skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tencent version is overly long and drawn out, has mediocre visual effects and production, censors key parts from the book, has bad english-speaking actors, but has decent writing and is interesting to watch.

The Netflix version has awful writing for the scientist protagonists, dumbs down or omits parts of the book (the audience is too stupid to learn what the CMB is for instance, and barely any time is spent in the vr game), zips through the story real fast because they decided to cram all of the first book and part of the sequel into 8 episodes for some reason, but has great visual effects.
Yea for sure, it works for some and not for others. I’m likely biased from the subscription fatigue so take what I say with ample salt.

Sharing passwords between families is definitely a problem for me still, like sharing 401k accounts with my wife. Hopefully passkeys and the respective family accounts with the majors can solve this eventually.
My android phone would refuse to unlock with biometrics and requires pin unlock every 24h. Is that manufacturer-specific feature?
> Coding pays so well because the operating costs are low and the returns/profits are enormous for companies.

Unrelated. Coding pays well because of the tight labor supply compared to the demand. Companies NEVER direct excess value to labor. Extracting surplus value from labor is sorta the whole deal with capitalism.

> I know plumbers who are technically brilliant

Also not relevant. The argument is that it isn't necessary to be brilliant in order to be a competent plumber, not that it would actually preclude you.

> I know very well paid coders who regularly say things that make me question their intelligence.

Do you think that's actually a good measure of intelligence? How are you normalizing it against the population, people you don't work with, and/or plumbers generally?

The question to ask is, "taking a random sample of persons having 80 IQ, half of whom intend to pursue a career in software and half who intend to pursue a career in plumbing, what is the relative success rate (for some reasonable measure of 'success')?"
>> In music it’s widely accepted that it takes years of practice to become skilled with an instrument

Some of the music I listened to growing up, that I still listen to, was made by people who were complete neophytes with their instruments.

So I reject your premise, and I reject your attempt at gatekeeping.

>> I think we need to take seriously how hard it is to do good programming work. Algorithms, data structures, math, performance optimisation, distributed systems, graphics & shaders, large system design - any one of these skills takes years to properly master

If there are any programmer kids out there, don't listen to this stuff. I mean that seriously. This is just gatekeeping.

If you're a smart kid who wants to learn to code, you can do that, and you can be writing code in no time. If you're a smart kid who wants to play music, you can do that in no time.

Don't listen to the gatekeepers. They are compromised. They have conflicts of interest.
They weren’t using something as naive as keyword search even 20 years ago. That notion is more trope than reality.
Speak for yourself. I plan to be dead before shit really hits the fan, and I'll see all of you bastards in hell.
> offering a glimpse into decisions that have spurred complaints of alleged censorship from the company and its billionaire owner

In other words, decisions not made by the company or its "billionaire owner" at all but falsely attributed to them.

> the company under [Musk's] ownership has bowed to government requests from around the world

Under duress! Damned if you do, banned if you don't. In this case they actually did stand up to a government and are of course being criticized for that too.

> [Musk's] crusade has been cheered on by supporters of far-right

> most legal experts see [the judge's] brash tactics as legally sound and furthermore justified

Could this article possibly be written in a more slanted way? To me what's going on with these orders is absurd and obviously shouldn't be allowed in a sensible democracy. Is AP really on the side of the idea that one person should have unilateral, unchecked secret ban power over every social media account in the country?
At least some JW Marriott hotels have the TV setup I described.
What Are Chrome Flags?
People generally vote for things that benefit them.

People who have a large portion of their wealth in housing, and even more so those who have used debt to take an extremely leveraged position on housing, benefit from increases in housing prices and lose out on decreases.

Having a significant amount of voters be in the above position is to make effective government action to reduce housing prices impossible.

So with that in mind, if institutional investors are disincentivised from investing in housing, which group is supposed to take their place?
I don't follow apple closely enough to know what on device inference means to the typical base spec mba buyer, but I'm going to guess they have no idea what that even means, let alone what they would do with it.
I'm often reminded of the beginning of Interstellar, where the grandfather talks about when he was a kid and it seemed like some new amazing thing was invented every week.
This is a strange take on a very light-hearted interaction. Non of it was all that serious.
But not from Japan, and I assume most other non-English speaking countries.
Where in the Brazilian constitution you have right to access Twitter or any platform for that matter?
I got to level 8 by asking in rot13. I think I beat the bonus level too but I can't remember how.
I'd long ago noted that ecommerce sales growth strongly lagged predictions, and that seems to continue to be the case.

Segment detail on retail spending / sales is hard to come by, but it seems that overall spend is dominated by food & beverage (though that's less than half the total). Online sales are dominated by electronics and apparel. The latter somewhat surprises me as clothing is very much a feel-and-fit concern, difficult or impossible to assess online.

<https://www.retaildogma.com/number-of-retail-stores-in-the-u...>

<https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/top-ecommerce-categories-in-th...>

Key data for 2024 ecommerce categories:

1. Computer and consumer electronics: $219.33 billion (21.2% of total sales in the US market)
2. Apparel and accessories: $203.75 billion (19.7%)
3. Furniture and home furnishings: $129.45 billion (12.5%)
4. Health and personal care and beauty: $111.03 billion (10.7%)
5. Auto and parts : $86.26 billion (8.3%)
6. Food and beverage: $78.28 billion (7.6%)
7. Toys and hobby: $74.03 billion (7.2%)
8. Books/music/video: $54.02 billion (5.2%)
9. Office equipment and supplies: $19.35 billion (1.9%)
Configuration: Prefs, Settings, Features, Switches and Flags
> I wish it only did that, and didn't make the downvoted ones literally fade away

Oh I disagree. I think fading downvoted comments is a great idea, though I prefer them to be less intensely faded out than HN defaults to (I use a custom stylesheet and tune them to be more readable but still clearly faded). While I'm sure I have the capacity to manually evaluate a numeric score and internalize it as context, I'd much rather have the same information conveyed visually in a way that encourages the action that I'm likely to choose to perform (ie, skipping the comment). Reducing the contrast of a comment makes it take more effort to read, which makes me instinctively not want to read it, so I can skip all the cognitive load of "how much is this downvoted? oh, to -3? it's probably not worth reading then, maybe I'll continue on with the rest of the thread and come back to this if I see a reason to." I'm a big proponent of visual design that offloads cognitive load to existing fixed-function chunks of the brain so I can focus more of my attention on the things I actually care about.
Would launches be as cheap if they had to keep replacing the most complicated part of the ship? Could they hide the expense of replacing the engines with subsidized pricing like Uber?
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No, it'd definitely clickbait. The person wasn't just a regular citizen, he was a parolee. They left out this crucial detail from the headline, and it changes everything.
The ideal here would be if there was some sort of model to build up a big centralised generic index and then different providers do different tweaks to the rankings on top of that (kinda like DuckDuckGo, at the moment I like their operating model).

However, even in the worst case, assuming everyone just uses Google and Google continues their path of political activism ... this is still an almost incomprehensible improvement over the absolute disaster that has been the mainstream media over identifiable history.

It is interesting to look at something like the Trump presidency in the US and compare how effectively it would have been buried by the media in ages past vs today where they just can't shut a vocal minority up. We'll see the same effect across every other minority group too - on topics that a significant number of people care about it is nigh impossible to kill off a message and marginalise the messenger these days. Things like Assange and Snowden, Epstein, the Panama papers, or the various other political scandals that break are harder to clamp down on. The fake consensus on how great all the wars are is also under constant pressure and getting harder to maintain.

It doesn't really matter if a group like Google puts their thumb on the scale, they can't control the pressure that all the free speech is bringing to bear in any sort of half-free market for search even with the benefits of incumbency.
Here is the relevant Llama 3 license section, below, in it's entirety. It says that if you have 700M+ users then you'll need a new license, which Meta may or may not choose to grant to you. It does not say what the terms of that new license will be, but if you are interested you can watch the Dwarkesh interview, or just believe me when I tell you that Zuck said it'll be a commercial license - you will pay.

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2. Additional Commercial Terms. If, on the Meta Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights.
This is a technicality, in the grand scheme of things.
My wife brought in about $350K. Does marrying a smart and hard working woman count as "passive income"?
I remember reading about cyc.

I had learned about "AI" in the 80's. The promise was that with lisp and expert systems and prolog and more.

the article said cyc was reading the newspaper every day.

I thought, wow, any day now computers will leap forward. The japanese 5th generation computing will be left in the dust. :)
> Side-note: Mojo has been designed by the creator of LLVM and MLIR to prioritize and optimize vector hardware use, as a language that is similar to Python (and somewhat syntax compatible).

Are people getting paid to repeat this ad nauseum?
The other way to look at subsidies for transport is per passenger mile :

This has data for the US.

https://www.newgeography.com/content/006415-transport-costs-...
> You’re forgetting that the people living in those towns don’t want you to suddenly increase the housing stock by 5x and with it the class sizes.

It's actually easier to have smaller class sizes with higher density because you spend less on transportation and real estate and can use the money hire more teachers, or lower your taxes, or do whatever you like with it.

> Why should a minority of people, especially those that don’t even live in these towns, dictate how the town will be changing?

Because it's every town operating under the same set of incentives. Existing homeowners don't want more housing because they want the value of their existing home to go up through scarcity. It's the same in every town, so if you want to build "cities" anywhere the decision on whether it can be done in a particular place can't be solely in the hands of the people who have the financial incentive to say no.

> If dense housing is the bees knees, make people want to live in cities.

If people didn't want to live in cities then why does the housing there cost more?
>> Because most land with residential development floods

Every year?

Not every year. It's a math problem. Insurance will cover it if they are free to set the premiums.
Strange. The Llama 3 model card mentions that the knowledge cutoff dates are March 2023 for the 8B version and December 2023 for the 70B version (https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md)
exactly the police would need a warrant to unlock my phone, same as my front door.
That's fine, using those tools is your prerogative and I won't deny it or besmirch you because of it. That being said, going to a project such as Gentoo's - defined by its ideals of Free/Libre software and its commitment to users of Free/Libre software - and intentionally go against the grain by using AI is what I protested against, as do the other contributors and council members.

Using AI, such as ChatGPT and Claude and such, in contributions to Free/Libre software, is not practically wrong, it's ideologically wrong. It is so, in my opinion, because the AI was produced by a company that did not ask anyone for permission when incorporating training materials (applies to all commercial AI products of today), it did not respect the liberties of its contributors nor its rights to ownership of their work (applies to all commercial AI products of today), and now asks of you to foot the bill for whatever slop it produces (applies to most commercial AI products of today, some are still free to use).

You can use your tools if you like them, that's fine, I'm not your boss. But on that last point, a large majority of users I've encountered, in this thread even, seem to agree that all AI-produced works need retouching (big or small retouching, though most often big) in order to be usable in any serious endeavor. Midjourney users need to touch up the fingers and the landscapes and look for artifacts of all kinds. Copilot users need to rewrite whole algorithms sometimes because of plagiarism and outright erroneous calculations (unless you don't care). ChatGPT needs to be fact-checked if you ask it to write anything significant.

I ask you this, if you have to oversee everything it produces, costs money, and is generally agreed to produce low-quality work, why not hire a junior employee instead? Freshers, as our fellows in India would call them. Lord knows we need more of them.
You might want to take a look at Math Academy. I'm similar to you and have been using it since last year.

My tool to get me through slogs is streaks, so I commited to doing a lesson (or at least part of a lesson) every day and I'm at 198 days so far.

I wrote this at 100 days in case it's helpful: http://gmays.com/math I'm not sure if I'll have time to write an update for 200 days, but maybe at the 1 year mark.
To be fair, you are paying the "toll" each time you fill up (in the form of gas taxes).
The nuclear reactors that could power bases on the Moon
Alaska Air National Guard may miss half its alert missions under new rules
The users split it between them! We do charge a small transaction fee, but we'll never take the buy-in amount itself. So for example, if a challenge is $100 to join, and 5 people join ($500 pot) but only 2 people survive, then the users will get $250 each (everyone will pay $5 participation fee to join).

We purposefully limited the group size to max 5 people, as we wanted to keep it small so that real connections are made and people are less likely to lie (just like you said).

And there's the option of letting anyone join (people you don't know), but since the group size is small we're counting on people actually building that genuine connection through a common mission.

A really cool outcome that we envision is that a bunch local people meet through this app on a challenge, then once complete, they meet up for drinks and hang out.
Just look at the other comments here saying "oh, this is not a democracy, that's now how democracy works, you can't do that" and, actually, you can, different countries have different laws, electoral law in Brazil is very strict, to the point that if you're campaigning close to voting places on election day you will be arrested and it's all fine, people mostly follow the law and don't get in trouble for it.
man this is awesome. Thank you! I took my last calculus course in undergrad over 10 years ago and honestly forgot a lot of math including calculus. I am currently back in school doing my masters and struggling at the moment after forgetting this and a lot of other undergrad math topics.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of similar sites for linear algebra, discrete mathematics, statistics, etc?
This implies that all people who don't enjoy coding are also not very good at it, which doesn't match my experience.

There is a significant cohort of professional coders who enjoy the comfortable lifestyle who write very bad code. In fact, I'd venture to say there are far more of those than people who don't much enjoy the work but still do it well because they have other priorities and responsibilities in life that make it necessary to maintain a strong work ethic.
"(e.g., you can't use public bathrooms if your social score is too low)"

do you have a source on this? i have used dozens of public bathrooms in china and i've never seen any of them gated off for specific people for any reason or anyone checking anything before you go inside
I'm not sure that saying a world of sophistication and capability opens up with practice, or that people have broadly lost sight of it, is the same as gatekeeping.

I was one of those kids you're calling out to and I'm glad I had the opportunity to just dig in, but I'm far better at what I do after decades of practice.

The same is true in each of the numerous other skills and crafts I've pursued in that time.

You can write code in no time, but you really are going to only become continually better at it if you embrace organized, reflective, and regular practice of some kind.
Having a delay, where people can see what's coming down the pipe, does have value. In a year there may/will be a open source model.

But knowing that this is possible is important to know.

I'm fairly clued in, and am constantly surprised at how fast things are changing.
Is the question of blooddraws and fingerprints drawn from that fact? That is to say, was that a valid argument for compelling the fingerprint-unlock because parolees supply their fingerprints? I'm not American and had formed the impression that simply being remanded could involve fingerprinting in some states?
Who claimed Brazil is is a proper democracy? The country is largely messed up and controlled by cartels or other outside influences, similar to much of South America. Even the United States is not a true democracy, it's a cheap clone, at best -- *A Representative Republic.

There's a reason mant Brazilians have migrated the United States -- Basic safety.

Sources:

https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/news/in-brazil-your-interne...

https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/14o2i...

Edit: Can anyone recover the link to the phone pole maintenance worker who was taken hostage in south America? I think it happened in Mexico, but memory is fuzzy. The government didn't do shit to help that guy. Terrifying.
it takes years of practice to become skilled with an instrument

that may be true. but it doesn't take years before you can write code. sure, you don't know everything at the beginning, but you can apply what you learned as soon as you learned it, and you don't have to practice it over a long period before you can use it.

learning a music instrument takes comparatively more practice before you sound good. (unless it's a rhythm instrument. you can play a simple drum rhythm after your first lesson. you may take years to master drumming, just like to may take years to master programming, but you can be productive very early.
>You should be happy that Meta find ways to make money from their models,

I am, this is unambiguously great. Just don't call it open source.
In the US, those taxes don't come anywhere near even artillery range of paying for road maintenance, construction, and various road-support services.
And that idea is wrong. It was never accepted, not even by Feynman. The field explanation is the one used by the Standard Model. I’m providing the best known real answer for anyone curious after reading the article.
Jesus. Yeah dude, go on, all dictatorships.
I don’t know if I’m alone here, but I feel like the only sci-fi I like is really more like science realism.

Like I really loved the Martian and Project Hail Mary.

I’m also a really big fan of Tolkien. I couldn’t get into Game of Thrones though. I also didn’t really like Orson Scott cards works, except for Ender’s Game.. once he started world-building I got bored.
This is NOT okay. I can’t imagine touching someone else or something that they are wearing on their person in the workplace (unless there is some good reason otherwise), and vice versa.
I don't pay them to develop AI. Just like I don't pay Google to develop their ad business. I pay Kagi for search that I use (and Google for limited cloud storage) and what they do with that money is up to them.
"Dolphin" and "Nemo" are more memorable, and they don't need to make sense: what does the Amazon rainforest have to do with online shopping? Nothing at all. But it's a catchy name and the company is very successful.

In KDE, if you navigate through the K-menu to Applications->System, you'll see "Dolphin", and in smaller text underneath, "File Manager" so you know what it is.
> you don't 'save' democracy by trampling on its traditions.

It’s maybe not that simple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Holding power-volume-up for a second to reach the “power off?” screen is enough to kill Touch / Face ID instantly, at which point you can let go without having fired an alarm (unless you’ve gone and altered your alert settings, so test this when a loud noise won’t endanger you).
That report says that that tax is to be spent on roads, transport, biking infrastructure & etc.

I also expect that you don't have any idea how much of the total road-maintenance funding comes from that tax, and how much of it comes from other sources.

(It's also... odd... to start off talking about tax and revenue policies in the US, and then suddenly switch to an entirely separate country (given that the US is uniquely car-centric and politically fucked-up) but whatever.)
Nice, this would be a great tabletop book for any SWE chill room.
Google is a one trick pony. I've seen the same panic behaviour with Social / Google Plus. Now they're doing nothing but AI.
This is insane. And, also, frightening, with so many models out in the wild and people not caring to properly harden or at least enclose them in places where they can't get out of their EC2 instances and wreak havok in their internal networks.
My DJI weighs about 1kg and I could put explosives and enough compute on it for less than 100g to be self guided and lethal today, as well as cover every other dimension you mentioned.

The problem with flying cars is the physics at that time wasn’t conceivable (but is now it’s just I’m practically useless). The technology exists to do everything discussed by a DIY effort. It’s not about some quantum leap in ability. It’s about scale, cost reduction, and improvement of existing tooling and tying it all together. Which militaries world wide are -already- doing.

A 10% success ratio when the munition costs an order or two magnitude less is a winning proposition. The key isn’t each drone being successful it’s about launching 100,000 drones at once and being unstoppable en masse