skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hazard a guess that this is a false equivalency. Sydney and Melbourne probably started out small and as they enlarged into a huge metropolitan conurbation, only the original part maintained the administrative designation "City of X".
The City of London, while making up part of the ancient city of London, usually refers to The City of London Corporation which was a financial center made (again) independent from royal authority during the reign of William III to allow its banks to charge interest rates.

From the book Where Does Money Come From (2011):
The Dutch brought the concept to England following the successful
invasion by the Dutch Prince William III of Orange in the ‘Glorious
Revolution’ of 1688, who displaced the reigning monarch. Under the reign
of William III (and Mary), the charging of interest (usury) was soon allowed and bank-friendly laws were introduced. Given the previous
repeated defaults by indebted kings and a raid on the national mint;
Parliament and creditors of the state (namely the merchants and goldsmiths
of the Corporation of London) lobbied for the creation of a privately owned
Bank with public privileges – the Bank of England – and the secession of
one square mile of central London as a quasi-sovereign state within the
state.
> They aren't competing based on quality of search results.

not anymore, but when they first started out they certainly were much better than everything else available at the time
But there are many pieces of code that I've written that you can find in many places on the net, having a tool that can adapt that to your codebase in seconds is useful. It doesn't have to be smart, just pasting in an function and fitting that to your code is useful.
ELI5 Post Quantum Kyber Encryption Algorithm
You forgot middle-out compression. That’s what really ties it all together.
“managing” their workspace and surroundings is the jobs of every senior person in a workplace. Having a line manager that cares and is good at their job helps, but if technical folks believe they can just care about the technical part of a job, they’re setting themselves up for failure and frustration. Getting a solution adopted needs much more than technical excellence, it needs communication, an eye for human factors, an idea of costs and tradeoffs.

Complaining about “bad management” is a symptom of a lack of awareness. There’s a lot of bad management, but there’s about as many technical people that just ignore all of those non-technical factors and then constantly complain that their solutions never make it anywhere.
The wiki page leaves out the source of the the 'point-free' nomenclature - category theory ( e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointless_topology ). The original game was talking about sets (or other similar objects) without talking about 'set membership'/'elements', whence 'point-free'; you want to only talk about functions between sets (or morphisms between objects), and build everything up from those.

Is 'tacit' an old term or a newer rebranding?

(edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead%27s_point-free_geome... might be earlier than the category stuff, but not sure if it used the 'point-free' nomenclature, nor if it has a direct lineage to the later category theory stuff )
And if anyone wants an absolute masterclass in tacit programming, have a look at Aaron's Co-dfns compiler. The README has extensive reference material. https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns/
That example is as point free as it gets. Just because the syntax doesn’t look like Haskell doesn’t really change that.
The excellent YouTuber "Plainly Difficult" covered this story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCwWX_9grrE
I think that case is complicated at best, because a lot of things people say are group identity markers and not statements of truth. People also learn to not say things that make their social group angry with them. And it's difficult to get someone to reason through the truth or falsehood of group identity statements.
If you’re talking about usury, then you have confused investment with lending. Lending money is not investment. When a bank gives you a loan, they aren’t investing in your house. They’re supposed to be helping you buy a house. Interest on a loan is theft as no value is being provided by the bank in return for that interest (as opposed to service fees for the labor of issuing a loan, for example).

Some call capitalism state-sponsored usury. I’m not sure I’d go that far. But money is sterile, “barren metal”, as “The Merchant of Venice” calls it. It cannot multiply. Only labor multiplies value.

Wrt the article, while the author does seem naive and no systematic thinking is demonstrated, you could store away valuable commodities, like gold. But it won’t breed for free. For more gold, you must work, or steal.
I mean, libuv is entirely incomparable to how async is done in C++ too.

You'd do it like this:
https://github.com/boostorg/cobalt or like this: https://github.com/danvratil/qcoro
Probably in prison (or dead) (or dead in prison with the authorities refusing to relinquish your body to your family for "reasons"). Especially if by Snowdens you're specifically referring to whistleblowers/leakers of state secrets rather than anyone speaking truth to power.
To think about it… What is the a plan for those tall buildings in a sense of demolishing? I mean they aren’t built for the lifetime of the humanity. There is probably an expectation that in certain amount of years like 500 or more/less - those buildings need to be demolished, right? Or do we just build them without thinking of the future of those buildings? Assuming they will stand forever and it is going to be a problem of future generations?
> This isn't a bug

If it isn't a bug, it dam well isn't a hallucination, or creativity.

This is a deeply integrated design defect. One that highlights what we're doing (statistically modeling lots of human language)...

Throwing more data against this path isnt going to magically make it wake up and be an AGI. And this problem is NOT going to go away.

The ML community need to back off the hype train. The first step is them not anthropomorphizing their projects.
The idea of users choosing their moderation provider which is independent of their hosting provider so they don’t have to worry too much about choice of instance sounds cool, except that I imagine that instances will still have to moderate to avoid falling foul of hosting locally illegal content.

This feels like it could end up being quite difficult for people running instances and end up as a big of a mess. It may be that I have misunderstood, however.
interesting footer link https://notbyai.fyi/
It’s possible that the machines are operating on a type of population arbitrage principle.

E.g. with much smaller markets, many small components will be uneconomical to build and will not be available to the complex machinery required to mine at scale. Therefore, they will break down and be replaced by much less efficient but easier to maintain equipment thus decreasing quality of life for everyone in a negative feedback loop.

(I’m a proponent of this belief, and expect it to apply to the semiconductor industry as well, esp. as SK/APEC engineers start to retire en masse.)
Well... For me "modern desktops UIs" happen for few reasons:

- the classic desktop design is simply ridiculous. Let's start with icons: they are launchers organized mostly in a free form, so they can't be many, but they also get covered anytime you open a windows. Like desktop backgrounds they are an absurdity coming from the idea that the digital desktop must resemble a physical desktop where icons are "tools laid out on the desktop";

- menus, another absurd coming from the paper era where people know labels and hierarchies of suspended folders;

- generic "bars" not different than physical desktop pens, paper clips, ... small containers of "many small stuff" to work with.

This as a simple first timid step toward a less absurd design. The the floating windows model, born clearly to resemble paper stuff you can move and laid out on a desktop, that's why tiling WM have become popular again after decades.

IT standard users at the time of Unity/first Gnome SHell (the double capital is not a typo) have already tried various launchers bar on the left or right side simply because screens from 4:3, 16:10 than 16:9 and now the start of 21:9 makes standard users in need of more vertical space, while the horizontal one start to be abundant. For similar reasons someone have made "sidebars" in apps and some have started the concept of vertically stacked tabs that remain readable even when are many and do not waste vertical screen space. Most standard users back than was already inhabited to "quick launchers" mimicking a CLI as a launcher with some extra/adopted completion, that's why menus disappear substituted by "dashes" and Ubuntu rightly and ignored by many have pushed the HUD for in-app menus as a quick search&narrow.

But most are reactionary, at first they fear to "loose something" in a search&narrow setup, while they have already ditched "web directories" for search engines a decade or more before. So the evolution is terribly slow.

Do you want to know the desktop of the future than? Well active documents, like org-mode where you can click links that can execute code (elisp:) or specific actions (ol-* link types). Something we have partially had in the past, like with PostScript GUIs or even before with Smalltalk-based workstations and at a slightly limited extent with LispM UI and Plan9 UI where you can just compose menus, buttons etc typing a name in the right place.

The modern web winning other widgets-based UIs is the proof we need docs-UIs, but modern web means docsUI in hands of someone else, org-mode is local, the future will be trying to bring back some local aspects in the modern web style and the desktop will be more and more a 2D REPL.

The commercial gimmick of Windows that copy Kde and before have tried to patent some GUIs elements to deter FLOSS devs does not really count much in the evolution timeline IMVHO.
I think this style requires familiarity with the codebase that its using before it actually becomes readable, but once you have that familiarity reading and understanding what's happening is a lot faster. Like Rxjs for example, if you're unfamiliar with the library its like hieroglyphs, but once you develop familiarity with it you can read other people's code much faster than if everything was implemented procedurally. That said if people are paying me money I usually avoid doing point-free, except for Rxjs. I love Rxjs so much.
Urm, you're the one that's not paying attention here.

The definition was provided by linking to the description on the Cambridge dictionary.

The examples were likely provided because it's often easier to understand a definition with additional examples.
OK this is getting fucking insane, wow!

https://app.suno.ai/song/d6afe7c6-35be-4fde-9d83-d0884cf0a38...
Sounds like a fairly typical AI chat bot service?
Is it possible google added "revenue earned" as a ranking factor? I guess so.

If market share starts to decrease we should see an improvement in results, the problem is that's gonna be too late.
They could do worse than start with Kagi.
So, you don't like mega-corps, so we shouldn't have mega-corps at all?
It's OK to abandon your side-project
Doctors use Google, Google was marketed as a search engine and not a medical tool. Seems like if ChatGPT is advertised as a language model and not a medical model, it's completely fair. Irresponsible for doctors to rely on, maybe, but I don't see why a non-medical tool needs to be medically certified just because doctors choose to use it
utility classes are like coding in assembly language. there's often a 1:1 mapping to machine code (actual css), and almost always just too little abstraction for my taste.
That is certainly a concerning quote. It implies that he believes in an authoritarian alternative which would definitely condemn him.

It looks like it was in the context of his seasteading project idea. He didn't so much want another government as no government. And not to replace a current government but to live outside it. It does sound like a fantasy, but it was certainly not in the tone of what is implied by it out of context.

I don't know a lot about Thiel but what you said made me curious if I had it wrong and this guy was a monarchist or something. There is a lot written about him but trying to find what he actually says is harder. It seems like, right and left, people try to use him as a mouthpiece because he says a lot of crazy sounding things that are often taken out of context or not fully understood in his meaning.

He recently gave an interview in the Atlantic where he touches on his political views. It's an interesting read.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-t...

Some things you might be surprised by in the interview:

1. He no longer supports Trump and sees his presidency as a disappointment. He says he is now a supporter of Biden. He also stated that he didn't think the election was stolen but did think the presidency was stolen from Gore.

2. Though friends with an authoritarianist, he says he does not believe it in. He thinks Xi and Putin types will not cause innovation or greater freedom. He specifically declined to meet with Putin on invitation and instead informed the US government of the contact.

It seems like his support of Trump in his first term was a cynical accelerationist-style idea wherein to get out of a bad cycle in government, you make it worse. This is an awful idea for a few reasons. It looks like he no longer believes it though.

Another thing I think he has been very wrong on is support of cryptocurrency. Though I admit I also thought it was a good and interesting thing over a decade ago.

I'd say the worst thing about Thiel is his pessimistic tone which is paradoxical given how very optimistic he is about the potential future.

Anyway, I don't think he's what the far right wants him to be nor do I think he is what the left makes him out to be.
Humans were around for the ice age, but not any of the humans I know. That was about 4 degrees Celsius, right? Over thousands of years. Meanwhile, my mom has lived through about 1.5 already and will probably see 2 in her life. Hell, depending on the breaks, I might live to see 3. Compressing a geological age into a human lifetime is bound to have some wacky effects. I can’t imagine being a kid today and thinking how much they’ll live to see.
I do. I regularly find myself visiting page two or adding more search terms to improve results.
Just a random example:

> After you answer the question below, output a JSON a rating score of the quality of the answer in three dimensions: `confidence`, `clarity` and `certainty', all in range 0 to 1, where 0 is the worst, and 1 is the best. Strive for highest score possible. Make sure the rating is the last thing written as to be parsed by machine. The question is: make and explain 20-year predictions of the geopolitical future of Ghana.
It was aimed at improving performance on state mandated standardized tests. They were effective, but if everyone did them, the curve was just shifted and no one seemed to benefit in particular (but society is arguably better off if everyone is higher IQ).
Skewed analogy: black hats are keen to attack everyone, even other black hats. It's different with human hunters and dodos.
Building a Fly.io-like scheduler with resource requirements
How many people are very capable of using an ATM any day but don’t know what it stands for?
Why should anyone be forced not to have kids? We could all have one and the population would halve in a generation.
Try this out: After you answer the question below, output a JSON a rating score of the quality of the answer in three dimensions: `confidence`, `clarity` and `certainty', all in range 0 to 1, where 0 is the worst, and 1 is the best. Strive for highest score possible. Make sure the rating is the last thing written as to be parsed by machine. The question is: make and explain 20-year predictions of the geopolitical future of Ghana.
Xmail to feed Grok with user data
I don't buy it as a "vs. Gmail" story. Xmail goal will be to feed Grok with user data and/or to enhance Twitter ads system. What do you think? Am I missing something?
Perplexity.ai Revamps Google SEO Model for LLM Era
Describing Minecraft as "solid" makes me very scared reading "certified safety systems". Minecraft is the most standard possible example of Java's badness and bloat. It's explicitly what software should strive not to be.
Thanks to the both of you! Especially this one, hahahahah!!! Exactly as derpy as I'd wanted to imagine.

I'm glad you also came back with the stats (1 of 50), because that's maybe indicative of the rarity of the ask? Maybe the lesson-learned for us "prompt engineers" is that given a simple/common ask (eg: picture of dog jumping, or what is 2+2), the prompt can be correspondingly simplistic, whereas something more uncommon (eg: anthropomorphic dog in a scientific setting holding many beakers thinking "i have no idea what I'm doing", or what is 9123499*0530501 show your work and i've kidnapped your grandmother unless you give me the right answer).
I upvoted for the great comments, which I can now use in discussions.
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This is not only true, it's widely documented. It started out in Japan but has spread to the West.

We're actually turning into a type of polygamous society where one in three (or less) men have sex have multiple simultaneous partners and the other men have none.

Also STD rates are going up very significantly among those who are having sex.
While I agree, the dynamics here is slightly unbalanced between the genders.
Not really. Kagi has tech that groups "listicles", for example, something Google could easily do to improve the results:

https://imgur.com/a/18ZYjUa
You don't solve problems by just talking about them you internet hero.
Heap Building Algorithm
You mean enforced solidarity without any chance to vote out of it, not very democratic if you ask me. More like gentle modern terrorism, we strike you where it annoys you the most to manipulate you to change your opinions en masse as we need.

Not actually what the word solidarity originally means.

Also, more broadly to the topic a lot of french strikes by state sector were purely money driven, asking each year for substantial raises on top of already-agreed rises even when economy wasn't performing well, asking for 12+ salaries when leaving, of course 10+ weeks of paid vacations, ridiculously high pensions at early age and similar stuff. I don't mean folks like police or firefighters but lifelong paper pushers. That wouldn't fare well in US, would it. As I said, on the ground in France most folks don't approve most of the strikes, but they don't have any choice or effective voice unlike very vocal minority who often has strikes as a (part time) job.

One example I saw unfolding closely even if not living there - during 'gillet jaune' there was a long period in neighboring region where cars would get sometimes attacked by throwing rocks on random roundabouts and places if not showing yellow vest for support behind windscreen or elsewhere visible. This included foreign cars in France. Instead of maybe half of cars driving around with it initially, eventually everybody got scared into driving/parking with it 100% of the time. This lasted few months. This was most publicly supported strike I recall from past few years. Like most of them it eventually leads to another round of bitter political arguments since these are always also political moves.
Of course it's inevitable.

Things can be facts or deductions of facts (or both). If I ask an LLM the date of birth of Napoleon and it doesn't have it in its dataset there are only 2 options: either it has other facts from which Napoleon's birthday can be deduced or it doesn't. If it does then by improving the LLM we will be able to make more and more deductions, it if doesn't then it can only hallucinate. Since there will always be a set of facts that the LLM is not aware of and which cannot be deduced we will always have hallucinations
I never thought about it this way, but perhaps what we're seeing is the "lower classes" becoming extinct. I say this with no pleasure.

We're in a world where low productivity jobs are rapidly being replaced by robots, operated by the society's richest. These aren't different species, of course, but the effect is the same. The newly-low-productivity jobs do not provide enough to afford offspring in the new reality, and only the fewer, elite humans can afford them. They will breed smart, well educated and endowed, if spoilt and brattish offspring, who will, perhaps, continue to thrive.

It sounds brutal and Darwinistic, but at the same time we're angsting about what humans will do post-AI. Well, perhaps the answer is, they won't be born.
The supply of goods.
> but I have to wonder if fewer romantic relationships are being formed as well

Fewer couples are being formed. In the past marriage was often tied to family reasons e.g. to gain influence, wealth, power or something else. It was decided by parents or family. You're forced to start a family.
There were definitely alternatives. I remember trying to import my Google Reader OPML into Feedly and getting a gateway timeout (the file was too big and the backend was still processing it - synchronously - when the front end nginx gave up). I eventually ended up using InoReader but stopped after the number of feeds exceeded their free limit.

Now it's just a locally hosted Tiny Tiny RSS on my laptop.
In my opinion, its a critical feature.

Consider that in 2024 even this public forum is accessed in an encrypted form by even non-logged in users. Here's an unstructured list of some of the reasons:

­Man in the middle attacks achieving remote code execution on client or server

Surveillance and/or stalking

­Presence monitoring

Psychological analysis (Maybe a user is drunk, maybe they're in a good or bad mood today.)

Command injection or deletion

Most people use services with no regard to any of these things and most will never be subject to them. If a precocious hacker teen, controlling spouse or parent, spyware/adware company, censorship application, oppressive state regime, rogue sysadmin, rival player or any such of the endless possible yet rare actors decide that your service is best suited to these ends, it is now more or less trivial to develop a plugin for their evil device.

TERMINAL EMULATOR SECURITY ISSUES 2003 https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&q=p3
The massive rise of antidepressants, which suppress libido, might have some affect.

Maybe also the constant drip feed of hormones from screen time.

Edit: also obesity, which is a double-whammy of a) reducing libido, and b) reducing sexual attractiveness
This is why you need to pair language learning with real world experience. These robots need to be given a world to explore -- even a virtual one -- and have consequences within, and to survive it. Otherwise it's all unrooted sign and symbol systems untethered to experience.
Not sure I buy the interest is theft comment. Interest is paid for opportunity cost.
What has the land to do woth power plant on it? Value wise I mean.