foolishness around cookie notices.)
Interesting, which carrier?

I was told by AirTel transferring my eSIM is not supported. I had to go to a store to get a new SIM (physical this time).
These aren't new fees, it's an opt-in alternative pricing structure. For people who sell apps for money it is an attractive deal. (Which is a critical point. It's the people who sell apps who had the most to complain about. People who give apps away for free had little to complain about and don't have to do anything.)

Your third paragraph is technically incorrect. Even the simplest iOS binary includes fragments of statically linked Apple intellectual property. Software piracy is software piracy, no matter how simple the app.
Most common assumptions about nuclear waste don't reflect the data - it is a solved problem in the industry and much less an issue than expected. A good collection of sources in https://zionlights.substack.com/p/everything-i-believed-abou...

Costs are lower in the long run, especially when considering lower system costs - the power grid has to be much more capable and more complex with variable generation from solar and wind, plus these energy sources always need a stable backup (like nuclear)
> When facts are uncomfortable, just rewrite the narrative.

The sources you presented failed to substantiate your argument, and instead of looking for different ones or considering you might be mistaken, you've doubled down.

Are you quite sure you are willing to take a hard look at uncomfortable facts and hazard having your mind changed?
This is actually something I really hate about ML research and why I get upset when people say "don't need math." I see a lot of unnecessary equations in papers (dear god, we don't have to write attention in every ViT paper or the density function in every diffusion paper) but then no math around where it matters. It feels like a strategy to get people to just turn on autopilot, since that's what you'll naturally do. It's also weird when you get reviewers asking for this. I've had a reviewer reject a work, saying that I should include the equation for attention... in 2023... There's a reason I don't value conferences and why I tell people they aren't good signals for quality. Hell, we're doing more peer review here than most papers get.

I'm not unconvinced the work isn't novel (but novelty is a function of reader's background knowledge) but I think their claims are too strong. Were I the reviewer I would reject for sure based on the unsubstantiated claim of lossless alone, without explanation. Even if a work was great and useful (though conferences make this difficult to make such types of fixes). The method does seem interesting and there is evidence for its utility, but I do think it needs a lot of additional clarity and support of the claims. In fact, I'll go ahead and say what's happening here is how I'd love to see modern peer review work, because we should be updating works and collaborating like this. Which isn't just shitting on the paper. It's constructive.

Edit: Sorry, got a bit ranty. CVPR reviews are out. I'll just say I'm so glad they made a big deal about LLMs to "protect the integrity of reviews" because... LLMs were the problems....
Isn't the issue not that Purdue declared bankruptcy, but that the Sacklers avoided any personal payment?
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I thought this would be about the First Programming Language that nobody remembered, the ur-heimat incubator of some obscure syntax that became everything from FORTRAN to Ruby
If I don't have either copilot or ChatGPT Plus, which one should I purchase?
https://climrr.anl.gov/
This is the content we come for
That’s... a really weak point if we’re discussing actual platform capabilities and not some moral high ground. I didn’t even know what the default search engine is on iOS, and I don’t care very much. It’s literally one of the first things you change while setting up your (first) phone.
The nomination of Space Raptor Butt Invasion in 2016 was a Sad Puppy footgun.

He disavowed their coordinated campaign and then engaged further:

Satirical erotica author Chuck Tingle's massive troll of conservative sci-fi fans, explained

Right-wing sci-fi writers tried to delegitimize the Hugo Awards by nominating a writer no one took seriously. Here's how he took them all by surprise.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/26/11759842/chuck-tingle-hugo-awa...
Depends, are you looking to have a good paper or are you looking to get published in a venue? Because I'll say that you'll get better peer review anywhere (HN, Twitter, Reddit, etc) than you'll get in a conference.

So... yes?
This just sounds dystopian. Because none of it is under the user's control.

Not like anyone can choose the "non-Bard" update option. It does not exist.

More unpleasant defaults.
Pretty cool, although it seems like he is blasting his phone with x-rays? I am guessing that thin phosphorescent screen isn't blocking much.
They could extend the project and build a final depot for radioactive waste. Jobs for the next hundred thousand years.

Gosh, i hate the trend for NE. When will the public realize, that its the side effects of our waste products (like CO2) that cause us all the trouble? Or that we are depending on yet another finite resource?

Why not a project for fully renewable energy sources and storage with less delicate waste? Why letting big monopolistic coropratios externalize the cost of waste management to the public so NE appears affordable/profitable?

Its just short sighted, imo, to put it nicely.
Not just that. It does require Atkinson cycle to reach the efficiencies they have. It just means that the compression stroke is shorter than the power stroke.

Basically with that cycle they can get massive compression ratios. As an example newer Toyotas are at 14:1 ratio with 41% thermal efficiency. That’s close to diesel territory on a gasoline car.

Naturally when you floor it it goes to Otto cycle and efficiency drops.
How many mainstream economists caucus with him on this.
A rebel organization is not the yemen government, that’s exactly the reason they are successful at being a proxy. all the benefits of being a state without any responsibility for your actions.

About the common western trope of “you should never fight terror because it will only bring more terror”
that’s false. There is no way the palestinian population would be more radicalized, they are at the end of the spectrum. It wasn’t like there was any type of atrocity known to man on October 7 that was stopped short due to being too extreme.

Also, israel had shown that when fighting palestinians organizations in the second intifada 2001-2004, it succeeded in greatly reducing the amount of terror and achieve deradicalization
Well the Pi isn’t trying to be expensive or high end. But it’s generally pretty stable tho.

What would you recommend instead that fulfills a similar role?
> > What waste from solar and wind is not recyclable?

> Of the top of my head, cadmium and lead,

Lead isn't recyclable?
> That said, you can get a MASSIVE productivity boost

I'm 25-50% more productive now. ChatGPT 3.5 did nothing for me (too much bad code) but newer models made the difference. GPT-5+ will be incredbile.
Mythbusters EXPLOSIONS and DESTRUCTION Compilation (Season 1 - 5)
George Carlin – I Am Glad That I Am Dead (2024) A.I. Comedy Special [video]
For Android, I use FaME IT's "Rotate" to set both per-app and global rotations:

forced-auto (overrides most lawful-evil apps that try to force an orientation for not good reason)

auto-portrait (allows only the two portrait orientations, auto-landscape (similar, good for some games & video apps)

lock-current (for chaotic-evil apps that lose state or rebuild the whole UI in response to rotation events).
George Carlin's estate sues over AI-generated comedy special
> Any effort expended on keeping languages alive is pointless.

Pointless ultimately, maybe. But languages can even be revived from nothing to have millions of native speakers, see Hebrew.
I created this Alex (30yo developer) Custom-GPT
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I think Medium paywalls only when you choose to monetize your content.

I still think using something open source is better though.
> it would be more scientific to run a Facebook poll

The jurors have spent many, many hours personally hearing testimony and examining evidence, all of which is vetted to meet courtroom standards.

Do you consider yourself fit to serve on such a jury?
A salesmen selling door-to-door for Verizon said the same thing to me. “You have kids, so you qualify.” I just told him that was not right, but kudos to you for filing a complaint with the FCC.
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Dude, when you cast molten metal into sand, you create glass micro balls. They are just starting from there. Sand is glass, heated to molten temperature and fused into a crystalline structure.
That sound like a lot fun. Working on similar recently, I've learned the basics are almost trivial with the information and technology that is now widely availablr, and this really demonstrates that.
The analog I’ve seen posted around online is

https://keyoxide.org/

Previously on HN a few times, here’s a post linking to the source code from 2021 with 135 points, 58 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29132024
hello,

yes ... the HP calculators where really great, but also prohibitively expensive ...

the TI 30 in all its variants was the "cheaper" scientific calculator for the masses in the 1980ties :))

cheers,
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>I fix CT scanners for a living. This is pretty darn cool!! When you started out, I was trying to figure out how you were going to make all of that rotate around your “patient.” You simply rotated your “patient” itself. Well done!

It's worth noting that this is in fact the approach for most industrial CT scanners, which are perfectly capable of punching through perhaps half an inch of steel in my experience (not a CT tech, just an engineer that has used them - there might be more powerful ones out there). It's usually just a small turntable. Conveniently, the object to be imaged usually doesn't care too much about the radiation when it's made of metal.
Then you get something like the KPA (North Korean army): not very good at fighting wars but quite good at construction work.

In order to have a capable military, it needs to fight wars. Hence all the countries joining the US in Afghanistan to achieve valuable on the field training.

What use is a big stick, other than intimidation, when you just carry it around, not knowing how to actually use it?

Future recruits will also need to be good at E-sports, as they'll increasingly be in charge of drone operations.
Isn't being recycled ... which is the real issue.

Mining waste from copper, rare earth concentrates, minesite rehabilitation, safe tailing dams, etc are all things that in theory can be dealt with.

It's not Mission Accomplished!! until they are actually dealt with though .. until then it's just toxic lead free to leach into water.
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