skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theory cost just means some quantity by which we compare theories and judge one to be more parsimonious. A theoretical posit has some cost associated with it. MWI posits actual discernible states, each of which is a unique posit and thus a unique contribution to the theoretical cost of the whole. This state grows exponentially which implies an exponentially growing cost. This is as profligate as one can imagine. Copenhagen does not have an exponential cost as the non-collapse branches do not have a concrete reality under Copenhagen. The cost associated with the new collapse construct pales in comparison.
This feels like one of those spaces where everyone says LLMs and AI are just going to make it a solved problem, but no-one in the comments here is even mentioning it - maybe not a good problem for LLMs after all?
Fair enough, although it wouldn't matter if it did. Nothing would change other than some unnecessary computation would occur. SQL supports it just fine. Anyone who learned SQL first would know that quite well.
> a way to disable it

It's disabled by default.
I think its more than that.

Some of the our supposedly smartest youth at our Ivy leagues are acting in this manner. I think its the same reason people join cults. Lack of friends, the need to belong, an general emptiness inside. Political movements prey on these people.

Overall though, I do think you are right, once they join these groups they want to keep their friends and sense of belonging so they are willing to discard any critical thinking or common sense.

I think its sad overall.
Facts and Actions: The AI-First Architecture
I think its important to admit we all do this in various ways.

Consider one of the top threads today [1] and the vitriol in the comments almost as if Satya Nadella had personally schemed such a predatory Minesweeper game.

The truth is likely more nuanced, that a disparate part of the Org chart, or even a contractor or partner, was incentivized to build a shit game within their own walled garden, and nobody else at Microsoft are aware or care to look at it.

This nuance is important because if you actually want to fix the problem you often need to understand its origin and deconstruct it - likely by setting better organizational guidelines and re-evaluating the incentives that encouraged it in the first place.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647278

Yes the vitriol is deserved, but if your goal is to actually-fix-the-problem you need to deconstruct how the bad thing occurred
have you gotten checked for sleep apnea? Your situation sounds similar to mine (except I never tried CBD). Getting treated for sleep apnea was a game changer for me
To their credit, they did finally switch over to x.com being the main domain instead of just redirecting to twitter.com
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When in Norway, the only thing I didn't like was that sweet, brown cheese :-)
Yes. Damnit. Edited.
> What tools or strategies do you use

Linux CLI tools, and cron.

This little bash script is run by cron once a month:

#!/bin/bash

DOMAINS="... space separated list of domains here ..."

for dom in $DOMAINS ; do
expire=$(whois "$dom" \
| grep "Registry Expiry Date:" \
| cut -f 2- -d : \
| tr -d " ")

printf "%-20s %-15s\n" "$expire" "$dom"
done | sort

When it finishes its run, cron then sends me an email of the script's output, which is a list of domains and their expire dates, sorted in increasing order.

When the one at the top gets "close enough" to now, I renew it.
Unless you're incredibly space constrained I don't really get the point of that 2040 Zero, it just costs more for fewer features. The Pico is already pretty tiny.

The Pico is really good at pin interoperability at least, in the land of ESP, what appears to be lots of IO pins quickly turns into barely enough if you're lucky, with pins connected internally to flash or the bootloader or whatever. I really wonder why they even bother breaking those out. The ESP32-CAM comes with 10 data pins, and only 4 of them are actually generally usable lol.
That's not right.

"Settlement" does really say a judge oversaw the entire thing while a corporation bullied somebody working for the public interest into silence.
This is not about tap to pay at terminals. This is about the ability to send money to random individuals, the Venmo use case.
obsolescence, newer higher performing models come out frequently
It’s starting to get more noticeable week on week. Both on insta and google

At this velocity it’ll make some categories pure noise by end of year
No argument from me. I was replying to someone who couldn't believe the readers here, "who'd you assume are very tech savvy", didn't agree with their opinions.
Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
I mean, that was just the giveaway...your entire premise was wrong too.
Does it? so if the content can't be auto-upgraded to HTTPS, will be blocked.

I rather have a padlock with a warning that... a broken website because missing content?
Google Wallet app
Nice work Simon!
I mean to go thinner than 6/6s I can see the 3.5mm causing trouble. Part of me is still sad they bounced they went the other direction when it comes to iPhone thickness
You're right that text-to-sql doesn't work, but text-to-semantic-query works very well. This is an older video, but here's an example from Definite (I'm the founder)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mhLgUYOp8
If only someone would think of the childrens' privacy.
> You can now set Firefox to automatically launch whenever you start or restart your Windows computer. Setting Firefox to auto-launch optimizes efficiency in our browser-centric digital routines, eliminating manual startup delays and facilitating immediate web access.

What’s going on at Mozilla that caused normal release notes to get transformed into awful marketing speak like this?
> I'm trying my hardest to not assume this person is an industry plant

'The Heat Initiative' has been linked to political dark money:
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/01/apple-encryption-iphone-...
What are you arguing? That restaurants are getting squeezed by their suppliers? And btw Americans eat out more frequently now than just about any other time in history.
Luckily, few books ever reach more than a few thousand copies sold. https://open.substack.com/pub/countercraft/p/no-most-books-d...
This is something I really appreciate about the Linux ecosystem... If I find a free tool or game on iOS I hold my breathe and wonder if 1. it will do what it says 2. will extract all my data and send it somewhere 3. will be riddled with ads and slowdowns.

Within the Gnome ecosystem and CLI ecosystem, apps then to be very small and focused and they are not riddled with this bullshit.
Russia Shows Off Domestic Tech and Cars at Diminished Economic Forum
It is too. But it's a very different tale from the one where the executive just orders other people to take the bullet.
All of Hades 2's Lua files are editable on disk [video]
Thank you for disproving your own point.
I see. What does that change in terms of process needed?
That 5-star review is wonderful

> 5.0 | Typical 5 star-reviewer

> I enjoy putting my hand into a garbage disposal and giving money to large corporations.

> Ezra , 5/21/2024
Maybe with the Arduino CLI?
> (often with direct ip instead of domain name, so no https there anyway).

That's not true, one can have IP addresses in certificates, it's just very rare because virtual hosting makes "single IP" services rare nowadays: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.6 ("Defined options include an Internet electronic mail address, a DNS name, an IP address, and a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).") OpenSSL uses "IP:" syntax in their subjectAltName field (e.g. https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2016-Septemb... ) and the CAB seems to be on-board, subject to some "well, watch out for ..." language https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/guidance-ip-addre...
I think a lot of the veteran employees already quit before Redfall even shipped[1]. Hopefully they find something worthy of their talents to work on.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/report-most-of-arkane-austins-prey-v...
Ironically, since I think Windows ME, Windows has been doing this anyway. It became smarter in Vista - I believe it would preload binaries at a time of the day when they were most frequently opened. Also how often are people logging in afresh? It seems a bit of a waste of engineering time, but then again I hope that Mozilla has used these resources as a result of data showing it was worth implementing.
I think globally norway cuisine is identified with cured or other fish etc. thats probably not what the local diet really eats probsbly (based on two comments in this thread)
For now anyway
>the goal of presentation is not to surprise the audience, or have a clever twist. It's to be plain, open and honest.

Sometimes it is.

>you're probably being market pitched and what you see is fiction

Sometimes you are being market pitched.

It's all Steve Jobs did yet he's the classic example of good Power Point presentations.
Universal Access (Control? Whatever it's called) between multiple Macs not only allows sharing input methods but also dragging files back and forth, and works pretty seamlessly. I imagine the same mechanism is at work here.
Maybe look at the ESP32 chip's datasheet? [1] This is the first sentence in it: "ESP32 is a single 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi-and-Bluetooth combo chip designed with the TSMC low-power 40 nm technology." That's the chip. Not the development board.

1: https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/...
> Would you really go back to the internet as it was in the 90s?

It's like looking at a sweet kid who grew up to be a huge asshole and saying "would you really go back to that kid? He couldn't even drive a car!"

I don't want to be frozen in the embryonic phase. I want the bright future that was promised and then snatched away.
I'm an Australian citizen. Almost all my friends are Australian citizens.

What fucking "lived experience" are you waffling on like a pork chop about?
The "good" news is that ActivisionBlizzard was cooked already.
City and State leaders in talks to create Seattle-based AI-focused incubator
This sounds completely unrelated. If someone is really leaving a comment like that, it has nothing to do with the article and everything to do with the way weirdos engage with the internet.

The Slop is the wordy vapid garbage that maximizes SEO.
It would be hard to effectively defend Elon solely on the premise that his attacker is juvenile.
Most people that went after this tried for text-to-sql (e.g. ask a question and generate a ton of SQL to answer it). That approach has pretty much failed. The LLM could never have enough context to generate accurate SQL at a high enough rate to trust.

What we've found to actually work at Definite (I'm the founder) is text-to-semantic-query. This is an older video, but here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mhLgUYOp8
Sounds like someone using a particularly pathetic RLHFed LLM such as OpenAI's products.
A tangential topic studies how you can actually trust the hardware. Andrew "Bunnie" Huang has done a lot of great work in the area, first with Precursor, and lately with Infra-Red, in situ (IRIS) inspection of silicone.

* https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2020/introducing-precurso...

* https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/iris-infra-red-in-si...
There are chrome plugins that block domains from Google results for free and don’t require a login.
Unfortunately this is also in pretty decent farming land. The land owners will be compensated, but I understand many don't feel too happy about leaving their farms...
What are they trying to to do? They aren't going to dominate payments in the US, no one can tame that cluster fuck.

Payments have good solid revenue but no where in the range Google/Alphabet is used to. Especially when you consider the high-touch support required in payments.

This product space is so confusing in the US. P2P,does that include "business?" When a person is trying to conduct even the smallest amount of commerce as a street vendor or with another person they are faced with a shrinking lack of choices that all operate in a different way. Venmo, Stripe, Square, Clover?, Zelle. And you have to have them all because one or more of them will drop you after someone rolls out a new poorly tested fraud/abuse/whatever algorithm.

The regulatory landscape is a patchwork where further regulation attempting to clean up the mess generally makes it worse.
I agree with this for the most part but it doesn't explain everything.

The town I grew up in has a lot of areas that are conducive to children roaming; low traffic speeds and volume, separated sidewalks, parks, green spaces. As kids we ran around freely. The traffic volume and patterns haven't really changed at all and as a whole the community drives pretty slowly, nobody seems to be in a hurry. Yet you never see kids out anymore. Where did they go?
> Linus Tech Tips

Caught red-handed faking test results, the official response "if we actually did the tests we wouldn't be able to publish videos fast enough"
I lived in Japan for five years and I don't agree with you.

There's plenty of shit drivers there as everywhere but the physical environment (not the least of which street parking not being a thing) enables people to exist a lot more safely and conveniently outside of a car than in the US and the data bears that out. Eg narrow roads improves safety for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists alike.
Its infesting google image search too. I tried to find a picture of a guitarist playing a certain guitar. I got hits from “openart” where it looked like kurt cobain got crossed with a sand worm
As were the original's

https://www.reddit.com/r/HadesTheGame/comments/kwmhv1/script...
Considering how confidently wrong almost every answer I've gotten from an LLM has been, the last thing I think should be happening right now is for those wrong answers to be affecting the physical world. People will be dying left and right in its current state.
Can you expand more on the Screen Time issue?
The post talked about that too: LLMs could come up with a query for any question. A technical person would know how to spot the problems with that query or even the question, a non-technical person wouldn't know that they just asked for a bunch of hot nonsense.
> We walked 700km through Norway in the summer

“in the summer” must have helped. In the depth of winter, there’s less than 6 hours between sunrise and sunset in Oslo (https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/oslo?month=12), just over 4 1/2 in Trondheim (https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/trondheim?month=12).

To make matters worse, the sun doesn’t get high in the sky.
https://archive.ph/PSc2r
The attention market is filled with things that are fundamentally unworthy.

It's Darwinism at play not an attempt at science.
Mind awake and body asleep is nothing new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis
And there is some conservation of economic output. The overstaffed kitchen is slow, untrained, has little autonomy to make snap decisions (payment machine is broken? Sorry, come back later). The small crew will make collectively make the same as the larger one, and will be able to serve as many or more people.
How is this any different (text-to-sql vs text-to-semantic-query). Isn't this just comparing text-to-sql to text-to-slightly-simpler-sql?
The sole game for Linux (Tux Racer) remains free as in beer and freedom.
Theyre not secretly. They are. They admit it.

The question is, is it encrypted E2E everywhere, how controlled is it on device, how often is it purged.

The ubiquity of cloud means theres a huge privacy attack.surface and unclear how much ofvthat is auditable.

Lastly, theres no reason to think Apple will avoid enshittification as the value of their ecosystem and users grow.

Just takes one bad quarter and a greedy MBA to tear down the walls.

Past privacy protection is no Guarantee of future protection.
China SAID they cured diabetes. Just because someone says something doesnt make it true. They also only tested this on a single person.

If others can reproduce their work than that would be not only beneficial to mankind but reduce a huge finiancial burden of the healthcare industry.Once again its lets see if others can reproduce the work
absolutely. Look at politics today. For so many of us, voting for the other side means you are a terrible, stupid person. If everyone is right, we are all terrible, stupid people :) Go to any Reddit political thread to see it in real time.

I admit to doing it myself in the past (in real life, not Reddit).

I have tried to move past it but still find myself falling into that trap.

I have lately tried to approach issues from an assumption that both sides are probably right, they are just focused on different aspects of the same issue. Similar to the elephant and blind men analogy. In our case though the blind men are very aggressive.

I'd give a political example but don't want to deal with the downvotes :)
That blocking is great, but the FAST channels will still have ads, this may just stop the targeted ads that Goggle will overlay, just like your cable company which overlays ads on non broadcast channels.
With all the hallucinating (or "bullshitting") going on, it's hard to imagine LLMs working well for query generation. But hey, we're _very_ early days for all of this.
Violent uprising/revolution seems very unnecessary when Canada has regular stable elections in which to change course
Then, to me, it's spam. The only times I've asked for fake text generated by a computer I stitched together some markov chain library and a corpus myself, and then it was to make the point that some people are so badly affected by ads and political propaganda that their contributions to the texts of humanity could easily be replaced by my code.
Interesting to see this article and the comments here on how everyone's experience varies.

This happens to me when I go to bed while thinking hard on a specific problem, usually related to my startup.

It starts off awake with regular thinking, but then at some point it becomes surreal and events that have no cause and effect or basis in reality start occuring.

When I feel an "aha" moment where I become of the surreal nature of my recent thoughts, my memories cease and I assume I transition to real sleep.

In some cases, I wake up and when I check the time my 30 minutes of "thinking" actually occured over ~3 hours.

I find it fun, and as part of my self sleep experiments I try to even recreate it.
The only widget I use is a calendar showing my next half dozen appointments.
No it makes sense from a profit making perspective, absolutely.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37035733
Microneedle Glucose Sensors Keep Monitoring Skin-Deep
Well it's still young so of course there's only RP2040. I remember the 8051, 8052, 80C51, up to the recent ADuC845...
Personal pet peeve: only the latest versions of browser are supported - in the moment some new css/html/js feature is available, it is integrated in the website at lightspeed.

On it's own, this wouldn't be a problem of course. My problem with this is that there is no website on the web today that was technically impossible 5 years ago. Still, a 5 years old browser is unusable today due to this. (thinking primariy about ipads, which come with not updateable browsers)

Not sure if this is knowledge gap, or just simply unwillingness to write code that works on the widest range of devices...
Argh, my apologies. The comment above yours in the sequence I see defines spam as unwanted marketing content, yours as unwanted content in general. For reasons unknown I saw that one as the parent of yours.
a dodo stew!
> This product space is so confusing in the US

This. The proliferation is insane. Makes you yearn for the good 'ol (bad) days when Paypal was king. At least you knew what service to complain about back then. Particularly if you were a vendor, Paypal abuse was rampant.-
Letting go has occurred. "Since" means after.
Apple Environmental Progress Report 2024 [pdf]
Net profit margin has been going up since 2015 or so, release year of Windows 10. Gross profit has also been increasing YoY over the same time period. I know it isn't quite that simple - 2/3 of the business is cloud and productivity (Office, etc), and cloud is relatively new, adding a lot of growth, but there is nothing that forces them to eeek out nickels from 13yo via minesweeper ads.
That's spam. That's like the messages in your inbox of yesteryear that tried to entice you to look at them but they'll just waste your time or worse if you do.
Does Canada not already have a law against violent threats?

> If someone “fears” they may become a victim of a hate crime, they can go before a judge, who may summon the preemptively accused for a sort of precrime trial. If the judge finds “reasonable grounds” for the fear, the defendant must enter into “a recognizance.”

> A recognizance is no mere promise to refrain from committing hate crimes. The judge may put the defendant under house arrest or electronic surveillance and order them to abstain from alcohol and drugs. Refusal to “enter the recognizance” for one year results in 12 months in prison.

Jury-free, crime-free sentencing! Very cool!
Schlopp. Beautiful schlopp. Beautiful schlopp with a cherry on top.