skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a great meme image I refer to all the time for people pricing their stuff on the Internet:

https://imgflip.com/i/8j0n0r

I'm on one collector group on Facebook and people come and list their items for thousands of dollars even though the average price on eBay is about $1. You'll point them to the sold items and they will say "OK, I see that, but I really think you are wrong and mine is worth $6500 + shipping, and also you are very rude telling me my price is wrong."
I recently had an introspective dream revealed to be based on a literal prompt at the end: "Game to learn to talk about It and its player." When I asked GPT to craft a plot from this prompt's title (and the fact it is revealed at the end), it reproduced the dream's outline, down to the final scene:

GPT reconstruction:

The dream reaches its peak when you meet the "final boss" of the game: an entity that embodies the ultimate barrier to communication. To overcome this obstacle, you must synthesize everything you've learned about "it" in the dream and present a coherent vision that is true to yourself. As you articulate your final understanding of "it", the maze dissolves around you, leaving you in front of a giant mirror. In this mirror, you see not just your reflection but also all the characters, passions, and ideas you encountered in the dream. You realize that "it" is actually a reflection of yourself and your ability to understand and share your inner world. The dream ends with the title revealed, "Game to Learn to Communicate about It and Its Player", meaning the whole process was a metaphor for learning to know and communicate your own "it" - your personality, thoughts, and emotions - with others, and that you are both the creator and the discoverer of your own communication game.

My note:

The continuation of the dream corresponds to an abrupt change of scene. I find myself in my bed, in the dim light of my room, facing a mysterious silhouette. As I repeatedly inquire about its identity, I stretch my hands towards its face to feel its features as I cannot clearly see them. Then, a struggle begins, during which I panic, giving the dream a nightmarish turn. Noticing that the dark figure mirrors my movements, I realize it's myself. Suddenly under my duvet and as I struggle to get out, I feel jaws and teeth against the sheets. I call out for my mother, whom I seem to hear downstairs, and that's when my vision fades, and I see the dream's source code displayed behind. It consists of ChatGPT prompts shared on the lime green background of an image-board. At the bottom, I then see the dream's title: "Game to learn how to communicate about It and its player."
Absolutely spectacular. I feel my dumb human brains limits when looking at the scale of the natural universe
>No bad laws have ever been implemented where everyone was proud of it

"Nobody who speaks German can ever be evil"

- The Simpsons
Developers outside the official store will price undercut those within the store. Legit developers will be forced to leave, fold, and/or adopt the shady data practices of the fly-by-nighters. Eventually the official store will be shadow of its former self.

Well heeled consumers will respond by being reluctant to put sensitive personal information on their phones. The entire ecosystem suffers, and phones, instead of becoming trusted personal devices, remain the purview of games, emails, and fart apps. Everyone suffers, especially developers.

You guys, above all others, want people to put more personal info on their phones, not less.
Exactly where I'm at! Totally transformative set of tools for me to use to do my day to day work significantly more productively and also a giant distance away from being capable of doing my day to day work.
https://www.warpstream.com/blog/rss.xml
The Worst (But Only) Claude 3 Tokenizer
Anyone have experience with any options for something that's not run by Amazon?
I am a current Bitwarden customer. My largest complaint is that their CLI and Linux integration is absolutely atrocious. 1Password is eating their lunch. I use 1Password for work, and it really feels so much better to use. 1Password has SSH integration, automatic syncing between the CLI and the GUI, and Linux package repositories.

I'm tempted to switch to 1Password, but since I am a Proton customer, I am just going to wait to see if Proton Pass ever gets a good CLI.
Nope. Whether it's a front door or server with a default password, it's illegal. This is very established.
> When using pointers in safe Rust, one is generally limited to tree structures.

For the sake of completeness, it's possible to express certain cyclic graph patterns without overhead in safe Rust. But it's usually too much of a hassle to bother with. https://docs.rs/ghost-cell/latest/ghost_cell/
My kingdom for a root / exploit for >=2020 kindle fires that would allow me to put lineageos on my kids' devices!
To some extent, this is a gross misuse of their government power. To another extent, tap away. There is no reason for your network traffic not to be an end-to-end encrypted. I'm more or less fine with the government getting my SNI headers, though I will be investing more in Tor and other obfuscation for some purposes.
> Yes but do the flight crew have the ability to tell if a plane is safe to fly?

Do you have the ability to tell if a street is safe to cross?

Most of the time, yes.

Sometimes, you can't tell for sure, but you cross anyways.

Sometimes, you are dead wrong about your judgement. Shit happens. Nobody expects 100% certainty.

The problem here may be that Boeing may be falling to meet the expectation of 99.????% certainty, and regressing down to 99.????% certainty, due to a broken corporate culture.
Free software is not just about having the technical means to modify the software (access to the source code and not being impeded by technical measures against running modified versions instead of the original software) but also the legality to do so. Free software grants any users a legal right to modify it. That many users won't modify free software (because they lack the motivation/time/money/need) is not a strong argument against the usefulness of free software, because the users who would modify free software can do so without worrying about being sued. Additionally, the end users who won't modify free software can still benefit from the freedom because copyright is two-sided. Not only is it legal for people to modify free software, it's legal for end users to use other people's modifications of free software.

Free software is especially important in cases where the developers of proprietary devices use DRM as a secondary legal barrier (provided by 17 U.S. Code § 1201, section 1201 of the DMCA, in the US [1][2]) against otherwise non-infringing actions such as inspection (which is why access to source code remains a crucial requirement of free software alongside the freedom to modify) and repair. (Tangent: The EFF is arguing in Green v. Department of Justice that the anti-circumvention portions of DMCA 1201 violate the First Amendment [3].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_and_Performance...

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

[3] https://www.eff.org/cases/green-v-us-department-justice
The NYPD's budget is also a significant underestimate, since the NYPD typically blows through hundreds of millions of dollars of additional overtime funding each year[1]. It would be accurate to say that the NYPD's budget is both gigantic and under-accounted.

[1]: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/nypd-overspending-on-ov...
>According to our best current model, no, the laser beam will never stop passing by matter, of approximately the same average density as the matter we can see.

I didn't understand this part, why would the laser beam would never stop passing by matter? Because of the metric expansion of the universe? Isn't it reasonable to assume that there is a skirt of the universe where matter keeps expanding into nothingness?
> This article is about creating for yourself, not even for consumption by others.

Probably about 75% of everything I create, I create for myself. Nobody else is ever likely to see any of it. The act of creating is its own reward (being able to have and use the thing is a reward as well, of course), and I've found that sharing my creations comes with an inherent cost in terms of time: answering questions, support, or even just people wanting to talk about the thing.

Also, the level of polish I need to put into a thing in order to feel OK about sharing it will easily double the amount of time it will take to create it.

It gets expensive. As a result, I only share those things that I deem important to share.
If I were a politician using this against an opponent, I'd write the following press release:

Websites in the range 54.239.0.0/8 often host problematic content. My opponent visited several addresses in this range overnight and hid his traffic with military-grade message scrambling functionality.

Of course that's just AWS and you can't even do HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 without encryption. But do the voters know that? Will they be educated on it? Probably not. And you're not saying anything untrue, you have facts and logs to back up your assertions!
That's an extreme response and you probably need counseling.
40 Years of Programming
"Simulation sickness" comes from the fact that when there's a disparity between your visual sense of motion and your inner-ear inertial sense of motion, your autonomic nervous system thinks you may have been poisoned and induces vomiting to help get rid of the poison.

Your friend having flown real planes probably makes him even more sensitive to sim sickness because his vestibular system has been trained on motion from actual flights, meaning it can perceive the mismatch in the sim much more acutely.
They raised at least 2.2M in funding. Then they got acquired. Now it's over. I do think it's time we stop pretending that you can build a fully-fledged company on top of a developer tool or plugin.

Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.
A lot of words for "yes, but all languages have this problem." The amount of effort to break the type system is the only difference.
The answer makes sense to me, but I wish we could fix editors to properly handle the ASCII separators (1C, 1D, 1E, 1F) instead of resorting to Unicode control picture characters (241C, 241D, 241E, 241F).

Maybe if editors are fixed up we could adopt ASCII Separated Values (ASV) as the new standard.
> Why?

Radiation-induced bit flips and bad code.
Albanian is not a Slavic language at all.
https://intersol.ca/news/organizational-culture-and-the-5-mo...
Isn't having good apps/api a selling point for apple hardware (where they already make massive amount of money), why can't that be a motivation by itself?
You're right - was at a young age. School enforced 3x lang minimum.

>Afrikaans as being easier than German

It definitely is. Most places quote hours to learn as substantially higher (~30%) for German and in practice it feels even higher. Afrikaans average conversational level feels simpler too.

>When did you start learning it?

German 1st and then English and Afrikaans bit later maybe like 10? School medium of instruction alternated German/English
This is a great piece of feedback, and getting just this to work would not be too difficult. Thanks so much!
This is getting caught by your parents and responding when they ask you to name your punishment. It was hardly voluntary.
> it is hard to say that the public has lost trust in Boeing

I've temporarily lost trust in them until they get their shit together. Airplanes are only safe because manufacturing and maintainence has been done diligently over the past couple decades and with sufficient attention to prevention of known hazards. As soon as that diligence disappears, airplanes can become unsafe, very quickly. If an accident could have been prevented by diligence, I lose trust.

I've been flying but avoiding Boeing aircraft in the past few months, until we get to the bottom of this. Many of my friends are doing the same.

I've also had multiple pilots explicitly announce that "this is not a 737 Max" or something to that effect.
Oh no, an army on bikes, what are we gonna do about it?! /s
>First of all: what exactly do you think the term "dogwhistle" means? Are you suggesting that when RWers say "mainstream media", they really mean something else? To what are they referring?

No. In fact, I explicitly said the opposite in my comment. Although the term was popularized by the right wing in reference to their belief in a vast leftist conspiracy controlling all forms of media (the thesis under which Fox News was born and the premise by which it claims to be the only valid news source for the right), obviously not every instance of every right winger using the term uses it within that context. However the context does exist and is often employed in right-wing speech.

But given your tone, the fact that you obviously didn't bother to read my comment in good faith, and your personal insults towards me, I won't be engaging with you or your comment any further.
It's not my definition. I doubt coffee counts though.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28322183/

Also, I never meant to imply there were conclusive negative effects of guar gum. I don't know! I do know it's an entirely unnecessary ingredient in hummus, so why would you want something that unneeded? Glass beads are probably more inert, but I still wouldn't eat them if I had a choice.
> I ask my fellow computer engineers what the hell are we waiting for to pool our minds and resources towards a truly decentralised, encrypted and anonymous overnet.

I often hear this somewhat loose idea and have to say that I also have such reoccurring thoughts myself. We currently enjoy pretty great freedoms to do stuff, we have the chance to set something up, and those freedoms might be severely restricted in the future. It may be easier to develop something like that now than it will ever be in the future. The problem seems to be that there is no coordinated plan. Stuff like Tor exists, but it hasn't really caught on as much as one would hope. Also it is built upon a rather specific architecture (the internet) from what I understand, which could basically be shutdown by authorities at any moment.

For example, I can't currently safely communicate with people in my geographic area independently of the internet, even though my devices theoretically have the hardware to do so (think of radio capabilities, for example). There might be some lose projects out there capable of some of it that 99.9999% never heard about, but nothing that could actually be considered general-purpose. Why is that?

It isn't an easy problem to solve. And it isn't enough of a problem for people to actually apply themselves nearly enough. Once it is needed in a way that more people would devote their time to it, it might be too late.
This is what confuses me. NYPD subpoenaed Twitter. Twitter said "no".

I don't understand why Rabbi Copwatch would be involved in fighting the subpoena.

Rabbi Copwatch should sue NYPD for infringing his civil rights by spying on him.

He has nothing to defend against. Under current law, if he doesn't want NYPD siezing papers and effects about him from Twitter, that is not his papers and effects, he needs to stop giving copies of data about himself to Twitter.
I don't like that law, but I think that's where the law sits today.
LOCS: Language developed at age 9 in Z80 machine code (1988)
>> With our advances in long-term reasoning and planning, Devin can plan and execute complex engineering tasks requiring thousands of decisions.

They'd better have really advanced reasoning and planning capabilities way beyond everything that anyone else knows how to do with LLMs. There's a growing body of literature that leaves no doubt that LLMs can't reason and can't plan.

For a quick summary of some such results see:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04121.pdf
What a terrible UX by Github.

> Despite the scary warning, you're only granting the listed permissions.

Is there a way for me to verify that that's the case? At least after granting the permissions?
China technology giant Xiaomi starts electric car sales
and what about the devices itself? doesn't apple get money from selling iphones and ipads?

The only downside I see on the DMA is that it has come very late, and that it's only an european law. Mobile devices are computers, and once sold you should be able to install whatever you want like on any other computer. The shame on apple is that it is increasingly difficult to install software even on the computers.
Why are you using shitty tools?
Ah, sorry, I missed that part. It's a weird distinction -- you could have one app with a million installs, and a million apps with one install each, and all could be installed from your web page?

So this points to the other thing I said, which is that there are very few developers that will meet this requirement.
This is awesome. I'd love to have upstream support in Wasmer ( https://wasmer.io )
What is seen in the Android system? What's wrong with it? Been using Android phones for about 8 years with no problems.
The only thing anyone can do against another 9/11 is what we've already done. Reinforced cockpit doors.

All the rest is just bullshit and security theater (Which NYC is exceedingly good at.)
If you want to be a contrarian after a whistleblower is dead and 50 people were injured, maybe you should have some real data, stats or information instead of just saying "it happens all the time".
My old practice used to be to start safe mode & go delete as many devices drivers as I could. That got me pretty far.

These days though I've had a number of cases where some very humble small scoped bios change will cause windows to not boot. I've run into this quite a few times, and it's been quite an aggravation to me. I've been trying to get my desktops power consumption down & get sleep working, mostly in Linux, but its shocking to me what a roll-of-the-die it's been that I may have to do the windows-self-reinstall, from changing an AMD cool-n-quiet settings or adjusting a sleep mode option.
Twelve year old won the San Jose Mercury News weather prediction contest one year, by predicting each day that the weather would be the same as the weather the day before.

Consumer weather prediction isn't about being right. It's about pleasing the customer by appearing to be helpful. Which often means exaggerating the chances of abnormal weather, so if it happens you can be a hero.

Real prediction is boring.
I actually needed to do some compositing work with it, several days after my original post, to get around some limitations of Davinci. It was a little unintuitive but could be a really powerful tool in a compositing pipeline!
OG Chyrp started in 2004! I was messing around with it back when I was in middle school (2008ish?)! Pretty cool to see someone is still working on it.
C++ can't generally encapsulate safety. Rust can generally encapsulate safety. That's the essential difference. It's true that the boundaries of safety in Rust extend to the scope of the module in which `unsafe` is used, but C++ has no boundaries at all.

> but is not a panacea

Do you have a source to literally anyone credible saying Rust is a panacea?

> nor a guarantee given that a bug in the safe code that's protecting the unsafe code could be the root cause for security issues, even if it manifests itself in the unsafe code.

This just in. Rust doesn't guarantee bug-free code. Holy shit. What a revelation! Like, really? That's your problem with the argument? That it doesn't live up to the standard that bugs can't exist?

The value proposition of Rust has, is and always will be that it can encapsulate a core of `unsafe` usages in a safe API with no or very little overhead. The promise of Rust is that this power of encapsulation will lead to less undefined behavior overall. Not that it literally makes it impossible because, well, yes, you can have bugs in `unsafe`!

To head off the pedants, yes, not everything can be safely encapsulated in Rust. File backed memory maps are my favorite example. And yes, bugs in not just `unsafe` blocks but bugs in the language implementation itself can lead to UB.

And yes, Rust achieves this through a trade off. As Sutter mentioned. None of this should be controversial. But what Sutter misses is a fair analysis of this trade off IMO. He does a poor job at representing its essential characteristics.
I went through a phase of this because it made sense and I didn’t realize that it wasn’t standard English.
In the video he was having a chat conversation with Devin the whole time, it’s not like Devin did this completely on its own.
Yeah, coming from back at that time, to consider Silverlight at all is to give it too much credit.

Jobs and his unwillingness to support it on iPhone killed Flash, and that's that.
Nearly no sites comply with the cookie-banner law, if they did, you wouldn't mind it.

It essentially says "Tell the user you're tracking them, give them a button to click not allow you to do that". If sites actually did that, I honestly couldn't care less about the extra second it would take to click "No, fuck off".
Isn't there any European law that could stop this exaggerated and self-granted power?
You raise a good point - AI + human review might end up being more time than just a human doing everything. I can see a certain subset of issues could be simple enough to done by AI and a quick review - like changing a button color or fixing clearly defined bugs. Time will tell how much work gets shifted over to AI + human review, but I'm betting on most of it.
I'm not sure I understand the underlying maths well enough to opine on your point but I can say for certain that no embedding space that I've ever seen used for any kind of ML is uniform in the sense that a Euclidian distance around one point means the same thing as the same Euclidian distance around another point. I'm not even sure that it would be possible to make an embedding that was uniform in that way because it would mean that we had a universal measure of similarity between concepts (which can obviously be enormously different).

The other potential issue is for all the embeddings that I have seen the resulting space once you have embedded some documents is sort of "clumpy" and very sparse overall. So you have very large areas with basically nothing at all I think because semantically there are many dimensions which only make sense for subsets of concepts so you end up with big voids where really the embedding space is totally unreachable so distance doesn't have any meaning at all.

In spite of all that there are a few similarity measures which work well enough to be useful for many practical purposes and cosine similarity is one of them. I don't think anyone thinks it's perfect.
I don't want to be off topic so in short you come-up with a plausible reason for travel to then Yugoslavia which takes you by rail through Vienna and spend time at Traiskirchen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traiskirchen#Refugee_Camp_(Bun...
Perhaps the pointless fluff you're describing is actually chaff: countermeasures strategically deployed ahead of time by IQ 180 writers in order to preemptively water down any future LLM's trained on their work.

Then the humans can make a heroic return, write surgical prose like Hemingway to slice through the AI drivel, and keep collecting their paychecks.

Bonus points if you can translate this analogy to software development...
> VLC is open-source and free to use. How might they make money off it?

Sell apps for certain platforms. Leave the source open, but have the primary appstore versions be paid. I can think of a few useful apps that do this, DAVx5 charges for the play store version but it's free on fdroid. xchat (IRC client) also used to this back in the day for their official windows build. Nothing stopped you from legally using a fork.

FAST streams they probably get kickbacks from advertisers for offering, Plex does this.
So? There would only be one "brake pad salesman" left, who would sell indestructible brake pads to car manufacturers, and all the others would go bust.