skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
eBay was a great company until its McDonnell Douglas merger
One extensive benchmark I like is https://bigcode-bench.github.io/

It places Claude 3.5 Sonnet in third position.
This and criminal proceedings is really the only way corruption and malicious behavior can be stopped.

Even though it will harm shareholders, they still have a responsibility in attempting to limit the behavior. (Although from the boards perspective they'll claim they can do anything as long as they're there)
Interesting idea, although I'm not sure of the choice of engines. I recognize LaTeX and groff, but none of the others. And conversely, engines that I would expect to be there like plain TeX, Lout, and even just Markdown (which combined with pandoc can be used to typeset documents). aren't there.
> The author sheds no light in their state of learning or lifestyle. If I had to venture a guess, I would think that they play significant role..

I think that's an excellent point, though the author sets up the article in a scientific way, describing the practice as mechanical - a lot of the ability to access these states comes from coming into it with a wholesome and cleaned up mind, which comes about through doing wholesome actions, saying wholesome things (and not lying), and generally the practice of "sense restraint" - not allowing unwholesome influences into your life. Otherwise, you sit down and your mind is a well of negative thoughts and feelings that completely cloud your ability to access jhana.

Of course, if you're the sort of person that behaves, speaks and thinks that way in general, you may not realise that that's one of the main things that allow you to access the jhanas.
I feel since a lot of platforms integrate tool use (e.g. search) its become easier to root out hallucinations by just asking the model to search and validate its own output.
Likewise.

In olden times, the monarch's wealth was the state's wealth, and vice-versa.

CEOs being shareholders has a similar problem, in that the only monetary punishment possible against the collective necessarily also harms those with no power to prevent the actions which were punished because it's not a democracy.

(One dollar one vote != one person one vote; also the workforce generally, not sure about Boeing in particular, have minimal to zero shares/votes).

For this reason, I favour a degree of personal responsibility for management all the way from line managers to the board… and for government officials all the way from parking inspectors to presidents.

The details of such a system to make it fair and balanced are an entire constitution, not something I'd be qualified to write, and definitely to big to fit into this comment.
can you explain a bit what you mean with

> - Lack of dependency injection/inversion of control. I find it interesting the author lists this as an advantage. With Rails, I was always a little anxious not knowing where things were defined or being implemented.

Rails itself doesn´t have framework/library for DI/IOC but you can use constructors, I understand that a lot of Rails devs won't and just use wtv they need.
The "actually portable executable header", fun to read through: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jart/cosmopolitan/1.0/ape/...
> You can program a concept of truth into them, ...

The question was, how you do that?

> Nobody here said that, that is your interpretation.

What is my interpretation?

I don't think that the problems are unsolvable, but we don't know how to do it now. Thinking that "just program the truth in them" shows a lack of understanding of the magnitude of the problem.

Personally I'm convinced that we'll never reach any kind of AGI with LLM. They are lacking any kind of model about the world that can be used to reason about. And the concept of reasoning.
With the Boeing 737 MAX, it was actually the Chinese Civil Aviation Administration that first decided to ground the plane. The American FAA was reluctant to ground the plane, and only did so after most of the rest of the world had done so.

This is a case of American regulators putting an American company's business interests above safety. If it had been a foreign aircraft manufacturer, I doubt the FAA would have waited to ground the planes.
It's an interesting page, but I think at the moment it only summarizes common errors of english-as-second-language speakers of other European languages. But there might be a pattern there.

Also I doubt that there is a continuity between the mentioned Erasmus students and staff in the European-union for example. I would assume that's a later addition to the wikipedia article when the most likely subject of Euro english is about patterns of the use of english-language in the EU bureaucracy. Maybe a better title would be EU-administrative English or something of the like.

What's not so often talked about is of course that the pronunciation of english by non-native speakers is different and I do think there is tendency for some convergence among some aspects of pronunciation that I observe in meetings and zoom calls at work. Aspiration of consonants, clearer separation of individual words. The result is that native-speakers - while being more eloquent in English which puts them at some advantage - sometimes have a disadvantage because their advanced use of language is not understood well. IIRC MTV Europe realized that british hosts wouldn't be understood across europe, when english-speaking french/german/italian hosts would.
>solely Texas is larger than ENTIRE Western Europe

Definitely not, Texas is ~700,000 km2 while Spain is ~500,000 km2.
The problem is that it is simply a dual-interface EEPROM. It only holds data, it doesn't process it. Great for something like a device whose configuration you can update via NFC tap (think e-paper display), not so great if you want to do a whole challenge-response dance between microcontroller and NFC smartphone.
Adobe's Terms of Use Controversy Provided an Opportunity to Improve
I have a soft spot for red-black trees ever since reading about them in Dr. Dobbs - it's the first time I remember reading about a data structure (and it went mostly over my head at the time - but the fond memory remain):

I believe it was the 1992 article by Bruce Schneier:

https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/articles/DDJ/1992/9204/9204c...
Fusion might be good comparison here. Yes we can make it happen, yes we have multiple solutions. But still even with decent investment we are not near economical energy production. And it is not like we have not tried reasonably.

Somethings are just rather complicated at scale and both cultured meat and fusion belong to this category.
Roman beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius is open to the public for the first time
Up to 78M batteries will be discarded daily by 2025, researchers warn
Here's the actual EC press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

It's very readable!
No, there was a downturn in both the defense and the aviation industry that hit Boeing like a double whammy. It laid off tens of thousands before the acquisition and tens of thousands afterwards, for a total of over 100k laid off in the 1990s (Boeing has 170k employees today). They used this opportunity to disproportionately target older and more expensive employees which led to many of their best engineers getting canned.

Everyone likes to point to the McDonnell Douglas acquisition as Boeing’s downfall but the truth is that Boeing executives had already gutted the company.
i’m not a sports fan, but the feeling of being there can’t be compared to watching the event from home. this is not the part to optimize, in my opinion.
I wonder if this will come down to an arguement of 'letter' and 'spirit' of the law; clearly Apple's lawyers will say 'notarization' is for security which is explicitly allowed under the DMA. However Europe will argue Apple takes it 'too far' and has imposed terms to make it less likely for developers to use new app stores and thus undermines what the law is intended to do.

In the end, what will happen is Apple will cave (not by choice), with this press release being a warning shot. Many money will be spent on lawyers on both sides, however Apple will have gotten a few extra months before being required to change their design to be in compliance.

For Apple, every day of stalling is more revenue and profits under their 'old' but 'dying' (in the EU) model, but at some point in the next 12-24 months expect to see a number of changes to satisfy the commission. It's extremely unlikely Apple will escape by having to do nothing, that's clearly not the intention of the commission and they usually get their own way. Expect to see the CTF gone and a much friendly way of installing app stores - I even expect the text/interfaces the user sees to be designed/approved by the commission.

Although I will be unable to edit this comment I will check back on 24th June 2025 to see whether this was right.
> 100% branch coverage means that you've fundamentally covered all potential states your software can enter.

No, it doesn’t.

bool is_even(int n) {
return true;
}

bool test_is_even() {
return is_even(2);
}

100% test coverage. And yet.
How is that "selling my traffic"?
A Web Page on Kryptos
Although I agree that a lot of people may be overblowing their experience, either by mistake, through ignorance, or else for clout/internet points, think about it this way: when the Buddha was alive, the jhanas were standard practice, and had been for as long as yogis could remember. The Buddhist teaching almost assumes a familiarity with the jhanas and doesn't really explicitly teach how to access them. The entire teaching is based on the Buddha learning the jhanas from various teachers of the time, mastering them, and eventually finding them unsatisfactory. Yogis who came to the Buddha seemed to already have an understanding and background with jhanas, which the Buddha then taught them to use to realise what he himself had realised. What this tells us is that jhanas aren't some kind of lofty, difficult to achieve thing that only a select few ever achieve; instead, it seems to suggest that it's something that's available to anyone with enough dedication and is something that transcends traditions or religions, and has been known about for millenia.
In my experience, large corporations that want to get away with breaking the law have a structure something like this:

* An "everyone was doing it, and everyone knew" layer of junior employees aged 20 or so.

* An obfuscation layer, comprised of several levels of middle manager who regularly shift roles, companies and countries.

* An "I had no idea this was going on, and would have stopped it if I'd known" layer. This is the CEO and suchlike.

If the criminal behaviour comes to light, the top-layer employees pretend not to have known about it; the bottom-layer employees say (accurately) that everyone was doing it and they thought it was normal; and the middle layers split themselves between the two, relying on forgotten e-mails, miscommunications, and placing the blame on people who aren't around any more.
I can't see big technical limitations resulting in slow QRCode scanning. We manage to detect fast cars going 120mph to fine them, we can read fingerprints instantly through a screen. We can take pictures of galaxies light years away.

30 years ago you could kill ducks with the NES guns instantly and it worked by detecting pixels.

I'm sure we can figure out how to analyze black squares and turn them into a number under 50ms.
To non-EU big tech that is. They are very happy to protect Spotify.
Interesting idea.
But I wonder what you have in mind. I plugin that that open when you go to Amazon to see the ratings, "cost per usage" and any other statistics? Or are you thinking about something else?
It can model that if you add it. You can model total or partial hardware failure if you want and its a case you care about, you can add steps that corrupt your data or steps that kills machines at any time. TLA+ is just a way of defining state transitions and temporal properties, inside that add the use cases you need and it will handle them just fine.
> Why do people always think that a superintelligent being will always be destructive/evil to US?

I don't think most people are saying it necessarily has to be. Quite bad enough that there's a significant chance that it might be, AFAICS.

> I rather have the opposite view where if you are really intelligent, you don’t see things as a zero sum game

That's what you see with your limited intelligence. No no, I'm not saying I disagree; on the contrary, I quite agree. But that's what I see with my limited intelligence.

What do we know about how some hypothetical (so far, hopefully) supreintelligence would see it? By definition, we can't know anything about that. Because of our (comparatively) limited intelligence.

Could well be that we're wrong, and something that's "really intelligent" sees it the opposite way.
If you're interested in the craft/quality that goes into these products (or frequently doesn't), "Tanner Leatherstein"'s YT channel is a suggested watch.

https://www.youtube.com/@tanner.leatherstein

He dissects luxury leather products.

Tanner has two recent videos on Hermès that seem related enough to mention here:

What does Hermès actually sell? A closer look into astronomical price tags of the luxury legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_f0jFs22Ts

Discover the real value of Hermès: Unraveling the mystery behind luxury prices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fkzpyHJ77g
> doesn't mean when the algorithm gets actually implemented in C, it still maps to TLA+ as proven.

So true, but you know what would be amazing and useful? A TLA+ spec transpiler that emits fuzzing code. That would probably be easier to make than TLA+ spec transpiler that emits C.
The whole Debeers diamond ring scam has worked for decades until the last few years where synthetics are crashing the market.
If Apple pulls out of EU there will be no excuse for a homegrown startup not to take its place. The domestic market is smaller than US and China, but with less competition you stand a chance.
That's the per-wafer price, via a distributor. I bet you get a decent discount if you buy a few thousand wafers straight from the manufacturer.
The Great Decline of Europe
It's unclear whether the mention of climate change here is pure editorializing but, if not, then here is another example of where the modern obsession with climate change is negatively impacting conservation of valuable habitats for wildlife. (It shouldn't need pointing out, but conservation of valuable habitat for wildlife is a human obligation and essentially synonymous with looking after the other organisms with which we share Earth, and is partially correlated but not synonymous with countering anthropogenic climate change).

Or put another way, if a human is fearful for their safety due to their proximity to old-growth trees, then they should not live there. Same reasoning as for bears or tigers or sharks: the answer isn't "kill them".

> Officials told the Associated Press that a sweeping ban on logging old-growth would make it harder to thin forests to protect communities against wildfires that have grown more severe as the planet warms.

> “To ensure the longevity of old-growth forests, we’re going to have to take proactive management to protect against wildfire and insects and disease,” Forest Service Deputy Chief Chris French said.
To be fair the titanium thing isn’t just Boeing. Airbus used the same supplier
I see, it sounded like you were saying you were visualizing a schema[1] (not schematic) of a house but thought it didn't qualify as visualization for some reason.

Does it feel like this is unsymbolized[2] or taking the form of a different mental imagery? (Mental "imagery" can be "visual imagery", or aural, tactile, kinesthetic...)

(Second link is my own re-re-posted comments about the subjective experience of "unsymbolized thought" and doesn't reflect some newer understanding on my end about it -- chiefly, the understanding of unsymbolized thoughts as similar to the aborted motor commands seen in subvocalizing, for example, except aborted much earlier; this explains why it would be difficult to continue doing it if I don't keep it moving along, since each "unsymbolized thought", or thought-granule or what have you, is already the beginning of a process that necessarily leads to some form of mental imagery and corresponding aborted motor command)

1. https://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/miikkulainen.visua...

2. https://www.pastery.net/vvapdr/
Additionally,
This will only start being useful when people start registering the products in the platform.
That's my biggest challenge now.
As mentioned, they're the same. Although "dhyana" can be translated as "meditation", it should be pointed out that at least in the yoga tradition, it refers to a specific, deeply focused state of one pointedness, like jhana, rather than being the act of performing a meditation technique itself - which is referred to as "dharana", I believe. So practicing "dharana" leads to "dhyana", in much the same way as particular techniques of concentration lead to "jhana".
The trick is to not work at Boeing.
Consider changing your headline; it doesn't tell what your product, Frederick.ai, does. Does it create webpages? Does it write code? Is it a just another Nextjs boilerplate?
It's a manipulation technique. Not for US citizens, but citizens of other corrupt countries.

Imagine that you live in a country where everyone is corrupt and everyone lies. If you don't lie you're an idiot.

Then you read news about horrible US government failures. If the problems are so large that they cannot possibly keep lying and they openly admit to their failures, then what fucked up things still are there that they don't admit to doing? China at least manages to keep it shush. Therefore, whatever they do, shit at least doesn't hit the fan.

It's very difficult to imagine that a different society might have different standards regarding things such as transparency.
I use this constantly. Every single day. I have hundreds of scripts that run in it. It's just wildly valuable and useful.
> City of London is a separate legal entity to England but still under the king

Not true. You're probably thinking of something like the Isle of Mann, or the Channel Islands, or arguably all of Canada or Australia.

The City of London is part of England.
What they're doing is called https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman (very common around here)
> After all, shareholders are essentially powerless in the current system...

Not exactly true. And both the institutional shareholders and ultra-rich shareholders have the experience, resources, and connections to police corporate behavior far more tightly than they usually do...

But why should they bother policing behavior, when the maximum penalty for malfeasance has been wrist-slaps? (And similar for the banks and bond markets which large corporations rely upon.)

Vs. if the major investors knew that major corporate malfeasance could and likely would cost them $billions - they might very quickly grow more active and assertive, the Boards which they elected would not be passive rubber-stampers, and corporate executives would face regular hard scrutiny.

But all that would be real work. Vs. hiring lobbyists and schmoozing politicians, to make sure the maximum penalty is "wrist slap", is far easier.
I think that's about right, yeah - in my experience international gatherings in Europe tends to converge on a sort of continental pidgin English where you shave off all the difficult aspects and end up with this very clear and crisp shared language that's more mutually understandable for everyone involved than any of the ordinary 'native' variants of English.

I think what's less clear is how consistent these convergences are. Certainly I have noticed colloquialisms and alterations to better fit romance and germanic languages that pop up again and again, but at what point does it get consistent enough to be its own 'thing' and not just a handy linguistic tool fashioned for the task at hand?
It certainly changed mine.

The thing that I came to understand after experiencing what I did (I won't call it jhana because I haven't yet found a teacher to ask and I don't want to misspeak) is that our behavior is fundamentally connected to our internal state and emotional needs. These can be as deeply rooted as traumatic experiences or even mild preferences we have. The experience that I had almost feels like an internal sense of nourishment for these needs.

It starts as joy and happiness and settles into this sense of stable and calm contentment that isn't dependent on anything in the "external". You realize and deeply understand that you don't "need" anything to be content. Thoughts just fade in and out and eventually disappear.

After spending some time there I also realized how much effort the mind spends protecting the "model of the world" it's built up over time and how much stress it gets put under when something challenges it. It's hard to describe this in terms of the senses but you can almost "see" the struggle because it contrasts so much to this other state of pure calm and contentment that you can now access.

And because you can now access it (through staying on the path) it becomes a sort of refuge and eventually feels like source of strength.

And through having that I started asking myself why not just choose to be compassionate and kind? Why let the mind stress itself out over truly meaningless things when we now know how to calm it down and be content? Why protect the model of the world we've built up when it is so obviously limiting the depth of life that we can access and share?

Not that any of this is easy, and its definitely a journey but it's one worth going down.
You can feel however you want about Apple's rules and EU regulation, but I think it's pretty indispuitable how wrong it is that Apple prevents developers from explaining these rules to their users. Apple prevents developers from saying that Apple takes a % cut of the sale. Apple prevents developers from saying its available cheaper elsewhere. If Apple feels these rules are so just and fair and indispuitably correct, why does it go to such measures to hide them from its consumers?

Consistently these anti-steering rules are what gets Apple in trouble all around the world. It's the one part Apple lost in the US Epic case, and it's the EUs first point on their breach. Apple has done this to themselves by being so stubborn and refusing to budge an inch on how they run their platforms. The tiniest concession years ago could have avoided all this regulation on them.
I must admit I have very little faith in US gov executing on this.

Keep in mind the whole “certify your own stuff” that contributed towards the Boeing mess is a US gov plan
Has it occurred to you that the sense of throw-your-hands-in-the-air, nothing-will-ever-change hopelessness you're evincing here is exactly what they want?
Swiss government websites hit by cyberattacks ahead of Ukraine summit
I was replying to a comment that asked what the alternatives were.

Most of the alternatives do provide dependency activation and other features you mention: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems

I prefer cron for running things at a specified time.

Is systemd a service manager? It seems to be a lot more than that. It aims to make Linux less unix like: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/version_256_systemd/ . It seems more of an OS built on the Linux kernel - a bit like Android.
By default most computer technology is assumed to be manufactured in Asia, if anything needs to be mentioned that is if it's made in a western country.
And, as expected, the very first reference in the post is to the Tom7's video. Of course it would be.
PM me if you will. Been around the ground zero of lab grown meat in the mid in the last decade, and I am curious what is/was happening there.