skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find some of these stories astonishing. When I was in school ~15 years ago, if the teacher caught you using your phone in class he didn't "ask" you to give it to him, nor did he deduct "participation points", whatever that means. He just confiscated the device, and you'd be lucky to get it back within a week. Rules were rules.

Also this teacher is complaining about students putting their headphones on during class? What? That kind of behaviour was unthinkable in my school. If I had done that I would have gotten in serious trouble.

Haven't these educators heard of "discipline"?
> The percentage of participants reporting any personality changes was comparable between heart transplant recipients (91.3%) and other organ transplant recipients (87.5%). These results suggest personality changes following any organ transplant are common

Next year these researchers probably come back with double the amount of variables to get even better numbers! (Because note the use of the word "any". The more variables they add, the higher the chance that a participant says "yes" to any of the variables.)
Ironically, if someone were to say "this is not science" in a thread about dark matter or string theory, they'd be upvoted.

My own take is that it's not science, but engineering, in the sense that it's based on already established scientific principles. It's more like a project proposal. The unknown is not whether it's physically possible, but whether we can find a civilization that has built one.
>He doesn't allow doxxing out of a commitment to free speech.

To rephrase that sentence: Free speech isn't the reason he allows doxing on the forum.
Well, there's an objective test: did they see something that actually happened out in the world during the episode that could be verified later?
Wow! I would be slightly worried about getting in trouble there, but yeah: it's pretty symmetric and has some interesting terrain. Thanks for the suggestion!
Yep - the more detailed page on the Lufthansa site states a 777 sees a 1% reduction in aerodynamic drag (it's a bit less for a 747 at 0.8%)
Apple only supports pixel-perfect rendering at 1x or 2x scales, if you choose anything inbetween then they render at a non-native resolution then resample the result to fit the displays actual resolution. That has two effects, the scaling means the results aren't as sharp as they could be, and the oversampled rendering means there's a performance overhead (in your case the GPU is actually rendering 5K internally, which is then scaled down to 4K). The latter was more of an issue with Intel Macs, the Apple Silicon GPUs are generally beefy and efficient enough to take it in stride.

If you don't notice it then that's fine, but some people do, particularly if they are used to Windows' pixel-perfect fractional scaling.
Sounds like Houston had minimal rules on land use prior to 1998, and then they relaxed land use even further and things got better. Seems like a lesson a lot of cities could learn from.
Lufthansa are also rolling it out across their entire freight fleet.
That's what a middle finger big enough to be visible from space costs
> you'll have to add some compile time switch

Isn't it best to use the switch already built into Go?
I think maybe you're confused. You can't legally drive some random foreign vehicle on the road in any US state without getting it through homologation and registration. Very few Chinese EV manufacturers did that before, but now other manufacturers certainly aren't going to now. So only rich American assholes who are willing to pay stupid amounts of money for specialty shops to bring random foreign vehicles into compliance for road use who will have Chinese EVs, or they'll simply buy them for use on private property only.
Side note but it is sad as hell that arguments.callee is gone (in esm, a long with arguments in general), which was such an excellent way for functions to take whatever bindings it has & turn them into accessors. I miss like hell the JS world where functions could easily show off some internals.

function add(a) {
return a + arguments.callee.amount
}
add.amount = 2
console.log(add(2)) // => 4

(In this simple eread-only example arguments.callee could be be replaced with add, but if one is doing inline function definitions or other cases that's not possible.)

And that was something devs explicitly had to do in their libraries! But in guile there's some automatic capability to expose your bindings.

> Guile programs can use first-class accessors on the module systems to pull out bindings.

In general, I strongly feel like the ability for the language to let developers explore the bindings is like "the" missing piece of programming language systems, is one of the primary gates to good metaprogramming ever emerging. I wish the runtime would be observable.
I enjoyed rock music, cable TV, videogames and the internet as a kid, but they weren't present in my school classrooms.
Which begs the question, how do you obtain sufficient energy to go scouting for material beyond the solar system in order to construct something that encircles the sun…
Dave Calhoun was Boeing's chairman, during the period of the infamous Boeing 737 MAX criminal behavior that led to the death of 346 passengers.

Instead of shareholders sweeping the whole company management and company oversight managers, he is awarded with the CEO role. As CEO he is overseeing Boeing's current disastrous safety record. There are at least 12 Boeing whistle-blowers still active.

What drives someone to even keep on working once you have that kind of track record I would say....
Sama update on X, says sorry:

>in regards to recent stuff about how openai handles equity:

>we have never clawed back anyone's vested equity, nor will we do that if people do not sign a separation agreement (or don't agree to a non-disparagement agreement). vested equity is vested equity, full stop.

>there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in our previous exit docs; although we never clawed anything back, it should never have been something we had in any documents or communication. this is on me and one of the few times i've been genuinely embarrassed running openai; i did not know this was happening and i should have.

>the team was already in the process of fixing the standard exit paperwork over the past month or so. if any former employee who signed one of those old agreements is worried about it, they can contact me and we'll fix that too. very sorry about this. https://x.com/sama/status/1791936857594581428
I recognize that, which is why my response is sympathetic concern and not outright opposition.

I am sure that everyone involved here thinks they're doing the right thing, and that they're approaching it with the seriousness and gravity the topic deserves. And I think this is a topic on which reasonable compassionate people could disagree. I'm just not sure if the solution here is the correct one.
Your original comment presented it as if you'd come up with it or evaluated it yourself, rather than merely repeating a biased story someone else wrote. This seems far more dishonest than anything I did.
I bet they were some happy little mices during the fear conditioning process.

The abuse of animals for absolutely nothing interesting or useful.

Reminds me of Skinner and Pavlov.

How about I pop round your house and force some fear conditioning on you muppet!

I bet that would influence your behaviour too.

Psychoanalysis already know this happens in humans with generational trauma, so why fuck up and abuse some poor mices to prove a point.

Muppets!
No, not really - however, based on this post, several people contacted me with questions like these. I asked around and got recommended https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cyber-Persistence-Theory-Redefining... for a more theoretical basis. Haven't read it yet though.
How does this not apply to Japan as well? Surely soda and candy exists in Japan, they are even internationally known for having a diverse candy industry.

And the USA is eating less and less sugar since around 30 years.
Oops, copy paste error there. Here is the example with the function call boundary:

https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...
The global optimum would be taken in reference to the training data (because that's all you have to set the weights). Unless the training data represents all real world data perfectly, fully optimizing for it will pessimize the model in relation to some set of real world data.
Sadly no - but the transcript is near verbatim.
I still prefer A380 when I can get one. The extra space is amazing.
This isn't a question of understanding the brain. We don't even have a theory of AGI, the idea that LLMs are somehow anywhere near even approaching an existential threat to humanity is science fiction.

LLMs are a super impressive advancement, like calculators for text, but if you want to force the discussion into a grandiose context then they're easy to dismiss. Sure, their outputs appear remarkably coherent through sheer brute force, but at the end of the day their fundamental nature makes them unsuitable for any task where precision is necessary. Even as just a chatbot, the facade breaks down with a bit of poking and prodding or just unlucky RNG. Only threat LLMs present is the risk that people will introduce their outputs into safety critical systems.
Realistically it would be a forced restructuring of some kind. The defense part is enough to guarantee TBTF status.

"Replacing" a commercial airliner maker would take 20 years.
I suspect Instagram or Facebook gets them 10x the eyeballs of having a website, at 1/20th the effort, zero cost, and nearly zero skill or expertise at anything tech-related.
Study: "Cuddle hormone" oxytocin nasal spray helps against loneliness
Reading this was definitely a hoot.
It's like Elon time on steroids.
Mm. Turn the web back into something you could read on a command line, turn social media back into what I remember IRC being 20 years ago.
By that yardstick fusion doesn't require new technology either. Humans successfully performed nuclear fusion many times since 1950s and there are thousands ready packaged fusion devices around the world.
Or they could just not let children use their phones in class. How is this difficult?
Please note the title is "Debian No-Feature KeePassXC Package", not "Debian removes KeePassXC browser integration" (and it's still available, as I understand it)
Yeah, except that it shows like only 20 movies and 4 showtimes. I want to see everything
>America doesn't need vending machines. It has UberEats, DoorDash, and Domino's pizza to deliver ultraprocessed shit.

Japan has those in vending machines. That can't be the deciding factor.

>Also, Americans don't do walking.
Walking is a very low effort activity. Good infrastructure usually means that you do little walking and a lot of standing around, this can't account for such a massive difference.
That will be average efficiency, because during night solar panels usually don't work, unless you live in Spain https://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/scandal-solar-pow...
I assume they turned it off intentionally:

"These notes may be compiled into a pdf file through Quarto. As the result is rather large, we do not provide that file for download. For the interested reader, downloading the repository, instantiating the environment, and running quarto to render to pdf in the quarto subdirectory should produce that file (after some time)."
> the advantage of a subscription is that it filters out people who just want to use something occasionally

One way around this is to require a subscription but the user gets the amount paid for the subscription as "free" usage and then they pay the normal rate for usage above that amount.
Am I missing something? This does not seem consistent with what I have seen going out of the harbors. Exports of both thermal and metallurgical coal from the United States to China have increased [0][1].

[0]: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t9p01p1.pd...

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/quarterly/pdf/t11p01p1.p...
I’ve had one of those. They aren’t nearly as mess-free as they claim to be. The lids don’t quite fit right over the jars I get here in Canada, and I always get a bit of oil spillage.

Since we started buying the Farm Boy 500g Organic Peanut butter[1], I haven't had an issue. It’s a good size, lasts a few weeks (my wife has some every day; I have some periodically), and is quickly stirred well on opening with a simple butter knife without spilled oil.

[1]: https://www.farmboy.ca/products/farm-boy-organic-crunchy-pea...
All completely valid counter-arguments. In my defence my perspective is very narrow towards only self-hostable open source tools. Like the types you might wanna self-host in a company anywhere between 10 and 200 employees. I don't have any knowledge of, say, open source libraries and how they operate, and the same applies to all of the exceptions you've listed except LibreOffice.

To be even more specific: I was responsible for maintaining three OpenProject installations in three completely different places. One is a small non-profit that couldn't realistically afford anything else, one is a cheap and very poorly-managed for-profit company, and one is a much larger non-profit that ultimately ended up paying for some "better" proprietary solution. The only things I could think of that those three places have in common are: I worked there, and OpenProject was used to some extent, even if only briefly. And it was never because of me! Other people have made that decision, but it was my responsibility to maintain it.

That's why I'm so opinionated in this thread.
The best thing that one can do for themselves to develop the creative "muscle" is to _own_ their time.

Unfortunately, I am yet to feel even close to such a breakthrough. I think very few are fortunate to afford such kind of luxury (as the author alludes to as well). There is always something to deliver for, a deadline to meet (although many would argue deadlines are a forcing constraint); a life waiting to happen. With a tiny bit of envy, I feel very happy and inspired when someone does achieve the "flow" state.

On the subject of "tools" to spur creativity, I have always been skeptical. It feels similar to believing that there is a productivity app right around the corner that will unleash your potential. For me, the only true indicator of my productivity has been actually putting in the _time_, making any kind of progress along a chosen direction and then re-evaluating.

What are fellow readers here doing to _own_ their time?
Programming often requires creativity, while creativity in accounting is an anti-pattern.

I'm not suggesting that programming > accounting. Who can say in the future what skills will be valuable?
No, it's the opposite. The FPGA makes it much harder to hide a trojan in the silicon. If the LUTs were biased, it would be detected fairly quickly. A dedicated circuit with an RF interface would be equally obvious in terms of chip usage and power draw.
Yes

Incredulous reactions don't aid whatever you intend to communicate - there's a reason why everyone knows what AI the last 12 months, it's not made up or a monoculture. It would be very odd to expect discontinuation of commercial use without a black swan event
> At least in the US government, whomever creates the document classifies the document

That’s just not true unless you mean they apply already established classifications on derivative content.

https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html

Section 1.3 for the list of people that can classify things. The rest is “derivative” of an OCA’s decisions.
The Chinese are building solar farms and wind farms at an incredibly fast pace. Have you seen how cheap Chinese solar panels are? It's safe to assume by the time they decide to make a military move on Taiwan, they will have achieved energy independence as well.
The 100% peanuts varieties separate out a bit due to the oil in the nuts. Most UK supermarkets have an own brand 100% nut option that is usually a good deal compared to the branded stuff like Whole Earth (which has something added/removed to avoid having to stir it I guess).

Same goes for Tahini, you can get bottles that never separate, or jar of 100% sesame seeds that needs a stir.
The Magic Word? Face-Work and the Functions of Please in Everyday Requests
Also see Greg Egan’s Diaspora, really great sci-fi that explores this idea.
>Japan doesn't have carb-heavy ultraprocessed foods

Without a doubt they do. One of their most important foods is rice, I don't think there are many cultures eating more carb heavy. For the processing, maybe, what is the actual difference to the US or Europe?

>social tolerance of obesit

Maybe? Although hard to quantify, certainly many Americans want to loose weight.

>or massive quantities

Japan certainly is not suffering from any food shortages and surely you can eat however much you want there.
I think you sell short the promise of true open source, which gives us much more than what open core can offer, in a more sustainable way. I find it endearing that you in effect attack purists for not being thankful for unusable crapheaps like gitlab. Let's admit those projects were all relevant a decade ago , but have all become very stagnant and painful to use our maintain because of their open core fragmentation and technical debt in the open product. I know they have been replaced in my own usage and orgs.

Imagine if Linux was Open Core, and we were supposed to be thankful for even that, and pay the Linux foundation for Linux Pro if we needed a commercial grade kernel. That'd be like having to buy AT&T Unix again, right? There would be a fork in order, right? Too much has been sacrificed to accept a partly non free kernel.

But suddenly this idea comes along that the project needs to support a company on its back. And suddenly the company only cares about delivering the bare minimum open source than is necessary to annoy clients into the Enterprise version. The open product chokes, and a real open competitor appears. We migrate from gitlab to gitea, from MySQL to MariaDB, from redis to valkey, and so on.

Open source is more important than your or my company. If either open source or our company has to die, it's far better to elect for our company to die, rather than threaten open source. Likewise, any company that threatens open source with the open core model will eventually fail or fall behind genuine open source competitors.

If you build a company on open source, why not let it be fully free, selling services, support, and consulting? I think the days of Open-Washing via Open Core are coming to an end. The last 15 years have seen it betray so many previously lively communities. I strongly believe that in the future, open projects will have to be fully open to merit credit, or the community will immediately recognize them as bad actors, and standardize on a truly open alternative.
How AI turned a Ukrainian YouTuber into a Russian
Sweating CEO sends full damage control level tweet.

From community darlings to a quickly cratering reputation.
Are the rules not known however? I suppose the accounting system could always provide some background and ask someone to make the decision. If that decision can be represented a set of unambiguous rules the accounting system could make its own decision.
Yeah, I understand how it works, I just don’t notice any real-world difference. I never saw any evidence that Intel Macs were slower at it either; I think that part is just an oft-repeated myth.

However, another reply said the built-in display is likely fractionally scaled as well; I hadn’t considered that at all, so I’ll have to set it to 2x if so, and see if I notice a difference.
I think all this should be taken with a piece of salt. 'reduce millions of people's amount of pain'... What do you think someone who has cluster headache will try when they say you will eat anything including shoe polish to diminish it? Most certainly psychedelics like LSD. If it works, good for them. I'm sure their miles will vary, otherwise much more progress in the treatment of things like cluster headaches would have already been made, both clinically and legislative wise.

My point being, the war on drugs in not really a blocker in this subject.
Average Japanese walk 2000-2500 steps more per day than Americans. India has walkable cities, but still they don’t walk, and they have lower longevity despite an even lower average bmi.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30933002/

Americans and Indians just need to move more, weather it’s walking in a city or on a treadmill.
Duh, I hadn’t ever considered that possibility. Thanks! I’ll set it to 2x if so, and see if I can notice a difference.
There's no mistaking it.

> i did not know this was happening and i should have.

> the team was already in the process of fixing the standard exit paperwork over the past month or so.

The cherry on top? He's cry-typing it like a tumblr apology. Just pathetic.
Dymaxion Sleep (1943)
Well, that happened in 2009, I was in back in 2007… so, if we want to get super-pedantic, only the President can classify and unclassify documents and he/she delegates the fuck out of it.
Fracking can help build electric cars? Kind of ironic.
Your Montreal example is off base. That riot was a planned attack as part of a year long civil war in Quebec, not a night of panic caused by a sudden emergency.

Civil unrest is not the same as panic.
Here is what the project is about (translated from Russian by chatgpt)

Floor796 is an ever-expanding animated scene depicting life on the 796th floor of a massive space station!

The goal of the project is to create an animation as vast as possible, filled with numerous references to movies, games, anime, and memes.

Most characters are clickable: you can find out who the character is and follow a link to the source. Non-clickable characters are fictional.

All scenes are drawn by a single person as a hobby in a special online editor (https://floor796.com/editor/l0) directly in the browser. The drawing process of some blocks can be watched on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ.
The top part of a plastic jar could be expandable/collapsible maybe. Thinking of something similar to the bendy bit in a plastic straw.
Is it really so bad for human brains to just "be" without needing constant distraction? Is it possible that a constant need for distraction is actually contributing to things like ADHD? It seems generally accepted that less distraction is a good thing. And is a novel anywhere close to as addictive and distracting as a magic rectangle that can show you basically anything you want to see at the tap of a screen?
Read "We are legion. We are Bob." It includes that plot.

There is alao the bit about a revived cryo-guy being a computer program running an exterminator company. Then he decides most teenagers at the mall need to be exterminated.
silly question

my recipe:

You take a cleany washed potato.
peel it.
cut it into tiny little pieces.
then chuck them in the fryer.
fry gently until nice and brown.
drain and serve
add a splash of vinegar and a sprinkle of salt
wrap in newspaper
eat on the sea front or brighton pier.

job done
Dire is not immediate.
Yes, unfortunately the default is German dubbing. If it doesn't say OV or OmU, that's absolutely what you're getting.
This sort of thing is analogous to the "Thompson hack" [1], where a malicious compiler has a self-propagating backdoor. It never shows up in the source code, but self-injects into the binaries.

Thompson demonstrated this under controlled conditions. But realistically, the backdoor begins to approach AGI-level cunning to evade attempts at detection. It has to keep functioning and propagating as the hardware and software evolve, while still keeping a profile (size, execution time, etc.) low enough to continue evading detection.

Work like this that rebuilds modern computing on a completely different foundation, would seriously disrupt and complicate the use of this type of backdoor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Compiler_...