skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is silly. The guy may just want to avoid standing out or drawing attention to themselves. "I" is more appropriate for any solo paper. If the author really can't bring themselves to write "I", then they should just avoid the first-person entirely.

(Or maybe this is a field-specific thing. This guy is in a math dept, and I can only speak from the perspective of the social sciences)
Black cab regulation in London is not shit. It's simultaneously archaic and valuable; a cabbie can solve problems an Uber driver will never manage.

If there is a middle ground I'd like to think it involves not smashing through regulations that protect individual businesspeople (like cabbies) who have learned a difficult job.
Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web?
https://archive.ph/a8KKK
Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser
Thanks, I appreciate the detailed instructions. Just did all of my browsers to escape the AI. (Which in most cases looked like the first choice just reworded some.

OTOH, I'm thinking about clicking that Make Default button on DuckDuckGo and skipping the entire mess.
Amazing write up. Easy to understand nd very informative.
Exactly. As inflation goes up and wages remain stagnant, more and more people are doing the risk calculus that makes stealing and crime in general worthwhile.

People with good paying jobs that don't wear them down the bone don't steal things, but when you're looking at spending 90% of your pay on a shared living space, and no money left for food, or emergencies, then stealing copper, or catalytic converters all of a sudden starts looking like a valid option.
Not OP, feel free to correct me, but Godel proved that any formal system of logic can be shown to be logically inconsistent at at least one point.

"Formal system of logic" maps well onto Turing machines, and Turing machines map onto "any computer system" if you are very abstract about it.

Now, people are wrong about mathematical facts, but seemingly not forever. We puzzle it over, come back to it, someone makes a breakthrough. It doesn't seem like there is a fixed blind spot where our logic breaks down.

So what are people doing that is not captured by a formal system of logic?

Options:

1. The mapping of Turing machines to computers isn't airtight - they are doing something "more" than a TM with infinite time + space is capable of

2. People are not "more than" an infinite TM either, we just romantically believe we are, and ignore our own flaws

3. People are doing something special that is not captured by our theory of computation
> From the river to the sea what is the only flag you see?

In it’s most favorable interpretation is a call to keep Palestinians subjugated and stripped of political and civil rights. This speech has been used to promote a Jewish ethnostate, which is in fact racist, and in the worst cases this speech is used to advocate for the expulsion of Palestinians from their land.

At best this is an advocacy for a racist policy, at worst this is genocidal speech.

> Well, the IDF is executing lots of war criminals, even future ones in Gaza ;)

I can’t take this any other way then the author is stating that killing of innocent civilians in Gaza is justified because otherwise they were destined to become war criminals.

This kind of speech was very common among people justifying police brutality and neighborhood crackdown against black people in the USA. It is extremely racist as it stipulates that Palestinians, by merit of being Palestinians, are inherently bad people and deserve to die.
Fun fact, x is an sh sound because that's how it was in medieval Spanish around the time Spaniards got there and wrote down the words. Around this same time is when the Old Spanish sh sound was shifting to the value it has in the word México and later a spelling reform changed it to J or g before i and e (except eg. in a bunch of mexican place names which retrained old spelling)

I believe in other Iberian languages such as Portuguese, Catalan and Basque, the sh sound is spelled with X.
1st reaction: Considering the Guillotine's quick demonstration that both of the bungling and quickly-apprehended murderers had unfit necks, I'd say that Darwinism was tested and proved correct.
> Why in a browser if it's local-first?

Because it means it'll work regardless of whether I have a Linux, Mac, Windows, ChromeOS, iPad, or just try to check some detail of my part on my phone.

When I design a part at home, need to make an adjustment at work, and then need to make it using whatever is available in the makerspace, not having to install something is a big win.
Try replace each instance of “we” with “I” and you will notice it will sound weird and narcissistic. At least that’s how I (we) feel
I’ve always told my daughter- bumpy skin is a toad, smooth skin is a frog

But that clearly is not the case I just found out.
> The great thing about a private company "overcharging" or "underserving" a community is that citizens aren't forced to be in a relationship with that company for their services.

This is a hilarious thing to say about broadband, where the incumbents go to great lengths not to compete by carving out markets onto monopolized checkerboxes where customers are forced to use one ISP if they want anything meeting the FCCs definition of broadband, and their neighbor across the street (or next apartment building) has to choose another monopolist ISP on their block.
You can also just add udm=14 to the Url.
I dont think an "Exit", as is commonly understood, implies that all employees get rich.

Exits are for founders / top-level guys.
New York is part of a contiguous megalopolis stretching between Boston and Washington DC, which features the same industries.
Good point. I know there are people working on optical NNs, but I have no idea how they handle nonlinear activation functions.
What is the product you sell?
A windfall could represent decades of unpaid work.
Caching In: Defining, Optimizing, and Invalidating Your Cache
I love this idea. However, the value of solid works (and other expensive solutions) are the domain-specific assets that are available.

SketchUp has a lot of community assets but these still leave you hanging almost immediately.

You need to be able to scrounge up drawings of certain parts by part number that can be inserted quickly.

This is surmountable but I think it would take at least a decade to reach parity...in a best case scenario where CADmium is readily adopted.

I would put in the time to learn CADmium. Having worked in FreeCAD some and SketchUp moreso.

I hate that I can't automate things easier or build my drawings from scriptable components--like a XAML file.
Powering wearable devices with high-performing carbon nanotube yarns
congrats on the launch and on the MIT license, this looks interesting. what's the difference between tillywork and plane.so?
GhOST: a GPU Out-of-Order Scheduling Technique for Stall Reduction [pdf]
"How I Made Millions As The World’s Best Trader" [video]
"""In this episode of Minutes With, former city trader Gary Stevenson reveals more about his extraordinary life making millions as the world's best trader in London. Despite being expelled from school at age 16, Gary persisted and won his dream job in a global bank by mastering a card game, even though it was rigged against him. In this episode, Gary reveals how it feels to win $35 million betting on an economic downturn, the bizarre ways millionaires act on the trading floor and why he walked away from banking to warn the world about rising wealth inequality."""
Sometimes the ads are subtle. Tax software isn't showing ads directly - they are just trying to give the idea that taxes are hard and so you should be glad to pay a lot of money for it - even though all the calculations are a few ms for any modern computer once it has the data. However if you think taxes are easy the whole industry goes away.
Apple’s own webpage[0] doesn’t properly resize text on my iPad using safari with the text set to 125%.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-pro
It's hit or miss... As bad as Outlook has gotten since the backend shift to O365, it's still got better contact and calendar/meeting integrations than anything else I'm aware of.

I mean, Google's calendar is "good enough" for most things, but shifting a single instance of a meeting, or more interesting repeat cycles is a pain by comparison. Let alone 3rd party integrations.

If I ever came across F-U money, I'd build an open-source outlook+exchange replacement. Probably 3 versions, one for a single domain for easier deployment, one for mid-large companies with multiple backends, and something with more cloud integration/distribution.

I think if cloudflare had workers for TCP services, doing an email service on cloudflare could be awesome.
I mean, I've heard that clothes are a major source in that washing synthetic fabrics produces microplastics that end up in the water supply. Are you saying that wearing clothes somehow means we take them in through contact? Certainly domestic docs get a lot of contact with synthetic fabric furniture, carpet, stuffed toys, etc.
Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
Could you link to reporting on that case?
Given the current budget deficit, yes.

Moreover, should a lawmaker be able to spend as much money as they want on "research"? Oh hey, look at that, turns out this research firm that employs my son is the perfect firm for this topic!
we'll be safe until they teach the ai how to recharge the drone's batteries then we're done. keep the recharging procedure secret and we're good!
Most of the classic games from this era were written in 6502 assembly language. There were a number of popular macro assemblers available, C compilers were a bit more exotic. Given that the entire executable fit in 48K, there was no runtime library here.

There's an urban legend that Nasir Gebelli wrote his most popular games with the tiny mini-assembler in the Apple ][ ROM, opcode by opcode.
In my unqualified opinion, to make a claim that we're so far away from "sci-fi AI" that confidently, you'd need to know not one but two things:

1) The inner workings of today's AI. Lots of people know this, including Hinton and yourself as well I'm sure.

2) The inner workings of the human mind, or human-level AI. How will "sci-fi" AI work on the inside?

If you don't know (2), then you don't know how far away (2) is from (1).

If your position is "I just know that what humans do is different, and can't be done by (1)" then... you might well be right, but you should not be confident: Skeptics have been repeatedly surprised at what AI can accomplish using seemingly simple algorithms, without needing some kind of magical, infinitely-recursive homunculus embedded in the code. We thought for a long time that chess was representative of human intelligence, until it was beaten by computer. Then we thought that Go was the true embodiment of human intuition, and would never in a million years be mastered by a computer, until it was. Then translation. Then perception and facial recognition. Then protein folding (yes, actually!). Then art and poetry, and humour.

To some extent, Deep Blue's defeat of Kasparov was a mere parlor trick, and no more meaningful a milestone towards sci-fi AI than a magician's disappearing-rabbit trick is towards teleportation.

But to another, very meaningful extent, we can't be sure that the human mind isn't a stack of parlor tricks itself. Until we truly understand how our own intelligence works, we have no good measure of how far away from it we are. And at the point where we do have that understanding, we'd be able to code it up.

I agree that merely scaling LLMs will not give us human-level AI. But I'm not sure that the human brain doesn't contain neural structures forming close analogs to Kalman filters, A* search routines, convnets, gaussian splats, and yes, token predictors. I'm sure there are other tricks in there too, but I think smart people are looking for them very hard. I don't think it will take 4,000 years.

What's the simplest mental-labor task that you are confident that AI will not be able to do within the next ten years?

(I'll set aside manual-labor tasks just because that ties too heavily to a different kind of economic progress in mass-production of actuators).
How does it do that? Some negation of.. What would a normal humam think?
You don't seem to be disagreeing with the article, which concludes that Alexander was in fact a great general whose successes are not due solely to the army he inherited from Philip?
we have an AI powered outreach/sales software and automated marketing where we bring users to other Stripe accounts without any upfront costs only % of sales + cost
>If you wrote something on the internet in the last 20 years, they've stolen it.

I don't really expect any person or AI to be influenced by what I've written but if were I'm quite pleased. I wouldn't call it stealing.

Is everyone on this forum a thief because they learnt English and much culture without getting permission from those who came up with it?
You calling your congressman is a wee bit different than a using multiple millions of dark money to influence legislators.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now. It’s increasingly rare that I need to switch to Google.
It's shame I learned her identity only today! I assume you are referring to Monkey Island's Elaine Marley.
If only Safari supported OpenSearch, or at least manually defined custom search engines. Apple's greed is getting more and more frustrating as a user.

That said, I personally like Google's AI overviews. What I find much more frustrating is the "reels-like" UI the mobile page devolves into when scrolling past the first 10 or so results. I really wish there was a way to get one without the other.
A 2D solver works great for sketches and some kinds of assemblies. However, it is insufficient for many kinds of 3D assemblies. The solver Ondsel released (LGPL) which underlies the new integrated assembly workbench is a true 3D solver.
https://github.com/Ondsel-Development/OndselSolver
Definitely. There are emergent properties of technology when applied at scale that make something that was just weird and annoying before into something truly dangerous.

There are a lot of things that are unintuitive at larger scales. AI and intellectual property is another.

And I have sympathy for people who said that algorithmically amplified speech on large platforms is qualitatively different from regular town square speech. It is. I don’t know how the laws should change in response but to pretend that Twitter is just like a bar is pretty naive imo.
This reminds me of Perl's http://www.blosxom.com and also https://tiddlywiki.com. Self-contained sites with minimal requirements.
A student in my media workshop works at a photolab and wants to make a project with the container filled with old disposable cameras. The flash is still working, so we built a small PCB that allows us to trigger the flash from a microcontroller.

She is going to use that for a permanently flashing art sculpture (I made sure to inform her about epilepsy and her need to inform people before they are exposed to the sculpture).

If you're photografing consider just getting a small second hand camera instead — less wasteful, better pics, even if you get a shitty camera.
What is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)? From a technical perspective [video]
There is context I am probably missing.

It was the precious reference (backed by a smiley no less) to how the good the current operation is at killing "future" war criminals -- obviously referring to minors. Who are also just as obviously being collectively subject to air strikes for the crime of being you-know-what.

It was a truly disgusting comment, actually. Unfortunately "frank" and deeply revelatory expressions of this sort are by no means unusual in the sphere of public discourse that supports the current operation in Gaza. From the highest levels down.
Sound, as in "sound the alarm" or "the horn sounded", is a verb. The title literally means "images that make noise".
> I had only a dim awareness that Nix was even a thing before a few weeks ago. Then somehow I decided that I needed to commit to it 100% and make NixOS my daily driver and make myself learn this. It's been a lot of fun. Like, Dwarf Fortress kinds of fun. The kind of fun where when I first looked at it I thought it was insane inscrutable nonsense, and now I kind of wonder what happened to me that it's kind of making sense now. The kind of fun where I keep telling myself I just want to make some tiny little thing work, but actually I find excuses to rabbit hole down a bunch of different pathways and find amazingness under every stone. The kind of fun where I know better than to try to count how many hours I've spent on this now.

That's absolutely what diving in with NixOS was like for me. Wonderful description. :)

> I'm surprised how much I enjoy customizing things now. I always thought of my desktops sort of like betta fish before -- like, I've taken care of them, but also known better than to get too attached. Eventually the reformat is gonna come, and I'm never gonna set things up QUITE like I had it before. That's definitely not true now.

Yes. NixOS makes customization feel more worth it than other operating systems can! I first heard it expressed best in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17-TRCpDizA
Will you be able to run Linux on it? Or will Microsoft lock it down somehow?
Your whole premise is that some other person's data may be released under a FOIA request with data surfaced in error, yet you demand rigor from commenters responding to you when you provide no evidence yourself of the potential issue.
"better safe than sorry"

- any legal team, ever, in the history of the universe
> as their community pleases

Did you miss that part?
> I sincerely doubt that the person I have to call to help me connect my cable modem to my ISP makes even 40K a year.

That’s sort of my point… do you feel as though that rep really cares? Is that an outstanding customer support experience for you? Many folks would say ISPs and telcos have the worst customer service.

You’re not wrong though that a good script can help a lot of users with simple issues, and as it turns out, that’s the kind of thing that’s actually pretty easy and effective to automate.
So is dense information good or bad? I can't work out what the conclusion is from the article, is it a case of context? I don't understand :(
Or you can just switch to Kagi
AI Overview has been embarrassingly bad and wrong on many things. Often making clearly incomprehensible assertions, sometimes with numbers that disagree within the course of a single sentence.
yup, if you look at drop out, what it does and why, you can see additional interesting results along these lines

(drop-out was found to increase resilience in models because they had to encode information in the weights differently, i.e. could not rely on single neuron (at the limit))
This is all great to discuss in theory but let's be real here. A municipal ISP is a net win for the people that pay for it.

This shouldn't be controversial, and it isn't controversial for people in places where discourse hasn't been poisoned with these go no where derailing talking points.
If it is, it's because people are paying for it. This is easy to check on eBay via completed listings. The market may be irrational, but if sellers were just setting expectations too high you'd expect competition to pull the price downward.
No, not today. This has already happened a few times. And even before it happened people warned about this predictable use of the technology. There has been enough time to update policies. Even $employer already did, and I consider their security policies so-so.
Passkeys, a faster more secure way to log in to the Stripe Dashboard
"Paying well" is relative. There are lots of industries that are rightly considered exploitative from the western eye, but people who are working these jobs would otherwise be starving or relying on meager government handouts if they went away.
Mostly Tech companies.
> The interesting question is, what factors mitigate this?

One thing is to foster a culture where substantiation is expected in negative responses (and downvotes) (i.e. we expect a genuine effort to support a different perspective). I've never downvoted, but the lazy drive-by criticisms always tempt me.
Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment
Not sure what the fuss is about. I've actually found the overviews to be quite helpful for a bunch of my searches since it was turned on. My impression so far has been nothing but positive.

Is it a principles thing or are people really hating on having to scroll past a paragraph or two? If it's the former, well good luck with that.

In general, Google is really undermining their whole business model with the AI Overview paragraph as it will take away from their AdWord link revenue just as much as organic traffic to other sites.

Once Google realizes this, they'll inevitably have to manipulate the AI paragraph content for commercial reasons. That'll be fun! Then everyone will look back on the current "clean" AI output with fondness.
A common misconception is that you need to make Anki a daily habit. Bad days (when I'm tired, stressed or have a headache) would cause me to fail quite easy words that I could otherwise get spot on. Even if I already started my reviews and I notice any of that, I just cut the session short. It is ok if you do reviews only 80-90% of the time, the algorithm still works fine.

Whenever I fail a word, I try hard to find a reason for it. Most of the time it's interference - my answer resembles some similar word that I already know. I make a mental note about it, add this other word to the card. In most stubborn cases, some redundancy is good, I create another card for the same word in another context or just for a derivative of it.

Another thing that works for me is adding images (some of my cards just have a picture on the question side), and example sentences with the word in various contexts.
> I've reviewed many of the world's plugs

https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/

> They begin to disconnect too easily when things move around

Replace your outlets, the old ones did this, but the newer ones, especially commercial grade (which is only $2 more), hold much better and they won't go loose.

> Is there enough room to add a contact (or two) inside of a 5-15R

I was going to have it like:

-.
| | |
.-

You can plug in a 5-15 on the left, or upside down on the right. And you can plug in a new 240V outlet into all 3 vertical lines, plus the ground as a horizontal line. (I can't show it on the ASCII art but I would have the ground much closer to the powered plugs relative to the round ground pin, to make the plug smaller.)

The cord for the new 240V plug would exit from the left or right, instead of straight out or from the bottom like current cords.

This would make the plug long and narrow, and inline with the cord, to make it smaller.

I would have this outlet always be 20A, there's no reason to have this 15A stuff we have now - that's just legacy. But if we really needed to, the center slot could turn into a + shape to enable 15 vs 20.
> You could tell from the beginning that they cared a ton about usability and had their minds wrapped around how people use CAD.

Well, what else can you expect from the very same guy who came up with SolidWorks in the 1990s? :)
Who asked for this? What problem does this solve?
https://archive.is/AxSzI
The Paradox of Control (2021)
Taxonomically there is no rule about the differences between toad/frog. Generally “frogs” are considered to be more aquatic than toads, but I’m pretty sure the naming is not entirely consistent amongst species. Funny game, it definitely throws some hard ones at you.
Your loss, I will keep expanding my brain with the wisdom of Googles powerful AI

https://imgur.com/a/g4qOU9a
It was never cheap. I liked photography from an early age but did less than I wanted because film was expensive. Digital cameras were a big breakthrough for me, although I still prefer to look of film.
How are they handling attention in their approach?

That’s going to completely change what features are looked at.