skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you very much! Had to get the m3u8 file manually via the network tab & download it via yt-dlp because just using the site's link didn't work.
You've actually pointed out the fatal flaw in your own argument:

> you'd dump your resources into bioengineering something human-like that was better suited to space, and/or into robotics

And how do you even know what to bio-engineer before you know what the effects on humans in space are? How can you test what robots work in space without humans, at least at first? Your argument is basically a circular chicken-and-egg dead end where you don't want to do anything until you can do it properly, but you have no idea what "properly" even is because you haven't tried to do it, repeat.

> don't build the factory before you have an ACTUAL profitable product in mind

Yeah, but you build a mockup. You do some trial versions. You test things out, run some experiments, see what's possible. That's the phase we're in. Have some patience.

Geeze, I don't know what you're so animated about. The ISS isn't even that expensive.
The beatings will continue until moral improves
Huh? They are expensive, hard, if not impossible to install in many places in the world that are not Germany, and not an option if you rent?
And the best cake maker I know whips ingredients together by her mood, inventing cakes on a whim. The margin of error is wide enough.
A peak of 500 reports on downdetector for a major site is probably not a noticeable let alone newsworthy outage. For example, Reddit is showing two spikes of roughly the same size in the last 24h.
it's already easy

-eastern european
How are these words licensed?
Just finish Lawmen: Bass Reeves (about the legendary lawman of the wild West, Bass Reeves, the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River.)

https://thetvdb.com/series/bass-reeves

Recommended.
Well for almost all my GNU/Linux systems (all with KDE Plasma 6 now) with AMD and intel I would say yes, it is even smoother and faster and has lower latency than with X11, unlike the results in the articles. The only thing I really really miss in Wayland is session restore. I sure hope this gets fixed soon. In KDE Plasma yes it is partialy done but still far from what is there in X11. But yeah Nvidia graphics on one of my machines is a big pain in Wayland even ore so than in X11. So yeah not buying that one in the future for sure, just not worth all the problems it causes.
> My guess is that most people hit a wall of abstraction at certain point.

I don't think it's a limit to their abstraction, I think it's that they didn't work properly on the fundamentals, so they had a superficial understanding of the abstractions.

To give a fitness analogy it's like trying to do heavy barbell presses before you can even do 10 pushups in a row.

My experience with programming is that once you get really really good with fundamentals you suddenly leap ahead and pick up new languages, paradigms, etc. incredibly fast.

Maybe this partly explains the 10x phenomenon - it's because they worked very hard on the fundamentals.
I find big-AGI pretty good: https://github.com/enricoros/big-AGI
Exactly so if I buy a piece of land, I should be able to build whatever the hell I want on it. Right?
I'm sorry if the title might seem misleading, but I've based it on the actual PR [1], which says "GitHub does not allow any projects that are designed for, encourage, promote, support, or suggest in any way the use of synthetic or manipulated media for the creation of non-consensual intimate imagery or any content that would constitute misinformation or disinformation under this policy.". Notice the explicit "does not allow".

Should I still change it to the original?

[1] https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/926
I've been reading Cal Newport's stuff on Deep Work and Digital Minimalism and have some of his other books on my to read list. Considering the stuff he talks about and his new book on slow productivity, this move seems like a really bad idea. I'm curious to see the outcome of this.

I've adopted a more deliberate, focused work day and already seeing some improvements in my work quality, energy, and creativity.
the problem to me always was that the dumb kids need more guidance and for a longer time, giving them shorter education time is probably adding to the problem.
You're not completely fcked when u go to "hauptschule", you can always work to get the next best graduation. Would look like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauptschulabschluss -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittlere_Reife ->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur -> Bachelor -> PHD

But it's more work, paperwork and your parents have to be supportive and be able to push you financially and with tutoring and stuff. Someone with a wife and 2 kids and no second income won't be able to push unless they're a manager. You gotta be extremely resilient to go this path, and that's not what's being cultivated in Hauptschule.

so yes, you're right. Migrant kids have it harder, but since they're like 50% of the population now, the whole system will have to change if Germany wants to keep its title as thorough, smart, engineering nation.

Bein German without kids, I was fortunate, my father brought home enough to pay rent for my university. I'm not smart enough and failed my bachelor though. But without a next generation, it's all been for nothing, feels that way.
If you want to narrow the bounds of `data` on reuse, you can do easily do that in CHERI C (you'd need to also keep the larger capability somewhere to rederive the `data` capability from, either in this struct or elsewhere, depending where the allocation come from).
It's not just the books it is the whole method of teaching. I remember learning the steps to calculate an eigenvector without a single comment on why one would ever want to do that. I think it is done so that the educator can claim "this course teaches all of calculus and linear algebra and quantum mechanics". To actually explain things properly would require more modest course goals.
cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39808071

I got paywalled pretty early in, but I think I agree with the thesis as from what I've seen of the back of the house in a McDo: the humans are universal effectors who can read screens, while the scheduling (and associated decision-taking) is automated.
> "Command line package management"? The whole point of Mac is to not need a command line.

Weird, that was a selling point when BSD-based OSX came out. Maybe you don't want to use it, but Apple definitely pushed it for marketing.
Why add more bots to a platform already overrun by bots?
Seconded. I lived in Madrid for 5 years. Best years of my life. Eventually I moved to London for work and my quality of life took a hit.
It's a proposal (from the byline): We’re asking for feedback on a proposed Acceptable Use Policy update to address the use of synthetic and manipulated media tools for non-consensual intimate imagery and disinformation while protecting valuable research. It's a PR for comment, not a policy.
Does it really make any difference for software like this whether it‘s running in emulation or native?
Yep. Also whether passing in registers is faster or not also depends on the function body. It doesn't make much sense if the first thing the function does is to take the address of the parameter and passes it to some opaque function. Then it needs to be spilled onto the stack anyway.

It would be interesting to see calling convention optimizations based on function body. I think that would be safe for static functions in C, as long as their address is not taken.
Horizontal centring was never hard in CSS, it's just `text-align: center` for inline elements and `margin: 0 auto` for block elements. It's vertical centering that was impossible for many years.
Every arrest is logged into a database run by the FBI, along with the data (ID, fingerprints, description, arrest records, etc.). I don't think all states/jurisdictions are part of the information sharing program, but the majority are at least, and some of that data is even shared internationally when people go through customs IIRC.
When I was in school calculus was the first time we encountered sleight-of-hand tricks as a technique in mathematical reasoning, along with math basically being a symbolic form of fiction it made it quite hard.

While I enjoy Silvanus book, I don't think calculus can be made easy without preparing the students to accept the handwaving and trickery involved in the jump from an equation to its 'area' or 'velocity'. Compared to the solemn majesty of euclidic trigonometry or relatively straightforward step-by-step solving of quadratic equations the techniques foundational to calculus are rather devious (as are those that bring in complex numbers).

In high school the combination with physics made it harder for some students, they had the impression that learning math amounted to learning about nature, rather than a language for expressing fictions about a view of nature. In turn the approximative nature of the problem solving and calculus didn't fit very well.
we're not sure if the actual data exactly matches our reconstruction, but one of the authors pointed out to us that we can exactly reproduce their scaling law if we make the mistake they made when fitting it to the data

what they did was to take the mean of the loss values across datapoints instead of summing them and used L-BFGS-B with the default tolerance settings, so the optimizer terminated early, and we can reproduce their results with this same mistake

so our reconstruction appears to be good enough
TIL that I must know a lot of people owning ATLASSIAN stocks.
My current title does state that it is just a proposal, but fair enough, I'll update the title to the original one.
> you can never put the genie back in the bottle

That's specifically why OpenAI don't release weights, and why everyone who cares about safety talks about laws, and why Yud says the laws only matter if you're willing to enforce them internationally via air strikes.

> It’s going to be so satisfying

I won't be feeling Schadenfreude if a low budget group or individual takes an open weights model, does a white-box analysis to determine what it knows and to overcome any RLFH, in order to force it to work as an assistant helping walk them though the steps to make VX nerve agent.

Given how old VX is, it's fairly likely all the info is on the public internet already, but even just LLMs-as-a-better-search / knowledge synthesis from disparate sources, that makes a difference, especially for domain specific "common sense": You don't need to know what to ask for, you can ask a model to ask itself a better question first.
In my recollection, the selling point was that it had a command line for those who wanted one (¿maybe just that it was a Unix, without explicitly mentioning the command line much?), not that you needed to use it.
Free speech as long as you don‘t hurt the master‘s feelings.
It appears increasingly likely that AI will be controlled by the few, at least in the USA.

That brings P(Doom) above 90% in my opinion, where P(Doom) is the probability that AI will be used to supplement the boot stomping on the human face forever, instead of liberating We The People.
It’s a trap! </Ackbar>
I think it's also the fact that back in the day shit usually didn't work, so it was expected to need to tinker with it.
> The result pretty much occupies the whole viewport, with no margin. I did not find a way to add margins or padding to the page's body in Netscape Composer.

Should had just threw the contents in the table.

Also, every time some idiot assumes my 43" 4k display in the landscape mode is just a strange 6" smartphone and renders the site with gigantic text with 35% of viewport width - I just really want to punch them in the face over TCP/IP.

Please, don't be an asshole to your visitors, let them (and their devices) decide how to render the information you present to the whole world to see.
Five things to be optimistic about in America today
No, there are actually quite a few things CHERI does that aren't the borrow checker's job, and some things the borrow checker does that CHERI doesn't help with.

In C and C++, if you write x[4] for an array with only 2 members, you get undefined behaviour. In Rust this causes a 'panic', but that isn't a 'borrow checker' thing, that's because in Rust all array accesses are bounds checked by default.

You can do un-bounds checked array accesses in Rust, you can do bounds-checked accesses in C++ (for std::vector at least), it's just that the languages chose different defaults.

One thing the borrow checker does is help write parallel code by stopping multiple threads writing to the same memory at the same time. CHERI doesn't stop that at all.
Investor buys distressed office building near Willis Tower at fire-sale price
San Francisco's distressed office market tends to feature in HN. Here, a Chicago space has sold at about 11% of its previous sales price in 2013, and likely an even smaller fraction of its ~2020 valuation.

This is also a bet on a Class B/C building in a market where Class A offerings show considerably more lease interest.
You can plug sileroVAD in the browser for this sort of interruptions, if you can make use of threads/workers in JS then you can mute/stop your output & instead have the chunks dumped to the STT websocket
But I see that your API is targeted at just phone calls?

Can I use it to just build voice bots plugged in to LLMs to have conversations with?
You have missed my point.

This is not the case of a territory that a country controls now, even if it has occupied it only recently (e.g. like Tibet), when nobody can contest that they are not the owners of the territory, unless they would be willing to attack them, to change the current ownership of the territory by force.

This is the case of a territory that is not controlled by the country that desires to be its owner, and it has not been controlled by it since 1895. Despite that, they want to change the de facto ownership of the territory, which can be done only by force. The fact that some corrupt politicians from many countries have decided that de jure Taiwan should belong to China, without any grounds for this, so that they have given to China what was not theirs to give, is something as valid as the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, where Hitler, despite not being the owner of Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Romania, has nonetheless given them to Russia, or the Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin accords, where Churchill and Roosevelt, despite not being the owners of Eastern Europe, have given it to Stalin.

There are other such cases where a country desires to become the owner of some territory, but they at least can justify their claims by the fact that the desired territory has actually belonged to them for a long time and it had been taken from them by force, so that it would be right for the territory to have its ownership reverted.

In this case such historical claims have little value, because Taiwan has become Chinese only recently and only by force, first during the Qing dynasty and then due to the Kuomintang invasion.
HN guidelines[0] request the original: Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. (A blog post, preferably by you, with a title that matches your opinion is fair game)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Microsoft's new AI tool is a deepfake nightmare machine
I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.
Good. Explicit is better than implicit (or implied). Documenting the decision and making it clear is probably better for everybody -- both those who agree and those who disagree.

Lots of other projects also have reached the same decision, but the way of communicating this has not been clear. I suppose people with better wordsmithing skills than me will eventually end up with a more-or-less standardized expression to be included in the CONTRIBUTING file.

From the point of view of contributors, the situation is a little clearer. In the current situation, using most generative AI tools to produce content essentially stops me from being able to sign a DCO or a CLA to contribute this content, since they both say "I certify that I wrote this" and I can't claim that any longer.
The “But China is evil”-narrative is silly. Facebook isn’t banned in China, they just have to comply with the law in the land, just like TikTok is doing in the US.
China has not forced through the sale of Facebook to a Chinese owner.
There are competing services that are more popular in China. There are also competing services to TikTok in the US, Reels and such, they just aren’t more popular.
> this is one big hurdle in learning math backwards. You discover new missing pieces at every corner. Each missing piece leading to another missing piece.

Yes this is exactly what happening to me.

E.g. I got up to Week 2 of the course and suddenly made the big (to me) discovery that sqrt(a/b) = sqrt(a)/sqrt(b).

It seems trivial I know when you see it written like that, but the problem is to recognise and apply that principle in the context of a broader problem such as factoring.

> Just keep at it.

Thanks, this gives me confidence that I'm not wasting my time haha

I am beginning to get better at it, to the point that I can often work out why I got a question wrong on my own without referring to the answer.
This is a great example of how to do the marketing correctly.

A suggestion: explain the privacy implications front and center. What do you plan to do with the voices etc.
At least according to Elon, you have it backwards. It was the shareholders pressuring Elon to advertise, not him trying to pay one of his companies at the expense of the other.
> Where has that ever worked? Predatory pricing is highly unlikely.
> See eg

Neither of the articles understand how predatory pricing works, assuming it's a single-market process. In the most usual case you fuel price dumping in one market by profits from the other. This way you can run it potentially indefinitely and you're doing it not in a hope of making profits on this market some day but to make sure no one else does. Funnily enough the second author got a good example but still failed to see it under his nose: public schools do have 90% of the market, and in many countries almost 100%. Obviously it works. Netscape died despite having a superior product because it was competing with a public school so to speak. Browser market is dead up to this date.

> And I'm not sure why as a worker you would decide to rot? If someone pays me a lot to put in a token effort, just so I don't work for the competition, I might happily take that over and practice my trumpet playing while 'working from home'.

That's exactly what happens and people proceed to degrade professionally.

> Perhaps someone else has actual interesting work, and comparable pay.

Not unless that someone sits on the ads money pipe.

> Please provide some examples

What kind of example do you expect? If it helps, half the people I personally know in Google "practice the trumpet" in your words. Situation is slowly improving though in the past two years.

I'm not saying it should be made illegal. I'm saying it's definitely happening and it's sad for me to see. I want the tech industry to move forward, not the amateur trumpet one.
Small protein plays big role in chronic HIV infection
it does look very nice, but as a long time mac user who does often pay for conveniences like these... $49 once is already far too much for the value it provides and there's no way in hell that i'd be willing to pay the annual subscription for updates.

if this was a one off $20-$25, i would buy it.
But how can you then sign a DCO or a CLA for contributing? Both of these say that you certify that you are the author (or you know that you have the legal rights to contribute the content). How do you know this for generated content?
The bombing campaign of former Yugoslavia lasted for 10 weeks and stopped a series of civil wars that had gone on for 10 years and claimed at least 130 000 lives. The whole campaign killed a few hundred people, less than were executed in a few days in some of the worst massacres there, and brought peace that has lasted for 25 years and counting. So indeed they were on the right side.
200k is tiny though. It is a non issue.
mericans jealous
How does working harder solve "rising borrowing costs and oil prices and a rapid depreciation of Korean currency"? Those are all exogenous factors.
Elon has been threatening other companies with all kind of crap for stopping advertising on twitter. They have also directly and indirectly attacked Media Matters for affecting their advertising revenue.

Does the fact that his own company barely advertises on twitter be used against him now?
It's a pity managers see themselves as "up". They should see themselves as below the engineers and accountants and whatever. Managing is a supporting role if done properly. The boss mentality is corrosive.
Yes! However it's in different places. There is a lot of talk about how we choose to represent men on screen, and what it means for the boys we raise. A lot of people have been cheering for less traditionally masculine characters. Some of my friends have been welcoming this sort of representation because it used to be so rare.

In the workplace? Some men would love to see the normalisation of male nurses, male kindergarten teachers and the like. Perhaps they're not as loud because these jobs don't command six figure salaries?
Not sure we want HN to become the place where we bash people that like to bash people.
Ugh - the “burning platform”. Is it ever used authentically? Does it ever go well? I do believe that its typically inauthentic use is mostly self-defeating – people can smell inauthenticity a mile away.
It's not even necessary for compression -- gzip is decent and transparent.
I don’t think this is news or anyone should be surprised.

Many documentaries and docu-dramas stretch the truth a lot and in some cases non-obvious ways to make events more dramatic.

One has to remember that it is entertainment first. And no guarantees have been made at anytime by Netflix to only tell you the viewer the truth and nothing but the truth.

Also I recall seeing horror movies openly use “based on a true story”- which is obviously not true.
Like, in court? Or in public discussion?
Better yet, just start smart and send a nice note to a maintainer you admire and sponsor a project for $5/mo!
Here is the example of the DuckDB querying parquet files directly from Storage because it supports the S3 protocol now - https://github.com/TylerHillery/supabase-storage-duckdb-demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diL00ZZ-q50
To what extent is marketing via shareholders viable.

Let’s say company does $1bn a year, and my decision adds $1m/y revenue (0.1%) and my share holding is 0.1% and worth $10m. This has made me $10k. Not insignificant but a person making that decision $10k bribe to make a suboptimal decision is bad value. Especially when it is not clear it happened due to
volatility.

The real reason they may do it is favour for favours.