skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This , you have to be a really bad parent to trust YouTube with a child especially after elsagate. The fact that people here think otherwise is testament to broader culture problem.
NASA to Launch an Artificial Star Satellite to Help Astronomers Study the Cosmos
I hope that bankruptcies rise but then level out at a sustainable rate, for all of our sakes. It seems like most governments, companies, and individuals are drunk on debt right now. Slowly, steadily cutting off the rotting part sounds reasonable to me.

What are the alternatives? Dropping interest rates and allowing these sick entities continue to accumulate debt? Raising interest rates and causing a cascading effect of bankruptcies? They both sound unhealthy to me.
Ok, next experiment.

Imagine you took a brain and replaced one neuron by a transistor (or gate) that performs the exact same function as the neuron.

Now replace more and more neurons until all neurons are now transistors.

Would the resulting being be conscious and experience qualia, like the original did? If not, at what point was there a notable change?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
On the Netflix TdF documentary, they mentioned that the difference between the winner and last place is 2%. There was one stage where the winner won by 4 inches.

It also said that doping made a 20% difference, so either none of the current competitors are doping or all of them are.
Crawlers and Agents and Bots, Oh My: Time to Clarify Robots.txt
Courts-martial are criminal courts. Ortiz v. United States, 585 U.S. __, 138 S. Ct. 2165 (2018).
Is burning a book "speech" now? New Speak gets more and more confusing.
STT: Whisper

TTS: GPTSOVITS / StyleTTS2

VTV: RVCv2

Open source isn't really doing a great job at voice, music, or video. It's managing to keep up in LLM and image spaces, but it's falling far behind in the multimedia department.
Ahh I see. You are indeed right about the power. I will give it a try some time and share under this comment if everything is OK with the PI or not. Thanks for the article and the reply!
I think it’s reasonably obvious that the tech could have a lot of potential, but that’s yet to be realised. Chatbot interfaces are so primitive and clearly not the final form for LLMs, but people have to invent that.

But, tech being impactful doesn’t mean it will create and deliver value for others.
Lexis+ AI and Ask Practical Law AI systems produced incorrect information more than 17% of the time, while Westlaw’s AI-Assisted Research hallucinated more than 34% of the time:

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-trial-legal-models-hallucin...
I think this depends on what you're storing though.

Business documents, accounting records, family photos - sure you probably want to keep them safe.

But if my NAS is just 20TB of pirated movies and TV shows (not that I'm saying it is...) then I'm much more comfortable buying the cheapest drives I can find and seeing how it goes.
> It is tempting to do so because you feel things will come easier to you if you fulfill the prerequisites first. But the problem is that there is just not enough time. AND, it actually may not be even necessary.

I think this is a lesson I am learning. I am going through the book PRML throroughly (which means attempting every single exercise) and writing out the solutions.

I also did the prereqs somewhat rigorously.

It has been incredibly time consuming.
Not necessarily. SILTs and RILTs are options for case disposition, but the accused does not have the power to execute one unilaterally. It's a form of plea deal, usually for military-specific offenses.
If you think you have no interest in cycle road racing I strongly recommend watching the Netflix series Tour de France Unchained. I watched it on a whim with no interest whatsoever in road racing and I found it addictive and it got me hooked on the sport (to the extent I can be hooked - UCI is a garbage organisation that makes it as difficult as possible to actually watch it).

Start with series 1, even though it's 2 years out of date. They explain how the sport works, and they skip over this in series 2. It's important information.
Uh, what?

If you are an anarchist, and you truly feel that McDonald's hierarchy is just as problematic as governments coercing behavior, OK, you do you.

But if you're not an anarchist, and you're arguing anarchists think this way... that is not the way any of my anarchist friends think about the problems of corporate hegemony vs. government coercion.

They are against both, but consider them vastly different problems, in scope as well as kind. Juxtaposing them and saying there's no difference... is not what any anarchists I know would do.
Trimodal Nature of Tech Compensation Revisited
I'd get rid of the radio communication with the rider. In Formula 1, too.
Myself I've only built simple things, like tracing sched switch events for certain threads, and killing the process if they happen (specifically designed as a safety for pinned threads).
Why wouldn’t he just retire or start his own company if he was an executive for years? That doesn’t sound like he’s working for money anymore
It is not pure popularity, I suspect it is a combination of clicks/upvotes/comments over time. I know time is a key component in the algorithm. If you don't rise fast, you don't rise. Who is commenting/upvoting is also likely an easy metric to add in. If I have more points, my votes are probably worth more than someone without.

Human curation also exists, but I think that is aimed at removing spam and uplifting YC company posts.
It is in the source article, and it may just be me, but I question use of the word "fossil" because I don't think these remains have undergone any of the various transformations which cause fossilisation in the geologic sense.
I feel like commercial bankruptcy filings alone don't tell the whole picture. Did the number of newly created commercial entities increase, flat out or decrease in the years leading up to this? Comparatively how much? Without context, one number isn't enough to make anything of it.
I appreciate it, but why not just:

alias wcurl="curl -# -O $1"

(I just tested this on MacOS).
It's all fun and games by Lewis Carroll, but given the amount of doublespeak in American cities these days (especially by the Left but also by the Right), I think we need to insist that words have a meaning and you can't twist them to mean the opposite.
> when you signed a secret pact with Hitler dividing Europe, jointly invaded Poland and even held a joint military parade celebrating victory over Poland

I didn't sign anything. And before that, Germany and Poland has jointly invaded Czechoslovakia and divided it between themselves. It was wild; still I don't understand why I would feel responsible for any of these events in history.

> Germans and Russians were the two main instigators of the Second World War

That is, like, just your opinion, man. I have a different one. We can agree to disagree here. Even if was just Germany and the Soviet Union fighting each other, the point about not wishing to dig up that mass grave persists. Most of the mutilated corpses there are, tragically, Russian.

> Germans have recognized their responsibility and devoted to building a better Europe

Great for them, but as a Russian I saw nothing useful coming from it my way. So why would I care.

> Russia, let me check the news feed... another 5 civilians killed, 53 injured on today's drone and missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro

So go sign some peace treaty with Putin, he has some fresh terms for it. People in Dnepropetrovsk and Kiev stop dying, but so are people in Donetsk and Belgorod and Sevastopol. After several deadly Ukraine's attacks against civilian targets in Russia, I grew tolerance to Ukrainian losses. I genuinely don't care mourning somebody other's dead when I have enough of my own.

Just don't expect us to cede any lands we paid in blood. We used to be that stupid, but I hope not anymore.
That's his point, we _know_ this. People can already use OpenAI as a replacement for Google search and people are already doing this. You might not think this is a good thing yadda yadda go to the library, but we already know that chat bots are here to stay.
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Hello, I'm Avery. I'm a software engineer with six years of experience, most of which I spent as the founding engineer of a data management and visualization platform for the biotech industry. I've worked on every part of the stack but spent most of my time on front-end. I have a technical background (degrees in philosophy and math), but I owned and operated a coffee shop in San Francisco before I started working in software engineering. As a former founding engineer and small business owner, I'm accustomed to working hard, learning on the job, and owning my work. I love learning new programming languages and paradigms. I'm seeking a front-end developer role at a small company or early-stage startup that would, ideally, involve some full-stack work.
YouTube Kids is a different constrained environment - different apps and websites from YouTube. And with the configuration I lay out in this blog post the kids can only play videos you explicitly share with them. It is the easiest analogue to having just a VHS player and a home video collection that I can think of.

Regardless, I agree in general the defaults on YouTube are terrible for everyone including kids.
Honestly hard to interpret a16z and YC's actions in good faith when they're claiming the bill would lead to developers being jailed for perjury if they don't anticipate ways their systems could cause harm. Perjury is for knowingly making false statements (isn't everyone already aware of that?), and it's also applied pretty conservatively.
The same function, down to quantum and gravity et c effects on everything around it, and accepting and reacting to same? Yeah probably, but we’re back to having to “run” this on the same arrangement of actual matter as the original.

[edit] there’s an obvious attack on this, but I’ll go ahead and note my position on it: the whole premise that we can do any of this without just using actual matter the ordinary way is so far into magical territory that we might as well ask “what if lephuchans simulated it?” or “what if god imagined the simulation?”—well ok, sure, I guess if magic is involved that could work, but what’s the point of even considering it?

“What if a miracle occurred?” isn’t a rebuttal to the position that consciousness as we know it likely can’t be simulated by simulating physics, because you can rebut anything with it. Its admission to a discussion is the same as giving up on figuring out anything.
> You can simulate every molecular interaction in a fire, but that does not mean the simulation gives off the same heat

It would to a simulated being standing next to the fire.

> You can write a perfectly accurate equation for splitting an atom, but the equation does not release energy.

It releases simulated energy inside the simulation.

Every material interaction is simulated. If you believe that consciousness can't exist in the simulation, then you believe that consciousness is not a material interaction, q.e.d.
Okay I guess I've just had a different experience entirely. Maybe I'm jaded by hallucinations.

The code ChatGPT generates is often bad in ways that are hard to detect. If you are not an experienced software engineer, the defects could be impossible to detect, until you/ChatGPT has gone and exposed all your customers to bad actors, or crash at runtime, or do something terribly incorrect.

As far as other thought work goes, I am not consulting ChatGPT over, say, a dietician or a doctor. The hallucination risk is too high. Producing an answer is the not the same as producing a correct answer.
The ration of hyped technologies that turned out to be overhyped, versus ones that turned out to be as impactful as electricity is... I don't even know how many orders of magnitude different, but it's a lot.
Or not LOL, some real capitalist pigs on hacker news. Why you hanging out with hackers?!
They also switched from C to Rust halfway through the article, which was a bit jarring...
Franco was semi-fascist (like Stalin btw) (Trotsky called that Cesarism in 1928) because he instated a very hierarchical society based on a cult of the nation, and a full press censorship along with historiography censorship. He lacked a fascist founding mythos (which makes him differ from complete fascism) : while he wanted his nation to be great again (reconstruction myth), he designated no real internal ennemis once syndicalism was banned, and no true external ennemi.

Also, the Spanish republic didn't 'want' a dictatorship of the proletariat at all (they used strike breakers forces once their scabs didn't work ffs), they had to accept it to keep the production going under the threat of Carlists and Francists, but they were pretty much on the side of the bourgeoisie until the civil war.
Lets check how many of these received PPP funding and year of incorporation.
As someone who has lived in Git for the past decade, I also fail to see why Git is a crappy design. It's easy to distribute, works well, and there's nothing wrong with a tarball server.
The President is not capable of appointing members to the military unilaterally. Congress has sole power "To raise and support Armies" and "To provide and maintain a Navy." The President's role in accessions under title 10 exists only because Congress put it there.
Well let me try and fix that. In my opinion, a child sitting in front of the screen for long hours and being occupied enough with a videogame that you want to watch additional media on it when you’re not playing belies a waste of potential and frankly social and mental (outside of a small band) development. It has created a generation of stunted individuals and there’s a pushback coming. Now it’s for social media but it will expand to all forms of screen time.
> I'll admit it's totally possible LLMs and AI are going to be as earth shattering

You don't need earth shattering though. The PC revolution was huge because every company got a bit more productive with things like word processors and printing and email.

The internet (and then later mobile) was big because every company got a revenue boost, from a small one with online presence to a a huge one for e-commerce to transformative with Netflix and streaming services.

Ignoring the more sci-fi claims of AGI or anything, if you just believe that AI is going to make every office worker 10% more productive, surely each company is goign to have to invest in AI, no? Anytime you have an industry that can appeal to every other company, it's going to be big.
Show HN: A New Era in Project and Task Management
1. For me formal planning is generally a net negative. I avoid it where possible. It's non-productive busywork. A "project manager" is the ultimate bullshit job, IMHO. Script that shit if you really need a schedule, or learn operations research.

2. Clean desk philosophy. At the end of the session, check everything in to git, write notes to help you move on next time you pick it up, and RELAX. Having learned the value of documentation, respect it. Keep it minimal, on point, and discoverable.

3. Work with your metabolism not against it. If you wake up early, knock out a few hours on something that motivates you. If you are disinterested, tired, or lack inspiration then take a break and do something else.
Who's left holding what bags?
A few things of interest here, like is it bots upvoting this or dumb people or least probable people wanting to be meta.

Meta -

It's December 31, 1969. There was no AI in 1969 so it was written by humans.

Ultimate irony, good advice to use fertilizer. Normally blog spam "stories" will skip/ignore this, it breaks the mood. But because it's AI it jumps to the truth.... Not sure liquid fertilizer is correct however.

If anyone ever wants to post real hacker gardening stories that would be great. Even if this was real, it's still a NPC article.
A full representation is not necessary. If a Human has errors in any single sentence, they have errors in their corresponding model. These details are the essence of the very point of contention.

> Do you use a purity testing approach to determining idiocy?

If one is claiming logical and epistemic superiority, as he literally and explicitly does, and arrogantly so (followed by roars of applause from the audience), I will judge him by those standards. I will also mock him, because he is sooooo dumb, while he chastises others for the same thing (which he is typically not wrong about, to be fair).

Live by the sword, die by the sword.
It doesn't anymore.

You're right. I pasted your comment to aider and it fixed it on the spot :).

EDIT: see https://git.sr.ht/~temporal/aider-2048/commit/9e24c20fc7145c....

A bit lazy approach, but also quite obvious. Pretty much what you'd get from a junior dev.

(Also if you're wondering about "// end of function ..." comments, I asked the AI to add those at some point, to serve as anchors, as the diffs generated by GPT-4o started becoming ambiguous and would add code in wrong places.)
Watching the TdF, I wonder how the cyclists cope with the motorcycle/car right in front of them spewing exhaust in their faces the whole race.
I really resonate with this. I've also struggled with perfectionist mindset when it comes to learning, especially in mathematics. Recently, I tried to meticulously add math problems to Anki for better retention, only to realize the time cost was too high. This perfectionist mindset often maximizes one variable (retention in my case) at the cost of all others (time as the most important one).

I've grown to really like this Richard Feynman quote: “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” It feels like I've been finally granted permission to embrace my natural, messy way of learning.
Judge delays ban on noncompete agreements for employees
Most people either wouldn't recognize their own voice or would hate hearing it.
I suppose I omitted inflating away all debt, but my impression is that high inflation isn't a tool one wields much control over.

I remember reading about the immense debt around the time of the French revolution in both France and England. The French "ate the rich" and allowed inflation to erase government debt. England stuck to the plan and spent (from memory) a century in somewhat austere conditions paying down theirs. I find it tough to stomach both options, either will disrupt the calm and stable economy I've spent my entire adult life in so far. It's not a "need", things at this point simply will change.
So basically a couple tips for growing plants in pots instead of the ground?
It's very clear you are not.
Curl does not handle reconnections or use caching like wget, for example, by default. And many other things which includes actually quite many arguments. You can see the list from this project.
Yeah, it would have been much more informative to see a simple graph, perhaps on a quarterly basis, going back over at least one economic cycle (back to 2008, say). How does this rise compare to previous ones? Is this a fairly typical blip, or an unprecedented jump?
While it's generally true that presidents can't promise what their successors will do, there might be rare exceptions or situations where a president could influence future actions through long-term policies or agreements.

Your statement implies that presidents have complete control over their policies. In reality, the implementation of policies often involves complex interactions with Congress, the judiciary, and other factors. It also suggests that the electorate has full control over who becomes president and what policies they pursue. This overlooks factors like the Electoral College system, party nominations, and the influence of various interest groups on policy-making. There's a slight tension between saying presidents can't promise future actions and then stating it's up to the electorate to decide future policies. This could imply that the electorate has more power to determine future actions than sitting presidents do.

Your question touches on the balance between governmental continuity and the potential for change that comes with each new administration. This is indeed a challenge in democratic systems.

While presidents have significant power, they are constrained by various factors like constitutional limits, legislative processes, judicial oversight, international agreements, bureaucratic inertia

Undoing everything is often not practical or desirable. Some policies become deeply entrenched and difficult to reverse. Rapid, wholesale changes can lead to instability, which is generally unpopular. Many policies have broad bipartisan support.
Drastic reversals of popular policies can lead to political backlash. Some policies and decisions have long-lasting effects that are difficult to reverse quickly. The system of checks and balances in many democracies is designed to prevent rapid, extreme changes. You're right that this potential for change can create challenges for long-term governance. However, it's also what allows democracies to adapt and respond to changing circumstances and voter preferences. The key is finding a balance between stability and the flexibility to implement new policies.
It’s some electrons moving around. Any further meaning of that is only what we assign to it.

Unless your “computer” is identical matter in the same arrangement and state is the original, actually doing stuff.

This is why the “what if you slowly simulated the entire universe on an infinite beach moving rocks around to represent the state? Could anything in it be conscious?” thing isn’t my very interesting.

No, you’re just shoving rocks around on sand. They don’t mean anything except what you decide they do. Easy answer.
Aside from this file, the "fork" concept of Mac file systems caused some wtf moments. Fork not being fork() but being the two-pronged idea in that file system, both a resource and a data component existed as pair. One metadata and one the file contents. In Unix, the metadata was in the directory block inode, and wasn't bound to the file in a formalism uniquely, it had to be represented by structure in tar, or cpio or zip distinctly. Implementing Mac compatible file support in Unix meant treating the resource fork first class and the obvious way you do it is for each file have .file beside it.

You couldn't map all the properties of the resource fork into an inode block of the time in UFS. It has stuff like the icon. More modern fs may have larger directory block structure and can handle the data better.
"Duel" = fight between two people.

"Dual" = "two things', "Double", etc

Sorry, but the use of 'duel' where it should be 'dual' just grates on me. I find it impossible to ignore.
The opening position of backgammon always worries me, not because it is bad, but because I don't understand it. And backgammon is old enough that getting to the origin and meaning behind the position is not trivial.

My best guess is that the game started out with all the pieces off the board and you had to get them all on and around and off the far side. However this takes too long and some bright Persians who understood the game far more than me who only plays an occasional game with my father started creating and playing strategic openings. Positions with interesting interactions with the dice but now the game was much shorter and exciting. And the game we all play and enjoy today was one of the more popular openings.

A good theory, hard to prove. But why on earth do you start with five tokens already in your home???