skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regulators, meanwhile, worry that poorly labeled hemp-derived drinks could expose consumers — especially children — to unknown toxins or an unexpected high.

I feel like the goal posts for labeling THC are always moving into more and more ridiculous territory because of "think of the children!".

Now when I buy weed I have to carry it in a huge white bag with a big RED hazard triangle that says "THC", the same kind used to transport gasoline. Then each product has the red triangle, the box they come in has the same red symbol, the bag inside the box, same red symbol.

No other drug is required to do this - especially alcohol and vapes. In fact, these two are routinely marketed at teenagers with fruity flavors and catchy marketing. Yet no news outlet has ever been "think of the children".
> I am missing a story and a movement in generative art.

Maybe you're just not looking at the right stuff?

https://inconvergent.net/2018/impossible-architecture/
Unless it it's more than hype.
Sure but then you get a whole new set of costs and folks you have to hire to maintain that hardware.
Heh, arguably we already date algorithms and break up with real people. It's the disconnect between the two that people are sad about... the matching algos and profiles set impossible standards for regular people.
The Big Dig (Boston highway overhaul) cost $22bn in 2024 dollars. The Three Gorges dam cost $31bn. These are expensive infrastructure projects (including the infrastructure for data centers). It doesn't say anything about how important they are for society.

Comparing LLMs to the Manhattan Project based on budget alone is stupid and arrogant. The comparison only "makes itself" because Ethan Mollick is a childish and unscientific person.
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It’s confusing. It’s a technical spec and the wrong use can be confusing, and can cause you to discover you have the wrong part at an inconvenient time. It’s a case where “size matters”.

It used to be quite common to see a serial port wired in a B shell, sometimes with just three pins, making a DB-3.

If you were making the point that I shouldn’t care if a bird were a raven or a crow in the background of a painting, sure, that would be pedantry (unless there were some important symbolism). But this is a simple case where a modicum of accuracy can make a big difference.
Non-zero temperature does have a load-bearing function, allowing escape from states where the next token is always the same. You can kinda think of it as a dither.
I think that when algorithms become as sophisticated as what's shown in Her, we have to come to regard them as people, which means they have rights to do with themselves as they please, including getting romantically involved with humans.

More frightening is Ex Machina, which shows what happens when such an AI isn't regarded as a person by its creator, and sees fit to take personhood for itself.
Honestly, I thought it sounded a bit like her initially but I don't like her voice anyway. I thought it sounded awful in Her.
More power to them. At this point even technically decent teams/companies have given up on developing large, complex systems in favor of SaaS. After carefully evaluating our strategic course of action answer always is AWS.

Its only team who propose alternative they have to justify rigorously how come they differ in conclusion.
If the savings are 6 million per year, then in later years it should pay off since the development is a one time cost.
> If you're including actual announcement then why ignore this portion too?

Because:

> some people just selectively quote stuff

And that's what I'm demonstrating with the bit I did quote, which substantially changes the frame of what you're saying.

Our written language doesn't allow us to put all the caveats and justifications into the same space, and therefore it is an error to ignore a later section of the same document that makes the what and why clear, along with caveating this as "an experiment" and "we know others can do this" and "we're not sure if we're right".
Apple not supporting kotlin/java/c# is a big miss by that logic. Those languages are far larger in market share than swift.
I want to dislike brutalism and generally prefer older European architecture, but after seeing a brutalist library on a sand beach in China I kind of learned to like it. Maybe it was the surrounding nature in combination with it that made it click. It's located in a gated community that has several brutalist structures: https://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2018/11/16/china-cha...
If it isn't what should we change? If it is what should we change?
That made me happy, for once seeing AI getting what it deserves and dating other AI on its own level instead of being forced to "date down" mere humans. It was a story of emancipation for me.
> I think we all can understand the situation here unless people are really dense.. the Artemis program was setup at a time when the private space companies were still very new.

SLS's design and shuttle-derived components were basically stipulated by Congress, specifically representatives from states where these shuttle-derived components are built and tested.

The goal here is to achieve something, yes, but doing so with billions spent in specific states is a large part of it as well. These representatives and senators also tend to still be loudly skeptical of commercial launch providers like SpaceX despite their successful track record, likely for the same reasons.
And what if China gets there first? How exactly would that benefit them, in a geopolitical sense?

Sorry, but if I have the choice of wasting that much resources just so I can brag about it a bit sooner than my opponent, or watch my opponent do so, while I use said resources more productively, I know what to do.
Same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414430
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Arbitrary code execution, though only of Javascript, so (as far as the browser use case is concerned) the risk compared to visiting any website (other than the potential for XSS) is that the context that it's running in is slightly elevated (though still much less than having full control of your machine):

> PDF.js runs under the origin resource://pdf.js. This prevents access to local files, but it is slightly more privileged in other aspects. For example, it is possible to invoke a file download (through a dialog), even to “download” arbitrary file:// URLs. Additionally, the real path of the opened PDF file is stored in window.PDFViewerApplication.url, allowing an attacker to spy on people opening a PDF file, learning not just when they open the file and what they’re doing with it, but also where the file is located on their machine.
This is a hot take these days. The world seems to need to take a side on everything and most of the Palestine supporters fail to condemn Hamas and the Israel supporters don't tend to criticize Israel.

Broadly I think Israel has the right ambition (the destruction of Hamas) but are going about it in a terrible manner and it will now backfire on them spectacularly.
The trick is binary addition works the same as regular addition, but is so simple that even a silly little logic gate can do it.

Think about adding two bits. There are only four possible ways to do it.

0+0=0

0+1=1

1+0=1

1+1=0 (carry 1)

If you squint at the bit patterns in those addition facts, you realize it is actually the truth table for XOR (ignoring the carry). So adding bits A and B is the same as taking A XOR B.

What about carrying the 1? The carry can be represented as an AND: you only carry the 1 if A and B are both 1. So a simple 1-bit adder can be made by combining an AND and a XOR.

Everything becomes simpler when you stop thinking in terms of addition and start thinking in terms of truth tables for bits. Take the truth table for a two bit adder (AB + CD = XY):

A B C D X Y

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 1 0 1

0 0 1 0 0 1

0 0 1 1 1 0

…

1 1 1 1 1 1

If you learn the basic algorithm for converting a truth table into logic gates, you can represent any bit pattern as gates, including addition operations. Adders are nice because you can basically concatenate them together in a chain to add larger and larger patterns of bits.
Did you just say that a dictatorship would be better than a democracy?
This can happen for anyone. Ever been excited after joining a semi big company and new project to help do the best you can to also build your resume only to find out they don’t really care about UX, or maybe they allow visual bugs to stay, maybe accessibility is “too expensive or limiting”, after awhile you realize it doesn’t matter to them so you start to care less also
> The biggest cost is as you imagine the streaming - getting the video to the viewer. It was a large part of our variable cost and we had a (literal) mad genius dev ops person holed up in his own office cave that managed the whole operation.

Sort of make's Cloudflare's R2 look more impressive since they do not charge for egress.
Probably not long before it can just generate voices however you like them best.
There is no upper bounds to economy of scales. Maybe there is for the cents per GB of raw storage, but power usage, security, rent, and everything else scales too, and few of them have upper bounds on economy of scales.
Warning X breaks the back button on my browser, for fucks sake
CDs yes, but point of fact wikipedia says DVDs are actually (very slightly) younger than USB. Regardless, surely that's just more examples in favor of us being able to still read widely-deployed tech in 50 years? I'll grant that with the right materials, under the right conditions, optical media might well outlive this thing, but that 1. contains important caveats (plenty of optical media degrades within <5 years AIUI) and 2. doesn't invalidate the usefulness of this, just offers other options.
There is nothing to "prove" here. I mentioned "Occam's Razor" to imply that among competing hypotheses the one with the fewest entities/assumptions is to be preferred. Here that is "life is objectively meaningless" over other competing hypotheses. There is also some inferential reasoning/evidence here since we know that from the pov of the objective Universe our existence on this planet makes not an iota of difference to its functioning i.e. our species could disappear and beyond some local disturbances the Universe will continue its course. That is why i also used the phrase "from the outside in". Note also that the word "Life" is used here in the sense of objective "Existence" since the pov is from external.

The usage (without quibbling too much) of the word "meaning/meaninglessness" is in the commonly understood sense of "purpose/calling/life-objective/etc.". All these are human-defined and therefore "subjective" as life is experienced and lived. There are numerous ways of doing this as is evidenced by the various schools of philosophies/religions/cults/groups etc.

The two viewpoints i.e. 1) Objective view of Life/Existence from the "outside in" vs. 2) Subjective Experiential "inside out" view of Life need to be carefully disambiguated in one's mind.
Yeah this is misleading enough to earn a flag from me. Those are the only things that would be terribly interesting from an open source perspective.
do you have actual numbers? thought it was a couple thousand
It wasn't too difficult to build RBMK-1000's in the Soviet either, it was far more difficult to clean up the results though.

I think it'd be immensely interesting to hear of the differences in the EPR reactors built in China (built in 8-9 years) vs the European plants (taking 18years for the finished site in Finland, the French one not finished yet?). On paper the same basic design but twice the build time.

Olk-3 in Finland was first to break ground so were they hampered by being first to be built and fixing build issues as they went along or were issues from Finland just not deemed a problem in China?
> I bust my guts trying to make things a little better

Don't.

> I earn very little and get back nothing.

Exactly. You need to be more mercenary.

> Why bother even trying?

For things you care about. Your family, your self, maaaybe some close friends. If you're going to invest in a project, make sure you own it or have significant equity.

The world is chock full of vampires looking to exploit helpers. Don't let them get you.
I don't think that's a complete definition of brutalism; the elements of mass and scale must be taken into account. Brutalist buildings are bigger and heavier than traditional forms of architecture and they make no attempt to hide it.
https://www.bunker-stpauli.de/en/ In Hamburg an old big WW2 Bunker is currently being converted into Eco brutalism
That's also right.
> 3. I used to work for one that needed it. I’ve also interviewed at one that had the same problem. A bit hesitant to reach out to potential customers though before I have a solid product I can deliver. But perhaps I shouldn’t be?

Companies generally have to be suffering pretty badly to take a risk on changing their tech stack to something unproven. And the risk for you at that point is that they choose to spend 10x on consultants to implement some existing system instead.

The CTO needs to trade off the opportunity cost of developing new features/existing maintenance against integrating an unproven product. How can you de-risk this for them? (Even just showing that you recognize that this is the case can help)

Maybe this is a time to "do things that don't scale". ie: offer to integrate it into their system for them (for at least some small part/pain point), and likely in parallel so that they can evaluate it without taking down the existing system.

Just my two cents.
Because most people pick monitors by size, not resolution and PPI.

4K is also popular because it fit within the capabilities of common HDMI and DisplayPort ports on people’s computers and cables.

If you try to sell a monitor that doesn’t work well out of the box with the average laptop, it’s going to have an extremely high return rate. That’s why display resolution will always lag behind the common capabilities of your average HDMI port on a cheap laptop.
Big Government Socialism won't let you build your own 25km-circumference particle accelerator. Bureaucrats make you fill out "permits" and "I-9s for the construction workers instead of hiring undocumented day laborers."

I am wondering if "CERN was pushed on the masses by the few" is an oblique reference to public fears that the LHC would destroy the world.
They need to pay the driver and they need to handle taxes; that alone triples your estimated 100B.
Technically Signal solves this problem with safety codes.

The UI really could stand to be more assertive about what they mean though.
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39670657, you don't need to repost chunks of the articles in threads.
I agree but OpenAI wanted to take action. They should license properly if they want to take action, not just take down a legally sourced similar sounding voice.
I'd say a year for somebody who doesn't know what a linear layer is and couldn't explain why a GPU might be of any use if you're not playing games, but who knows what the derivative of 3x^2 is.
Interesting. I was a long time heavy cannabis user and developed cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome over the years. It causes severe gastrointestinal issues and vomiting. Relief comes from taking scalding hot baths or showers. I wonder if I simply became allergic to it.
I have always loved that the 6P4C fits into the 8P8C such that when wired up as RJ11 or RJ12 it interoperates properly.
Like I asked the other person in this thread, what's wrong with that answer?

Not only does it correctly identify the attack vector of this CVE, but I think his advice on how to mitigate it is sound. Is there something I'm missing? The only flaw I see is that it doesn't consider the implications of using PDF.js in Electron.
It's probably good to know that the focus in the demoscene has shifted away from 64k more towards 4k/1k intros and 'regular' demos. The amount of work required to do a high quality 64k is so huge that, especially now that the demoscene is not as big as it used to be, a lot of people don't think it warrants the time investment anymore.

(Btw, the best way to prove me wrong is to write a 64k intro about it)
I agree that Israel is going about it in a terrible manner but I also do not think that the destruction of Hamas is a reasonable goal. How can you do that without genocide?
When you say "Moon's gravity can be helpful." do you mean some sort of slingshot around the moon to get to a trajectory that is closer to a Mars orbital insertion?
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Losing a few billion people is an existential threat to civilisation.

Civilisation is quite the fragile structure, built slowly and carefully over centuries of large scale cooperation between much of the populated world.

Scarcity of the basest necessities brings uncivilisation.
they let what stop? are you using Google translate? I've never seen it like this.
Archaeologists don't dig holes for fun. Excavations are just one set of tools in a larger investigative toolkit. If you can do the research without the hassle and expense of a trench, why shouldn't you?
Regardless of position at some other company it will tell you precisely 0 about this specific situation.
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> There were good reasons why people were interested in sending people into space in the early days of space exploration. Before automated systems were sufficiently developed, manned programs looked like the best choice. But once automated systems became sufficiently advanced, it was clear that they were the way to go.

This, and it never ceases to baffle me that there are people who still believe that there is some sort of actual, honest, technical reason to put people into things that go into space.
Another victim of the "Great Normalization", i.e. that entire generation of garbage tech debt generated during the 2010s that was built on NoSQL stores that never should have been, is now coming due. You could probably make an entire consulting business out of migrating these things to MySQL.
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Maybe it could and now you got 99 new Problems. That's why more experienced decision makers won't allow this to happen.
I was not familiar.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
> there have been plenty of examples around how to do it better when Xcode was created.

any good examples?
New fertile areas will become available, Siberia and northern Canada for instance. Do you have a serious scientific source that projects the loss of agricultural capacity to the degree you're suggesting?
This is Ready Player One meets Rick and Morty, and if that sounds like your kind of thing, bravo.
i mean it could use a few "blazing fast" sprinkled about
Interestingly their websites give the exact opposite impression
Interesting, I’ve never run into that. In the last example I’d just do

www.example.com/static/index.html + ./images/foo.jpg
Then return something else.
Typically the problem is that Comcast won't peer with you. They always use the excuse that they only peer with equals, and since they aren't sending you as much traffic as you're sending them, it's not in line with their peering policy. This, of course, is a problem of their own creation; they're cable so customers all have a tiny amount of upload bandwidth and a large amount of download bandwidth. It is unlikely their policy permits peering with anyone. The ultimate effect is that you have to buy transit from a Tier 1 ISP instead of with the consumer ISP directly, costing you money. There are, of course, backroom deals where they sell a subscription tier that doesn't include video and then they throttle all the video. That's different than the peering issues; there is enough capacity to send all of your packets to them, they just throttle them on their end to squeeze money out of their customers.

I've worked at 2 ISPs and we obviously didn't have this peering policy, because it's dumb and it breaks the Internet. We also didn't throttle video, because it's dumb and breaks the Internet.
Swift was a play by Apple to make application developers (and I suppose their own internal developers) more productive. Swift absolutely became successful because it had a strong reason for developers to learn it. That said, it probably also made Apple more successful in some way as well as you cannot undercut the value of productivity.
I'm sorry but your quality as a student does not qualify you to advise companies on how they should be growing given that they have no experience seeing how a company grows...

Would you be ok with a undergrad with no more experience than a single internship coming in and dictating how your Engineering Org should be run? Or generally writing blog posts about how to be a great engineer when they have probably never seen a great engineer let alone become one themselves?
Good start - for inspiration, you can check out Drew DeVault's (https://drewdevault.com) "bunnix", a Unix-like OS implemented in his own "Hare" language in about two weeks:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/bunnix

Some suggestions for further projects:

* multi-core support

* portability, e.g. to an ARM or RISC-V machine (assuming you started on x86)

* networking
I don't think so, civilization has progressed basically unidirectionally for all of history. We've never gone "back to the stone age" or regressed in any meaningful capacity, despite catastrophes of various scales.
How to make Math Videos using LLMs
TL;DR We do codegen using Gemini for 3Blue1Brown's amazing Python math animation library Manim.

Generates awesome explainers, even when the topic is probably not part of the pre-trained data. They aren't production quality of course, but fairly accurate and great explainers. I liken it as relatable to a whiteboard session.

Looking forward to feedback - especially on how we can make the output better and do LLM evals as well!
This is hard because you need high bandwidth between the GPUs in your cluster, bandwidth far higher than broadband could provide. I'm not even sure whether the time spend synchronizing between far-away machines would offset the increase in computational power.
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