skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's so annoying is that this isn't even true. There is a lot of local news and interesting happenings all across our country, yet no one here to cover it. It's cheaper to repackage US news as interesting to canadians (how does this US thing affect canada, with an opinion) or just for voyeurism. Watching televised news, I end up knowing more about what's happening as a "human interest" story in some small US town than what happened across our country.

Canadian media has been gutted, and nothing our government is doing actually works---or just fiddles with the knobs ever so slightly so that it appears as we're doing something, when the results are indistinguishable from the null.
Things I tried:

-Actual physical whiteboard

-Notepads (moleskine, amazon branded notepad, all colors, fancy stuff that is
$20+)

-Obsidian with a bunch of plugins including Exalidraw (I wish flowcharting could be easier but still sucks compared to yED)

-Google Keep (I use it on my iPhone and sync with my computer when needed. I only use it before homedepot or some hardware store shopping. I don't use lists for grocery)

-One Note

-Wacom Intuos Pro with other 3rd party drawing / note taking apps

-My own website (Wordpress with notetaking plugin to have it on the "cloud")

-Perfex CRM

-Asana (still use it for client projects with limited access to them)

-My own Kanban mutation

-Microsoft Notepad in a dedicated folder for notes (was probably the longest-running among all other methods)

-yED Graph (still use it for client presentations with basic flowcharts)

-Google Calendar with excessive notes

-365 Word With fancy plugins

-Notepad++ since it doesn't delete if I don't save the document (MS Notepad brought it with win11 though)

Nothing worked out but I am forcing myself to use Obsidian in a Dedicated monitor and never move it. I think I am getting close to liking it. I don't know what's wrong. These apps are SO CLUTTERED. And real paper is not searchable. I have a shelf dedicated to 1/5 used notepads.

Additionally, I thought I didn't like writing with a pen. Then I dedicated a very good chunk of my life to finding the perfect pen. So far G2 and Jetstream are my favorites. I used zebra in the early 2010s because I thought "If police are using it, it must be good". It wasn't that good. I needed flow.
This is an incredible stat.

If you only have to explore five time-bound AI* projects to discover one that eradicates recurring costs of toil indefinitely, arguably you should be doing all of them you can.

* Nota bene: I'm not using AI as a buzzword for ML, which the article might be doing. In my book, a failed ML project is just a failed big data / big stats project. I'm using AI as a placeholder for when a machine can take over a thing they needed a person for.
Could have used some more precise language w.r.t. Trump "disappearing" from the public eye (there was commentary about it at the time, the usual take being that he was happy to just sit back and let Biden & the Dems self detonate, a single rally during the period in question doesn't change this), or the media coverage (Butler was CNN's first live broadcast of a rally). What the media said about why they were broadcasting the rally is just that, a statement, and it may or may not be aligned with the actual truth (or even understanding of the people making the statement). "The Secret Service repositions" people all the time" is just a banal and unhelpful statement of fact, which dodges the peculiar effect of this particular repositioning in both effect (more visibility for the photographers, less for the crowd/spectators) and timing. I'm in no way obligated to establish that the SS "never repositions people" in order to argue that this is suspicious.

These don't constitute "lies," nor do they excuse your underhanded attempt to dismiss the rest of the list of facts as false (probably because they are indeed quite improbable).
.Net Core 1.0 released in 2016 supports Linux yes.

Lagacy .Net never supported OSes other than Windows. Mono, released in 2004, was the first attempt to bring it to other OSes.
It's tower on a large steel platform but it also includes significant GSE (ground support equipment) - cabling and cryogenic plumbing to connect to the rocket to let it be fueled and readied for launch, all connected via mechanical arms to pull the quick disconnects away from the rocket, in some cases into armored boxes to protect against the rocket exhaust. Plus a crew access arm to let astronauts board, elevators so they don't have to climb stairs in their space suits, etc., etc.,

It is carried around by one of the two existing crawler-transporters, which moves it between the VAB where the rocket is built and the launch pad.
The story I last heard about the origin of writing goes something like this:

- people use clay tokens to keep track of their herds/inventory

- these tokens get put into clay balls for security/transaction grouping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)#Origins

- to avoid breaking and remaking the clay balls all the time, people record on the outside of the ball symbols indicating which tokens are on the inside of the ball

- at some point, some bright person realises that all you need to do is make the second set of symbols on a tablet; as long as you have them recorded, all the balls and tokens are just legacy
> Well, your own mind axiomatically works

At the risk of teeing-up some insults for you to bat at me, I'm not so sure my mind does that very well. I think the talking jockey on the camel's back analogy is a pretty good fit. The camel goes where it wants, and the jockey just tries to explain it. Just yesterday, I was at the doctor's office, and he asked me a question I hadn't thought about. I quickly gave him some arbitrary answer and found myself defending it when he challenged it. Much later I realized what I wished I had said. People are NOT axiomatic most of the time, and we're not quick at it.

As for ways to make LLMs fail the Turing test, I think these are early days. Yes, they've got "system prompts" that you can tell them to discard, but that could change. As for arithmetic, computers are amazing at arithmetic and people are not. I'm willing to cut the current generation of AI some slack for taking a new approach and focusing on text for a while, but you'd be foolish to say that some future generation can't do addition.

Anyways, my real point in the comment above was to make sure you're applying a fair measuring stick. People (all of us) really aren't that smart. We're monkeys that might be able to do calculus. I honestly don't know how other people think. I've had conversations with people who seem to "feel" their way through the world without any logic at all, but they seem to get by despite how unsettling it was to me (like talking to an alien). Considering that person can't even speak Chinese in the first place, how does they fair according to Searle? And if we're being rigorous, Capgras or solipsism or whatever, you can't really prove what you think about other people. I'm not sure there's been any progress on this since Descartes.

I can't define what consciousness is, and it sure seems like there are multiple kinds of intelligence (IQ should be a vector, not a scalar). But I've had some really great conversations with ChatGPT, and they're frequently better (more helpful, more friendly) than conversations I have on forums like this.
In what way is it wild? How is the Canadian version different than what you get in the US?
I've had premium subs with both and switched to Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I'm blown away by what it can do. Example for context:

I'm a software dabbler so I can do basic stuff with frameworks like Django, but I'm definitely not a developer by any stretch. My use case is to build mvps cheap and quickly to test out ideas.

Claude spit out a Django project that integrated Twilio for SMS functionality. What's _really_ amazing is that it also walked me through how to set up ngrok and Twilio so that I could use my computer as a temporary server. Again, I'm a dabbler so devops is completely over my head.

In maybe 2 hours I had a functioning prototype that I could interact with via SMS. I can't comment on the quality of the code or how viable this approach is for building in production, but to bring an idea to life so quickly with limited skills is really exciting.
To me, it's not so much about the size itself but its correlation with poorly engineered applications that are slow, buggy, and stupid.
>and I can't paste in screenshots.

Well, you literally could
There are several solutions for running LINUX on macOS
https://mac.getutm.app/
https://tart.run/

https://medium.com/@salah.mahmud/quick-introduction-into-usi...
If you agree that losing access to new installs after a year sucks, and you understand why paid users are angry I don't know why you keep replying. This is an unnecessary user-hostile thing to do and, in my opinion, should be illegal. If you sell a product, you should not be able to post-sale revoke access to that product. This is even more cut-and-dried than products that rely on servers for actual functionality.
I know it's a long-standing empirical truth that anyone involved with Mono is required to prefer doing just about anything besides thinking about or touching what's on the Mono project website, but this announcement really deserves to be put on page unto itself with a URL all its own, rather than shoehorned into an anonymous div on the Mono landing page and at the top of /news.

See <https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/13/give-people-something-...>.
French singer Catherine Ribeiro has died, aged 82
Not sure whether there is a payment module in there, but that's why Uber app is so heavy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeCYiD0hnE
The $100M is an arbitrary number. It can go up, it can go down. It will be eroded by inflation and almost certainly not be indexed or indexed to a number controlled by bureaucrats.
This exactly. The US is great at exporting entertainment, and politics is just another form of it. People in Canada and Europe go to see American movies, listen to American music, and watch American politics.

That's why American news isn't about actual things that actually happen, it's not about political positions and legislation, it's instead mostly about fights between people, about who is scoring points against whom, and who is doing better in the polls, and we're all part of a team, and we hate the people who are on the other team.

It's sports, but easier to understand than football, quicker than baseball, and more violent than basketball.
A 3840x2160 jpeg image at 100% quality is somewhere between 2 and 3 MB, so 15 models makes 45 MB, still way short of + 300 MB for the app.
Without that it probably wouldn’t be operating anymore.
Mono can run old .NET framework applications directly.
Next we'll see people wanting filing cabinets.
This is a "modest proposal" for sure. No legitimate thrust toward domestication would cherry pick such an esoteric example as "threading wires in automobile manufacturing facilities".

Take the (very real) fox domestication as a counterexample -- the topline takeaway is about how cute and cuddly they became. A smart and cuddly pet would be a believable pitch, but a helpful, even productive "human assistant" is far less so.

With that said, there are raccoon breeders out there (according to Google), so this proposal might be 25-50 years too early, eventually ending up like chinchillas or other small, exotic mammals.
Former Heartland Bank CEO gets 24 years after putting bank funds into crypto
I think that's the intended implication - that it's "free to a good home" - meaning any new owner takes on a lot of responsibility.
I know you're joking, and fair enough, but I cannot let this comment stand ... joke or not. Canadians do not remotely ever think they are Americans, at all. Not even subconsciously.

I have a great respect for the US. Realistically, feel the US is family, and like family, I love and care for it. Yet at the same time, sometimes I shake my head, wonder what my sibling is doing, baffled... often concerned out of care for them, sometimes out of self interest. Yet I still care, and want the best for them.. even if pissed off, angry, or upset with that sibling.

There is so much shared history, coupled with so much bafflement.

I guess the best way to put it, is the relationship Canada has with the US is exceptionally nuanced, and this holds true for many Canadians.
When I was a child we got taught that at school. They had a large model of the human mouth and an oversized toothbrush. Perhaps that's too low tech for folks nowadays, I don't know.

Apart from the I go to the dentist 2-3 times a year, they do a great job telling me what area of my mouth I need to focus on. A toothbrush wouldn't really be able to give me that info anyway.
> I like the tactile nature of paper, if only I could select chunks by dragging and erase (fully) without wrecking it.

I'm not seriously suggesting that you do this, but the term "cut & paste" originated from a concept that predates digital text editing ;)
When I was younger (decades ago...) Canada felt more 'exotic' than it does today. That may just be me getting older and less awed by new things, but I'm struck every time I visit by how much like America Canada is. Maybe that's why I like it so much. America but with universal health care :).

Disclaimer: I only ever go to BC (and I have lived in the PNW most of my life), so this might be a very biased hot take. I bet Quebec is a little bit different, as well as the other provinces & territories.
The concern here was nuclear power, not arms.
Even hitting vitals won't be "immediate", you'll still have some hectic moments/minutes dodging the thrashing mammoth. But if you don't strike a mortal blow the danger is much greater because the animal won't weaken and slow down. Instead it'll get pissed and probably fight back even harder.
229 is a 2xx class for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It's a first course in machine learning with no AI prereqs.

What grad class did you take?

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/ms/machinelearning/
Every kid born after the 1960's has slightly radioactive eye lens, and their parents did not.

Peoples hubris is very dangerous, but maybe Fusion will solve all our problems one day. lol =3
I bought an electric toothbrush from Walmart for $6.99 probably 5 years ago. It takes Oral-B brush heads and AA batteries. It's not capable of using an app. Who know being a tech guy would make me love as-simple-as-possible "retro" devices.
Starting anything with “whether you like it or not” is a sure sign you’re not arguing to learn or teach but arguing to win (win what? the internet?)

Schools are not communities, they have communities within them, but they are more than just communities.

Your high school homecoming court also has a shared identity and a set of experiences that people outside the court don’t have. How is either important?

A lot of people paid $75 to become one of those data points, and the majority of them didn’t pick Caltech because of the social opportunities (because Caltech is not anywhere near the top of that list unless you’re talking social opportunities strictly for people north of 180 I.Q.).

In Caltech we have an exclusive and highly desirable learning institution with a finite and insufficient number of seats. Rigor or optics, you can’t have both. If you’re choosing optics, own it and don’t be ashamed of it.
not just canadians
Where are you getting this from? Most benchmarks I’ve seen put FreeBSD on par with linux.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bsd-linux-threadripper-7980x...
yeah sure let me write important Jira links into a notebook by hand, that'll be better than keeping them in a plain text file
I don’t think that is the distinction people are looking for. IMO software engineer just has too many pretentious implications…

It is a bit of an interesting observation though. One of the main distinctions that come to mind when thinking of engineers is that typically they belong to professional societies with ethics codes that would seem to preclude working on some of these user-screwing features, if taken seriously.
Artemis has cost nearly $100B so far, and with increases like this, that seems unlikely to slow down.
229 is an intro class for students with no AI or CS theory experience, and basic multivariable calculus and linear algebra.
Is there a tool that provides functionality like this that you can layer on top of cerebras's API, given you are not worried about using 10x-50x more tokens per query.
Well, they do a lot of fundamental try/test that others use then, including SpaceX. Didn't want to defend NASAs schedules, of course, but still they are often the first pioneers in many areas. And that plays not really well with public money, unlike private startups that can do whatever.
Well just because you felt informed doesn't mean you were. More sources are better. If you feel glued to 24/7 news, just don't do that.
Same with Jedi
It's not their job to revoke access to a product that I paid for regardless of the reason.

If they sold me that product I should be able to pop that software into a Windows 10 VM and use it till the end of time.
> I was interesting in the scriptable clients

For sure. Significant strides to be had with Razor, the accompanying script utility.

> as well as the idea of risk vs reward gameplay.

Be wary of the old heads that happen to stick with their solo thieves and PKs. For all intents and purposes, see where the biggest clans are raiding.

> To my great surprise, there seemed to be a vibrant and thriving social community in this thing that I and everyone else would have pointed to as a Dead World. Recommended

Many a legend even poured over from back in the day, with guys like Funeral, a player killer. Though, deco people are less notorious.
I would humbly suggest the ambassador STFU and read the Bill of Rights.

Yes, our news sucks and is polarizing. Yes, our corporate news sources are largely captured by one side.

But the government has no business trying to suppress discussion.

I’m not claiming that the ambassador acted illegally; I am claiming that as an agent of the US Government he needs to stifle his own opinions when speaking publicly on behalf of the US government and not try to suppress legal speech.

Ever since COVID the US government, especially the executive branch, has tried. Every means they could think of to suppress dissenting opinion while trying to stay just on the legal side of the first amendment. They need to stop.
This is cool I never really contemplated how frequently there are strikes across the globe.

Is there / Could there be a random number generator based on lighting strikes?
That's not the only way, DNS cache poisoning or hijacking can also redirect a victim to an attacker-controlled proxy. Or am I missing something?
Nuclear fission is a fundamentally different process from oxidation (burning). It produces a much higher proportional power output.

The usual figure given is fission fuel is about 1 million times as power dense as chemical fuels like gasoline.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X DDR5-6000 / DDR5-6400 / DDR5-8000 Memory Performance
How does that work here? Say I have that toothbrush, the app, and say I had to sign up to use it. What they know is how long the toothbrush is on. How are they going to monetize that data?
Yes. Removing posts based on their content is censorship, full stop.

In fact, the dictionary definition of "censorship" mentions porn as one example.
Most wild animals have worms. Dogs would have worms if it weren't for periodic dewormer treatments for instance.

Why does this disqualify racoons from being domesticated?
Anthropic/Claude does not use any RLHF.
Children of You
I find that HN is generally receptive of criticisms of those things granted you're using enough tact in your post and not just going "I'M SICK OF THESE WOKE JEWISH LEFTISTS RUINING EVERYTHING" in which case go to 4chan and cry there.
What radio and then TV did, the Internet has continued. The world is shrinking, its cultures are merging, one day there will be one language, and one culture, or... maybe two yelling at each other.

I once heard, in the early 2000s, that more than 1/2 the languages spoken 150 years ago are gone.
This is horrifying — I’ll be keeping further away from raccoons now.
I'm sorry to hear it was like that. I hope the future is brighter.
Also Rosetta x86 emulation, enabled in Docker, is highly performant
>Blaming capitalism alone on that is a bit silly. There's nothing capitalistic about a giant gov agency funding the same tiny group of companies for decades.

I'm blaming capitalism 100% for the hollowing out of NASA. I never said early NASA was perfect.

>But they replaced the public-private idea with a series of mega gov bureaucracies whose whole job is propping up monopolies who are prevented from failing in an open market because they are deemed essential to the national interest - entirely because gov refuses to adapt to reality and allow proper competition or long term investment.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm blaming capitalism of doing.

>We need to kill or reboot legacy gov agencies when they get old.

I really think if we just didn't let this happen constantly we'd have a better system. It's going to shift the litany of special interest because the goal is profits, but barely, existing contractors will just open up a bunch of subsidiary companies.
But you're logging actual data with those? Or do they make tooth brushes which monitor your mouth's biome or something like that these days?
Thanks for the full detail, that lines up with what I vaguely had a memory of hearing. It just sucks that it provides such a market distortion. Real estate has so many ways for “sellers” to ignore market price signals. Imagine if a retailer had a store where they hadn’t made a sale in 15 years yet they just kept dusting the racks and carrying the costs of that location on their books all that time. Only in commercial real estate can that happen. (Okay, probably in defense contracting somehow as well)
My understanding is that Nitter instances like this one, now that guest accounts don't exist anymore, depend on a pool of manually-created Twitter accounts. If the use case is people infrequently viewing the occasional tweet or thread, it's relatively easy to keep the pool of accounts healthy. If the Nitter instance is abused by scrapers or bots, its accounts will quickly be banned by Twitter itself, and the instance dies. So it's important to have anti-botting protections.

I've found that this instance works perfectly once you're past the bot wall. I'm not affiliated with it, but I use it daily and post it instead of x.com every single time I share a tweet.
That’s every other tech guy. It’s a common effect.
Only America matters. Canadians cluster on the border with America because only America matters. Canadians read US news primarily because only America matters. Canada's independence is nominal. The nation depends entirely on the US for its security and will obey when commanded. A vassal state.

Given that, it is normal for Canadians to consume American news, and it is only unhealthy in that it is unhealthy for Americans as well.
```
tail .zsh_history > setup.sh
echo COPY setup.sh >> Dockerfile
echo RUN ./setup.sh >> Dockerfile
```
I'd assume they'd be similar to ferrets (they're both weasels) and be litter box trainable, maybe.
Axiomatic Thinking and AI: Lessons from OpenAI's Recent Turbulence
More like going to the local library with a bunch of old books. It might be worth keeping them, but someone has to sort them out.
Ppl's obsessions (on both sides) on taxes is so weird.

Governments can fund themselves in numerous ways, not just taxes. Either way you'll pay.

The key issue is do we want a federal government expenditure of 20-25% of the economy? I'd say no.
There is only one method that works, and it is whichever one you have somehow managed to actually do on a routine basis.