skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine you get to tune the probability window of "person is >90% likely a Hamas terrorist" and choose how many innocent people you kill. Who set the window?

"Hamas terrorist" criteria: a male of fighting age, give higher weight to those congregating with others of fighting age. Basically take out a generation of Palestinian men and you're all set. Lovely.

>This sentence is horrifically dystopian... "in order to save time and enable the mass production of human targets without hindrances"

Reminds me of similar industrial thinking of a certain previous fascist government.
It might be a reason he was caught: the reason the hospital got a detective to investigate him was probably because it was worried he might engage in ransomware or other security breaches against the hospital.
There's still a cap on growth. Apple is running into market saturation for phones and eventually will land in a situation where the only way it can sell more phones is by selling the same consumers newer/more expensive phones. To achieve this they either need to reduce quality so devices wear out or artificially prevent prolonged use; either scenario results increased production of e-waste.

Ecosystems have limits; you can't grow past the absolute maximums of supply and demand.

We only have so many minerals and so many humans which means that growth has hard caps. Even if we manage to colonize the solar system the same cap will still exist on humans and minerals. Eternal growth is demonstrably false and if we ignore these bounds then we encourage companies to grow through increased generation of negative externalities.
First you become value creating, then value extracting.

On a deeper note: Search is challenged. With the advent of first niche communities and now LLMs the traditional idea behind search engines is a left over from the 00s. Google need to earn by ads.

Retro Dodo probably need to focus on a niche community and retention over organic traffic like so many other small / indie shops.

Personally I use Kagi who are also in the business of disrupting them selves using LLMs - at least they have a business model that absorbs it.
> Last I checked they're almost as big no-nos as using goto.

I don't think so. Gotos are fine, strcat and strcpy without a malloc with the correct size in the same scope is a code smell.
It was just easiest to develop in libjxl repo. All test workers etc. are already setup there. This was done by a very small team...
As always, obscurity is one (often very helpful) layer of a multilayered defensive strategy. The meme that it's useless needs to go away. If you have a safe at home, you should probably hide its existence, because even if power tools couldn't reliably crack a safe (they can), there's always the $5 wrench strategy.
Lean and mean could mean people lose their job, lead to talent churn in the job market, wasting their talent and time doing things they don't love. Keep a steady cushy job so these talent can make great product while enjoy their life is a net gain for society.
(April 1, 2024)
> 1) Where do you draw the line?

Well the line would be at when you are causing more deaths than you are saving.

Would you rather a larger number of people die?

> What if that one person is you?

What if the people's lives that would be saved are you, and this number is much larger?

That argument actually works in favor of the option that saves the most lives.

There is no neutral decision here. If you choose to not save the much larger group of people, those people are dead.

So your only choice is to pick which groups of people will die. My prefer is to minimize that amount to be as small as possible. But if you want that number to be larger, and to have more people die, that requires some explanation.
You don't think it's possible to harness the desire for more of certain things and less of certain other things in a similar way?

We collectively create the expectations under which "growth" is a meaningful thing for a company to do. We can change those expectations such that "number go up" for the company translates to more of the particular thing we want and less of the particular thing we don't. We just need a bit of incentive redesign.
The issue from the manufacturer's perspective is that they've got two different customer bases with wildly different willingness to pay, but not substantially different needs from their product. If Nvidia and AMD didn't split the two markets somehow, then there would be no cards available to the PC market, since the AI companies with much deeper pockets would buy up the lot. This is undesirable from the manufacturer's perspective for a couple reasons, but I suspect a big one is worries that the next AI winter would cause their entire business to crater out, whereas the PC market is pretty reliable for the foreseeable future.

Right now, the best discriminator they have is that PC users are willing to put up with much smaller amounts of VRAM.
What's so confusing about it?

This team did a lot of work to create JPEG XL. For whatever reason, Chrome is not agreeing to ship it, which will make it a lot harder for it to be widely adopted. So they're now applying the same techniques to classic JPEG, where the work they did can provide value immediately and not be subject to a pocket veto by Chrome.
Agree domestic semi is crucial national security. For disagreements:

>No one wants to deal with china

Everyone wants to deal with PRC so much that US literally had to impose sanctions and export controls to make it illegal. And then extra territorialize bans/frictions on partners who didn't want to by leaning on American origin tech %s until they had no choice.

> will, talent

PRC is minting more STEM/highskilled than OECD combined, and only actor projected to build enough talent to actually have fully indigenous semi supply chain while everyone else is projected to have shortages.

> what "no chips" looks like

Except military hardware use older harden nodes that PRC has domestic supply for, they're not running out of chips for military applications.

> patriot missile system

If you actually pay attention, you'll note patriot in UKR got penetrated by 6 shit tier kinzhals @mach3 and now multiple launchers are getting wiped from 80s hardware right after RU unfucked their primitive killchain, tier1 flight IIA/III DDGs in redsea are letting slip through enough uncoordinated old gen AShMs attacks that US can't guarantee redsea shipping. Old ghetto hardware that travels at a few maches or even subsonic, launched not in coordinated fashion, with even shittier kill chain than RU. Yet state of the art US missile defense interception isn't performant enough against these ordnances not used at scale and likely wholely inadequate for modern AShMs that travel much faster.

You'll note last round of PRC rocket force leaks are retarded, rocket fuel for hotpot? Conveniently leaked around TW election to send msg that PRC won't "invade shit". It's called motivated propaganda. Meanwhile actual Teixeira leak - the stuff US prosecutes because it's actually credibly damaging - allege US clocked PRC DF27 tests at mach 8+, and many signs point to PRC pursing global prompt strike with rocketry = no one's going to blockade PRC without their own energy infra getting blown up. Including US who goes from US to Yemen without a few hundred oil refineries and LNG plants. Or domestic semis, or data centres, or F35 factories.

TLDR western ABM performed about expected relative to threats (engaging slow targets up mach3), if anything less than idea since they're letting enough slip through that their performance has essentially validates PRC's focus on high end rocket force. You think this is US showing sabers work, but it's exposing they don't work remotely well enough against threats they were designed for, AKA, what PRC rocketry was specifically designed to defeat. Now they're thinking instead of sending salvo of 100 mach 6+ AShMs against a carrier group maybe only need to send 50. Or 300 cheaper AShMs/TLAMs. What recent conflicts has taught us is scale>wunderwaffe, lesson learned from previous wars.
No real difference for me. It mostly comes down to quantity, speed and how much it’s broken down by chewing, cooking or blending.
No. That is genocide and a war crime. Both are war crimes.
Looks like "grew" means "conformed more closely to mainstream ideas of success".
Yeah, but, per your link:

- "Both pieces today are sometimes classified as belonging to the genre of Mesopotamian naru literature – the world's first historical fiction – in which a famous figure, usually a king, is featured as the main character in a fictional work."

- "The earliest copy is dated to the 7th century BCE"
I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty sure the shop on your corner sells things more than once a decade.
For a while now, I have been wondering what it is that a small search provider like Kagi can do to have such an advantage over the R&D behemoth Google, measured in terms of blocking garbage results. This is eye-opening:

>And to rub salt into the wound, it was discovered that Google is paying some media companies “five figures” to use their AI to automatically scrape content from other publishers’ work (who have paid expert humans to produce) and publish it as news twice a day on their websites.

For every one thing you hear about, there are nine you don't. Apparently, the difference in quality is about what Kagi is not doing.
I would assume the cocaine at a spice factory would be locked up better and in the same manner as it is locked up at a brokerage.
It's time to relaunch curated content in any form, directories, tagging etc.

2023 and 2024 has demonstrated handily that the entire web is at risk if we trust large corporations with everything.
I don't think this is a fair take for massive businesses like Apple. When you spend $77B on stock buybacks, "money to survive" is very far out of the question. Apple does not need to have increased profit margins every single year to survive. They could be very financially successful and also more consumer friendly in many areas. They do not need to have a walled garden and locked-down messaging to survive. They do not need to make components hard to repair and impossible to upgrade to survive. They do not need to offer only 5GB of iCloud storage, or only 8GB of ram on new laptops to survive.

They could be more generous and friendly to their consumers, and would probably have an even happier fanbase as a result. But it would likely not be more profitable, so they won't.

The point here is that more profitable every year is not necessary for survival or for a company to be strong. It's simply a way to make shareholders very rich. That doesn't make it good for society. This is not about companies surviving. This is about companies needing to grow and grow and grow...

And as the author says, there is no real end state. You keep growing until you buy out every one of your competitors? And when you have a stranglehold on the market, you can severely cut costs and reduce quality to continue growing profits without needing to find more customers. This shit really happens in a number of industries! It's not good for society.

Sure, survival applies to small companies, startups, mom & pop shops. But many of these massive companies are operating at a completely different level, and "needing money to survive," is not at all what they are trying to do. They are trying to grow profits every year, to make the shareholders happy and wealthy. Not to help them or the company's employees survive. (We all know these companies are very happy to do a layoff if that's what will move the needle on profit growth.)
this is a valid question why is it being downvoted?
> We wouldn't tolerate a SWAT team blowing up a hospital if the mafia had taken over the basement, I have no idea why you think this is acceptable.

While I agree with comparing Hamas to the mafia, both are criminal organizations, Hamas is more than that. It has rockets, it mascaraed civilians and holds the ideology of genociding its enemy. None of that is applicable to the mafia. So if its people are hiding in an hospital and refuse to surrender there is no moral objection to blow up the hospital (Also, if you are referring to Shifa Hospital, Israel didn't blow it, they entered with SWAT teams and there were fierce fighting costing also Israeli soldiers lives)

> It is exactly like the carpet bombing used by other nations.
I'll link to Wikipedia to help you spot the differences [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing
Ultimately this is about capital allocation and rates of return. Capital flows into the places where it can be best put to work. If you wish for your investments to yield above inflation, you're a card carrying member of the cult of growth.

If Apple decides it will stop growing, it will plow 100% of its profits in share buybacks (I bet op loves those!) and work hard to squeeze costs down. This happens routinely under private equity ownership. It's not as fun as you'd think.

The view expressed by the author is naive and shortsighted. Growth is required for society to function. If it doesn't come from Apple, it must come from somewhere else.
300km/h trains are normal without maglev as well. The record for maglev is faster than regular rail, but the record for regular rail is much faster than any in service maglev. For rail the limit is aerodynamic drag which has nothing to do with the wheels. So that maglev can go faster in ideal situations doesn't matter as in the real world you will run the trains much slower. Around 300km/h seems to be the best compromise of going really fast while still not paying too much for aerodynamic drag. You can run trains faster (and a few do), but the energy costs get out of control.

If 300 km/h isn't good enough, then get on an airplane. The altitude means much lower aerodynamic drag and the distances you are traveling often need airplanes anyway. Trains are good to around 1000km of travel distance. If your trip is longer fly.
A lot of my associates has already been identified as Jews, and that's quite enough to get them horrifically killed.
at least all the modern ones i've seen, you cannot open them all the way using only manual and without power, because it's not good for the motors. or maybe that's one of those common myths.
It's frustrating to see a post like this just blaming Google for their issues, when perhaps their reporting/reviews might be at fault? Many people who look up reviews for products reviewed by Retro Dodo often criticize the reviews for lacking substance or getting very basic facts wrong.

I know that I added them to my personal filter list when I found them providing mis-info or just click-farming off of unannounced products.
Not disagreeing, but another contributing factor is the exposure to outdoor sunlight which helps regulate circadian rhythms. People who sit at the beach all day sleep pretty well. I think both outdoor sunlight and exercise improve sleep quality.
I assume you're talking about an algebra book for self-study? Gallian's "Contemporary Abstract Algebra" is a common suggestion for a more accessible algebra book, and people also sometimes suggest Fraleigh's "A First Course in Abstract Algebra", but I can really only speak to what it's like to work on this stuff with a teacher --- since my students are by definition not self-studying the things I'm working on with them, my suggestions might be of limited use!

In general, I think self-studying proof-based math can certainly be done if someone's motivated enough, but it's pretty hard and takes a lot of work, especially if you're still getting used to the skill of reading and writing proofs. It's very valuable to be able to have a person available to evaluate the proofs you're writing, and I've definitely seen a few people who came to me thinking they'd mastered proof-writing on their own and were kind of mistaken about that. (I've definitely also seen people who really did learn this skill pretty well without help! It varies a lot.)
Every site in the world considers the Google algorithm "fair" when they are highly ranked and "illegal" when they are not. Ultimately you are not owed a spot in their top 10. The answer is to find other avenues for marketing and not rely on a single corporation to act as a free funnel for user growth.
Who was beheaded? The "40 beheaded babies" turned out to be a lie. The people burnt alive on October 7th were likely from the IDF firing tank shells at homes. Many of them turned out to be Palestinian once forensics were done. Not one of the rape claims seems to be substantiated by any physical evidence and when an Israeli journalist called all the hospitals, morgues, and trauma hotlines they found the number of reported rape victims was zero. At least here in the US the media were happy to report these lies (you know, the kind of shocking and dehumanizing lies that are always used to ramp up a genocide) and then very muted in any kind of correction.
I know we're not meant to ask "did you even read TFA", so I guess I'll comment that your comment makes no sense in this context. I don't know what kind of growth you're talking about but I get the sense it's not the trillion-dollar kind...
That's a pithy, vivid snarkonym I suppose; 10/10. The reality is that things don't exist in a vacuum: competitors exist and one of the best defenses against competitors is growth. Growth provides affordances, such as ample capital, market profile and regulatory leverage to counter competitors. Certainly one can conceive of alternative ways of surviving competitors, but it never hurts to be a thriving concern. That's hard work for all involved though, so better to simply spiral the rest of the way down and condemn competition as well: perhaps "The Market is societal metastasis".

Or something. You'll get there anyhow, so best to start working on the next clever derogation now.
Thanks, I'll give it a try. Plandex's model settings are version-controlled like everything else and play well with branches, so it will be fun to start comparing how all different kinds of models do vs. each other on longer coding tasks using a branch for each one.
For clarity, in the instance I witnessed, the company being acquired was 100% aware that it was FAANG acquiring them, it's just that all the legal paperwork had the acquiree being consumed by a random shell company that was a wholly owned subsidiary of the FAANG company.

I think the goal is just not to leak information ahead of time, and perhaps to insulate the FAANG company in case anything goes sideways mid-deal.
https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps/towards-reproducibilit...
That's totes rhetoric: what you wrote there is a sarcastic false dichotomy to make a point seem obvious — a leading question.

Ironically, given I now know which side you think you're taking, that bit you're proud enough of to quote, defends Israel's behaviour by suggesting the only possible alternative to their current actions was to simply accept Hamas' previous attack.
For the moon that potentially works because we're close enough to the moon that the drift is dominated by local gravitation rather than relative motion. But for any other context, say Mars, the problem is that the clock drift will be non-uniform. An hour on Earth (as measured by a precise clock on Earth) vs an hour on Mars as measured by a precise clock on Mars) will not be a fixed ratio, but will depend on relative position and velocities at the time that you start measuring the hour.
Not growing does not mean “coasting”.

There is a difference between keeping your car going 55 and letting your foot off the gas entirely.

In this case it’s being suggested that the former is better than continuously accelerating as long as possible.
Why not have LLM write AGI while you're at it
I just added a photo for context. Thanks for reading all that.
> build yet another API.

It appears that's one of their major problems. They're not "building" APIs. They're just slapping "one shots" onto the side of a router whenever the need arises. This speaks to a complete lack of a planning and design phase.

I guess if you want to build something without any plan whatsoever, this might be a way to "improve" that process, but there's a much simpler one that doesn't require your team to become polarized over a framework.
I agree it is shortsighted. If Apple doesn't grow, their competitors will, and soon enough they are building better things because they have more resources. But, it is irritating: sometimes you just want people to do a few things well, and not try to grow and grow and grow ...
Without independent statistical analysis, he has no "track record".
I think most people have no idea how to use it efficiently either. Cooking shows and recipes often depict simply adding threads directly to a recipe.

Growing up, I was taught to grind a small amount into a fine powder and mix with a bit of very hot water, which yields an incredibly potent, fragrant, and inexpensive ingredient that can flavor significant quantities of food.
This should have been in a H1 tag at the top of the page. Had to dig into a paragraph to find out Google wasn’t about to launch another image format supported in only a scattering of apps yet served as Image Search results.
Im curious, if you’re realpolitik american.

Can you explain why would the USA support one country instead of appeasing 300 million in the area?

What are the benefits out of being so pro israel?
The problem is not Google tweaking their algorithm causing large sites getting more traffic.

The problem is Google having 90% dominance on the search, without credible competition.

The problem is that Microsoft Bing never became a viable search engine.

With more diverse Internet, like it was 15 years ago, issues caused by one provider were inconvenience, not a death blow.
Agreed. The difference is in the outcomes we're aiming for.

First, in the case of drugs like methamphetamine, heroine, cocaine, fentanyl, and so on, we're looking to eliminate use of these compounds outside of medical applications. Having a lovely entertainment venue for blowing off steam is not what we're going for. We want to help people avoid or conquer addictions to dangerous drugs.

A program aimed at this goal that has worked elsewhere includes a system of policies and spending that work together to achieve that aim. The system includes a number of aspects:

- Spending on rehabilitation and treatment

- Eliminating criminal penalties for drug use and instead requiring treatment programs

- Jobs programs (it turns out a lot of addiction is about purpose, or lack thereof)

To do this is hard to pull off, because you have to have a number of groups of people all pulling together for the same goal of helping people resolve their addictions. If you don't do it altogether, and just label it "decriminalization" and only do that part of it, it is guaranteed to fail. It is idiotic. There's also a name for it: Cargo Cult.

We're bewildered that the problem just doesn't go away (the planes don't land and bring cargo) when we go through the superficial motions (wave sticks at the sky near the landing strip) of "decriminalization."
They read every symbol or character that is displayed. Normal errors are verbose but at least they have meaning. Pictures that use ascii or other characters end up having all the symbols read too because there are no semantics associated with the picture.

I like to ask this question on posts about new libraries or developer tools, because most developers don't consider the accessibility of the features they're building.
https://archive.is/sbNO2
painting clouds? expensive, messy.

much better to wrap the planet in paper, outside the atmosphere.

https://snafuhall.com/p/earthwrap.html
C is probably the best example where I would be fine with scripts in Python (for utility scripts, not build scripts). Though, if it were me I'd use Ruby instead as I like that language a lot better, and it has Rake (a ruby-ish version of Make), but that's a "flavor of ice cream" kind of choice.