skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we talking European souls, south west Asian souls, or East Asian souls?

I’m pretty sure Daoist, Buddhist, or Hindu souls are not sellable conceptually in the way European souls are. One of those times when ‘無門關’ (mu-koan) might be the right answer. Not really a thing, in the western concept anyway. Anymore than it’s possible to square a circle, or calculate Pi from a line.

Maybe that’s why European cultures have been taking over the world? We were able to sell our souls to the devil?

Looks like Jews don’t have a concept of selling ones soul anymore than Hindus. [https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1093498/jewis...].

Muslims seem divided on the topic (among many others), with a pretty solid ‘western’ type tradition of ‘you bet, but you’ll regret it’ to a similar type view of the Catholics near as I can tell (no, and you’ll be forgiven if you get back on the right path).

I guess it behooves one to familiarize oneself with something one is willing to take as collateral, eh?

P.S. If you’re an atheist who doesn’t believe in a soul, then clearly you’re a soulless bastard. ;)

(Leaving out the extremely wide variety of African and various covered regions indigenous peoples Soul-concepts for brevity).
Could you somehow "snapshot" the runtime after the initial processing is ready and have clients just load that?

I imagine there's a ton of preprocessing that could be, well, preprocessed.
The superstorms from space that could end modern life
Every culture on earth has seemed to figured the same rudimentary addition and fractions to figure out accounts and inheritance partitioning. Why didn't they come up with inconsistent models of numerics if their developed in total linguistic isolation?
This is still completely incorrect. (Though now it has the mathematician's name right.)
Time. Small things that add up to big savings of time every day. My watch unlocks my MBP when I walk up to it. Maybe I am typing a note with the mbp, drawing a diagram with my iPad, taking a snapshot of a whiteboard with my iPhone, all of that simultaneously into the same note file—zero consolidation needed later on. I have set up productivity shortcuts that work on all my devices doing the same thing but in an appropriate manner/UX for the specific device. I can manage text messages from whichever device is in my hands at any given moment. My AirPods Pro2s magically shift to whichever device has my focus at the moment. My iPad can act as a second monitor to my MBP, or simply share the keyboard/mouse. I connect to a WiFi on one device, all of them know that password and can connect as well with merely a click. I can upgrade a device, login with the same ID, and lay it down and within moments it’s configured with all my preferences and is ready to go. There are probably another half dozen to a dozen things that I do daily that are seamlessly integrated just because of the ecosystem itself. They are basically working together so well that I don’t even notice the integration anymore. I have 5 different devices that feel like one.

Could I do all these things with other manufacturers…probably. However, all these things I can do with Apple by just logging in to my devices with an Apple ID. I don’t know of any other solution or combination of hardware/software that provides that level of out of the box ecosystem just off a single login.
That just means I can never afford to move out of Texas. Instead the rest of the country will continue to relocate here and pump up the economy faster than we can build roads and schools.
A love letter to the Internet of old
Can they be drawn out, I wonder, when the context is too thin for them to catch...

GMOs are dangerous for reasons beyond immediate health implications. Israel has been determined in the world's highest court to be plausibly committing genocide. The tech industry is complicit in war crimes right now. Media consolidation is a massive and immediate threat, as are climate change and AIPAC.

... Or is it like what the park ranger said about the overlap between people and bears?
A musician or an artist hardly need words to create music or paintings.
Wordpress updates it's self.
Testing the limits of Supabase and Postgres in a serverless environment
Even with tapes, the user did a fair amount of the work: pushing buttons to read, record, or rewind. Many personal computers used standard cassette recorders, effectively a fire hose of data, so the file size was limited by the computer's memory. If they had anything remotely resembling a filesystem, it was an identifier the computer could look for as it marched forward, and only forward, through the tape. Commodores could start and stop the drive's motor, so maybe they could handle larger files. Yet (if I recall correctly) they too could only march forever forward, without the user hitting the rewind button while monitoring the counter, so you didn't have the utility of random access files.

What we put up with was amazing!
todo.txt is a lightweight text format that a number of apps support: http://todotxt.org/ . From http://todotxt.org/todo.txt :

(priority) task text +project @context

(A) Call Mom @Phone +Family
(A) Schedule annual checkup +Health
(B) Outline chapter 5 +Novel @Computer
(C) Add cover sheets @Office +TPSReports
x Download Todo.txt mobile app @Phone

From "What does my engineering manager do all day?" (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28680961 :

> - [ ] Create a workflow document with URLs and Text Templates

> - [ ] Create a daily running document with my 3 questions and headings and indented markdown checkbox lists; possibly also with todotxt/todo.txt / TaskWarrior & BugWarrior -style lineitem markup.

3 questions: Since, Before, Obstacles: What have I done since the last time we met? What will I do before the next time we meet? What obstacles are blocking my progress?

## yyyy-mm-dd
### @teammembername
#### Since
#### Before
#### Obstacles

A TaskWarrior demo from which I wrote https://gist.github.com/westurner/dacddb317bb99cfd8b19a3407d... :

$ task help
task; task list; # 0 tasks.
task add "Read the source due:today priority:H project:projectA"
task add Read the docs later due:tomorrow priority:M project:projectA
task add project:one task abc
# "Created task 3."
task add project:one task def +someday depends:3
task

task context define projectA "project:projectA or +urgent"
task context projectA
task add task ghi
task add task jkl +someday depends:3
task # lists just tasks for the current context:"project:projectA"

task next
task 1 done

task next
task 2 start
task 2 done

task context none
task delete

TaskWarrior Best Practices: https://taskwarrior.org/docs/best-practices/

The TaskWarrior +WAITING virtual label is the new way instead of status:waiting according to the changelog.

Every once in awhile, I remember that I have a wiki/workflow document with a list of labels for systems like these: https://westurner.github.io/wiki/workflow#labels :

GTD says have labels like -next, -waiting, and -someday.

GTD also incorporates the 4 D's of Time Management; the Eisenhower Matrix Method.

4 D's of Time Management: Do, Defer/Schedule, Delegate, Delete

Time management > The Eisenhower Method:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...
"It would be real disappointing if someone used the guest wifi at Sony HQ to do something illicit."
i just don't get why people use web scraping as a battleground for moral ethics

its bizarre just like equating copyright infringement to theft of property.

where does this moral high ground come from? nobody scraping is thinking "oh im so evil im scraping without respecting robot.txt and using residential ip addresses to bypass detection"

Google does it nobody has a problem but when the little guy does it suddenly they are an outlaw.
What happens if you feed non-Gaussian (e.g. pink or brown, or sufficiently correlated) noise into the model instead?
>Even more that might, but not in those departments.

So by some odd alchemy, if you take your salary from a company that creates it from things you morally detest, but you don't work in those specific departments, you're not at all a hypocrite?

It's like a libertarian working for the Stasi but saying it's alright because he's only doing microphone maintenance for them.

> I want to convert those people, not push them away.

On this I sympathize, though it has its limits too.
It's a popular book still in use indirectly in a lot of apps that might not refer to it as much.

Well worth a read.
Ah but what if you bundle both your application binary and some (unmodified) AGPL software into a single Docker container? Do you then need to provide source code for your entire application?
What do we not understand? LLM algorithms are well understood. There is no mechanism that can provide these skills.
Certainly not across the board, and especially not in poorer areas that cannot/will not fund their schools. That is an incredibly general statement that simply is factually incorrect.
Ren'Py
Except, pigeons do have a mechanism (as do worms) that may confer intelligence.
New brain-computer interface allows man with ALS to 'speak' again
Not sure if you're serious, but just in case:

Have you ever heard of AIPAC? Rupert Murdoch? The UAE?

Chainsaw dismembering princes getting a free pass with their weapons purchases?

If you're only into corporate news, there's Russia in 2016 scapegoating for terrible decisions from the DNC.
The real cause of gentrification is failing to build enough housing, which means people can't move in without displacing others. It causes a zero sum mentality.

Build. More. Housing.
p2o is pathetically low in comparison to other markets. is your experience limited to legitimate bug bounty programs like that?
So the best way I can describe how humans abstract our thinking is that “a thought about a thought is itself a thought”. I am not an expert but I don’t believe LLMs can arbitrarily abstract their current “thought”, put it down for later contemplation, trace back to a previous thought or a random thought, and out of these individual thoughts form an understanding.

I would expect that a higher level algorithm would be required to string together thoughts into understandings.

Then again, I wonder if what we are going to see is fundamentally different kinds of intelligences that just do not necessarily think like humans. Chimps cannot tell you about last Tuesday since their memory seems a lot more associative than recall based. But they have situational awareness that even our superheroes in our comics do not generally posses (flash some numbers in front of a chimp for one second and he will remember all their positions and order even if you distract him immediately after). Maybe LLMs cannot be human intelligent but you could argue that they are a kind of intelligence.
> I think you are underestimating python developers.

There are a lot of people out there writing Python, and a lot of them identify as analysts, (non-software) engineers, scientists, and so on. Not developers. Some of them write immaculate code. Some of them don’t know about git, functions, or commandline arguments, so their code is one long script with big chunks they comment or uncomment depending on what they’re trying to do. The latter are a big constituency for me. Plain type annotations are great in this context, because they place no burden on the user at all. All they have to do is ignore them. Best case, they notice that function f returns a list of floats rather than an ndarray and that saves me having to explain what’s going on.
Knowing When to Move on [video]
No, LLMs algorithms are not well understood at all, it's a black box and we don't know a lot how things go inside.
Seems pretty cool, especially for being free! I'm taking a discrete math course very soon at UT so this is nice.
thanks :) mine is manual + some of them, automated. i built a custom telegram bot which periodically/on-demand asks for data points, run basic algos to calculates these stats and push to realtime firebase storage.
That would mean the software would work well. I run that explanation against what I see in practice and in general it is not a good fit.

Along with procrastination (which might have noble motivations) an additional much simpler answer is that people just want to do the minimum they can get away with.
You avoided the questions as a whole.
LLMs theorically can emulate any functions, so the mechanism is also here.
If I understand correctly, you are saying that worms are smarter than LLMs ?
An Insider's Perspective into The Pentagon's UFO Hunt
It might still say 5 cents if the problem was "the bat costs 90 cents more than the ball", since 5 cents is overwhelmingly the right answer to questions that look like this.
With unicode characters. Greek question mark anyone instead of semicolon?
> To me, the largest reason is no one wants to pay taxes.

You do understand you don’t get to choose to pay taxes, right? Federal income tax is certainly immoral, and no one wants to pay it, but for most they cannot be bothered to fight it in some way. They take the tax credits they’re given and pay the rest out of pocket. And that’s assuming it isn’t already taken out before they even get the check.

The true problem is that the American government at various levels pockets a lot of it, and what they don’t pocket is spent on things such as funding unnecessary wars, subsidizing European healthcare via military assistance, and restricting American rights. And after all of that, by the time the school is involved it’s filled with a standardized curriculum that’s built on memorization and not genuine education.
I'm wondering what actually happened to make these images so un-appetizing. Was it the quality of color photography and printing in the day?

I remember that my mom had some of those books, and my spouse remembers the same, but neither of us think that our moms actually used those recipes. She recalls that the books were given away for free at the supermarket. There were also recipe binders, and recipe cards, where you picked up new recipes every week at the supermarket.

For reference, I'm 60.
This is an incredible homage. Never thought I'd long for those times.
> the point that "he was a commercial opportunist, not a real activist or whistleblower."

This "point" isn't connected in any way to the original proposed rule, which is what is under examination here. So when the GP sought to test that rule by applying it to a different type of person, this "point" does not amount to an objection -- it's simply irrelevant.

I don't think I can make this any simpler.
Interesting, I wonder how much of that is due to poor implementation by the authors vs. issues with TS vs. issues inherent to building a typed language on top of the mess that is JavaScript?

Most languages with strong type systems (I'm thinking at least as strong as Java or C#, maybe stronger) wouldn't have those same sort of footguns. In C# I've run into other kinds of fun nightmares with types, like trying to use interfaces with Entity Framework Core. But I think that's more EF Core's fault than C#'s.
It was around 30 years ago. Sorry. It was the kind of thing that sticks in one's mind, though.
The web is so fast-moving and iterative there aren't really 'generations'. I'd say the biggest growth I've noticed in recent years is CSS. The past ~4 years have seen CSS become a lot more capable, not just for design but also for interactivity, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down.
Lol. Google knows they can't win in hardware, search or AI anymore. Now you will see more and more evil stuff from the once "do no evil" company abusing its monopoly power.
Stamps and punch cards were our apps back then.

One perk of working at Subway was that my boss didn’t mind if we made sandwiches for ourselves.

My go-to was roast beef and tuna.

And I could trade a Subway sandwich for a burrito at the place next door, or even a video at the video rental place. Lots of little perks I remember.
Reagan had to make a lot of concessions to the Democrat majority in Congress to get the budget passed. It wasn't much of the budget he wanted.
I think that’s a more Christian interpretation. I don’t think Aristotle would go that far.
> 02019

Why not 002019? 6 digits. That would be valid a lot longer.
When are we going to define what intelligence actually means, so these discussions can start making sense?

5 years ago, it was still common to read things like "AIs will never be as intelligent as mice, let alone humans", today, it's "sure, AIs are as intelligent as some humans, but not as intelligent as the right humans".

Noticed how everyone dropped the Turing Test like a hot potato as the gold standard for intelligence, the moment it became apparent that LLMs were about to pass it? Try to find a recent high-profile article invoking the Turing Test. Crickets. The intellectual dishonesty is nauseating.

The entire discussion is dominated by smart people who are scared shitless that AI is going to show them just how ordinary they are in the grand scheme of things.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/4/24213268/openai-chatgpt-te...
In Romania we have YouTube channels that do only investigative reporting and people fund them through YouTube membership, super tips and Patreon. Can look up recorder Romania if you are curious
I'm surprised the rich American towns and cities experiencing pollution didn't pay for the extra sewage processing themselves. Is the problem so huge only the federal government has the budget to fix it?
As an ADHD person, I absolutely love the metaphor of the day having too many steps. I’ve never thought about it that way, and I suspect there’s truth in it to explore.
Lit-html uses template literals for that

https://lit.dev/docs/libraries/standalone-templates/

"lit-html lets you write HTML templates in JavaScript using template literals with embedded JavaScript expressions. lit-html identifies the static and dynamic parts of your templates so it can efficiently update just the changed portions."
Add in two other counfounding factors:

1) There is no reason to believe that the causes of a company's success are entirely in control of the company. Take Nvidia - they are making absurd amounts of money out of the AI boom. It is clear they are doing it on purpose. But the only opportunity to do that is in a fairly small window from 2010 -> 2040. A company doing the same thing in 2000 would have failed to make insane profit, a company doing the same thing in 2050 will be hit by commodity economics and also make more limited profits. And if other companies had foreseen a market for linear algebra opening up a large chunk of the profits could well have evaporated before the market even started.

2) A company is complex and quite possibly nobody knows what is going on inside them. That undermines the ability of anyone - especially an outsider - in distilling how and why things work.

> I'm inclined to believe that it was probably one person or a small handful of people within those companies that compelled them to greatness

Very likely indeed. If it requires more than a handful of people, it is in fact hard to see how it would happen. Most companies are drawing from the same pool of employees so statistically they have to be fairly similar on average. Differences are driven by processes which are typically set up by a few key people.
I had an Apple IIc, but wanted a IIgs. A flame war on a local BBS convinced me the Amiga was better, so I went with an A500.
This looks awesome, congrats on the launch!

I’m currently trying to do as much LLM-assisted development as possible, which means a lot of copy/paste between GPT/Sonnet and the codebase.

I’ve also used v0.dev quite a bit, and it feels like Glass is one step closer to the future.

Nice work folks!
Sure it might contain some such data, but I strongly doubt that would be 60%+ of the dataset.
I feel like the art scene is where the artists go to get a drink, meet one another, and then go back to their places to collaborate. It seems like a lot of the most accessible venues are places that are not explicitly arts venues. I've seen a number of cases where artistically inclined bar tenders at dives, who have their friends come in to hang out, thus creating a scene, work to convince the artistically indifferent owners that allowing them to have shows, open mics or something more interesting than a photo of some used up sports star on the walls will draw customers. What begins as a quirky place to sing karaoke and pay bargain prices for beers are where people who build careers often begin communicating and collaborating.
There's a sense in which it makes sense:

Step 1: Invent a bunch of tech, however you can, but don't publish yet.

Step 2: Dribble out upgrades on a regular cadence, to keep the customers buying.
I think this is one of the exception cases where the initialism is better known than the full name.
> My own take, after using Apple stuff for 15 years now, is it's the attention to detail.

I fail to see how this applies to the mouse where you can't use it while charging, let alone the whole Vision Pro thing.
The People's Republic of China is a revisionist aspiring superpower in east Asia, one of the three great industrialized areas on Earth, structured as a Han Chinese ethno-nationalist state. To make matters worse it aims to seize hegemony over east Asia and to dominate the Western Pacific. This directly implicates the United States as currently most of the non-PRC states in that region are either treaty allies of the USA (Japan, Australia, South Korea) or significant economic powers that provide many crucially important goods to the US (Taiwan, Vietnam).

Furthermore, the PRC is embarking on a naval expansion only rivaled in history by the buildup of the German High Seas Fleet in the 1900s. This combines both a grand strategic objective (regional hegemony) with large-scale active efforts to acquire the tools to achieve that objective.

Finally, the last piece of the puzzle; The US and other western powers have not faced any major war since 1945 because of atomic weaponry. However, the atomic posture and grand strategic situation between the USA and the PRC is far different from that along the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Both the US and China have nukes yes, but both only have strategic weapons, and those would likely only be used in a situation where the existence of the state was under threat. A war for dominance of the western pacific and east asian hegemony would not be an existential war for either power. This paradoxically makes a hot war far more likely than it was in West Germany, where tactical nuclear weapons were written into the battle plans from Day 1. Combine that with a Chinese state facing a "Now or Never" moment to attempt to achieve their grand strategic objectives as their demographic crisis approaches and the US rearms after 25 years of the unipolar moment, and the late 2020s and early 2030s are looking extremely dangerous. American elites are not stupid and understand this full well and this is why, in the past decade, anti-PRC sentiment has become universal across party lines.

Ideology plays a relatively small role in this (beyond of course the fact that the PRC ideology has made them a revisionist power).
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Unsaflok: Unlocking Hotel Locks [pdf]
Ditch the sim rig and use your car instead (2019)
How to spend your career working for the DOD and retire rich.
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