skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no way to work out which car it’s coming from without a bunch of sophisticated hardware and effort.

Have you seen how these people work? They drive up, stop next to a car, tap the window with a window breaker, pull the chair down to look in the boot, grab anything they find, then drive off.

In and out within a minute. No time to be dicking around with Bluetooth scanners to see if there are MacBooks around.
That's exactly how they're going to lock you. When your AI assistant is trained on 10 years of texts and emails, the lock-in potential is going to be huge. Switching phone ecosystems will be an equivalent hassle to firing your personal assistant that's been handling all your crap for 10 years.
Greenhouse effect does a green house effect. Damage is already done regardless of what they cut back to now.
> For compliance though, the AI integration should probably be a separate binary that you can access via the command line. Maybe with an optional setting "assign this keyboard shortcut to the AI binary".

There's no difference at all between a code path that's never called and another binary that's never called.

You are simply wrong for even trying to argue about privacy concerns when it is a feature that is entirely off by default (and also doesn't send anything that you don't enter in the box dedicated to it).

It makes absolutely 0 sense to have any concern about this but not have concerns about the capability of the terminal to perform any other call over the network.
"We are introducing Phi Silica which is built from the Phi series of models and is designed specifically for the NPUs in Copilot+ PCs. Windows is the first platform to have a state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) custom built for the NPU and shipping inbox. Phi Silica API along with OCR, Studio Effects, Live Captions, Recall User Activity APIs will be available in Windows Copilot Library in June. More APIs like Vector Embedding, RAG API, Text Summarization will be coming later."

2024: the year of personal computers with neural processing units running small language models

How do NPU's work? Who builds them and how are they built? Are they capable of running a variety of SLM-like firmware?
2D vs. 3D, I think.

3D is where the excitement is, but also where the difficulty is from the kernel perspective.
Well, duh. I just thought the interior fittings were more robust. I guess even they got the modern plastic "Lexus" treatment.
I used to use SolidWorks. Now I use FreeCAD as a complete replacement.

Two tips:

(1) use RealThunder's Link Branch (https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases). This fixes one of FreeCAD's fundamental problems.

(2) use the "Part Design" workbench. That's the one that is built around the SolidWorks workflow: sketches with constraints -> parts, etc. There are other workbenches for other workflows; you might need to hop over to them sometimes but you'll want Part Design for the most part.

FreeCAD still hasn't settled on "one correct way" to do assemblies of parts. There are various plugins that each offer their own take on how to do it. You'll have to pick the one that you like most.

You don't need to use Python. You can use spreadsheets, equation-driven dimensions, and so on, just like SolidWorks. You can make dimensioned drawings using the TechDraw workbench, which gets better all the time. (Also useful for making DXFs to export to a waterjet or laser cutter).

The documentation is sparse, so youtube demonstrations are the clearest way to learn. I like JokoEngineering's channel.
I permanently use desktop mode on my phone browser
As did Yuri Knorozov, linguist who played a major rele in deciphering the Mayan language.

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

> Knorozov listed his cat Asya as a co-author on his work, but the editors always removed her. He always used the photo with Asya (above) as his author photo, and got annoyed when editors cropped her out.[32]

However, Asya was included in his statue.

https://coleandmarmalade.com/2022/08/16/yuri-knorozov-credit...
For a second I thought this was the health forum
Visualizing Terraform Plans via Mermaid Diagrams
OP described this system as "it's pay-to-vote and everyone can vote as many times as they want".

This sounds exactly like the scam that the right wing runs in America regarding the "Best Selling Book lists". There are a number of right wing books on the list each year but it turns out those books are purchased in large bulk by right leaning groups funded by billionaire donors and are then handed out for free at events or dumped on the clearance channels. It gives a fake impression that the books are more popular than they really are and is in effect a way to blunt the effectiveness of left wing thinking.

This is also done via channels such as PragerU. Right leaning groups funded by billionaires produce white papers describing their thesis which are then sent out to groups such as PragerU and Ben Shapiro in the form of talking points to be inserted into the narrative of their videos.
As someone who develops professional software in a private company, we absolutely 1) built a lot of features fast based on user requests, which created a clunky UI. Now, we're 2) doing a redesign which, while not a total code refactor, requires discipline and cohesion to reflect deeply on what use-cases we want to support specifically, as opposed to trying to be everything to everyone. We're incentivized to do this because we can grow revenue by building well crafted software for the most popular use-cases. We just expect that this is a "circle of life" for well crafted software, of 1) building features fast, then 2) polishing the best features leveraging professional ui/ux designers and product insights: to re-simplify once you reach a certain level of complexity.

I now think of most open source projects as just as good as closed-source at 1) building the functionality and MVP UI/UX, but that there is more friction to communication overhead to do 2), as well as less incentives (smaller carrot, smaller stick). To decide on specific priorities, bring in a designer (who might be non-technical) that can fully understand the context, and then potentially change or move around a bunch of code, is not something that "just happens organically by people scratching their own itch"

I think projects that are high profile like blender have done better here over time, often when there are well resourced and governed foundations or companies backing them. Or occasionally an OSS author will do this. Though I think that's the exception rather than the rule, and certainly requires a larger breadth of skills that extend beyond pure technical ability.
I think GP was was using the phrase "auto split ... across [character]" in reference to characters that can cause line breaks for "word wrap" purposes in page layouts. For example, a normal space is a character that causes line breaks, but a non-breaking space (nbsp) is not. A hyphen, a tab, a zero-width space (zwsp), and several other characters are also generally used for line breaking. I think GP is saying that the decimal indicator -- the fourth character of "$27.00" -- should not be used for breaking. I think GP assumes that the problematic line breaking in TFA is akin to the type of "word wrap" page layout logic I've just explained; in reality the line breaking in TFA has nothing to do with that, it's simply breaking at 1000 octets (probably for reasons of buffer size, certainly not page layout) regardless of what character is in that position, so this whole thing is moot. GP needs to RTFA!
I'm glad to see he made that request, even from jail. Expressing magnanimity is a bit of freedom, in and of itself.
I can't be the only person to think the correct universal number should be 0118.999.88199.9119.725...3
I have high hopes for Bcachefs.
I installed https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html today after seeing those release notes and am liking it so far after adding the five-ish lines of config, which were way easier to use than those clunky panels
I fail to see how this is not a slippery slope argument. A feature was added to a GPL’d open-source project, and said feature relies on a third party (OpenAI) in order to work.
For me, Guix. The Guix system and package manager let you really work with your OS in a way that you just can't otherwise. It turns the great cluttered mess of files and packages lurking in the typical Linux system into a few clean version-controlled files. It is truly beautiful software on every level.
First we would need self driving cars to exist I am afraid.
> Biggest single factor causing issues is to start late.

This entirely depends on the dev team working on it and the complexity of what's being asked for. As a developer, I'd rather start late on simple ideas than start early on incomplete and overly complex requirements.

I've seen plenty of projects be absolutely destroyed by product managers and designers with main character syndrome and their own lack of attention to detail and being entirely unresponsive to or flat out inexperienced at answering the technical questions from developers.

Those design decisions are sometimes even late and only mentioned after dev has started. That's completely unacceptable on any project. Requirements and designs are their own intermediate result and demand just as much finality as the product itself. Every revision will erode the final product and mess up a deadline. Developers should not be along for the ride with indecisive designers. Go to the developers with a completed vision and no stone unturned and you will have the best results. Level of experience throughout the project must be equal.

The implementation details are far more important to the overall UX and polish of the result than the visual design. The implementation details can't be ignored or you risk an uncoordinated shit show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windfall_tax
> When I say misfortune, I mean AP knew but turned a blind eye.

That link shows no such thing.

> Senior defense establishment officials provided classified intelligence to Pentagon officials

It was classified intelligence. It wasn't that there was a sign in the lobby that said "3rd Floor: Associated Press, 4th Floor: Hamas".
Very fascinating. This is common in bird taxonomy as well, for example, with doves/pigeons, or egrets/herons
You know what I meant. I used the wrong word.
The ultra-wealthy can borrow phenomenal amounts of money at low interest rates, which has two effects. First, as you said, is that during times of great inflation they come out ahead (also because they manipulate the broader economy to inflate). Second, is that borrowing doesn't count as earned income and therefore is not subject to income taxes.

I think we should outlaw billionaires. The idea that a sole individual could hold so much economic, societal, and political power is totally fucking insane.
This seems interesting, but how does it work? An advertiser pays for a slot on your site? But what is the appeal for a user to be on your site looking at ads?
>Doesn’t even matter if the access point is broadcasting the SSID or not.

Source? AFAIK this behavior only gets engaged if the hotspot has a hidden SSID.

>Found this out by just having the personal hot spot of an iOS device enabled and then turning on a android tablet. iOS doesn’t broadcast the SSID unless you have the settings screen of the personal hotspot open. Scary.

This is opposite to my experience. I specifically have to enable "allow other devices to join" for non-ios devices to be able to join.
> Yeah we should remove barriers for those people

The thing is, we have already removed all of the financial/logistic barriers. Anyone who owns a laptop can setup their own little home studio with a mic + audio interface + pair of speakers for under 200 bucks. That's how I started as a kid. But as you say, you still need practice and dedication (and some talent). If you get rid of that, you essentially get rid of art.

That being said, I do remember Magix Music Maker and Acid Music from the early 2000s where you could easily create your own songs by drag&dropping loops on a timeline. Actually, that's what got me into music production as a kid. I think this kind of software can be a great starting point. The problem with Suno and Udio, IMO, is that the interface is too basic and offers very little control over the actual music.

Now, the actual problem is that people will abuse these programs to spam established distribution channels with low effort AI garbage on a massive scale. We already see this happening in other domains (digital visual art, books).

Of course, you can't expect tech companies to consider the broad effects of their products on society...
Looking at the benchmarks, it seems like Phi-3 Small (7B) marginally beats out Llama3-8B on most tasks, which is pretty exciting!
i remember what it was like before this - suicide bombings several times per week.
> Practically everyone agrees the economy is worsening for average people during many decades of nearly universal control by "mainstream" economists, advisors and bureaucrats.

Look at the chart that this story is about: when things go negative, what do you think happened to people's employment opportunities? What do you think happened to their debts (deflation makes it worse)?

Do you want to perhaps look at the economic historical record of the ~80 years before 1945:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1910–1911

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1901

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1896

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1896

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1893

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873

There have not been as near as many widespread economic collapses post-WW2 as there were pre-WW2. 2008 is probably the only one that came even close.

The main contributor to the working class getting a raw deal since the ~1970s is (IMHO) the idea of shareholder value (primacy):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
Hate to say it, but the last thing most people want in this post-modern world is yet another chance to be a participant in a market. And the few who think crypto is fun now will mainly get burned out except for a handful of winners and might be more inclined to take a chance with Lenin and Stalin 20 years from now.

One thing I do respect about "Web3" compared to the Fediverse is that it puts identity first, which does open up certain kinds of application. But it's enough of a burden to be bouncing crypto bros from parties the last thing I want to do is join a social network with them.
Israel has [fought] multiple wars without US help

This obviously wrong, and on multiple levels.

First, there's $330b of financial support since 1946. Access to advanced weapon systems since 1962. Crucial intelligence + diplomatic support in all the big wars (56/67/73); crucial munitions support, and an offer to send a large numbers of ground troops in 73. Solid and almost unquestioning diplomatic support (or acquiescence) of essentially every action Israel has taken since 67 (no matter how provocative or ultimately detrimental to its own interests), backed by the assurance of automatic UNSC veto of course.

In the current operation, you've got 2 carriers parked offshore along with other assets in the region; special access to fuel depots and arms caches (that even Ukraine doesn't get); technical support from U.S. companies like Google, etc.

The idea that Israel fights its wars "without US help" just ludicrous.

Meanwhile, in return -- Israel just doesn't provide all that much. The U.S. supports Israel mostly for ideological regions (such as the kindling that it provides to the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian Right) and to please other domestic political constituencies; and yes, out of a legitimate sense of moral responsibility since the Holocaust -- but not because it really needs Israel to be around (in the sense that it needs the UK, Germany, Japan, etc). It objectively needs countries like Sweden and Turkey more than it needs Israel.

Completely cut off from U.S. aid -- it would survive of course, but under significantly diminished circumstances. In particular it would have to give up the Greater Israel project -- which it of course needs to do anyway, but it would have to do so much sooner, and in an abrupt, violatile way leaving it in a much less secure position than it would like to find itself shunted into.

If you want Israel to stand down make them feel very very secure.

This is of course the mantra we've hearing since 67. And which brought us to the place we're in now.
This is specifically something some coworkers and I were discussing the other day. Someone said, “I want to ask it where I read an article about (some topic) last week.” or “I remember seeing that when I was researching something else. I wish I’d saved the URL.”

So I’m on board, if just for browser use (as long as it exclude private browsing, of course).
I couldn't have said that better. I have seen this exact thing happen multiple times in startups, where you only really have a chance to make money if you are a founder or join really early on & hope that there is a good exit. as a regular or even senior employee you not only are helpless but also have to mentally deal with sunk cost fallacy. the problem is you (non founder) never gets rewarded for the significant risks you took working there. In investing world this is labelled uncompensated risk. which employees mostly take.
> people really have too much fuckin time on their hands to bitch about things

I always find it so puzzling when people say this. If this author has "too much time" what would the ideal society look like to you? Would you prefer to live in a society where every person is worked to the bone for optimal productivity, such that there is not even a spare 30 minutes in their week to write something that isn't generating economic output? I really want to know what you mean when you say this.
I have a fairly strong preference for tools that don't contain LLM, but you're right compared to all the other uses of LLM this is pointless.

Edit Because I hit submit too soon: George Nachman is a great guy who delivers a cool tool for free and doesn't deserve the pushback.
So, combine it with pictures of what happens when you don't wear a seatbelt in a car.
The issue is at the early stages of reinforcement learning the system will send essentially random inputs to the motors and it's important that this flailing doesn't break the machine so that learning can continue.
My own assumption is that frogs are thinner, with finer lines in the shapes of their bodies, while toads are large, wide, and beefy with short legs. So that's how I made my choices. Wrong choices.
I'm not trying to argue any position. I'm just trying to understand what misgivings some people appear to have.

The way I phrased it might be why you're misunderstanding me. I'll try to clean it up.
> Even comments looked down as misguided by mainstream academics can be substantial

They still get voted down fairly uniformly regardless…acceptance of that which we cannot change…
The title, "A New Way to Store Knowledge", indicates this is a joke.
People who think this feature is dumb are the same ones who thought graphical user interfaces and languages with memory management built in were dumb.

Engineers must be open to new ideas.

Personally I spend a lot do time googling arcane parameters and if AI can help me avoid that, it’s a win.

If you don’t want to use it great. Good for you. You’ve spent enough time on the command line to know all the inconsistent insanity. Not everyone has or wants to.
that's been my experience, as well. yes, AI will give me the knowledge, but I still drive the conversation. if I want to dive deeper into a certain topic, or even change tracks completely, I can.
But that open-core subscription model is the way open source makes money! Not enough people pay for software out of the goodness of their hearts to make a living off of it.
This misses one advantage of underscores, which is consistency:

foo
modified_foo

foo
modifiedFoo

With underscores, "foo" looks the same whether it stands alone or not.
> While Mexico’s brutal heatwave has been linked to the deaths of at least 26 people since March, veterinarians and rescuers say it has killed dozens and perhaps hundreds of howler monkeys.

Since March!
thats not creepy at all .... at all............................
Cmd+S doesn't work on VSCode if you installed the ChatGPT Mac app
>In 2022, they gobbled up 460 terawatt hours of electricity...

Total global electrical consumption is around 22k tWh a a year. 0.5 tWh for what datacenters give us is significant but more than worth the value they provide imo.
Honestly it just boils down to one overhyped method of web design: MOBILE FIRST.

Mobile-first designs create gargantuan gaps of information sparseness on any larger form-factor.

Folks should go back and re-read ethan marcotte‘a Responsive Web Design. He goes from actually a desktop design and shrinks it down. No mention of mobile-first.

So, start with a design, and consider how it works on both form factors EQUALLY. None of this mobile-first crap unless building an app, a whole app, and nothing but a mobile app.
Reusable = interface (UX or API) that is intuitive, simple, and powerful; implementation that is fast and reliable.

Re-editable = Implementation building blocks are also intuitive, simple, and powerful; and coupling is minimal (implies intuitive/simple/powerful) and not error-prone (i.e. missing links raise compile errors or fast, descriptive runtime errors).

You can have software that is useful but the implementation is an obfuscated spaghetti mess. This is common for old but popular software e.g. C++ compilers, Microsoft Word, and Firefox, which has gone through maintainers and bitrot but is continually improved and bugs continually fixed. And you can have an application with great code quality but terrible CLI or GUI, such as Git and ffmpeg (for those who disagree on Git, read https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/04/10/notes-on-git-error-messages/... my argument is that you’ve adapted to some design choices, such as the error messages, which could objectively be made more intuitive without sacrificing usability). Although I bet it’s more common that surface and implementation are similar quality.

You can’t really have a bad library with a good implementation, because if the structures/functions/… in your implementation are reusable, that extends to the outermost ones that make up your API. But the larger the implementation, the harder it is to make a good API, so it might just be the case that the low-level design is good and it (gradually or not gradually) gets worse at the higher level.
Black bar for Bell please?
Thanks for subsidizing all this EV/AI technology, Mr. Elon, to be implemented in future generations of other manufacturers' hybrids.
I played this for a couple of minutes, foolishly thinking I’d be quite good, before exclaiming ‘oh, what the hell is the difference!?’ and quitting it in frustration.
I wish there was a blurb on what makes a frog vs toad so we can be educated on how to distinguish vs just blind guessing.

Or if there isn't any, say so and maybe some history on why.
Wait until Apple announces their deep integration with Open AI.
The tree toad gets everyone
On one hand: an action virtually guaranteed to get you fired.

On the other: $150

I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. I can’t imagine risking that for what is essentially an hours pay for most tech roles there.
Am I oversimplifying this or is it as simple as: "just don't turn it on" ???

I upgraded this morning too and saw updates too.

It's been 3 hours since, continued working on my terminal, it has not gotten in my way at all.

It's a non-issue for me.

What am I missing?
The US doesn't need to shut down journalistic operations. The success of Operation Mockingbird makes that unnecessary.
Seems like an exciting project, I'd like to try it out as soon as there's a public testing phase.

On another note, please don't use Discord for development: https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS...

use IRC or Matrix but not Discord.