skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Large (capable) law firms would not want to associate themselves with the underdog in this case. Either because they want to avoid conflict of interest, or confidentiality matters as they likely already have an ongoing relationship with the company initiating the lawsuit. Or simply that the bigger guy paid them to "counsel" and now they have to recuse themselves due to this "relationship".

The smaller guy also likely isn't rich enough to pay for a major law firm either. The game is stacked completely against the individuals going solo against the megacorps. There is no way to win.
I speak Spanish and English, but then I moved on to Japanese and now find myself stuck. I'm not confident in any scenario involving Japanese. Perhaps I should explore other languages (likely French, Portuguese, or another Romance language), then revisit Japanese. From there, I might transition to Mandarin and Korean.

Either the path I chose is too complex, or age is beginning to impact my cognitive speed.

Has anyone feeling this? or maybe I overestimated the time I should have been investing into this?
No need to bring up the second half of your comment on this forum. Who cares?
When these claims come up they don't mean that they are using quantum effects to do normal atomic and molecular things, but rather that somehow quantum effects are used in the process of "cognition" thus allowing us to believe that we are in fact more than biological machines and leave room for various magical properties we like to think we have (souls, consciousness, free will, etc).

While quantum effects have been found to aid in photosynthesis, interesting uses in cognition or otherwise are in fact extremely rare in biology. I believe photosynthesis is one of the few documented examples. Also, despite the popularity of the quantum brain idea, no one has been able to show definitive evidence of it for decades now.

TLDR yes it would be incredibly novel if this claim were proven to be true.
Inversely, any difference can become unbearable with enough attention fixated on it.
Definitely some feature overlap yes, but as a former mywindsock user I saw the room for improvement. In my experience mywindsock was pretty difficult to understand, and seems to not have been updated in years. Comparatively, WindMate is more intuitive, a lot more affordable and has features that can't be found anywhere else (eg. weather condition analysis for previous efforts)
Its up to the engineers to factor in maintenance work as part of their estimates. Business people assume perfect software and react badly when confronted with the messiness of software development.

Also, Facebook being a real business is questionable.
So it doesn't work?
The solution is a carbon tax that properly prices the negative externalities of all products on the market.
There literally is no such thing as a social credit score. This is one of the most bizarre yet persistent and widely believed myths out there.

Go ask any of your Chinese colleagues what their "social credit score" is in China. They don't have one. The only people in China who have ever heard of "social credit scores" are people who are familiar with Western internet memes.

> the basis for denying people the ability to leave the country

Exit bans are applied when someone is facing legal proceedings, and they're considered a flight risk. Again, there simply is no citizen scoring system in China. Doesn't exist.
it only takes 3 lines in a systemd override fille (which I think don't suffer the overwrite-on-upgrade problem). To my mind, that keeps the startup logic nicely local in service files.
There are people working on that! Google for LLM + PDDL.

There are big problems with hallucinations because LLMs are not smart enough to know when they're starting to make mistakes.

But there's lots of work in this area, and generally in different ways to nail neural and symbolic systems together.
Good point, never thought of this hahah, maybe in the future :)
I want to push back on the idea that a “a skin over chatgpt” has no value a little, because it’s a common sentiment, but the tide is shifting amongst a lot of people I’m in contact with and what I’m building indeed makes API calls to OpenAI/Anthropic.

In my opinion foundational models are essentially becoming commodity products with only temporary functional differences (eg voice) and ever-changing relative quality and aptitude for certain problems. Yes, OpenAI/Google/Anthropic/Microsoft can launch their own apps built on top of foundational models, but so can almost anybody else, and presumably there will be (or already is) a plateau in quality improvements so that open models may catch up and drastically reduce costs for those calling LLMs in their products.

In my opinion reducing applications that call LLMs to skins over <insert model name> is like calling web applications skins over JavaScript, or a database, or a Java backend. Yes the technology has value in itself and they’ve commercialized it with conversational interfaces, but there are many more business applications or technical products that could use LLMs (on top of other things) and don’t exist yet. And surely many attempts will fail, but I think it’s going to become the primary way that LLMs become commercialized as time goes on.
Except there are other uses for an MRI and something that doesn’t require super conductors would be pretty awesome and deployable to places that lack the infra to support a complex machine depending on near absolute zero temperatures and the associated complexities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
The measures against climate change have been so weak until now that I don't think we can even talk about limitations yet. At least there's some equality here I guess, nobody doesn't do anything.
But there aren't 100 people, there are 8.1 billion of us. If your relationships are such that the only way for me to be a winner is for you to be a loser, when we can both be winners, it's sad.

If it's a closed system, like a race, then that makes sense. Only one person can finish first. But life's not a closed system like that, so I can win at the races and you can win at the slots, and we can go for a nice dinner together. Maybe a bit pollyanna, but not everything has to be a competition. My happiness doesn't come from the expense of someone else's.
16 GB is enough to run quantized versions of 9b and 6b.
Report on NixOS Governance Discussions
We use GeniusScan at school and it does that: https://blog.thegrizzlylabs.com/2024/03/genius-scan-7.16.htm....
> But I don't exactly see why hearing people are deciding that they must "cure" their child's deafness.

Because past some age, you can't meaningfully learn to use hearing for communication anymore. You can choose to lose hearing as an adult if you really want to. But only if you were given the opportunity to have it in the first place as a child.
Well, Finland has generally good governance and I would assume less racism. I wouldn’t mind getting conscripted if I actually supported my country and had confidence that the military isn’t used to carry out evil.
Can someone please upload the .apk somewhere? It's not available in my country (Canada).
Apparently they had invented concrete and I believe they also had some sort of engine as well although I don't think it was ever built
The money is irrelevant. An example to deter future attempts is what this is. They are crucifying this guy in the most cruel manner they could and spread the news as much as they can for a reason.
Can SAR scaled across congestion ever be that cheap though?

Blanketing the frequency slice with echos seems like a non-trivial problem. Or would that help?
Any kind of pension system does not work very well because a decreasing working population means decreasing supply of labor for the non working population, meaning increase in labor prices, which means someone has to take a reduction in the amount of labor they are able to purchase.

Unless offset by sufficient automation.
Haha good analogy, thank you for your comment! As said in some of the other comments, I am very surprised to see the push back on the account creation. I do have Guest Mode in the roadmap, but based on everybody's feedback, I will prioritize it much higher. Again thank you for taking your time to comment!
they claim that via a software update existing devices can connect to their network. but by software update, they mean firmware update at the chip level.

this article is apparently about a proof of concept to follow up with claims they have made previously for their funding round - where they had simply planned to launch a satellite to show this off. so now they've shown it off.

but if you were curious about any revolution or technical details, there are not any in any of their blog posts or this article.

its interesting but probably does more harm than good for them. the technical limitations aren't present, they probably have no moat for what they can do, or its all entirely bullshit.
> A camera takes a picture of what it sees.

All images taken with digital cameras have been filtered by a pipeline of advanced algorithms. Nobody ever looks at "what the camera sees". What kind of savage would look at an image before demosaicing the Bayer pattern? (Except from the people who work in demosaicing, of course.)
I ran into a different issue while trying to make an app to scan color coded notes in college. The colors skewed from the top to the bottom of the page making it hard to reliably tell blue pens from green ones. At some point I should look at it again.
This paper is from last year, and a lot of interesting things have happened in the meantime:

- The parallel garbage collector is now part of SBCL, but not yet the default. Enabling it is attractive, though, because it has roughly twice the throughput.

- The SBCL maintainers used the parallel GC as reason to make SBCL's memory management overall more modular. This process is still ongoing, but experimenting with different GC strategies on SBCL has never been easier.

- Another GC is already in the works that has virtually zero pause times. Once this is merged, we can finally bury that old myth that Lisp systems stutter (if it hasn't already been buried by the presence of video games written in Lisp, like Kandria)

The parallel GC is an amazing achievement by Hayley Patton. We SBCL users cannot thank her enough for her outstanding work!
Seemingly Impossible Functional Programs (2007)
That's very neat.
It works at getting VC money.
Two Ways of Approaching Marx's Capital
A multi-hour companion livestream discussion with the author of OP Ben Burgis and Stefan Bertram-Lee on the THIS IS REVOLUTION podcast:

How to read Capital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzACm_d3vVM

Currently live at time of posting.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240512210335/https://benburgis...

https://archive.is/0uAVJ
It all hinges on whether or not sex/gender (and everything that comes with it) makes you more likely to enjoy and/or excel in certain roles. My gut feeling is it does.

If it does, then the goal of that kind of equality is a false goal.

If not, then you’re right.
That wasn't the impression I got from Sabine's video. It's consciousness itself (the subjective experience) that isn't computable (AI will probably never be conscious).
> ...OR Series in target language and subtitles in English or native language...

In the ever-growing geo-restrictions world, this is no longer as easy as it was in the days of yore.

For example, if you're learning Norwegian and you want to watch anything on NRK, you need to get a BankId[1] - for which you need to be a resident _in_ Norway to have.

The alternative, of course, is buying DVDs/Blu-Rays on Amazon -- but you have to know what you want to watch and what is "good" before buying it.

[1] - https://tv.nrk.no/direkte/nrk1
Thank you for being so willing to try it, I hope to release it to Canada on Tuesday. If you are interested, I have an email list on the website, I will be sure to notify you.
Can you make one of these for “super” please – I find how its use has crept into language to be super annoying.
Mitigating Unexpected Arithmetic Overflow
"Whatever it is" == the same neurophysical/genetic factors that cause high development of "STEM" intelligence is associated with inability to process social cues in a dynamic fashion, somewhat related to high function autism. A great preference for clear classification that is not self-contradicting.
I have a somewhat negative experience with Kona and its derivatives Kerf and Kerf2.

For example, among Kerf and Kerf2: - there is no explanation about why two versions exist; - the code does not build; - it has memory leaks; - both are abandoned; - there are dubious performance claims, but when I asked the author to clarify, he closed issues without answering.

The same experience with the K community: https://github.com/kparc
They maintain a cult-like impression of their software, and the examples are typically represented by a few code dumps with no clear way of using them.

That's not to dismiss the overall idea of array programming languages, which I admire.
It's not impossible for python to be impenetrable, but it usually isn't.
By "onset" do you mean when it starts affecting their behavior in any way, or when it starts being noticeable/causing problems?
Would it be easier to deploy devices like this to developing counties without the infrastructure to support liquid helium distribution? I imagine a much simpler device WRT exotic cooling and distribution of material requirements is a plus. Couple that with the scarcity and non-renewable nature of helium, maybe using devices like this at scale for gross MRI imagery makes sense?

The AI used here as I read it is a generative approach trying to specifically compensate for EMI artifacts rather than a physics model and it likely wouldn’t be doing macro changes like sneezes to knees, no?
What if I don't want all my SSH connections to drop when my WiFi stutters for a second when I open my microwave?
If you like this you may also like to see more stars (up to 10m, and some nebulae) in my fly through simulation:
https://github.com/ejtaal/gaia-web

...or jump straight in here:
https://ejtaal.github.io/gaia-web/gaia-web-starfield.html

I'm aware it's rough around the edges, no toggle to stop/start downloads, duplicate labels, and other issues, but haven't sat down to clean it up yet due to work/family/etc ;)

It also may not work on most mobile devices, "unless you've got power"?
SimpleGEMM
He's alleged to have taught Chinese military pilots secret US Air Force techniques. This is supposed to be covered under conspiracy to export defence services.
JFC nothing pays rent to live in your head. I don't see the point of analyzing something so literally, completely sidestepping the content of the article in question.

Get a hobby.
https://archive.md/HJnOX
Without QM, electrons would just drop into the nucleus. So good luck building anything without QM.
It is possible Google could run away with the game based on two moats: 1. Mapping data; 2. Driving AI. But that outcome is far from certain.

OTOH does Google really want to own all the taxis, vans, and busses on the planet? I expect that if Waymo matures into a product that can be used anywhere on any shared vehicle, the companies that provide the tech will have a supplier relationship with lots of different vehicle operators.
Yes, it's a myth.

If you want to know about the real "social credit system," look up Jeremy Daum, a specialist in Chinese law at Yale who has written various articles and given interviews on the subject. Long story short: it's a grab bag of corporate regulations, and does not involve scoring of citizens.

There's only one way that private individuals ever interact with the system, and that is if they default on a court decision. Every case you hear about someone not being allowed to take high-speed trains or the like has to do with people who lost a legal case (such as a defamation lawsuit), were ordered to pay a fine, and then refused. Again, no score is ever involved, and citizens rarely interact with this system at all.
> You can make the best decision possible today, but in six months that npm dependency (for example) is still going to be incompatible with that other npm dependency

This is a solved problem. You either understand the dependency enough to maintain it yourself, or you firewall it through interfaces. Or you tie yourself to sensible projects that gives you time for upgrade. Or you pay for support. Every decision should be taken with a complete understanding of pros and cons, and risk management to reduce the latter.

This cabinet make should either have a backup tool or be confident they can do the repair in a way that doesn't impact their consumer.
Inside The Quiet Mind: The Absence of Inner Speech
the issue is that if you are 10% less experienced than someone else because you took a year out of your career (imagining two people who started working 10 years ago), it is hard.

Climbing the ladder has inertia, anyone taking a sabbatical will be hugely adversely affected.

We should however destigmatise men taking parental leave in order to readjust this.

I will point out, however, that our society still prefers that men pay more than their share and many women have reported being uncomfortable out earning their partner. Obviously these conditions cannot coexist.
Space is inhospitable for computing machines as well, no computing machine has outlived human beings in lifespan without ship of theseus amounts of maintenance. It's a simple fact of the universe: all systems must be designed with their direct environments in mind. Lots of our technology relies heavily on the magnetosphere for example, or on the fact that the atmosphere is not made of sulfuric acid.

On the topic of biotechnology, it seems to me we are closer to engineering biological systems than we are to AGI. Bonus points, biomass is a readily available resource with which to build them.

Either way though, my core point is, we assume non living systems are more resilient, and I don't believe that that is the case.
One interesting angle I've heard proposed with regard to this is that even post-"heat death", there is no guarantee that local pockets of low entropy will not exist. Indeed - quite the opposite is true: let's say being in a maximum-entropy state requires all particles to assume a fully random distribution (otherwise a potential gradient would exist somewhere, a form of order, and the entropy would not be maximized). Now, take a description of an NxNxN chunk of universal "stuff" (energy, matter, etc). Similar to how we can find every string of digits in Pi if we look long enough (each given substring is equal to the search string with probability 1/10^N, N is length of string), we should be able to find every possible chunk in the maximum-entropy universe, with the probability for any given chunk matching being 1/M^N^3, (M is the universal "base", how many options a given location has for what it can be in the encoding we are using).

Long story short, assuming an infinite universe post-"heat death", we'd expect to be able to find every possible arrangement of particles represented at some location, even very complex ones such as the entire universal state we observe today.
I think we have a different view on what research is capable of.

I think such information already exists, but that it is up to the individual to make that interpretation. And it is fine to interpret things as you like. And it is fine for others to form their own interpretation. No one actually has 'the truth'.

In a way what we are talking about is acknowledging what is called the 'Russell conjugation', where, imo, truth cannot be isolated from the emotional interpretation. An example is:

> I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing.

Of course, the fusspot 'he' in the example, could say the same in reverse! The personal bias/interpretation is always there. It's very hard (impossible) to see the truth of a thing without the emotional interpretation.

I'm saying this is fine, it's simply a constraint of reality. If one is aware that one's own opinion is just one opinion amongst many (perhaps based in better reasoning than the next person's), make your case. But that no one has 'the truth' - all one can have is a well-reasoned interpretation (or not)...

So no one has the right to limit another's opinions, as no one has the truth - no individual, no organisation. Believing oneself to be right does not give one a right to inflict one's opinions on others, to be treated as fact. In fact, those with the most certainty about the rights and wrongs are almost certainly operating within a highly constrained set of information, and can often be shown to be making erroneous judgements (or acting in bad faith).

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
This is such a bizarrely unrelated rant to what parent was saying. It's absolutely okay to take a pay decrease where other conditions (that are important to you) are being met such as:

1. A job which more closely aligns with your interests

2. A job which feels more laudable/noble

3. A job which lets you work from home vs office

etc. etc.
> The other things we'd take for granted today likely weren't conceived then, including the App Store.

IIRC, one could get apps on other platforms like Blackberry, even over the web. Apple's anti-innovation was a closed-garden storefront.
>"openssh does not directly use liblzma. However debian and several other distributions patch openssh to support systemd notification, and libsystemd does depend on lzma. Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma", so at least one of your examples is wrong. That specific vulnerability was not in Arch.

This is such a weird formulation though, because "other distributions" apparently included insignificant parts of the linux landscape like Fedora (i.e. the testing variant of the RedHat world) and SUSE.

And if the three largest upstream distris in the linux world have this mistake, calling that "Well some distris, but screw mostly Debian" doesn't sound like a strong point.
I can disagree about same family languages. I think the jury is out because you get very confused exactly because of the similarities and can end up speaking "itagnol" or "portunol" etc which is the nightmare of Italian or Brazilian immigrants. It can be easier in grammar for sure.
In which case

> old people and their disposable income are a huge driver of the economy

Cant be true. You either have money and drive the economy, or you don't have money
This is an interesting take and it sounds sensible. I wonder what the labor market looks like in Germany.

As far as the US goes, I'm also curious how the dawning changes led by AI technologies in the workplace and budding trends in the labor pool will affect their military's posture recruitment-wise.

We've seen them attempt to appeal to more diverse crowds in the last few years, but I think that the particular demographic(s) in question are most likely to equate serving the armed forces in general as bad.

A generation comprised of mostly men without college educations who are not satisfied with Door-Dashing or "Twitching" for a living may not feel the same.
This implies there’s a strict, singular and universal ordering for prestige.

The idea you can rank prestige like that, and displace anyone in a strict manner, or that there’s some metric you can even use, is utter nonsense.

There are bands, of course, but nothing more granular than that.

It’s not a zero sum game unless you’re in a very unhealthy mindset.
Having worked on languages and compilers for many years, I thoroughly enjoyed this post.

Another way to phrase the same idea: a language is _a lot more_ than just compile speed.

Compile speed is very important, in the top 10 dimensions, for sure. Especially because improving compile speed increases the developer feedback loop clock speed which helps the core team improve all the other dimensions faster.

But there are still >30 other dimensions that are very important in a programming language.
Linux 6.9 Released
Could’ve just asked me.
the art world is not the art mainstream market