skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - If someone replies to this HN comment I just wrote, and I don't like it, and I can delete their comment (because there is an thread ownership concept on BlueSky, and the earliest comment is the owner);

You can hide it - which I agree is functionally equivalent to deleting it as people are very unlikely to go dig for hidden comments. FWIW this is kinda similar to "flagging" a comment on HN, which (as far as I understand) will cause it to be hidden for everyone - at least until someone vouches it back.

> - If someone links to this HN comment I just wrote, and I don't like it, I can make that hyperlink disappear, or invalidate in some way (because BlueSky is a locked API garden and hyperlinks are not plain text, but magic cloud API tokens)

You can just make the hyperlink disappear to anyone using the default BlueSky frontend. But from my understanding, the hyperlink will still be accessible through the API.
they need upfront $$ to fund GPT6 and beyond.
I've left bugs unfixed in my own side projects that really drove me crazy because I didn't feel I could "afford" to fix them relative to other priorities.
> In fact, so deeply threatened were the new overlords in the West by the very idea that the socialist system could also produce beautiful and vibrant public spaces that they felt they just had to destroy one of its crowning achievements (the Palast der Republik, also in Berlin)

Here is some background about the GDR Palast der Republik demolition. It's German, but Google can translate that page for you: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metropole/geschichte-... -- it's pretty interesting really, lots of details.

The GDR used 5000 tons of sprayed asbestos even though it had been banned since 1969 even in the GDR but they exempted this new project. That is why there had to be a huge asbestos removal project. It was sprayed directly onto the massive steel construction, so not easily removed. Only the bare steel shell remained at the end.

However, the argument is that they did not have to remove the Palast entirely and could have rebuild it after asbestos removal. I was inside as a GDR teenager, it sure was an impressive looking building. I'm not sure how political or technical the final decision to go ahead with its demolition was, too late now anyway, and I don't feel all that strongly about it even as ex GDR citizen. I think given that they had to pretty much completely dismantle the whole thing down to the steel skeleton makes it hard to fault them for going that one step further. The article I linked makes an argument that it should have been kept and used.

The articledoes point out though that three different Bundestag legislatures all overwhelmingly voted for the demolition, with three different sets of parliament compositions, so that it definitely was a democratic decision, and it came after lots and lot of public discussion. Even the article, voicing a different opinion, concedes that that was the case and that the democratic process was "exemplary".

That's why I think you should be careful using this example the way you did there, I don't think that the description of how that happened supports such a claim. One also has to point out that it was supported by plenty of people from the ex-GDR too, this wasn't dictated by the West Germans.
Not a lawyer, but isn't this under the same guidelines as decided by the TSC? no Russian use or access?

Again heavy emphasis on "TSC" as the role.
Comparing them to "powerful, composeable interfaces to the software we already have" doesn't make sense to me, because I'm using them in conjunction with that - I'm far more able to take advantage of the software we have now because LLMs mean I don't have constantly look up zsh escaping rules, or ffmpeg invocations, or how to run AppleScript from my terminal, or how to get a fetch() to work cross-domain via CORS or whatever.

It's funny you say "editing video on the command line, but I'm almost certain the LLM will have more trouble with that, too" because ffmpeg is the perfect example of software that is almost unusable for me without LLMs, but thanks to LLMs is something I solve problems with every week: https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/quicktime-capture-script

I won't disagree on the environmentally and socially destructive aspects. The question for me is if the benefits they provide compensate for the many downsides - like the fact that I can prototype 5-10x faster, while people who have never programmed before are finally able to get started on that learning curve without being put off the first time they forget a semicolon.

Will I look back in ten year's time and say "wow, the positive applications of LLMs really had nothing on the negatives, I wish this had never been invented"? I don't know. Currently I'm leaning "it's worth it".
Not taking issue with you, slightly different question:

Do the digits of Pi pass statistical tests for randomness? Uniform distribution, etc?
Kind of a moot question. They’re not building rockets or payment rails.
I mean to a point that makes sense; you got your base data types like idk, a bank account number which can be validated, which is inside a bank account which can be validated, which is in a customer which can be validated, etc etc. Visitor pattern style, I believe?
That was… Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
I can zoom in on safari/iphone
> that has been fulfilled by a third party without my knowledge can be counted on zero fingers.

Since they commingle products at the warehouse level and handle *actual* fulfillment at the SKU level and not the vendor level - how do you know this?

At the warehouse there's a bin of widgets that are all supposedly the same. Regardless of who the vendor is purported to be when you buy it, if it's coming from that warehouse it's coming from that bin of widgets.
Don't need them. Ever since Llama 3.1 came out I can control my data and not give it to OpenAI.
South Korea battles surge of deepfake pornography
https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo
Probably not... Surface temperature would drop to -200 deg and all the atmosphere would freeze. Radioactive decay only provides only a 0.05W/m^2 on Earth's surface vs solar irradiance of 1000W/m^2.
you miss 100% of the cars if you chase them on the street like a dog.
For the uninitiated there are robust formal versions of this used by industry. My product bases higher ed and corporate assessment scoring on these.
Check out ONET and Lightcast as a starting place.
Would benefit from an explanation of what's wrong with the chan chan pattern, which is fairly common. Are you similarly overwhelmed by the fact http.Response has a pointer to a http.Request?
You're technically correct, but this ignores some unfortunate realities of DMCA for the smaller fry.

The bigger fry are and will keep fighting to change the ideas of copryright, now that it's inconvinient for them after spending decades strenghening it.
Disturbing object unearthed in California desert mystifies experts
Not to be confused with (current? former?) Google employee Christopher Poole, but I guess that's a moot point at this point.
Those things are tanks. They're also very modular. Never owned one, but have seen them around a bit. I've also seen them run Linux pretty decently. ;)
If AI is a bubble then the value is going to go down to ~$0. If AI is real then the value of OpenAI and related companies is going to go up into the trillions of dollars and join/replace all the current established tech players. Either way, there's plenty of time to join the fun.
Most basic sushi just starts with cucumber, maybe avocado, carrot, perhaps going a little beyond and doing a Japanese omelette topping, and obviously seaweed. I wouldn't consider fish to be part of any first attempt at sushi. It's all about the rice and vinegar and getting handy at working with it.

Sandworm101 seems to be thinking of sashimi.
My apologies I should have made it more clear. Were you advocating against "serious questions" or just explaining why they might have been downvoted?
"Above $100B" is > 30x annualized revenues reportedly in excess of $3B.

The company is still unprofitable, reportedly burning around $1B every month.

The risk for investors is vertigo-inducing high. The potential payoff is vertigo-inducing uncertain.

Meanwhile, Meta is doing its darnedest to turn humongous SOTA models into commodities.
Much fewer electrons have to move for a detectable chemical reaction than a detectable electric current. Solid state systems are just much less efficient at computations, but they are much easier to organize.

Compare a copy operation on a DNA sequence in a cell with a copy in a memory, the cell does it extremely cheaply since it is a simple chemical reaction while the memory has to flow electrons in a giant network of nodes. You can easily copy exabytes of data using chemistry (DNA) with almost no energy.
Almost zero-to-none that we already have solutions for like voice recognition or license plate recognition.
The many entities performance is still not where we'd like it to be. We've made multiple improvements over the last releases so worth kicking the tires again but it isn't solved in a fundamental way yet. There is still some low hanging fruit available to speed things up for many common cases of high cardinality by expanding our APIs slightly I believe. Those can come sooner that a bigger architecture update so hopefully that will be enough for your use case
True believer in Sonichu
Your monkeys are pretty bad at Shakespeare if the best they come up with "it was the best of times it was the blurst of times".
As a reference point, Intel's market cap is $83bn. Crazy if OpenAI pull it off.
You can leak memory in any complex project, even if you only use safe Rust.

Linux kernel uses doubly linked lists, Redis uses doubly linked lists, V8 JS engine uses doubly linked lists. Have their authors chosen something obviously wrong?
Harmed, both personally and professionally. I ended up feeling like I had to play the part I had chosen, and felt less free to go after new opportunities.
> The problem isn't people replying critically, it's people being assholes on the internet... it's a necessary feature for people to protect themselves against harassment.

The problem is that "harassmemt" is a nebulous term. Many people inappropriately (in my opinion) claim any sort of dissenting voices are "harassment".
Why would they go backwards in capabilities and get shunted to a niche instead of growing?
This is a key criticism of reddit, and everyone knows how much of an echo chamber reddit is
no license[0] is the default fallback when nothing is provided. Realistically, it's "use at your own risk", because someone who doesn't license may not even be aware of what others do with it (or you fallback to whatever rules of the platform you posted on).

https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/
I find that annoying as well. Luckily on Firefox Android at least that can be fixed with a browser setting (Settings > Accessibility > Always enable zoom).
I've been using it since it came out. Before that, I used a NextStep theme for FVWM.

I'm dependent on WindowShade and wouldn't want to use a window manager without it.

I have the Window List menu pinned below the dock on the right side of the screen, from where it can pop out to full width if the mouse pointer touches the screen edge.
I much prefer that over a "task bar" that doesn't show full titles but takes up a lot of space.
(and no, I don't use other icons intended for the purpose)

I used to have my own patch with a few graphical tweaks but stopped compiling from source a long time ago.
The pressurization system takes bleed air from the jet turbines so they need to be able to shut it down in the case of an engine fire
Only at the app level. At the protocol level, each user has a repo with their own posts and you can't delete other people's posts.
I think that check on every access is a lot different than check on some accesses.

That plateau might not be any different than the CHERI plateau, since at the microarch level, CHERI will have more checks since it cannot benefit from a compiler’s static reasoning about redundant check elimination.
$100B. With Ilya Sutskever gone?

With competitors catching up.

It is the brains to make the next leap that is important.
> pyramind

this word fits in there perfectly
Statistical tests? Yes. Mathematically proven to be normal? No.
bluesky currently doesn't support private profiles, so that's a no-go.

while i fundamentally agree with what you're saying, the cases where a quote-skeet contains a polite or well-intentioned correction vs. is explicitly designed to enrage the quoter's follower-base and dunk on that person are way out of balance.

there are many people who will, rather than attempt to correct a misunderstanding (or simply ignore an opinion they don't agree with,) immediately jump to quote-tweeting and dunking on someone, trying to drag their followers into a dogpile. it's often just blatantly unnecessary and it is frequently a miserable experience to be on the receiving end of that.

i worry i'm coming across as lamenting cancel culture or something - i'm not - but i've absolutely had cases where someone with a different flavor of an opinion i agree with will see something i said, take my slightly different view on it, and quote skeet it with some nasty comment tearing into me. their friends, with no context of the discussion i was initially having, will just dive in and tear into me because they are clearly having fun doing it, not because it's actually correcting a problem or resolving a misunderstanding. i frequently have this happen from completely random passers-by to whom i wasn't speaking and who really would have no reason to see my post in the first place. i'm really not a controversial poster on bluesky, either. i really don't think i'm saying anything particularly offensive or earth-shattering. it's just a dumping ground for shower thoughts, mostly.

great example of this is some guy who randomly found a post i made about the fact that i was disappointed in joe biden's debate performance, which i'd say is a pretty uncontroversial opinion. he said some nasty stuff, i made the mistake of responding trying to explain myself, and then he just started replying to me exclusively in quote-skeets, berating me and mocking me, and the gaggle of idiots following him just dove on in and also decided to tear in to me for reasons that still don't make a whole lot of sense.

all this to say, if you've had any meaningful interaction with folks on these platforms, i feel like you understand the idealized version of a quote post and how far it is from how it's most frequently used.
the article you linked to is more than a year old, and does acknowledge that at the time spacex was flirting with profitability. do you contend that they are not currently “profitable”?

also, many (maybe most?) privste companies deny employees who have options access to complete company financial statements.
Yes it could generate a good quality novel. That was already done numerous times in various media for our entertainment.
I mean to say "in" to be specific. It wouldn't have evolved there, but those planets are just really huge spaceships.
I believe they do.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2015/03/12/digits-of-pi.ht...
All of these things seem like "issues" facing nearly every subgroup or hobby I can think of. When is enough diversity enough? I don't think things are perfect in the gaming community, especially in multiplayer competitive online environments, but most of these complaints are leveled against most subgroups or hobbies that are traditionally male-dominated. It just gets tiresome after awhile because this doesn't seem like an issue with the international gaming community, but an issue with society. It's tiresome.

Edit: I literally see nothing wrong with the comment you linked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367392). Is this what you meant to link?
Starting today, almost everything is unusable on Firefox. Seems like there’s been some change in DNS or maybe it’s just my ISP but Safari is fine.
Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Is the Worst Buyout for Banks Since 2008 Crisis
> “Is COVID-19 still an issue…?”

Should we devote any time or effort on what to do about the 400 million people affected by long COVID worldwide, with an economic impact of $1 trillion annually?

Is death the only symptom of concern? If the risk of developing long COVID rises with each new infection, is it clear that we can socially and economically afford to ignore it as new variants continue to spread?

How might we reconcile the push to move on, with the reality of millions experiencing debilitating symptoms, some lasting years or even a lifetime? If long COVID can hit anyone, even the young or those with mild initial infections, should we be carrying on under the otherwise useful presumption it's not an ongoing threat?

Whose interests does it serve for governments to be acting as if this problem has gone away, or the opposite?

Article here:

https://fortune.com/well/article/long-covid-cost-1-trillion-...
Zuckerberg's approach may be good for you but it's costing Meta astronomical amounts of money for pretty nebulous benefit to themselves, so I wouldn't count on their current approach continuing forever. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I’m not sure how that would help vs just training the model with the conditionings described in the paper.

I’m not very familiar with Gaussian splats models, but aren’t they just a way of constructing images using multiple superimposed parameterized Gaussian distributions, sort of like the Fourier series does with waveforms using sine and cosine waves?

I’m not seeing how that would apply here but I’d be interested in hearing how you would do it.
Girardi funneled the stolen millions from his clients into the lifestyle and vanity music career of his Real Housewife wife Erica Jane, who made songs like, "I'm XXPEN$IVE" featuring the lyrics "It's expensive to be me

Looking this good don't come for free

Oh bitch what? That's just who I be, it's expensive to be me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hL99eTKil8

One the the clients he stole $11 million from was blown up in the PG&E fire in San Bruno and had burns over 90% of his body.
It turned on write protection. It was a while ago, so I don’t remember exactly, but things got weird as the OS assumed writes got persisted while in reality they just got completely ignored. Was a fun experiment.
However we used to build houses in very regional styles. Flat walkable roofs in the middle east where it barely rains. Angled roofs in rainy Europe. Steeply angled roofs in snowy Sweden and Norway. Constructions that encourage drafts to form in houses in the Southern US.

Now, especially in the US, we just build the same types of houses everywhere.
I don’t think GenAI is the only new thing. I am sure there are things you could have done 10 years ago, but that you could do much more on the cheap today, for example.
> The Nassau County law, the Mask Transparency Act, makes it a misdemeanor to wear a face covering in public for reasons other than health or religion.

I suppose if the masker is masking as a fashion statement, or to carry a machete, that'd be bad. But if masking is a religious thing it'd be OK.
Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1p6hLY
I get "chan chan"s pretty routinely. It is when I send a message to some internal server/actor, and I also send it the channel to reply on in the message. Usually it ends up being a "chan struct { ... something with a chan in it ... }" rather than a literal "chan chan" you can grep for, but the principle is there. Very useful pattern; I consider it one of the basics in Go.

"chan chan chan" never, as far as I know.

It would be overkill to replace everything like that with a message bus. Very different performance characteristics for one thing. Go's channels are very much an internal-to-the-OS-process construct, if I'm talking internal to the OS process there's no value in "upgrading" to a message bus.
Experience doesn't put food on the table today.
You are overcomplicating this. Criminals are stupid, crackhead criminals even more so.
Sony is launching first public testnet for its Optimism-based Soneium blockchain
Something awful must’ve happened to that guy in the past.
In TSC I see IP block is mentioned?
What do you mean by "Russian" access? From Russia? By people with Russian passport? By employees of Russian company? What if I live in Kazahstan and want to use Yandex.Cloud datacenter located there: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/troubleshooting/business/how-to...?
Yep, it is nicely reviewed here: https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824
imagine allowing invalid values to exist
Very cool!

I love this. In a quick test, I noticed the transcription missed on quite a few of my "filler" words that I might want to edit out, although it did get some of them.

It took me a little while to figure out how to "edit out" words.

EDIT: Turns out should I have read the instructions before uploading my video it would have been straight forward :D
Dude I need this for MacOS 8. God I would pay so much money for a replica iMac with MacOS 8.
Just to have a separate story, I started licensing my stuff as public domain after the AI stuff happened, so I can encourage the development of AI models without any restrictions.

While I believe attribution (a requirement in MIT and GPL) doesn't make sense for AI because of its nature, the arguments just made me say "fuck it" and remove the attribution legal requirement altogether. It's still a good thing to attribute when it makes sense, though right now legally it's just too crazy for me to want to participate in this copyright regime.
This could be extremely unfeasible. For example the code could be generated by a third party and encrypted before arriving on a server controlled by telegram and sent to the user. Or it could be generated inside a nitro enclave. Sure ultimately someone could modify the server code somewhere to log the code or any other specific message before it gets encrypted, but at this point we are talking about inserting a backdoor.
English allows your "must be" to be interpreted two common ways.

1. A comment about how in general there should be a way to do that, but not engaging in the topic, ceding all power to the corporations which would be glad to take it, giving none back, and just mildly sneering at anyone foolish enough to join such a basal endeavor as a union.

2. A comment about how we would need to accomplish that goal and that establishing the working process should come before unionizing as it is the proper solution to the problem, ceding all power to the corporations which would be glad to take it until we solved the problem that is effectively created by corporations to be unsolveable.

Collective action works, it solves problems, it gives workers space to live and have basic rights, and we don't have to throw up our hands and say "there must be a better way!"
> Simplicity is a major goal of TLA+.

Is TLA+ simple? I find this hard to accept.

> TLA+ isn’t a programming language; it’s mathematics.

Mathematics is not executable, though, whereas TLA+ is.

> TLA+ [is better] for its purpose than a programming language.

"TLA+ is a formal specification language designed by Leslie Lamport for the specification of system behavior."

"specification of system behavior" sounds like a programming language to me. A systems programming language, even.

All this is to say that it seems TLA+ really has no future. If there was a future, like a goal or a roadmap or something, it would be outlined in this document a lot more clearly - whereas, instead, it is more like "nope, everything's good, no changes needed", even as the language appears nowhere on the TIOBE rankings.