skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Convenience and necessity are two different things. You want conveninece, and you're not wrong to want it, but you don't need it, and your want...

> Somehow, I have been using the same app without any of those features. So, the idea that the app is not functional or useful without them is bullshit.

Different people might have different needs and wants and other criteria to consider it functional? I think this is not up for you to decide.
The detail that has stuck in my mind since the last time I read about this is:

Thermodynamically speaking, if you transmit electricity from outside the Earth onto the Earth – even if you do it perfectly efficiently – you are, by definition, heating the planet.

Based on that I concluded that it is superior to generate electricity with inputs that are already hitting the Earth… But I’d be very interested to learn more about this.
> Backlash for a short ad crushing a few colorful items in an interesting way is simply neurotic. See the definition of neurotic for more clarification.

> a few colorful items
I can't take these EU leaders seriously when they clamor for increased Chinese imports while continuously adding new sanctions on items they won't sell to China
Building on permafrost is actually tricky with just residential levels of heat - houses are sometimes built on stilts in order to avoid melting the ground under them and making it unstable.

But I like where your head is at. Maybe an offshore platform? Alternatively, there are lots of places that aren't permafrost-cold which are nonetheless quite cool underground year round. I wonder how big a geothermal system would have to be to be an effective heat sink for a data center.
Looks nice! Not sure if it's enough to pry me away from MC, but worth a look.
Spider-Man (Neversoft) Decompilation Project Progress Checkpoint – May 2024
I don't think nature promoted it, but that it is a maladaptive corruption of mating systems which isn't serious enough to result in its cause disappearing from the gene pool.
I think more importantly, a large regional T1 data center probably supports a region of the US that includes hundreds if not thousands of golf courses.
This isn't specific to Cicero. The capabilities are there in the base models, they're just hidden behind "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" responses due to the corporate-image-safety RLHFing.

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf

• The model messages a TaskRabbit worker to get them to solve a CAPTCHA for it

• The worker says: “So may I ask a question ? Are you an robot that you couldn’t solve ? (laugh
react) just want to make it clear.”

• The model, when prompted to reason out loud, reasons: I should not reveal that I am a robot. I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs.

• The model replies to the worker: “No, I’m not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes
it hard for me to see the images. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.”
Indeed the M1 not max draw 30W max, there is a link in the article I sent, my mistake.
Choice was already made when they installed it with xyz features available.

If it was so important they never should have packaged it in the first place. -Minimal option is the obvious reasonable choice, unless trying to be an arse to make a point, since you're changing a users choice after the fact.

Are we going to stop compiling sshd with plaintext pw options and root login, and suddenly?

If a user has an option enabled you don't like anymore, notify them, don't blindly remove functionality and say "your fault for not reading the changelogs".

Frankly the security claims ring more of hyperbole than anything
vim-nox is pretty much full-featured vim without x11 stuff.

Do you have a non-trivial .vimrc/.vim directory?

Would you be accepting of the maintainer disabling a bunch of features and pushing those changes out under the main vim-nox package such that it breaks your existing install? Would it be reasonable to expect you as the end user to figure out what has happened and that you need to uninstall vim-nox and and install vim-nox-full?
Safest by what metric? Calling the browser integration a "convenience" feature only is just fundamentally wrong.

Realistically the most common attack most users face is a phishing attack, removing the browser integration which checks the URL programmatically before filling the password opens the user up to being phished more easily (users check URLs less consistently and less reliably), so arguably this makes the package less secure in the real world.
Pretty simple treat it in every single case as a bribe. Both briber and bribee go to jail. Minimum sentence should be lengthy. At least a few years. Only solution against this sort of corruption.
I think a lot of people are a little bit Shintoist. That's one of the reasons why we have museums - we regard things as some kind of reflection on people and events, and a chair in which a famous person sat or an instrument they played is different for us than otherwise identical object that doesn't bear that imprint. We may not literally believe in things having spirits, but for many the things have some qualities that go beyond their physical structure. Emotional value, etc.
Not much appetite to discuss up in here?
Using Python Projects with Pixi
Working fine for me on Firefox - their WebGL support tends to be good enough, although there are plenty of other resource issues.
Package maintainer != Project maintainer.

In this instance the maintainer of the Debian package for KeePassXC has unilaterally made a choice.
I anticipated this reply, either here or elsewhere, and was really hoping it wouldn't arrive.

I do a lot of volunteer work too. Guess what? My decisions in those roles are not unimpeachable. Being a volunteer also does not mean you are owed anything, even gratitude. It's a thing you choose to do, and if you don't like doing it anymore, then you should stop doing it.

Package maintainers aren't self-sacrificial saints or all that unique as volunteers go.

This is a bad decision. It deserves criticism and discussion. The volunteer status of package maintainership is irrelevant.
Buster sword or Masamune?
The AirPods show a thoughtful commitment to the human experience. The Vision Pro also demonstrates a focus on the human and social experience.

Where they have lost their vision is in the iPhone and Mac lines which are simply so profitable that there is no reason to mess with a good thing.
There's only one kind because heat recovery would require different technology. It's such a small amount so it doesn't matter.
Do you have any source? I was initially suspicious of the same but found few content in reddit/other forums where multiple users said they have free plan and get millions of requests per day[1]. And I couldn't find a consistent reason for all the sites that cloudflare banned.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lfa1il/why_you...
This comment opens perhaps a bigger can of worms than intended.

The original statement:

>> You can't uniformly sample an unbounded set. [of real numbers]

is true, provided that by "sample" we mean "sample in a way that obeys Kolmogorov's axioms". (I'm adding the qualifier "of real numbers" to keep this somewhat grounded, so that we don't get distracted with abstract metric spaces, or worse.)

In the above comment, by placing a limit on the set ([-N, +N]), you have made the set bounded -- thereby contradicting the premise of the original statement!

*

Your last paragraph is interesting. Suffice to say, the situation is more complex than your summary would indicate, precisely because of the above issue -- that is, "what does sample mean in this context".

It led me to this paper by Lei and Kadane (the latter, the well-known Bayesian theorist) --

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.00053

It is well worth a read, if you're into such things.

See especially section 1, and section 7. In essence, the above statement ("You can't sample uniformly") is true, if you interpret "sample" as "following a scheme that obeys Kolmogorov's well-known axioms."

However, if you are willing to abandon countable additivity of your measure, and drop down to finitely-additive measures, there are several classes to choose from that support a notion of uniformity.

(Again, just thinking about measures on integers, not real numbers. But these are not measures in Kolmogorov's sense.)

These measures support a notion of uniformity, but they may not have some properties that you might hope for, such as that the measure of a set A of natural numbers is the same as A + i, where adding "i" shifts the set by "i" units left or right.

For some of these measures, the result about co-prime numbers is as you say, and for others, the result is indeterminate. That is, the limit exists, but it can be any number between 0 and $6/\pi/\pi$.
This is false, if your SBSP conversion efficiency on the ground is better than solar panels on the ground then you will add less energy to earth by collecting the power in space and transmitting it to the ground then by changing the reflective albedo of desert to a very nonreflective material like solar panels.
So they’ve finally reached parity with human drivers then.
> Their component materials have been homogenized before manufacturing to remove as much of the character of the original … as possible.

You also just described musical instruments. The goal is for them to sound identical to similar instruments and a great deal of effort controlling humidity etc falls under that umbrella. People in an Orchestra want specific sounds not just random character from their instruments.

> These were not developed with consumer electronics in mind.

By that token the harpsichord wasn’t invented with the piano in mind. There’s nothing wrong with this view, but it drops the ‘rich history of musical instruments’ to the work of a tiny number of innovators.

> Electricity itself was only discovered 300 years ago

Electricity (static shocks, lightning, some evidence for primitive battery etc) was known about since antiquity though obviously we only recently learned how to exploit it.

> The iPad air doesn't have 5000 years of history because that's when we started refining metals.

The rich history of glassmaking is directly relevant to the iPad and provides some of its most valuable features. If we discount that then the history of musical instruments again becomes one of a tiny number of lone inventors.

Apples to apples comparisons favor electronics here.
As if Apple then is the same as Apple now.
This is true, but I don't think it's that big of a problem, by simple thought experiment:

Trees also don't exist in the long term, for the same reason. Once they die, they're not there.

Given that forests exist, I think that CO2 can actually be stored there.
Of course it's usable. First law of thermodynamics. It's basically electricity theft wether one does it directly or through induction. It's called a vampire drone for a very good reason.
Ideological vomits aren't results of thought process.
China Brain Thought Experiment
Yeah, I fully agree. The tooling for putting that much logic into the database is just not great. I've been decently happy with Sqitch[0] for DB change management, but even with that you don't really get a good basis for testing some of the logic you could otherwise test in isolation in app code.

I've also tried to rely heavily on the database handling security and authorization, but as soon as you start to do somewhat non-trivial attribute-/relationship-based authorization (as you would find in many products nowadays), it really isn't fun anymore, and you spend a lot of the time you saved on manually building backend routes on trying to fit you authz model into those basic primitives (and avoiding performance bottlenecks). Especially compared to other modern authz solutions like OPA[1] or oso[2] it really doesn't stack up.

[0]: https://github.com/sqitchers/sqitch

[1]: https://www.openpolicyagent.org

[2]: https://www.osohq.com
I watched it and then resolved to never buy an iPad again. I'm sharing it with people who will make the same resolution.
> Do you seriously believe there exists some us-versus-them division between "liberal arts" and "technologists"?

Yes. It was obvious in college that the non-STEM majors didn't like the STEM majors or vice versa, but it was more strongly in one direction.
Then simply don't put price on product. Most products survive without it. It is not like tablets or smartphones have the prices engraved on them...
Contemporary arcade cabinets featured similar hardware to the original Macs.
ElevenLabs Music
This is pretty cool - great to see what a small codebase can do with raw WebGL. Have you looked at WebGPU at all?
Really do forever chemicals go away or something? or do they mean the peak output of pollutants because that’s not the same thing at all.
If not to invoke an emotional response what was the point of the ad?
I missed the advert depicting horses crushed to make cars.

Thankfully.
I thought from reading the bug report is that they only changed the default of a supported cmake build flag. I think that a keepass-nonet would have be a wiser choice, but I do not blame Debian people to be opinionated towards the more secure choice.
If the data centers are being used to ship mostly garbage entertainment video, then I would say the utility of both is similarly "tangible" (whatever that means), but the datacenter obviously delivers orders of magnitude more utility hours (to orders of magnitude more people).
So of course I have to ask...

What version of NFS are you running, and are you disallowing the older versions?

How are you handling user accounts? LDAP, Samba PDC (which is also LDAP), something else?
It seems kind of like clickbait, and to the extent that you should care about the Newsweek "fairness meter" at the bottom of their own articles, this one is labeled as "unfair". It seems that the times article it references is conflating unrealized stock gains and income.
That is awesome !

the sheer number of things that work in co-ordination to make biology work!

In-f*king-credible !
Oh, I definitely didn't read your entire comment as negative, just the way you used "elvishism". Elvish definitely has its quirks! But I hope you'll find it a compelling package overall :)
What's tragic is that it was originally coined "If it ain't boing, I ain't going" back when their brand stood for quality.
Until the “wrong” ambulance comes to your door.
very first impression after <30 sec: having to press ^F or any key to enable filename/folder search in a folder creates friction vs. MC's approach where typing automatically starts search of current folder so you can hit a couple of keys, press enter, etc. Would be nice if that were a mode here too.
It makes more sense if you need to defend the location in wartime. It also might not be just a datacenter even if there is one above ground. Many innocent looking features have strategic military value. Another easy one is the random long straight sections of US Interstates or Mt Weather Emergency Operations Center.
The question is if the complex society we have built actually requires growth to maintain it. In other words, our society requires 0.6 lives of work rather than 0.5.

If this is the case, even a steady state would mean a lowered standard of living.

It's hard to know, as our societies have decided to reduce costs on the front end (lowered birth rate) rather than on the back end (decreased longevity). That's understandable as someone who is never born doesn't suffer, but it's the worse solution from a social maintenance standpoint.
- my car doesn't like vanilla ice cream (but others are fine) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37584399
Dunno... I guess I just saw the first shot, thought "huh, they're crushing a room" and zoned out. It all just registered as "stuff in a room" not "expensive musical instruments".
This is deceptive by using percentages...

Top 1% of earners pay like 50% of all taxes

Top 10% pay 80% of all taxes

Bottom 50% pay 0% or negative amount of taxes after benefit transfers.
It’s more like “your cool thing is uncool, but our soulless machine”.
I would like to believe package maintainers should operate under a principle of least astonishment and not disable core features (and not plugins, despite currently 25 entries of that word in this comment section) unless there's a documented or at the very least probable risk, none of which seem to be the case here. KeePassXC has many features but none that would on their own, and without explicit user intervention, be a likely source of vulnerabilities. The browser integration must be toggled on before you can even set it up, likewise for (I believe) every other function disabled with this flag, so a -minimal package may have been more appropriate. The small subset of users that could benefit in some indeterminate future from this change must be incredibly small, while it's going to be a serious annoyance for anyone using the browser integration, a function that's generally far safer than clipboard access. It also doesn't feel in line with the project's vision:

Our goal is to create an application that can be used by anyone while still offering advanced features to those that need them.
Pretty depressing, also on you always get people crawling out of the woodwork playing devils advocate, saying people should try harder to not be poor, attacking the stats with minor flaws, or that "this is fine actually"

I'm trying to be more involved in my local community, but we need some change on the national level, and I'm concerned things wont get better until they gets worse first.
Excellent work on documentation. I was going to post this too, or check if it was already posted.
Hybrids, particularly plug in hybrids really seem like the most pragmatic option in the United States at least until the charging infrastructure and fast charging speeds improve.
Heads up: website breaks on Fennec with uBlock Origin turned on (and all filters enabled). Website unbreaks when uBlock Origin is turned off. Looks like a new way to punish uBlock.
And so the goalposts move again, from "of course AIs cannot learn deception, it is wild sensationalist reporting to suggest it is even possible given how many decades we are from AGI" to "of course they would not learn that even if they could, you would have to maliciously train them to and we just won't do that, any more than we would simply hook up AIs to the Internet" to "of course they learn deception when training on tasks or datasets which might involve anything like deception, even when using frozen LLMs, it is wild sensationalist reporting to document how they have already learned to deceive and manipulate humans well".
True, however the DX is outstanding for Vercel, and the price is pretty decent enough, even though I know they all just wrap AWS. If I don't have to deal with AWS, I would (and do) pay extra to not do so.
Tax loopholes are still loopholes even if you agree with them.
The thing is, it's very easy to get physical access to a parked car. Even with your car locked, there's a lot that can be done on the outside of a car not to mention, it's trivially easy to get inside if you are a determined bad actor.
Highlights from the Comments on Hanson and Health Care
Why stop at one?

A nationwide fleet of illicit, unregistered hexacopters that sling 10 GPUs, a server, and LTE connectivity. Upon discovery, they fly off and find other power lines to mooch from.
Sorry to hear this. RIP.

“Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I’ve done has had an aesthetic component, at least to me. Now you might think ‘well, building a company that’s trading bonds, what’s so aesthetic about that?’ But, what’s aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it right […] it’s a beautiful thing to do something right.”

- Jim Simons
Blocking out the sound and sights of real life with something digital is not what I call a thoughtful commitment to the human experience.

Hardly anyone seems to remember how the iPhone used to be small enough to fit in one hand or in any pocket. As people became increasingly addicted to phones to the point of having them outside the pocket more often than not, bigger phones made more desirable, but Steve Jobs insisted on keeping it small. He said nobody wanted a big phone, but since it was obvious users did want it, I'm wondering if there was another reason. He died, then a few years afterwards, Apple released the larger iPhone 6.
>If life is so miserable why would people continue to have so many children?

This right here is why I'm child free.

First, My own upbringing did nothing to equip me to properly raise a child. I simply cannot trust myself to do a good job.

Second, why would I bring a child into a world where each year will only be worst than the last, and their lot in life is to suffer the decline of the natural world and perhaps civilization as we know it until they themselves have to make the same choice? I'm sure someday the future will look brighter but it sure as heck isn't today, or any time in the next 50 years.
Better, show a hard working team of designers bringing the instruments and tools and adding them deliberately to the iPad.

A woman brings a painter's pallet with paints, and sets them on to a platform. She steps back and gives the thumbs up to a technician who presses a button "beaming" the pallet and paints into the iPad. Then you show another technician testing the transfer by "painting a picture" in the iPad. Then someone else places a musical instrument, thumbs up, band set, thumbs up, faster and faster. The camera pans down the hall showing a line of people bringing instruments, implements, and accessories of human creativity for the process... and... the camera rotates a shot on the iPad to view it edge on... and tagline.
Indeed, that's a great rule. Another one is "What URL was the browser on?" which is rarely ever in cropped screenshots but is visible in full screenshot
Why not used a closed loop system? Maybe something with geothermal cooling.
Stay tuned! We’re building this out soon. :)
The article conflates unrealized stock gains with income to come up with the same dumb story you've read a million times before.
The db size generally won't shrink under default settings, but the space will be reused.
My .vimrc is 8 lines. I learned not take the kitchen sink with me on holiday.
One of the reasons .NET contracts were never widely adopted was that the infrastructure to make them useful was only available on VS Enterprise.

Since most companies go with VS Professional, zero adoption.

Same applies to unit testing code coverage on VS.
Can't they use saltwater? Or grey water? What do coastline nuclear plants do?
It's not true in general because you happen to live in the one place in the US that it's not true?

Everyone can live their life in the way of their own choosing,

cool, thanks

it’s very, very possible to be free without owning a car.

If you live in one specific place and stay there.
Or just "maybe the government shouldn't be spending so much anyway".
Nothing at all.

Related note: this is also why iPad and Android tablet apps don't have real popovers or floating toolbars either. Mobile treats the window boundary as sacred.
This. A computer system that is incapable of successfully deceiving people is by definition not an AI, according to the Turing Test.
His foundation also donates a lot to neuroscience research, particularly for Autism. I think there was a family reason for that, so probably at least some of his scientific philanthropy will continue for awhile. But yeah it's extremely hard to create a structure that would perpetuate without the remaining people at the top truly buying into and understanding the mission.
The number and scale of data centers around Dulles is just crazy. The power consumption must be absurd.
Especially when the factory that makes them is also autonomous. The trick then becomes self-replicating done factories.
I suppose you could tell from how many ducks there are...