skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An program sits on top of hardware and can act as a go-between. Think of the web browser, or the JVM. Both insanely popular by virtue of providing the basic features I describe, and also evidence that they needn't even be integrated to the operating system. Something of this nature that also provides the basics of an interactive desktop.
The larger problem this article points to is the lack of scientific review of popular science books, or perhaps rather the fact that the market does not seem to demand that as much as one would like.

Good warning though, I'll have to research a bit more carefully next time I'm in the bookshop.
I find the separation between the body of the essay and notes makes it harder to read. When I read PG's essay, I always have two tabs open, one on the essay and the other on the Notes section. When I come across a note reference, e.g. "the answer turns out to be completely different. [4]", I switch to the Notes tab to look it up. This back and forth between the two tabs disrupt the reading experience.

Wouldn't it be easier on the reader to simply include the Notes in the body part of the essay? Especially when the notes are short. For example the aforementioned note no. 4 goes:

"[4]Corollary: If you're not intellectually honest, your writing won't just be biased, but also boring, because you'll miss all the ideas you'd have discovered if you pushed for the truth."

Which is short, relevant, and insightful. What's the criteria for which piece of text goes into the body of the essay, and which goes to Notes? I guess if a substantial percentage of readers skip the Notes part, then it's a time-saving practice to separate the two.
There might be parallells with group development research or terms used, but neither Tuckman’s stages, the research it’s based on, or later research in the area apply outside of the internal dynamics of individual working groups.
The BeaST, a FreeBSD based reliable storage system concept
I love dbeaver, but there's a thing that bugs me every single time. I constantly recreate databases during development, so I have to disconnect databases, then connect, then go dig inside the database tree to where I was before recreating. Am I missing some feature I don't know about?
Probably not the same problem but we have seen a lot of dev accounts being flagged since they started gating code search a few weeks ago.
> I wish quick share (né nearby share) was available on linux (even if via chrome).

I made NearDrop, which is a macOS implementation of Nearby Share: https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop

And of course, someone tried to reimplement it for other OSes: https://github.com/PlutoHDDev/CrossDrop
Is that, in your opinion, a reasonable or unreasonable amount to flower to spend on video decoding?
> Machine code does not require granting anything

It requires that you actually run software on your CPU before you can tell if it's malicious or not, by which point it is often too late to do anything about it. Almost all malware that exists does so thanks to this fact.
I really don't know. I wouldn't be surprised that, on the entire planet, a niche market could exist that would want to pay the premium over say, giving an envelope to a notary.

You could also change the business model to allow NOT decrypting messages by paying the message author (and take a commission) but I guess that would attract more than shady customers :)
PG would probably never admit it, but any reference to a person such as @sama is not only talking about him as a person but also to him.

Of course one can only guess what the message for him might be.
>Signal is 0% secure because it is the main target of their attacks.

1. This is a non-sequitur. Just because they're trying hard to break it, doesn't necessarily mean it's broken right now. Moreover, even if we grant that they have 0days stockpiled, it doesn't necessarily mean they're going to burn those on any target.

2. What are you going to use instead of signal? Some off-brand messenger that's not "the main target of their attacks" but is also less well scrutinized? I'd rather not engage in security by obscurity.
This way of cheating with VAT is as old as there is a pan-European VAT agreement (the way to declare and manage it, not the amount). And sure as hell, there is always someone to try it. And sure as hell, someone is surprised they ultimately get cought...
Pick a category, add any additional inputs and our AI trained over all Shopify app categories will recommend a great app idea.
That seems entirely fair for pre-1.0 software.
Then you'll need to make an actual argument rather than feigned confusion and "no" next time
The article is quite bold in its claim. Had to Stop reading, when after a few paragraphs the article still had not disputed any facts of Yuval’s book, but was bluntly calling them a fraud. Kinda strange way of trying to discredit someone.
The issue with that table is that it's comparing apples to oranges. It compares general travel to the most dangerous part of a dangerous activity, like the final push for the summit of mount Everest. It compares activities that take a few minutes and are done for fun to activities that take hours every day and people to do get to work. It's not like I'm going to hang-glide to work.
Can't just build Mars colony structures on barren land on Earh. Permits are needed. And then, insteand of being financed by some space agency, constrction materials and workers have to be paid by the "colonists". Let's say somehow the "colony" is built. You know what comes next: taxes!
that's because Google actively won't implement it... not sure why but there was issues with "thousands" of comments requesting it (because it is part of WiFi standard). Not sure about Apple.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 (won't fix, obsolete, according to these mofos)

https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png (who the fuck knows how many more comments it would have got if they didn't block commenting)

It was implemented once on Cyanogenmod thought...

A lot of the posts about this have been de-indexed from Google Search too.
also the masterpiece perhaps of such artwork:
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
Anything where you wish you could have an ASIC but you don't have the budget for custom ASIC, and where using smaller chips either makes for worse Bill of Materials or takes up more space.

They are used everywhere, including some very small ones I've seen used purely for power sequencing on motherboards - usually very small FPGA with embedded memory that "boots" first on standby voltage and contains simple combinatoric logic that controls how other devices on motherboard are getting powered up faster than any MCU can do it - while taking less space than discrete components.

Glue logic, custom I/O systems (including high-end backplanes in complex systems), custom devices (often combined with "hard" components in the chip, like ARM CPUs in Zynq series FPGA), specialized filters that can be runtime updated.

Lots of uses.
Temperature ranges from 0-1 … I think the author might be referring to some other llms. See the messages API reference under temperature - https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/reference/messages_post

The last line says “ Note that even with temperature of 0.0, the results will not be fully deterministic.”

At least in this example, even temp 1 is nearly 100% deterministic !
CumEx was my first guess as well. Not some basic run the mill VAT cheating.
Nice thanks, good link - that reflection picture is nice. So they had it last a week before, and this time it's coming up on a year.
The horror stories are from contractors who have attempted to cheat the tax system by eg making loans from their limited companies that they never intended to pay back, or who claim company expenses for personal benefit.

You can stay well within the tax code and avoid any grey areas, and will still get more income by operating as a limited company. Yes running a limited company requires some admin work, learning about the tax system but a few of hours admin a month is well worth the extra £20k net income (or whatever the figure happens to be)
It seems to have been pretty basic VAT fraud. Nothing smart or havky about that. Happens dozens of times every day at various scales. And each and every time it is just plain old tax fraud.
Looks also like a Dunning Kruger effect. Luckily it's only a HN storm in a teacup.
our thinking needs

This is in the same category. “Someone/something needs to” is a pipe dream, even if you own a low-emission car. Practice what you preach that we see above isn’t even a counter argument because the claim makes no sense in a tight dynamic system, where everyone does something for a pretty strong reason and is growth-oriented by design. We are in foxes and rabbits situation and the fact that we are individually smart doesn’t change anything. It’s smart to not have wars, crimes, rich and poor, lack of education, etc, yet we have all that. Embrace your logistic map.
Btw, they give $ 5 as free credit when you sign up for the API, no credit card needed. The credit is good enough for testing Opus.
I know all that. The process you describe is the OS verifying the behaviour of software as it runs.

>That’s a nice idea, but doesn’t really hold up to scrutiny

It does actually. The kind of attack you describe only works because software exists in non-source based systems. If you were going to run a Haskell function, and you were told that I was going to modify its body in some way, there is no way I can insert malware into it because you cannot reach out of the context of the function and mess with the operating system. Software is composed of functions, which naturally run in a fully containerised state and only become dangerous when the OS adds an additional layer of computer-wide state.
Perf is very powerful but indeed can be hard to get good information out of. Try pprof and read a bunch of Brendan Gregg’s articles about perf (and bpftrace).
I liked this even better than Pandora's Planet.

try https://readli.net/chitat-online/?b=376608&pg=1 and follow the buttons labelled «Следующая» at the bottom of each section...
This is a little exaggerated. You can own a $1m home on 180k/yr at old interest rates. I am not a millionaire and bought a $1.2m property in the heart of LA.
Sounds great for people who don't want to keep learning!
If you (like me) look at this and were like ???, a more compelling summary is perhaps:

> Trieve sets itself apart by being BSL-licensed self-hostable and built in public at github.com/devflowinc/trieve whereas Algolia is fully closed … At Trieve, we are hard at work building these features to reach full parity with Algolia (0)

Or this long winded post about using it to implement search (1)…

Long story short, like Algolia.

The rustiness of the project, I’m not sure I see the significance of; it has a bunch of very heavy non rust dependencies.

[0] - https://trieve.ai/trieve-vs-algolia
[1] - https://trieve.ai/building-search-for-yc-company-directory
The benefit really depends on the rate. When you get near the 1000/day range outside becomes far more lucrative than inside due to the flexibility it gives you for tax planning, as you can defer personal income to a future date where it can be taken in a more tax-favourable way (eg via SIPP or BADR).
There’s a lot of bits in the Oppenheimer film that seem simplified. For example that Los Alamos appears to be a fairly small operation, a bunch of shacks in the prairie, a kind of physics camp for a team of nerds.

In reality the Manhattan project at Los Alamos was a huge operation, like 8000 people living there in 1945, a kind of university/research campus and town, but the movie doesn’t really show the scale. Also, the Trinity test was actually done 4h away from the Los Alamos site, and just the test was also a huge operation.

The way Groves and Oppenheimer decide important matters, while standing in the prairie or sitting on a train or on the way out of some meeting makes it seem they‘re planning an Oceans Elevens style heist, not one of the biggest techno-scientific projects of the 20th century.
Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impact Act of 2024 [pdf]
This is an excellent piece of feedback, very well noted, and will act.
Can you embed the html files into the binary using Rust like you can with Go?

One of the coolest features of Go is the embed package. You can build, and bundle a React, Vue, SvelteKit, Astro or w.e framework directly into your binary and have it serve with your API. Makes deploying very easy, just ship the single file binary.
GLiNER: Efficient Zero-Shot Named Entity Recognition (NER)
Worst UI experience. Prefer SQuirreL. Personal opinion.
European life: "am I a joke to you?"
Cody's Lab has a video of refining platinum from roadside dust: (due to catalytic converters)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GPWJPLcHg
This is really good news I have been looking forward to the release of Passkeys ever since they announced they were working on it.
If I can guess - someone did actually try to hack into the user's account, and github locked the account as some sort of automatic measure; and as github automates most of the human support, it's really impossible to do anything.
It seems like our hot pace of trendy advances has let non-fiction writers flirt with writing in the science fiction genre. If you see some articles as hard science fiction with a "this is a true story" framing device then they make more sense.
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It's identical to measuring gravity. In relativity, acceleration and gravity are indistinguishable, and it's acceleration which breaks the paradoxical symmetry that gives the name to the twins paradox.
Quoting the alt:

> Nope. It's outrageous but 20 days after creating the ticket, support has yet to answer it. I'll definitely move ship next week.

Doesn't surprise me one bit. GitHub's support was pretty much non-existent even long before Microsoft's acquisition. My memory may be a bit foggy, but about a decade ago the only way I was able to resolve my issue was by literally interviewing someone from GitHub for an article and mentioning my issue to the person I was interviewing.
Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful
Staff Speak Out at Turing Institute due to four men being given top jobs
One of many reasons to prefer self-hosted software
While I agree its design isn't the best, versus something like Solaris DTrace, it predates WebAssembly, so hardly a clone.
This is a truly monumental creation.

THe level of effort it must have taken is enormous.

I peeked at the source code expecting what asm - > C
reverse engineering tools usually spit out, which is quite a mess,
but this is clean and commented.

I stand in awe.
All parents want their children to have better lives. 14th century parents were no different. 15th century was better than 14th. Far better. Renaissance started. Looking at the present, 22rd century will absolutely NOT be better than 21st.

Who would want children now? Only African countries. Looking at their present living conditions, their lives will probably get a lot better.
I'd be very curious to know how old you are, where you were educated
and how you got these ideas.

The idea that markets literally are society seems not only wrong to
me, but an extremist and quite dangerous idea.

Instead of spending time convincing random people to vote for plumbers
of historians, I'd rather convince one person to take a wider look at
the world and question the views they've been raised on.

Is there even the slightest possibility that you're wrong? That maybe
society is more than just "markets"?
There isba deep misunderstanding how aircraft purchases worm. Airlines run the numbers, and as soon as it becomes cheaper to buy a new one the old one gets replaced. Which model they choose depends a lot on their current fleet, switching from A320s to B737s and vice-verca is expensive, takes years and requires significant training of flight and maintenance crews. Only the big ones afford mixed fleets.

Add to that the fact that both, Boeing and Airbus, are fully booked for years to come, and it is pretty clear that the MAX isn't going anywhere as there are simply not enough alternatives to come by. Passengers aren't the ones deciding which planes are bought, airlines and leasing companies are.

There isba quite cynic name for passeneger: self-loading freight, also real freight doesn't complain.
Electricians from South Africa to New Zealand – Things to Know [video]
The only problem I have with this kind of tools/experiments is that you can begin to use it then in one or two years the domain expires and everything is over
sshcommand is probably the simplest approach to launch your app anonymously [0]

To get more fancy with registration and a community, setup a BBS [1]. Here is how one BBS does it [2]. use the ‘local doors’ function to bridge to your app. good luck

[0] https://github.com/dokku/sshcommand

[1] https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/ssh/list/detai...

[2] https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/servers/loginservers/...
> We need to take a good look at our ridiculous unsustainable life-styles, and make some hard decisions about whether we need a stupid over-sized pickup truck and a new phone, or if we need an actual future for us all.

That's one aspect of it, but it won't really help much if you need to feed and provide an acceptably comfortable life to 8+ billion humans, with a strong indication of that number increasing even further.

As the population increases we will be forced to turn even more healthy nature into agricultural biological deserts, while at the same time losing existing farmland to climate change.

People don't want to touch the subject, but if we want a comfortable future then we need to put a stop to the population growth.
With books, I tend to not bother with the notes if they are bundled up at the end of the book or chapter. I prefer to have them on the bottom of the page. A web page doesn't even have the benefit of easy page turning to a bookmark, so I think some medium adapted solution like mouse hover would be appropriate.
This looks too low level.

What might be a step forward is a joint learning of the state representation with the search algorithm. Search algorithm explores the NN representation of the state for which you can get the cost.

https://sites.google.com/view/genie-2024/

Genie from DeepMind is a good demonstration where discrete state is being modeled. NN learns a very complex representation with collision detection and actions. Instead of decoding that state into pixels, search could probably be done directly on that state.

Of course, this architecture could be very different.
I agree, having them separated is quite bad. They could have just put them into brackets ( ) and include it in the normal body of the text, that way if you're not interested you can just skip it, but if you are interested then you don't have to list through/switch tabs/search at the bottom of the page/...

I believe that the reading flow is quite important, probably near the top of importance, because if the reader gets into the reading flow they're much more likely to read it all and enjoy it!
Mistral Reacts to Tech News
well, that explains a lot
Every organization is inflexible, you need a swarm of organization to be flexible. That is the main difference between the state and the private sector, the private sector is a herd.
I love building and solving problems, rlimit is not just a wrapper over some library, and I believe it fits perfectly into many application stacks.

Most of the comments are about misunderstanding the value - which is completely on me, and I will iterate. I am learning on the way, and I will get better at this, stay tuned.
It's for people who can't or don't want to code. It's used pretty heavily by testing teams.
I continue to use TrebleShot[0] although it's repo is archived since it also enables browsing files using a Web browser. So you don't need to install it on the receiver side.

Does LocalSend also have this capability?

[0] https://github.com/trebleshot/android
Handshake is bluetooth, transfer is wifi
The Environmental Footprint of Data Centers in the US (2021)
Britannica: "During photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds".

Getting the Carbon from CO2 gets the backbone of organic compounds. Getting the Hydrogen from H2O is also necessary and is also part of photosynthesis.

We have chemosynthetic bacteria on earth that use chemical energy rather than light. There is also a hypothetical biological process called radiosynthesis: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus

I am not a biologist - but I find biology fascinating!
just get anything esp32. it's like $10 or so for a maxed out dev board and you get wifi, bluetooth and more flash than you'll ever need.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230529162236if_/https://iopsci...
Depriving someone of their liberty is a reward?
There is a joke from XKCD about "cryptoanalysis" with a 5$ wrench. In the country where I come from there is a joke about another kind of "cryptoanalysis" - thermorectal one. A non-Superman person cannot withstand either. Should we stop using crypto?
Why Hidden Markov Models are in the related links (7 years ago)? Did the PDF name change?
How to create and print an invoice with Astrojs and Tailwind CSS
Claims without support are nothing too.

In other words: example?
Yep, that should be possible and does not require a router. I would think it is significantly less low-friction than native Airdrop for a firefighter on mission though...
I almost believe that if I know how make an LLM prompt and how to make an API call to OpenAI, Mistral, Claude 3, or together.ai, then as an application programmer, I can skip this whole book. I see people posting project specifications asking for NLP, named entity extraction, etc. But most things in those jobs look like they could be handled by an LLM, possibly even smaller than 7b, and probably more robustly. My other assumption is that this wasn't true at all three years ago.

Maybe machine learning engineers want to explain what I am missing?
No, they could still have chosen to post it, even if they went along with that story.

My point was that there is no need to prepare a defence against downvoters, that too, up front. Not needed at all. Why is their opinion important to the OP? They can have their opinions, he can have his opinion of the same matter. What's the problem? The problem is only if one thinks that HN karma is important. It's totally unimportant.
This week, xAI will open source Grok
You can click on [4] which brings you to the footnote and when done you can just use the back button which brings you back to [4] in the text. Works for me.
I just realised, another big factor here:

Innovations in transistor design help to shrink it on one dimension (e.g. the semiconductor size gap). This translates to a silicon wafer in two dimensions.

Therefore, for every factor (n) decrease we get in transistor length, we can fit (n^2) more transistors on a chip. Therefore we don't need (as) exponential amounts of innovation to get exponential outcomes.

Maybe I'm being crazy, Babbage you can correct me if this is way off :)
If we find any life at all on Europa, intelligent or otherwise, it proves that earth is not the only planet with life. It’s an obvious conclusion but if we find alien life even in our own solar system that says something about the prevalence of alien life.
You shouldn't make the perfect be the enemy of the good. You often don't know how much to trust someone. You may well want to chat with people you just met. People can also lose their phone or have it stolen.

This just provides an additional layer of protection, allowing you to chat with people without revealing what is increasingly linked to your actual identity in some countries.