skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The potential difference I think is that you will be able to replace your social circle with people who behave to your preference. Advertising will be per person, rather than per segment, so that will fade as a unifying factor. I think once parents start putting AR goggles on their kids all bets are off about how social relationships with humans in your presence have some kind of primacy will fade away. That said, I do hope you’re right.
The "why is there something rather than nothing" is a fascinating and mind boggling philosophical question.

A good read is https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2018/02/08/why-is-...
This week in KDE: longstanding issues crushed
The Pleasure of Pattern
Profiting from hunger, those pesky cooks. Profiting from people freezing, those deplorable tailors...
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/crimea-tatar-persecutio...

https://spectator.org/the-unseeing-years-russias-ethnic-clea...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crimean-tatars-being-ethn...
Sure, this we can agree on :)
Only the ‘shell’; not all the rest that make it practical. There are a lot of blog posts (a yearly one here) of people trying to code on iPads; they all end badly because Apple allows nothing. It’s fenched off. Nothing to do with lack of incentive to port Xcode; there are plenty of code apps on iPad, they just cannot run real envs (docker, anything other than toy interpreters etc) without rooting.
The Canary Islands doesn't belong to Africa.
But I was noticing that the username was “filmgirl”.
"The idea here is to have the printing functions all behave in a manner perfectly consistent with printing being fully supported, yet mysteriously there is never a printer to print to."

this is exactly the kind of stupid shit that makes me hate using anything from microsoft. on what planet is this desirable behaviour? is it beyond microsoft's capability to just show a message saying "Printing is not available on Xbox"?
Direct link if you want to try out Lander: https://archi.medes.live/#disc=lander&autoboot

Also, since it was on here yesterday here's Lemmings: https://archi.medes.live/#disc=lemmings-demo&autoboot

The Archimedes probably had the best port of Lemmings from the original Amiga version, including (IMHO) even better music tracks than the original.
> Absence of bullying doesn't mean absence of discipline.

If you're caught and punished immediately every single time you do X, you develop the internal discipline to avoid doing X almost instantly. A mild punishment is ample in this case - for many children saying "you know that isn't right" is sufficient.

If you're caught only 10% of the time you do X, whether the punishment is mild or severe, the lesson is "don't get caught". No severity of punishment is a deterrent to those who do not believe they will be caught.

Essentially, if kids aren't being called out for misbehavior reliably, it doesn't matter how severe the punishment is (because kids have poor judgement & don't think they'll be caught _this_ time). If they _are_ being called out for misbehavior reliably, they know they aren't going to get away with it - so the punishment only needs to be unpleasant enough to make a poor trade for whatever advantages the behavior has.

Further, parents occasionally mis-identify the situation and kids get falsely accused (when perhaps a sibling actually did it). A severe punishment undermines parental authority in a way that a "I'm disappointed that this happened" conversation does not.

I'd argue that this makes what's typically referred to as "parental bullying" the opposite of effective discipline training. Severe punishments handed out haphazardly teach you not to be identified as a culprit.
Fun trivia of the day: Program Manager existed as a 32-bit binary from Windows NT 3.1 through Windows XP SP1.

Yes, you could get Windows XP SP1 to boot into Program Manager instead of Explorer if you so desired, and I would wager probably through Windows 10 32-bit too if you copied over the required files.
If I were that bothered by that word I probably wouldn't be able to consume anything coming from Japan.

Also, wait until people find out about what "Spanish main" is (spoiler: still slavery).
There’s a reason they were laid off. I find this mind boggling, I’ve met so many mediocre and low performers that are still highly sought after by simple virtue of having done nothing at faang or Stanford. It’s basically the software engineering professions McKinsey. Everything they touch is a huge money sink with no real added value and probably long term damaging to society and yet somehow they all keep climbing the ladder. All while other actually high value people are just lost in the noise.
I’m not talking about the cybertruck corrosion, I’m talking about the standard statements about paint care in manuals. I’m sure your extended network with its hundreds of years of experience has come across that.
I'm not trying to be overly dramatic, but I think it's precisely when the industry accepted this as a law -- instead of treating it as something that needs be trained out of junior programmers -- is when software quality started to tank.

Consider any other form of engineering. Take some kind of screw. It has a documented specification in terms of torque, material strength and whatnot. Good engineers on the customer side will use the screws in a way that keeps within the spec. And good engineers on the supplier side will find ways to fulfill that specification as cheaply (which usually also means as narrowly) as possible.

There could be a kind of Hyrum's Law at play, if hardware engineers were idiots. Let's say that the screws accidentally overfulfil the specification today by 20%, and a customer measures the material to figure this out, and starts to depend on that. A year later, the supplier finds a cheaper way to produce the screws (or introduces a binning process) and as a consequence, the screws only exceed the spec by 5%, and the customer's product breaks. Who's responsible? The customer. And I should add, obviously.

This is fixed by training engineers. No one in their right mind would start to introduce artificial faults into their screws purely for the reason to prevent users from depending on the excess strength or something. But that's exactly the kind of thing that's regularly suggested to guard against Hyrum's Law.

So whenever I see software developers on my team look at the source code of a library to figure out "whether it's thread-safe" or "whether the sort order is stable" or whatever, I die a little on the inside. The problem is, you almost have to do that, because were two generations of software engineers into this and the practice is so accepted now that libraries no longer bother to document what they do (and don't) guarantee.

And then people wonder why every existing piece of software needs a fully staffed team nowadays just to keep it working. And why as a consequence, even core products built by competent companies (like Google Maps) have regressions in 15-year-old features every other week.
If the world average is 83% and his claim included 80%, he wasn't as far off as you made him out to be with the criminal negligence business, was he?
For everything else on the planet.
A quotation isn't evidence for anything. Quotations are illusions and calling a quotation a "law" serves as deception. How do we even know what that quotation said is true? Is there data backing it up? Doubt it.

20+ years of experience is a lot. But if we crossed a line here, if LLMs are truly a paradigm shift then there will be fundamental changes to society that will last centuries. This renders your 20 years of experience miniscule in the grand scheme of things.

We need to look at things realistically, not rely on quotations and anecdotal experience to predict the future.

I'm not claiming doomsday will occur. We don't know what will happen, my main problem is excessively positive outlooks that are borderline delusional. Your daughter, if she's a child, may have a much harder time in life in the future due to AI, and that is nowhere near an unrealistic statement.
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these aren't the only two options.

first of all, i certainly wouldn't be more frustrated if the app just crashed, but how about just letting the user know that the xbox can't print? why does everybody seem to think that's out of the question?
I know it’s silly.

Speaking of which, how did you arrive at a few pennies in your estimate?
Open Source Ledger for money-moving platforms
It started off as an improvised test for longer context windows I think Anthropic/Claud did some early on but Greg Kamradt seems to have got it established as a benchmark [1]. Basically they hide a phrase (in this Gemini case it was text flashed on the screen) at various points in a document and then compare performance across LLMs by retrieval accuracy as the size of the document increases.

[1] https://x.com/GregKamradt/status/1758149501188210932
Great! Your pricing is very low. This is medical. At least 10x it.
Well, it's better than EA or e/acc thinking they are objectively correct for some reason. More with e/acc I suppose, why would "max entropy" be a worthy utility function unless you confuse is and ought?
yea, people always talk about how violent they are. but thats why they are still around. all the friendly people explorers onto the island and once they left, came back with guns and an army to take what they learned about.
it has now 12000+ GPTs
Cupid – For Joyful Code
Ooh that could come in handy, it also has links to other useful projects! Thanks a lot!
There's also the Python approach, where dict() iteration became insertion-ordered as of Python 3.7+ (it was also ordered in 3.6, but only as an implementation detail, not as a language feature).

At the time I thought this was a questionable decision that'd cause nightmare debugging scenarios, where someone writes code accidentally depending on insertion-ordered iteration, only to deploy it on a python runtime without it (<=3.5). I'm sure this has happened to someone, but at least it hasn't happened to me.

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60775590
You probably could but what would you see? A bunch of weights, connections between layers and more numbers.

You don't see any meaningful, understandable code. For example, if prompt begins with draw me a picture then jump to layer X.

I'm no expert but I can imagine that to be the problem when one attempts to debug an Algorithmic Intelligence black box.
For me, it's about having a job I enjoy and feel like I'm good at. Which would apply to most of the jobs I've done. So in those circumstances I'd just get a new job, there are lots of roles and industries that interest me.

The problem would occur if I was unemployed and unemployable because my skills (or any new skills I could conceivably learn) were no longer valuable.
> The point is that the UWP allows running apps developed and tested on PCs on an Xbox. It's for the user's convenience (not having to wait on developers to port to Xbox) as much as the developer's (not having to port to Xbox).

It's interesting because that's true in some way (in the sense that PC and Xbox are different), and also not true in another (in the sense that a Xbox is in a way a PC, only with a different UI paradigm)

So in the latter sense UWP allows developing apps for that universal platform, and it only so happens that some apps are only designed, developed, and tested for one system (PC) these apps can run on.

In a way I can see working from the Xbox up being a better way to have a robust, secure, uniform platform than the Windows 8 attempt of slapping a secondary paradigm on top of the Windows 1.0 / OS/2 descendants.

I mean, the facility that underpins e.g WSL2 is exactly the same as the one that underpins Xbox game/apps segregation and Quick Resume. In a way the Xbox OS is very much like Qubes OS! In a way the OS UI we see on an Xbox device is a UI for the hypervisor itself.

I would certainly be interested in a "PC" that is so stable, restores state exactly upon updates, "it just works", allows to play games, allows to run a bunch of Linux VMs, with forever perfect backwards compatibility across hardware arch changes and OS evolution through virtualisation/emulation, and has a UI that allows many kinds of inputs and scales from big screen (gamepad, that accessibility input device I can't recall the name) to desktop (kb+mouse) and possibly laptop or even tablet/phone.

I mean it's not that far fetched (technically) that MS would announce tomorrow that an Xbox can run Linux, Windows 10, or even Windows 3.1 in a VM: all the facilities are there and you can even plug a keyboard + mouse today.

One may philosophically balk at the idea ("How dare you touch at my very open IBM PC! Where are my floating windows! Freedoooom!"), but I think it makes sense technically, and it makes sense as a product, and MS has all the bricks to make it happen.
Wyze cameras let some owners see into a stranger's home – again
See my edit above, I never said "a few pennies" or "a few cents", I said "cents" intended as a relative contrast to "millions." We don't know how much a company is worth if it is expected to be immediately destroyed upon purchase, so if "dollars" or "10s of dollars" is more palatable to you, feel free to mentally substitute that instead.
>Nuclear in the US is so expensive that even starting a new reactor requires considerable corruption.

Best line I've come across in a while. I'm gonna use it. Is it yours?
I read somewhere that the amount of money that Pharma companies spend on research is the highest in healthcare but they get only about ~13% of the healthcare's revenue. There are other middle-man in healthcare that get a revenue share without putting in any work.

This is obviously not to say that Big Pharma cannot do better and there are no red flags.
> “We’ve decided software that operates your 100 ten-million-dollar-each CNC machines is ‘shitty,’ so buy new equipment so you can get Windows 11”

...and then you'll also have to re-write your software to support Win 11, of course.
FDA-approved drug makes food allergies less life-threatening
well, it's comforting to know that the safest conditions to be struck by lightning are also the most likely... seems there is some potential danger of dashing between buildings while dry! but if you're stuck outdoors, you're probably going to be wet anyway.
You don't seem to know what falsifiable means. Pick up a map, look at when NATO countries joined, and you'll see the so called non-falsifiable expansion.

It's easy to call me a liar, Putin apologist, and everything else, but difficult to dispute. Notice I haven't called you a single thing, I use my logic and reasoning.

Since you ask, I think the entire world needs a revolution, but a real one, not a color revolution funded by billionaires with agendas. Very few people are living like gods and they do it on the backs of the rest of the world. I'm allowed to be angry about that. Don't miss the real problem by focusing on the problems they want you to focus on. The elite in Russia/China etc are of course also in this.
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MS Teams is exactly what I'd expect from an AI-generated app --- barely working, lots of little bugs and general oddness, and overall a mediocre experience.
You're speaking as if you were a movie villain or a communist dictator. Pure day dreaming.
Recruiters probably edit the file before passing it on to the actual business... Add some more buzzwords, remove direct contact information, obscure exact project details. Some recruiters play quite dirty business and likewise assume the worst of their customers.
Of course it has Hot Dog Stand as a theme. :-)
Would love a wm with the BeOS look
Yes, although I did the initial loss with Mounjaro
All of the examples you gave are lottery-ticket professions, though. And even if a large number of people could be successful entertainers, I'm not even sure about the premise. AI-generated media could compete with YouTubers very soon. AI will take a long, long time to replace garbagemen.
I grew up as an enthusiast of free market capitalism without regulation (probably because my country was just exiting communism when I was 7 and I've seen what good free market reforms can bring).

But over last 15 years I've moved significantly towards free market social welfare state. It's true that central planning doesn't work, and that communism doesn't work. It's painfully obvious to anybody who lived it. But capitalism leads to results just as bad if left unchecked for too long. It's just getting there slower than other systems. Even the rules we add don't stop it, they only slow down the gradual descent into oligarchy. At which point it doesn't matter what the rules are - because the oligarchs are choosing presidents, PMs and judges.

Now I think the perfect economic system would be free market capitalism for 50 years, then a total nationalisation of everything, reshuffle and restart. Rinse and repeat.

Capitalism is like a game of football that lasts forever. No matter what you do, if you're born into Real Madrid you'll win, because the score is already 1000000000-10. There's a reason we restart the scores after every game.
A certain kind of worldbuilding enthusiast really likes realistic fantasy maps, I wonder if there's any fairly simple way to use this to make them...
Sounds almost like https://dynamicland.org/ or https://folk.computer/.
There is also Nico, written in Nim therefore can be compiled for the Web or as a native binary: https://github.com/ftsf/nico
Just as bad, and then some. The big ones used to only have B2B power with vendor lock-in. The new ones have much more. They have power over their individual users, too, by locking in their data and controlling the communication and sharing with others, and trough that even over people who are not their customers yet. You want to communicate/share with person X? Looks like you have to have an account at Y for that, too bad, eh?
ARM already has tagged memory support - https://source.android.com/docs/security/test/memory-safety/... - although I don’t know if it is sufficiently equivalent to the PowerPC AS feature.

And then ARM also has CHERI / Morello, which is still at the research prototype stage, but may be production ready in a few more years
New chip opens door to AI computing at light speed
Miele now has cheaper models so you may be right to be cautious.

Personally I have had issues with Bosch and don't trust them anymore.

The result is that now either I car about specific look, some specific features, etc and pay a bit more for them, or I just go for cheapest.
Sounds like maybe they mixed up cause and effect. If you have awful characteristics that would affect you otherwise in life, you might be made fun of in school for those characteristics. But that bullying didn't cause you to have the characteristics. It's just something that comes with it. Obviously nobody should be bullied. But is it really the main reason why these kids struggled in life?
Wasn't Musk supposed to end all the bots? How are they getting around the limits?

Even Nitter is packing its bags because the site and API are so restrictive.

And I had to remove twitter title fetching from my IRC bot ages ago because the API shut down and would've been too expensive for a hobby project. It literally didn't do anything except use the API to grab info about a url to a tweet.
Oh, also, if you want to experience food noise, spend a day eating only fibre. It’s the kind of hungry where your tummy isn’t rumbling. Alternatively, nicotine withdrawal is a fine substitute experience.
I want to go the other way. Let me feed acceptance criteria in, have it generate tests that check them, and only then generate code that passes the tests.

You can get close to this with Copilot, sometimes, in a fairly limited way, but why do I feel like nobody is focusing on doing it that way round?
I had to read it a few times too, I'm still not entirely convinced that "being able to reason mathematically about independent distributed systems was a unique application of a ledger" actually parses into anything.

Is 'being able to reason' an 'application of a' ?

It looks... off
Could you recommend some new research that shows alternative findings that you think is better?
Yeah, that's pretty much my point. Aside from my not sharing their ethical bankruptcy, I also don't special-case my analysis the way they like to do; that they can hew so closely to utilitarian precepts and still fail so signally demonstrates that the bankruptcy is no special feature of their variant, but a trait of the theory overall, always latent if not always expressed.
Eh, "open source" just implies that certain hand-picked conditions are met, nothing more. Being good to society is not one of those conditions.

If you think of open source as a subset of all software, less like a point in some number line and more like a Venn diagram, it makes more sense.
What tells you something is how many releases get rolled back as a % and how much rework you have. If your developers need 3 attempts to put something working in production that's all you need to know about the quality of the reviews and tests. High or low coverage, what you need to look at is actual issues.

All you need is a bit hyperbolic, because you also need to quarantine flaky tests and other things, but coverage as a whole I think is useful only if you have an engineering organization that doesn't see the point in tests - which is going to be its own uphill battle.
Wow, starts with a cool history of a band I didn't know existed, ends with a brand new song from Disney's 1950 Cinderella. Now there's a neat left turn.
Very nice Trackmania demake!
What you say is only partially true.

One can still consume whatever is desired, but in much smaller quantities than desired.

For instance, I have been obese for many years. Then I have succeeded to lose (after several failed attempts) more than one third of my initial body weight.

After that, I have changed completely my eating habits, otherwise I would have reverted immediately to my old weight. Now I have been controlling my weight accurately for more than a decade.

I am still eating cakes, but only cakes that I cook myself from known ingredients, and only twice per week (Sunday and Wednesday) and in a quantity that keeps the daily intake of sugar for those days no greater than 40 to 50 grams.

With these exceptions, I do not eat any kind of food with added sugar, so now if I happen to taste some of the industrially-produced sweet food that I liked before, it feels much too sweet, while some vegetables with low sugar content, like onions or red bell peppers, feel quite sweet.

However many months have been needed until overcoming the addiction to sugar.
I only remember Kara Swisher as a cheerleader for these tech CEOs so pleasantly surprised to see her so disillusioned and freely describing Trump as Fascist.
Ask HN: Examples of Companies/Tools Simulating Real World Processes
I had a look at the recent Request For Startups (https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs?utm_source=tldrnewsletter#using-machine-learning-to-simulate-the-physical-world) on the ycombinator site.

One of the topics that caught my eye was "USING MACHINE LEARNING TO SIMULATE THE PHYSICAL WORLD".

Does anyone know of companies or tools which provide such services? I'm particularly interested in specific use cases.