skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Hagakure #80: Why Coaching (Really) Matters for Engineering Leadership
I hate that for some reason. Feels intrusive in a weird way to me.
Everything you outlined applies to US politics too :DD
1.5 year old GPT-4 is getting 4/5 on an AP Calculus test, better than 95% of humans. Want to guess how much better at all educational tests GPT-5 is going to be than people?
> I came to the conclusion that around 1850 there was a "phase change". You could tell the books before 1850, they were works of love. After 1850, I think mass printing took off, or something....

The latter half of the 1800s saw the commoditization of consumer goods as industrial manufacturing processes replaced craftsmen. I became aware of this dynamic when I started collecting textiles. The arts and crafts movement in the latter 1800s was founded in direct response to (what they perceived to be) the soulless products produced at scale in factories.
> The hand-drawn images are usually faithful representations of the world, but only in a qualitative sense, since it is difficult for humans to draw multiple perspectives of an object or scene 3D consistently.

I find this premise unsound. The reason is less that it is difficult but more that it is undesirable - in this medium.
OP here. This is my first version of an interactive drone flying tutorial. Built with Three.js and other open source projects (Thanks to all who made those possible!). Comparable drone simulators on the market requires download of very large packages (usuall >= 30GB), whereas this guide and simulator doesn't require download of anything, hopefully giving folks interested to learn drone flying a very easy way to get started. Feel free to comment down below for thoughts!
Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
I have multiple relatives on the spectrum. None of them baselessly accuse strangers of being pedophiles.

It's not Musk's lack of filter that makes him unhinged and dangerous. It's that he's deeply stupid, insecure, racist, enamored of conspiracy theories, and powerful.
Yes, as a longtime software developer people have been trying to solve this problem different ways my entire career. The closest we got was Java swing. And it works well enough for things like eclipse but for some reason, nobody wants to use it and they want to use things like Electron instead
It’s not working on iPhone
An alternative animation with less voiceovers but more detail in animations of the evacuation and interior flooding (therefore a bit more interesting to watch)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDVLUssrmKU
It has 905 upvotes, it has received a fair share of positivity as well. Even criticism is often positive, since it expresses interest and engagement with the ideas and approach.
"to drive to"? This is Germany, we have (very unreliable) public transport :)
If he just wanted kiwifarms to be a gossip forum he could have banned doxxing.

He doesn't allow doxxing out of a commitment to free speech. The forum doesn't actually have that much free speech. If you criticize him you will get banned pretty fast.

There isn't much transparency either. Banned users aren't marked as being banned. And bans are often done without public notification. So unlike most forums, you can't tell if someone has been banned.
Niki, this is amazing, thank you for that!

I just discovered they play Terminator 2 at Babylon Berlin tonight, thinking of going there, always wanted to see that on a big screen :)

It seems like your list is not showing "OV", "OVmU" correctly at Babylon. Both Terminator 2 (https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/scifi/7199-scifi...) and the mentioned Matrix (https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/scifi/7192-scifi...) there are OVmU according to their website, but that doesn't show in your list. I guess the data is provided wrongly.

As someone who only watches OV with (if not English or German) English or German subtitles I would love to have one thing which movie theatres don't get: A filter for "OV" (Original Version). Thing is, they "have" it, but they exclude german OV's for a reason I don't understand.

Example: Go to https://www.cinecitta.de/, and check the movie screenings. You'll find "Andrea lässt sich scheiden", an Austrian movie with original audio in German. But as soon as you go to the menu and select "Original Versions + OmU" they don't show it anymore, even though it is OV! I don't get that.

So, my wish, Niki: Can you identify original German movies played in German as "OV" as well?
Bologna clickbait title.

“Analysts expect a total update to Siri and an agreement with OpenAI or Google to integrate chatbots into the iPhone.”
I was cured of blind techno-optimism years ago. The race for superintelligence is between ad-slinging megacorps and authoritarian governments. Whoever wins, we humans lose.
hey fellow scot. your /code and /ideas pages 404 :(
From my understanding, that invokes the black hole information paradox. There should be some way in which the information of what went into a black hole is retained, a possible answer being with the Hawking radiation.

We just don't know enough about black holes to say for sure that the insides can not be studied in some manner. That's kind of why a theory of quantum gravity is so relevant, without it, the inaccessibility of the inside of a black hole remains at odds with key components of quantum physics.

Eg The current theory is that black holes release Hawking radiation, and studying that over the lifetime of the black hole might reveal information about the matter that went in. Understanding how this information is encoded could reveal things about the inside. Other possible explanations are that near the point of evaporation, when the black hole shrinks down to a size where quantum effects dominate, the information within becomes accessible, which could again allow potentially studying the inside.
MyRetroTVs
Once upon a time it was Aperture. Because Adobe's Lightroom didn't have some things I wanted, I stubbornly stayed with Aperture including using "Retroactive":

https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

It stayed that until Apple eventually managed to bring Photos library up to the same spec including RAW support, non destructive edits, etc., and eventually even import Aperture libraries w/o loss.

Since then, stayed with Photos, and it's BnL fine if you mostly ignore "folders" and let it do dates and people and now objects search on-device.

To prevent errors, I've found I must maintain at least one machine where all originals are on a RAID array.
Now there is a generation of software developers who grew up with web technology, and they aren’t old enough to recall the days of native apps - they don’t know any way other than HTML.
I could have sworn that this aerodynamics wouldn't work
Worse, he will agree 95% with what guest A opinions are, only for guest B to come on next episode and also agree with 95%. It would've been better for those opposing guests to just debate themselves. Like, I don't want to see Lex and Yuval Noah Harari, then Lex and Bibi Netanyahu, I'd rather see Yuval and Bibi. I don't want to see Lex and Sama, then Lex and Eliezer, I'd rather see Sama and Eliezer.
Is there some dictionary of chemistries that smell of certain things?

I assume there’s no baguette in the smell. It’s just something that sufficiently tricks the nose combined with a graphic and an expectation.

So if I wanted to make something smell like X could I look up the chemical recipe for that?
I don’t know the details of how it works, but considering the environmental impact of fracking, I’m afraid something like this might have many unwanted consequences.
Sqlite calls this an "amalgamation" build

Details here: https://sqlite.org/amalgamation.html

It's also touted as an easy way to embed sqlite.
In what way does GCC play any role in cross platform GUIs whatsoever? It’s a very small niche on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. Visual C++, respectively LLVM/clang are much more dominant on those, and even then they are barely the right tools for GUI (maybe except Windows, but even then competing with .NET).
Well, the entire ecosystem and weather is fed by solar. It would be interesting to think about what it's "efficiency" would be...
Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, Forth, and Ru
isn't such a contracting completely unenforceable in the US? I can't sign a contract with a private party that says I won't consult a lawyer for legal advice for example.
Project management actually seems like a good candidate for open-source. It seems like companies often need customizations. I could imagine forks for different industries.
I confess. I stole the Eiffel Tower. I'm a thief and a crook. Take me away and lock me up.

Confessing to something is evidence of guilt if a crime has occurred. It's not evidence that a crime has occurred.

Being present for every death is only evidence of guilt if those deaths were murders. It's not evidence that those deaths were murders.

Otherwise you could correlate the staff rosters with death certificates at every hospital or nursing home and find a large number of "serial killers". Especially if you get to cherry pick which deaths are suspicious.
https://archive.is/20240517211734/https://www.theatlantic.co...
i didn’t see that :)
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https://www.fragrantica.com/board/viewtopic.php?id=7911

https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Fendi/La-Baguette-93162....
> Well, if he's a clown then his departure should cause the opposite, no?

Nope, not even close to necessarily true.

> more than 90% of them said we don't want the non-profit BS and openness. We want a unicorn tech company that can make us rich. Good for them.

Sure, good for them! Dissolve the company and its charter, give the money back to the investors who invested under that charter, and go raise money for a commercial venture.
Jane Street Ordered to Detail Secret India Trading Strategy
They can’t loose their already vested options for refusing to sign NDA upon departure. Maybe they are offered additional grants or expedited vesting of the remaining options.
Man, sounds like NDAs all the way down.
I agree, I'm glad I read the article. Seeing the title jumbo/unity builds thinking this was not for me, but I'm doing some small C++ stuff, so I might try it out.
1. Bibliography Blues

The papers have bibliographies with citations in text. The knowledge you need to read a given paper usually lies within 3 degrees of bibliographical separation.

You can also use reverse citation search on Google scholar to find newer works that cite a given work. This can uncover a review or textbook, which often makes the concept much simpler to digest. And it can be a more advanced approach which gives you an alternative view or lets you abandon the original paper altogether.

2. Back to tha basics

For math, it would help if you have college level calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, and statistics. If you don't have that, be ready to assign yourself math readings and homework. It would also really help if you had analysis, topology, abstract algebra, and category theory under the belt, just so you can see the mathematical forest for the trees... But that's not really so necessary

You can often find the author's preferred reference for a given work in the bibliography, and use that.

For computer science, it helps to be able to read algorithm pseudocodes, follow complexity and correctness proofs, and understand performance experiments and charts. Skimming Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" should be very helpful.

You'll need some algorithmic/statistical learning theory as well, since authors often use these concepts to prove that a system can learn. Though TBH, I usually skip these proofs and focus on the performance details. I usually find a higher performance paper before I need to care about the learning proofs. Still it helps to expect them and have an idea of how they work, if only to know when you can safely ignore them.

3. Narrative Arcs

Many AI results build on keystone papers that define eras. We can build on these papers by understanding their philosophy and deeper implications, even if we don't really understand their math. There's a story that you will tell yourself, and it may lead to interesting research or business results.

For example, if you read "Attention is all you need", you set the stage for LLMs. then "LLMs are in context learners", followed by the "chain of thought", "reflexion", and "toolformer" paper will give you a great sense of how LLMs are emerging as more than just stochastic parrots, ready to be developed and deployed in a lot of ways that overcome their issues. But looking at how bad the numbers can be even with our best efforts, you also get the sense of how much work these systems will need to actually be good, and the sense that corner cutting will lead to a lot of pretty awful systems.

It's a fun time to be a computer scientist or software engineer! Lots of cool papers to read!
Pre-Java there was a need to have UI applications that ran on Windows NT as well as Solaris and HP-UX. I worked with a commercial software package called Visix Galaxy. We developed in C++. It included libraries for each platform. It also had an interface builder very similar to those today (like the one in XCode). These were polished tools that made it easy to build beautiful GUIs.
While JS can be interpreted, V8 and SpiderMonkey (the two most common JS engines) will _always_ compile before execution -- JS is _never_ directly interpreted these days (aside from more niche engines).

https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/js/index.html#javasc...
I almost stopped using it a few years ago, so cannot argue regarding what’s happening now. I think it’s possible to effect such users, YouTube is doing this in their comments section almost successfully.
Think of Apple naming its spreadsheet "Numbers" and its word processor "Pages" (or, for that matter, the name "Apple" itself. Or "Windows", "Word", "Access"...).

And yet (as others have noted) adding another word or two to give a bit of context is usually enough that web searches work.

Search engines are pretty clever nowadays, except when they've been deliberately dumbed-down (cough... Google...).
Surfing Through Trade-Offs
Wouldnt various whistleblower protections apply if you were reporting illegal activities?
Doom on the Cardputer [video]
Maybe Sweden will follow up with the surströmming stamp.

“In a surprise development in the early 21st Century, every country’s mail began to have a distinct odor…”
Julian Assange deserves credit for exposing the hypocrisy of the US propaganda about freedom and human rights. Australians should be proud of him as he actually embodies much of the advertised Aussie battler spirit
Oh, it is that simple? What do you mean?

Are you saying these so-called simple intentions are the only factors in play? Surely not.

Are you putting forth a theory that we can test? How well do you think your theory works? Did it work for Enron? For Microsoft? For REI? Does it work for every organization? Surely not perfectly; therefore, it can't be as simple as you claim.

Making a simplification and calling it "simple" is an easy thing to do.
Yup, the whole vertex and pixel stages I believe.
This article trash-talks Siri a lot, but I use Siri much more than generative AI tools. It can set times, alarms, play music, tell me the weather, control smart home accessories, etc. chatGPT can't do any of that stuff. And since it's just a voice interface for existing systems, it either works or it doesn't - no making stuff up. And if you want a bit of whimsy, it has a selection of jokes and stories.
Totally different markets. They are adding fentanyl to cut intoxicant drugs as a way to make more money. Nobody gets high on a GLP-1. Never heard of supplement/nootropic drugs being tainted and doesn't make sense that anyone would on purpose because they are sold by companies with web stores and credit card processors.
Making a unity / jumbo build work for a project with 10,000+ files and millions of lines of code is not simple at all.

True, but the number of such large projects is tiny (< 100?) compared to the tens of thousands of other smaller projects that might benefit. Good writeup.
In my experience, and that of others I know, agreements of this kind are generally used to hide/cover-up all kinds of malfeasance. I think that agreements of this kind are highly unethical and should be illegal.

Many year ago I signed a NDA/non-disparagement agreement as part of a severance package when I was fired from a startup for political reasons. I didn't want to sign it... but my family needed the money and I swallowed my pride. There was a lot of unethical stuff going on within the company in terms of fiducial responsibility to investors and BoD. The BoD eventually figured out what was going on and "cleaned house".

With OpenAI, I am concerned this is turning into huge power/money grab with little care for humanity... and "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
Some of us haven’t even incorporated LLMs into our development workflows yet. :)
I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing here.
What would you like to see instead? What would be the benefit of something more complex?
PPPwn – PlayStation 4 PPPoE RCE
"Slitting one eye with a razor blade, then crushing the eyestalk, with thumb and index fingernail, beginning one-half to two-thirds down the eyestalk and moving distally until the contents of eyes have been removed. This method, sometimes called enucleation, leaves behind the transparent exoskeleton so that clotting of haemolymph, and closure of the wound, may occur more rapidly."

Dear God.
I'm no fan of Sam Altman, but between the two, Elon lies much more often. He's lied about FSD for years, lied about not selling his Tesla stock, lied about "robotaxies" for years, lied about the roadster for years, lied about "funding secured" for Tesla, lied about his twitter free speech ethos, spreads random lies about people he doesn't like, and so much more. The guy is a compulsive liar.
Humility has to go both ways then, we can't claim that LLM models are actually (or not actually) AI without qualifying that term first.
Not sure how using openAI means they are entering the race.
One would assume.

But something happens (used to happen) where a file gets corrupted on cloud end, on my end, or in transfer, then it seems a sync detects a difference and assumes it must be an update, so replaces a good file with a corrupted file, and then, well, that's it for that image.

Tools like this can try to help, but usually fail:

https://betanews.com/2015/03/24/fix-corrupt-photos-with-jpeg...

I shoot on redundant CF cards, I back those up to long term RAID backed by S3/Glacier, so someday I can re-import the ones that are "lost", but determining which those are is surprisingly difficult when what you see in the UI isn't the file on disk any more, it's a generated thumbnail, and when the corruption doesn't affect the JPEG or RAW file format integrity, it's just a few bits flipped here and there.

I haven't found any CLI or GUI tools that correctly identify all of them. I haven't yet tried using vision LLMs, discouraged by the cloud LLM cost or local LLM compute time that would take.

NOTE: This hasn't happened in years. Perhaps entirely coincidentally and anecdotally, hasn't happened to me since all Apple devices are on Apple Silicon with none running any Rosetta-requiring software (I don't let Rosetta install at all), implication being the entire ecosystem is now code from within the past 5 years.
It's more than just a death threat, the person killed in such a manner would surely generate a human-sized pile of Ice 9, which would pose a much greater threat to humanity than any AGI.

If we're seriously entertaining this off-handed remark as a measure of Altman's true character, it means not only would be willing willing to murder an adversary, but he'd be willing to risk all humanity to do it.

What I take away from this remark is that Altman is a nerd, and I look forward to seeing a shaky cell-phone video of him reciting one of the calypsos of Bokonon while dressed as a cultist at a SciFi convention.
Why?
Neither OpenAI or Google provide good models that can be run locally on phones which is Apple’s advantage.
I might find this ultra-productivity useful if it was at a business or side-project I owned or ran, where I have a large stake in the outcomes and there’s not enough people to do everything. But, if working for a medium to large-sized company, the ROI on this type of productivity just isn’t there. I’m not saying don’t be professional and work hard and do your job, but in my experience if you race ahead because of some productivity hack you often end up either completing something that has changed from how you did it by the time it is needed, or no one really notices that you’re cranking out extra tasks all the time. I guess I could see a benefit if you use this to work smarter not harder and automate out a lot of mundane drudgery in your day-to-day.
OpenAI Scraps Team That Researched Risk of 'Rogue' AI
I actually think "West" and "East" should go out of vocabulary. Originally Western meant civilised and modern, while Eastern meant crude and backward.
Quit spreading lies about Flutter. It’s one of the most popular cross platform development environments, if not THE most popular, out there and that’s not going to change anytime soon.
BSD license is the most freedom encouraging license

GPL made the mistake of "using the tools in the master's shed to fight the master" as they say; hence the FSF and the GNU project are not in a good path. Open source (IMO) is -- simply put, an idelogical attack against the freedom of software movements (in all their forms and means)
But they are more cumbersome to take and to read. That negates the utility somewhat. Taking notes is _the_ most important thing you can do during lecture. They force you to compress and internalize information, and they are indispensable for refreshing one's memory when reviewing them. I'd think not just twice but ten times before messing with the efficiency of this process. Here's what I'd do in 2024: I'd still take notes on paper, but then scan them into PDF for convenience.
Firefox uses “unified” builds, concatenating .cpp files only within each directory. Unified Firefox builds are about 2-5x faster on my Mac.

Non-unified builds are still built to make sure there are no unexpected side effects or accidental header file dependencies.

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/build/buildsystem/un...
I've more less accepted that dentists and other related fields are mostly licensed so they

1. don't kill you doing something stupid

2. if they make a big mistake, know how to deal with it and get help immediately

This isn't a jab at dentists at all, as I feel like I've been lucky enough to have good dentists that did great work at reasonable fees.

I'v also dealt with

1. an orthodontist that apparently just ground the enamel off my teeth while I was a child, for cosmetic reasons

2. a dentist that somehow cut a square pocket into my tooth to treat a tiny cavity. This caused stress fractures in the tooth originating from the corners. The dentist who repaired it even said "I do not understand how this was even done. It should not be possible to do with normal dentistry tools"
They have huge amounts, but want slightly more. They're the biggest coal producer, producing half the world's coal, and then consuming it too, along with importing an extra 10% which is coking coal for steel making. They have lots of lignite and bituminous coal, which is fine for heat and electricity, and would be fine for turning into gas and liquid hydrocarbon fuel if that was useful.
> Bigger the font, the closer your guess is as per my humble semantic AI.

The font size appears to be uniform?