skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I imagine the tone you set at the start affects the tone of responses, as it makes completions in that same tone more likely.

I would very much like to see my assumption checked — if you are as terse as possible in your system prompt, would it turn into a drill sergeant or an introvert?
> The war against Ukraine has overwhelming support among the population

I may be an outlier, and this is obviously an anecdote, but in my entire social circle there are literally two people supporting the war. One is a hardcore Z fanatic living with his parents at almost 50, and the second one is an alcoholic (formerly a talented architect).

(Insert the obligatory anecdata disclaimer).
>Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the most intelligent model.

Hahahahaha, not so sure about that one. >:)
In what way do you consider smartphones constrained?

They have more memory and processing power than a normal computer from 20 years back, even 10 years back.
Yeah of course. It's not like we are not already running the planet in a self destructive way.
Mathematics and Namecalling is a major ego problem. I agree 100%.
Eventually everything ends up pumping the same resources from the same earth. The billion devices pool their 1 cents saved into the same pool of fossil fuels and the same power plants.

You don't need the effect to be observable on an individual level

It's something that is worth an engineer's time
Rethinking Binary Search: Improving on a Classic with AI Assistance [video]
That policy made sense for Asia because they got their start through technology transfer agreements.
This policy ensured that these agreements weren't just thinly veiled attempts to bypass import tariffs and were actually commercially viable in the global market.

> How does one make sure that the US chip manufacturing industry stay competitive without this sort of export discipline?

If we keep low tariffs on SK and Taiwan, I don't see how a domestic manufacturer has any choice but to compete in the global market, removing the need for this export requirement.
This is part of why US semiconductor manufacturers have had a hard time competing with Asia, especially in commodity semiconductors (i.e. memory and packaging the first to get off-shored).
This was a storied name in the history of computer music. I can't help but feel that its EOL'ing is a huge missed pun opportunity, though. At least call it the Grand Finale for chrissakes.
I thought microcode was encrypted, how do they have its disasm?
https://xcancel.com/pic/orig/media%2FGV7BLfeXsAEJ6HC.png
Not trying to be harsh but the operative word in your post is “I”.
Sure, as long as the mothership exists and is cooperative, it’s fine. But that’s not actually very sovereign, is it?
What about Clifford algebras over the imaginaries? Is that included in your idea of reals?
Make the Plan Even If You Know It Won't Happen
Yes, US does have export regulations on cryptography and you can indeed get in trouble with the US for math, App developers who distribute through App Stores would go through the paperwork of it to stay compliant.
Sorry for the inconvenience, I've tested with Arc and can confirm this error, I didn't know why this happens.
I will check further to determine the reason and report it to the upstream library (I think it's because the engine or Arc itself)
Enhancements? ML usually beats feature engineering humans. See: chess, computer vision. So the enhancements might be more data, better data and better models.

However knowing why is probably if scientific interest and of interest to people deciding where to live.
Throwing Stuff at the Wall: The Right Way to Build for Indie Hackers
> If you think that renewables have an inherent need for expensive storage then you're holding them to a higher standard than nuclear. This is both inaccurate and ahistorical given all the pumped hydro built specifically to complement nuclear.

It's a different kind of storage. Nuclear generates the same amount of electricity all the time but then there is higher demand during certain parts of the day. You then make up the difference between the baseload and the peak with a different kind of power plant. Typically nuclear is not used with storage at all, it's instead used for baseload with the peaks handled by other types of primary generation, traditionally natural gas or non-pumped hydro that dams a river.

Renewables have entirely variable output, so you need alternative generation with enough capacity to supply the whole grid at any given time, and enough storage to be able to do this for a week or more in the event that renewable generation is low for an extended period of time.

It's the difference between building a grid which is half nuclear and half something else vs. fully duplicating the whole capacity of the grid.
I'm referring to the location based on wifi and lte information. This location is less accurate than GPS, but also much faster to acquire.

Usually, Google would determine this location based on its database of networks and there's no way to set another location provider without installing microg as a system app or patching Android.

The microg installer I mentioned [1] does this configuration so you can use microg as your network locations provider.

https://github.com/nift4/microg_installer_revived?tab=readme...
> In mathematics that means we have three different ways to describe ’smoothness’. For example pure white noise is also scale invariant, so it is actually smooth.

There are various definitions of smoothness, but a standard definition is that for a function to be smooth it must be continuous and either infinitely differentiable and all the derivatives must be continuous or differentiable exactly n times and the nth derivative must be continuous. Notice that has nothing whatsoever to do with scale invariance. Here is a math stack overflow discussion which is more concrete and specific[1] and here is a nice treatment of the subject using animation etc[2]. Note that the sine function for example is not scale invariant but is smooth whereas white noise is an example which is scale invariant but not smooth because it is not continuous or differentiable.

I don't think anything you're doing here is mathematics at all let alone getting to the heart of mathematics.

Mathematics is defining axiomatic systems and proving results in those systems. What you're doing is making a physical analogy and then implying all sorts of things that are not rigorous and therefore are not provable or disprovable from that analogy.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/12026/what-does-smo...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD5g8aVscUI
> but the former indicates a stigmatization of side-effecting in the Scheme community

Such poppycock. Clearly marking functions with side effects as such is not stigmatization, it's common sense. Don't take the sloppiness of other language cultures for the norm, although statistically it may well be. Too many people already think procedural object soup is how things should be.
Can you provide more additional information for me?
If you're using Linux and Chrome you probably need to pass GPU flag `--enable-unsafe-webgpu --enable-features=Vulkan`
> intentionally masking the fact that she has no real policies or any sort of platform

What you're suggesting doesn't exist - and is being skirted around by the news - is in fact widely available. Google's right there.

> If the NSA, and other intelligence agencies, had any influence on the election, why wouldn't they do exactly what it would appear they are doing now and get a milquetoast liberal elected to office who will easily capitulate to their demands?

This strikes me as working backwards from a conclusion. If in your view the intelligence community would operate in that way, how would you ever know one way or the other?

One thing we can certainly agree on is that Trump is the real threat. It is pretty damning of our age that "not having a platform"(to your satisfaction) is supposed to be met as a serious criticism, but her opponent's openly unhinged behavior is just "how it is".
Looks pretty impressive. I couldn't find the weight listed anywhere on the page, how much does it weigh? Light enough to lug around every day?
If you have to work crazy hours 7 days a week you aren’t working effectively.
Of course I have. I worked in embedded systems at the start, but write one from scratch nope.

I do agree with you about the lack of traditional CS. Whenever I am parsing anything, I first reach for a FSM, and none of all the bullshit string copy, string trim, strim unpad, string unpad in the middle. I also know enough about modern lock free algorithms to know that some 10 minute scribble and a bunch of buzzwords does not scratch the surface.
The source tarball, on the downloads page, contains a license.
The overlap of meaningful problems and those where you can get rich on is getting smaller and smaller, I think this is what you are seeing. For me, this was always Accessibility. There is so much we could achieve, so many people we could help. But its simply not a market to get rich, so most ideas never get off the ground because they are likely not self-sustaining or lucrative in any way.
> Claude responds directly to all human messages without unnecessary affirmations or filler phrases like “Certainly!”, “Of course!”, “Absolutely!”, “Great!”, “Sure!”, etc. Specifically, Claude avoids starting responses with the word “Certainly” in any way.

Meanwhile my every respond from Claude:

> Certainly! [...]

Same goes with

> It avoids starting its responses with “I’m sorry” or “I apologize”

and every time I spot an issue with Claude here it goes:

> I apologize for the confusion [...]
> I'm saying

No no, for the 8th time now, you wrote down something saying I said something, that I did not say.
Can I turn the question around and ask (rhetorically) what happened to make all those innovations happen in the first place?

I think the answer is the WW2, and then the Cold War. Those have us miniaturisation, ICs, sensors, crypto (the old kind) and software tools and techniques to drive them and design their next generations. All the big money corporations making flavours of search and social networking are by products of that impetus.
[Applause] on YouTube transcripts, short two or three syllable sentence fragments, and absolute nonsense are the only ones I’d be able to reliably detect sans audio. But doubt YouTube captions are state of the art given how poor it is.
Peter Thiel has a bit on this:

In the 1920s-1970 the WORLD OF ATOMS™ had insane innovations, to the point where it was a different world at the end. Every single appliance in your kitchen got invented and became ubiquitous.

Since the 1970s, the only innovations have come from the WORLD OF BITS™ (drastically increasing transistor count, network speed, etc). But atoms have stagnated.
given enough monkeys typing, we would have the greatest novel of all kinds.

This is true. In theory. In practice, the real struggle is to find the gem in an ocean of garbage.

Something that cannot be found simply doesn't exists for any practical terms.

Nature has a way to triage its sheer numbers of genetic permutations : wastness of the world and mostly infinite time.
The UK Gov proscribed 'Terrorgram' in April this year. [0]

The first discussion I have found of it is Hope Not Hate's "State of Hate 2020" report. It hasn't been mentioned in the more recent reports. [1]

[0] - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/terrorgram-collective-now...

[1] - https://hopenothate.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/state-...
With that argument, it would be reasonable to assume Microsoft will just clone the key features (Composer etc) and bake them into the next generation of Copilot on VSCode.

Microsoft has its top-tier distribution advantages, plus they can build native integrations with Github/Azure etc to take things to a new level - think one-click deployments built into VSCode.

In fact, given the rising popularity of Replit/Vercel/etc I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft is cooking as we speak.
That would really be great.

A step below could be having an organized way to set up meeting points, - like designated cafes, lobbies, and co-working spaces where there's a good chance of meeting likeminded people, investors and others interested in expanding their network overseas.

My plan right now, is to travel to the west coast in October, but I don't really want to fill up my time with 1-2-1 meetings, as it is serendipity and broad "exposure" I'm longing for.

Applying for YC is obviously a way to get that, but three months away from my kids is holding that back.
I am most certainly not begging the question. I have addressed each of your points directly. I have a pretty good idea of Euclid's elements and the parallel postulate. Constructivism in the philosophy of maths is the idea that it is necessary to find a specific example of something to prove it exists. That's an idea that significantly postdates Euclid.
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This Aug 2024 update covers newsworthy developments since the March 2024 article, including commercial availability:

German company HIGHCAT is demonstrating its HMX fiber-optic drone in Ukraine this month. Now combat footage has emerged of what appears to be the first strikes by this type of weapon ... The controller can use an AI system heavier and more powerful than a drone could carry, taking advantage of high-resolution imagery to track and identify objects in real time. The cheap drone is expended but the expensive controller is reused for multiple strikes.

Six months ago this technology was not even a rumor. Now it is on the open market and destroying targets.
I get around 1600 mg of Salt from my medicine alone. ideal limit is 1500 mg while recommended limit is around 2300 mg (teaspoon of table salt) as you indicated.
I opened the page and still have no clue that buttondown is...
Wait till you give it control over life support!
Rates are irrelevant. I don't see a scenario where 2 children dying of hunger is better than 1. My original statement is absolutely true: there are more people affected by hunger today than 1k years ago.
I just signed up for Buttondown after researching and comparing a dozen other newsletter platforms.

I told our CEO that Buttondown is exactly the kind of scrappy startup we'd want representing our own startup.

If it's helpful for the HackerNews community, I've made my comparison spreadsheet free to view:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P9FyAYDdFZvTzmXVQi8A...

(I'm not an employee and have no financial incentive, I'm just a fan.)
If you could forecast earthquakes with principal component analysis and random forests don't you think someone would have done it by now? This paper is trash and will have zero impact.
It's not quite the same as a traditional hallucinogen but there are some vivid dreams. In fact, that's where the term "pipe dream" comes from, from the dreams that opium smokers would have while high. I have taken a lot of heroin in my life and although I never experienced something to the extent that Sacks is describing I did have some strange and very vivid daydreams while high.
It is not specific to tiling managers I suppose, but it does beat alt tab.
Giant fucking THIS. Property tax to fund schools is an absolutely indefensible policy that genuinely rubs up on the edges of a human rights violation. It's a mechanism purpose built to both gentrify and to drive a wedge between social classes in America.

Property _tax_ as we currently deploy or is also shit. The fact that people can be forced out of generational homes simply because their neighborhoods improve is utterly reprehensible. Property tax should be progressive, and be higher the more properties you own, and the higher your income is. If you own a home outright, it should be illegal for any mechanism to force you out.
You can learn Bulgarian instead. Similar script, different world-view. Айляк.

A Bulgarian asks a Spaniard:

– What does “mañana, mañana” mean?

– It’s when your life is mainly drinking wine, relaxing, eating good food, and having loads of fun. And what is Айляк?

– The same but without all this tension.
Partial stenographic record. Sept. 19, 1985.

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6566336
The easy problems have all been solved. All that’s left is fixing the science-mistakes that were made along the way.
Run System Commands in Ruby – When to use which methods to run shell commands
>bug populations have halved in a decade

Which will have a direct impact on the price of food as the pollinators disappear. Professional pollinator might be a high growth career in the coming decades.
The poor man's uptime alerts
Jealous Girlfriend – Roleplay with Furina (Genshin Impact)
i believe it's some kind of Substack but yeah, some context missing
They dumped a bunch of data on pca and random forests then only talked about when it happened to be right. Don't get your hopes up that this paper will go anywhere.
For homelab (but not only) you can install Proxmox Virtual Environment on your physical machine. You end up with a way to create VMs and containers with a web UI. It supports cloud-init too. If you have a spare machine it's excellent for experimenting and learning.

https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/overv...

https://proxmox-helper-scripts.vercel.app/
Indeed the understanding part is very good. I just tried this:

"
I'm dykslegsik I offen Hawe problems wih sreach ennginnes bat eye think yoy wiw undrestand my
"

Gpt-4o replied:

"
I understand you perfectly! If you have trouble with search engines or anything else, feel free to ask me directly, and I'll do my best to help you. Just let me know what you're looking for or what you need assistance with!
"
You clearly aren’t working in the constraints of computing in reality. The clock speed ceiling has been in place for nearly 20 years now. You haven’t posted anything suggesting alternatives are possible.

Your point has been made and I’m telling you very explicitly that it’s bad. The years of waiting for faster processors have been gone for basically a generation of humans. When you hit the limit of a core, you don’t wait a year for a faster core, you parallelize. The entire GPU boom is exemplary of this.
Recently DHH posted on twitter that Kama v2 will have support for multiple apps on a server.
I think you misunderstood me. I made the comparison to the Russia/Germany situation to point out how quickly a political situation can tear apart even countries interleaved by business relations in critical industries. Germany was completely oblivious to the danger of Russia axing their energy supply, citing the same thought expressed in the grandparent post: ”Surely they wouldn’t do that, it makes no economic sense!“

The EU should therefore not rely on the USA staying a reliable partner just for the sake of the market relations, especially with the possibility of a second Trump term. America is self-centered, unreliable, and politically ruined—you can’t work with populists.

All this is to say: Technological sovereignty is the right direction.
who cares if its generosity or not... it furthers the OS platform.
Provided the money has no strings about the license...
Mailing list manager. Like MailChimp but it doesn't suck. I use it, and it does everything I want (handle subscribers; send emails written in Markdown) and a lot more. I've interacted with the owner / developer a couple of times and they are a great person.

See https://buttondown.com/ for more.
These companies should be dismantled and the money gained should be rolled into aggressive climate action.
Shouldn't have to download and unpack a tarball to see how it's licensed.
It already happening in places all over Africa.
In general, scanning/lexing uses FSMs, parsing is done with push down automata (PDAs) (you need a stack to parse, you don’t really need a stack to scan).
It’s clearly not density because if you go into some of the most dense (poor) cities in the world fertility rates are not so low.

It’s a western thing likely because we have priced out families and couples can no longer afford to have kids/the large apartments needed. Need to build more two and three bedroom apartments you can actually afford and raise a family in
I agree with Sacks. While taking large doses of LSD or DMT I had experiences with what felt like otherworldly entities, or a sense that some cosmic revelation was imminent, but once I'd come down I didn't think something had been revealed to me or that I had been in contact with some supernatural plane, I just thought "wow I was really fucking high".

It was never a visual manifestation of a recognisable shape, it was just a sense that there was another consciousness in the room with me. I never saw machine elves or anything, I just felt strongly that there was a benevolent female presence in the corner of the room. Why I felt it was female I can't say but in the moment I was absolutely certain.

I am almost pathologically sceptical and I have absolutely zero belief in anything metaphysical. I believe that capability is simply not within me. I can see how other people would believe that there is something beyond though.
Ah, but that's on windows, which rules it out for me
I'll also bet you live in a liberal coastal city in the united states.
Yeah, I'm still confused how someone can write a whole article, link to other things, but not include a link to the prompts that are being discussed.
Well for one wages would go further people would have more money and CoL would drop.
Thanks for sharing. I love it. It's funny to see Mailchimp right at the bottom. Is Mailchimp becoming the "GoDaddy" of email.
I have implemented RaptorQ and RFC6330.

First, the rfc is pointlessly complex and optimized for files, not for streaming. if you want to play with it, manage blocks by yourself, ignore the asinine interleaving and block size management.

Second, the algorithm is actually split in two parts, and while the second (generation of repair blocks) is linear, the first is cubic on the number of messages that you put together in a block (~~ matrix gaussian elimination).

And while parts of both encoding and decoding can be cached, I think that "linear time" encoding for raptorq is actually just false marketing speak.
That’s their choice
Build Once, Deploy Everywhere: Handling Environment Variables in Front End
Telegram and YouTube Censorship Show Bitcoin and Nostr Are Critical
Imagine them just casually saying this and everyone just shrugs and gets on with it.