skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I started contracting, all the advice I saw was like "you need to have three months of income in savings and maintain this reserve or you will go bankrupt". I never had that much money in savings and to this day still don't but I still think it's good advice. I had of course other advantages that allowed me to overcome the hardships.

But more directly, I think "if you think employees are disposable, why are you still an employee" is a very naive - if obvious - question. Even as a contractor I'm functionally treated like an employee by many companies and if anything I'm more disposable this way than I would be with a salaried position and career. The question is "what else" and if there is a dichotomy, the answer is "be the employer" but that is simply not an option for most and if you find yourself being an employee you likely aren't in the position to become an employer because you don't have the funds to start a business without a significant existential risk.

The truth is not just that most business founders fail. The truth is also that most founders of the largest businesses that exist today either started when there was no competition nor regulation or they were already filthy (generationally) rich to begin with - or both. So what else is there? Not participate in the economy? You might as well insist people refuse to breathe.
The answer to the question posed in the title is unequivocally no. Creativity varies from person to person. No amount of currently existing software is going to change that. What it could "democratise" to some extent is technique and execution, but that will still be more helpful to people who are more creative.

I'm hopelessly devoid of artistic creativity, and no amount of generative AI has made me capable of creating interesting art. Regardless of whether I'm able to pay for the shiniest iteration of the software, which seemed to be the main focus of this blog post.
Majority of developers who use StackOverflow enough to fill out the survey, thats a bias already, and a massive one at that.

You have disproportionately more beginners using it than more seasoned professionals. Hell, I barely use it, and I have questions every day - I just look up the documentation instead.

This is like saying most people love overpriced dropshipping, just because an advertisement company tracks how many of the people who click on ads buy dropshipped garbage. Its a massive bias.
There was an internet meme explaining that: "ain't nobody got time for that".
Exploring the challenges in creating an accessible sortable list (drag-and-drop)
:oh no meme:

The statements from CDPHE sound to my ear like boilerplate 'downplay' language. There are 55 symptomatic people, that's amazing. Confirmatory tests are important of course, but what a data point.

How large would the workforce have to be for 55 concurrent symptomatic (safe to assume those included have clear symptoms) people to be uninteresting?

If this is only "bird to human" infection, isn't that a notable rate of transmission? I'd think even a workforce of 1000 handling dangerous pathogens daily would be getting ill more like 10 per week over a period of time. Its alarming that 55 are ill all at once.

We are all going to be reading a firehose about physical contact vs. respiratory transmission again just like the old days. I haven't forgotten that it was something like 6 months before the government revealed that Cov-19 was a respiratory transmission despite knowing in Dec 2019.
The founder of a new social media site called Maven has a similar proposition. They removed all of these metrics to disincentivize competition and optimization of them and instead organize the site by topics. It's an interesting project, and I'm curious how it works out in the end.

There's great conversation about this with the founder on Machine Learning Street Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIrXN-yy8g
Try opening a link from teams
What do you mean? The asymmetric ephemeral keys used in a TLS handhake with Diffie Helman result rather directly into the symmetric session key used by TLS. The signature of the handshake with the certificate links the ephemeral keys to the certificate, and hence the symmetric session key is linked mathematically to the certificate.
Looking at skeletons for fun or profit
CFG (context free grammar), which is explained in the book, is used here together with LLMs: https://tree-diffusion.github.io
VS Code is atrocious for C and C++ development, for beginners. No build system works out of the box.
Impressive!
It isn't open source, right? (I had a brief browse around and didn't see any links to the source but may have missed it)
Sounds great! Kudos to the team!
It's fine. Even if you just push a screwdriver in, the resulting hole does not affect performance. I did that multiple times on my logitech m500s. But for extra kink you can just unglue the pads with some isopropanol.

Usually either the wheel wears out, or electronics fail before pads become a problem.
When Shute uses three dots it means, "Use your own imagination. Conjure the scene up for yourself." (pause)

Whenever I see three dots I feel all funny.

~ https://inkscrawl.blogspot.com/2005/01/whenever-i-see-three-...

~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfKvOlSJ77o
Attribute AI is on a mission to create a platform that is open, safe, and transparent by providing sources and references for its generated content. This allows users to truly understand where the information is coming from and gives credit to the original sources.
No, it was funny as satire for this reason: Governments were derelict in any attempt to slow the spread of the pandemic. So of course straight-to-vaccine strategy is the only option they will talk about.
Nowadays it's a good rule to not let delivery people photograph you anyway. Anything I order comes by mail and there's no such nonsense. Unsolicited whatever, lemme just take your pic? You can take it back thanks
Well, sure, those fundamental limits always apply. But why do you assume humanity is anywhere close to the limits?
I have found, and advise teams I lead or work with, that the tool absolutely does not matter because it is the discipline to use the tool consistently that makes a difference.

Now, having said that, shoving jira down peoples throats with all kinds of rules around tagging and whatever wears people out.

So, yes, a text file, a google doc, linear or a few post-its on the wall.
> they themselves launder trillions, start wars and massacre millions, even a drug lord is a petty criminal compared to them

And then people wonder why privacy has a difficult time getting public support.
> Notepad++ This guy thinks his text editor is a political statement rather than just a damn text editor, which makes him hard to trust even if I agree with most of his views. I can't have some wannabe activist deciding to erase all my students' computers because they happen to live in the wrong state or country.

Has notepad++ erased someone’s computer before? I did some quick googling and didn’t find much.

It seems really weird to bring this up if there hasn’t actually been any problems. Especially given the line that follows:

> Each of these have caused me weeks, months, or years of support problems because of their stupid decisions.

The truth is, programming is an expression and often a very political one (see open source). I’m immediately suspicious of the motives of anyone who says project authors shouldn’t talk about their beliefs
I also don't think instrumental convergence is a risk from LLMs.

But: using up all resources for computational power might well kill a lot of — not all — humans.

Why? Imagine that some future version can produce human quality output at a human speed for an electrical power draw of 1 kW. At current prices this would cost about the same to run continuously as the UN abject poverty threshold, but it's also four times the current global electricity supply which means that electricity prices would have to go up until human and AI labour were equally priced. But I think that happens at a level where most people stop being able to afford electricity for things like "keeping food refrigerated", let alone "keep the AC or heat pumps running so it's possible to survive summer heatstroke or winter freezes".

Devil's in the details though; if some future AI only gets that good around 2030 or so, renewables are likely to at that level all by themselves and exceed it shortly after, and then this particular conflict doesn't happen. Hopefully at that point, AI driven tractors and harvesters etc. get us our food, UBI etc., because that's only a good future if you don't need to work, because if you do still need to work, you're uncompetitive and out of luck.
>Where do you live and whic places do you think smartphones are a requirement for?

Try getting anywhere in China without a smartphone to run WeChat/Alipay. There's a reason they have phone charging stations everywhere.

Maybe 0.2% of the country will accept your credit card directly (hotels that cater to westerners). Nobody uses cash, but not quite everyone will outright refuse it if you try to pay with it. They won't have change and you'll give them the logistical hassle of having to turn that into digital money.

Ride hailing*, stores, and most restaurants and attractions will take payment through WeChat/Alipay exclusively.

Without your phone you'll be stuck in your hotel, unable to explore the country at all. Get used to doing everything from booking domestic flights to buying a bottle of water with your phone. Lots of places don't have physical tickets. Just some app within WeChat. Stores don't have a cash register. They have a QR code.

* Regular cabs will be happy to take cash, but absolutely DO NOT use them if you can at all avoid it. Use the ride hailing apps in WeChat/Alipay.
I keep a daily log but tend do skip updating it at the most intense times, ie. when it would be the most helpful to take notes...
An insect is sitting in your compiler and doesn't want to leave for 13 years
Your comments feel like you want a reddit style battle of wits. You throw words like ignorant around rather freely. I downvote these comments because they lower the tone of the discussion. We're not here to talk about each other or feel smarter than others.. Well I'm not.
Sanders in 1963 on What's my Line? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4Eq8IcQMk

And a video on the history of Sanders' fight with KFC corporate, and what exactly is in the seasoning? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJYOgzFydc

My takeaway is that Sanders cared about serving quality fast food, and KFC corporate cared about reducing costs and doing brand necromancy. The upshot is you won't get KFC chicken at KFC, just a pale, cheap imitation of the original, meanwhile the original recipe is still kicking about out there in other chicken takeaways (assuming they cook the chicken properly!)
That's a controversial part of it. I think that strictly, if the nodes are allocated as part of one array, it is permissible to use current++ to traverse from one to the other. While it would be UB if they are in separate allocations, even if it logically should work all the same way.
Sandpack is made by CodeSandbox, not StackBlitz: https://github.com/codesandbox/sandpack
I don’t think this offers anything new on relighting — this is literally just adding the ability to sample a splat during a raytracing render step; nothing about changing a splat’s color / illuminance / whatever. That said, you could turn on, say, reflections for parts of a splat scene subject to whatever rules you wanted.

Maybe you could get relighting here of a sort, by computing some sort of normal to each individual splat as you hit it, and checking light values. That said, the splats don’t (as far as I know) approximate geometry, so normals on them may not be (won’t be?) what you’d expect from actual geometry.

I’d say this would be worth a try, it might turn out to work okay, and would be nearly free in the rendering pipeline they describe.
It always depends on the community. On Hackernews, for example, I only read the top 5 comments and then check the thread 2-3 times later to see if anything has changed. On reddit, for example, I don't read any comments at all because there are too many bots replying.

Otherwise, I try to keep my own thread when I read the comments. For example, when I read an article about a topic, I try to find an extremely positive point of view from the comments, but also an extremely negative point of view and then link this to my own thoughts.

As already mentioned in the thread, I would like to have an online tool, for example, which reduces comments to a clear point and thus makes reading easier for me.
Good question. I asked Jakub, and he said they don't currently use camera feed in their flight controller. The video feed is routed outside the flight controller through a telemetry module.
Presumably the EU hasn't threatened to jail twitter employees if he doesn't comply.
It'd be interesting to see Krebs follow up to comment if changes at the FCC since 2019 have been effective or not.

There's the privacy and data protection task force[1] doing things like amended rules to combat sim swap fraud[2] (which I think only came into force this month?)

There's the robocall task force[3] with what seems like a mostly successful push for STIR/SHAKEN implementation[4] though maybe some small providers are still given extensions[5].

Granted, the Supreme Court has been poking hard at executive rulemaking capability so some stuff may not survive. Net Neutrality just had a temporary stay in the 6th Circuit.[6]

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/privacy-and-data-protection-task-force

[2] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-95A1.pdf

[3] https://www.fcc.gov/spoofed-robocalls

[4] https://fccprod.servicenowservices.com/rmd?id=rmd_listings

[5] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-23-1157A1.pdf

[6] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/us-court-temporarily-puts-net-191...
You mean this one here? - https://mathforlove.com/lesson/2-4-6-puzzle/

Looking at the example patterns given:

MATCH
2, 4, 6
8, 10, 12
12, 14, 16
20, 40, 60

NOT MATCH
10, 8, 6

If the answer is "numbers in ascending order", then this is a perfect illustration of synthetic vs. realistic examples. The numbers indeed fit that rule, so in theory, everything is fine. In practice, you'd be an ass to give such examples on a test, because they strongly hint the rule is more complex. Real data from a real process is almost never misleading in this way[0]. In fact, if you sampled such sequences from a real process, you'd be better off assuming the rule is "2k, 2(k+1), 2(k+2)", and treating the last example as some weird outlier.

Might sound like pointless nitpicking, but I think it's something to keep in mind wrt. generative AI models, because the way they're trained makes them biased towards reality and away from synthetic examples.

--

[0] - It could be if you have very, very bad luck with sampling. Like winning a lottery, except the prize sucks.
> I don't mind programming standardizing around English also.

Will you mind when everything re-standardizes around Chinese?
Optimisation manuals?! Wow that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of them. Thank you!!
He's not doing anything wrong with his release notes, but it is worse: it is a mistake.

The notepad++ guy comes across as a dingbat who cares about certain political things more than the software he's producing. This is a risk indicator. It doesn't matter if you agree with his current views or not. What happens when he takes the next step in using the software he's created to further his political ends?

The author is right to prepare for this possibility.
I typically use the "next" links (above each post) to jump to each top-level comment, drilling down if appropriate.

Other than that, I try to resist the urge to read everything. Its almost always better to absorb the gist of the conversation than to try to absorb it all.
And it looks like the 6th Circuit did grant a temporary stay on Net Neutrality.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/us-court-temporarily-puts-net-191...
Yup, i specifically look for products with removable batteries. Head torch for Dad, removable batteries. Desk timer for me, removable batteries. You have to scroll past a load of Chinese brands all selling the same white label product to get to them though.

A USB rechargeable torch sounds like a terrible idea to me anyway. I would want to know I could use it quickly at a pinch, not have to wait an hour to charge it.
Is this open source somewhere? I haven’t found it.
Im my experience following - as in actually doing the steps - works wonders.
I also searched around, found nothing. It would be nice to see a license without having to purchase the binary first.
I don't know if it still exists but there was one that was built on top of blender that was easier to use.

Crocotile3D is not as easy to use as it seems, the dude who makes it is an artist who is very specialized in using their own tools - they have their own pixel art tool too.

The other tools that have somewhat similar spirit are the voxel ones and the ones that are using stacking sprite as main way to create things.
> Could have something to do with these countries having experienced full blown communism not too long ago.

That's a bit of a non-sequitur if you have any idea of how the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence treated unions. Just look at modern China if you need a refresher on what authoritrian states think about workers unionizing.

Also unions are not communism and neither did any of those countries ever experience "communism". The USSR never claimed to have "achieved communism", in fact the expression "real socialism" (or "actually existing socialism") was coined by these governments to denounce critics who demanded steps towards communism as "utopian" idealists. China today even has a full roadmap towards communism with different labeled steps to justify why it hasn't achieved communism yet and needs to be authoritarian for just a little while longer because the state will wither away eventually really soon trust me bro.

> If you think unions or taxes will “have your back” in any real sense if you fall seriously ill you will be sorely disappointed.

Not with that attitude they won't. Do you think we got legally mandated 40 hour work weeks, paid sick leave and mandatory rest periods out of the goodness of the hearts of business owners?
Keeping open options is not madness,even in times of madness. Times change,but the capabilities persist.
I find it difficult to understand how you’re still propagating the “Wet Market Theory”. Please further explain why you don’t believe that COVID-19 did not emerge from a laboratory.
It seems to only have 5x optical.

I'm pretty annoyed, since I had 10x optical on the Huawei P30 Pro many years ago, and I really loved that camera.
There's an even bigger hole in it than that: his list of languages completely overlooks Java. The language that prides itself on portability, has been taught in universities for decades, is widely used in industry and which every component needed including the compilers and runtimes can be fully installed and updated on any machine, graphically, just by installing the free version of IntelliJ, which conveniently works the same way on every OS. It meets almost every one of his requirements.
If we can convince people that whatever an AI says, it must not be acted on in the real world, there wouldn't be a problem.

I remember when risk-skeptics used to ask incredulously how it was supposed to magic itself off its servers. Still see a bit of that today, despite all the AI models that have been leaked by humans one way or another.
The producer handles financial risks. It's like you pay a company to get your house built and on the building site an deadly accident happens. It's not your problem. But, when the building company goes out of money, it's your problem. It's your risk of loosing money. I think the same will also be in any other Industry in every part of the world.

The next thing is to be considered, when did this incident happened. It was in the middle of a filming. He was playing the scene and it was filmed. It would be different if it was during the Coffee break. Taking a gun and pointing at people isn't considered healthy :)
Why does it need admin rights? Is it just because it relies on installers that need admin rights? There's no reason the whole thing couldn't be in userdir (or better, portable) right?
All I think Notepad++ did was criticize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in its release notes. I guess it rubbed this guy the wrong way.
Golly, when I were but a lad the only way to learn 3D software was to sit in front of easel for hours on end, learning depth perception by painting naked form after naked form.
My investment in…. stablecoins?
Macs had malware long before Mac OS X
Opens in chrome.
> we have no idea at all what happens economically when machines are stronger, faster and just generally better than people.

John Henry would like a word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)

> In the long term we might plausibly find an economic equilibrium where humans are not worth feeding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

> We might find (imo probably will find) that a human-free military is more effective

The premise of movies from Dr Strangelove to War Games: a military consisting of an array of automatically launched nuclear missiles.

The worry I have is not so much the idea of an AI going entirely rogue against humans as the much more mundane one of it being weaponized by humans against other humans. The desire to do that is so obvious and so strong, whether it's autonomous weapons or trying to replace all art with slop or doing AI-redlining to keep out "undesirables". It's just that that maps onto existing battle lines, which "apolitical" AI bros (both pro and anti "safety") don't want to engage with.

(We all understand that a hypothetical conscious AI would (a) have politics of its own and (b) be fairly unrecognizable to human politics, except being linked to whatever the AI deemed to be its self-interest, yes?)
I agree. There are usable third-party runtime type checkers though. I like Beartype, which lets you add a decorator @beartype above any function or method, and it’ll complain at runtime if arguments or return values violate the type hints.

I think runtime type checking is in some ways a better fit for a highly dynamic language like Python than static type checking, although both are useful.
Indeed. I'm still using the phone I bought in 2017 (OnePlus 5T) and it's still 100% adequate. In fact, my wife is still using my previous 2013 OnePlus One and though it's a tad slow and cramped in storage, it's still 100% adequate running LineageOS.
I don't have these issues.
I must admit that, when changing to Mac, I had to get used to that. (Btw opening is cmd+arrow down.)
Now I’m changing back to windows and have to get used to pressing F2 instead…
Articles like this one make me think we are more likely doomed than previously thought.

If others who are skeptical about doom-like scenarios are making similar fundamental errors whilst acting as though they know for certain that the concern is unjustified, that just seems too consistent with the idea of arrogant humans wiping themselves out, unfortunately.
> "You either die a hero or..." —HD
And none of those changes the everyday life of most people. Bitcoin revolutionizing banking would, as would generative AI if some new breakthrough was made, but currently the biggest thing it does for most people is that it lets them cheat on homework etc.
If the topic is interesting for me I just wait a day or two so the comment activity subsides and then just collapse each comment I read. Works perfect.

For threads I am interested in but want to comment immediately, I only collapse those comments that I don't find interesting -- and as above, go back a few days later to read the others without constantly having new ones added in real time.