skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt they trained their AI model on dick pics, the dataset used by these models is usually heavily "sanitized". This makes the whole thing even more ridiculous.
superfocused utilities to provide inexplicably missing functionality in macOS are a time honored tradition, but this may be the absolute peak of that genre of app
But that might put the EU at an economic disadvantage; it's hubris to believe the rest of the world will bend backwards to meet EU's rules.

I mean they do, see cookie banners/GDPR, Apple, etc, but still. I'm of the unsubstantiated opinion that all the laws make the EU a less desireable market. But that's a policy based on morals instead of economics / relentless capitalism.
One thing I have been thinking about for electric is how it may allow completely different flight possibilities that could leap ahead of what we have now. For example, extremely high altitude flight is a huge challenge for current aircraft on a number of fronts, but a big one is how do you design an engine that can produce power at extreme altitudes. The higher you go the more heat limited you are in a gas turbine engine. Electric doesn't have that issue so it may be able to push aircraft a lot higher which would enable faster/further travel for far less energy use. The energy density comparison is predicated on using that energy in exactly the same way with the same efficiencies. If long distance flight becomes 100x more efficient then the density difference isn't a problem.
I think worrying about "isolation of academics" when people are being killed is rather insensitive.
Where's the deterrent effect?
Dark money is such a weird phrase and a mischaracterized label. The practice is not unique to any one group or issue. "Dark money" - defined as funds raised for the purpose of influencing elections by nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose the identities of their donors - is used by all interest groups, good and bad.
I like the latter much more. I can come up with rationalizations, like my eyes having to travel to the beginning of the long identifiers if I want to tell instance and class apart in the first example but not in the second.

But honestly it’s most likely because I was socialized on Python. Feeling lucky personally that Rust follows the same convention.
It's also why we have nice things too. It used to be that only kings had nice things
I am against this view. GUI invites bloat.
Rules of war should not bend to make war possible.

If group of villagers resists you, maybe you have no right to be there.
> unreasonable for the United States to not want US citizens held by bodies the United States doesn't recognize the authority of. No sovereign country would accept this.

Many US citizens killed by state actors abroad, including by allies. Nothing of note happens. The key here is you think it is unreasonable for US war criminals to be tried at all (even when they commit atrocities in countries party to the Rome Statue).
https://archive.is/95wzK
> ... the science community should reward the detection and correction of errors in the scientific literature.

Sounds like an effective way to reward the creation of same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
> introduce a new Copilot key to Windows 11 PCs.

Wait, like, on the keyboards? The keyboards that already have those bloody useless Windows and Menu keys between the AltGr and the right Ctrl? Where the hell are they gonna put that new key, exactly?
I read it as "wax - o - lotool". A little difficult to pronounce in any case.
Can’t speak for others but the reason I use Universal Control is because it’s the only option that doesn’t perform badly without a hardwired connection, thanks to its use of an ad-hoc wireless network to send mouse movements and keystrokes whereas Synergy, ShareMouse, etc make a round trip through the router adding a bunch of variable latency, which IMO is worse than Universal Control’s glitches.
A few comments here mentioned that old ships being broken up have a lot of asbestos. I would have assumed this would have been an issue on very old ships, but some cursory web searching suggests that it's still prevalent even in relatively new ships.

IMO rules (https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Safety/Pages/Asbestos.aspx ) say roughly that:

- Ships built before 2002 may contain asbestos, but it should be "managed properly".

- Ships built after 2002 can contain asbestos in a few specific applications.

- Ships built after 2011 can't contain any asbestos, period.

Unfortunately, it seems reality fails to follow even these modest regulations. One can assume that "managed properly" doesn't include having workers with no PPE ripping out asbestos insulation and then just leaving it lying around on the beach, as seems to be the norm in 3rd world ship breaking. And not only in breaking up ships, even newly built ships can contain asbestos. E.g. from https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/more-than-65-of-...

> John Rendi, General Manager, Environmental Services, Maritec, said: “Although newbuild ships are delivered with an asbestos free declaration, in many cases asbestos has been found onboard during subsequent surveys, or port state inspections."
I've stuck with Fusion 360. It's good enough and I'm not trying to learn it deeply, I'm just doing occasional one-off designs for myself.

Because it's owned by Autodesk, I expect that Autodesk will eventually discontinue or reduce the free plan until it's unusable. Hasn't happened yet, though, and as long as one is not married to Fusion, I don't think it would be any harder to switch later (and maybe something else will exist by then).
Not silent, but not either of the L sounds in English, /l/ as in lever and and /ɫ/ as in trouble. It's the ll in Welsh, /ɬ/ in IPA. If you pronounce it /t/ you'll be closer than /tɫ/, like bottle.
Thanks, Mr. Orwell.
No one is changing the legal process.

Still in the same systems the same rules, same procedures.

It's not like they went outside the legal system.
Microsoft Launches Trusted Signing in Public Preview
Sailfish OS is moving to a subscription model, new phone, AI device coming soon
One dead, 30 injured as Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 encounters turbulence
On my script as a Michael Crichton wannabee, China invades but gets their forces quickly disabled by a super advanced software worm that Taiwan have been developing for years as a precaution.

Chinese forces lay down their arms and the revolt causes the Chinese elite to run. Elections are held in China and it becomes a Democracy.

Taiwan institutes a temporary government and proposes a EU style agreement with China. Xi ends up his day incarcerated, and painting Chinese vases in the same facilities previously used to house Uyghurs...

The US does not intervene because by then is fighting the second Civil War led by Texas...
This is so off topic but he's literally a Griting-101 playbook follower. Harks about strength of will, male manliness and clean rooms. Gets addicted to benzos, goes to russia to get himself practically lobotomized and films himself disheveled and crying in a filthy room. He's 100% a grifter.
Jolla Announces the Community Edition Sailfish OS Phone
Cruise missiles have exited decades. They are autonomous robots.
There are literally thousands upon thousands of comments debating both topics ("owning" an apple device & app store stuff) on HN alone. Let alone everywhere else from reddit to governments.

If it was so simply one-sided, there wouldn't be such lively debate.

I don't think we need to rehash those thousands of comments to agree that the debate can't be settled in a single blanket statement?
Yup, very irrational to label a state guilt-free for life because "democracy".
I think it's a very fitting label? Money is being funnelled for or against a cause, but there is no visibility into who's behind it, same as in being left in the dark.
Emacs is an operating system, VS Code is a code editor.
Unashamed capitalism is a bit of a trope in sci-fi, reminiscent of Starship Troopers (the film) and Helldivers (spreading Democracy in space!); it being over the top is its own kind of criticism.
> It's about Sierra Entertainment (later Sierra On-Line)

It was originally founded as On-Line Systems, then Sierra On-Line in its heyday, then Sierra Entertainment after the dust settled.

I was a huge Sierra fan back in the day, and subscribed to their monthly magazine and constantly received promotional material from them. I never heard of any summer camp.
As a customer (who isn’t interested in their new product), I can’t help wondering if they pivoted due to fore-knowledge of this Windows feature? If the capability becomes a commodity/expected OS feature, maybe Apple has/is expected to have similar plans and will eat their lunch.
>I doubt they trained their AI model on dick pics

What about hotdogs and not-hotdogs?
This is where prompt engineering becomes more important. Next time consider pre-pending some kind of plain English set of expectations before pasting your code. Something like, “I want you to write tests for this code. Here are the expected behaviors <expected behaviors list>, and here are unexpected behaviors <unexpected behaviors list>. Tests should pass if they adhere to the expected behaviors and fail if they have unexpected behaviors. Here is the code: <code>”.

Like most LLM generation though, it’s not a deterministic thing and like you mentioned originally it takes some verification of the output. I still think with the extra steps it saves time when applied to the right scenarios. The longer the input the higher the hallucinations count in my experience though, so I always keep the code provided in the smallest chunk possible which still has enough context.
C# tasks are lightweight, and I'd expect for per-task overhead to be significantly lower than that of Erlang's.

e.g.:

var delay = Task.Delay(3_000);
var tasks = Enumerable
.Repeat(async () => await delay, 1_000_000)
.Select(f => f());

Console.WriteLine("Waiting for 1M tasks...");
await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
Console.WriteLine("Finished!");

edit: consider suggesting a comparable example in Erlang before downvoting :)
I never used to have this problem until recently, when it started happening every time I’d start my car - and even every time I’d stop playing other media in my car.

I ended up uninstalling Apple Music. At least they let you do that.
OP basically implied this, by arguing about marketing being the culprit, not the quality.
Even a failed attempt at this would be great - imagine your crew frequently misunderstanding your orders and the ensuing chaos.
So "moonness"?
> there is very little for China to lose and a lot to gain by simply letting Taiwan go.

The thing about autocracies is that they fight every day to remain in power - they're very hollow things, that need to clamp down on their own people. Even if people seem fine with it, things can go sideways quickly.

Now imagine having a thriving democracy right next to them, where people have the perks of freedom that comes with democratic values.

That's what this is all about. The same in Ukraine - imagine seeing another former Soviet country, Ukrainians thrive as a democracy aligned with the EU - which by the way is an ethnic group many Russians see as inferior (addressing them by "ethnophobic" terms, like they did with Chechens). It's a threat to the regime.

These are the claims of autocracies, everyone around them must be less than them in comparison, else people will start to get agitated and might they are better off with democracies.
I vaguely remember reading about this issue in the past, it’s actually down to the way the software running in the cars radio is using a backwards compatible “iPod” integration. It effectively (against Apple’s recommendations) sends a “play music” signal as soon as you connect your device.

Well behaved radios don’t send that signal immediately, and instead wait for you to hit play on your device, or on your cars radio/stalk.
developers can add “breadcrumbs” to
their apps so that you can not just
return to a specific app but also the
exact context you wanted to Recall

Similar to what the back button does on many web apps?

Some people say the web is not made for applications but for pages of content. But I often have the feeling that it is even more suitable for apps than the desktop. You can do so many things with "state in the url" - traverse it, bookmark it, share it, have multiple tabs with the app in multiple states ...
All the art at the end reminding me of a sea
I am 100% against overdoing commit messages for the reason that if it’s important enough to document then it should be in the code or docs, not a commit message. They’re just not a functionally discoverable form of documentation.

Commit messages can be good for providing context as to why something is changing, but all context as to how it works should be formalized elsewhere. For example, a commit message that tells you how something works could immediately become misleading when functionality is changed in the future. And you’d have to consume the whole chain of commits to begin to understand that.

Personally, I overdocument everything with verbose comments in code that explain things in detail, as well as the context, thought processes, and assumptions behind it. I have found that it creates a codebase you can read more like a book, which makes it so much easier to build context. I haven’t measured it exactly, but if I had a 1000 LoC file, I’d say 600+ lines would be comments.
somewhat amused by the interchangeable use of “make money” and “get funding” like that. Very SV.
Ithaca Exchange aims to bring stock market dollars home to local businesses
You seem to be talking about patents.
I immediately knew someone would claim "survivorship bias" but at the same I knew that they would fail to come up with a single counterexample.
Well an explosive charge can be communicated with over a detcord. Sometimes practical solutions are best.
SOX was implemented with COBIT 4, Control Objectives for IT. This introduced a lot of process and cost overhead, so COBIT 5 removed the control objectives -- it's just a list of IT topics. So now, corporations can now comply with SOX by doing nothing.
Oh, nice! I've been sponsoring him on Patreon for years, but I'll switch over to to Github Sponsorship since that doesn't take a percentage.
Open sourcing GraphQL-query: 8.7x faster GraphQL query parser written in Rust
> Mary doesn't have all of the objective third person facts, only the ones that can be conveyed to her academically.

The premise of the argument is that Mary has all of the facts, and you can even imagine that she has a super powerful computer accessible to her to perform any calculations needed. The goal is to point out that it still seems implausible that Mary could infer knowledge of the experience of redness despite having an unbounded set of dry facts about physics and biology, because to most people, qualitative experience seems like knowledge of a different kind.

That said, you're sort of on the path towards Dennett's response.
Home Electricity Power Options?
The power company is charging my girlfriend $900 - $1200 in fees every month. She's on fifteen acres with animals so moving is a ...bigger conversation w where we are in our lives. We live in seperate houses roughly 20 miles apart (I'm suburban, she's rural up a mountain) but both use the same power company, a regulated company, so afai can tell these are all legal charges. 225 dollars in usage, and almost 200 dollars in transmission and another 200 dollars in distribution fees every month or more!

We can do an energy audit but what options do we have to reduce her dependency on the power company?
Any latency improvements in this release? I love iTerm, but I switched to Alacritty because the speed is so satisfying.
"It produces animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame." - caught my interest.

I googled, and saw that one technique for this is layering multiple frames with different palettes and a delay of 0.
Good point.

I also didn't realize (or remember) the power requirement for clamshell operation; my laptop is being charged by the monitors it's plugged into.
Damn...of course...corrected! Thank you my Thesaurus as a Service. Do you have an API?
I agree. The publishing tradition is [first name][last name], which should be followed for our convenience sake. But the author can choose whatever first and last name. What really matters is that, in a jungle of citations, the reader seeing the shortened name can pinpoint them specifically. While Eastern cultures may place less emphasis of differentiating using the middle name like Vietnam, the author can use Last-Mid as their Last (consistent with VN's tradition), or Mid-First as their First. Just use it consistently.
The math here is pretty simple.

OpenAI clearly wants the “her” association. It’s already the favourite voice and projects many of the existing and imagined capabilities really well.

So they tried to pay for it, but it was either too expensive or blocked by SJ.

Her/teams comments read like a negotiation.

But I suspect they’ve overplayed their hand. At best they may get a settlement and OpenAI will modify the voice to make it sound less like SJ.
The Nakba Law
But mostly bad. People paying for good (or more specifically, something generally popular) don't need to hide what they're doing, as a general rule.
If the corporation as a unit were a perfectly rational actor, sure.

In practice, most corporations seem quite happy to collectively hand-wring over how they can't find new talent, squeeze everything they can out of the talent they currently have, and direct their existing personnel at direct profit-earners while letting systems gradually fall apart due to lack of maintenance.
Not a lawyer, but as far as I understand; Certainly, the lack of significant damages would usually prevent a lawsuit because there wouldn't be any money in it, but since the amount of damages are figured out during the trial and the lawsuit alone would be damaging to OpenAI the threat of a lawsuit could be enough for OpenAI to try and settle quickly out of court. Though OpenAI would have to weigh that with against encouraging other similar lawsuits - they might think that dragging out the lawsuit might be better for them as they can continue establishing a foothold in AI in the interim even if they know they will lose and know that discovery would be damaging.

As you state, Mrs. Johansson would benefit reputationally form the lawsuit and could act as a front for other powerful institutions who would greatly benefit from the lawsuit.
Hmm. One could stop drinking water out of plastic bottles. And using the good old glas one.
It's gone now, during the 90's they maintained the "The Game Developer's email list" that literally had over a hundred emails a day, all being from active employed game developers, often collectively fixing console bugs and sharing them without knowledge of our employers. Lot's of well known 90's games would never have shipped without that collaborative help that was "The Game Developer's email list". The best of that list is archived, and can be found here: https://www.flipcode.com/archives/
I installed it for more colors but now I want to uninstall it because of this silly openai feature
Being passionate doesn’t guarantee a game being a success, though. Look at a game like Knights of the Chalice 2. It's definitely a labor of love, and many people who play it think it has the best DnD combat of any game out there, and maybe some of the best turn-based combat as well. It has mediocre graphics, though, and a high price point, so it’s had extremely slow discoverability. It also has a somewhat niche audience (people really into complex DnD combat), so it’s not clear how much of an audience is out there even if discoverability wasn’t an issue.
The last few products from Sierra were a far cry from great. Kings Quest 8 was shambles.
I love using it to refresh my knowledge, to help me remember a technical term, or have it provide me an overview of a topic, comparing two alternatives for a function, things like this. I also used it to generate boilerplate code, especially in domains I was not familiar with. The code wasn't working "out of the box", but it was still helpful as a starting template, as I have the most trouble laying the foundations.
By the way, I went through his Twitter - Altman was writing normally in 2022:
https://x.com/sama/status/1505264452857331714

Then, I guess, he decided, he was too important to follow grammar rules.
Industrial leader in what sense? There are a few industries where the UK is world leading
'Millionaires tax' has already generated $1.8B this year for Massachusetts
Latin Vulgate: radix enim omnium malorum est cupiditas

"root of all evil" or "root of all evils" would seem to be more precise translations than "root of all kinds of evils".

The Russian Synodal bible gives: ибо корень всех зол есть сребролюбие
which would translate to "root of all evils"
An alternate universe where Amiga is the mainstream computing platform would be fascinating.
I understand her concerns but I think it's a very hard problem. Being "similar" is very subjective.

Moreover, what if some actor has a similar voice to her and records and sells an audiobook? What if this actor signs a contract with OpenAI?
Are there graphical apps for understanding history? Something more than an ebook and less than Total War.

Visualization
Yeah this is pretty much exactly the take I'm talking about. People who use JavaScript do so without thinking because they are thoughtless morons, making sites harder to use for the tech elite. They create more work because the site will break soon, which is good for business.
Way to shift the goalposts
The fact the "I hate NPM" section is so simple makes me wonder why npm was involved at all.

I also deeply hate NPM. (Normalizing NPM is a hazard to society) So maybe I'm biased...
You state that as a fact. Is that your opinion, or based on a legal fact?
Dead man interlocks should work reasonably well, assuming the computer is tamper resistant. (It would need to see a “still OK to use” code every N days”, or disable itself.)
It should take a titanic amount of effort constructing an image pixel by pixel. Hats off to those artists that did it.
The parallels with plastics in modern life are astounding.
I loved this when it first came out and got pretty far, but waiting weeks for a curt, abrasive response on why my solution didn't pass inoculated me against kernel development.

It did however teach me about basic device drivers and was a nice 101 to linux kernel processes + tooling.
https://github.com/nonarkitten/amiga_replacement_project

Can't tell how complete it is, but they are on a mission. :-D
> bitcoin and monero are easy to use with Tor, but the entire EVM ecosystem relying on chrome/firefox extensions and mobile apps instead of any good desktop app is so limiting to me

I'm not sure what you mean. Neither monero or bitcoin use ethereum vm and both have desktop clients.
As an immigrant to the UK I'm continually surprised on how poor life here actually is. The main culprit in my mind is the atrocious cost of real estate. Not so much in how much money it takes to buy a house - those costs can be comparable to other countries, but on the ratio of post-tax salary pound per square meter. Most of the real estate in the UK is very small, both in outdoor space as well as in indoor proportions.

In the US middle class housing often provides fairly large indoor spaces where multiple people can collaborate, as well as things like garages and large-ish lawns, these things are much rarer and more expensive in the UK.

This makes it much more difficult to have a space for multiple people to effectively collaborate on idea "for free". Sure, you can hire a co-working space, but that requires already some form of financial commitment.
To paraphrase, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all those others that have been tried from time to time.