skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No. If my friend doesn't even have time to make 3 stops around town to collect maximum allowed money orders for their landlord (who recently started requiring money orders for some reason) because they understandably don't have a bank account because they can't risk the fees, I would simply lose them as a friend if I made such an out-of-touch suggestion.

I agree. This is like asking them to "eat cake" when they're broke and starving. Collective action at work, unionizing, or through pooling efforts through legal and regulatory channels are more scalable efforts overworked and underpaid (and often cheated) people must use because letting it slide allows it to continue.
More analysis here: https://x.com/bgptools
Angular is plenty used. Don't know why you're thinking the contrary?
Ah yeah, if it was just flat cable instead of twisted pair or coax, coiling the cable could have made a massive difference in the characteristics. Interesting that coiling worked better...
Sewer are properly buried, Rogers cables are just thrown around with maybe a bit of dirt on top of it was a good day.
I redid a wall in my backyard last year that is close to a Rogers box, I removed ~15 old cut cables from the ground.
The FUD is strong with this one
You're falling into the same trap. Doing that would mean indirectly that renting out properties should be disincentivised.

Do that and the market price for rentals will increase as no-one wants to do it. The only rentals on the market will then be people who temporarily move, until they sell up, but even that will dry up as they won't be able to find anywhere to rent on the other side.

You don't want a world in which renting is twice (or more) as expensive as buying.
The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon
Does anyone know why this isn't an issue for modern games on PC? I assume it's because more uniforms are used, and the amount of shaders that actually need to be compiled at runtime is minimized, not to mention that the Graphics API is optimized to compile the shaders in the format they are provided. So is the issue with Dolphin that GameCube games would compile new shaders for lots of different configurations of effects / stages? Would some sort of preprocessor that converts shader compilations to some mini-ubershader with uniforms that can handle a lot of the different effects be feasible? And then depending on how many completely different shaders there are you would have many different mini-ubershaders?
I think they hint at the answer in the article. They mix and match stuff between the different hives during operations so it’s assumed to be infected everywhere within a single operation plus they detect it at a time that you can’t attribute it to a single hive. Maybe the cost of testing each individual hive is too great and the cross contamination issues too likely to have hives infected but not yet observable via tests?
It's about Sierra Entertainment (later Sierra On-Line), publisher of games like Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, and the original Half-Life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment?wprov=sfl...

Not sure about any summer camp stuff. Was that a lesser known part of their business? Or a different company?
My main conversation “loop” at https://olympia.chat has tool functions connected to “helper AIs” for things such as integrating with email. It lets me minimize functions on the main loop and actually works really well.
Doubtful that gets you fired. Something to do with money more likely? Or plotting to start a competitor?
Unwanted AI content - slop.
TLDR they were acquired in stock by a shady company that made up its accounting.

It's a reaaaaaally long article.
Do they have a USPS branch nearby? They are usually one of the cheapest places to get money orders, with a $1k limit per money order, $3k per day [1]. Walmart charges $1 for up to $1000 [2]. If you're in Florida, they are free at Amscot [3] (recommended only as a last resort, can be a pain).

I will think on how to make this reporting as frictionless as possible for such cohorts. If authorities are not aware of these events, they cannot seek redress for the injured. The harm won't magically go away, even if these systems are broadly improved. Unions still have a grievance process, for example.

If you're not looking for solutions and are only complaining/venting, that's fine too, just be upfront that you're not looking for a solution and I won't pollute the thread at attempting to help. I cannot speak to your friendship, but this is how I help my poor friends.

[1] https://www.usps.com/shop/money-orders.htm

[2] https://www.walmart.com/cp/money-orders/5791922

[3] https://www.amscot.com/free-money-orders.aspx
When I still lived in Munich, I had M-Net since pretty much their inception. ADSL first, later fiber. It was always great, and on the very few occasions that I had problems, I usually directly got a technician on the line who knew exactly what they were doing, instead of a few layers of help desk peoples fielding calls.
Angular has seen a resurgence lately. It’s popular within google and has been a mainstay for enterprise applications.

It’s definitely not going anywhere.

Is it the most popular framework? Not at all. But it is stable and has good consistent improvements. (Like Signals)
Yes, you are right, of course. I missed the faint pen shadow the first time I watched the video. It appears in addition to the mark preview, and is indeed a nice touch.
Maybe I'm reflexively anti-conspiracy-theory, but among all the methods to assassinate someone, I don't see infecting them with influenza B and MSRA as a feasible one. How exactly do you infect someone with influenza B, and how do you know they'll die. Most people don't die from the flu. Heck, a lot of people take the annual vaccine (I do). Why would you choose the flu as a weapon?
Exactly. I’m old enough to remember the Fen-Phen fallout.

A truly harmless weight-loss drug is the white whale of the pharmaceutical (assuming it can be profitable enough to offset the losses that would go along with the decrease in needed treatment for problems ancillary to obesity). These drugs, so far, seem pretty good but some of the side effects should take the shine off for people who thing this is ”The Cure” for obesity.
For as high profile an issue as AI is right now, and as prominent as the people recently let go are, I bet they could arranged to be subpoenaed to testify before a congressional subcommittee.
It's time to find a lawyer. I'm not one but there's an intersection with California SB 331, also known as “The Silenced No More Act”. while it is focused more on sexual harrasment, it's not limited to that, and these contracts may run afoul of that.

https://silencednomore.org/the-silenced-no-more-act
Why are the Mario Kart 64 Computers so Fast? [video]
Pretty much all web frameworks are open source. And most web developers are more than capable to improve unfriendly errors upstream.
Arthur C Clarke's 2061 (sequel to 2001 and 2010) was also about about a troubled mission that finds life in Europa's oceans. Europa Report sounds like it might have been a little inspired by that novel?
I guess if you are lucky, the added capacitance might rotate the impedance (on a smith chart) into a better range?
I've indeed refused to work with some providers giving only a chat interface and not a completion interface because it made the communication "less natural" to the model (like adding new system messages in between for function calling on models which don't officially does it, or adding other categories than system/user/assistant)
Alignment in the realm of AGI is not about getting everyone to agree. It's about whether or not the AGI is aligned to the goal you've given it. The paperclip AGI example is often used, you tell the AGI "Optimize the production of paperclips" and the AGI started blending people to extract iron from their blood to produce more paperclips.

Humans are used to ordering around other humans who would bring common sense and laziness to the table and probably not grind up humans to produce a few more paperclips.

Alignment is about getting the AGI to be aligned with the owners, ignoring it means potentially putting more and more power into the hands of a box that you aren't quite sure is going to do the thing you want it to do. Alignment in the context of AGIs was always about ensuring the owners could control the AGIs not that the AGIs could solve philosophy and get all of humanity to agree.
By the time you do get around to it OpenAi would have built a full interface for this. This is the type of stuff that’s gonna get steamrolled.
HP customer satisfaction correlated with distance from Saturn to the sun
the irony in you blasting all over this thread is that you dont know how it even works. You have 0 idea if their claims of scaling linearly are causing bottlenecks in other places as you state, if you read actual docs on this its clear that the actaul "compiler" part of the compiler was put on the backburner while the parallellization was figured out and as that is now done a bunch of optimizations will come in the next year
If you're incapable of trusting some sort of authority on this, why are you here? Go host your own community. Everyone else in the world is willing to make some sort of sacrifice on this front so their community is, in fact, a community, and not a pile of trash.

As for trust - I'm not really sure what trust has to do with it. I evaluate communities based on their content, and what I don't see is often just as important as what I do. If I like it, I'll stick around - if I don't, or if it changes, I'll leave. The community is operated by the people in charge of it, it's theirs by default. Do you visit people's houses and refuse to take your shoes off because they're the "authority"? Seems like an odd thing to get hung up over.
I had Opus translate your code to Rust

fn hamming_distance_u8(x1: u8, x2: u8) -> usize {
(x1 ^ x2).count_ones() as usize
}
Thanks @beoberha, I am too. I like one take I heard on Twitter. The sentiment was something like these types of systems are useful under the AI-Powered Productivity industry which has incremental gains, no big bangs. Said another way, if your job was to help a TON of your employees be more productive individually, it is worth it because companies measure those efforts broadly and the payoff is there. But again, not big. My advice for folks to stay lower level and hook AI automation up with simple, closed loop, LLM patterns that feel more like basic API calls in a choreographed manner. OMG, hope all that made sense
I don't even have an option for "Labs" as the instructions indicate
Wow. That's a quite telling chart (and it's insane to me to think that 5% of total print articles would cover immigration).
I think it's because PC games know they need to deal with compilation, so they do it on the load screen or whatever. GC games can pre-compile them and just stuff it on the disk, so there's no compilation cost.
Lmao buddy. You think I have gotten 50+ friends to comment on this? You must be special.

Some people are nice and enjoy their life, you clearly don’t.

Also please point out the SEC violations. I am not telling anyone to buy or sell a stock. Please use some brain cells before your next comment.
I'll say one thing: ornamentation is harder to clean.

If you're in charge of cleaning your own things, perhaps you desire surfaces that are easier and quicker to deal with. If you're in a position to hire people to do it, maybe you don't care as much.

And I wonder if that's one reason for less ornamentation. There's also a desire for more simplicity, I guess as a reaction to the layers of complexity we wrap our lives up in, and again, perhaps ornamentation in that case becomes psychologically unsettling.
Bare JS. What is this 2001?
We can't even get self-driving down in 2 years, we're nowhere near reaching general AI.

AI experts who aren't riding the hype train and getting high off of its fumes acknowledge that true AI is something we'll likely not see in our lifetimes.
This is where I'm at currently.

I'm finally in a position to be able to create custom scripts (Powershell) to help automate tasks. The ease of using Powershell+SQLite to creat minimalist "programs" has been incredibly addictive.
Assuming he is maintaining and renting out the 15,000 houses, his actions may be lowering rents. In general, housing investors increase the supply of housing.
You're right.

AIUI Rentec holds positions for minutes or days (or maybe even weeks?), not seconds or less.

My general point still stands.
I had this exact conversation with a friend of mine who was a lot more optimistic about the tech than I am and he agreed. Big tech is going to eat these guys and we're going to be left with some useful foundation models after we get over the trough of disappointment.
The company is literally a house of cards at this point. There is probably so much vulture capitalist and angel investor money tied up in this company that even a disparaging rant could bring the whole company crashing down.

It’s yet another sign that the AI bubble will soon burst. The laughable release of “GPT-4o” was just a small red flag.

Got to keep the soldiers in check while the bean counters prep the books for an IPO and eventual early investor exit.

Almost smells like a SoftBank-esque failure in the near future.
Great points. Dont even get me started about how function calling in other LLMs costs me tokens. Something OpenAI provides OOTB. I'm also not a big fan of OpenAI's lock in. Right now I'm on a huge Claude 3 Haiku kick. That said, OpenAI does seem to get the APIs right and my hunch is the new Assistants API is going to potentially disrupt things again. Time will tell.
What happened to /dev/tcp?

I mean you're not using unix sockets, but you can avoid the whole fifo <-> netcat <-> socket mess, by just doing:

exec 3>/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/6001 #(first display)

and then just using

echo -n "something something" >&3

And if you want to disconnect:

3<&-

Tools removed from the list: nc, mkfifo

And I'd also do the "append_file" trick a little bit different:

declare -a SEND_BUFFER=()
SEND_BUFFER+=($'\x1') # create window command ID
SEND_BUFFER+=($'\x0') # depth

and so son. Bash has this special notation $'' that creates the escaped values when you use it (Check the "QUOTING" section in the man page). So

echo -e "\n"

is the same as

echo $'\n'

The difference is that you can add $'\n' to an array and then later do something like this:

IFS=""
echo "${SEND_BUFFER[*]}"
unset IFS

This will output SEND_BUFFER as a "string" w/o any additional spaces or other separators.

So, this:

declare -a foo=(a b c d e f)

printed like this:

IFS=""; echo "${foo[*]}"; unset IFS;

turns into this:

abcdef

You could use associative arrays and then assign names to the values, but the order of the entries is not stored and so you'd require a function that would build the string needed.

$0.02
My main, everyday use at the moment is I use it to run a Chinese dictionary software called Wenlin. Its THE Chinese dictionary software, for Desktop at least.

Interestingly, if you have access to the source, which takes some effort but is available after some paperwork, it has tools to compile specifically for greater Wine compatibility.

Besides that, I run Excel 2003, because nothing else even comes close to the power of Excel+VBA.

I also run some old multimedia educational software, as well as a multimedia Encyclopaedia Britannica.

A really nice tool to work with timing transcripts to audio and then using them for shadowing/chorusing, called WorkAudioBook.

Some old typing tutors for Chinese.

Would LIKE to run Paint.NET like someone mentioned elsewhere.

Winamp and foobar2000, two media players that are simply unbeaten by anything on Linux, and believe me I've tried everything. Although at the moment I'm committed to running mpd, so they're not getting as much use now.

Also games obviously.
//
COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE
By A. M. Turing
1. The Imitation Game
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, "Can machines think?" is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll.
//

AFAIK no consensus on what it means to think has developed past Turing's above point, and the "Imitation Game," a.k.a "Turing Test," which was Turing's throwing up his hands at the idea of thinking machines, is today's de facto standard for machine intelligence.

IOW a machine thinks if you think it does.

And by this definition the Turing Test test was passed by Weizenbaum's "Eliza" chatbot in the mid 60s.

Modern chatbots have been refined a lot since, and can accommodate far more sophisticated forms of interrogation, but their limits are still overwhelming if not obvious to the uninitiated.

A crucial next measure of an AGI must be attended by the realization that it's unethical to delete it, or maybe even reset it, or turn it off.
We are completely unprepared for such an eventuality, so recourse to pragmatism will demand that no transformer technology can be defined as intelligent in any human sense. It will always regarded as a simulation or robot.
Never heard of those. How do you like them? Can you comfortably watch Netflix or play games on them?

$300 is a lot more palatable. And it's nice that it's just a display, not a whole system like Quest.
I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing: OpenAI specifically has a "Assistants API" that manages long term memory and tool usage for the consumer: https://platform.openai.com/assistants

I'd guestimate 99% of people using LLMs are using instruct-based message interfaces that have a variation of system/user/assistant. The top models mostly only come as a completion models, and even Anthropic has switched to a message based API
What a lot of people seem to be missing here is that RSUs are usually double-trigger for private companies. Vested shares are not yours. They are just an entitlement for you to be distributed common stock by the company. You don't own any real stock until those RSUs are released (typically from a liquidity event like an IPO).

Companies can cancel your vested equity for any reason. Read your employment contract carefully. For example, most RSU grants have a 7 year expiration. Even for shares that are vested, regardless of whether you leave the company or not, if 7 years have elapsed since they were granted, they are now worthless.
Soliciting or accepting kickbacks is always a possibility when it’s someone with spending authority.
I imagine having an agent set up with specific RAG context to solve a specific problem and having another with a different RAG context to solve a different problem can be useful.
[dupe]

Lots more discussion on their post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391412

And related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390831
Exactly. I can't pay for the huge expensive necessities in my life, but hey, my cell phone and TV are high-tech so my standard of living is great!
Sure, someone could simply walk or drive by your home and scope out where you live, but Google Maps lets them do it easily -- from their couch. Anyone with a phone or computer can do it.

So someone(s) is already interested enough in you that they are going to be thwarted by "oh noes, it`s not on google"?

Seems like a weak invitation to the weak-minded to destroy a useful visual aid to a navigation tool.
I am not a lawyer.
or switch to invoice billing?
Except for nested ones; even more fun.
Keeping it 100(x) with real-time data at scale
somebody explained to me early on that you cannot have a contract to have a contract. either initial agreement must state this condition clearly or they are signing another contract at employment termination which is bringing these new terms. IDK why would anyone sign that at termination unless they dangle additional equity. I dont think this BS they are trying to pull would be enforceable at least in California. though IANAL obviously.

all this said, in bigger picture I can understand not divulging trade secrets but not being allowed to discuss company culture towards AI safety essentially tells me that all the Sama talk about the 'for the good of humanity' is total BS. at the end of day its about market share and bottom line.
LMAO. Yes, I love ESM modules. So maybe more like 2012 or 2015. Would you like to see TypeScript?
It matters! We still have so much in common that's not due to convergent evolution, especially at the cellular level.
And thus does the wheel of technology spin.

I have a very slight problem in that I went to grad school when professionals still used calculators, and real professionals used HP calculators. And so I still own, and use, a variety of HP scientific calculators. I can quit any time I want, I swear.

The HP-48 line (for instance) transferred files via an LED/photodiode pair. You'd point the calculators at each other and let them flash away until they were done. This seems to be that, but much better. Or at least much faster.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40393121
I don't know why I can use continuations all day long but I cannot wrap my head around the Y-combinator. My brain seems to fall into a well-bounded category: C^¬(YC).
You said that you trust them to provide this "clear obvious value".

So, why do you trust them to do that?

I mean, that's our difference here in a nutshell.

So stop dicking around the bush and just tell me.
I agree that obesity can be a chronic condition for many people, especially when combined with societal pressures causing mental harm.

> And now for the bad news, her insurance no longer covers it.

This is one of the reasons why I think these GLP-1 drugs are going to be classified by insurance as a temporary tool to help people improve their health. Rather than a long term medical necessity like insulin.

> I think we need more time to see

I agree with this statement, we definitely need more time. We don't fully understand the long term effects of GLP-1 in large populations.

I'm in the camp of, if its possible to use GLP-1 as a ramp to building sustainable habits and then wean off the drug, then as many people as possible should be weaned off.
Begs Q: A. Did significant unprofessional conduct happen OR B. is this a cheaper than golden parachute excuse form of layoff?
Note this is part of project called Spurious Correlations.

Discovered while going down the dual-axis chart rabbit-hole[1][2], and picked an interesting one.

[1]: https://policyviz.com/2022/10/06/avoiding-the-dual-axis-char...

[2]: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/40391614
Games, mostly. Every once in a while I'll find a Windows-only toolchain or something that works well in WINE.

If I'm going to use a Windows app I'll see if it runs in WINE first before breaking out a VM, it's convenient like that.
The Go thing (+ invalid sequence conversion) is a really good point. If OP's point was "don't validate just convert invalid sequences when you need to" or "think twice before forcing validation into your primitive string type" I'd buy in. I also think your choice there to just write the invalid bytes out unchanged also makes a ton of sense. You're right that there's more options than "yolo no validate" or "validate or face death".

> And believe you me, you'd see a lot more of that if I wasn't so careful to provide both `&str` and `&[u8]` APIs for all string oriented operations. ;-)

Woof man yeah, that's what I was getting at with you're forcing people to basically implement things twice; it's not the best!

This was a really good conversation; before this I was 100% in agreement w/ you on "'required UTF-8' is probably the better thing for a primitive string type" but now I see there's a fair amount of pragmatic issues with that. Definitely a lot to mull over here; thanks :)