skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was gently obsessed with it while a student, a long time ago. I used to call random companies at night and, once on voicemail, fumble with *, # or 0 in the hope to get the ellusive outdial out of the PBX.

I never succeded. But what I loved was in fact the quiet of the night and the sound of it all. The carrier wave, the tones, the greetings. The various models (Meridian, Alcatel, ...) had different voices, mostly feminine, some soft, some very stern.
As far as I'm aware, no ".ru" domains have been seized yet from media independent from the Russian government. Instead, they prefer to block website access - by law, every ISP has to install DPI-enabled hardware, which is used to censor the net.
That's an incredibly detailed image.

Every single time I see one of these amazing space pics, it's hard not to get all philosophical and wonder about the size of space & time on cosmic scale, how small our earth is and how insignificant our regular problems are.

I don't care if I don't get to see flying cars or AGI in my lifetime but I will be very disappointed if our knowledge of space remains more or less the same as today without much progress.

Edit: typo
> It reminded me of a time I was at the ER for a rib injury and could see my doctor Wikipedia'ing stuff

To be honest, I'm much more comfortable with a doctor looking things up on wikipedia than using LLMs. Same with lawyers, although the stakes are lower with lawyers.

If I knew my doctor was relying on LLMs for anything beyond the trivial (RAGS or not), I'd lose a lot of trust in that doctor.
While I think it is true that mistakes cannot be undone, it's also the case that most mistakes (even fairly bad ones) are not a sentence of doom. There are still choices to be made in the future (if you think there are choices) and you can always take the stoic route which is imo quite useful regardless of the question of free will.
I don't see how it could get into an organism if it's absorbed by air and water.
No, it's way more confusing than that.

They started with Java 1.0 and 1.1 - then to "Java 2" at version 1.2, so you have Java 2 version 1.2 ... they then stuck with that through the version after 1.4 - but rather than 1.5, that was special as it was Java 2 version 5.0 ... thereafter they're just numbered with the plain number.
in the United States we proved that is not necessary traits for leader yet functional infrastructure, intelligence, and military
Why Google is killing products at an alarming rate?
Even if you deal just with ideas and somehow separate them from the people who promote them, what mechanism do you propose to use to decide whether an idea is rooted in bigotry or fascism? The accusation is incredibly nebulous and can be used to derail almost any proposal.

For the sake of argument, let's say I put forward the charge that the policy itself is rooted in bigotry. Can you prove that it is not?
Another alternative - I haven't tried this but bookmarked that one:

https://nivo.rocks (https://github.com/plouc/nivo)
> simply not very useful for achieving the goals that a dictionary has.

Apparently the dictionary's goals are not the same as my goals. Sure, I want to know about incorrect usages; but I also want to know that those usages are incorrect.
Don't forget "could care less", which is profoundly stupid as the literal meaning of the words tells one that they are using the phrase wrong.
How can it outspend everyone in everything using relative numbers?

Everyone has the same 100%, just distributed differently.
I’m surprised your kids aren’t more curious about the mouse. I remember being in school during the trackball/optical mouse transmission. There was no question how the mouse worked for us, because we’d do things with it like stealing the schools trackballs to play with or staring directly into the optical laser, in either case learning everything about the mouse. Maybe kids aren’t so curious with their electronics these days.
Let’s flip it, explain why US social media is not a national security threat to China.
I had the same thought! I dismissed it though as perhaps coincidence because anyone used to reading a "red text" bible may find it offensive or at least distasteful to equate other people's words with Jesus. I could very well be overthinking that though and/or be projecting my own religious upbringing (where blasphemy and sacrilegiosity are very sensitive and highly frowned upon. Even saying "he" instead of "He" is looked at as skirting the line).
> they've gone from barely stringing together a TODO app to structuring and executing large-scale changes in entire repositories in 3 years.

No they didn't. They're still at the step of barely stringing together a TODO app, and mostly because it's as simple as copying the gazillionth TODO app from GitHub.
Perhaps, or perhaps you merely let the entirety of your brain make the decision, and more optimally so for your circumstances, instead of the limited executive function. Maybe. Or maybe that was just the lizard brain. Really hard for the executive brain to discern between the "all of my brain / know it in the gut / good instincts" and the "lizard brain want"
Are you trying to discourage others from bidding, so you can swoop in and win the auction?
But that's the norm almost everywhere. Try going into a regular US bank and ask for a loan for an LLC. Almost everywhere will expect collateral and/or a business plan and/or personal guarantees if the business is new. Some countries have more risk-averse banks than others, but it's a matter of degree not a fundamental difference, and generally reflected in interest. And it then just changes the calculus of when you look for investors rather than lenders.
What is their level of tech?
Statistics is a very precise science. Can you show your work or is it just a gut feeling?
I've yet to see any SV billionaires admit any of their success involves luck. They seem incapable of recognizing that being in the right time and place is a huge component of any sort of success. Their egos are so wrapped up in their fortunes that their success must be their omniscience and not the fact they won the tech stock lottery.
I think a distributed del.icio.us could work, a p2p version not based on crypto. Something like https://veilid.com would be perfect actually.
>my comment was quite ambiguous and . . .

No harm done!

>If the bill were only covering AI killing machines I'd (probably) be in agreement with it, but it seems significantly more overreaching than that.

Just to make sure we are on the same page: my main worry is the projects ("deployments"?) that aren't intended to kill anybody, but one of those project ends up killing billions of people anyways. It probably kills absolutely everyone. That one project might be trying to cure cancer.

The only way of not incurring this risk of extinction (and of mass death) that I know of is to shut down all AI research now, which I'm guessing you would consider "overreaching".

It would be great if there were a way to derive the profound benefits of continuing to do AI research without incurring the extinction risk. If you think you have a way to do that, please let me know. If I agree that your approach is promising, I'll drop everything to make sure you get a high-paying job to develop your approach. There are lots of people who would do that (and lots of high-net-worth people and organizations who would pay you the money).

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute for example has a lot of money that was donated to them by cryptocurrency entrepreneurs that they've been holding on to year after year because they cannot think of any good ways to spend it to reduce extinction risk. They'd be eager to give money to anyone that can convince them that they have an approach with even a 1% probability of success.
What I don't understand is why the attack on the Czech Republic was not seen as an attack by Russia on NATO.
They also point out that because the thorium atoms can be embedded in a solid, and have motion << the wavelength of the radiation, the emission and absorption are largely recoil-free. This eliminates Doppler broadening. What broadening there could be was below the resolution of their pump beam.
Less time spent writing code is more time you can spend thinking about those hard parts, no?
Relative meaning as a percentage of each country's respective GDP. I edited now to make it more clear.
There is a whole niche industry in cancer care navigation. Perhaps that shouldn't be necessary in the sense of working around defects in a broken system but those care navigators can help a lot.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/patient-navigation.html
The most realistic Russian sleeper scenario imo was in Slow Horses. Brits don't insult your intelligence too greatly in their spook shows; the American variety always involves some sort of super-human characters. It's good as entertainment, the Americans, but just over the top.
> You will have the luck to feel a "burble" if the airplane has been been built to be give you that warning.

Airplanes which are designed to do this (most airplanes) do it very reliably, it's not luck. Several of the Citabrias I fly don't have stall horns, all I have is the buffet.

Complexity is always a tradeoff: it's harder to fuck up building and/or repairing a simpler airfoil.
"A lot" is the number of fish in a swarm maybe.

This is so far away from our concept of counting things that the mind just gives up. There's no comparison, no dumbing down to X amount of football fields, just nothing.

I find it depressing, confusing but also inspiring and fascinating at the same time.
> I'd have no objection to a singular gender-neutral word (which unfortunately doesn't exist in English).

Yes it does. "He" is the gender neutral expression in English and has been since forever. It's just that politically correct people get bent out of shape about it.
If you want this in formal terms: "pulling the trigger" and "living with yourself after pulling the trigger" are both skills that some people have and other people don't, those skills exist on a continuum of both directness and effectiveness, and comparative advantage applies all the way down at the level of individuals and their personal skillsets. Even if you support your polity's military aims your polity's military aims may be better accomplished if you aggressively refuse to work on military projects, thereby allowing yourself to contribute more effectively in other areas and freeing others up where they can contribute to military projects more effectively than you could. That's one of the things that tax dollars amortize over, if you're looking at it from high enough up.
Why seize a domain when you can just block it country wide?
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> ACCELL Unify would be interesting to find

Both WinWorld[1] and Vetusware[2] have (what look like identical copies of) it for the 3B2.

[1] https://winworldpc.com/product/unify/31

[2] https://vetusware.com/download/Unify/?id=11459
You can download the old Java build system, Apache Ant, from 2003 and it still runs without issue:

https://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/

Download the bin.zip distribution, unzip it, then run this comand:

java -cp "lib/*" org.apache.tools.ant.Main

It runs on Java 21 without issues :D.

Java is like Windows: it can run stuff written for it forever.
Why would any country allow any foreign actor have that kind of control over its voters?

agreed, never mind maintain dubious access to their personal devices with which they carry them everywhere.
Your pay is whatever job you have as a cover pays you. If you were getting additional pay to that, then it would be a red flag when the various agencies investigate you.
Note my use of the term "heuristic" and not "algorithm." There is not a correct number. The correct approach is to fiddle with the parameters; record good populations; occasionally restart from scratch... we call this "hyperparameter tuning" to make ourselves feel better about the process.
Is there any publicly available information or data about Thailand's relevant tax revenues VS social welfare expenditures?
Nobody really dismisses LLM's as not being useful. I've been a developer for 15 years and LLM's help a ton with coding, system design, etc. My main piece of advice for students is make sure that your heart is in the right place. Tech isn't always an easy or secure field. You have to love it.
This is quite similar to my idea and prototype I applied to YC with just last week. Uh-oh! Haha. I did call out GitHub as a primary competitor so I did see this coming - and I guess on second looks I'm still quite differentiated. All these new tools will overlap some but also have their own pros/cons since there are so many different ways to approach building an AI code tool!

Just yesterday I put up a cheap $5 linode running a prototype but not ready for signups yet.

https://codeplusequalsai.com/

I think I have some good ideas about how to get the the LLM to modify code - specifically working with ASTs.

I wonder how GitHub prompts the LLM to get usable code modifications out of it. How often does it encounter errors?
All good, but care to elaborate?
I'm not afraid of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite
Wow. You really want some arbiter of which words are "allowed" or not? That sounds like some real Ministry of Truth type shit. It seems especially weird on a tech site, when tech jargon has historically been rich with wordplay and word construction.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/introduction.html

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html
We used Recharts to build our own opinionated charts at tremor.so
I think it's worth noting that particular list wasn't introduced with the bill. It goes back to at least January 18, 2021: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/22/2021-01...

> The term “adversary country” means the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, or, as determined by the Secretary of Commerce, any other foreign nation, foreign area, or foreign non-government entity engaging in long-term patterns or serious instances of conduct significantly adverse to the national or economic security of the United States.
Since mining is only concerned with material that's within maybe 0.1% of the distance from the surface to the core, seems like you'd just need to move the sensor around and make sure the signal changes about where you'd expect for a mass of X Kg at a depth of Y meters instead of a supermassive chunk of dense material much deeper. Or, to put it another way, build a grid map of the area and subtract any background signal. Would that not work for some reason?
> The weirdest part is that Richard Stallman essentially spelled it out in full back in the late 1980's and almost nobody listened.

A lot of things were "spelled ... out in full" back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's that "almost nobody listened" to (and even actively harassed, ridiculed, and otherwise hated the people giving the warnings), and now you can't see or hear the news without seeing the inevitable consequences of that ignorance playing out "in real time". Yay, humans, for being the most "advanced" species in the Universe. \o/
If most new companies can do 1 thing really well and get paid really well - it kind of answers the question. There is no reason to have 500 products that make no money.
I think its unintuitive relative to the standard implementation of RAG today (e.g. vector-based similarity)
Sorry for the hyperbole. I think you're being a bit uncharitable, though, I'm of course not basing this entirely on myself. Lots of people I know have a bar for being satiated that maintains weight without effort. But many clearly do not. Is it obvious why some do, and some don't? It's clearly not down to willpower.

I suppose you'd say that some areas experienced more evolutionary pressure to eat as much as possible than others due to differences in food security?

But being hungry/unsatiated is distracting and can decrease your performance on every other task you do, so I don't really agree that there's no counterpressure. And I doubt that people in even those less food secure regions are just hungry all the time, like some obese people here describe being. It really seems like something just gets messed up in the signalling, which makes it seem more like a health problem/malfunction than some built-in evolutionary drive that doesn't fit the modern world.
That's my reaction as well.

He sounds exactly like what many white male American (as opposed to immigrant) Silicon Valley guys would sound like if you got them to talk about politics or anything to do with non-tech humanity.

They're not well-informed outside of tech. They ARE well-paid and in-demand. Since they're "winning," there's very little motivation to update their world view.
It sort of is - the design looks bad, but you're right. The website loads too fast, almost. I would just move to usps.gov and maybe make the design look less like a template I could buy for $30.
I think these people are keeping a double standard, yes.
I can't wait for China to release photos of the location of the American landing on the moon.
This is true of any legal question. That doesn’t mean third parties can’t opine on legality. This law is so far from a bill of attainder that it would be laughable for a lawyer to suggest to their client that it’s within the scope of reason.
From the article - "nonplus" evolved from a noun to a verb within the frame of the late 16th century to the early 17th century. A fairly short stretch of years.

Also I think we probably have far more literacy over the time frame of this nonplussed change than at pretty much any other time in history. So it seems strange to me to blame these shifts on illiteracy.
The only real tutorial for a tool is a task you have to solve with exactly that tool. Learning in advance is just pointless. Unfortunately.

(On the other hand, AWK is indeed amazing. If a tutorial can help to lure using it, then, well, why not? :)
Yes, it does. By definition.
Annecdotaly: I was recovering from hip surgery. Further PT denied even though I was still in pain and didn't recover 100%. I'm 35. Not 75. I expect to get back to hiking 10 miles.

But their denial lead to more pain, and an appeal takes at least 30 days.

There should be a law that says you are guaranteed continued treatment when your appeal is pending. That way they actually have the incentive to do it properly. Now whether that again is a close and deny... yea, not sure what the solution is there.
Dump 8,064 old processors on eBay and you'll probably introduce some downwards price pressure.
All AI isn't coming for authors
Right and if that’s all true he will ignore them and they will eventually fork and bury him. But personally I try to ignore letters like this especially if I’m not personally in the community (but even then sometimes) because words are cheap.
The most surprising thing about Postgres indexes as a beginner was how UNIQUE indexes can affect the outcomes of concurrent queries because of the additional locking they add. Something like

INSERT INTO foo (bar) (SELECT max(bar) + 1 FROM foo);

can insert duplicate `bar` values when run concurrently using the default mode, since one xact might not see the new max value created by the other. You might think adding a UNIQUE index would cause the "losing" xact to get constraint errors, but instead both xacts succeed and no longer have a race condition.
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Sorry, currently there is no free trial. App is a one-time payment, and you need to provide your own (OpenAI, Anthropic) API key to use the app.
A gizmodo commenter made a good suggestion: replace "maniac" with "psychopath."

I endorse this because mania is a medically recognized condition that can be managed successfully with treatment.

Do we have evidence that MA is bipolar or otherwise verifiably maniacal? Or is he just another unscrupulous capitalist? I think it's the latter.

MA: If you're reading this, just know that whatever trendy "ism" is making its rounds at the yacht club will not justify the awful, inhumane business decision you are about to make.
I know nothing compared to people who work in the field, so I don't have my own work, I trust theirs.
Yes? But it's commonly understood that reading code is harder than writing code. So why force yourself into a reading-mostly position when you don't have to? You're more likely to get it wrong.

There are other ways to decrease typing time.
Luckily, we have perfectly behaving, feature-rich software for every complex system already. /s
When the whole first paragraph is about how it's not about ideology, it's about ideology.
Good catch but there is a consistent point I'm making. If the world sucks because of Google etc. then it's counterproductive to use that fact to downplay a new danger, and productive (in my opinion) to write it off so as to focus on a new danger that's still possible to avoid.
that's not at all what they are trying to say....
I guess my worst fear is not "no more jobs because AI can code" but "no more junior jobs because AI can code under the supervision of a senior". SWE jobs will exist, but only seniors will have them and juniors are never hired. Maybe the occasional "apprentice" will be brought on, but in nowhere near the same amount.

Where my blind hope lies more specifically is in networking into one of those "apprentice" roles, or maybe a third tech Cambrian explosion enabled by AI allows me to find work in a new startup. I don't want to give up just yet.
I agree with your description of the EU’s thinking, but I can’t see how they think it’s a valid argument. It’s like a company opening a drive-thru restaurant and then complaining that car manufacturers are gatekeeping them from their customers
One does not simply obtain gold from the ground by picking it up as it lies around
hey you know i think cops aren't all bad, but when they knock on my door i still don't invite them in.

Anduril exists to protect the order. same as cops, only focused externally instead of domestically. but in a global project where people collaborate with each other as individuals, it's all the same. don't talk to the cops: you only stand to lose.
Software Engineering is not a subset of computer science, they just intersect. And as a software engineer, your job can be summarized as gathering requirements and designing a solution, implementing and verifying said solution, and maintaining the solution in regards to changes. And the only thing AI does now is generating code snippets. In The Mythical Man Month, Brooks recommend to spend 1/3 of the schedule to planning, 1/6 to coding, 1/2 to testing components and systems (half for each). And LLMs can’t do the coding right. What LLMs add, you still have to review and refactor and it would have been faster to just do it.
this is basically "free grand piano" - not so free once you hire the movers and tuners
> otherwise the US wouldn't need yet another series of laws in order to "enforce the law"

Since we passed a law about murder and injury once we never need worry about safety again! Silly lawmakers worrying about lead paint and checks notes creating the FDA.