skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Roman Empire was very advanced for the time, and it left such a huge imprint on the civilization even centuries, and thousands of years after it.

The organization was a different scale.

Fun fact: Some of the most famous battles in England in the middle ages, such as battle of Hasting, were basically 5k - 9k soldiers in each side. That's just one and a half Roman legion.

Rome, could field 12 legions at a time, and the scale was insane. I can see why the Roman Empire remained such a symbol of civilization for a thousand of years after its fall.
Not arguing that owning property in a tourist area requires work (unless you're paying a property manager to do it for you), but I could never imagine owning a vacation property to be squarely middle class. Upper-middle class, at the very least.
> Don’t implement something unless you need it right now

Useful advice to start with. It’s a rule that experts are allowed to break though.
No, but getting better benchmarks tends to require more shenanigans (e.g. mixture-of-experts).

Qwen2 72B doesn't score that high on the leaderboard relative to brute-forced finetunes: https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_...
I agree that this sucks, but it's going to happen no matter whether we call it a right or not. We need to quickly accept that we've made a world where you can't stop anyone from using AI for things you don't like, and that there are infinite incentives for them to do it, and start focusing on ways to mitigate the risk. My position is that calling it a right—even enshrining that recognition into international law—will not, by itself, do anything. It's step 0, we need to be on like step 12, pronto.
> There will be no serious international wars anymore.

The Russo-Ukrainian war seems pretty serious.

> The loser would go nuclear.

If annihilation was viewed better than even unconditional surrender, unconditional surrender would never have happened in the past. But it has, and thus if there is a credible marginal threat of nuclear retaliation for a nuclear strike, there is very good reason to suspect that the loser in major convential war would not go nuclear. The risk of nuclear escalation of course impacts the calculus of war involving one or more nuclear powers, but a firm statement that “the loser will go nuclear” does not seem justified, except perhaps in the case where the otherwise winning side is not, and would not (at least in the perception of the losing nuclear power) in the event of nuclear attack be protected by, a nuclear power.

> Africa doesn't count because those countries don't have nuclear bombs

The vast majority of non-African countries also don't have nuclear bombs.
I've heard this one before. It only takes advantage of one dimension of the color space, though, and that bugs me. On the other hand you don't have to go look up a better palette.
TTC union leader warns workers are 'ready' to strike Friday
Hey thanks, no main activities outside of the core product - just forgot to cut a new release on github, we did one today thanks for the reminder!
The biggest QOL improvements imo are found in the approach to the user-facing API design.

Compare basic multi-monitor commands in something like bspwm[1] or yabai[2][3] to twms on Windows where this is typically handled transparently by directional `move` and `focus` commands understanding monitor boundaries.

Besides this, Whim has implemented a very functional ctrl+p style command palette which provides a great interface for more advanced on-the-fly/one-time window manager interactions.

With komorebi I think that having different border colours to indicate different types of containers is very helpful (one colour for single window stacks, a different colour for monocle containers, a different colour for stacks with multiple windows), as well as custom window-based work area offsets[4] (so if you have an ultrawide monitor with only a single window on a workspace, you can add offsets to the sides so it doesn't stretch across the whole width and give poor usability).

It's not really any one "big thing" but rather a difference in approach which adds up over many small design decisions.

[1]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/563

[2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/505

[3]: from my own personal yabai config - imo this is not really acceptable for a user facing API, especially for basic commands like focusing and moving:

```

# focus window
alt - h : yabai -m window --focus west || yabai -m display --focus west
alt - j : yabai -m window --focus south || yabai -m display --focus south
alt - k : yabai -m window --focus north || yabai -m display --focus north
alt - l : yabai -m window --focus east || yabai -m display --focus east

# swap window
alt + shift - h : yabai -m window --swap west || yabai -m window --display west && yabai -m display --focus west
alt + shift - j : yabai -m window --swap south || yabai -m window --display south && yabai -m display --focus south
alt + shift - k : yabai -m window --swap north || yabai -m window --display north && yabai -m display --focus north
alt + shift - l : yabai -m window --swap east || yabai -m window --display east && yabai -m display --focus east

```

[4]: https://hachyderm.io/@LGUG2Z/112493589633823318
There are no better jobs accessible to me.
Academia is dangerously close to "network or perish"
Even worse, now the digital nomad phenomenon is increasing rents - ~19% of the demand in the rent market in Madrid in 2023 is from foreigners. As a result, the locals learned the phrase 'digital nomad' and they are now fighting back.

https://madridnofrills.com/gentrification/
More precisely, those ~17 ships will fill a propellant depot ship, and once that is done, they can launch the HLS ship, that will then be filled with propellant from the propellant depot.
Crisis in the Culture: An Update
Destroying themselves. (irrational behavior) /s
Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel
Any heat you see is velocity lost to the craft will eventually hit the atmosphere again. I think the main reason is that the skip and the second reentry is way less predictable than doing the descent in a single pass so for predictability of landing agencies much prefer to do a harder more controlled reentry.
It’s expected to not be a major disruption, but it also could be worse than expected. There is no contradiction.
I don't think I have a problem per se with the notion of borrowing money, if that's what you are asking about.

I personally don't have an issue with you finding people who help you with building the house that agree to do that for some payment.
How long before they generate entire movies with AI? That's a great way to make a bag!
Project 2025 exists, and should Trump win in November it will be implemented. They spell out a plan which would dismantle the EPA and rollback the goals set forth to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change (temperatures increasing at or over 2C within 100 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025
"Significant fraction" always speaks to a small, but not unnoticeable, value. 5% is reasonably considered a significant fraction.

Where have you come up with this idea that it somehow suggests a significant number?
if you're waiting for retirement to enjoy your life, you're doing it wrong. you might die tomorrow and it'll all have been for nothing. don't get me wrong, it's all pointless anyway, but if there's something you want from life, don't put it off - you don't even know if your health will be any good by the time you retire, much less the state of the economy or the biosphere.
Humanity Is Riding a Sports Car, with Broken Steering
As long as terminal used supports sixel graphics.
It is not a scientist's job to apply a political filter if the scientific basis is sound and it improves our understanding in a field.
Netflix has written about their approach to solving that problem:

https://netflixtechblog.com/ava-the-art-and-science-of-image...

https://netflixtechblog.com/artwork-personalization-c589f074...
The Trouble with Turmeric
The only papers that are likely to draw conclusions directly from the cited papers are meta-analysis and reviews. Any pure research will have its own hypothesis, its own experiments, its own results, and its own conclusions. Most papers will simply cite it as background or related works. Even if the evidence in the cited work is doctored, the hypothesis can still be true and future papers based on it can still find valid, positive results.

This paper being manipulated doesn't imply anything about the hypothesis or any subsequent studies - it simply fails to be useful as any form of evidence.
> And what will the buyers do with the apartments? Rent them?

Yes.

> This is as nonsensical as the proposals

Its not nonsensical. Its what is happening. Use it or lose it. Works. Find a good tenant, rent it for decades - like how it is supposed to be.
My point is that “Nazi germany” is a small subset of “expansionism” and the latter is widespread and mostly none of our business. Borders shift. It’s not America’s job to police whatever borders happened to exist at some arbitrary point in time all over the world.
If you want a rule enforced against some party, you need the enforcement power to belong to some other party.
HSBC Writes Down Byju's, Once $22B Indian Edtech Giant, to Zero
> or at least hardware switches to keep them off.

FWIW, this feature is common on older thinkpads. I really enjoy having a switch on the outside of the laptop to quickly toggle the radios, its a shame they're totally absent on newer laptops.
No, I want for example to abolish private property of land and natural resources.
I would append "from the Greenland Ice Sheet" to the title.

"However, because melting is causing the Greenland Ice Sheet to recede from the coasts of Greenland, where icebergs originate, its iceberg discharge should not persist long enough to cause major disruption of the Atlantic overturning circulation by itself"
Please don't release new models unless there is an arch change. All these new LLMs are essentially the same technique applied to almost the same dataset.
IKEA is opening a new store on Roblox and you could be paid to work there
Is that in addition to taking a pit stop at the lunar gateway?
I use a Keychron Q2 mechanical keyboard. It's one of the few that I found that has a quick switcher between three different Bluetooth endpoints and is QMK/VIA programmable though it weighs more than an anvil.

https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-q2-pro-qmk-via-wi...
Not to mention most liberals until five minutes ago. If you had told me twenty years ago that supposed democrats were agreeing with Mitch McConnell and acting out Team America World Police, I wouldn’t have believed you. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/.
A 10% royalty payment is buried in the license. There is no mention of this on the website or github page.
You can check out Demo Workouts here: https://parianlabs.com/demo-workouts

And the Stretch Lab here: https://parianlabs.com/stretch-lab

They're both free and don't even require a sign up
Yeah, so indeed it's important to organize self-defense groups that can help you not get hurt or enslaved.
> Are landlords the most vulnerable people right now?

Increasing risk will eliminate a lot of the "mom and pop" landlords (widows, former small-business owners, retirees, etc.). If it is too risky to own only a few extra condo units or a single small apartment building, then those properties will go to large corporate landlords.

> there are people whose sole contribution to society is "owning flats".

Landlords make sure the utilities (water, electricity, heat, etc.) work, that the roof doesn't leak, fix plumbing issues when they arise, take care of pest infestations, etc. Even landlords who don't personally fix things are employing managers and tradespeople. And with big corporate owners, the shareholders are usually pension funds which effectively are the retirement savings of people who have already "contributed to society".
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prediction.
Paraphrasing a prior discussion about why short selling exists in the stock market: it is all about price discovery.

As a property owner you can keep your property empty seeking a better rent value, but this forces you to realize that there is a risk to keeping the place unused and maybe accepting lower price would be better overall.
I'd recommend reading this article, as it's about a new study that would not have been included in the past articles you read.

> Without warm water flowing toward the Arctic, he added, winter sea ice could expand as far south as England

From the study itself (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189):

> Under the AMOC collapse, the Arctic (March) sea-ice pack extends down to 50°N

Here's where 50°N intersects Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50th_parallel_north
I need to start an "AI on the Blockchain" venture...
The droughts in recent years have had a big influence on the level of ground water. I heard on the radio a year ago that it will take for it to rain every day for the whole year, for it to recover to the usual level, at least in my area. And that it will only get worse as the climate is getting hotter, and the water evaporates at a faster rate.
The internet is weirdly quiet about this achievement
I wonder what kind of results you might get using an AI model to choose a still from the film as the thumbnail.
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The rest of us would prefer that this doesn’t happen and that you find a more fulfilling job/career. Everybody wins then.
> But everyone knows how long a mile is

Yeah. Long. I doubt most people can eyeball something in the distance and say with accuracy "yeah that is about a mile away" because a mile is really long and people are bad at estimating things. Now do it for 10 miles.

A relatable example like someone has mentioned "its about 10 dead seas worth" would have been a better play.
Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More
Sad story but I'd argue the bug was just the messenger, not really the cause.

Impressed by the factual tone of reporter given the context.

(Edit: removed quotes around bug, took them from the editorialized HN title but it is a real bug)
Oh, I'm well aware of where "code smell" came from.

The description in the link you provided is pretty wishy-washy:

>"smells don't always indicate a problem."

Okay, so does it smell like flowers or does it smell like shit?? It's a stupid term, and yes, it's been abused by programmers that often think it makes them seem smarter than they are.

Maybe "code stink" would be a better designation for code that's actually a problem. But even that would be stupid and I'd never use it to describe code. Putting down someone else's code as "smelly" is a great way to make a team dysfunctional. And code is often messy for plenty of good reasons (PoC code is perfectly fine if it's messy, no reason to call it "smelly"), there's no reason to anthropomorphize it and assign it a "smell". It's just a rude way to talk about code.

Your second paragraph is more reasonable.
Surely the issue in "AI profiling" is "profiling" not "AI"?
Logitech MX Keys with Qwerty layout
I wonder if it could have an impact on the development of the brain in children, if they grow up consuming realistic looking media that has subtle errors.
they’re really trying to make fetch happen
Caffeine isn't an invention of modern industrial society, we've been boiling every caffeinated plant we could find for thousands of years. I would still drink it if I didn't have to work for a corporate employer. In fact I enjoy it much more on my days off when I get to make art. I don't mean to get too defensive of it, but I find it quite strange when people lump caffeinated drinks in with completely artificial aspects of life.
Thank you! I think you're right, not the first time I heard that haha. Will change it today.
> That’s not a hard claim to verify.

That is a hard claim to verify. One might say impossible. It is because it makes a statement about the future without defining a time interval. The “are likely to ever achieve” part.

Before you start arguing about how little you think LLMs are worth and how great container ships are, that is not the problem. The problem is that to “verify” something with an “ever achieve” you either have to prove hard limits or wait forever. Proving hard limits rigorously is very hard. Waiting forever is impossible.
Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
Whitney Stratifications and Intersection Homology (2023) [pdf]
I have no problem with strict enforcement of current speed limits in residential areas. But speed limits on controlled access highways in many states are set ridiculously low. When government officials try to claim that a 65mph limit on a flat, straight freeway is necessary for "safety" it's obvious that they're being disingenuous and this is just a revenue grab. It breeds contempt for the law among the driving public and is ultimately counterproductive.
I did not work in shipping, but I did work in manufacturing for 15 years, mostly with a focus on test engineering & automation, but also getting into warehouse/material management and shipping/logistics. My masters is in operations research for manufacturing.

I agree with you that objective optimization is largely academic. There are always reasons why it's impossible or impractical to adhere to the most efficient versions of standardized processes. Sometimes these are "stupid" (people) reasons, and frequently they're reasonable justifications that accommodate for any number of externalities (weather, downtime, supply chain disruptions, lumpiness in demand signals and forecasts based on seasonality, etc).

That said, it's almost always smart to start with the most efficient version of a process and then add exception-handling, rather than to create a standardized process based on known exceptions. If you let exceptions become the rule, you'll always be operating less efficiently than optimal.
They’re a nation-state with an international spy program, so that’s obviously a valid possibility, same as it is for lots of other non-China countries. I don’t have any specific data regarding your presented scenario with Canada and China, though. I do regardless stand by my general advice, but since it now has to be said, I am not your lawyer and this is not legal advice.
That is an ahistorical perspective. For most of human history, you could be killed for putting a yurt or hut in someone else's land.
Even chimps will kill others for infringing on territory.

There were breif periods where humans entered virgin land, but these people migrated because other land and resources were spoken for.

>Private property is just a legitimized theft, because it leaves some people without access to land or natural resources that is required for survival.

This is reverse reasoning. people lacking resources doesn't imply it was stolen from them. The alternative is that they simply didn't start with any.

Rights don't derive from wants or needs.

My wanting a pony does not give me a natural right to a pony. My hunger does not give me a natural right to food

>It's not true that without private property you get state slavery or a strongman situation, you may check Zapatistas

The zapititistas did not acquire all their land, people, and resources through free choice, nor were people free to stop collaborating if they chose.
I'd really expect SpaceX to have more cameras, and to have some shielding - maybe so that cameras would get open shields at different points in flight, so they'd be protected before that. We only saw left-back flap, I suspect there's a camera looking also on right-back flap, maybe towards the engines section too. SpaceX is known to have rich telemetry, that would be awesome to see.
Yet one flap is going to be eternal in human memory
I think privacy is very important. But a social network is definitely more so! And many have that via sports, for example. And if someone thinks it best to spend money on Netflix over Fastmail, I definitely am not gonna shame them and say "that is not good for you"! Especially not if they are poor.
What risks should I take? (How to choose a career decisions)

What risks should I not take?
(How to ignore or not persue a career)

How should I structure my finances? (Investments, Savings)

How should my finances affect my life? (The benefits of wealth)

How should my finances not affect my life? (The limits of wealth)

How to make friends.

How to get married.

How to drink alcohol.

How to do scientific research.

How to exercise.

How to eat.

Many other questions.

Just ask me any question and I will give you a reference to the Incerto that has a solution. (But philosophical questions, don't ask me how to successfully create nuclear fusion :D )

My entire life is designed around that set of books.
Who are these 'Spanish new' people... Like someone else said, its debatable whether these people were the 'small property owner' you speak about - as okupas scout the places and people before occupying and occupying the houses of working-class people who own one home is something not tolerated by the community.

That said, yes, its possible that an actual single-home owner family from working class may end up with okupas in their home occasionally. But that's a negligible price to pay in return for preventing real estate sharks like those in the US from scooping up housing to profit by screwing everyone over.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homes-for-sale-affordable-housi...
Ooh that's an interesting idea.

Another way to do this could be to calculate the "average" of all of the embeddings of documents in the index, then try to figure out if the query embeds to a point that's a significant distance from that average. Maybe figure out that distance through experimentation?
It may be overblown by media, sure, let's say we agree on that, but I know of at least 3 cases of very close people that have suffered the issue in the last 3 years alone. It may be my social bubble, but I don't think it's a completely fabricated matter.
Turning your pets on and off to accomodate your lifestyle? Yeah, that doesn't sound great. I'm sure there'd be a huge market for it though.
https://archive.md/YTLq1
I appreciate it! We're going to have videos (and audio tutorials) in the coming update.
Not surprising since GPT-4o is 1/12th the price @ $5 per Million tokens vs $60, 4x larger context window 32K vs 128K and has a training date 2 years more recent (9/21 vs 10/23)
IR illumination (no matter the wavelength), or this laser-based night vision, would light up a military vehicle like a big bright target. For night vision to be viable in a military setting, it needs to be passive.
Is this better than learning Klingon? ;)
Everyone is entitled to free shelter, but nobody is required to build them? Where do you think the free shelter is going to come from? Because, looking around, I don't see very many free shelters, so they're going to have to come from somewhere.

And if your answer is to take all the existing houses and give them, one to each family that needs a place to stay, that's great in the short term. In the long term, though, who's going to build a new one when it will just be taken from them? And if nobody builds new ones, where are new ones going to come from, as the population continues to grow?
Have you considered doing something to fix it? Either it. I could even see them being related!
In case you're like me, and you wouldn't think of using a terminal without Tmux, the experimental sixel branch was finally merged[0] as of about 10 months ago. This means you can finally build mainstream Tmux with --enable-sixel and use tools like lsix in Tmux!

If you're curious if your favorite terminal or multiplexer supports sixel, you can check out the "Are We Sixel Yet"[1] site.

[0]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/commit/dfbc6b1888c110cf0ade66f2...

[1]: https://www.arewesixelyet.com