skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this. Erlang's concurrency support is one of those things you can't unsee. Going back to sequential-by-design languages (which is pretty much every other industrial quality language bar go[1]) just feels cumbersome:

C/C++/C#/Python/...: "You want concurrency? Sure. We have OS processes, and threads, and this cool new async doohickey. Pick whatever you fancy! Oh, but by the way: you can't use very many processes cos they're _really_ heavyweight. You can have lots more threads, but not too many, and beware corrupting the shared state. Asyc though, you can have _loads_ of things going on at once. Just, y'know, don't mix the colours up".

With Erlang/Elixir it's just:

"You want concurrency? Sure, here's Erlang processes. You can have millions of them. Oh, you need to communicate between them? Yep, no probs, messages and mailboxes. What's that? Error handling? Yep, got that covered too - meet the Supervisors"

--

[1] Counting Elixir as "Erlang" in this context given it also sits on the BEAM VM.
I’m 41 and have been hoping for over a decade that I can get through my life before a conflict with China. Alas, I don’t think I’m going to be so lucky.
It's far simpler than that, it's just the reconstitution of what we call aristocracy from the past, the reversal of the American Revolution and Constitution, the pole-flip of the power relationship between the "ordinary citizens" and the powerful/government.

It is he same abusive pattern of lying used to manipulate people against the right to self-defense agains a tyrannical government through the supreme law that prohibits the government from infringing on the people's inalienable, God given right to the means of self-defense, as enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. "Think of the children" the tyrants wail as they demand you give up your ability to defend yourself against the bombs they threaten to use against their own population that refuses to submit to the desires of the ruling class and they are also busy slaughtering children by the tens of thousands.
In your head. You just make some new weird shit up and try it to see if it works any better than the previous shit you made up.
To be fair, this could be the headset. Neither iOS nor macOS does this with my bluetooth headset.

macOS IO is broken in other ways for me though. It doesn‘t wake up my external monitor after waking from sleep (lid closed, powered, external keyboard).
Also, what does it even mean for this feature to become non-optional? It doesn't work without the user typing in a question. Do you seriously think that iTerm2 is the kind of software that's scheming to force users to use AI?

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/AI-Prompt
They really said they had a foolproof way to read encrypted content to determine if it was "bad"?

I'm still flabbergasted that anyone supported danny masterson. That the head of an anti-csam org did it is just astonishing to me.
This whole thing reminds me of that guy that claims he invented email, and is suing everyone (The Nanny’s husband, if I remember).
To be honest, time out of seat is a deliberate choice. My legs are long, and the seats are tiny!

I do wear a seatbelt when in seat, though more out of fear than expectation something like that will ever happen. It just seems like an incredibly stupid way to die, and mitigating it costs me nothing.
When our campaign goes live, we'll share a variety of pricing tiers to suit different budgets.
I think that, while making a game is not hard, making an excellent game is hard.

And I think making an excellent game is a lot like reaching product-market fit. It takes fast iteration with user feedback to find the fun, then a ton of polish to make it extraordinary. It has to be so good that, out of those 73,000 games and counting, I’ll spend some of my money and time on it.

The way GenAI can help here, I think, is the first part of this problem. Help me iterate quickly to find the fun.

Then, let me export to Unity / Godot / Unreal to begin the polish process.
> Your kitchen does not have staff telling you to make sure you are wearing a welding mask.

The advice to wear your seat belt throughout the flight are hardly clear and emphatic. They often make it sound like something they have to say to cover their asses. There's certainly no clear comms around the risk of death and serious injury.

I have no idea in this case whether the indicators went on in time but I obviously wasn't arguing in favour of ignoring those.

> the risks of not wearing them are fairly well-documented.

Where? Where would I have seen this documentation? I'm 53 and I have no recollection of stumbling across it.

(also - please reconsider your tone next time. It feels like you're trying to get me riled up)
You can do it with lasers, see this paper and references. Seems like small trials have been initiated since 2017 but no widespread use or FAA approval yet.

https://www.sto.nato.int/publications/STO%20Meeting%20Procee...

https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-jaxa-turbulence-lidar-las...
I've never been on any airplane where they didn't say you have to keep your seatbelt fastened at all times when seated.
Milosevic was sent to The Hague after being ousted by a political revolution. I guess you could say that's not exactly the same as losing a war, but certainly within the theme of international law only applying to history's losers (as opposed to history's criminals).
The sad thing is, sods law, whilst having a good chit chat at the bar on say a380 biz and doing about couples bottles of nice wine, or heck even in cattle in the area in front of emergency exits on wide bodies with fellow passenger consuming a few cans of beer (not sure if that works in US - definitely fine on Emirates, SG, Qatar and Etihad) pretending to stretch legs for a good hour, if there is any turbulence I'm probably going land on this guy's head, if he got up and moved about he probably would of survived. Not sure how you quantify that risk. Again, realistically, it so remotely low that any inconvenience isn't worth considering. Partially joking here, partially not.... Just ridiculous to worry about this remote chance to point of strapping yourself in for 10hrs+ and not moving
Practically everyone now-a-days has a digital camera in their pockets, a cell phone.

Dedicated cameras aren't purchased nearly as often because you need a pretty substantial jump in quality to compete with cell phone cameras at this point.

You could argue the rate of cellphone disposal is no good.
Yes. You can (could?) paste the “article preview” into GPT-4 and get full articles for free, basically pirating a NYT subscription. Here are “one hundred examples of GPT-4 memorizing content from the New York Times”:

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/Lawsuit-Document-dk...
Why even allow people to go to places on their own (whether car or EV or public transport) without the written consent of the state?
How would I know it was a good story if I have to pay to read it?
I may not articulate this perfectly, but I cannot be the only person frustrated with the state of affairs.

New features which have some random amount of error do not make me happier. They make me more afraid.

I have been grilled on single commas being missing in documents - for good reason! It was a financial model.

For me -
LLMs are

- English majors
- Decompression systems

They cannot conform to my expectation of code

- their output is inherently randomly distributed
- they are being pigeon holed into doing logic / Thinking.

Any use case that
- exposes an LLM to infinite interactions (open to users at internet scales)

Simply represents a unsolvable edge case issue to me.

Production solutions need to figure out
- a way to verify the output is correct (fast, scaled, cheap!),
- figure out use cases that accept uncertainty gracefully.

From what I am seeing, there is a bit of both happening.

1) Get the LLM output close enough to 99% correct,
2) send it to a human as a “co-pilot” to verify it is correct.

It is fatiguing to track every new variation on getting somewhat closer to some figure between 89 to 99.9999%.

I love the tech. I love what it actually achieves. I use it regularly to make my life better. This is not an attack on the tech.

My life would be MUCH easier, if someone could tell me their bot or solution is going to screw up massively 89% of the time, and that expert users can identify the 11% cases 100% of the time.

Also that my experts arent going to suddenly see their workload expand by infinity% if this tool goes live.
And then the rest of the "technologically-advanced" world would slowly crumble anyway.
> Based on what I see in the videos from The Lockpocking Lawyer

The Lockpicking Lawyer is not a thief, so I don’t get your desire to incorrectly nitpick. Especially when you clearly understood the point.
This is just a blogspam regurgitation of https://www.ifixit.com/News/96021/ipad-pro-13s-hide-a-repair...

Dang, is it possible to penalize links to websites that do this? This is a big part of what makes the internet suck so much today.
The majority of those games are now visual novels / pornography.
Circa 2019(?), Amphetamine worked for me.

No idea about currently.
obfuscated code with a lot of short cuts is likely also not the best way to model the world :P but this is definitely an impressive feat :D i'd be happy to get it done in like 256 lines of code, likely it would take much more than that! XD...

as for visual stuff. a lot of things man made and natural follow patterns (otherwise it'd be hard to recognize anything). So there's a lot of maths stuff you can use. Different types of noise or other patterns line for the height textures, fractals can be used interestingly, fibbonach/phi ratio for vegetation/trees, size ratio between skeletal elements / bones etc. - don't need any magic guessing machines for any of that.
Huh. That's close to what I was earning from Mac shareware games 14 years ago, something like £2k over 2 years (not inflation adjusted) if I remember correctly.

(And that's why I stopped making games :P)
Bad for the environment though. When I worked in 1-hour photo those plastic bits went straight to the trash after extracting the film.
Ah, this is a nice find! I've used Santa[1] to accomplish this with a silent block, which always felt like overkill when I was using it for solely that purpose.

1. https://github.com/google/santa
> If this was in the UK, I suspect he'll be paying winner's legal fees.

> The US doesn't do that, but I'm pretty sure that it's fairly common, in the UK.

> Good way to reduce frivolous lawsuits.

Depends on what sort of lawsuits you care about facilitating.

A lot of lawsuits in the US are done on contingency. What happens if the defendant wins in that case? If the person bringing the case can't pay their own lawyers, they probably can't pay for the defense's legal bills either.

Is the law firm on the hook? That'll put a damper on the cases that firms will take on on a contingency basis.
How much abuse can users take. Microsoft knows it's unlimited. Users have no alternatives. In the places where it is used, Windows still has no significant competition.
He's had his assets frozen to ensure he can't get out of paying the legal fees:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/bitcoin-high-court-lon...

The norm, as far as I'm aware, is that the losing side is on the hook for the winner's legal fees. Seems like a pretty good deterrent against bringing frivolous claims.
40-Year old BASICA utility code for teaching
These scripts were written by my father in the 1980s, he was a middle school science teacher and wrote these to help him manage classrooms. I think it’s a cool example of the way personal computing changed life in that era; he was never a software engineer, just a guy that needed to automate some tedious work. I encoded the BAS files in utf8 so they are easier to read.
Has the "in Google Maps" been editorialized out of the title? It makes no sense otherwise, I was racking my brain trying to come up with the aspects of driving that don't precede computers, so I've been clickbaited to find out wtf this is about.

Also, what is the little arrow in Spacewar re-enacting? Perhaps the shape of the reed stylus pressed into a clay tablet?
that seems to be just total number of incidents, not corrected for increased air traffic over the last 30 years
Wow Ed Burtynsky on the front page of Hacker News! I worked on his film Anthropocene (https://theanthropocene.org/film/). Also recommend the film Manufactured Landscapes by him, which he also gave a TED talk about (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Dd4k63-zM&t=930s).
Shooting on film is a protest against the ubiquity and inhumanness of digital photography, and ultimately the commodification of memory.

I use a polaroid camera these days. It is messy and wrong and dark and unreliable and bulky and expensive; the exact opposite of the (awesome! but also generic and boring) iphone in my pocket.

Leave some room for frivolity in your life.
How to use Google Search without AI: the 'udm=14' work around
You've guessed wrong.

The etymology is latin for "small (pussilus) spirit/courage (animus)" meaning "faint of heart".
This is terribly depressing. How can we, as citizens, protect ourselves and vote with our best interest in mind?
Wide surveillance that aids the government in creating portfolios of “incriminating” circumstantial ”evidence” greatly increases the risk to the innocent, especially the under privileged, if it isn’t counter balanced by an increase in stronger protections for the innocent.

Unfortunately, in the US there is no bottom line constitutional protection for the (actually or credibly) innocent.

Procedure pre-empts innocence.

This impacts everything from permanent property confiscation based on subjective declarations of “suspicion” without any criminal indictment [0], general crime [1], to execution of the likely innocent [2].

Without a fundamental right for the innocent to have convictions vacated, after they are revealed to be highly suspect, procedure pre-empts information, even when the case for innocence is widely considered credible.

Executing the (credibly) innocent can even become a strategic politically advantageous performance. [3].

Constitutional protection of the incident would compel the courts to address catch 22 problems for the credibly innocent directly, providing a mechanism for relief when the gears of formal justice otherwise create no balanced recourse.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/10/363102433...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wrongful_convictions...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Nathaniel_Woods

[3] https://www.endfmrnow.org/arkansas-governor-denies-clemency-....

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Telling: what government is also pushing for all internal deliberations, materials and search queries, databases and algorithms leading up to prosecutions to be archived for the defense? Or to open up comprehensive surveillance systems search to the defense team?

Centralizing power and information in a way that supports convictions, but not defense, is a recipe for increased motivated, convenient, and incidental injustice.
In Nahuatl it would be “wa-sha-lot” iirc. The l is silent when the end of the word ends in “tl” and x is a “sh” sound.
The X account BitNorbert has livetweeted most what was said during the court proceedings. Wright babbled about how external systems that hosted his files had changed the metadata in an attempt to extricate him from the mess he left himself in when forensic experts noted how his evidence contained timestamps from 2024 or 2023.

Wright extensively modified files, including iteratively modifying a latex file containing the whitepaper to make it layout similarly to the original whitepaper (which was written in openoffice btw). Wright is a narcissistic fraud that continued doubling down upon doubling down on his own lies.
>you are not forced to have a smartphone

Yes. That was my point. We are not forced to (though life would be hard without one). As I said, we did it to ourselves.

>Don't just fixate on the surveillance aspect

I'm referring to the context of this thread, which is largely around surveillance. That, BTW, is also the context in which references to 1984 most often arise.
Nah, I remember this as well. I seem to recall many flights having bags in the seat pockets in case you had to throw up.

Luckily with better predictive modeling most flights can avoid these rough patches now. There’s even some apps you can download to see the turbulence forecasts and pilot report maps.
Thanks for sharing, that is indeed quite a compelling case, and I did not expect it to be regurgitating verbatim text to this extent. It would be interesting to see how OpenAI addresses this.
The entire thing from the beginning has been him playing this silly game like a five year old that thinks we can't see him under the bed.
Adding '&udm=14' to the end of the Google URL will set 'Web' as the default search mode - this strips away all GenAI results, Featured Snippets, and most ads/sponsored posts.
It is possible to implement NFAs directly, in parallel:

https://github.com/mike-french/myrex

Just fan-out messages to all downstream states. Let a fair runtime system evaluate all progress, then tally results along all paths, for example:

https://github.com/mike-french/myrex?tab=readme-ov-file#exec...

The approach can also be adapted to captures and their many, many possible ambiguities. There is an example that generalizes a highly ambiguous match given in Cox: regex (a?){m}(a*){m} against a string of a{m}. The case m=9 gives 864k possible solutions (traversals), you may optionally ask for all of them to be returned:

https://github.com/mike-french/myrex?tab=readme-ov-file#ambi...

The processes share nothing, all state is in the messages, so a single network can process multiple input strings simultaneously. It can also generate Monte-Carlo strings that match the regex, and those may also proceed simultaneously.
One thing that I experienced is that planes before flew at lower altitude, so I believe there was more turbulence overall.

Also I remember in the late 80s going right through a storm while in mid flight during a long flight. That hasn't happened to me in the last 15 years. And I flight around 8 times a year.
Forgoing Implicity and Using Abstractions: Clips
For clarity's sake, the proverb is:

"The love of money is the root of all kinds of evils."
New AI productive tool I came across automates everything
Sorry for off-topic, just wanted to say that the price page on mullvad.net is the best one I saw comparing to other SaaS. Everything simple and straight forward!
So if I'm a celebrity and I have my voice known, anyone who wants to be a voice actor who has a similar voice to mine... can't?
The BBC issued an update just now saying that he died of a heart attack.
Guessing you are on the younger side. People my age know to wear the seat belt due to watching coverage of aloha flight 243 in 1988.
The very last picture I ever made in Deluxe Paint II, in December 1998:

https://anioni.com/pauli/site1999/work/seqjesus.html

I think I spent 40-50 hours on it, trying to ensure every pixel is right. Teenagers have time...
> > That’s as much of a contradiction as a thief wanting to be a large part of lock regulation.

> Based on what I see in the videos from The Lockpocking Lawyer, that would be a massive improvement.

A thief is not a lock picker and they don't have the same incentive. A thief in a position to dictate lock regulation would try to have a legal backdoor on every lock in the world. One that only he has the master key for. Something something NSA & cryptography :)
> But Ylva stood by her claim. She came back to the same argument over and over again. She avoided answering the questions (she obviously didn’t understand how the technology worked) but instead turned the direction of the discussion, saying, for example, that a court order would be required to carry out scanning, which in itself was deliberately misleading.

Is there currently a way for us, EU citizens, to vote those Brussels ghouls out of power? No, or at least none that I know of. Is this how a democracy is supposed to work? Certainly not.

Which is to say that events like this one should make most of the people see that the EU and the European Commission are certainly not democratic and they certainly do not represent the European electorate, because, as a matter of fact, the European electorate has no power over those people. But the propaganda still coming from those circles is too powerful, so, here we are.
I worked with John Wiegley for a couple of years and discovered one of his projects, Ledger (https://ledger-cli.org/), during our conversations. This tool taught me double-entry accounting and helped me understand finance and blockchains on a deeper level.

Unfortunately, I’m too lazy to use the tool on a daily basis, so it’s the second most insightful piece of software I’ve never used :D
> being unable to explain to a judge what an unsigned integer is.

Plus the bulk of the article focused on his forgery of documents allegedly predating Bitcoin paper release, detected because he used an new version of Latex and his failed attempts to mimic the document metadata to be like Satoshis metadata.
But have you thought about the shareholders?
I agree that the term "work packages" does not always fit. "Issues" doesn't neither. An "Epic" is not a an issue, in my opinion. I am curious which term you had on your mind.
"than" not "then"
In my experience, the amount of time needed to remember things in Anki will slowly improve. The key word being slowly.

A lot of people get frustrated when they have been learning an item for weeks, answered the card over a dozen times, and yet still struggle to remember it. That’s because you need months for the SR algorithm to work properly. You really need to commit to it for the long haul for it to be effective.

Personally I can remember random words in obscure languages off the top of my head (instantaneously), purely because I added a card for them years ago and still keep current.
Except normal Californian wages are 50% of a central SF apartment. Saving up to move there is very much an option.

Normal LONDON salaries are 30% of a London apartment.

Normal British salaries are 10% of a central London apartment, at best.

There's a big difference. You can save up as a USian and start a job in SF. You cannot reasonably do the same in Britain.
Same. It annoys me that I can’t easily place a video in a Google Doc so converting to GIF is my usual go-to. Gifski has been great for that.
We should strive to use less disposable things, not more. This is just wrong.
The only good tools I've ever used are typescript and tqdm (a python progress bar).

Wandb and React can get honorable mentions.
I don't see why the mere existence of lower level transport details must preclude discussion of higher level developer ergonomics.