skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always found Bret to have a very distinctive style - one might call it "nerdy" if one had to pick one word. Not just that he talks about LotR and Star Wars, but also the way he talks/writes.

If you don't like his style, fine, you're allowed to dislike it, _de gustibus non est disputandum_. But I'm genuinely curious if you have a point of more substance behind this claim.

As to basic knowledge - I think the Fremen Mirage series in particular is getting at an important point that should be basic knowledge, but is not; popular culture gets this backwards in so many ways.

I think you are making a valid point with your Gordian Knot analogy, but I personally think that's a much better failure mode than pulling out the sword as your default answer to any problem. Bret has this thing about needing to prove even outright fascist claims factually wrong before denouncing them for any other reasons, but I still prefer that many times over to the "if an argument supports our side, who cares if it's true?" approach.
It's extraordinary how determined the current UK government is to destroy its university sector. The economic and geopolitical advantages of having one of the world's best university systems are not only incalculable but also blindingly obvious. And yet apparently not too obvious to be missed by the caliber of person that currently makes up the cabinet.
The UK is Europe's tech hub at this point (not the EU's), assuming by tech we mean the sort of tech discussed in the article. As the article notes, the VC ecosystem in the UK does actually exist and is spinning up, whereas in most of Europe it hardly exists.

If you want something a bit more objective than the article's assertions, there is an attempt to calculate a ranking here:

https://www.startupblink.com/blog/analysis-of-europe-startup...

The Global Startup Ecosystem Index compares the countries of Europe (not EU) and the UK is at the top with a massive lead. It has a total score of 127 vs 57 for the second place (France).
vu128: Efficient variable-length integers
Find the names of the people involved, get a warrant and use the full power of that impressive global surveillance system that we've created to fight the global war on terror to surveil them and find evidence of other crimes that they've surely committed and prosecute the fuck out of them for that.
You think UX experts decide these things? Everybody with a brain knows that these are awful anti-patterns - they are in the final product because it is intentional.
I've been trying to set up an email job dispatcher for my work group, which scrapes the groups emails for keywords and automates common jobs such as "download this sample" or "tweet this" or "run this pipeline"

I planned to do this using a standard linux desktop distro, and affix a touchscreen to the device. Background jobs would have status updates via notifications on the desktop, and clicking on them would trigger jobs.

The problem is, the portrait desktop scene on linux isn't great for 10" screen devices. I've had some great interactions with the Phosh-mobile developers, and kde-plasma-mobile is also promising, but certain display issues or notification actions just aren't working out of the box.

That's when I noticed Lineage (Android) has unofficial Rpi5 builds, and this would fit my use-case exactly as a portrait lab tablet that spits out notifications and runs tasks in the background whilst being interactive and polished.
Altering of received broadcast signals did happen. They did substitute advertising sometimes. But I'm not sure, if it happened without any rights and compensation at any point in history. Quick google search doesn't find any quality sources on the topic.

But the parallel I was trying to draw is that they profited financially from other people's work without any compensation to the IP owners.
Sea level rise is also self-destruction, especially for the Netherlands.
You can use MAS to extend that time to 2032.
search ai in the settings. It's in advanced settings.
Refusing seems like a weird thing, why not value them at $0 (i.e. pretend they aren't part of the comp). That's wise for anything not already public anyway.
that's the whole point of the ceo, to have somebody to blame.
Given that OpenAI is not free why would you assume that anything would be sent?

If you distrust iTerm 2 over this then why would you assume a checkbox would make a difference?
The point is there's bias in the system already, we should attempt to fix it, just in a better way than Google's attempt
>No way to turn that off

At least you can hide those with a uBlock filter. You can't do shit if its baked into your operating system. (Aside from deleting the whole thing and installing an OS that respects your freedoms)
Trump would obviously be the one dumping some shares.

As a professional in the space, help me understand. What prevents the Saudis from offering $10-20B to take $DJT private by buying out all the shareholders?

(Like Musk’s $420 tweet that got him SEC minders, but real.)
This hasn't been running for many years.

Why share it now that it's way too late?
I wonder if this one will get slapped down as monopolistic behavior. I don't expect Microsoft will open up OS-level usage tracking to third parties, at which point they can provide this AI feature that no one else can only because they own the OS too.
... or, as the article puts it:

"You can’t take it with you: straight talk about epigenetics and intergenerational trauma: The true story of a powerful molecular process and how pseudoscience co-opted it"
Well, IDF soldiers themselves were adding to their social media proofs of their war crimes...
I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out that he just fired everyone because she declined to have his babies.

He probably even offered her a horse.
https://octopus.energy/smart/intelligent-octopus-go/ UK power company offering that, if you have a compatible car/charger they can control for you
India's Russian oil imports rise to nine-month high in April
Perhaps you should read it again because you seem to have misunderstood the message. It doesn't even try to claim that LLMs aren't beneficial - it agrees that they're useful in certain situations, but that they're also over-hyped and misrepresented by their creators.

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. [...]

> I’ve heard from several students that LLMs have been really useful to them in that “where the !^%8 do I even start?!” phase of learning a new language, framework, or tool. Documentation frequently fails to share common idioms; discovering the right idiom in the current context is often difficult. And “What’s a pattern that fits here, never mind the correctness of the details?” is a great question for an LLM.

> Alas, the AI hype is around LLMs •replacing• thought, not •prompting• it.

This perfectly matches my experience too. If I know what needs to be done, then all LLMs waste my time on average. However when I'm trying to learn about some new topic then LLMs have been a good way to get me oriented in the right direction and get a really high level overview that allows me to get a jump start and start learning about the topic on my own.

They tend to shine a light on all the "unknown unknowns" (e.g. common terminology and concepts), but they're poor at converting "known unknowns" into real knowledge since they lack any real and deep understanding themselves.

Are LLMs useful? Yes. Do they live up to expectations set by their creators? Not even close.
> We told y'all to advocate for a very strict regulation of these things.

> But no.

Simply legislation doesn't work that fast. Building up consensus about what needs legislation and how it needs legislation takes time.

> Instead: It's amazing. It's world changing.

People don't all think with a single mind. The people who find it amazing are not necessarily the same who complains about it.
> If you know how to recycle concrete to make new cement, you hold a billion-dollar patent idea, because it's not recyclable under existing technology.

I'm talking about concrete being recyclable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_recycling

> I'm not even suggesting anything (and even less that we built every building in stone) I'm just pointing about the fact that reinforced concrete is disposable material on the longer term, and we should stop using it for everythin

You suggested that stone can replace reinforced concrete for dense urban housing. I was truly fascinated by that since I love the use of raw materials in architecture. However to me you just seem to be out of touch. Raw stone quarries will be much bigger for the same amount of concrete and that would result in an environmental disaster

> for most use-cases it's because it gives freedom to architects to make buildings that look more appealing: it's a fashion driven disaster.

No. Where I live we use reinforced concrete because we had several earthquake disasters. Vast majority of buildings are quite boring and unimaginative.
It's like the Facebook integration and Twitter integration that Apple did to Mac OS X Lion. It's basically "don't do that".
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI commit to Frontier AI Safety Commitments
"The merits of the case are mostly irrelevant because the ICC doesn’t have the authority to enforce any of its judgements." - tell this to Slobodan Milošević
On an optimistic note, I think Linux will keep pace with LLM integration, because LLMs have a high coolness-to-code-required-ratio. Linux UI has always been half text-based terminals anyway. Also, if we get an open LLM that users can run on their own computers, it's just over, there's not much room for Windows to improve over that, and the incentive are very strong for Windows to be worse.
hyphen-case is worth the grammar concessions (like making whitespace between binary operators mandatory).
The intro veers dangerously close to this, which I've read with abject horror: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40425306
When allocating unused memory boosts performance by 2x
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
> Numbers like these really don't bode well for the long-term prospects of open source models, I doubt the current strategy of waiting expectantly for a corporation to spoonfeed us yet another $100,000 model for free is going to work forever.

I would add “in their current form” and agree. There’s three things that can change here:
1. Moore’s law: The worldwide economy is built around the steady progression of cheaper compute. Give it 36 months and your problem becomes a $25,000 problem.
2. Quantization and smaller models: There’ll likely become specializations of the various models (is this the beginning of the “Monolith vs Microservices” debate?
3. E2E Training isn’t for everyone: Finetunes and Alignment are more important than an end to end training run, IF we can coerce the behaviors we want into the models by finetuning them. That along with quantized models (imho) unlocked vision models which are now in the “plateau of producivity” in the gartner hype cycle compared to a few years ago.

So as an example today, I can grab a backbone and pretrained weights for an object detector, and with relatively little data (from a few lines to a few 10’s of lines of code, and 50 to 500 images) and relatively little wall clock time and energy (say 5 to 15 minutes) on a PC, I can create a customized object detector that can detect -my- specific objects pretty well. I might need to revise it a few times, but it’ll work pretty well.

Why would we not see the same sort of progression with transformer architectures? It hinges on someone creating the model weights for the “greater good,” or us figuring out how to do distributed training for open source in a “seti@home” style (long live the blockchain, anyone?).
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Why not?

The main reason I can think of would be that they didn't need to 'astroturf' that many, due to europeans generally being conservative and anti-arab or anti-muslim. But they ran a campaign to get votes, and exactly how efficient it was is very hard to pinpoint.

Zionists have quite extensive tooling and robust parasocial networks for running propaganda campaigns. Why wouldn't they use that to try and become the next host of the Eurovision pop tournament?
I just hit 4 years of using Linux as my daily driver and gaming on it. If you want to switch you can.
I agree, if someone else was asked and they used their voice to train this is more than acceptable. What is this fuss about.
Ah. Now it clicks - like Rubin's vase. Thanks.
Google announces Firebase Genkit with Ollama support
> Also, remember that OpenAI isn't a single person, but a large organization with different people and viewpoints.

This falls flat since the CEO tweeted "her" when the version featuring her voice clone was released. The CEO was bragging about this feature; the company was aligned behind it until the blowback went public.
Milošević died before any judgement could be rendered. So we have no idea what would have happened if had been found guilty.
>I might be off, but my sense from the journalist report of the meeting is that Johnson was/is a jerk.

How generous. Psychopath was what came to my mind. No idea why he thinks that is funny. He is complicit in a scheme that is, according to the researcher estimate cited in the article, costing up to ~$60 billion a year; undoubtedly an enormous amount of harm and suffering has been caused (with more yet to come) and that is all he has to say for himself?
Underscore is a double-pinky keystroke.

As someone who has battled RSI, I stopped using snake case and underscore-prefixed member variables because of the added stress all those underscores place on the weakest fingers.
> In this case, openai says they got a voice actor though so I'm not sure if IP applies here

The effect of the DMCA on youtube has shown that IP seems to apply even if something vaguely looks or sounds like the original. "Apply" not meaning "is true", but "has consequences".
> because DMARC is fundamentally broken and considers a message valid when either SPF or DKIM passes

You can specify if you both to pass and in fact it will enforce strict alignment which is more than SPF or DKIM will do on their own. I think SPF/DKIM is probably broken without strict alignment as it's trivially easy to change your mail from header which is transparent to end users and pass SPF on its own.
It does have a translation layer. Microsoft calls it Prism, which immediately made me think of the NSA's PRISM program, in which Microsoft was an enthusiastic collaborator. I guess this is a nice way to shadow search engine results for "Microsoft PRISM".
Regular expression functions in Excel
That's weird, because I didn't know it's impossible for 2 humans from the same country to sound anything alike. (or, what makes a fundamental characteristic of a person? Does it change over time? Can they change it deliberately or is this something that can't change? This whole debate is somewhat pointless without definitions)
You've shifted the goal posts.
Iain Banks managed to walk the “utopian but doesn’t become a dry political treatise” line pretty well.

Ironically, his works are favorites of several leaders in the torment-nexus-creation space.
Almost any public figure that displays empathy will do it for show or as a statement. On many occasion not showing an emotional reaction is the empathetic thing to do as well.

You cannot really judge people by their public appearance, it will in most cases be a fake persona. So the diagnosis of Jobs or Zuckerberg isn't really grounded in reality if you do not know them personally.
Suddenly all the media companies and social media pundits have forgotten how to upload audio media samples alongside accusations in text, they might not want to reach reasonable people. The outrage is proof enough.

ChatGPT using Sky voice (not 4o - original sept. release): https://youtu.be/JmxjluHaePw?t=129

Samantha from "Her" (voiced by ScarJo): https://youtu.be/GV01B5kVsC0?t=134

Rashida Jones Talking about herself https://youtu.be/iP-sK9uAKkM
Have you used iTerm2? Saw the amount of work that's put into it? Checked how long it has been cared for, maintained, and continuously improved on by basically one person for more than a decade? All for free and no ads? The iTerm2 developer is a person you can actually trust.

https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/graphs/contributors

But all of a sudden you now have people up in arms about how a spyware of a feature was sneakily forced upon them, and be righteous about it. This is sad.
Protect Yourself from Card Testing
sPoNgEbOb-CaSe combined with hyphens is the only viable solution
Or write a parser!

In most cases the parser will not be shorter (code) than the regex, but it will most certainly be simpler (cognitively; it's hard to understand all that regexes do, they're close to magic) and more testable (you can test the parts of the parser, like the number parser or the string parser, individually), and often faster too.
I just started into "The Island" which reads like the counterpoint to "Brave New World" also written by Huxley. Saying we need it is not enough, because it doesn't get cited even though it exists.
Anything you say or do will be used against you by any future government. What's legal now, might not be legal tomorrow, and you will be jugged by your AI "friend". Welcome to dystopia.
Validating your idea is something with which every person struggles initially!

I am a startup founder, building a product in a professional networking space for the last 2 years.

I still meet many people who think and question why we started this! And many many people resonate with our idea and use our product.

The point is, initially not everyone will get the entire picture of what you are doing, plus when it comes to our friends and family, they genuinely want us not to fail and hence keep finding flaws in our ideas. But, if you get a conviction on your idea, build at least an MVP. Go deeper and understand the depth of the water.

Now about finding a good idea —

I would still suggest starting small! If you are tired of finding a problem to solve, find a product that you really like and start building something similar to that. You will end up building something good and useful.

Building a sie project is a topic very close to my heart! I am building a product around this, happy to share about it if you are interested. :)

Good luck!
If I read figure 2 correctly (in the follow up study), the difference in find time only appears in 3-word names, while for 2-word names the time is the same
PaperBack is a free application that allows you to back up your precious files on the ordinary paper in the form of the oversized bitmaps. If you have a good laser printer with the 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes of uncompressed data on the single A4/Letter sheet. Integrated packer allows for much better data density - up to 3,000,000+ (three megabytes) of C code per page.

For 600 dpi printer you will need a scanner with at least 900 dpi physical (let me emphasize, physical, not interpolated) resolution.

https://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/#1
For many people, home power use its highest when they and their vehicle are at home.
My understanding of Star Trek is that it's a post-scarcity utopia. The narrative interest comes from the strife of non-utopian societies.
José Valim – Elixir, Erlang, Phoenix, Livebook [video]
Ok, so I’m most definitely going to snakeCase my Hungarian notation from now on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
Remember you have to normalize for population size. And when we say the US we really mean one small part of it. People in the US often move to California to start their startups, they don't necessarily stick around in the part of the US they're currently in. This is largely due to the VC ecosystem there which makes "irrationality" relatively safe vs everywhere else in the world where it doesn't. Tom's article makes this crystal clear when he says:

> The downside of early-stage investing is that you lose 1x your money - it’s genuinely not worth worrying much about

The only potential downside is only losing all your money, what kind of stick in the mud would care about that?

So anyway, we might ask why is the VC ecosystem so much stronger in California than in the UK. But a lot people don't like to think about that because the answer is so obvious: in the 70s when Silicon Valley was getting established and the flywheel of founder->startup->success->sale->VC->founder was spinning up, the UK was mired in socialist hell with rotating power outages, militant unions toppling governments, four-day working weeks and an IMF bailout. At that time making a startup was entirely pointless and a VC fund literally impossible, because the top tax rate on investment gains peaked at 98%. You could invest in startups but the deal presented by Labour was: if you lose money you lose it, if you gain money you still lose it.

Thatcher and then Major beat back some of the most extreme aspects of this, and in this period the top level tax rates were systematically reduced to more normal rates. But Britain of the 1980s was still drastically more investor-hostile than the USA and there was no venture culture as a consequence. In particular the practice of granting equity in startups was not really known (notable exception: ARM, one of the few successful tech startups the UK has ever produced).

Even today British governments routinely levy so-called "windfall taxes" to grab the profits from companies that are doing well, the moment they have an opportunity to do so politically. That culture gap is ultimately the major difference. The idea of a windfall tax in the USA is hard to imagine, I'm not sure it's ever happened.
now a study on tabs vs spaces, please
Doesn't matter. Homes tend to need power when people are at home. The car is - by definition - at home when its driver is at home.
You’re right about that, The ICC has actually only ever prosecuted Africans (and recently issued a couple of warrants against Russians). But The ICC, The ICTY and the IMT/IMTFE all have essentially the same authority when it comes to enforcing “international law”, which is none at all. International laws aren’t real, there is no international government, international police or international armed forces. All international legal or military actions take place only with the voluntary cooperation of all countries involved. If any country decides to withhold that cooperation on any particular issue, then there is no enforcement mechanism. Which is why all of history’s “international courts” have only ever prosecuted the losers of wars.
Asbestos is dangerous because of its form. It isn’t inherently toxic, it just pokes your lung tissues to death.

This is why I find a new material with “nanoprotrusions measuring 20–30 nm” in an article talking about “nanodaggers” killing cells somewhat concerning.
That is a link to a Wikipedia article. The article references an ancestor of the horse migrating over and back and forth from North America to Asia, but not the horse itself, and certainly not domesticated horses, which originate in Middle East / Asia.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11905506/regular-express...
But when the vehicle is connected, the user is typically at home. So there's a convenient relation there.

House power consumption is random because it's not designed to be predictable. It's trivial to have a washing machine and heating that prioritize energy consumption whenever the EV is connected, or grid energy is affordable.