skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be a term for this type of article that throws out a bunch of subjects in a purported progression of logical argument, but is really only taking the reader on an emotional journey. Non-interactive Gish gallop?

If you want to focus on fallacious expiration dates, the don't drag in the subject of food distributors wasting food out of commercial expedience. If you want to talk about people going hungry in a country of plenty, then don't talk about individually wasting food. If you want to talk about fresh water being squandered, don't do it in a pan-country context where most of that water is a renewable resource continually falling from the sky. If you want to riff on the ridiculousness of landfills, don't focus on one of their most decomposable ingredients.

All of these things are certainly problems to be discussed in their own right, but I don't see how lumping them together in one big ball does anything besides letting readers feel that they might do something about any of the larger problems.
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A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space
It's Guardian. The world's premier decel / degrowth publication. Expect nothing else but to shit on AI. They will just alternate between hallucination, energy consumption, billionaire-hate, big-tech hate, copyright and jobs
Bots make 90% of stablecoin transactions
Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece of human brain
I would love it if you could bundle this into electron, there’s so many random electron apps for which the bug reporting workflow is still stuck in the 90s as you say.
Melting Ice Has Altered Time-Keeping
>The people of typical child rearing age today grew up in the "16 and pregnant" era, where having children was demonized. They were told that to have children was a failing, and that they should focus on their career instead – that was the key to a successful, happy life. Social pressure is a hell of a drug.

You could almost call that a genocide... if the originator of that messaging authored it to cause a birth collapse. Throw in every public policy decision made to economically destroy single-earner households and it really almost starts looking like genocide (or democide?)...
Mayman Aerospace flying motorcycle becomes a military VTOL jet drone
I'm not blaming Simons, I am blaming the people I worked for when I worked at arXiv who, again, took a decade to start looking for sustainable funding.
It's complex.

One cannot legally practice law without a license. The definition of that varies by jurisdiction. Fortunately, in my jurisdiction, "practicing law" generally implies taking money, and it's very hard to get in trouble for practicing law without a license. However, my jurisdiction is a bit of an outlier here. Yours might differ.

In general, the line is drawn at the difference between providing legal information and legal advice.

Generic legal discussions, like this one, are generally not considered practicing law. Legal information is also okay. If I say "the definition of manslaughter is ...," or "USC ___ says ___," I'm generally in the clear.

Where the line is crossed is in interpreting law for a specific context. If I say "You committed manslaughter and not murder because of ____, which implies ____," or "You'd be breaking contract ____ because clause 5 says ____, and what you're doing is ____," that's legal advice.

The reasons cited for this are multifold, but include non-obvious ones, such as that clients will generally present their case from their perspective. A non-lawyer will be unlikely to have experience with what questions to ask to get a more objective view (or even if the client is objective, what information they might need to make a determination). Even if you are an expert in the law, it's very easy to accidentally give incorrect advice, which can have severe consequences.

In practice, most of this is protectionism. Bar associations act like a guild. Lawyers are mostly incompetent crooks, and most are not very qualified to provide legal advice either, but c'est la vie. If you've worked with corporate lawyers, this statement might come off as misguided, but the vast majority of lawyers are two-bit operations handling hit-and-runs, divorces, and similar.

In either case, it's helpful to give the disclaimer so you know I'm not a lawyer, and don't rely on anything I say. It's fine for casual conversation, but if tomorrow you want to start a startup which helps people with legal problems, talk to a qualified lawyer, and don't rely on a random internet post like this one.
That's not what that set of laws/norms covers at all.

Try publishing a book with any European publisher and then "right to be forgottening" it out of existence.
Mostly poor examples, because

- The American auto industry was quite a wonder in its heyday, and that was also when unions reigned. The decline was correlated with the 1970s oil supply shocks, not union organizing

- The best American states for education really are pretty union heavy ones like Massachussetts, New Jersey, etc. Same states with highest teacher pay and good union teacher job conditions are the ones with high student achievement. Funny that.

- I've been flying in America for decades and it's fine? Like, grow up? Airline peanuts come in funny little bags and sometimes flights are delayed, but all in all it's a pretty marvellous system that charges relatively little for teleporting you around the country.
One of the most impactful men of our generation.

He will be remember for lifetimes
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Do you have a source that it was animated or are you just making it up to sound smarter?
I know it will never happen, but I'd very much like people to stop anthropomorphizing LLMs.

LLMs aren't racist: sometimes they might emit predictive text, which can be interpreted as racist.

LLMs don't lie: sometimes they might emit predictive text, which can be interpreted as deceptive.

LLMs don't code: sometimes they might emit predictive text, which might happen to be code which is valid and does what you hoped it would.

Sometimes it's fine to elide the difference: there's no reason to be all pedantic about a sentence like "my chatbot wrote a bunch of good unit tests, remarkable how good they are at programming".

But there's no splitting the difference here. Someday we may have computer programs where it's reasonable to impute agency, knowledge, goals, and independent actions on the basis of motive. At this moment, no such programs exist.
Not like that. SLRs don't have a built-in lens to contend with, and merely putting another lens over the iPhone's integrated one won't have the desired effect.

There are adapters where the integrated lens is focused on a flat disk of ground glass that's vibrated to move the grain around. The principal lens then projects an image onto the ground glass for the camera to record. This technique was used way back with camcorders and such to get a full frame effect on the cheap, before the DSLR video phenomenon happened.

While it's unclear if Panavision's implementation uses vibrating ground glass, the fundamentals will be the same: the iPhone is recording an image that's been projected onto an external surface.

Incidentally, I think an advert for one of those camcorders back in the day that used this technique would be decidedly judged as deceptive!
Unfortunately Supabase charges extra for the luxury of setting that URL, and the site is wildly unprofitable right now so I'm sticking to their free offering for the time being
I don't have a problem with this Shot on iPhone ad, because it clearly shows what kind of rig is needed behind the scenes to achieve the results, assuming it wasn't doctored and the footage is real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jELeFXNJUOE
I always understood the model as being for carless locals who occasionally need a car for spring cleanup/large shopping trips.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
> Isn't it expected that Stackoverflow questions and answers can be used by anybody including to train models?

CC ShareAlike requires attribution + derivative works to be shared under the same license. ClosedAI is absolutely in the wrong here.
I think peak baby is less about good or bad and more about a turning point for growth demand.
It's Vim vs Ed. The shell is all powerful but sometimes it's easier to yyhpl (select the file for copying, then paste a symbolic link in the parent directory) than typing the commands to do so even with shell completion. Sometimes having visual feedback is good. But a GUI FM doesn't bring that much. I spend as much time with Ranger as Finder on macOS.
"Ahoy there, one-armed pirate captain, couldst thou tell me how to implement the sieve of Eratosthenes in Python?"
This take is useless....

Lets take a simple non computing model first: You're in a car, you hit the brakes pedal, you expect the brakes to be applied and the car to slow down. If it does not, then the brakes are broken.

More complex computing model: Your modern car interprets there is an object in front of it and applies the brakes. If there was, yay, your car may have saved you. If there was not, you may have just caused a 20 car pile up on interstate. So much for that 'FILE' just being a file.

Please wake up and realize that you live in a world where 'FILES' have agency depending on their connectedness.
Wait are you sure the whole thing was an animation? It's hard to tell but at least some of it looks real... Is that mentioned in the article?
IIRC his fund averaged around 30% gains per year, every year, over 30 years. (I'm going from memory here, too lazy to look it up). That is just such an unbelievable performance number.
It depends on the context. On an entertainment yt channel, one single real trumpet, so what. But the context apple produced is the implication that the very concept of a trumpet is being destroyed and replaced with a thin, temporary simulacrum.

The difference is subtle. In the first case, a single real trumpet. Only worth a few hundred bucks. In the advertisement, the crushed trumpet is a symbol representing everything around trumpets: lessons, spit valves, centuries/milennia of history, inherited instruments, afternoons afterschool marching around on a football field with childhood friends.

Ce n'est pas une pipe.
Legality aside, I think the "payment" people get from posting free knowledge on the Internet is the human connection, and the satisfaction of knowing that other people are reading and appreciating it directly.

Injecting an LLM middleman between your post and the end user changes this dynamic quite a bit - without the human component, the feeling is that you're just doing unpaid labor for a profit-oriented company (OpenAI).
> The pollution lifted every single person’s standard of living across the globe to levels unimaginable 100 years ago.

I think it's important to note that you are making this statement with virtually no evidence about the long term sustainability of this standard of living. It's great to be sitting on all this bounty, sure, but from the perspective of history we're not even out of the prototyping phase. If climate change models are even remotely accurate, for example, then the standard of living we are currently enjoying will not be shared by future generations in any nation. I definitely take your point that it's unreflective for a citizen of a rich nation to say "pollution for me, but not for thee", however if in the long term we experience severe ecological collapse as a result then is it really worth it for 2-4 generations to have iPhones and air conditioning? Only time can ultimately tell, but I think it's critical to consider how radically unique the last ~200 years of human history have been, and as a result how poorly equipped we are to extrapolate its lessons into the future.
The client libs are a nice convenience, but most users write the sql directly when integrating with other SQL statements, something like:

begin;
select * from my table group by...
select pgmq.send();
commit;
As I understand it, the right to be forgotten is a related but distinct concept to the GDPR.
> You can't uniformly sample an unbounded set.

You definitely can, as long as you are accepting the use of limits (and without that, sampling uniform over any subsegment over the reals would also be pretty much impossible). “Sample a uniformly chosen real” just is shorthand for “Sample over a real from [-N, +N], then we are interested in the answer then N goes to infinity”. In this case, then just divide all the coefficients by N, which obviously doesn't affect the answer. So uniformly over [-1,+1] is as good as uniformly over R.

This is very common. See e.g. number theory, where you can ask questions like “what is the probability that two randomly chosen natural numbers are coprime”; the set of natural numbers is also unbounded, but it doesn't prevent this question from being well-defined, and the answer is 6/π² (about 0.608).
I started using an ad blocker, oddly enough, because a web comic I read had a shitty habit forever of having ads above the comic that would load in and shift the page down. That shift would be late enough that it would happen just as I was clicking on the comic to make it full screen. Now I get a popup saying “please support us” and I think I’ve supported you enough, sir, with unplanned clicks on ads and whatever tracking bullshit they’re doing.
The only thing OpenBSD protects you from is performance.
Do you mean "den animals"? That they instinctually know not to urinate in their den? That makes sense -- pigs instinctually urinate on one side of their pen so I'm sure other animals have similar instincts.

Perhaps a hardware store is too big and too non-den like that some dogs don't consider it a den.
The M1 used in the original MacBook Air has a TDP of around 10 watts. I don't track this closely, but AFAIK there aren't any good performing chips on the PC side of the world that can beat that.

I don't really track this directly, but periodically I look for passively cooled (fanless) laptops. I haven't looked into Ryzen, but it would be a very nice surprise if there are fanless Ryzen laptops out there.
That's a strange sentiment, it's not like he had to donate at all?
One can make any sort of outlandish claim, but there's little point in giving undue attention to entirely baseless speculation.
> I don't get it.

It's not about legality, it's that sites like SO and Reddit have turned a corner and are no longer sites or businesses that people want to support. The contract of user generated content has been disrupted, we'd have happily given them content to profit from forever if they didn't turn shitty. And now people are lashing out even if it's futile because the content has already been sold. These sites failed a generational marshmallow test, taking short term profit at the expense of souring people on the idea of providing free content going forward.
No, fix the issue and open a PR. This is a personal project. They need contributions, not a pile of discouraging issue reports for which they'll never have enough time.
They disabled all plugins, not just those that may access networks.

This is not good, it's nonsensical.
LLMs do not operate on ideas, they do not understand things. They operate on tokens which are phonemes, words or phrases. Think of it as a fancy autocomplete.
They don't need to. But they offended their main target demographic, so it's probably a good business move to try to regain their trust.
Guess this is it. I'm powering everything down for security reasons. To the woods I go to build a cabin.
I've looked through the rust code on GitHub, and it's amazingly readable, like one of the good lisp systems. Esp. the matcher, eg. in the normalize or solver.
Just much faster.
I'm not a big boy architect and I write small software. To me it seems like "modifying microservices" usually want to read from the database aswell and when I have all my DTOs in place and everything I might aswell implement a GET endpoint?

Is this just for performance considerations? When you have lots of reads and maybe few writes so you need an extra service to handle the load?

Can someone give a practical example?
This is what stood out to me too. Clearly the iPhone can do it, so the claim seems fair.

This reminds a bit of the stuff last year when the Halloween was shot on iPhone.

“They cheated! They used cranes and dollies and light boxes and microphones and…”

No one complains something wasn’t “shot on a RED camera” because of that stuff. It’s just standard fare for professional work.

The iPhone is acting like a camera body. It happens to have an integrated lens they’re using with the Pannavision, but otherwise it’s being used much like they’d use another camera body.
Can they even do that?

I know that SO content is licensed under creative commons; is there an additional dual license that allows them to commercially use it under different (e.g. non-attribution) terms?
I'm a hobby musician and let me tell you that I can hear digital instruments and to me they sound like "they cheaped out on hiring some guy to actually play this"
I've experimented with 30 or models so far, my general finding is closed source models like Claude have GPT-isms, while open source models do have a little less of a default tone but their ability to understand existing worlds is directly tied to how many tokens they were trained on.

Since existing worlds are (currently) where most of the stories are set, it's worth it to use a closed source models and wrangle their issues with dialogue.

To it's credit though, Llama 3 is the first OSS model trained on enough tokens to not feel lost for most worlds, so I've started routing some traffic to it for free users

The output format the site uses is also really really hard for most models to follow without fine-tuning, but fine-tuning then causes them to pick up the vocabulary of whichever model they were fine tuned on, which is a bit unfortunate
After coloring grading there's going to be difference in sharpness but most won't notice. The biggest visual difference is going to be depth of field. Without specialty lens iphone has to rely on a depth matte, which is not very clean with current gen hardware. With Panavision lens you can manually pull focus. It will look better but requires a dedicated person on set.
There are US senators that make millions by using their spouses as intermediaries to buy and sell shares. Insider trading as a crime only exists for those that are not well connected enough
Happens all the time in CA (I’m near Palo Alto). It’s at high-end places (that I don’t frequent) and fast-casual joints, both chains and independent restaurants. I’ve even seen it at a bookstore that calls it a living wage surcharge.
Interestingly, Nitendo did it before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAo9HzOgtQ
I’m gonna have to disagree. If the majority of your “science” isn’t reproducible then you really can’t call it science in any meaningful capacity. That’s not to say it isn’t valuable or helpful in some way but that’s not what’s in question. In fact, it’s not science in the same way that we’re not questioning whether it’s useful. Particularly, in the literal way.
I don't think it is unreasonable to apply that perspective to the first example of yours.
Whether it’s a scam or not, I’ve seen a couple .onion sites for trading insider knowledge. You have to tell something to get in.

Beating the S&P 500 is difficult and there are now zero fee funds to mimic it.
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Nice! I remember when this tool launched and I checked it out. It's really nice to use with easy to setup integrations. The instant replay feature especially is super cool! My biggest request would be to please add a Firefox extension!

The Jam team seems like a talented and good group of people. I applied a while back and while I was turned down I got an actual human response from the team. They also did a push to ask for input on improvements for Jam maybe a year ago and offered to donate $25 (iirc) to St Judes for every person who responded.
The video is cool, but yeah, watching all these great items being crushed, is wow.
The Role of Technical Writer in API Documentation
I thought they said they used Final Cut Pro when they released a making of video for the Halloween event.

Were they might’ve just said they let the people use whatever they normally used instead even if that was a competitors product.

I’m not sure there are other video editing things on the iPad that a professional would use are there?
I’m doubting. Simons might be an exception given that he got a PhD in maths at age 23. He was always smart, and I think he was bound to excel in whatever field he chose.

But people don’t need be extremely smart to get wealthy. Just executing well on a simple idea can make one extremely wealthy, and there’s considerable luck involved. There’s also the need to have persuasive skills, connections, charisma, and all that to convince people to follow their vision, aka Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.
Hi - can Grace support partial commits somehow? Such as if I want to check in part of a file but not other parts? This is a key feature of Git for my workflows but doesn’t seem to be plausible at all if files are pushed up on save. Unless this would be part of “promote requests” only?
Are we basing that on the tens of thousands of years between stars required for chemical propulsion instead of the tens of years feasible with other options?
They are also discrete, coming from a finite set. I remember at the undergrad differential equation class the teacher asked for some arbitrary coefficients so we can classify the result.

She was very surprised that 3 differential equations she got all turned out to be parabolical, which form a set of probability 0 in the full space. But of course the probabilities for equations with small integer coefficients (which is what people wrote) are totally different.
People will finally figure out that they're only productive for about a half their lives, and that it's not just the last quarter that they need help with, it's also the first.

The real problem is the transition period where there are more unproductive people than not, because the stock of existing people is still here. That's why a crashing population is bad.
meaning they can't/won't do true multi-dimensional analysis and 2nd and 3rd order effects.

Neither does any other researcher these days. Thus, the crisis of reproducibility in “peer reviewed” papers.

Kind of disingenuous to single out social scientists for this practice. Probably a bit more wise to clean our own house first. Certainly unwise to be engaged in the very practices we’re attacking.
M3s are also in mid-cycle. Or rather, they were.
A vocal minority of artists and creatives who are precious about the tactile and aesthetic experiences of using the tools of their trades could also be called “Apple’s target market for the iPad Pro.” So Apple would definitely need to care about the sentiments their ads engender.
Big funds usually dont try to beat the market, they try to dampen volaility while tracking the S&P 500