skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Raspberry Pi a fairly tiny computer that can run a "real" OS, and that has a fair amount of GPIO that can be bought new somewhat-inexpensively. It has storage that is easily-removed and swapped (whether for good, or for bad).

If all a person needs or wants is a fairly tiny computer and it doesn't need to be new/shiny, then there's off-lease corpo boxes that are faster/better/cheaper.

If all a person needs or wants is some GPIO to hack on hardware with, and doesn't want a real OS on the back end of things, then maybe an Arduino or ESP32 or RP2040 or something might be better and cheaper.

But if a person needs or wants all of that in one box, then: A Raspberry Pi may well be the right approach. (Some folks like hacking with a real OS; this is fine. We used to use things like parallel ports for this in the PC space but those are long gone.)

Or: If a person needs or wants a well-tuned system that they can just download and use specialized images for and write to a MicroSD card, then: A Raspberry Pi can become desirable.

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For instance: I use a Pi 4 to play movies with over SMB. I could do that a thousand or more different ways, but using LibreElec on a Pi 4 is the easiest way for me to get there -- just download it, stuff it into an SD card, and boot it up. It becomes an appliance, and this appliance is similar or identical to many other appliances; this makes supporting it easy. (And if I want to do something different with that hardware today, it takes only a few seconds to swap its storage for something completely different -- and swap it back later.)

Or: 3D printing. I can do what many others have done before me and sneaker-net gcode from the PC to the printer, or I can use a Raspberry Pi and a standardized Octoprint image to put that printer on the network instead. Now my printer is a network appliance.
The only really good way of understanding the variational principal in my experience as a physicist who has chewed on it informally since getting out of grad school is to recognize that energy, potential or kinetic, comes after the variational principal, not before it. In school we are taught to write down the kinetic and potential energies and then to form a lagrangian and turn the crank, but it is in fact the lagrangian formalism which determines which expression we write down for both terms. All the physics before, including the characterization of kinetic and potential energy as concepts, is fumbling towards that idea.

Really, if you look at Hamiltonian Mechanics this is more clear, since most of the ideas in Hamiltonian mechanics flow from the basic idea that p generates q AND either that paths in state space don't cross and/or that time evolution is unitary (depending on whether you want classical or quantum mechanics to shake out). These are more or less unavoidable assumptions which we impose or our efforts to understand reality and from these basic ideas we simply fiddle around with expressions until we find the mechanics that match our observations and from which we can sometimes identify objects which behave like the potential and kinetic energies we learn about in grade school.

Another way to appreciate this is the difficulty of coming up with a good totally fundamental definition of energy independent of a physical system. Energy is a handy way of thinking about how things will move. That is all.
This was from the NYTimes yesterday (5/14)
“ Jan Leike, who ran the Super Alignment team alongside Dr. Sutskever, has also resigned from OpenAI. His role will be taken by John Schulman, another company co-founder.”
Probably because if you collect a bunch of highly motivated and extremely smart people who are good at overcoming obstacles and eliminating problems they eventually start to see each other as obstacles or problems.
Turns out we already have alignment, it's called capitalism.
TrailOfBits: Build Provenance for Homebrew
How calibrated are our proxy methods for determining CO2? Is there any concern about the accuracy of the proxy methods in the scientific community?
Neuromancer. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Erewhon.
#1 isn't happening anytime soon, nothing we have is on a path in that direction.

#2 people always worry about, but it's almost certainly not going to happen - insane dictators or no. Even in much worse scenarios we avoided it.

#3 Real, but slow. I think we'll see some coastal communities devastated over the course of the next ~50 years, but the rest of the world will adapt and/or sweep it under the rug as best they can. The bigger threat is economic. Companies will no doubt try to use the changing situation as an excuse to skyrocket prices and keep everyone broke.
Because I'm an aspiring writer who learns a lot of things about publishing by the wayside. Romance is a major genre and frequently discussed, including its subdivisions like "clean", "open/closed door", etc. And the top replies in that thread clearly agree with me, so I don't know why you think it's helping your case.

Edit: and actually, you made an even stronger claim that romance and "explicit content" are definitionally equal, which really suggests you've never heard the term "erotica" which is well-established to be different from "romance".
Ahh, what different worlds we all live in, unknowingly! :-)
Chernobyl had tonnes of radioactive material, a nuclear bomb has much less material, in the kilograms. After Chernobyl blew its lid off, the reactor core was laid open. Witnesses said they could see a beam of light going into the sky. It was the radiation ionizing the air. A helicopter that was trying to drop sand onto the reactor accidently flew too close over it, giving the pilot a lethal dose.
Not in my experience, and not for trivial things like this. I'm sure this varies widely with employer, location and life situation, but generally these kinds of annoyances are both far from the worst that people need to do / tolerate, and that they don't have any say in what goes into the product, they either implement it, or someone else implements it and they can go work at someplace else if they don't like it.
I don’t think they’re astonished by his ability to imagine instruments. They are more remarking that he is considered the gold standard of music composition and he couldn’t hear what he was writing.

Most artists still need the feedback loop of do something, evaluate it, iterate.
It is easy to point to loopy theories around superalignment, p(doom), etc. But you don't have to be hopped up on sci-fi to oppose something like GPT-4o. Low-latency response time is fine. The faking of emotions and overt references to Her (along with the suspiciously-timed relaxation of pornographic generations) are not fine. I suspect Altman/Brockman/Murati intended for this thing to be dangerous for mentally unwell users, using the exact same logic as tobacco companies.
In Ukraine, Russia Is Beginning to Compound Advantages
Right, but I think people sometimes get the “what constitutes long term” factor a little bit wrong.

I am still talking to a lot of people who say, “what can any of this AI stuff even do?” It’s like, robots you could hold a conversation with effectively didn’t exist 3 years ago and you’re already upset that it’s not a money tree?

I think that peoples expectation horizon narrowing down may be the clearest evidence that we’re in the singularity.
One could argue that at this point openai is being Extended and Embraced by Microsoft and is unlikely to have much autonomy or groundbreaking impact one way or another.
>China was destroying its environment in the 1950s already

To be fair, every country was destroying the environment, even in the west, well after the 1950's as well.
At oracle-

Hey, what if they do - what we do to other companies ... to us ...

presses a red button
I've become very interested by the difference between modern popular music and that of decades gone by. The three main things that I've noticed is that older music tends to be more melodic generally, makes greater use of dynamic range, and has more complex rhythms.

One of the standouts to me is what you mentioned -- in older music, the bass often does heavy melodic lifting and in newer music, it tends to be mostly just carrying a beat.

Not saying one is "better" than the other -- that's a matter of taste. It's just interesting to note the change.

It's also interesting that if you ignore music after the '80s and just compare '80s to the decades before that, you could accurately say something very similar.

It also depends a lot on what musical genre we're talking about. Not all '80s music was new wave and the like.
China's most polluting industries aren't its high tech phone and car factories, which are generally fairly modern. It's the mass of mid-level factories that produce cheap items for the entire world, but predominantly for the developing world.

The idea that Chinese pollution wouldn't exist if not for Western outsourcing is a myth.
The ultimate thing that convinced me not to smoke was watching my uncle die of lung cancer, and being unable to quit the thing that was killing him.

I'm somewhat relieved that tobacco references are considered "adult" now in entertainment. The amount of smoking I saw in movies and TV (and around my uncle) normalized it for me, even though I knew how unhealthy it was.
Avoiding all boeing planes altogether seems to be an overkill solution to me. An older version of 737 and 777 seems to be working pretty well. At least historically.
A really good question. In short, a linear List (or array, or hash map, etc) will only have two available destroyer functions:

1. drop_into(list, func): It consumes the list, calling the given `func` for each element.

2. expect_empty(list): Consumes the list, panicking if the list isn't empty.
What are the better alternatives? I don’t think any have anywhere near the level of software and community support nor stability.
Because of those black bars you are effectively carrying a tablet with giant bezels with you.

If your main tablet usage is watching video, the iPad is a poor choice.
> Because companies (like Oracle) will take as much as they can and give as little as they can.

Which in the case of free software is a completely neutral fact that causes exactly zero negative impact to the project. You're trying to apply principles of scarcity to a product category that has no scarcity—replicating the bits to serve Oracle doesn't cost a maintainer anything at all.

They can prefer not to let Oracle use their otherwise-freely-provided software, but that's not a position that's as easy to get sympathy for as pretending there's harm done.
It's really hard to generalize about this. There are some big differences between some pairs of each, but little to no between other pairs. Many of these probably won't matter to most businesses.
Disabling copy-paste is exactly the kind of thing that a higher-level manager sees on some website, decides immediately that it’s very important for content protection and IP and trade secrets and whatnot, then emails a middle manager to have this implemented ASAP. A week later the request has filtered into a ticket that lands in the front-end developer’s inbox.

What should the developer do exactly? Ignore the ticket? Educate the manager who’s perhaps three steps up in the hierarchy and doesn’t even know the person’s name who is charged with implementing the misfeature? Neither would go down well.
I think part of the issue is that some purists believe anything less than pixel perfect fidelity is unacceptable. I recall reading a report on N64(?) Wii(?) about how the flame flicker in one level of one game was off.
Understanding Offset and Cursor-Based Pagination in Node.js
I actually had sea level rise and radius from likely thermonuclear targets in mind when I bought my house.

I hadn't read The Science yet, so I believed The Propaganda. Now that I've read The Science (IPCC reports), it turns out sea levels are unlikely to rise more than 50cm, and definitely not 10+ meters like I was preparing for.
He picked his starting point well.
To be fair, wet bulb events are pretty much stage 1 of "this place is no longer habitable". Unless you mean "this place" as a opposed to "that place", then yes most people won't care until it happens to them.

I do suspect there might be a scare coming that will shock us out of that though. We will likely get to watch tens of millions of people in India and Pakistan die over the course of a few hot days at some point in the not too distant future.
This isn't a consumer car situation. They're not trying to hit some paper efficiency number that matters environmentally in aggregate but is hard for any individual with highly variable driving, pricing etc to really notice. As the article also emphasizes this is about cold hard money in real world constant heavy usage across the entire country since this is long haul. These vehicles are going over 100k miles a year, which at their fuel economy translates to something like 14000-16000 gallons of diesel per year, and in turn at an average price of ~$4/gallon [0] is like $50k-60k, per year, just in fuel. Individual truckers and companies will absolutely notice whether they're adding 5000 to 6000 dollars to their net income per vehicle, or not.

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0: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
The real problem is letting the marketers and the "we're proud of ourselves!" sort take full control. I imagine the goal is "we have all these things under one roof!".

Good grief.

You can still have the same framework/layout. EG, support, products, etc. But you can do it under "categories". For example, "VMware by Broadcom" or some such blather.

And all support, all webpages, are only vmware related in that category.

But really, transitioning vmware's webpages to this is just dumb. What a waste of time. Just use vmware's website with a "by broadcom" in the banner, and who the hell cares.

So juvenile. That little bit of brand recoginition, oh it's so important.

Yeah, it's so important that it's not LSI, but broadcom in the firmware when my server boots now? Firmwares all need to have name changes?
I recently tried to register for an Apple developer account, and it has been the most infuriating process I've been through on the internet... and I am used to the French govt websites!
At some point, the H1 title was in white on a light grey background, and I considered sending a screenshot to Jonathan Ive.
To this day, I did not succeed registrating.
> Why can't openai just be a competent drama-free org?

Because it is run by humans, for the time being.
Ironically Microsoft is the one that's notoriously terrible at checking their "AI" products before releasing them.

Besides the infamous Tay there was that apparently un-aligned Wizard-2[or something like that] model from them which got released by mistake for about 12 hours
How AI Turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian
Elasticsearch and OpenSearch schema rough edges
The point was about high taxes for investors not employees.

How many money does OpenAI _directly_ pay to CA in taxes? Sure the employees pay a ton in taxes but as an investor if you're going to lose more in taxes by investing into a Canadian company vs a California company then you invest into CA.
I can't think of a SPAC, regardless of nationality, that actually succeeded other than Cellebrite. SPACs in their current usage are basically vehicles to circumvent securities fraud and generate wild amounts of money based on hyperbolic slide-decks via PIPE and NAV offerings pre-DA - the amount of EV and Quadcopter plays that were obvious vaporware getting traction in 2020-2022 was insanity.
If a certain percent of the work is completed through research synthesis and multiple perspective alignment, why is said novel approach not worth lauding?

I've created a version of one of the resume GPTs that analyses my resume's fit to a position when fed the job description along with a lookup of said company. I then have a streamlined manner in which it points out what needs to be further highlighted or omitted in my resume. It then helps me craft a cover letter based on a template I put together. Should I stop using it just because I can't feed it 50 job roles and have it automatically select which ones to apply to and then create all necessary changes to documents and then apply?
Re: the X x Y x Z = 44 prime factorization problem.

If I started with 11 it gave an initial incorrect. It must be best practice to start with the lowest primes then for this sort of problem?
This 5ypical MBA formula ignores the most important variable.

Z = brand trust
Or, a version that's more inline with the post you're replying to.

Just add an Email class that also extends String and you can see that you can pass an Email to the compareHash function without it complaining.

class Hash extends String {}
class Email extends String {}

// Ideally, we only want to pass hashes to this function
const compareHash = (hash: Hash, input: string): boolean => {
return true;
};

const generateEmail = (input: string): Email => {
return new Email(input);
}

// Example usage
const userInput = "secretData";
const email = generateEmail(userInput);

// Whoops, we passed an email as a hash and TS doesn't complain
const matches = compareHash(email, userInput);

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?#code/MYGwhgzhAEASkAtoF...
I would also wear it. Why does he get more relevant advertisments than me? I only get advertisements for clothes I'd never wear. I just checked out their website and I'm seriously considering buying some cat samurai shirts.
Just share it on reddit.
I assume a lot of companies want in on the AI-to-purchase pipeline. "Hey [AI] what kind of car is this?" with a response that helps you buy it at the very high end, or something as simple as "hey [AI] I need more bread, it's [brand and type]" and who it gets purchased from and how it shows up is the... bread and butter of the AI company.

Super intelligent AI seems contrary to the goals of consumerist Capitalism, but maybe I'm just not smart enough to see the play there.
I like to watch it with the subtitltes and dubbing. The dubbing is usually so dumbed down as to make it a completely different show.
I will spend no more than two comments on this issue.

Most people have already made up their minds. There is little I can do about that, but perhaps someone else might see this and think twice.

Personally, I have spent many thousands of hours on this topic. I have Palestinian relatives and have visited the Middle East. I have Arab friends there, both Christian and Muslim, whom I would gladly protect with my life. I am neither Jewish nor Israeli.

There are countless reasons for me to support your side of this issue. However, I have not done so for a simple reason: I strive to remain fiercely objective.

As a final note, in my youth, I held views similar to the ones you propagate. This was for a simple reason—I had not taken the time to understand the complexities of the Middle East. Even now, I cannot claim to fully comprehend them. However, over time, one realizes that while every story has two sides, the context is crucial. The contextual depth required to grasp the regrettable necessity of Israeli actions in their neighborhood can take years or even decades of study to reconcile. I expect to change few minds on this topic. Ultimately, it is up to the voters to decide. There is overwhelming bipartisan support for Israel in one of the world's most divided congresses, and this support stems more from shared values than from arms sales.

I stand by my original comment. As I said, this will be my last on this topic. I hope this exchange proves useful to some.
Then… isn’t AI generated art something that empowers the non-millionaires?
No matter what path you choose, you still die.
Bad? What possible upside is there to having a longer, more expensive, stressful and soul-destroying commute to work every day?
I have a 10yo memory of a distinct list of bridge nodes.

Publication policies may have changed or my memory could be faulty. However, bridge IPs do seem to be obtainable. https://tb-manual.torproject.org/bridges/
With each new IPCC report the chances of us keeping global warming below 1.5 C become more and more remote as emissions are locked in. But at the same time the really bad scenarios where we go well over 4 C also become more remote. Every half degree is worse than the last and each is worth righting for but it does look like our civilization will make it through this intact, even if not all people individually.
The filing mentions the Foundation multiple times?

> Raspberry Pi is a subsidiary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity founded in 2008, with the goal of promoting interest in computer science among young people. Raspberry Pi has distributed approximately $50m in dividends to the Foundation since 2013, which has been used to advance its educational mission globally.
You need paperwork when you enter and exit the US. You need paperwork when you purchase or rent a vehicle or get onto a plane. I've never been to Europe, but it sounds like traveling between EU countries is the same as traveling between US states. The borders are there for tax and law enforcement purposes.
A very real danger is a nuclear power that has a deranged person in charge. They know they don't have much time left, they don't care what happens after they are gone, they decide to fire off all their nukes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apr%C3%A8s_moi,_le_d%C3%A9luge
Without details that's a meaningless stat, I remember some pytorch machine vision tutorials promising they'll only take like an hour, including training and also gives a working project at the end.
>Yeah that's what I was thinking of when paying at the supermarket. Try explaining contactless payments to someone from 18th century.

I don't think folks, at least not the well-off, would have a hard time understanding any of the varied payment methods we use today, since they'd been doing conceptually similar stuff[0] for centuries by the mid-eighteenth century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_letter_of_credit
The Illusion of Conventional War: Europe Is Learning the Wrong Lessons
This sort of thing happens even in FOSS projects all of the time, you can’t have people without drama. And perhaps you won’t have AI without drama, either.
First draft of PostgreSQL 17 release notes
Thats the way world works. Here in this forum so many software people asking for best possible salaries and perks, and when it comes paying a bit to good productivity software same developers are always full of excuses like.

1) Oh, I prefer open source alternative for ideological reason.

2) This software is not really worth that much.

3) Hectoring developers every single time in providing why their software should be preferred over unpaid alternatives.

4) Blaming companies that they are bigger users so they should pay not me.

If these entitled developers who deserve all the money but no one deserve their money just shut the fuck up every once in a while it will be a good thing.
Summer temepratures reduces efficiency of all thermal power plants, including nuclear and coal, since heat engines are more efficient when their cold bath side is held at a lower temperature.
> You do not have a right to put me in porn of your choosing.

He does not have the right to use your flesh to produce a porn of his choosing, but does he not have the right to employ your willing doppelgänger? There is no reason to think that likeness is exclusive.
This is the simplest explanation.
Weird, I thought the arngren.net website screenshot looked beautiful.
Right, I was a smoker for many years, the but the actual conversion rate of "drug users" to "drug addicts" is surprisingly low. The overwhelming majority of people who smoke their first cigarette will not die a smoking related death. And cigarettes are probably the most extreme example.

How many people who try cocaine end up being the poster case for DARE? It's virtually no one. The risk analysis for having fun with drugs is totally lopsided. Society is fighting to keep 100% from using drugs in order to protect the 5% who will have their lives ruined.