skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An AI composing a beautiful symphony is a lot more likely than an AI being unusually successful at the stock market. For the latter it would need to outcompete other stock market AIs.
Probably just random AI features rather than what you want, being able to run Mac OS apps.
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
It goes with the territory of being a hegemonic power.
But yes obviously European and indeed African countries and their leaders also have their large share of responsibility.
These animals also probably live pretty decent lives, since they need to keep the organs in good shape…
I think there's some confusion there. The Carrington is estimated to have been caused by an X80 solar flare, whereas we were getting around X3 flares for this storm. That's a log scale, so there's quite a difference.

Two other factors are important: firstly, the flare and the CME are inter-related but separate. You can get a big flare, but not a big CME, or the CME can not be Earth-directed, so no hit.

Secondly, Earth's magnetic field has weakened significiantly since 1859 (its strength is cyclical, and related to how the true poles wander and drift over time). This means that smaller events cause larger disruptions to the electromagnetics of Earth.

So we have Dst -1000 for Carrington, and -250 for the storm over the weekend. Due to our impaired EM immune system right now, we could get Carrington level EM disturbance on Earth from smaller events on the sun.
It's quite literally an amendment.
When the pilot steps away from the controls, the plane doesn't instantly crash, but you do still need a pilot. An exec thinks labor is a pilot, but only thinks about the 3 minutes after the pilot moves away, then declares, "see? No pilot needed!" Then the exec jumps out with their parachute, and receives no consequences.

Execs don't think about long time horizons. Ever.
Simplicity Is Contagious
The OP hasn't commented in 3 months, and has submitted numerous articles from the same domain. The other mostly come from another domain with an identical UX.
frankly, if a util needs login first, it may not be worth trying
You can easily fix this using a grammar constraint with llama.cpp. Add this to the command:
--grammar "root ::= [^一-鿿ぁ-ゟァ-ヿ가-힣]*"

This will ban Chinese characters from the sampling process. Works for Yi and Qwen models.
How does it run git? Is there some kind of posix layer? What utilities does it come with?
This is incredibly understated, and I’ve used it for various sites, but it should be noted that the alternative sites are some times out of date in yt-dlp.

I was hoping for a working download for NPR Music, but it failed me last week for Kiefer’s set on Tiny Desk. Couldn’t airplay or chromecast it (without doing the whole screen, with all the trade offs that entails), and HDMI did a weird thing on macOS where the playback was sped up in every major browser.

Had a resort to a Firefox extension to download the video and Plex it in order to use the TV. Of course, I didn’t see if they had a Roku or similar app, and was just impatient to wait for the YouTube upload. Sigh.
The author sounds as if he was directly hired by the russians, lmao.

His writing tone is "60s soviet propaganda" and the arguments are shallow and insubstantial, to say the least.

upd. Just checked his other articles. Yup, dude is a russian shill.
I’m pretty sure there are engines you can use to march fonts, but I’m not sure if they’re good etc.

I’ve never figured out how to even buy a font - I imagine half the sites selling them are selling pirated copies.
mbin most likely refers to "MacBinary" (a format used to preserve the Mac resource fork when a file is passed around online/on non-Mac file systems)
They are the ones responsible for street signs. The computer system in this case is also theirs, as would be any cost to change the system to support apostrophes.

There is literally no spare budget in UK local government at present. This could be a big factor too in the decision making too.
Haven't tracked trade offs recently, but I always use Opus when I save audio from Youtube since it's the best codec option there.
How would you interact with a HUD system if you can dismiss and activate HUD elements ?

For the last sentence, at that point why not just interface with the watch and phone themselves if you’re already going to have to look at them to interact
"Roadmap for PEP 458" https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/issues/10672
Wonder whats the status of AI which knows which durations can be edited out since you were fumbling with mouse movements and voice. Bonus points if it detects "takes" of the same scene. Around 2005, Linux users were recording TV on their PCs and detecting/skipping ads automatically and soon after, podcast apps were skipping lulls in the voice.
I used to download with yt-dlp -x. But the sound is not good at all. I am not using a re-encoded format, so some yt videos may not have good sound quality.
Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution
(citation needed). What safety/clarity is given by removing apostrophes from names? Especially in the country already using lots of indigenous names forced into almost-English pronunciation?
It's horribly useless for most use cases since half of it is people probing for riddles that don't transfer to any useful downstream task, and the other half is people probing for morality. Some tiny portion is people asking for code, but every model has its own style of prompting and clarification that works best, so you're not going to be able to use a side-by-side view to get the best result.

The "will it tell me how to make meth" stuff is a huge source of noise, which you could argue is digging for refusals which can be annoying, and the benchmark claims to filter out... but in reality a bunch of the refusals are soft refusals that don't get caught, and people end up downvoting the model that's deemed "corporate".

Honestly the fact that any closed source model with guardrails can even place is a miracle, in a proper benchmark the honest to goodness gap between most closed source models and open source models would be so large it'd break most graphs.
Can you imagine what kind of shit show the first presidential election will be with gen Z candidates? I'm not taking a dig at the generation, but the social media posts that will be unearthed by the opponent's campaign. I predict we'll see would be presidents get sacked at the 11th hour due to things they said on Myspace in 8th grade.
With iOS and iPadOS Apple created a new way make money even after they sell you the device, i.e the app store, every app purchase or other in app transactions that you do on these devices makes Apple money and this is not the case with macOS where people can buy software from any source without giving Apple anything. So I don't think macOS will ever come to iPad.

We as consumer loves the idea of "one device that does everything" but that's not what tech companies want.
I dunno if that all applies any more post covid in these parts. McDonalds was always predictably and blandly bad, but the couple of times I've stupidly visited since covid they seem to have swung into unpredictably bad territory. Maybe management creativity has won out after all.
For a good introduction to developing an intuition about special relativity via low speed of light, I really recommend George Gamow’s “Mr Tompkins in Wonderland” (or “in paperback”). These short stories explore things like how the world would look if the speed of light were 10 mph.
Oh yes. I know 'the others'. Works well.
Curious to hear your story. Why take the risk of going to Ukraine? How long did you go for? How much did the war impact your visit?
Well, the main difference is in input sanitazation. Take a look at this example of latte docs: https://latte.nette.org/en/safety-first#toc-latte-vs-naive-s....

Since different parts of user input have to be handled differently, you need to escape based on the context of the input. And that's exactly what latte does, whereas Blade or Twig escape everything the same way, no matter the context.
Looking at tokens they were trained on is also a really great indicator of world understanding. Llama 3 is a game changer for some usecases because there's finally a model that understands the world deeply as opposed to typical models which can be fine tuned into hyper specific tasks, but generalize poorly, especially in D2C usecases where someone might probe the model's knowledge
Javier Bardem recently said the exact same thing, in terms of English being an easier language for him to perform in because it's not as real to him as Spanish.
Isn't this just the same thing as kap getkap.co except that this cap is not free?
No magic happens when you turn 30. Nothing changes if nothing changes.
> Is there a Linux pad available?

May be this: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite
But why would the lender want to sell at such a discount? Arent they losing out on the remaining value of the loan. They had to pay someone else 137 mil and they arent getting that back. That just sounds like internal fraud.
Is there any comment on Kotlin?
So when I took an 8 second exposure of the aurora on Friday and then used Capture One to process the raw to make it more vivid than it was in real life - is that a record of what was?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not super keen on AI type stuff in cameras as a whole. The line is muddy though. A smartphone camera straight up can’t capture the moon well, or at all. If it then looks more like it did in real life after processing is that better or worse than my above example?
Any time I copy a link to share with someone, I delete the ? and everything after. I want to send the person the link, not whatever metadata the site is trying to collect.
Show HN: I made a fun little mental maths game
Hi, this is a little website I made that lets you complete quick mental maths tests. I found a website similar that did this but it didn't allow for decimal numbers so I wanted to create something that let me do that. This is my first time creating something that I wanted other people to be able to use, so if you have any feedback regarding the website or the development, I'd love to hear!
The EM disturbance to Earth (Dst) of Carrington was -1000, whereas this one was -250. But the flare that produced Carrington was estimated to be an X80, whereas our max was around an X3.98. I think that means that Carrington produced around 0.008 W/m^2 of X-ray flux whereas ours produced around 0.0004

The non-linear effect (20x weaker flare only 4x less effect) is accounted for by how Earth's magnetic field has weakened in the ~165 years since Carrington.
I don't think the article is climate change denial but if it's true that the Sun is getting hotter then man-made global warming will not be significant comparing to that.
A powerful method in math is to assume the thing you're looking for is continuous, in which case you can write it F(n) = a0 + a1 n + a2 n^2 + ... .

You can solve Fibonacci by writing it as

a0 + a1 n + a2 n^2 + ...

= a0 + a1 (n-1) + a2 (n-1)^2 + ...

+ a0 + a1 (n-2) + a2 (n-2)^2 + ...

Expand terms, then match the n, n^2, n^3 etc terms and solve for a0, a1, a2, etc. This works in solving differential equations too - it's called "Method of Frobenius" (easier in diffeq because you don't have to do annoying binomial coefficient math).
Similarly, NetBird SSH: https://docs.netbird.io/how-to/cli#ssh
But the term "donor" means that it was donated, right?

I don't think it should be used in this context either, it should be called something like "organ provider" which gets "harvested".
I really hope this won’t be taken the wrong way, but why are these people always fighting the last war? Brendan Eich was already doing this in the 90s when developing JavaScript.

I disagree with a lot of what Jonathon Blow says, but he’s correct when he said that even the most trivial of projects are regarded with awe, as if they’re some insane and innovative skunkworks project. There are problems that need solving, that are in dire need of solving, but nobody seems to care about them. What we end up with is more and more bloated frameworks and languages that nobody uses after a week.
Deaf ASL users have much less need to hear since their language doesn't require it. For that reason I suspect deaf folks generally find hearing less important than blind folks find seeing.

There are blind people like Daniel Kish who use echolocation to replace sight; I get the sense they're more on the difference side of the fence.
The US also differs wildly in cost of living on a state-by-state, city-by-city basis. Even the suburbs of big cities can have a substantially cheaper cost of living.

You're going to have a much different picture of this if you compare San Francisco and Montgomery, Alabama.
I expect most of our communications with them will be political in nature or will involve apologizing to them.
As long as AI makes things better on average, it's useful. It doesn't have to be 100% correct.
"Finally".
Pay attention to the people with the most dogmatic views in this thread about determinism and free will. It’s extremely interesting. Typically (and strangely) I find the most dogmatic folks are mostly determinists. I think probably because it’s more “science-y” than a philosophy that has to say “I don’t know.”

Even in this thread you’ll note that there’s a very vocal group of people who would happily shout down any idea that there’s any sort of free will in the universe and that the universe is anything other than a cold mechanistic computation that was determined billions of years ago. They’ll shit talk Penrose, or shout about pseudoscience, and very few of them will critically engage with the topic in good faith. They’ve already made up their minds. Not only that but some of them (troublingly) will even talk how we’re not even conscious at all. As if we are all just meat computers or something.

Now, I don’t know if we’re conscious or not and I don’t know if the world is on rails either, but it certainly feels like I have free will and it certainly feels like I’m responsible for my actions and it qualitatively feels like I’m conscious.

Obviously, not all of my choices are made freely, but some of the ones that matter to me at least seem to be made freely. But a lot of people seem absolutely sure that we’re not making anny choices and we have no free will. It’s weird to me, because literally every day I get increasing evidence suggesting I have free will within some limits and the universe is unfathomable and unpredictable.

Not to be an ass, but if I can be honest I kinda pity the folks that don’t have that experience. I reckon if you’ve never made a decision that really mattered it would be easy to feel like it all wasn’t your choice. Maybe that’s too harsh, but anti-free will and determinism are just as untestable as any other philosophy I suppose, but I do wonder what kind of life can lead to people thinking that they’re not making any conscious decisions.
DC is divided into 4 quadrants, and to lift degeneracies they come after street/avenue/road/place etc in an address. So many GPS pronounce 815 V St NW as "eight-fifteeen V saint northwest" instead of "... street ...". Makes me laugh every time.
What's the multiplier for index to convert to dollar?
+1 same. If this was a generic screen recording software I’d have skipped it.
> Had UNIX been sold as commercial product, most likely the winner would have been something like VAX VMS

In the 70s and 80s, a lot of universities used VM/CMS for research and teaching. But then they ended up all migrating to some combination of UNIX and PCs running DOS/Windows.

In the 1980s, IBM was seriously pursuing the idea of a VM/CMS-based workstation – they ended up actually releasing the IBM 7437 VM/SP Technical Workstation in 1988, and it was adopted by some customers, primarily those who used the mainframe-based CAD systems CADAM and CATIA. But it just couldn't compete with UNIX workstations in the market. In an alternative timeline where UNIX was much less successful, it might have stood more of a chance.
I should note that the other posts go into more of the theory and background of final tagless encodings, including links to Oleg's site who has done a lot of work on them. They are a very flexible for implementing embedded languages.
K-Index is more like (as someone else smartly said) a kind of heuristic subjective measure like a "Cat 5 Hurricane"

Some more illuminating measurements are:

Carrington: Dst -1000 from an X80 flare and CME

May 2024 Event: Dst -250 from multiple up to X3.98 flares (and CMEs)
What do you mean, "encourages programming deviating from standard practices"?
This study is not even peer reviewed, is a pre-print and has low sample size.

How do we make all these conclusions so quickly
I unironically want this more than another particle collider.
Yoko would have made a great Wormtongue though
How do I run this on my phone where I listen to everything?
has anyone done a simple merging of the Cost of living and quality of living to get the top 10 countries with the lowest cost of living but relatively highest quality of living?
this has happened before; one year College Board canceled all the AP and SAT scores in China/HK (possibly elsewhere) because of it.
The BS 7666 is just a rationalization. There is a definition of CharacterString to be alphanumeric, which would be silly to use strictly since that would also forbid white space and hyphens. Later in the spec there is a specific example containing an apostrophe. "Abbreviations and punctuation should not be used
unless they appear in the designated name (e.g. ‘Earl’s Court Road’). Only single spaces should be used, and the use of leading spaces should be avoided."

So some system the council deals with can't cope, and they are trying to rationalize not fixing it.
Why would you willingly go to a war zone?

Their cities are regularly hit by antiship missiles (russians are evil) and Iranian made/copied drones. They don't care about you and will kill you no matter what your passport is from.

Please reconsider or at least get a local guide.
Really? It gives me PTSD from the Wallstreetbets days.
Carrington: Dst -1000 from an X80 flare and CME

May 2024 Event: Dst -250 from multiple up to X3.98 flares (and CMEs)

Dst is the disturbance to Earth's magnetic field, Xs are the W/m^2 of X-rays emitted from the solar explosion (flare). It's also important to consider the size and direction of the CME (if any) associated with the flare.
> their attitude is more “asking tough questions is a sin”

I hear this sentiment a lot, but having been in all sorts of church, para-church, and religious education settings, I've never once seen it for myself. I have stumped many tutors in my life, but not once was I chastised for "sinning." Not that my experience is worth more; it's just still very foreign to me.

What I have seen is a severe lack of religious knowledge in most adults. For whatever reason, many of these people don't have the drive to understand things for themselves. This is strange because if you genuinely believe in what you preach, it should be one of the most important things to get right.

I suppose this isn't much different from other aspects of our current culture, though. Most people seem satisfied with an extremely shallow understanding of things.
" It possesses the potential to enhance its own capabilities at a speed that outpaces our own evolutionary timelines without AI."

Does it?

And there may be a limit to intelligence anyway. In humans extreme intelligence often seems to pair with some kind of psychosis, for example.

I think all we can say is IF AGI is possible, it can potentially be made to be very much faster than humans.
Fewer remember modified mp4 with patched atom location to help play media while downloading off a CDN.

For most mobile users, using the more modern VP9 and HEVC essentially just burns battery life, and even modern GPU based desktop users usually see their card warm up on YT.

MP4 is far from perfect, but play/resume/skip-to location media mods for a web-server are common (js or html5 support is stable.) This saves a lot of grief setting up media servers, but most people now just use an online platform... rather than figure this stuff out.

I kind of miss the days a lazy layman coudn't post lame garbage video content.

Have a wonderful day =3
It seems to work only in conjunction with corporal punishment. When adults can't beat kids it's way harder to push nonsense onto them.
This is a strange headline coming from the CATO institute of all people.
In terms of Dst, I guess that's correct. But in terms of the solar event that led to the storm? Carrington was an X80 versus our weekend's X3.98
Sure, so in the USA slightly under half end in divorce, but I’d argue that the vast majority of ones that don’t are miserable and if ended both would be better off- the tragedy isn’t the divorces but the even more common unhappily married. I say that as someone that is in a happy long term relationship after many hard won lessons, but I see that a lot of people are not… but could be if they either left or learned some key skills: how to communicate, how to be emotionally vulnerable, how to deal with a crisis as a team, how to set boundaries, how to communicate assertively without emotional manipulation, how to keep a relationship exciting and valuable for both people. Our culture generally does not equip people with the tools to make a relationship work long term, and many people are blindsided by the fact that it does not happen automatically. I’ve met maybe 1 or 2 people ever in the USA from my parents generation- Baby Boomers that is married but not miserable due to basically being a fully grown adult with the emotional maturity and communication skills of a toddler. Perhaps other countries and cultures better equip people with the skills they need.
Worked with a lot of directors on their first or nearly first movies, like James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Bogdonovich, Ron Howard. Even the Fantastic Four movie he produced had some pluses (the Red Letter Media review is worth watching).
It is likely that soon, all authors will use AI to "author" their papers, and reviewers will use AI to "review" these papers.

Quite an interesting situation, where academia becomes intermediated via LLMs.
I'm sure that it features prominently in some people's life paths, but this kind of conclusion really demands statistics before it becomes an unexamined truism.

For example, the N-years-latee Catholic versus atheist ratio among graduated students, and what we would expect it to be from a secular school after controlling for variables like socioeconomic status and parent's religion.
Interested observers can't be researchers?
I always pad my estimates by quite a bit. I'd rather get done early than have people asking why something is late. Generally speaking, the things I think are going to be hard end up being easy, and the things I think will be easy end up being hard (usually for really stupid reasons). So it's all a crap shoot.
i'd say emotions are engaging, anger is just the easiest one to evoke by people who want to monetize your attention
Why not just title the post "Show HN: LibreJS"? The FUD vibe seemed unusually dissonant for GNU.