skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are their objections:

1. Search isn’t possible

- It's possible on the client. The total text in an email account is not prohibitively large and can be cached on the client.

2. Previews can’t be calculated

- It can be on the client, then reuploaded encrypted.

3. If you lose your private key, we can’t recover your email

- Of course, this is equivalent to losing your email account password.

4. Spam checking on content isn’t possible

- It is on the client, and on the server based on headers.

5. To access mail on multiple devices, the private key needs to be shared securely between them

- Protonmail solved this, what's the problem?
KOReader is nice. There's also Plato[0] for Kobo, which unlike the Kobo Libra 2 stock reader and KOReader didn't choke on an .epub with the entire Bible in one xhtml file.

[0]: https://github.com/baskerville/plato
I feel like some copyright holders would have you believe that both uploading and downloading copyrighted material is breaking the law. However, in practice, it's far more expensive to chase the downloading party as well as far less effective. Stopping the act of uploading stops the act of downloading in many cases.
I know. I was saying it’s not expressive. I didn’t say that everyone has people to make music for them.
But then the water won't be cool...
I worked on the design of this a couple of years ago. One day we were tasked with working out how to freeze the lake over so that people could go ice skating on it.

There's a fractal insanity to the whole project. As you focus in on any one aspect, more silliness appears. The design process is driven by the Crown Prince pointing at 3D renders and saying he likes the one that looks the most cyberpunk.
"An example of uncertainty in business is when your CEO tells you they promised a feature to your biggest client and it needs to be built ASAP as highest priority, so all hands on deck. Then a day later they tell you another feature, completely contradictory to the first one, needs to be built as well and is also highest priority. When you tell them they both can't be highest priority, the answer is: make it happen."

At a certain point you have to just build a queue and start the next highest priority thing next. Too much WIP kills you.
Fair, I think. We had protestors storm the centers of government, attempting to overthrow it, after the last election. So many similarities if you only look.
I have Spectrum at my house & while they will give me an IPv6 address it doesn't really work. The network offers up a wide range of IPv6 blocks I can choose to use. But whatever IP you use first, that is the only address you ever get traffic for. So the delegation is basically just 1 IP in practice.

Also IPv6 doesn't actually work reliably. You'll notice it when browsing the web for example, there are periods of 2-3 seconds without IPv6 connectivity. This does not happen on IPv4.
Engaging. But starting over from stage 0 gets old pretty fast.
https://greptile.com/pricing
No, they are questioning the parent comment's argument that patents are against the basis for modern technological development itself, which is obviously false if patents where present well before this development
They may have originated via prosecution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law_offence

Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems...
Having worked at Amazon, patents there were "if you can imagine that software might be able to do a thing, patent it now". Absolutely no research was necessary, or indeed requested. You simply had to state "I have an idea".

In exchange you got a plastic puzzle piece to put on your desk. There's nothing more embarrassing to me than seeing a large number of those puzzle pieces in someone's care. You stood in the way of progress in service of Jeff Bezos? Awful.
I think apps like meetup, where you are joining a group of people with the same interests, is much better for meeting people than the app described here.
Do you berate your parents and grandparents each day for their participation in a society that had segregation? Do you walk over hot coals every morning to repent for the benefits you reap by virtue of being born into a society built on the backs of the segregated? Do you deride and express disgust at your peers as they relish in the taste of the pain and suffering of the billions of conscious, feeling animals we genocide every year? Do you opt-out of the industries and services today that take advantage of the suffering of less fortunate individuals forced to service you in order to survive?

Slavery was bad. Slavery is bad. Slavery is not excused. However, frothing at the mouth with rage when speaking about the actions of another society because they don’t share the same moral values as you without thinking a step further is hollow, it is empty, it is meaningless.

Why is “modern thinking” (whatever that means) good? Why is maximum individual freedom at the expense of the whole good? I am like you, I believe in that, but if you interact with people from different cultures, you will discover that is not a belief held by everyone. For many people, individual freedom at the expense of the whole is not good and they have observed that from these “modern” societies. Look at how deeply unhappy the U.S is, the pain and suffering of hundreds of millions of people. Is limiting access to healthcare an example of “modern thinking”?
Hi, for somewhere between GitHub Copilot and aider, you can try the desktop app 16x Prompt. I have been using it daily for the past few months and it suits my working style nicely.

It is capable of handling complex tasks like feature development and refactoring across multiple files, but it doesn't try to generate diff and apply them automatically.

Instead, you will get a response from LLM that is easy to read and allow you as a developer to quickly apply to your existing codebase.

You can check it out here: https://prompt.16x.engineer/
Best Practices: Debunking the myth of good/bad around objective software design
Best practices will not always cover every context or situation but they will always work in every situation where the pre-condition and context are the same or very similar.

True best practices should be rigorously tested and peer-reviewed under similar conditions and until they are, they cannot be deemed as true best practices.

Most times, software engineers like to be viciously tribal or vehemently dismissive about languages, paradigms, design patterns and methodologies. This inadvertently hinders us from seeing the bigger picture. The reality is that you can write bad or great code in any programming language/paradigm or abuse any design pattern. These thing are merely tools and it’s up to us to wield them intelligently and with skill.
Why does compile times matter? 4 minutes? 4 seconds? Who cares?
How does google decide to use the headless chromium? If there’s no metadata in the raw HTML?
> ...is the stuff of movie fantasy ... or perhaps religion.

IMHO, something like "movie fantasy" constitutes the core belief of a great many software engineers and other so-called rational people in the tech space.
If there were no patents most of them would just be kept as secrets, and you would, for the most part, get right back where you started(if not in a worse position)
> It’d take me hours to go through every file manually, and it’d be prone to human error.

The LLM output is also extremely prone to error, so it’s not like the second part of your sentence is a valid argument.
If we were at a point where the Line was feasible in terms of engineering and economics, we probably would be almost to the point of being able to put a colony on Mars
Sure, but one of the fun things you'll want to do from assembler is put pixels or characters on the screen. They're memory mapped outside of segment 0, so you'll need to work with segments to do that.
I disagree. Yikes was my mental response when I read the comment, and I wanted my comment to reflect what I actually thought.
Step 3 is a reason people publish their keys to keyservers.
I mean, SSMs are in fact under the hood RNNs
> To criticise AI music for being the same as human music, is a curious thing to say if one doesn't want to distinguish the two somehow? I missed that point entirely I guess. I don't know why that sentence was there at all then.

This is still not relevant. You don’t need to bring it up again. I wasn’t criticizing it for that.

As for the rest of your comment, you didn’t state any upsides for AI generated music, but you did spend time to attack me, so I think we’re done here.
It isn't because of Brexit, farmers also struggle in the EU. What is actually needed is UBI for the entire population, so that people can work less. The problem usn't the lack of productivity, or anything similar, the problem is there is just no way to reasonably employ all people with modern technology, so you end up producing more than can be reasonably sold and consumed.

Yes, some people will not work, and that's why it's good.
Kudos for speaking out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anPb6X-sXxI
Isn’t SOAP theoretically “transport agnostic”. It doesn’t leverage http verbs either.
I understand that part of the objective is to demonstrate precise autonomous navigation and choreography, but for the "main" scientific objective re. observing the solar corona, why not just stick a big stick with a disk on the observing satellite?
I like how he references someone who references back to himself.
I encourage Gary Marcus and scientists with similar views to create a functioning model as proof of their theories. Given his advocacy for "symbolic AI" it seems more valuable for them to demonstrate their concepts in practice rather than producing countless articles on the subject.
As I understand it, silicon cells have largely been optimized to near their peak potential. There's not much room left for improvements at this point.

Organic and perovskite cells have a higher potential efficiency. Just like was the case with silicon, it will take years of development and incremental improvements to see higher efficiencies in these technologies. Silicon cells were also not very good at the start of their development.

In that sense perovskite has the potential to be the next generation of solar cell. New developments, such as the one demonstrated in the linked paper, are just a step towards that ultimate goal of more efficient solar.

I'm not an expert in this field, so please feel free to correct any mistakes I've made.
You wouldn't put aside, say, 3% of your taxes to fund research into medicine? Especially if that research focused not on "what's the most profitable medicine" but rather "what medicine would increase well being the most"?

You really can't imagine that decoupling the profit motive from drug research is possible?
This is super cool, but unfortunately it also seems super impractical. Models tend to be quite large, so even if a browser can run them, getting them to the browser involves either:

1. Large downloads on every visit to a website.

2. Large downloads and high storage consumption for each website using large models. (150 websites x 800 MB models => 120 GB of storage used)

Both of those options seem terrible.

I think it might make sense for browsers to ship with some models built in and be exposed via standardized web APIs in the future, but I haven't heard of any efforts to make that happen yet.
I was looking at pricing for an hour chat with such an AI "therapist"

https://docs.vapi.ai/pricing

If you add up costs of the entire stack: Vapi + Deepgram + GPT4 + ElevenLabs, it comes to be $18/hr

That's not exactly cheap.
My point is that just like with meme generators, many people are able to express themselves through "rudimentary" artistic means.

A tool like this will open up a lot of possibilities.

No, they won't turn into the next Hans Zimmer.
>So, I will repeat it again: our greatest asset isn't the code we write. It’s us, alive, and living the life.

This is so important. Our work is an extension of us. Our state in the moment will bleed into all areas of life. There is nothing more important. As we are limitless potential. But only if we are living in the here and now.
As a manager, if upstream changes priorities on me but what we’re working on is almost done, I just go ahead and finish it anyways.

When they eventually switch back to the original thing they are always surprised to know it’s been completed.
I think it makes a fair amount of sense - the Ferengi have elevated capitalism to a functional religion, and although the only thing that's scarce is latinum (which is useless and unexceptional except for the fact that it can't be replicated) their religion still works when that's the only target of acquisition.

Kind of a neat example of a religion outgrowing the pressures that created it but still being a source of meaning to the believers.

While I find communists the most annoying ideologues I've ever met, I'm fine with communist propaganda if it assumes postscarcity as a necessary precursor for communism. It's people's tendency to handwave the getting to postscarcity that makes my eyelid twitch.
>... even if for no other reason than it means I don’t need to find my wallet and enter my credit card number.

... as long as you memorize your 3-digit CVC/CVV number...
> There is so much pointer indirection internal to CPython.

This cannot be overstated. Really, truly, forget everything you know about cache locality when doing even basic "for-each: add numbers together"-type things in Python.

That's not an indictment; such indirection is par for the course for scripting languages, and enables a lot of features and dynamism. Additionally, the cost of that indirection may go down over time thanks to interpreter optimizations like the JIT: https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/python-gets-a-jit.html
I wish I was a Crystal developer
Doesn't Meta own the word "Insta"?
To cite results of an arxiv preprint as “proof” that none of these LLM technologies will ever work is so disingenuous. Of course these beasts are data inefficient, but to imply that this means all of the progress is smoke and mirrors is such a stretch. I have a hard time taking any of Marcus’ arguments seriously
Yup! Floral/sweet, strong but not overpowering.
You've correctly identified how patents work, at least in the U.S.
Try the newer kindles, they have an alternative page turn animation that's a wipe instead of a flash.
Symbolic AI at Silver Medal, Boosts AlphaGeometry to Beat Gold at IMO Geometry
> everything Musk is doing could have (and very likely would have) been done by someone else in a relatively close timeframe

Why do you think that? As far as I can tell, both electric cars and reusable rockets technically could have been done decades earlier. But for all this time nobody was crazy enough to go all-in on it, until Musk did.
However, the wide use of MTA-STS is quite recent so downgrade attacks have been possible. In fact, Fastmail seems to currently be messing up MTA-STS, I'm not sure if they are intending to enable it or not.

https://www.mailhardener.com/kb/mta-sts
https://archive.ph/3UROd
Also in that situation. Currently not really interested in updating. But at some point Ill have to do it. Have barley done anything and the TrueNAS Mini has just be chucking along for almost a decade now.
I didn't design the project, but I would imagine that moving water would be cooler than stagnant water. Other pre-industrial revolution pump designs like a hydram pump could keep cool water moving from the sea as well
While your comment had vitriol, it's not too different from most comments I see on the top of this page.

Bizarre
They published their strategy. It utilizes the bioluminescence pathway from a fungus that uses caffeic acid to generate light.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7610436/
It's weird that more than a day after the weights dropped, there still isn't a proper announcement from Mistral with a model card. Nor is it available on Mistral's own platform.
US Producer Prices Rise 2.1% from Year Ago, Most in 11 Months
Note that the website says: "Our Firefly Petunias are protected under patent, and as such, propagation and breeding are not permitted."
As the founder and CEO of a two-year-old startup, seeking certainty in the direction amidst uncertainty (determining which products can bring customers and profits) should become my instinct.
https://archive.ph/zwJvl
They converted some disused offices into a sleeping area and kitchenette. If they used discretionary funds allocated for a break room, which is what it sounds like from the sound of the $3000 cap, I don't think this is a problem.
Gary Marcus is the Glenn Greenwald of AI. Doesn't mean he is wrong, just that he's always spitting venom like cut snake in his proclamations.

You don't like OpenAI Gary, we get it.
I was at an AI meetup, and I talked to someone who was in charge of the emerging technology division at a VC firm. I asked him why focus so hard on AGI, when AI tools are already looking quite impressive and are a much clearer area to focus investment on. His answer was that AGI was "easy" which I laughed at (in a good natured way) and tried to get him to elaborate on, at which point he started to get uncomfortable and made an excuse to go talk to someone else.

This same fellow was big on autonomous swarms for problem solving, but when I asked him what the problem autonomous swarms were supposed to solve that you couldn't solve more easily and quickly by a LLM talking to itself, he didn't have an answer.
General intelligence somehow just emerged from dirt and water + @.
This product seems to be targeted toward short videos, like TikTok, Instagram reels, or YouTube Shorts. I'm not sure, but I don't think any of those offer built in subtitle support yet? I know YouTube does on regular videos, but I don't think I've seen it for Shorts.
Citogenesis. It's a hell of a drug.
I'll dump this one here as it's still annoying me a bit. So one afternoon I'm sitting there and our sales guy John came in (you know who you are if you're reading this) and described what he'd managed to sell a client. I sat there and I scribbled on bits of paper for hours, did some research and went back to him with the point that it wasn't possible from an algorithmic perspective. Basically he'd assumed that if it worked for a couple of steps in Excel it'd be fine up to a few hundred. I scribbled out the mathematics a few times, wrote some prototype code and no the scalability characteristics approached "all the energy in the universe" levels of compute pretty quickly. O(wtf!).

So I go back to him and he accused me of lying and went and told the CEO. The CEO, a pretty chill guy with a doctorate, I was expecting to have a rational discussion about with but not he screamed at me too. I was downtrodden emotionally so I sheepishly said yeah I'll have another look and went back and started at it for another couple of days. No it was impossible. At that point I was stuck in a situation. I've got unemployment on one side and I've got getting screamed at inevitably. I just sat there in a depressed little hole with no options. I was angry, isolated and had no one sympathetic around. I suspect many people end up here.

Slept really badly that night. Woke up, got in the car and drove into the office. Got half way and got distracted by a cafe and decided I'd get breakfast and think some more about it. Sitting there eating a fat sausace, something just went ping, I SMS'ed John and the CEO with "fuck you I quit". I moved back in with my parents, did fuck all for 6 months, got another job, which was 80% less shit and the company I worked for went down the shitter about a year later because they couldn't deliver it.

If you feel like shit in a job, just leave. It's not worth it.
Basically the same problem that's plagued games on the web ever since the first Unreal/Unity asmjs demos a decade ago, and pretty much no progress has been made towards a solution in that time. You just can't practically make a web app which needs gigs of data on the client because there's no reliable way to make sure it stays cached for as long as the user wants it to, and as you say, even if you could reliably cache it the download and storage would still be duplicated per site using the same model due to browsers cache partitioning policies.
You're supposing that the whole transaction history is for some reason already in L1? Sure, in that case the extra burden of crunching some numbers is mostly irrelevant because there's almost no data and you've already paid for it. But you probably shouldn't have.
Sounds like you want a trade school.
Is it just me or is it deceptive to say that a person saves 50% when buying the "standard" license? Both Claude and Gemini seem to come up with a savings of almost 24%. The only way I can reach the 50% mark is by phrasing it as "buy 1 license and get a second license 50% off."

Also "testimonial" should be plural, and "spams" should be singular.
Yes but plenty of people got sued at least in Germany.

People moved to Usenet providers but that traffic is much less than it was 5 or 10 years ago.
This is a person that should have never been in a leadership position. I have worked under these types of people that were great engineers themselves but couldn’t lead worth shit.

No trust in the team. Always doing shit themselves. No discussion. Backdoor discussions. Always bending to the will of management. Everything is “important”/“critical”. It’s micromanaging to the worst degree.

At the same time, I would likely fail in the same way if given the position. Albeit, to a much lesser degree. I think management often puts us in these impossible positions without any good reason other than “to look good to X.” What’s even worse if it’s was just to earn fucking brownie points with some no name mid level director.

This is why I think unions in tech would be great. To set realistic expectations, approach management from a collective point of view.

Unfortunately companies today only aim to get that VC money with a quick exit and IPO. I think the general sentiment amongst the vultures is a union would make the quick exit less of a reality.
my boss' guess was that it was to fund a nuclear weapons program but keep it hidden. or a climate change / fallout bunker for 1/3 of the kingdom.

like it's big, elaborate build outs, nothing delivered, and some sort of under the table deal nuclear with Trump's brother in law that got him a Billion. the Iranians have, or can rapidly enrich, and Israel is popping off again (and may have ~100 nukes), so Saudi has means, motive, opportunity.

infrastructure required to build silos, and infrastructure required to build the City Of The Future are going to look more or less the same for 3-4 years -- lots of big holes, running trenches, piping and power, etc. -- and after a few years they can call it a failure and quietly sweep it under the rug with the rationalization that it's been a failure and they're ashamed of it.
The rotating Game Boy on the home page makes it hard to scroll the page on mobile.
If a watt is 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3, and we multiply by distance we get 1 kg⋅m3⋅s−3. I wonder what that means