skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is pushing out small publishers in a pretty big way:

- penalising entire sites for “unhelpful” content as decided by an ML algorithm

- gave Reddit and other similar sites a 1,000% visibility increase

- AI answers now a default for US users (but not yet for all queries)

- combine all of the above + Google’s own 3-5 ad spots…

A major shuffle will happen in the next 1-2 years and I personally think what Google is doing with search is a mistake.

This has little to do with Google improving search but more to do with pushing AI and then taking up all the real estate above the 10 blue links.

It makes sense, except that there can only be so much overflow in a well…
Who are we paying this interest to? US fiat is accepted worldwide because of Petrodollar and US Navy. What do private banks have to back their money printing machines?

Why isn't the US Goverment printing its own money out of thin air? Why is that privilige given to private banks?
1080p but it has pixelated artifacts...
The faster the tech cycle, the faster we become accustomed to it. Look at your phone, an absolute, wondrous marvel of technology that would have been utterl and totally scifi just 25 years ago. Yet we take it for granted, as we do with all technology eventually. The time frames just compress is all, for better or for worse.
It's because they typically hack web servers, and then they spawn a fresh web server on a random port.

Anything below 1024 requires root access, which can be problematic, and 80/443 may already be used.
Sharp MIP! I drove over locked a small one at 120FPS once. Wouldn't do 240fps though.
Or maybe that's you who must adjust your understanding of reality. One time payment for forever access to something that is constantly updated/cost money to run is not a reasonable expectations and no one "must" tell you this. You must learn it yourself instead.
I can't quite parse this.

Tyler Cowen is pro-legalisation of sex work, and pro-immigration in a traditional libertarian way as far as I'm aware (though his comment section seems to attract a conservative crowd that is often skeptical of both).

He's linked to a weird culture war site that mostly tries to misrepresent the legislation, though he doesn't appear to be taking issue with their odd framing of it i.e. laws that passes in parliment with the support of sex work activists and their unions probably isn't that bad for sex workers, unless you object to the entire notion of sex work which is the position the twitter comments they cite take.

And then, out of nowhere it would seem, he's added in the concept of it being about not wanting to serve immigrants. Which sounds like the kind of discussion you'd find on Twitter, where every plane crash is an excuse to claim that it's the fault of 'people we don't like' and the idea of 'people we don't like' having sex with (and/or attacking) 'our' women is a perenial click-bait winner.

The other half of his comment section adds the obvious missing context, but what was Tyler trying to achieve here?
Presumably we are defining smartness as doing more with less, so this indicates they have something going on in the latent space which will scale.
was on the deepmind blog i believe. linked somewhere in there
> Inheritance is no longer a simple part of the language. And trust me, you do want inheritance.

I don't miss it.

> languages where primitives are special

Isn't the object-primitive separation a design flaw? (e.g. c++ can have lists of int, but Java cannot. In Java, sometimes a boolean has two values and sometimes 3, etc.)

> root of the hierarchy

Why a hierarchy? All beginner Java devs at some point attempt to put their domain objects into some kind of hierarchy before realising the futility of it. Especially in game dev.

Sometimes I want to operate on objects which can quack(), and sometimes I want to operate on objects which can toBytes(), and sometimes I want to operate on objects which can do both those those things. But why must they have a common ancestor? Why can't they simply exist in disjoint families?

> I'm increasingly convinced that it is a useful idea to have an explicit `Object` (or `BaseObject`, to deal with languages where primitives are special) class at the root

This is one of those things I dislike about Java. Object has a bunch of included behaviours that I do not want. equals() and hashCode() have the wrong default behaviour, and toString() isn't much better. I would much prefer the compiler to block me if I try to equate two things which haven't defined equality, rather than slip in its own implementation.
You have to understand that recycling is probably the most corrupt industry that exists. This is due to the broken incentives that go against all free market principles. Recycling companies are actually paid to process plastic waste. And then they are paid a second time when they sell it. And they still lose money, so they are paid a third time with direct government subsidies.

The plant has been just operating for a couple weeks and there exists no independent reports of what they produce. Lots of government money is flowing into this, creating incentives for corporations to keep trying. The industry may be able to force this through the sheer amount of government subsidies at one point, but this does not make it economical or ecological.

“Regular recycling is difficult enough, but chemical recycling causes even more problems,” Goldsberry said.

During her tenure covering the plastics industry, she said she encountered many advanced recycling project announcements that went silent after a year or so. “If they were making new plastics from co-mingled plastic waste through advanced chemical recycling, they would really be promoting it.

She said burning plastics for fuel is a more efficient and easier solution to the global plastic waste problem."

https://www.plasticstoday.com/advanced-recycling/is-chemical...
Yep, I've got some self-made python glue that's been running for at least half a decade with zero changes.

It's all in Github and there haven't been any commits because it's doing its current job with 100% precision and I don't need a single additional feature.
Or even very slack spokes, like the Berd (UHMWPE) ones, but then power transmission is slightly less efficient.
Is the mapping from config -> state reproducible? Traditional distros drift over time with lots of upgrades because the state is not just a pure function of the set of packages to be installed (the "config"). It could depend on the system's history, such what packages were installed or removed in the past.

The so-called "atomic" distros don't attempt to make the (config -> state) transformation reproducible but rather sidestep the problem by snapshotting and replicating the output of the transformation -- the files on disk after various installs, upgrades, and config changes.
I doubt it, the internal politics of it are enough to drive most people crazy.
I’d prefer these kinds of demos instead of Googles sterile marketing videos showcasing the product
Isnt those just branches of the same company?
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> most “non-Japanese” looking people are tourists

> therefore, you will probably be treated as one, even if aren’t

Myself and a couple friends visited Japan for a couple weeks in 2008. On a trip to Osaka, one of my friends was approached by a gaggle of school girls. It was “speak to a foreigner day” at their school, and apparently of our group, the lone female seemed the most approachable. They asked her a series of questions about where she was from and her life in very basic English and took furious notes.

I can’t imagine telling a class in even the safest parts of the United States “Go wander the streets and interview a stranger you suspect to be foreign”, for a number of reasons.

The other thing I want to note is just that you get a lot of leeway as a foreigner in Japan. We’d gotten on a train unknowingly that our JR pass didn’t cover, but figured it out on the train. Well right as we get off, the ticket inspector is there inspecting tickets. We feign ignorance and show him our JR passes, he patiently writes something like ¥500 on a piece of paper and shows us, we pay it. No anger is expressed, just more of a “silly foreigners” vibe.
Surprised to see so much malware served from GitHub domains https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/browse.php?search=github
Do you know what a «string» means in French? Or a «bite» (which is pronounced exactly like “bit”). If not, look that up.

And besides lame jokes when 14 years old hear it for the first time (both male and female, btw), it's fine.

It's essentially a problem of American puritanism (and likely also a problem of misogyny among students, but the solution to that really isn't to change the project name!)
While that may be the trigger, the reason is that people don't expect trash cans everywhere thus are prepared to take their trash back home and in the orderly clean culture that works.
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Don't forget strings.
Not really, spokes work under tension rather than compression, you're essentially hanging from the top-most spokes on the wheel.

Also if your spokes are too slack, they can move in the hub, cause wear, and are likely to snap at the elbow.
> be evidence of periodic burning of villages because that's what warlords do to peaceful settlements

Not really. Look at "pax Romana" or Aztecs. Warlords bring peace!

If villages are part of the same empire, they are at peace. Without central force there is constant local bickering and fight. Warlords take their tributes (including soldiers) and wage war far away. Or they punish population by killing one man in family. There is no need to burn entire village, it hurts profit.

People at that time were able to build huge megalithic structures. It is safe to assume they could organise small army of a few thousands (enough to dominate 20k settlements).
I think patio11 has some writing on the subject. I believe that (like anywhere) there are barriers to immigration and things that aren't designed for or simply closed to foreigners, so you might need some local support to break the bank account / residential address / employer requirements cycle.

What level JLPT do you have?

Edit: patio11 blog https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
Perhaps Altman will fail upwards once again to become CEO of Microsoft
This, exactly. Thank you for wording it much better than I did.
Trading seems a good explanation, yes. A trading expedition is a big deal, you probably want cram a ship-ton of resources together and exchange all your obsidian for salt, or grain for copper, or whatever, in one go. You don't want to mess around making massive journeys between hundreds of little villages. You want a large, famous, easily-spotted trading destination that has all the goods ready in a big convenient pile.
Never discount the value of short term advantages.

Being first at the start (i.e. first mover advantage) is huge.
An easier option is to build against musl, remove the DEPENDS with patchelf, and use that. There are a few incompatibilities with glibc (more on aarch64 than am64), but it's manageable (you might need to patch a few headers in musl and provide missing/incompatible functions). And you'll have a binary that works against musl and glibc both.
Germany solar power output jumps to record highs
Dell leak details next-gen Windows on Arm chips
the people you need for the revolution are not the same you need after the revolution.
It shoud be possible. A specific feature of Coq that we use is impredicative Set. I do not know if this is the case in F*.
I think the thing that most perturbs me about AI is that it takes jobs that involve manipulating colours, light, shade and space directly and turns them into essay writing exercises. As a dyslexic I fucking hate writing essays. 40% of architects are dyslexic. I wouldn't be surprised if that was similar or higher in other creative industries such as filmmaking and illustration. Coincidentally 40% of the prison population is also dyslexic, I wonder if that's where all the spare creatives who are terrible at describing things with words will end up in 20 years time.
Riding is more fun with less resistance, it just "feels better". That alone is an argument to choose the correct tire (there are trade offs obviously). From my own experience (MTB) I can say that the difference in rolling resistance are very noticeable.
> i felt that it was ‘weird’ talking to someone you don’t know without a reason

As a Northern German: this is not normal?
when entering a “clean space”, like a home or even a fitting room,
take off your shoes

I remember playing a Yakuza game where you could walk the protagonist through a house with a tatami floor without taking off your shows and I figured it was alright because he was a badass.
> Besides which, Amazon ships Kindles at-cost, there's no way they'd be price-gouged - if E-Ink tried to screw them then they'd buy E-Ink Corp. It wouldn't even be the first passive display company they bought. See: LiquaVista.

Imagine you own E-Ink Corp. You know Amazon needs your screens. You can sell them the screens or you can sell them the company but you can price-gouge them either way. (Of course E-Ink Corp is a stock corporation. The ability to price-gouge amazon is priced in. There's no reason to assume Amazon would save money by buying the company.)
Of course, these CO2 levels are smaller by at least one order of magnitude than what could cause suffocation. I overdramatized the fact that the air quality was really, really bad.

Based on every article I found, above 1000 ppm clearly affects sleep quality, cognitive performance, it causes headaches, etc. so 3600ppm is generally considered really bad.

Even if CO2 would be harmless in itself, it is a good indicator for bad ventillation.
I choose flat resistance over either. Schwalbe Marathons or equivalent on all my bikes, but I use my bikes as my primary mode of transportation in the city. I really don’t want to deal with flats when I have to be on time.

Edit: after browsing the site, the Marathons are the lowest rolling resistance touring tires too! Double bonus for an excellent tire, which I can now recommend without reservations.
Unlike AI in the past, there is now massive amounts of money going into AI. And the number things humans are still doing significantly better than AI is going down continously now.

If something like Q* is provided organically with GPT5 (which may have a different name), and allows proper planning, error correction and direct interaction with tools, that gaps is getting really close to 0.
The majority of the developers may know what LLMs are in an abstract sense, but I meet very few that really realize what these are. These LLMs are an exponential leap in computational capability. The next revolution is going to be when people realize what we have already, because it is extremely clear the majority do not. RAG? Chatbots? Those applications are toys compared to what LLMS can do right now, yet everyone is dicking around making lusty chatbots or naked celebrities in private.
It's astonishing to me, as a (WARNING: slur coming up if you happen to be Elon Musk) cis gay just how much they're copy-and-pasting 90s and noughties anti-gay tropes to go after the trans people. Extremely lazy hate movement.

(Obviously it's not like transphobia is new, but 20s-transphobia seems modelled after noughties-homophobia in a way that noughties-transphobia wasn't.)
The first handheld console I owned was a Game Boy Advance SP with a copy of Metroid Fusion. It's still one of my favourite games and the namesake for my handle.

I remember distinctly that the instruction manual for the game contained brief synopses of the previous titles in the series, which piqued my curiosity. Not owning a NES or a SNES, I searched online for ways I could play those games and figured out I needed to download snes9x and something called a ROM. Super Metroid quickly became my favourite in the series and the genre as a whole.

As a kid with not much money I ended up playing a lot of emulated games. My fascination with "retro" stuff certainly began there.
> periodic burning of villages because that's what warlords do to peaceful settlements.

Or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_house_horizon

There's sparse evidence for exposure to archaeological literature.
I'm glad that you have found a solution. Dry eye and eye fatigue often go hand in hand. Theres a whole forum dedicated to the topic of eye strain from LED based screens. Might be worth a visit for some with similar issues: https://ledstrain.org/
Reset packet injection is popular in the wild, so I'm optimistic about tip to toe authenticated UDP transports, also less retarded congestion control that doesn't take network down just to see if it will break. Complexity can be moved to a proxy, and simple applications don't care about tuning anyway.
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If we look at history of innovation and invention it’s very typical the original discovery and final productization are done by different people. For many reasons, but a lot of them are universal I would say.

E.g. Oppenheimer’s team created the bomb, then following experts finetuned the subsequent weapon systems and payload designs. Etc.
Oops, I thought there was something odd, I got my rationality acronyms mixed up. Hutter's program was called AIXI (MIRI was the research lab).

Here is Leike's paper, coauthored with Hutter:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04931

They can probably sum it up in their own paper better than I can, but AIXI was supposed to be a formalized, objective model of rationality. They knew from the start that it was uncomputable, but I think they hoped to use it as a sort of gold standard that you could approach.

But then it turned out that the choice of Turing machine, which can be (mostly) ignored for Kolmogorov complexity, can not be ignored in AIXI at all.
Computing progress from 78 to 90 was mind-blowing.

1978: the apple ][. 1mhz 8 bit microprocessor, 4kb of ram, monochrome all-,caps display.

1990:Mac IIci, 25mhz 32-bit CPU, 4MB ram, 640x480 color graphics and an easy to use GUI.

Ask any of us who used both of these at the time: it was really amazing.
Well the biggest is exagerated, but he def. has a sensitive side :).
ive been using “agi-hard” https://latent.space/p/agi-hard as a term

because completeness isnt really what we are going for
The end result is really phenomenal and the behavior change sometimes funny. I went to a EU city immediately after visiting Tokyo for the first time and after I bought some canned drink i realized that I walked with the can in my pocket for like 2km totally ignoring all of the trashcans on the way.
First of all, Boeing wasn’t and isn’t a monopoly. In absence of these disasters there would’ve been no general appetite to break it up except from “socialists hellbent on destroying American greatness” or some such.

Second, were you advocating for stronger regulations when it would’ve mattered? Or is this just another exercise of pinning failure on everything except profit motive (which of course is the reason the regulators are so weak to begin with)?
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Crypto currencies has the potential to grow the world economy by about 1-3%, as banking fees go down. Add other uses of crypto may double or triple that, but that's really speculative.

AI, on the other hand, has a near infinite potential. It's conceivable that it will grow the global economy by 2% OR MORE per MONTH for decades or more.

AI is going to be much more impactful than the internet. Probably more than internal combustion, the steam engine and electricity combined.

The question is about the timescale. It could take 2 years before it really starts to generate profits, or it could take 10 or even more.
In Russia they would ask for your internal passport (aka the "ID") and put your name, birth date, and registered address into their database. It's illegal to sell sim cards without that.

When I traveled to Europe recently and bought a French tourist sim, the carrier warned me multiple times that I need to provide my identity to continue using it beyond 30 days.

In UAE it's about as strict as in Russia.
I hope Ilya takes care of himself. I can imagine that what happened during the past year is not helpful for one's mental health. I assume the presented relationship with Sam Altman does not reflect reality and the external press surely also causes a lot of pressure.
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Apple co-founder: Here's the best strategy my own parents used while raising me
LLM is all you need

Attention and scale is all you need

Anything else you do will be overtaken by LLM when it builds its internal structures

Well, LLM and MCTS

The rest is old news. Like Cyc
> The next revolution is going to be when people realize what we have already

Enlighten us
And, you know, a company with $2B of revenue
You don't need any AI for that. Current technology is quite sufficient.
And the smoking is similar?
FATCA legislation pushed by US Congress (and then reneged on bidirectionality) made many banks just refuse to deal with people who fall under it.
> But I wonder for how long this can be stretched? A century more? What's the future of the state as an institution?

The UK not too long ago refinanced debt dating back to the South Sea Bubble (1700s), the Napoleonic wars (1800s), World War One (early 1900s):

* https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/oct/31/uk-first-wo...

The UK's debt-to-GDP has on multiple occasions gone over 150%, and on one occasion (WW2) almost reached 250%:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_national_debt#M...

Most of the issues that the UK has faced have generally been non-monetary (foreign enemies) or self-inflicted (Brexit).

Don't know off-hand when the UK last ran surpluses and could actually pay down debt principle.
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I wouldn't be so sure it's coming. NNs currently dont have the structures for long term memory and development. These are almost certainly necessary for creating longer works with real purpose and meaning. It's possible we're on the cusp with some of the work to tame RNNs, but it's taken us years to really harness the power of transformers.
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70% of employers have staff leave within first year
That for sure loses money on every prompt...
So it's the same situation as in London, where the bins were removed after IRA bombings? Makes sense, unfortunately.

Does make me wonder if people's behaviour towards litter (aka taking it home more often) would have been different had these events never happened.
Great to see TiDB mentioned for use here, I have to say I love their demo at ossinsights. Anyone else using them successfully in prod?
I enjoy Dart, I just wish they had support for cross-compilation.
NVIM plugin for SuperMaven, super fast AI completion
Shocking to see a company like Pinterest has built multiple in house data stores. Talking about a maintenance burden...
Talk to Microsoft