skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia was paranoid about NATO, which has gradually been working to surround it with nuclear weapons, having a base setup in Ukraine which has a geographically clear path straight into Russia's heartland. And I don't find such paranoia particularly unreasonable.

Sorry, I find it unlikely that even you believe this line of reasoning.

Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. It is delusional to think that Russia is remotely at risk for a Iraq/Libya/Yugoslavia type situation.

Russia might not like its neighbors joining NATO, but maybe they wouldn't feel the need if being Russia's neighbor didn't suck so much?

In any case, Russia's actions in the last decade culminating with February 2022 have essentially convinced all post-1989 NATO inductees that it was the right move.
Japan Informs IAEA About Incident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Bard? Gemini? Gemini Advanced? Gemini Ultra? Ultra 1.0? I guess they haven't figured out naming yet. This has got to be the most confusing naming since the xbox series x.
How is preventing you playing music if you install another app not worse?
Thank you for sharing this insightful article, it was a pleasure to read. I learned a lot about hiring low experience, high potential individuals and I appreciate the effort put into crafting this informative piece. Looking forward to implementing these strategies in the future!
This (unlike the op) is actually great. Truly surprised to find something like this in 2024. Thanks for the link!
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We’ve been working on it for the last 2 years and our next release is going to be the 1.0! Let me know what you think
Section 6 (post training) and section 7 (responsible deployment).
A "Simulationist" who believes we are certain to be in a simulation despite no evidence is just holding yet another religious belief.

I see it as a possibility, but a possibility without evidence remains an interesting, untested hypothesis that might be grounds for speculation, not belief.
This is a bit sensationalized.

> "In the first year alone, I spent $14,000 working with my life coach, and in the years that followed I probably spent $100,000," she says. She also spent thousands of dollars on additional courses and mentorships with other life coaches that her primary coach recommended. "I got sucked into it."

If they weren't getting value out of it, why continue the sessions?

I have an executive coach I meet with every other week. No psychology background, etc, but a lot of experience coaching people similar to me. She is insanely expensive, but I'm ok with that.

In my experience, the majority of these type of uncertified coaches don't go out of their way to mislead people into thinking they have more training than they do. For that reason I don't really consider it a scam. (I'm sure there are money hungry sketchy coaches that mislead people, but that exists in every industry)
google is at a catch-up panic mode these days but all the rushed releases so far is still far behind chatgpt per my quick tests.
Reading this makes me realise I have a healthy relationship with my phone. I don't have any "social" apps installed, or "scroller" apps (Insta, TikTok, and things like that). I don't pick up my phone during the day while working, and in the evening it sits next to my keys by the door. Being present is easy.

On my tablet, I have my RSS reader which produces about 30 entries per day, of which I read 2 or 3 articles, and then I'm done for the day. If I put down the tablet to do something else, I have zero experience of "FOMO" because blog articles are experienced at a glacial time scale.

But also on my work laptop, we have Slack and Email and such on my laptop (only, no hand-held devices), and none of them have notifications enabled. Also, once I've read my mail to inbox zero, I close that tab. Then I'll open Slack (not both at once), and once I've caught up I close it. Then I do some productive work. I'll open them later when it's convenient for me.

I think that's an attitude I developed at some point in the past few years. All modern Internet-based tech wants your engagement, full of dark patterns (like making things disappear if you see it once or lift your finger), and you have to protect yourself from that. Choose devices, apps, services that keep you in control. Discard the ones that don't.
Big Tech jobs have lost their glamour
> It's just my opinion

Sure, and I'd love to change it!

If your opinion is "art must wow me immediately" you're missing out on a huge chunk of the human experience!

Not saying you have to go become an art historian, but an art history class can really open your eyes as to why our world is the way it is today.
Oh wow. This is the next generation of that Max Headroom signal intrusion.
If it can be carefully timed it could appear as if it's just a scene cut to another story, and then disconnected before the original signal resumes the next story.
Google requests access to 5% of Norway's electricity consumption [Norwegian]
Indeed. And Kiril (patriarch) is just a "former" KGB-agent. Here you can see some Soviet-style photoshopping a $30,000 watch away.

https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...

Conservatism is traditionally a great vector for propagating an extreme agenda. That's also why you nowadays can see the GOP being co opted by the Kremlin, while simultaneously Evangelicals are up in arms behind Trump. Some of these people really think Russia stands for traditional values and demand UA to surrender.

Same occured here before WWII, where Hitler was seen as law&order and would finally do something against undesirable elements from society.

The playbook of strong-men and their servants are boringly predictable. Lhbti-free zones (Orban, Hungary), racial rage, women needs to embrace traditional role, forbidding books, you name it.
None of it contributes to society in any meaningful way, but you can get 50% of the USA behind it.

"Nah, he is not really going to do what he says".
Yup.
I mean it is?

"Cantonese (traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: Gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdùng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese
Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn't King
Works for me: do you remember where?

(I can easily believe Putin would be happy to join in the Immortal Regiment parade while casting shade on the then-leader. Do any of the "Man Like Putin" lyrics refer to Stalin?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUh9pThGdm4 — my russian isn't good enough to tell if the various contrasts have referents or not...)

Edit: upon reflection, if Putin were not behind the rehabilitation of Stalin, then who is?
The emulated hardware is basically the same as with stock VirtualBox. Only the interrupt contoller (local APIC) is emulated by KVM.
Is it just me or do they not really have any kind of marketing/information pages besides pricing? It just throws you straight in and then depending what you click there's a paywall?

I'm just trying to work out if there's any reason at all not to objectively prefer it to ChatGPT Plus, since it has GPT4 + other models. But does it not do image generation? And I don't know if there's mobile apps (sure I could check the relevant stores, but I'd expect to find it on the website - verifies it is actually an official app not a scam apart from anything else).

Edit: ok, answered on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/perplexity_ai/comments/18eqmig/how_... (nice, it is possible as of December); and via DDG (not linked anywhere on the site?) - https://perplexity.ai/android (nice, there are mobile apps)

Although it doesn't seem very well integrated:

> I'm an AI text-based assistant and I'm unable to generate images. However, I can help you visualize the scene with a description. [...]

and then it appears on the side: '[PRO] Generate image' as described on Reddit. Presumably the nonsense about not being able to generate an image will still be there if I had pro, I just would be able to click that side button and have it then generate one.
k1 and b are tuning parameters for the BM-25 ranking function[1]. These are not names OP's invented. Virtually every implementation and definitely every textbook uses these variable names. You give them the name k1 and b because otherwise nobody who's into information retrieval will understand what they do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
I really wish i could find the article i got it from, if i recall the gist was that they've always been alkaline, but the company removed an additive that reduced or delayed the leaking in an effort to save money.

A bunch of OEM companies got upset that their products were being destroyed, and thus two tiers of battery were created, one for OEM devices, and one for off-the-shelf
It's confusing because the name Bard and the UI also got an upgrade today, so I thought I was using Gemini Ultra but it turns out I'm not: https://imgur.com/a/3UriYpn — showing that Gemini Advanced is not what I'm using, unless I pay and upgrade. (If you cannot generate images you're likely not using Gemini Advanced.)
> A single talented carpenter with an energetic but otherwise totally unskilled
> helper can accomplish more in a shift than two talented carpenters together.
> If you don't have someone to run to the truck for nails, hold shit, move
> ladders, etc. productivity suffers because your talent is wasting time on
> menial tasks.

But you are mistaken -- each of us (the software engineers) already has numerous helpers who fit this description perfectly. The only difference is that we don't call them "apprentices" -- we call them compilers, interpreters, build tools and the like. Probably the only term that is commonly used on both types of helpers is "git".

Joking aside -- if you find yourself and your team spending too much time on menial tasks, you need to focus more on automating them. Of course, how much can be automated depends on how much hardware is involved in your work; as long as we're in software world, pretty much anything can be automated.
My impressions after 90 minutes of intensive testing:
Overall, on par with original GPT-4 in most aspects, inferior to GPT-4 turbo

Detailed aspects versus GPT-4 turbo
1. World knowledge, slightly inferior. GPT-4 turbo was able to detail a protagonist's childhood year by year for a Japanese novel with near 100% accuracy (That a human reader would get the chronology wrong).
Gemini ultra much more easily confused.

2. Creativity, Gemini ultra wins. Its writing style has far more flair than GPT-4 turbo, it also occasionally made some stunning analysis that I never thought of and made perfect sense. GPT-4 turbo is more like a textbook repeater, it doesn't make many mistakes, but also rarely surprises you with anything original.

3. Accuracy, GPT-4 turbo still makes fewer mistakes. Including in subtle logic (Like having a hypothetical battle between two characters in the same universe, considering the strengths and weaknesses of their powers, etc).

So this is definitely Google's first real-deal LLM. Its not better than current GPT-4 turbo, but its getting there. OpenAI must be feeling the fire to release GPT-5 before the end of the year.
Maybe it was a function of iTunes rather than an integrated app but I always found it sort of a mess. As I recall the only reason I started using it for music was that syncing from my other music library app just got too cumbersome.
Lessons from a fountain pen addict
Corporate naming tends to reflect the orgchart and various individuals' desires for promotion... Get some other product branded with your teams name, and you have just expanded your domain and can show impact to any promotion committee...
Sure, as long as it's optional. I wasn't necessarily referring to self hosting your own infrastructure but simply to the notion that for most applications out there, building them is kind of a solved problem already and flatpak likely isn't the center of their universe but more like one of several things they need to support.

Offering some build infrastructure is nice but sounds like it would just end up competing with what is out there already. Unless you have a particularly novel/good take on that, you are basically just putting a lot of effort into cloning stuff that you can already get elsewhere for reasonable fee. Making the use of that mandatory vs. use your own and upload the binary is what the article is about. I think not supporting uploads is not really going to be a thing based on the discussion here.

I can't judge the wisdom of adding some optional build infrastructure. Maybe this all just boils down to some people needing an excuse to start doing this because they are interested in building such a thing. I'm not against that of course. Go for it. But it sounds like it would involve quite a bit of cost and infrastructure that isn't necessarily core to what flathub is about.
Cider[0] is a client I've seen for Apple Music. It seems to have pretty good reviews. It is paid software, but it's a one time purchase of $4. Worth a shot!

0: https://cider.sh/
I didn't say the radar was there to replace looking. All you do is set your mirrors correctly and then there's no more blind spot. That's the entire point of the radar system, to "fix" the alleged blind spot problem. The problem doesn't exist if people were just taught how to properly adjust their mirrors in the first place.

> there's extremely rarely a reason to check the mirror on the side close to the rail.

...
Doesn't it seem familiar, like something Google would do? They should have someone like Larry Page, similar to how Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk handle things. A decision is made and you go forward. Google seems incapable of taking action without the approval of a committee and middle managers...reminds me of IBM back in the '90s.
One of my first “computer” jobs in college was working as an AutoCAD draftsman for a tiny architecture firm. My specialty? Designing parking lots for various Discount Tire stores haha.

Rest in peace

Edit: you can work AutoCAD crazy fast once you get all the keyboard shortcuts figured out
Ultra Pro coming in q3
Show HN: Run the code on your Playing Cards on the website
To put it in perspective though, there's probably more than 570 government employees and hangers-on right there in Washington closely associated with Congress, that could be more easily replaced in the future once the budget allows.

Plus a number of those are bound to be doing damage to the country as a full time effort, and everyone else is worse off because of it. The advantage of reducing this type of force would be realistically orders of magnitude more beneficial than kicking out NASA people earning the same amount of pay & benefits. The budget doesn't show things like this.

Not to mention the extreme cost of on-boarding NASA-level replacements in the future, or if that never occurs, the permanent loss of significant national astrophysics capability along with the immeasurable sunk cost of building the momentum they did have. The budget doesn't show things like this either.

If the top financial budget people just had half the mathematical ability and insight of the average NASA worker things would be incredibly better. Right down to the maintenance workers and office cleaners, that's how bad it is.

OTOH some people don't understand science and they don't want other people to do so either.

And some people do understand science and they don't want other people to do so even more.
It's called animal breeding and people still make money doing it!

Improperly disposing of your animals when you realize there's no market for them anymore is the issue here.
Does it not illustrate that the person making the assertion either hasn't considered that their explanation is not necessarily exhaustive (in fact, as opposed to according to current theories within a popular, not entirely genuine/consistent in behavior at this point in time ideology), or would like you to believe that it is?

If there is a way to prove it is necessarily exhaustive, I would like to hear it.
Not sure if joking or just parsing the sentence different from intended.

> Novel drug could protect brains from damage after repeat concussions

"brains get damage after repeat concussions"

"novel drug could protect brains against that"
Do you mean Xbox One Series X? lol
That’s not true.

Burger menu -> Share -> Add to Home Screen

Works fine.
Hmm. I’m pretty convinced. I often get mired in steps 1 and 2. Partly because of my ADHD but also cuz of the tedium of writing code.

Which LLM are you using? ChatGPT enterprise? Something offline data / sql centric?
From one of the earlier announcements Google has made:

- Bard is that talkative text interface, a product.

- Gemini is the LLM design that currently backs Bard (but also other Google AI products).

- Gemini "Basic", Advanced and Ultra are different sizes of that design.

This is conjecture, but "Ultra 1.0" probably indicates that they intend to release more models based on the Ultra configuration. Since that's the most commercial of theirs, I wouldn't be surprised if that comes with some stability promises (e.g. Ultra 1.0 is still available when Ultra 3.0 is released, so that if you do your own validation when integrating in your own project, you can expect small-to-no shifts in the underlying model)
it's based on syllable count
It's not too confusing, I think it's mostly that they're in the process of changing the naming.

- Bard: Retiring this name
- Gemini: model name (honestly less confusing than just calling it "GPT")
- Gemini Advanced: More capable gemini model
- Gemini Ultra: Most capable gemini model
- Gemini 1.0: They version their models together, gemini has hit 1.0 ad is (supposedly) ready for prime time
This is just plain wrong. People with ADHD are much more likely to develop addiction than people who don't. Most of the addicts I know, including myself, have it.
Be wary of any tech product named "Gemini", usually means they are self-acknowledging the need to play catch-up, a la the Gemini space program.

I bet Google's next big AI release is going to be called "Apollo".
Researchers set new world record 69 megajoules of controlled fusion energy
The distinction between social media and communicating with friends is a interesting, but important one. I have some Signal groups that at times have huge bursts of activity and I haven't met everyone in them in person. Yet it's totally different from "social media" like Facebook. This seems obvious, but 2008 Facebook was closer to my Signal groups than current Facebook or Twitter. I want to say it's the news feed that made Facebook problematic, but maybe it's the volume and that there always is something new?
Reminds me of the naming madness of the Google messaging services/social media.
You are very charitable, lol
Podcats (I use Overcast) are pretty different from music and I wouldn't generally intermix them. And you already have Library and Streaming modes of Apple Music so podcasts would be yet another mode.
The show also hand waived the invention of fusion in the 1980’s.
>Life coaching is a sprawling, multi-faceted industry that can include career coaches, financial coaches, happiness coaches and empowerment coaches.

Seems like the word "coach" is being used to avoid any sort of formal credential requirement. You need to be licensed to hang up a shingle as a therapist, but anyone can be a life coach. You need to be licensed to be a financial advisor but anyone can be a financial coach. Etc.
We need to put some work into this...
This is an excellent review of a thinly disguised sales brochure
If you've got a machine running docker on your network, I definitely suggest checking out Orbital-Sync. It's a container that syncs a 'primary' pihole to as many other piholes as you need. It was a breeze to configure.
Ouch. That would suck.
Thanks, it seems to support it (even through it is a bit DIY). Will look into it.
If you're not looking to build a bootloader, but will rely on GRUB then it's extremely simple. You just need to write a very simple multiboot header. It's literally just some numbers that you hardcode at the beginning of your program in assembly.

Then you compile this with GCC flags that tell GCC to not include a standard library (e.g. compile for bare metal).

Then you link with a very simple linker script that tells ld to put the multiboot header before your actual program.

Then, if you want to run on your own hardware, you change the GRUB config file to load your binary and reboot. Or if you want to run in QEMU, you just load the binary with QEMU. Using QEMU is probably simpler, since you're less likely to run into hardware weirdness at the beginning.

Then, you'd start with just writing to a text buffer, which has a hardcoded address on old architectures (it makes sense to start with an architecture where that's the case). That way, you can print stuff to the screen. That's enough to do a lot of very cool stuff already. After that, you configure interrupts, which you do by hard-coding some function pointers in a table using assembly. Then you use some special instructions to load these interrupt handler tables on startup. Now you can do all kinds of interactive things.
"where probability expresses a degree of belief in an event".

I'm generally ok with beliefs, provided they are realized as such.
~~Well, worth nothing that the original prompt you provided didn't include the suggested strategy~~

Edit: My bad didn't read the parent comment properly
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Is it better than GPT-4?
Beria was not only a bolshevik mass murderer and torturer of the common kind. According to the memoirs of Khrushchev, Beria was also a serial killer. He would haunt the Moscow streets in his car at night, having his body guard pick up any girl he fancied. Those women would be taken to his house, where he'd drug them, rape them and sometimes kill them. Many times very young girls. The body guards would then be tasked with burying the corpses in his yard. Afterwards the bodyguard gave a list of more than a hundred women who had been raped by Beria.

This man almost became the Soviet leader after Stalin's death, but was outmanoeuvred and later executed. According to Khrushchev, even Stalin feared Beria at times.

From Khrushchev:

"When Rudenko began the interrogation of Beria, a monstrous person was revealed before our eyes, a dreadful beast for whom nothing was sacred."
I really wanted the Light Phone II, but I need my phone to play music and podcasts. How did you get over the absolutely boneheaded way audio files are handled?
> And even the peacemakers could one day deliver malware.

Oh, the Convair B-36 Peacemaker definitely delivered malware.
Apple Music is mostly fine. And as long as you're going to sync to an iPhone, it probably doesn't make sense to use a different app. (Though I use VLC for other things.)
> my argument is that as a result a C++ program which sorts floats in the standard way is not well-formed.

I think the argument is flawed: if any program that sorts floats is not well-formed because a float could be a NaN, then any program that dereferences a pointer is not well-formed as a pointer could potentially be null. Do you agree that's obviously not what's intended?

I will grant you that the standard is very much less than clear, but I think generically it uses the term "program" to refer to programs, part of programs or execution of programs.

re: full rust, yes I meant "reject programs unless it can see that they meet the semantic rules".