skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yes. This makes life better because

1) This tech makes it easy for anyone to file a complex legal complaint to a situation and then send it to the right legal department for almost free.

2) You can now ask a complex legal question and get a response for almost free. (Example is reckless driving a crime here ? What is the fine? LLM looks up your coordinates, the laws there and then gives you the exact response)

3) Even if you dont know the language this tech translates the laws for you and gives you an expert analysis for almost free.

I easily see this as a win for the less powerful.
If you have a point, state it.

Just claiming "You are wrong, educated yourself" won't get us anywhere.

I think that you are wrong just like you think I am wrong.

But I am willing to discuss it.
Yes, I also took it as wordplay on Doublespeak that found its way into casual slang.
The Anduril issue seems to have been the main catalyst for the drama. Seems like Anduril probably did more harm then good - who at Anduril couldn't have predicted that the Nix folks would start to have a major freakout the minute they attempted to sponsor?
I just think the inconsistency is glaring. Would love to be a fly on the wall of what I expect/hope was a heated debate over why USPS, one of if not the top US government websites used by people in the US, should opt-out of the anti-phishing tactics used by most other US gov't sites.

And for that matter, why does www.usps.gov redirect to the .com rather than vice-versa, and why does the bare usps.gov domain resolve to nothing? Who makes these decisions and how do they result in the opposite of what I (perhaps naively) would expect rational decision-makers to do?
The antiquity of 'they' as the indefinite singular is well established. "If you do ever figure out whose umbrella this is, do give it back to them, will you?" has always been correct when the identity of the individual (and therefore particulars such as gender) is unknown.

As a definite singular, one used to refer to a known person who relates to gender in a specific way, it is rather new. I have no beef whatsoever with this particular linguistic innovation, but let's not pretend that it isn't one.
https://github.com/nrdxp/rfc-evidence/blob/dfe80298dddf9858a...
I enjoy intentionally mispronouncing words to my fiancee, and this one is definitely going into the rotation, so thank you for that! (Now, to figure out how to get "tortoise" into casual conversation.)
Too bad there isn’t an NRA for LLM’s. So far at least nobody has been literally murdered using an LLM, as far as I’ve heard.
A lot of the supply chain and skills base is shared between the nuclear military and commercial nuclear.

The military's needs are not quite as straightforward as "take plutonium put it in a box". They need nuclear engineers, parts for PWRs, etc.

This is why the US government pushes nuclear power heavily in spite of it 5xing the cost of civilian electricity.
Here's a link to the actual image.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/53686360156/...
It's both. Price out a house of the same size and it will still be cheaper.
You do realize that people aren't required to carry around actual gold?

I just counted and there are exactly 6 $1 bills in my wallet that have been in there for I don't even know how long.

That being said, the main problem with silver/gold was the government pegging their value to each other causing 'issues'.
I started using noted (also a variant of neo2) [1] and I love it. I did change some things in the Layer 4 (mostly placed the numbers on the left hand and arrows arranged in-line, similar to vim). I really like how it works. I'm using a split keyboard, specifically the Lily58.

[1] https://neo-layout.org/Layouts/noted/
Can anybody more knowledgeable than me clarify how a project like Fedora Silverblue compares to Nix? I know Nix has the declarative configuration, but do you get the same reproducibility out of Silverblue?
In Germany, your life is not ruined if you go bankrupt and have to pay for the fail you created. Society still gives you shelter, food, healthcare, even if you have lost your luxury. So there is no reason to make wasting resources and harming society simple.
Uh, China has banned numerous US-based apps because they violate its censorship policies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

That includes Twitter/X, so not sure what your YouTube video has to do with anything.
I had a look at this, but the setup seems like it's for automated emails. I'm mainly looking to be able to personally send from the custom email without ending up in spam...
People say that I'm cynical but wow this is just off the charts. It also makes me really optimistic that something big is right around the corner. When people start with the "it's all been done" and "nothing good or better will ever happen again" it just means they can't see how things will change. Because they're blind they won't see the next big thing creeping up behind them and when it finally does become apparent they'll exclaim, "Wow what a breakthrough" when the truth is more likely that it's been something that has been brewing for decades. I have some guesses about what the next ones are.
Does it come with a portable nuclear reactor to power it?
How often to they steer people toward a ticket that causes them travel problems later (e.g. not accepted, technology failures)?
> than to count lines downward in my head

:set relativenumber

Once you get used to jumping right to the line it's far quicker. Searching and hopping can be quite quick _providing_ there's something unique to jump to, otherwise it can be tedious.
Is it pirated or is it legit and you need login? I thought the latter, but list also had legit 'open access' channels from around the world that don't require anything to watch! :)
Remember that the buyer has to move it. If that costs $50K (no idea, totally guessing) then it's currently "worth" $53K
Auctions by default almost always undercut the actual market value so no not really?
I suggest that you reverse engineer (decompile) the jar file and check the java code too. If you didn't know, it is very easy to do.
India banned TikTok a while back but their trade with China just keeps growing - https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/c...

TikTok ban is more about the Attention Wars.

Politicians in Democracies world over have walked into a trap by falling in love with Social Media.

How do you get noticed, in the absurd reality created by social media, where everyone is given a mic hooked up to the same sound system? No one can win in this game. Its an arms race to nowhere. Instead of recognizing that and creating a coordination mechanism for who gets the mic, politicians are currently doing two things -

1. Buying more Ads (just check the ever growing ad spends by political parties world over) - this basically means Democracy is for sale to the largest ad buyers

2. Arm twisting the platforms
As I understand this law does not mandate you to ensure anything. It requires you to follow best practices (to be determined), report safety incidents, etc. You are not even liable for safety incidents, you just need to report them, although it may be embarrassing. Overall, it seems highly reasonable.
Nah. I really want wearable AR glasses with a HUD and shit, but the tech just isn't there. VR gets tiring (for the neck) after awhile as-is. I'm not saying it won't have broad appeal, but I think the "iPhone" moment for AR/VR requires something that can be passively used and carried on the person 100% of the time, and we're nowhere near that.
Key point here is that the implementation combines an LLM summary with DIRECT REFERENCES to the source material: https://hotseatai.com/ans/does-the-development-and-deploymen...

That seems to me a sensible approach, because it gives lawyers the context to make it easy to review the result (from my limited understanding).

I wonder if much of what would want couldn't be achieved by analyzing and storing the text embeddings of legal paragraphs in a vector database, and then finding the top N closest results given the embedding of a legal question? Then its no longer a question of an LLM making stuff up, but more of a semantic search.
> Right wingers believe that USPS should operate as a business, not a public service, so "rebranding" their website to be .com is definitely a part of that narrative.

Seems failing businesses is also on brand for those guys.
Yes, inverse problems are hard. And not always possible in practice. See, for example, https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/feature-column/fcarc-1997... for a case where one isn't possible.

That said, the gravity technique is one that actually gets used today. With better precision, it can be even more useful than it already is.
Here's how Horace puts it:

As leaves in the woods are changed with the fleeting years; the earliest fall off first: in this manner words perish with old age, and those lately invented flourish and thrive, like men in the time of youth. We, and our works, are doomed to death: whether Neptune, admitted into the continent, defends our fleet from the north winds, a kingly work; or the lake, for a long time unfertile and fit for oars, now maintains its neighboring cities and feels the heavy plow; or the river, taught to run in a more convenient channel, has changed its course which was so destructive to the fruits. Mortal works must perish: much less can the honor and elegance of language be long-lived. Many words shall revive, which now have fallen off; and many which are now in esteem shall fall off, if it be the will of custom, in whose power is the decision and right and standard of language.
Without a doubt.

I'm also sure the sun rising is a tad more reliable than a coal plant.. at least for another few billion years.
Regardless of your perspective on Musk, X AI is currently producing open source AI with permissive licensing, and seems very likely to continue open source releases in the near future.

https://github.com/xai-org

Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, others are driving regulatory capture behind the scenes. The usual suspects are dropping all sorts of money on establishing control and rent seeking - actual open source AI with end user control makes it much harder for these asshats to extract money and exert influence over people, and they desperately want both. AI, like search, will be a powerful influence vector for politics and marketing.
I can't say for sure wrt tech industry specifically, but regulatory capture is nothing new.
Hehehehe! :)
We’re talking about an app, not food or medicine, so this comparison doesn’t seem apt.
From what I've read, winterizing your pond and making it healthy enough for fish to survive the winter is difficult. Did you find it challenging? Many failures?
If an article is AI, it's essentially spam, because there could be a thousand more similar written.
Cabal has had nix-style local builds since 2016:

https://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-n...

https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/2.0/nix-local-build-overview...

Also cabal isn't positioned to be a system level package manager. Haskell programmers are the type to want both their application builds and system dependencies to be reproducible and predictable.

> Stop being lazy, go back to engineering first principles and it makes little sense to stay with Nix. Guix or any rewrite as a library in a well-developed language* makes more sense.

Getting Guix packages to be as complete as nixpkgs isn't a matter of laziness though. One person wouldn't be able to do it no matter how disciplined they were.
It's a film, but still, one of the things I found interesting in "Grande Illusion" was how the German PoW camp commandant and the British officer got along so well. The strength of their relationship based almost entirely on them both being former aristocrats.
Chording is efficient if you soley write text. It doesn't fit for text editing and writing text with lots of punctuation (code).
Arrow keys suck so much on most laptops, that I do everything to avoid them, I use Vim mode plugins in my browsers. There's even a global Vi mode available for macOS, I'm sure something similar is possible on Windows with autohotkey, not to mention Linux.
Love that comparison!

I'm so glad that some companies/people are building and releasing models to the public. This amazing development being exclusive to OpenAI would've been a terrible situation for the world.
That same day, Samuel Dionne-Riel stated that Dolstra had refused to clarify whether he had a relationship with Anduril and asked Christensen, a co-founder of Determinate Systems: "Does DetSys have or had relationships with Anduril?" Christensen replied: "Did you know this category of question is pretty much impossible to answer because NDAs are a thing?"

[Determinate Systems] produces its own installer for Nix that the company promises will provide stable support for some Nix features. The letter states: "This is fine, however, it is questionably acceptable to do that while employing the lead developer of CppNix [the main Nix implementation] and saying nothing about how this will interact with the team's [decision-making] autonomy."

So "DetSys" is a commercial provider of Nix services, making corporate promises about future Nix feature support and (presumably) contracting with Anduril whose current focus is Shahed-inspired kamikaze drones, while wearing a separate hat as board chair of NixOS Foundation.

Effectively the tl;dr is whether Nix foundation should be bankrolled by the DoD, feature roadmap guided by the needs of mass produced suicide drones. And if they are, do other contributors want to continue providing free R&D for that organization?
Why not? 4% is also awful. As a politician you'd probably say "One in every 25" rather than 4% if you wanted to emphasise that it's unacceptable.
Amazing if true!
I thought the whole thing was He3 makes it viable.
> How does a family with three kids fit into a Corolla?

By getting in? It has five seats, just like the Camry. It's ~2" narrower.
Yeah, if I was a non-native English speaker, I'd be nonplussed about the word (both meanings).

But some commonly used words are confusing. Sanction means both to allow and to disallow. Literally is a nightmare, especially in written form, but also spoken without enough cultural context.

I don't like all these examples, but here's a list of 40 mostly common words or two word phrases that mean their opposite. [1] There's probably 10-20 of those that a new to English speaker is likely to run into. But then, I never got far enough into other languages, maybe this is a common phenomenon.

[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57032/25-words-are-their...
You're using 2 examples of hacks to reach a conclusion about the state of cyber security across an entire country?
I'm torn on this whole Tiktok ban.

It's clearly a response to people getting unfiltered news from Tiktok that it otherwise not presented on mainstream media at all. It's why the ban was in the defense spending bill last week. Even outside the current Middle East conflict, the Ohio rderailment last year was extensively covered on Tiktok for 1-2 weeks before it really got any mainstream coverage.

The data privacy issue is a lie because Congress could've passed a comprehensive data privacy bill but didn't (and won't).

But the more compelling argument, and why I'm torn, is reciprocity of access to the Chinese market. Facebook, Instagram, Google, Youtube, etc are actually or effectively banned in mainland China. China's entry into the WTO sort of allows this and I understand why China does it but if the US took the position that access to the US market requires reciprocal access to the other country's market, that would be a position hard to argue against. I'm surprised that wasn't the argument made.

Tech giants have been very effective at arguing the "algorithm" decides what's shown to users and what isn't but the algorithm is merely a vessel for human decisions on what is a feature, what is ranked, etc. Facebook and IG manipulate their ranking too but they do it in a way compatible with US government policy so it isn't an issue. That's the real problem with Tiktok, as far as Congress is concerned.
Ah, like 'Arkhan Land', rediscoverer of the Land Raider.

(And of course, Jimmy Space).
What do you consider the tech industry? Do you consider Wall St firms to be tech? Do you consider bigPharma to be tech? Do you consider FAANG to be tech?

Here's a link[0] with 2023 lobby spends by industry, but there is no "tech" listing specific. There's an entry for "Internet" listed, which I'm guessing is what you mean by "tech". Another chart[1] breaks down that entry.

If you want to know when each company started to spend money, you could research their public filings.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/257364/top-lobbying-indu...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1035987/us-leading-inter...
Advertising is not likely to go anywhere but we do have an opportunity to nurture significant skepticism about AI before it's too late and becomes as entrenched in the world as Google and social media.
> I used to think AI would replace doctors before nurses, and lawyers before court clerks - now I think it's the other way around.

I've come to this conclusion as well. AI is a power tool for those that know what questions to ask and will become a crunch for those that don't. My concern is with the latter, as I think they will lose the ability develop critical thinking skills.
Bro given that the cost of frontier models is already at or past $100M I think that boat has already sailed. Unless you have a completely cracked team that can raise like $1B upfront you have no chance at competing.
I do not understand the taught process here. They are regulating it so fast. It's almost like regulating car before even engine is invented.
If that were the case the rules should have reflected it from the beginning of the competition. However, as noted in the article, imitation cheeses using vegan ingredients were and are specifically permitted by the rules:

> Subcategories
Additionally, cheese entries must fit within one of the following subcategories (vegetarian and/or vegan substitutes are permitted):

https://goodfoodfdn.org/awards/categories/cheese/
Planes with autopilots can fly cheaper and "better" than human pilots. We still have human pilots.

I want a lawyer who can do their work more effectively because they have assistance from LLM-powered tools.

I might turn to LLM-only assistance for very low-stakes legal questions, but I'd much rather have an LLM-enhanced professional for the stuff that matters.
Those tones were DTMF. Tapping out the number on the hook was how pulse dialing (the other dialing standard) worked. Pulse dialing was superseded by DTMF at some point, but switchboards supported both for a long time. That's why you could use your tone generator (or your mobile phone!) to dial, because that's literally the exact same way that your phone dialled.
That's like suggesting people don't need to know what the zip code is because it's often redundant and omitted. People are often lazy, but it's immediately obvious to anyone that omitting the full 9-digit zip code could result in the letter being misdelivered, even if I don't understand what the last 4 digits are even for.
My favorite part of SGI computers, like Altix and UV lines, was the NUMA memory with flexible interconnect. NUMA let you program a pile of CPU’s more like a single-node, multithreaded system. Then, the flexibility let you plug in CPU’s, graphics cards, or FPGA’s. That’s right into the low-latency, high-speed, memory bus.

There was a company that made a card that connected AMD servers like that. I don’t know if such tech ever got down to commodity price points. If you had Infiniband, there were also Distributed, Shared Memory (DSM) libraries that simulated such machines on clusters. Data locality was even more important then, though.
The related Awesome IPTV repo also has a helpful list of resources (Linux, Windows, iOS, Android apps, online tools etc) that work really well with these IPTV channels.

https://github.com/iptv-org/awesome-iptv
Unfortunately some of the examples[0,1] seem to lag quite a bit on Firefox with larger screens.

[0]: https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/editor.html?c=area-st...

[1]: https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/editor.html?c=line-aq...
Unbelievable. I like Scott Wiener for his housing policies but this bill is rampant overstepping from the government. Ironically, it will have the same effect as the NIMBY system he has fought for so long.

Some nuggets...

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So we are only allowed to train what they allow us:

This bill would require that a developer, before initiating training of a nonderivative covered model, comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown of the covered model until that covered model is the subject of a limited duty exemption.

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Of course it comes with a new department with powers to impose fees:

This bill would also create the Frontier Model Division within the Department of Technology and would require the division to, among other things, review annual certification reports from developers received pursuant to these provisions and publicly release summarized findings based on those reports. The bill would authorize the division to assess related fees and would require deposit of the fees into the Frontier Model Division Programs Fund, which the bill would create.

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And, obviously, we must pay consultants:

This bill would also require the Department of Technology to commission consultants, as prescribed, to create a public cloud computing cluster, to be known as CalCompute, with the primary focus of conducting research into the safe and secure deployment of large-scale artificial intelligence models and fostering equitable innovation that includes, among other things, a fully owned and hosted cloud platform.
This title though...

Guess you don't need to know that dopamine was originally called "prolactin-inhibiting hormone" and strongly suppresses prolactin-driven physiology and behavior.

You also apparently don't need to understand how dopamine is made in melanated substantia nigra cells whose overall proliferation is cocontrolled by proopiomelanocortin breakdown products.

(The dopamine-prolactin-melanin linkage is why "big t**** goth gf" is a stereotype.)
Skimming the letter makes it look like another attempt at pushing through their Code of Conduct (RFC98) targeting "ideas rooted in fascism or bigotry", whatever that means. Now going a step further by erasing the people in charge.
It's impressive how affordable politicians are.

You've got a company valued at $80 billion and you can get legislation put forward to kneecap your primary competition for a the price of a 2009 Honda Accord with 150,000 miles on the odometer? What great value for money!
Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures
If you like this stuff, Kevin Mitnick's book Ghost in the Wires is a fantastic read.
> I think it’s important to make clear that the letter is mostly bogus and almost libelous.

That's not my reading of it.

However my biggest issue is the conflict of interest between Eelco -> DetSys -> Anduril Contract -> Eelco fighting hard for Nix to sponsor Anduril.

As foundation chair he should declare that he doesn't have a conflict of interest and DetSys doesn't have a contract with Anduril or have recused himself from the sponsorship discussion.
Yet if you drive recklessly at 110 you can still be in trouble over for what is deemed dangerous or aggressive driving despite the speed limit being 120. Law isn't (and shouldn't) just be clear cut objective criteria, real life is more complicated than that. Again, the difference between a hard cap and a floor - you can't go over 120 but that doesn't mean if you go 110 there should be no other criteria for you breaking the law.