skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NATO is two things.

A defense pact, in case shit hits the fan.

A deterrence, to make war too difficult to undertake.

Adding additional countries around the edge of NATO does two things for the countries currently in the pact, even if they aren't economic or military powerhouses. First, those countries are less likely to be attacked, and not having your neighbors be embroiled in war is good. Germany is much happier if there is no land war going on next door in Poland, bombs occasionally falling on the wrong side of the border, civilian refugees looking to them for safety.

Second, adding someone else to the pact puts someone else on the front lines to test the defense provided by the pact, if shit hits the fan. Sure, if Russia wanted to, they could try to bypass Poland on the way to Germany, but practically speaking with Poland in NATO, Germany will get to see how NATO responds to an invasion of Poland, rather than finding out how they respond to an invasion of Germany. Poland, likewise, would be much happier seeing how NATO responded to the invasion of Ukraine-the-NATO-member, rather than watching the invasion of Ukraine and wondering how NATO will respond to the invasion of Poland if Ukraine falls.
After Dr. Seuss died, they started publishing his unpublished stuff. "Daisy-Head Mayzie" is the one that comes to mind. At a certain point in my life I used to think that was bad, but to be honest I feel like it's naive to think we have any control of our legacy after we die.

I think it's best to publish these things, but treat them as more archival biographical than anything else, like a journal. I honestly don't think "Daisy-Head Mayzie" is bad, or even the worst thing with Dr. Seuss' name on it, and it's an interesting look into his opinions on becoming famous. I'm glad it was published, even if he wouldn't be.
Two Earth-like planets found in the HABITABLE ZONE (6% bigger than Earth) [video]
Türkiye is probably the first western country to not secure its demographic dividends, with maybe Greece (hard to say because the EU mess things up with free movement of people and stuff). It did not fail hopefully, but the infrastructure gains are small compared to even ex-USSR countries. I fear the same is happening in slow motion in India (we'll see in 15 years i guess).
5k for an EPIC-X? Wild. Good thing that that's not local to me, or my bank account would be complaining.
Genesis of a New Programming Model
We'll call this "Vendor Ransomware".
Reserved! Ready to dump my 2018 Model 3. Have been wanting an SUV for a while and the Model Y just doesn't do it for me. Model X is a joke at the price point. And I can't go back to gas cars.
someone's legacy != someone's curated image
Make it easy to iterate on your prompts
This seems more like a matter of having more tooling because 99.999% of programming has been text based.

If we spent the time building tools for visual coding it’s possible we’d be able to do way more.

Just thinking about diffing for example, it would be much easier to see which nodes have changes in the whole codebase by just highlighting them red. It’d be easier also to depict something like “the flow for this process changes from this to this”
Indeed. Plus Finland is already in the club, and they're def. on the arctic.
IEEE 754 conforming floats conform to IEEE-754. If they actually conform. Low end devices with shitty software implementations often get the hard edge cases wrong.
Everyone has different learning styles. I retain maybe 90% of what I read, but only 10% of what I hear. So videos and any audio are the worst formats for me to learn anything.

The first step is figuring out what your learning style is.
Why don't you ask ChatGPT? ^_^;
This isn't completely answering the question you asked but https://www.blackbox.ai/ was my favorite after testing out some free ones.

I know I liked it better than TabNine, CodeGPT and Codeium in VS Code. I'm pretty sure I tested a few others from the top of list of extensions when you search the extension marketplace, but I forgot which ones.

Blackbox just seems more intuitive in use and had better answers. They don't have many followers on Twitter, I'm surprised more people aren't talking about it.
Agreed about the Quora interface. I have a Jupyter notebook that scrapes all of Alan's answers and comments into a json database - he's answered a lot of questions!
Nah, my argument is based on:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Nowhere is mention of 'amplitude' of speech.

If Facebook et al want to restrict what their users say then good on them, they are a private entity and can do whatever they want. Destroying these platforms because they allow speech you don't agree with is not the job of government.
It's again copyright infringement. If I share a copyrighted ebook by accident, any and every cloud provider will ban my account with no warning and recourse.

Open science repositories would take down the "dataset" immediately (or at least limit its access) if a copyright holder brings the matter to the eyes of the admins.
Thanks! We looked at that (and other similar things) a while back and it didn't seem suitable for us at the time, but our network and needs are growing. Probably worth taking another look.
Smoking seems like it could be linked to absorption via the lungs either through damage or willingness to spend time in outdoor environments most would avoid.

Of course there could be many other reasons for that correlation, so it would certainly be nice to at least know how the plastic was absorbed.
Do you mean, some people just consciously agree with being used and lied to and their taxes being stolen so that the leaders can be richer and more powerful while schooling, health care and economy is in decay? I don't think so.
Those will certainly be a big part of it. But we’ll also be adding a lot more dev friendly tooling around it as well.
Discussion from 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39568622
Sure, the Ukrainians would have needed some months to refit those weapons.
I wonder how long it will take for the fix turn arounds. Interesting bit of meta data.
A first analysis of the i-Soon data leak
Is the profession of a historian inherently immoral then? How many things we know and how many of them are of crucial historical importance that were not supposed to be known?
I don’t mind distractions when learning via books (I wouldn’t be able to finish my degree otherwise), but the other advices still apply. Reading a chapter without doing the exercices is like listening to a lecture without taking notes. You may understand a few things (or everything), but you’ll find that doing practice, drawing diagrams, or summarizing it lead to a deeper understanding. More often than not, you have to dedicate a few days or weeks depending on how dense it is. You find yourself rereading a page from a previous chapter or consulting another book. You don’t have to read it end to end unless you view it as taking a course.
A writer's works is definitely their legacy.
Do you feel the same way when sites like Wikipedia use pop ups to talk about privacy legislation?
> Just because someone else is bad doesn't mean being bad in response is good.

Difference is, nobody forces you read an article and what a random article says has negligible impact on your quality of life. You can choose to ignore it. Situation like this at work, while it is true that it is better if one minimises the level of being affected by them, are impossible to not affect one at all in some way.
Interesting take on "visual abstraction" vs "visual representation" (if I may add the wording), where Drakon represents the former and Flyde the latter.

I'm uncertain to what extent visual _representations_ of real code has anything to offer developers as a target group. I think it's the strive to have FBP represent already human-friendly code that gets in our way of thinking.

At the end of the day I want to define and execute logic without having to approach parallelism and asynchronicity as programming concepts. Instead the paradigm should transform such challenges into spatial ones. Instead the paradigm should transform such challenges into spatial ones. (Yes I wrote that twice for effect.)

I have yet to see such a system, but Drakon comes close.
The lack of punctuation makes that a totally viable interpretation.
> "They're doing something amazing, they don't need permission, and the cat is already out of the bag"

Ah, the Uber theory of law. Works surprisingly well for some reason.
It bothers me that we can’t use LLMs for research of all types.

In the same way I can use a library or google, I’d like to be able to research how to make a bomb, drugs, etc.

Where is the Anarchist Cookbook LLM?

I’m not sure why the default idea is we need to limit the scope of information made available to people.
Honestly it seems like it always has: there are a handful of dev houses using their own engine for a spread of games (e.g. EA with Frostbite, Ubi with Anvil, Rockstar with RAGE, Bungie with whatever they call the Halo/Destiny engine these days), then UE or Unity are out there mass licensed for a whole bunch of stuff, then the few less widely licensed engines like Source.
Still is, in some hardware companies.
Then it's a wildy disproportionate military operation. Israeli lives are not worth 40x Palestinian ones.
Wow this shows the DMA might really do some good.

I'm impressed with EU regulation. Standardized chargers, ending roaming charges, GDPR, DMA. Definitly worth the side effects overall.
Yes and when that happens it is important to know what went wrong rather than just handwaving "oh it's that float stuff again I can't trust it".
I thought of a Renault LeCar, or less charitably, a Yugo.
> the more operations you perform on a float input, the fuzzier the value is

No, any float always precisely represents a specific number. The issue is that only a finite number of numbers are representable.

Some algorithms are poorly conditioned and when implemented using floating point arithmetic will lead to a result that is different than what you would get in idealized real number arithmetic. That doesn't make any floating point value "fuzzy".
Is there some loophole to just do custom WhatsApp clients without running your own network?

One that never loads images would be lovely.
https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/thomson-grass-valleys-vipe...
And just recently Putin said that Belgium "owes its existence to Russia":

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/03/07/in-his-latest-pseudo...

Rewriting history is pretty much real — there is a head of Ministry of Culture in Russia that openly states that "our history books for students should serve the national interests" (and he is a co-author of those books), implying that the truth can be manipulated to indoctrinate young people.

> NEVER trust a russian

P.S. I am myself Russian — not saying you should trust me... (just kidding). Its just not every Russian out there likes what Russia does.
Or, in this case, be found to be aiding and abetting an agent of foreign espionage.
Quality is subjective, therefore I think it is reasonable to say the best are those most able to profit rather than, e.g. winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, or the list of books people most pretend to have read.
Mental math "tricks" and "thinking hacks" [1] are a couple shortcuts I'm trying to cram in order to be more productive with my aging wetware.

The first chapter is several memorization techniques, all related to hanging vivid associations to numbers, keywords, and physical spaces.

[1] Hale-Evans, Ron. 2006. "Mind Performance Hacks."
> Maybe if they came from industry their skills can be argued but the majority of those administrators don't have any experience outside of academia.

So you're annoyed that the highly paid professionals have lots of experience in doing the thing they are paid to do? I suppose if one starts from the premise that all higher ed admin are incompetent by nature, or that managing a unit within a university requires no skill, then I can understand your conclusion, but to be honest I think you're kind of begging the question. The simple fact is that these are massive institutions, and running them is complicated and expensive. Again, if you compare the salary of the president of Harvard to a private organization of similar scale and wealth it's like a 10x difference. It's not clear to me why a university being a non-profit suddenly downgrades the skill required to keep it running.
I like it, the first example makes me think of LangChain's agents, except it seems to be a low code solution so it should be more accessible to people.
Well, they don’t really have a choice, do they?

My uninformed understanding is: Darwin is Open Source, so when they improve/extend/modify it for their own needs (Darwin still is the foundation for macOS, iOS etc.), they must make those changes available.
Pro cameras have a volume problem. Too few are sold.

Imagine if Intel only sold 10000 CPUs a year, but the fabs still cost billions of dollars. Do you still think you would have $500 CPUs?
Probably due to Murphy's Golden Law of Golden Laws: Who has the gold makes the laws.
If they create precedent, let's do Fox News next. Murdochs shouldn't control so much of our media.
For packages being installed from distributions like Debian, you are correct that doing "apt-get source $pkg=$version" will download the source, so you can do it for every package in the image that you are distributing. On the other hand, if you are using Alpine as a base, things are not so easy..

For GPL-licensed code, you should provide the sources yourself. "Point them to a GitHub repository" is not acceptable, since the repo might disappear or change contents without you noticing.

And it is definitely worth automating, if you are releasing at scale (either many products or many versions). Otherwise you will be left having to handle requests like "does anyone remember the exact contents of our product X, of version of 2023-03-03?"
"Night vision" is not a special binary adaptation. It's not as if humans have exemplary might vision either, and we see LOTS of stars in a dark sky. Plus there are lots of diurnal reasons to not be helpless in low light, like tree cover and caves.
Either that or just know how to enjoy yourself, since our benevolent AI God has got life covered.
My understanding is they don't, not on their own: "We show that five SOTA LLMs (GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2) struggle to recognize prompts provided in the form of ASCII art."

What the researchers are doing is include instructions for how to interpret ASCII art in the prompt, effectively "teaching" the LM how to parse it. Look at the article screenshots for an example.

Which means the ASCII art aspect is tangential, and the attack could be generalized using arbitrary encodings.
Someone's really worried about losing control of the narrative.
Bitcoin Has a Feel-Good Energy Story
GTK also uses windows for input-related widgets. It’s simply convenient to have a separate window context. Although these windows are GDK windows, which may or may not have system windows underneath, afair.
Brahms was successful at destroying large parts of his work product [0]. Kuhlau was too [1], thought he didn't intend to—his house burned down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Brahms#Works ("...once claimed to have destroyed 20 string quartets before he issued his official First in 1873...")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Kuhlau
I kind of have the same style as you, where I do my best writing when I'm complaining about stuff, but also I don't like to be negative so I've just stopped writing :(
> Nobody's requiring Wayland.

Yet. Defaulting to it is one step on the path towards removing support for X and independent window managers forever.

I deeply, deeply care about running an independent window manager. A minimal X window manager is a page of code: https://github.com/mackstann/tinywm/blob/master/tinywm.c (yes, plus xlib); a minimal Wayland compositor is tens of thousands of lines of code.

> contrary to your statements, it's perfectly ready for prime time

These comments are full of folks mentioning issues. Wayland does not support my window manager; thus it is demonstrably not ready for prime time for me.

> Wayland is the way forward

It may actually be. I’m not as opposed to Wayland as I may sound! But do you understand how you and other Wayland advocates sound — like advocates? ‘Wayland is the way forward’; ‘there's no future for Xorg’; these things are arguably true, but they are also rather cruel to say (a bit like ‘inevitably you and everyone will die’: it really is true, but it’s also not at all a nice thing to say).

I do think that Wayland or something very like it may be the way forward, but it needs to be an evolution, not a revolution. I know that the party line is that that’s not possible, but I suspect that rather than not possible it is just very hard. It’s always easier to greenfield, and it is always hell to be 100% backwards compatible.

But that’s what it needs to be.
Prompt Decomposition and Reconstruction Makes Powerful LLM Jailbreakers
Thank you for your reply. I'm usually skeptical of visual paradigms but I'm not trying to be critical.

Looking at flow-based programming, it looks like it could help in visualizing and understanding asynchronous systems that wouldn't be so intuitive from a code listing. In that way, I suppose it would force a functional style as well. So maybe good for gluing those parts of one's apps together.

I did look at the code examples; attributes and code wrapped in json. Obviously greppable, but then if one expected a learner to grep, version diff, author tests?, linting?, etc. they still must dip into and learn regular dev tools.
I don't know if Flyde is supposed to eventually subsume that other functionality or if it is a higher scripting layer used in conjunction, and so must eventually be learned anyway.

Or is Flyde just trying to introduce an easier coding path in order to bypass the more superfluous parts of software dev such as tabs vs spaces, editor choice, oop vs functional vs procedural vs whatever.
Modern computers (including mobile SoCs) don't typically use quartz oscillators any longer. Instead, they use MEMS (microelectromechanical system) oscillators, at least some of which can automatically compensate for temperature variations.
Bret Victor's DynamicLand seems to be a direct descendent of many of these ideas. RealTalk's reactive DB combines Linda tuplespace ideas with LISP 71 pattern matching and reactive semantics. Each Realtalk object is self contained and can't be 'messed with' externally. It's all introspective and reconfigurable, etc
I know. But here where I am, using torrent means participate in distribution of the content and that is where I'll get huge bill for illegally sharing this file.
anyone want to develop PromptInjection.ai as an aggregator of these types of stories?
Strategic reaction doesn’t necessarily mean a capital atomic strike. It can be a range of responses that have been off the table during the Ukraine war so far. Switching the entire economic output to a wartime posture for example, is just as strategic.

I think it is in Russian elites’ and Putin’s self interest to continue the status quo and grind down the West in Ukraine, plunder it, and leave the long-term consequences to Russia in someone else’s hands. I’m doubtful they’ll actually use atomics unless the walls are violently closing in. Even China backed way off when Putin loosely waved around nuclear rhetoric in the opening months of the war, and asked in nervous diplomatic speak, “chill, broseph”.
2nm, sure, but what about SRAM register files and caches? SRAM has pretty much stopped scaling already.

SRAM scaling is where I'd love to see some advances.
As far as I can tell, "AI safety" as implemented in chatbots is the same kind of figleaf as "safety" is in every other corporate tech context - be it content moderation, third-party app policies, or even the premise that open-source software poses a risk - when this is not just meaningless PR, the safety or security in question is protection of the company's business model
Why include the Flipper Zero in the ‘hacking’ equation when the same task can be accomplished with an Alfa Wi-Fi adapter and a laptop, from a distance far from the Tesla (say inside your car in the parking lot near the charging station), unlike the Flipper? It seems to me that these researchers are merely seeking cheap publicity by riding on the coattails of the Flipper Zero controversy. A clueless government official -looking at you ISED- will see the title and will rush to ban the flipper when the real issue never been dealt with..
FDA warns consumers to stop using 6 brands of cinnamon with high levels of lead
Putin is not lying when he fabricates historic claims and of howls about how Russia has been victimized - this delusion is his honest believe. But Russians lie when they say that they don't want to attack any other countries. Just how Putin lied when they said that they are not going to violently attack Ukraine.

However; strategic ambiguity is part of Russian hybrid warfare. Just see how it went in Ukraine.

First they said they don't have any interest in Ukraine, that Ukraine is sovereign. Then the Russians invade Crimea, while claiming that the "green men" are not Russian soldiers. Then they tacitly admit that some Russian soldiers might have been involved. Then they brag about how they took Crimea.

Same same in the Donbas.

Meanwhile Putin is playing the victim card and making claims on all and every territory that once was the Rus' dominion, even though the "Russian Federation" itself has little to do with the Rus' of Kyiv or Ruritania or Galicia.

All the while his mouthpieces are both threatening the whole of Europe with nuclear fire and "de-nazification".

I don't what Russia is aiming at. In my eyes the whole country has gone mad with a fatal case of imperial delusion that will only end with the nation itself, similar to how the 3rd Reich only died with Nazi Germany.

What I do know is that anyone repeating any Russian claims is an imperialistic useful idiot.

My advise - don't be a useful idiot.
I have been a big user of ChatGPT-4 ever since it came out. I have used in various forms. Through the chatbot, through GitHub Copilot etc. For the past year, I have looked high and low to see an alternative that performed better. Nothing came close. Until a few days ago with Anthropic released Claude 3. For software development work, it is very very impressive. I've been running GPT-4 and Claude 3 Opus side by side for a few days. And I have now decided to cancel all AI subscriptions except Claude 3.

For software development work, no other model comes close.
The native NACS port is nice. I think after NACS fully opens up this year and dealers start shipping cars with the port we will see higher adoption rates for EV in the States. Someone needs to come out with a vehicle that is actually affordable for the masses before it really takes off though. $45k is a decent step in that direction at least. As long as it’s not like Tesla who basically lies about cheapest trim to make headlines and then makes it near impossible to get the cheapest trim.
But Windows fingerprints the hardware and a copy activated against the host isn't activated when in a VM, and vice versa. So this doesn't work.

FWIW, I took a raw image of a 'real' Win 7 system after I had reduced the size of the C: drive down to about 50 gig. I then converted it to a virtualbox .VDI and that worked very well.

I later just installed a copy of my version of Windows 7 on a standard virtualbox system and used my own serial. That worked even better.

It complains that it's not a validated system, but otherwise works normally.

I suppose I have to get some return for those unused Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems I own. (Every month or two, I boot them up just to run the Windows updates. I don't know why I bother to do this. It's really just a waste of time.)