skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even landing will be a huge problem. Think about the difficulties with the launch pad on Earth (engineering a launch pad for a heavy rocket is almost as hard as engineering the rocket itself). Well, to land a heavy rocket using retrofiring engines will require an engineered landing pad. Probably not quite as fancy as a launch pad, but you've got humans on the ship, so it will need to not bury itself completely, or melt the surface and weld itself to it, etc etc.

And that's before you start to think about a launch pad for the return mission. So you'd probably need to have launch a series of robots and factories to build this in advance. Maybe, but we haven't even come close to robots building something of that magnitude on Earth, let alone a planet that's quite different.

So, never say never, but it's a _long_ while off yet; long enough that social upheaval due to climate change will probably put a pause on any efforts for quite some time.
That's inevitable. Management knows they're too big to fail.
I don't really consider football world cup the same thing. There's a fairly limited amount of theater etc. available streaming.
This assumes an infallible judicial system which ours is NOT. I find the blind trust in the courts a very boring and unhelpful take. What do you personally think about FISA, Patriot Act, etc.. which makes it easy for the government to spy on its own citizens?
Bullying is not an evolutionary mechanism.
Question: Is it possible to run ad blocking at the OS level rather than in the browser? Requests to ad servers just never leave your PC? traffic from ad servers just never arrives at the browser?
I switched to firefox one year ago. Works fine!
Yes each entry in the ssh config file has its own IdentityFile entry with the full path to the key file. Maybe it’s because they are indented an additional level more than the HostName and User fields it’s not recognizing them?
No. Brave will keep supporting Manifest v2 extensions.
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There's a good chance that whoever is driving this change within Google gets promoted/retires in less than a year, and then it gets left in limbo forever like so many other TODO():'s in the code...
I don't understand why people want to teach others how to cope with an abusive relationship, instead of telling them to leave.
everyone should just have a pihole
Arc are planning on building a built in adblocker https://x.com/joshm/status/1728926780600508716
"Reeks" (stinks) not "wreaks" (inflicts). And for any linguistic archaeologists of the future, yes, this is evidence that those two words are audibly indistinguishable in American English in this time period.
You contradict yourself: first you blame Windows then you blame clueless people.

Here's the truth: for any organization the most secure operating system is the one your people have experience in. That's it. Good Windows sysadmins can run a secure Windows shop and bad Linux sysadmins can run an insecure Linux shop. It's the people.
I disagree, 192kpbs music and DVD quality movies and shows are fine with me and the disk space requirements are low. Classics are dirt cheap and ripping them is trivial.
SHAP is pretty separate IMO. Shapley analysis is really a game theoretical methodology that is model agnostic and is only about determining how individual sections of the input contribute to a given prediction, not about how the model actually works internally to produce an output.

As long as you have a callable black box, you can compute Shapley values (or approximations); it does not speak to how or why the model actually works internally.
It’s priceless. Good humans if they’ve locked it up in perpetuity.
That noise you keep hearing at night? It's the sound of goalposts being constantly shifted.
All browsers break sites. In the past few months we've had our stuff broken due to bugs in Safari, Chromium and even Firefox.

But the situation is nothing like when IE was alive. Webdevelopment is much more pleasant now.

If I had to pick a black sheep now, I would say it's Safari, simply because the updates are tied in with OS updates. That's a shame.
If I need to keep Chrome around for development, I'm not using extensions on it, and I'm only visiting the sites I'm developing.
US election officials split on AI disclosure rules for political ads
Shadertoy is your best bet. There are a few people doing it there.
Hey, thanks for remembering! It's been slow-going, but I'm getting close to finishing the employer-side pre-MVP (table-stakes functionality that I can build upon later). For now pushing in the direction of improving upon the communications between the hiring team (whether at employer or third-party recruiter) and the candidate. The email-based back-and-forth leaves a lot to be desired, and results in frequent ghosting on all the sides. Tackling that for now. Got tons of ideas and have had a good uptake on the candidate side, now need to show value for the hiring teams.
If one must negotiate with gangsters to get justice then it's time to reform the system.
First recommendation would be Firefox.
I ask Siri to skip the current track sometimes, because my $600 airpods max couldn’t be bothered to make their buttons configurable. That’s about the only time I use or want to use “AI” on my phone ever – and I wish I didn’t have to do even that.

Edit: hot damn I just learned double clicking the crown skips the track, later Siri!
Beyond the Hype: Intro to LLMs and Embeddings (Using Everything Open Source)
I don’t understand why people say telegram is missing e2e. There is a convenient way to create e2e chat when you need them (which is “rare” for me).
China's tallest waterfall goes viral after tourist video reveals pipe source
When I used tmux I used to set Ctrl-PgUp/Down bindings to scroll the buffer.
Asymmetric positions
Yup there's AutoFocus which I use daily with Aerospace

https://github.com/synappser/AutoFocus
QA costs money. Why would you spend that money? The clients are captive: replacing the system would mean replacing every room lock which is serious cost and hassle.
Siri is absolute trash and I wonder how much brand equity they've burned. My homepod is collecting dust.
Specifically, the ability to block specific URL patterns in addition to just hostnames.

DNS blocking gets you 90% of the way there, though. (And the only way to block your smart fridge from phoning home)
I cycle and drive and break the traffic rules far more often on the bicycle, mostly because there is no enforcement. Also you can do less harm on the bike.
It is amusing to me in a comment about a particular group only seeing hammers and nails that the presented solution focuses specifically on a singular technology / implementation.
The history of all psychiatry is dark. The problem with pointing at the history and saying, "Look at the terrible history of autism treatment!" is it often treats all current treatments as being equally as horrible as the "Let's try and shock the autism out of these kids".

Modern treatment and therapy are not focused on "curing" autism. It's pretty much all about building out life skills. It doesn't do that by slapping the kids for doing the wrong thing.

For example, part of my kid's therapy has been around tolerance for brushing teeth. Are you seriously going to try and argue that my kid would be better off if they never went through that therapy? Even though they can now tolerate teeth brushing and even having the dentist poke around in their mouth.

Autism is a spectrum and so are the therapies for it. Certainly, kids with more mild forms of autism don't need as much therapy, but it's really frustrating to see "Look at the time a guy tried slapping kids with autism, all therapy is this bad".
Oklahoma Stakes Its Claim to the Tallest Building in the U.S.
That's open/closed captions, not subtitles.
Just in case people don't know how stupid Meg is, she (1) acquired Skype; (2) did not acquire Skype's p2p tech; (3) fucked the Skype founders on an earn out; (4) was apparently shocked when said founders declined to renew the licensing deal for the p2p tech.

What business ebay, an auctions company, had owning Skype was never explained.

Discussion has mostly disappeared from the internet, but you can still find traces eg https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/31/ebay-in-litigation-with-sk...
> Shareholders agreed to that, and he met those standards. If you didn't like the metrics, you should voted against it in 2018, and upon failure, sold the shares.

I'm in favour of lower executive compensation in all publicly traded companies I hold (which, due to ETFs, is nearly every publicly traded company), I can't very well stop holding stock of every company that doesn't decrease executive compensation.
And more generally: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission
I use AutoFocus which gives focus-follows-mouse with AeroSpace and its a good enough replacement for i3wm.

Extremely thankful for both projects.

https://github.com/synappser/AutoFocus
Which features do you mean?
An airless Earth would be extremely hard to land on. You could easily get to quite low altitude, but orbital velocity at sea level is almost 8km/2... faster than at "orbital altitude".

Once you hit an orbit intersecting the ground, you have to scrub all your speed in whatever that amount of time is, which is gonna be short. It's basically an orbital launch in reverse.
I’m skeptical that it could ever be possible to tell the difference between a hallucination and a “fact” in terms of what’s going on inside the model. Because hallucinations aren’t really a bug in the usual sense. Ie, there’s not some logic wrong or something misfiring.

Instead, it’s more appropriate to think of LLMs as always hallucinating. And sometimes that comes really close to reality because there’s a lot of reinforcement in the training data. And sometimes we humans infer meaning that isn’t there because that’s how humans work. And sometimes the leaps show clearly as “hallucinations” because the patterns the model is expressing don’t match the patterns that are meaningful to us. (Eg when they hallucinate strongly patterned things like URLs or academic citations, which don’t actually point to anything real. The model picked up the pattern of what such citations look like really well, but it didn’t and can’t make the leap to linking those patterns to reality.)

Not to mention that a lot of use cases for LLMs we actually want “hallucination”. Eg when we ask it to do any creative task or make up stories or jokes or songs or pictures. It’s only a hallucination in the wrong context. But context is the main thing LLMs just don’t have.
I'm pretty sure that is a myth, and it only appears that way because the circumstances are different:

People with ADHD are treated on a very low dose, and slowly titrated up which makes you much less likely to feel high. People without ADHD that are illegally using stimulants aren't getting treated by a doctor, and aren't going to slowly titrate up the dose, or take it consistently in low doses over a long period of time. People with ADHD sometimes do feel a small high or euphoria for a short time when they first start a new medication.

People without ADHD but using adderall illegally, e.g. as a "study drug" are not getting a high or euphoria if they consistently use a low dose like an ADHD person.

I have clinically diagnosed ADHD, but even the lowest possible dose of adderall makes me extremely high in an uncomfortable way and unable to sleep for days. Most likely, I also have a liver enzyme mutation that causes me to not metabolize amphetamines properly. Ritalin I metabolize quickly, and don't feel a high at all.

You can't diagnose ADHD by giving a medication and seeing how people respond. Even people with ADHD respond very differently to the same medications.

There is also the fact that medication with ADHD can give people executive control over hyperactive physical movement, so they may seem to be "slowing down," which kind-of looks like the opposite of a stimulant effect, especially to adults watching hyperactive kids calm down. But that is basically the opposite of what is actually happening- the increased stimulation allows the brain to regain executive control of behavior.

Here is a journal article reviewing the evidence and debunking this idea: https://www.nature.com/articles/1301164
It could be like Maps - very rudimentary at first, much better later. I’m sure they are working on it around the clock.
Really nothing interesting in this article, just what everyone already knew - Apple didn’t invent LLMs, but the next version of Siri will be powered by one.
> We need to adjust for technology.

We adjust for technology 100% of the time when technology has made enforcement harder.

We adjust for technology 0% of the time when technology has made enforcement easier.
At a corporate level, you are not paying for the feature - you are paying for the service contract.

Yes, you could throw developers at every little piece of technology you need in a stack. But $800 a month for Airtable is cheap compared to even the cheapest developer.

Even if you are confident you could build something in a weekend and have it work maintenance free for years, that's not a risk most managers would be willing to take.

This is a large reason why corporations largely steer clear of most open source projects. The cost is not the issue - if something breaks and there is no one to take your call, it might cost you millions more dollars than you saved.
Note that this behavior is completely implementation specific and totally undefined in the Common Lisp standard.
Here's the full-sized pic:

https://rare-gallery.com/mocahbig/1305111-SpaceX-Starship-Bl...
hearing the spacex is half the fun. Its fun to hear them cheer. and then hearing the Gasps and "ooooooh"s and wondering what do they know thats happening.
> Plexure boasts that it can predict what day a given customer is getting paid on and use that information to raise prices on all the goods the customer shops for on that day, on the assumption that you're willing to pay more when you've got a healthy bank balance.

wow that is so gross
This comment has “no one wants a phone with a touchscreen” vibes.
Apple isn't behind on AI any more than they were behind on cloud storage. It doesn't matter when, it doesn't matter if it isn't SOTA, I don't know how many different ways I can word that they have your data. Google has your data.

model-as-service companies can have all the features they want, their models can't do anything meaningful without the data Apple, MS, Google have.

Apple is at zero risk that someone else will have your notes, entire app library with data, mail, calendar, messages. They hold so much leverage. Even if you use some other (so far nonexistent) secret all-model, what are you going to access it with?
specs are not types. Your Clojure compiler will have a hard time statically checking specs at compile time.
AI is corporate circle jerk and aknowledgement to how much they are disconnected with their customers.
How did Apple fall behind exactly? This article is very negative and yet very sparse on details particularly given Apple hasn't even had the event in only a few days. Seems like you would reserve judgement. If you look at Google Home amd Alexa, they may do some things better but they also do many things very poorly. I hardly think Apple has fallen behind in a substantive way and this article adds zero color to say otherwise.
didn't realize that was something to point out ...
Pi-hole and other DNS-based ad blockers are a lot worse than even Manifest v3 ad blockers, so they aren't any alternative.
I think it’s somewhat antithetical for Apple to develop a state-of-the-art AI because it requires so much data.

One of the pillars of Apple marketing is that they don’t collect or sell your data.

I consider Apple to be a hardware company first—they give me a thing, I give them money. That’s it.

Yes, the software makes up the ecosystem and features, but I’m paying for a tangible product, and they’re not selling me.

I think this ethos is a significant part of why they have become as successful as they are.
A bit trigger-happy to publish this just a few days ahead of Apple's annual developer conference. The article would have more merit after WWDC.

Anyway, Apple is rarely the first mover in a given technology space, so I wouldn't be too concerned yet.
Chaotic nonlinear dynamics have been an object of mathematical research for a very long time and we have built up good mathematical tools to work with them, but in spite of that turbulent flow and similar phenomena (brains/LLM's) remain poorly understood.

The problem is that the macro and micro dynamics of complex systems are intimately linked, making for non-stationary non-ergodic behavior that cannot be reduced to a few principles upon which we can build a model or extrapolate a body of knowledge. We simply cannot understand complex systems because they cannot be "reduced". They are what they are, unique and unprincipled in every moment (hey, like people!).
"The system gets the software it deserves" is a true statement, in a beautifully concise formulation.
I am looking for Google Cloud Run arm64 support.
The unquantized llama 70B requires 142GB of VRAM. Some of the quantized versions are quite decent but they do tend to get overquantized below around 26.5GB of VRAM (~3 bits per weight).

So you’d at minimum be looking at dual 3090 with NVLink for about $4000 or so. Or for the highest performing non-quantized model, you’d be spending about $40,000 for two A100’s.
Every app there are gets worse and worse -- aka Doctorow's enshittification

So people will just take the sudden deluge of ads in stride and move on. Chances of this moving people to Firefox is slim.
Nvidia no. All the new LLM driven products from the last year or so, yes.
What's Next for ASML? [video]
And since two is more than zero, it's not actually unrealistic to write a fiction about such a character.

A fiction protagonist is often the outlier because they have more interesting interactions than the median type and hence there's more material for the story. This is a pretty basic tenet of drama, not some woke invention.
You don't crash into a stationary post or a pedestrian on highways.
If you crash into a stationary post, you were texting. If you crash into a pedestrian, WTF was the pedestrian doing there.
It's so hard too because the people tasked with making the tradeoff decision are almost always the parents of the child, because the most effective interventions have to take place before the child can make her own decisions. They love and desperately want the best for their child, but likely have little direct experience with either side of the set of tradeoffs.

The main exception seems to be deaf parents of deaf children, but I don't know what the data says about what they usually choose.
Hard to believe that NASA sent people to the moon 60 years ago, when they can't even get basic reaction thrusters working after over 10 years of developing and building the Starliner...
Double click the digital crown, no?
I had kar.ai for a few years before the AI craze started.
It was at the regular price, I bought it from 101domains.

I let it expire around April 2019, thinking it was not a cool tld.

Couldn't expect my grandma/non-tech friend to remember ".ai". Right!??

Not sure how much it would be worth today, but definitely more than what I paid.
I never stopped. ;D Renting nerfed media forever always sounded like a bad deal to me. I'll own everything and be happy.
Tesla Model 3 competitor, costing $36K in China - barely $1.5K less than M3, is somehow a proof "we are cooked"? Who do they mean by we? Detroit?
I expect we'll experiment with that as soon as we get a man and a woman imperfectly supervised in a low-gravity environment for 9+ months.
Ah! Coulda sworn I tried that… thanks!

Weird that its not listed in the settings menu with all the other shortcuts.
I think I'll end with this from Scott Manley, who I think communicates the most reasonable point in this regard.
https://youtu.be/8htMpR7mnaM?si=z6UlTM5qC2feP-dM&t=420

So there... you're vindicated :-)
Its curious no one is pointing the finger at the ones who sold roaring kitty all those options contracts. It doesnt even appear they have hedged their position at all which alludes to the markets greater issues of systemic failure to deliver (FTD).

Its concerning the US House of Appropriations Committee is currently trying to prohibit the SEC from implementing or collecting information related to the Consolidated
Audit Trail (CAT).
Anothere 'e' is required in this sentence.
To be fair this doesn’t seem to be a case of that.

They applied to a job they were not licensed to perform.

Then got a job with lesser requirements and failed a validation check.

The use of the corporate card sounds to be quite dodgy to say the least, I’m pretty sure that the offer was rescinded not because the CC was cancelled but why it was cancelled in the first place.
NASA is just the customer. Starliner is built by Boeing.
Building Uber a $6M table component
I'm amazed that Lynch got off. Legal technicality? Would love to see an analysis and explanation.
Yep. The solution is government regulation. Vote with your votes, not your wallet. (The latter is just pain for ephemeral gain, if any gain at all. Laws are actual gains.)
Siri is 12 years old now and it never caught up, so I wouldn't give it much benefit of the doubt.

Except: With LLMs the race has recently basically restarted. I hope Apple does better in this round.
Can you elaborate on what constitutes the “space industry” in this sense? Sometimes the OSHA groupings don’t align as well as one would think. A wet lab testing material compatibility and a rocket test stand can both be “aerospace” but have very different risk profiles.
As long as they don't change their croissant recipe again, they can have all my data and I will not skip their ads. :-)
yeah, five and the postal code in my country is 4 digits
1) User agent switcher.

2) Report those sites to https://webcompat.com/, and/or to Mozilla (who have an evangelism team to reach out to those sites and get them to stop doing that).
Tbf all the other voice assistants are equally useless and it's not because any of them are incapable of taking advantage of a smartphone's functionality (like, say, editing text).
Yep I did try that, no go.
StarCraft II expertise linked to enhanced brain connectivity
> check fantastic European arte.tv

There are some good stuff on Arte. But most of the stuff on Arte has got to deal with two major Arte problems:

- Arte's brain is so far left it fell out of its skull
- it is *the* perfect example "artsy fartsy"

I am not thrilled when my EU taxpayers money goes toward funding artsy fartsy far-left stuff.
If this is about trust, Google is by far less trustworthy. Firefox is a flawed option vs. a shitty non-starter option.
For years folks have been vocalizing fears that Toyota is behind on the EV transition ... but it turns out they made this decision intentionally and it is paying off. EV is overhyped and underdeveloped, and hybrids are all around better.

Same could likely be said for Apple. They might be just where they want to be.
Its one of BioWare memes.
Power Law Distributions in Entrepreneurship (2015) [pdf]
4*(speed^2) because the relative speed is doubled.
Apple doesn't have an answer for creating GenAI content, yet makes most of their money selling products for creatives. You could argue they're "doing it for the little guy" by not adding it, but their creative software needs GenAI features to stay competitive.
People also maliciously ignore the obvious fact that living in a society which is lenient towards burglary automatically attracts opportunists, who were not actually poor in the first place.