skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Study some geography. The US is blessed with wide open coastal access to, not one, but two oceans, with innumerable natural harbors on each coast (Chesapeake Bay, the San Francisco Bay Area, Puget Sound, Port of NY&NJ, Port of Los Angeles, etc. etc. etc.). The US has more and better natural harbors than all of Africa. We tend to take this for granted, and forget that other countries are severely limited in comparison. These limitations are exploitable.

Russia needs Crimea because without it they have very limited access to the Black Sea, and by extension the Mediterranean and the Atlantic; their other coasts, on the Baltic and in East Asia, are not adequate substitutes. The Baltic ports in particular tend to freeze in the winter -- not good if you have global superpower aspirations.

In the case of Taiwan, look at a map of China. Although China is comparable in land mass to the US, their sea access is limited to an eastern coast enclosed almost entirely by the South China Sea / East China Sea. Look at all the countries on the other side of the Chinese coast: Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, and of course Taiwan. The US has military and naval bases in most of them. In the case of Philippines, Japan, and South Korea, the US has a LOT of naval bases, notably in Okinawa, halfway between Japan and Taiwan. This is no accident. In the event of conflict, the US could easily blockade China. A quick glance at the map shows how critical Taiwan is to this calculation. If the US controls Taiwan, it owns a huge island (a.k.a. unsinkable aircraft carrier) staring down the middle of the Chinese coast. If China owns Taiwan, the east coast of Taiwan has direct access to the rest of the Pacific.

US geography is so OP that we don't realize how bad other countries have it.

(By the way, the other countries mentioned are also geographically strategic assets. Kuwait has 10 times more coastline than Iraq. Without Kuwait, Iraq has only a few ports available to ship out their oil, and no other ocean access anywhere. Israel also controls a huge chunk of the Middle East's Mediterranean coastline.)
Yes, US Govt is routinely lying to you. That is not controversial at all at this point. Read the book. It’s a difficult read though. Might ruffle some patriotic feathers.

Think of how difficult it is today to get even remotely truthful news. And then think about how this horseshit will be written up by government funded historians once all the political scores are settled and winners are determined
The problems you describe are inherent to indirect invocations and are related to event-driven architectures only because typical event dispatching architecture is built on non-blocking calls.

You do not even need return-early (non-blocking) semantics for these problems to manifest. You can implement a giant string-keyed vtable for all methods in your program (or use a language with advanced reflection capabilities) and will have exactly the same problems. Namely there probably won't be tooling to match caller-callee pairs, which is the core issue here.
About two weeks ago, at the Microsoft Build 2024 Developers Conference in Seattle, Azure AI Studio was made generally available after being in preview since November 2023.

In this blog post I will guide you through getting started with Azure AI Studio and demonstrate how to send a prompt to a GPT model using the OpenAI API.
You may be over-romanticizing the hunter-gatherer times. It wasnt all just a nice summer evening where people did a nice walk in the forest after chilling at the beach. Life was rough, often it was cold and rainy, people were hungry and every little injury could easily mean a horrible death. Constantly worrying how to fill your stomach without getting killed by wolves or a tiger (or a rival tribe) or breaking your foot, or some deity being unhappy with you and sending a thunderstorm. Can't just pop a pill when you have pains or can't sleep.

True, mental health likely wasn't much of an issue. But the other issues you got in exchange...
For every epsilon of licentiousness, there exists a delta of venus, such that...? (as an algebraist, it seems analysts spend an awful lot of time chasing tails!)

I have been brought up in a culture where seduction follows a sequence ("running the bases"); are there cultures where that does not suffice, and seduction requires more sophistication: a net*, say, or even a filter?

* in line with the genre fiction cover kind of net, someone once won a competition we had at uni for "best line to get a member of the appropriate sex into your room" with 75 pound test, eg https://fr.aliexpress.com/i/839412765.html

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK9nx7e9IGM (Scholes, Meriwether, and Merton would've done well to listen more to this one?)
You can add security keys as a 2FA method and it will disable use of the trusted phone number for authentication
You don't seem to have a great level of awareness of the world.

There are plenty of regulatory bodies, especially the EU, who have forced Apple to do things it doesn't want to.

They are making noise about interoperability of communications and rather than have the US (we don't have RCS over here, so it's meaningless for us) make rules that forces their hand in a manner that may not be how Apple want to do things, they get out ahead to reduce the power of the argument.

The fact that it's a shitty implementation is the feature.
weird, i get a bunch of music and programming stuff on my Threads feed. it's not very deep, but what's on the surface is quite nice and not a bunch of almost-porn. Twitters become half porn though
Quite a few. Windows desktop/laptop + an iPhone/iPad is a super common combo.
>In America, it is literally against the law to enter an intersection unless you can completely cross it without stopping.

This is false: it depends on the state. In Arizona, it is the law that you can enter the intersection to turn, and then if the light turns red, everyone has to wait until you complete your turn before they can enter the intersection.
It's turtles all the way down. C++ compiles to C which compiles to Assembly...

AI will own the next layer... dynamically generating SQL and code to access existing systems.
Noodles: A Path Tracer Made of Blender Nodes
> the media only serves to try and empower the Right, which I always thought was something the media do not want

Whatever gave you that impression? A significant percentage of all media outlets are owned by very right-leaning businessmen, or otherwise entangled in capitalism to such extent that it may bias their judgement
Or target a device by IMEI or iCloud to be candidate to receive a software update, and push an update that sends data to "dev-llm-assistant.ai.apple.com".

"oh it's our dev version ? what's the problem ? we need data access for troubleshooting"
It seems pretty clear to me that they think that Roundup, in the form that is sold to regular consumers, is unsafe to drink.

They even provided a detailed and rational explanation for why they hold this opinion.
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We assumed it was human level in this thought experiment.
I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to reason with a human level AGI
But last at bringing a calculator on the iPad =)
I would hope but it's difficult to say. Crowdsourcing from subject-matter experts in a more authoritative manner than Wikipedia allowing people with limited knowledge decide what's "important", remove essential details, and erase niche sources of history.
It's not so impossible to spot flaws if you're using worst-case testing scenarios. Which are not worthless because such patterns do actually pop up in real world usage, albeit rarely.
My solution has been to use iCloud to sync photos to my desktop, but then I just backup the iPhoto directory on my desktop which has all the raw photos in case iCloud goes poof.
I've worried about not emailing!

And I'm not even swimming.
ah space might help, I'll try that. i keep having to prefix everything with please don't press enter until I tell you.
Costing a lot reduces demand. Framework isn't at all what I'm talking about, so you can stop trying to sell me on it. ;)
My final draft is often completely different to my first draft, which I wouldn’t want to ship.

Most of the time I only start to see the real shape of the solution after a few days of work.

Those iterations each day have value as they propel me toward a solution. But it’s more of an internal type of shipping. I’m shipping to myself.
> IMHO "every day" is far too frequent, and this ADHD-ish attitude is one of the reasons why the quality of average software has gone down the drain.

I think you are too quick to try to claim someone is incompetent or unsuited for a job just because you can't or won't understand a point they make over how many commits they make.

I disagree with you: I think that posting at least one commit per day is an incredible low goal. A commit can be anything, from a major refactoring to fixing a typo. Any developer worth its title is well aware of stuff that needs to be done in a project in spite of not being a high priority. From renaming a function to refactoring a class, from adding a unit test to tweak how a test is setup, there is always, and I mean always, things that need to be done in a project. Even updating a document or adding a comment counts as a commit.

And in the very least, if you feel that touching something in a project is a risky ordeal, your project needs tests.

This has nothing to do with streaks or dopamine rushes or pleasing managers. This is about getting stuff done. To me, a developer who can't figure out ways to be productive by contributing tiny commits spread over time is a developer who is wasting space in a team.
> Apple Music? This actually has a Windows client. I'm not sure how good it is

It is absolute garbage, but luckily the legacy integration in iTunes for windows still (sort of) works.
His point was always that the most inflated estimates of deaths in Cambodia were uncritically accepted by Western media and widely broadcast, while atrocities committed by friendly nations always leaned towards the very low estimates and the stories were buried.
And what would you do with an ipad running linux? There's no tablet software.

May sound harsh, but the Open Source movement is just not capable of producing enough software to make Linux a viable on the desktop, let alone on the tablet.
Yup, in every European or Japanese town or city I've lived in (with the exception of one very small and isolated town), I never bothered getting a car. Everything was close enough to walk to (usually 2-5 minutes walk), and for things that were too far, I'd take the tram or train.

I've also lived in a few American cities, and it's a completely different experience. Even from downtown Philly it was inconvenient to get anywhere without a car.
Have you bought a (Samsung) refrigerator lately?
Why would you suggest a conspiracy theory like that?

I'm not even sure what RCS is, other than a replacement text service that American phone companies offer. I am not aware that it's something that I could use over here.
They aren't bargaining with the colony, they're bargaining with the nation that sent its citizens there (or any nation that views the survival of the colony as important enough to make other concessions).

It's like a criminal that points a gun at your kid and threatens to shoot unless you do X.
Headline grab of the week, and it worked.
OK, but to be clear: his reputation among leftist historians, of which there are many: not all that great!
> They'll be accused of using racist or sexist AI

I don’t see how that would be relevant from the companies perspective.
Companies get accused of this and much worse all the time and it almost never has any real effect, happy to be corrected
> This is EXACTLY what people want.

You made the same mistake as the person you're refuting, only worse because you added "exactly" as if case closed.

Here's another take: "People" want different things. They listen to different music, have different opinions, buy different cars, have different tolerances of when a car needs washing.

My non-technical Mum refuses to use online banking; my non-technical Dad loves online banking. My non-techie sister loves issuing verbal commands to her smart speaker; my non-techie Mum refuses to speak to devices & switches her TV off at the wall every night.

The only "EXACTLY" is in marketing efforts trying to convince you of that state.
I think the sheer volume of "recent" content happens on those platforms absolutely dwarfs anything that anyone creates on their own time and private platform. For every 1 person writing their thoughts or findings on a blog, you have maybe 10 Thousand people making low-effort FB, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok postings. These people might as well be low-IQ "bots" and the platforms love them because they drive engagement, eyeballs, clickbait, rage and controversy.

We will never get that Web back. That innocence, naivety, hope and shared and private space is long lost.
The comment says that to support their main point
Vicky is not talking about the a story structure. If you followed a story structure, you start with how you've been (I always loved windows), then what happened (I got an automatic update), then piles of problems (The computer wouldn't start, lost some data, couldn't reinstall windows) then the solution (until I installed Linux) the moral (use Linux).

Vickys structure is sort of the opposite. Start with the most important part (You should use Linux), go deeper (for example Gnome, for desktop) or add surprise (it's very easy to install), open the conversation with a question (do you use Linux?) or close it with an answer (it doesn't have automatic updates).

That's why this blog post is kind of a mess, with conflicting ideas.
It still does not proof anything, as claiming that "there is certain bias for Human Language built into our heads" is quite different thing that saying there is some universal grammar in the brain structures, as much we do not have innate abilities to comprehend calculus or play chess, yet we still able to learn it, with a lot less training information than LLMs. In fact 2 books will suffice for the both.
What are some good resources (books/papers/videos/etc.) to get started on "Complex Systems", "Emergence", "Self-Organization" and related topics?
The stock of companies with low profit margins out performs the stock of companies with high profit margins. It’s not what you expect but it’s what you see unintuitively when you run the data. The proposed explanation is “Your margin is my opportunity.”
Why return an owned string instead of a borrowed str slice? A substring can always be borrowed and should never require a heap allocation?
I mean, even Apple can't match the markups nVidia has right now. If you break a GPU in your compute server, you wait months for a replacement, and the part is sent back if you can't replace it in five days.

Crazy times.
I don't think that's right. They don't get imported, period. I would love a small truck right now - I have a relatively rural property with lots of yard waste. I would make use of a pickup bed probably every weekend if I had one, but a small pickup truck simply doesn't exist in the market. Everything is a giant extended cab. I don't think I'm the only one with this need. There's nothing new out there that meets this need and there's not a lot used either.
The url on youtube is incorrect.

The url for the site is https://soloist.ai/ not solist dot ai.
Shouldn't people be able to run whatever software they like on a device they've purchased?

Anything less isn't full ownership.
> Emulating x86 on ARM (= running "normal" Windows on macOS M-processors) may be possible (I'm not sure), but practically not usable as it will be painfully slow.

I tried the UTM qemu based solution for x86 windows. It's there and it ... starts. But yes, it's way way too slow for daily use. If you just have an occasional task like document conversion once in a while, i guess you could.
Don't worry, continued meat agriculture with reckless use of the same antibiotics used in humans to keep cows from dying from feeding them over-subsidized corn will inevitably cause another pandemic.
well if you want to go all conspiracy theory, the media wants clicks because that gets them ad revenue, and so are making it seem like the right is winning because it gets you to click on the article which then, after you've scrolled past a bunch of ads, tells you they didn't actually win that many seats.
This is a book review, not a general article. The book the review is about covers the history of drug use, not current trends, which is why that is majority of the article talks about that. The final section does provide a reasonable about of links and arguments for a book review. While it isn't a anthropological study on that topic, that hardly justifies saying the author was tripping.
Every couple of months, without fail, the chrome extension starts failing. It gets to the point where I see the "current popup style" and just know that I have to ignore it, open the actual 1Password app (and login there), and THEN go back to chrome and open the extension again.

Some periods of time I simply went to copy from the app itself because the extension didn't work.

Been a paid customer for over a decade, and I originally bought it because the apps were so nice and they really did work 100%. The last couple of years have been painful at times though.
For performance reasons a lot of stuff has to also be calculated (and guessed) clientside (and corrected when discrepancies are found).
I don't think LLMs have all that much to do with "innate grammar".

"Innate grammar" are essentially the meta-rules that govern why the rules are what they are. For instance, an English phrase can be recognized as valid or invalid by other native speakers according to the rules of the language. But why are the rules what they are?

This is especially puzzling due to the dazzling variety of human languages. And the fact that, after a period of immersion, humans seem to have the natural capacity to learn all of them.

How do LLMs fit into this? Well, I think it would be interesting if we left a group of LLM to talk to each other for 1000 years. Then see if 1) they developed a new language branch 2) that could be relearned by humans through immersion alone.

It's true that LLMs have learned (have they? I suppose that's a loaded word) human languages like English. But it's unclear if they are governed by the same meta-rules that both constrains and drives the evolution of humanities thousands of distinct languages.
OP is right, these neighborhoods exists. it's so hard to put your finger on, but you recognize it when you see it. it's not necessarily downtown vs suburb, some suburbs are just kind of foul too. Just this weekend, me and my kids saw somebody trying to put a syringe in his thigh (being tactful here). we thought he was releaving himself and were making jokes about it, until we actually got closer. It's bad out there.

Like, parks always have had vagrants, but there's a difference between the loveable wino napping away his hangover or skulking junkies trying to score. i don't think they're necessarily dangerous, but children are seeing things they shouldn't at their age.

btw - i still think it's cars, mostly, but it all depends on the details. it's sadly and and and and..
No, this works fine even on current versions of Windows that can only run with the compositor, as the DWM special-cases blits from a display DC or GetDC(0). It will even switch windows out of independent flip if necessary to do this, which can be seen with PresentMon.
Thanks, you're right about that.

>but I don't want to reverse-engineer it.

is kind of my original point :) It's a pain to reverse engineer the geometry. You can copy the variables wherever you want and I would accept it, but it doesn't solve the robotics problem.

Feel free to copy and paste the code or refactor it however you want, if you send me a solution I will look at it if it is in the spirit of the contest.
Considering the latest EU elections I wouldn’t bet on them
I could live with ads in free streaming content, if the ads are inserted where the content intended them to be rather than 5 seconds before or after the break. And if the ads are the same frame rate, resolution, and hdcp status as the content they're inserted into, so that my tv doesn't have to do the hdcp handshake before and after the ad break.
Maybe I will keep my Netflix account at least I know it's going to improve FreeBSD.
(NetBSD fan here).
Maybe have them look at how many "Breastfeeding" videos I get on FB. Seriously, I hardly ever log-in anymore, but when I do and no matter how much I report or "hide" that content, I keep getting it. It looks to be link/page farms from Asia and India that create them with generic sounding names.
It's not about running arbitrary code, though; it's that you're specifically trying to use the exact thing that the cheaper edition has removed from it to create market segmentation.

In the case of Windows Home, that's components like Hyper-V. (Imagine taking Windows Home and injecting Hyper-V from a pirated copy of Windows Pro.)

In the case of iPadOS, that's all the components that macOS has that iPadOS doesn't.

The way to "add" those components to iPadOS is different, but the effect would still be the same: having a computer that works like it has the better edition installed, without paying for the better edition.
It can be hard to differentiate between insane aim and clever aim assistance

Wallhacks can be mitigated but can't be shut down completely. Valorant for example limits the information provided to clients based on pre-generated tile maps (for example, players in a tile won't have information about enemies on the other side of the map but will have information on the enemies on the adjacent tile within reasonable LoS) but wallhacks still exist because the LoS check has to be overly generous to account for ping and such
Even your statement shows how deep the absolution of drivers is - a driver killed the kid. Though they’d face no consequences in the US either
Everyone is exhilarated about how we innovate stuff (as if that was a good thing in itself, but I digress). Meanwhile it would seem a good part of human ingenuity and money is circumambulating one single topic: where else can I cram in even more ads?
I love Noam Chomsky so much. To me he is epitome of what a rational caring intellectual should be. Number one, he strives for the truth and while can have intellectual blind spots, isn't afraid of calling them out.

We had him has a guest speaker for an internal presentation at Google and of course we had some hyper-rational libertarian eastern block swe kid who was going to take him down and Noam was super respectful, spared with the kid for awhile and then changed the subject slightly while destroying the libertarian kid's entire argument.

You don't just debate Noam Chomsky.

https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200304/df20030409.jp...

Noam Chomsky vs. Michel Foucault - Dictatorship of the Proletariat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpoLLAJ1t74
They're not popping up, the wave function simply branches. In Copenhagen you cut off the branches, in MWI you do not. Total energy in MWI is the weighted sum of the energy of all branches (weighted according to borns rule). If one could dismiss MWI this easily, there wouldn't be any serious proponents of it and we wouldn't have to have this discussion.
Maybe they made mammoth jerky.