skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard about Scottish bothies. As an American, culturally it seems hard to imagine not only a right to walk over private land, but land owners sometimes even donating shelter for use by strangers, for free.
"free beer" means something very different to "free speech". That's what the phrase refers to.
Fountain pens are easier to use than most ball point pens. If you need to think deeply about a problem there are few better things than a binder of a3 paper and a fountain pen to think.

That said the uselessness of education is the point. It's a signal that you're willing to do pointless work for future rewards. We may as well replace it with counting beans and it would be just as effective.
Speaking of AI, I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next decade, jobs that involve turning wrenches would pay significantly more than most jobs that can be done fully on a computer.
Self hosting in the cloud can be a bit counterproductive price wise.

You can run docker on a $100 USFF i7 pc and stuff 32G-64G and a big SSD in for cheap. That'll run for years and you could add a second host for redundancy. Depends on your maintenance and failure tolerance.

Or you probably already have some spare hardware, maybe an old laptop kicking around.
Agreed. The UI is painful, but the project priorities are correct: fixing TNP and fillet/chamfer needs to come before the polish. First make it minimum viable for the non-zealous, then we can talk about drawing attention with a sexy dark-mode-by-default UI overhaul. It's getting close, but that makes this the most important time to exercise restraint.
“Inconsistent Candor”

Just calls him a manipulative sociopath already.
> I get dozens of mails per day, having just “yesterday” for 50 messages in a row is useless.

How is this "better at a glance"?!
Everyone "misses out" on things either due to choices they make or events/accidents that are out of their control. Being a parent can be rewarding but it also comes with a lot of expense, worry, and sacrifice. There are a lot of things a childless person or couple can do that would be difficult or impossible for someone with kids, and a lot of things that they will never have to deal with (e.g. serious illness or death of a child, the possibility that the child "fails to launch" or even becomes a criminal, etc.).

I have no regrets but parenthood is a fork in the road in life and there is "missing out" on both sides of it.
Yes, I can explain that.

I am not a German, but I read German news and German journalists use "in Karlsruhe" as a shortcut for the Constitutional Court. So, in my original post, I just wrote "a challenge in Karlsruhe".

Before posting, I reviewed my comment and said to myself, hmm, people won't know what "in Karlsruhe" means, so I added the name of the Constitutional Court, but didn't think of removing the location.

I suspect a similar process resulted in some fluff in our beloved RFCs :)
Political unity has only ever been achieved at a point where the severity of outside pressures forced a group of people together.

If you look at the EU right now, it is hard to imagine a group less likely to come together. In the eyes of most member states it is still an economic union, whose purpose it is to allow international trade and allow economic benefits to the members, largely by allowing access to the enormous economies of France and Germany.

An economic union can only ever be justified in terms of utility and with the German economy not doing too great, what are the chances that the member states are willing to suffer on their behalf?

For the EU to come together it can only ever be on behalf of outside pressure, internal bureaucracies deciding so might create the legal formalities, but never something actually accepted by the population.
Full Self-Driving Struggles
Thanks. You'd think they'd end the article with a summary. Somewhere in that load of words they've managed to bury the new fate of the universe.
What we should really be doing instead is raising the minimum age for a driver's license to 25.

I guarantee you that alone will almost eliminate speeding-related accidents.
Once we get past the diseases research, what's stopping us from going further? Could we discover e.g. a DNA sequence in human genome "linked" to higher intelligence, or better leadership qualities? And if yes, what can guarantee that instead of the Nazis' "master race" based on pseudo-scientific scull measurements we won't discover "master genes" based on actual DNA science?

What frightens me is not what we can discover, it's what we as human society will do with that information once we discover it.
(OrbStack is a replacement for Docker Desktop.)
direct to pdf, https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/356580.356581
Background: I taught high school science for half a decade and now I am in tech.

This will never take off. One, there is no money in Ed.Tech. There is no money in Ed.Tech. There is no money in Ed.Tech. What little money there is goes to the obvious stuff like student records databases. Anything that requires an ongoing subscription fee is dead in the water. The only reason those stupid smartboards took off is because they make school boards look cool, they are a one time cost, and can be paid for with bonds (because they are a one time cost). Teachers don't want them (projectors and document cameras are good, though). Ed.Tech is a wasteland of failed startups. Part of the problem is also that classic "the people with the purchasing power are not the people who will be using the product" problem.

Two, everyone outside of education thinks "well has anyone just tried sitting down with the kids and talking to them/explaining it to them?" Yes, obviously. The problem isn't that they are lazy, snot-nosed kids (that's a problem well within an experienced teacher's skill set to solve). The problem is what is the AI going to do with the kid says "fuck you" to the AI because they haven't eaten since lunch the previous day (school is the only place they get regular meals), or they don't even know what to ask because they are basically 4 grades behind in math, or the wifi is dead for the 8th time that month because the school board will never pay for infrastructure.

Three, what if the AI is just wrong and starts confusing the student? Even GPT-4 fabricates things all the time. Sure it can generally put words in grammatically correct order and is passible for writing no one is going to read anyway (like marketing emails). But the moment it requires actual domain knowledge all these AI models completely fall down because, again, they don't actually understand anything, they just are really good at guessing what word comes next.
> Every time I go to the grocery store to buy something and don’t have to worry about my card being declined, it feels like magic. Even years later.

So this is universal!
AWS Bedrock does it, but we had about 300 rows of CSV so it was faster to roll out our own. I spent a couple days wrestling with permissions on Bedrock, but if you're familiar with AWS, you may find it useful.
Very interesting, thank you! Given that I agree it's likely not legal. There is definitely plenty of evidence that they wanted Johansson's voice.

I'm quite torn on whether this is how it ought to be though. If the burden of proof is on showing intent, then I think it's a good balance. If it shifts to just "chance of confusion" like many trademark cases have, that seems pretty unfair to average people and stacked in favor of the rich and famous.

Refs for others:

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co

[2]: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...

[3]: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/tech/openai-scarlett-johansso...
I understand there's way too much out there, but I think there is at least some clarity about the landscape at present.

ChatGPT is currently king of the mountain. That could change, but right now that's how it is.

Google's Gemini and Facebook's Llama 3 are clearly in a tier below. The 100s of tools you are seeing are various mixed and matched technologies that also belong in this tier.

Claude (massive context) and Mistral/Mixtral (decent with no censoring/guard rails) are interesting for special cases. And if you're determined and want to put in the effort, you can experiment or self-host and perhaps come up with some capabilities that do something special that suits a use case or something you want to optimize for (although not everyone has time for that).

So I wouldn't say it's just all this one big swirl of confusion and therefore a bubble and due to come crashing down. There's wheat, there's chaff, there's rhyme and reason.
> what they did is a bit scummy, but not dishonest and not illegal

Imitating someones voice doesn't break copyright but there have been several cases against companies that have used sound alikes in (for example) commercials

If Altmans use of "Her" in a tweet and the previous communication between OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson could persuade a judge that it wasn't a random chance they chose an actor that sounded like her but had set out to imitate her voice deliberately she might have a strong case for damages

For example Tom Waits was awarded $2.6M when Frito-Lay used an actor that sounded like him in an ad:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_case?case=1598913833858...
Not an actual machine gun (a weapon specifically designed for automatic high rate of fire), no.

The US Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down reasonable restrictions for hand guns and rifles though, and seems likely to conclude that modifying a weapon to in effect become fully automatic is somehow OK. This creates a convenient gap which I don't think a reasonable person can believe is a mistake.
When you handle a sociopath who was already trying to dismantle the board, no, you don’t deal with him in the open by broadcasting your every move. You also try to handle it internally.

We will wish in the future they had succeeded. He’s on the Elon fast track.
And then tracked by satellites and locked remotely.

My brother-in-law got his car stolen one morning, by the afternoon the car was returned because it was found sitting in a parking lot.

The cops observed from a distance, waited for the thief to exit the car, and called to have the car remotely locked.
Suits gonna get Blendered, but that's a good thing :-)
Sounds like you are mad at the world and I got in the middle of it. Sorry, I'll see myself out.
> 1. If it's a remote switch, wouldn't Chinese hackers also be able to potentially block this kind of kill signal? (Unless it's a dead man's switch I suppose).

Not necessarily. It could be triggered by, say, a shortwave radio embedded in the machine that listens for a code on secret frequencies.

> 2. What would be the strategic implications of China getting access to these machines though? I mean if they didn't, they could just make 5 or 8 or 10 nm chips, right?

I don't know. I'd say it would probably give them something to reverse engineer. But I'd say the bigger strategic implication of an invasion would be getting access to the TMSC engineers. They could fly them all up to SMIC, and some would probably cooperate (because they'd have to move on to the new reality after a defeat).
So the new part is they didn't bother generating power in the RTG because they only need the heat? That doesn't seem very pioneering to me, it's just a pile of plutonium.
Just to play devil's advocate: The electricity in the restaurant would be on anyway, and bathrooms would be used anyway, regardless of whether the remote worker was there. What's the actual cost to a restaurant if I decide to sit in a corner all day on a laptop? As long as I was not disturbing anyone by having loud conference or phone calls, and as long as the restaurant is not full and I'm not taking up a spot someone else is waiting for. Surely the small trickle of electricity needed to charge a MacBook Air is not a material expense.
It's because these people all sit and talk with each other coming up with more high concept sci-fi rigamarole. occasionally, they share whatever they come up with other physicists but it kind of seems like everyone just shrugs and goes back to whatever they were working on.
This was a recent issue here with regards to privately owned mountain peaks, with the owners shutting down due to liability concerns.

https://kdvr.com/news/colorado/a-simple-sign-will-allow-acce...

After they were indemnified from liability the peaks opened back up.
Quite so. I get doubly annoyed when people have heated pools by lakes, the lake is clearly not fenced, but that fence had better be on your pool.

And many pools have a shallow end, and many homeowners have long docks, which are in deep water.

Yet docks aren't required to be fenced here.
Yes, it absolutely does count.

You might indeed consider it non-obvious and surprising -- I certainly did when I first learned of it growing up here. Another classic example is that a thief can sue you if they fall through rotting floorboards on your porch and break their legs.

But we've collectively decided, as a society, that property owners are not just prohibited from booby trapping their properties, but are required to actively maintain them in a safe condition according to reasonable standards.

If there's something a reasonable person would know was a safety risk on their property, they'll be held liable if they didn't fix it and somebody injured themselves because of it.

The thinking is basically -- kids will run around onto other people's property, people get lost, etc. We know kids go where they're not supposed to. Nobody should be risking injury or death just because of that, if and when reasonable safety precautions by the property owner could have prevented that.

In other words, we live in a society, and we have a certain minimal level of active duty of care towards others. Owning a piece of property comes with rights but also responsibilities.
A working example in Go.
https://github.com/tidwall/btree
In a car centric country where you cannot live without a car, this is impossible. We’re going to crowd young folks in the small amount of housing where public transit is possible?

We built a broken urban system, highly dependent on cars, and now we’re living with the pain of these suboptimal decisions.
Firmware is also a vector. Particularly with Intel’s CPU remote management layers.

Maybe this wouldn’t affect ARM that much, that CPU is more obscure and with low volumes is a less of a target of interest (in the context of PC systems). But with more obscurity you wouldn’t even know where basic and most likely exploits can be based.
The Moret case is awful but he is a foreign national, and he is an editor and publisher, not simply a journalist.

Craig Murray is not simply (or perhaps really) a journalist; his constant tangles with the intelligence establishment have little to do with his writing and very much more to do with his antagonistic relationship with the British state during his former career:

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

I have a lot of time for how he thinks and what he's achieved but he's a campaigner, not a journalist.

The point is reasonable: journalists don't tend to attract individual attention from the intelligence services. Their editors and publishers do, but that is to be expected due to their specific role in publication and is often appropriate; I am quite sure state security apparatus the world over quietly leans on publishers, including in the USA.
If my math is right, that's an average load of 6 kW. You should be able to track down big loads like that pretty quickly, I'd think.

Watch the meter, it's likely spinning quickly, turn off breakers and mark which ones have a big effect on the rate. Sometimes meters count too fast, but usually it's a couple % and more often is in the other direction especially with mechanical meters.
First, just because there's issues with some misinformation with ChatGPT right now doesn't imply that it will always be there.

Second, I know what fuck I'm doing, and I'm sorry to "depress" you, but having a high level summary of something in terms of a cartoon is generally reasonably accurate, and generally any information I learn is also mechanically checked with Isabelle. I agree that it shouldn't be the be-all-end all of everything but if you're a student who's already frustrated with math, having a high-level description of stuff in terms of something you understand can be valuable.
>"Bad Therapy, Why the kid's aren't growing up", but the podcast with the author seemed reasonable.

I had this book in my read queue, until I saw a podcast where she basically outted herself as an anti-vax covid denier. She may well have a point but after that I could only see her as an unhinged contrarian.
Because the project might require a script that is delivered to many Linux servers with less dependencies and not having to install a new language.
The responses to your observation are hilarious. They'd have you think that the mass hiring by FAANG in 2021 and early 2022 followed by layoffs was a good thing. You accurately observe it as being screwy, which it is, but people are brainwashed into thinking it isn't - or is even a good thing.
Wow. I have the Psion Series 3 DOS emulator files someplace in hopes I'll be able to run them on some kind of portable MCU some day... This takes me back, and I wish we hadn't lost this kind of device (and yes, I know about the Planet devices, and their Android-based hardware).
There's a BBC documentary which does a good job of detailing the political plotting of the time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00084td/rise-of-the-...
Might seem absurd for a light substance like marijuana. But I would be surprised if, say, someone took mushrooms and then it was a 50/50 chance as far as going right or left (if any change).
I find most of my music on YouTube as well, and many artists are making ground, but they hit a ceiling. I'm an indie musician myself, so I'm speaking from experience. When you see an indie musician's music on YouTube, 9 times out of 10, they're paying money to promote it on the platform. Streaming sites pay very little, so very few artists make that promo money back until they go on tour, and even then, unless you're selling major volumes of tickets and albums, as a musician you only break even if at all behind the scenes.

The thing is, for musicians, if they spend a lot of time on their work, they don't get paid anywhere near what they should, even after years of work, unless they break into the level of being on TV and Radio, most artists don't have health care or even enough to pay rent.

Just because we may know about certain musicians, doesn't mean they are doing well off of their music, tons of musicians secretly have day jobs, while the tech industry makes billions. Modern musicians often sign record contracts and find themselves in a lifetime of debt before they can even earn their first check, this is what most of their listeners don't know.
Sam's done a few of these now, and the level of detail is just getting better with each one.
I get value from not having to carry keys. That's less bulk for me. I carry no keys at this point I my life, and it's great.

Locks are a societal agreement, not an impenetrable shield. My car is not a fortress or a safe. It's covered in glass. Having a mechanical switch inside a glass box is no more secure if your threat model is "someone technically advanced and highly motivated".
LavinMQ: Understanding code to get the best performance
Building LavinMQ in Crystal was an active choice, as maintaining control over the codebase was a high priority. A decade of learning has prioritized fast updates and easy bug fixes. At the same time, choosing Crystal provided the opportunity to enhance application performance.
The sudo is for the runtime permissions, not the installation, of the program. dotnet requires (does it? it's been a while since I touched it but I vaguely recall this) sudo for installation, but not for execution.
Many countries allow private land ownership, but also have a right to roam; the land ownership is qualified (as indeed almost all land ownership is nearly everywhere; that's how eminent domain works).
Even worse than mobile-first -- tablet apps for media have been getting TV-first redesigns lately.
In Toronto Canada, the Eaton's center, which people walk through to get to other streets, closes once per year for this very reason.
I think the issue is that ESC is also a prefix for other keys. Which leads to the question: is this just an escape or is this a prefix of e.g. a cursor key? This can only be answered by timing.
Interesting, how does it generate the b-roll
I like it because you can replace sh with whatever you want to go over the script
Is there something about the presentation of the article that gives you the impression this was intended to be read as other than the author's opinion?
Tempus AI (fka Tempus Labs) S-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI7UOuX9Qjs ("Sal Khan on why Khan Academy is a non-profit")
yes, thank you kind sire.
Two seconds of research reinforced my hunch.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240521221128/https://www.nytim...
Chop shops to steal what? Tires? Window glass? There's not much to part out on an EV.
One of the fundamental laws of all security is that "if a thing can be accessed legitimately, it can be accessed illegitimately". The only question is how much time and/or effort it takes to access.
It's been for a while
It might be possible, but nobody knows for sure, because these models are rather more mysterious than their architecture suggests.

> Maybe have the network which generates the answer be moderated by another network that assesses the truthiness of it.

Like a GAN? Sometimes you can do that, but it seems not always.

If this was simple and obvious, they'd have done it as soon as the first one was interesting-but-wrong.
Idk... My company is doing pretty well (ixl learning)
I would say that a child falling in your pool is something you're obviously not responsible for. The fact that case law in the US says otherwise is a shameful commentary on how broken the US legal system is.
> Mercurial was started almost at the same time as Git by Olivia Mackall, a kernel hacker at the time, motivated, just like Linus, by the BitKeeper and SourcePuller drama of spring 2005.

Perhaps ironically, the now open-source BitKeeper may meet many of the author’s criteria for a post-Git version control system, at least at first glance from the BitKeeper homepage.

https://www.bitkeeper.org/
> THe value of a college degree is signaling.

It really isn't. If so, why the hell do UC Berkeley, SJSU, and UIUC CS grads outcompete Dartmouth grads in YC, Entrepreneurship in general, or the tech industry?

Yes Harvard-type programs are exclusive, but they do not open that many more doors in our industry than a CalPoly or UW or Cal undergrad would have. And the college advantage goes away very fast with 4-5 years of work experience.

I don't need code monkeys. Learning to code isn't a big deal. If that's all I needed, I'll just contract to Infosys or EPAM. What I and other employers need are CRITICAL THINKERS - people who can think on their feet about both technical and business problems.

This requires building that critical thinking muscle. Some people learn that out in the wild, but a lot don't, and college is the first place they learn to build that muscle. College is also one of the first places you learn that you can't coast - for every grade inflating Harvard, there are 10 grade deflating UCs or public universities.

We shouldn't put barriers for hard working people who have self taught themselves the ins and outs of the industry, but we shouldn't conversely automatically shit on the entire concept of tertiary education.
I like these kinds of statements, they let you know right off the bat that your time is better spent elsewhere. People who see this as normal will screw you over sooner or later in other ways, e.g. by changing licenses or needless rewriting over and over and over again. At least that's been my experience.
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