skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am going to be brutally honest here - I see it as some form of personal 'character' weakness, very common these days, haven't lived for that long to judge previous generations so harshly.

To the gist - its supremely easier to be or move into position of weakness and victim, look for external blame, while staying very deep in comfort zone, aka fix my shit as long as I don't have to change anything in my life, I'll even throw a lot of money on it. Massive resistance to change that's not convenient nor pleasant at first sight. People throwing tons of money on diet fads, experiencing jojo effects, depressed about their self-image and feeling helpless, binging in anxiety attacks. Yet nobody taking gym ownership, personal trainer, throwing out all that chocolate and other junky food, amking any self-improvement plan that 5 year old can put together and sticking with it. And of course almost everybody moves much less, but gist of the issue is food, quantity and quality.

It doesn't have to be about junk food per se, same is with parents basically giving up on raising kids and leaving screens and ad companies to do the work. Then complaining how young suck and are horrible and have no respect etc. While they themselves are glued to phones every day, addicted to the core, half laughing about it while scrolling further. Telling them to put it down for a day, spend time with them and kids (if they are still little, not much point pushing teenagers suddenly against their well-trodden addictive habits).

Comfort zone is death of one's 'fighting' spirit, I mean in fighting-as-hard-as-possible-for-best-life-possible. No good stuff comes without some form of a fight, at least it didn't in my life. It just doesn't happen in that damned zone, not with social media showing folks what they could have been if they tried. I don't mean some artificial celebrities faking / pretending how everything is glorious, I mean your schoolmates or childhood friends who were not spectacular in any way, yet rewind 10-20 years and there is abyss in how their vs yours life looks like.

I've 'lost' quite a few close people to such envy exactly because I was nobody special in any way yet somehow made it way further than most, from environment which expected very little from me. One way would be 100% quiet about everything good in my life or fake complain about everything, thats how many successful or rich folks live. I refuse to go over the board with that just to keep such, at the end subpar relationships. Rather accept people change, and one of benefits of non-family relationships is that you can finish them and create better ones as you change if it feels like the opposite is a mistake. I am currently in the process of losing my best childhood friend in same way too, not the greatest experience but unfortunately at this point unavoidable one.

/end a bit off topic rant
Yes I love gaming on my phone!! I love the feel of the inprecise touchscreen controls, the worse experience compared to a console or PC and all the ads and microtransactions!!

Anyone that can afford a new iphone and games should just get a console or PC... jesus.
This already is the case. 75% of student debt is private universities and colleges.

If you get into Stanford but can't afford it, a loan seems like a good idea, but in reality the loan eligibility should consider the degree and future earning potential (along the same lines of how banks qualify other types of loans).

If we simply cancel student debt or remove private colleges' ability to charge a market rate the result will be no more private colleges (similar to other countries with fully publicly funded education). In these countries you typically have a national exam that determines where you go, or you have to lottery in to a school if it isn't in your district.
Also, I'm deeply skeptical of crypto too due to its present scamminess, but I am keeping an open mind that there is a future in which crypto -- once it gets over this phase of get-rich-quick schemers -- will be seen as just another asset class.

I read somewhere that historically bonds in their early days were also associated with scamminess but today they're just a vanilla asset.
> That's not to say there wasn't artistic merit in the project as a whole

Yeah, I think what really made it work is the context of Seinfeld's conceit of being a "show about nothing" while also being so influential that people encountering it for the first time today tend to see it as a bland proto-sitcom. It wouldn't mean the same thing to give that treatment to a show like Full House or Family Matters.
Librewolf ships with uBlock Origin preinstalled, however the default installation of uBlock Origin enables EasyPrivacy by default. EasyPrivacy blocks legitimate websites, and there is no recourse to try to have a false positive become unblocked. Because of this, I do not recommend enabling EasyPrivacy if you are installing the browser for another person, unless they are comfortable with changing extension settings to disable the filter.
This entire comment can be summarised as: everyone who doesn't think like me is wrong.

Not everyone is interested in seeing the world through the hopes and dreams of e/acc types and would prefer to see it as it is today.

LLMs are a technology. Nothing more. It can be as amazing or useless as anyone likes.
Many do and have a similar view. Maybe restating the obvious just doesn't make the news (or bring in grants)?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1724823/pdf/v03...
What are your main gripes?
NATO military committee chair, others back Ukraine's use of long range weapons
>Lugging a laptop around always seemed overkill to me. Even an iPad is too much weight to carry around.

I am sorry but do you have some kind of a physical disability?
Not GP, and hoping that GP sees and answers.

I hope there's some insight beyond what I've got, but just from my experience: Sometimes having it blasting at the pressure you need while trying to get drowsy makes that process uncomfortable, but, after you've gained drowsiness it's not going to interrupt you and wake you (unless it starts leaking pressure against your face)
Take Action: The Draghi Report Brings Us One Step Closer to EU/ACC
Even the more exotic sounding stuff like xanthan gum are often stuff like fermentation byproducts. Totally organic!
Translation: "Intelligence teams should search for bad guys planting bombs in the road. Then special forces should work with other units to destroy them."
Definitely confused the photo in this article for Maximilian from the movie "The Black Hole" (1979) for a moment there.
Hundreds of millions of people have posted some geographical information about themselves on the internet without being swatted. This is like saying that people who ride public transportation are bold because murders happen there
FB is ridiculously unresponsive on my M3 Pro with a 1Gbps connection.

The UI feels janky and laggy, the Messenger itself has noticeable delays, loading new sections is palpably slow.

I cannot understand how, it's not an absurdly complex SPA doing a lot of computation on client-side, it just loads different modals and views.

On the other hand, a complex app doing loads on the client like Onshape, a CAD modeling webapp is very snappy, and satisfying to use.

I don't get how Meta's webapps can be this intensely heavy, even if heavily unoptimised.
There is more if you search by the tag: https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Symbolics%22
Xanthan on the other hand is a bacterial wash, isn’t it? And we use it because guar got priced up by fracking.
> but it will never plug that gap

They don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than humans. And that seems very likely to be achievable eventually.
Can you imagine if we could kill MLMs, pay day loan sharks, bail-bondsmen (My state fully banned this lunacy), Psudoscientific medicine (chiropractors), Scientology and other useless trash from society?

God going after just one is liable to get you a fate worse than Daphne Caruana Galizia
> normal trees will always outcompete fruit trees

Not. Not always. This is a too simplistic point of view.

Is like asking "how many penguins can be seen in this photo of the sahara?"
If the conclusion is that penguins can't compete with camels, is a deceptive one.

This forest is a conifer forest. Put the same conifer in a place suitable for growing walnuts, figs, or hazelnuts and we will see who kills who.
Chrome AP Firmware Embraces the x86_64 Architecture
I just want to have my computer plug into my monitor and transform into a desktop. I’ll pay twice as much to have one device capable of adapting to every form factor.
Templo Mayor. Mexico. They discovered it recently next to the big famous Cathedral.

They flattened a few city blocks to excavate it.

But they will never flatten the cathedral, or other large famous buildings in the vicinity.

Point is: the longer we wait to excavate, the more the likelihood that something's been constructed on top.
Billiards can be played on a snooker table (depending on company a potted ball is a penalty, £5 in the 'pot')

A great skill improver is often financially aligned.
The story about the scrolls is a hilarious rollercoaster; I recommend reading the whole article.
They also take pictures and videos. That takes a ton of compute nowadays, with all the computational photography stuff going on in the background. Most laptops cannot do realtime processing and compression of 8K video.
This made me laugh. I can't deny it isn't already happening. But wow people work so hard to avoid working hard.
Well, one answer might be that someone could spin up emulators

Or reverse engineer whatever app you have.

Or reset their phone? (or would you restrict it somehow to one account per physical phone? What happens if it gets sold or given away?)

Having worked in fraud detection a bit, it's _really_ hard to prevent people from making multiple accounts. Short of requiring ID based verification, and even then.

And then you have to still not go overboard and keep the onboarding low friction enough that people will be willing to go through it
It has been a while since I spent much time with NPR but this is a nice (general) article about the presidency. It even strikes a pretty conservative tone. It is not too long take a look.
It means nothing if it goes away because it has strayed from it's mission. Now it's just a puppet of Google; and a bad browser too from consumer point of view.
> Isn’t hallucination just the result of speaking out loud the first possible answer to the question you’ve been asked?

No.

> In fact, if you observe your thinking…

There is no reason to believe that LLMs should be compared to human minds other than our bad and irrational tendency towards anthropomorphizing everything.

> So, to evaluate the intelligence of an LLM based on its first “gut reaction” to a prompt is probably misguided.

LLMs do not have guts and do not experience time. They are not some nervous kid randomly filling in a scantron before the clock runs out. They are the product of software developers abandoning the half-century+ long tradition of making computers output correct answers and chasing vibes instead
Ultra processed food is foods broken down into base chemicals and stored in vats or boxes like it’s baking soda for years before being turned back into food. Many things we make from corn in particular, and I would probably include commercial orange juice in this as well. I don’t drink the stuff anymore. That’s gross.
Maybe not perfect, but it seems to work out better than exceptions. Exceptions are a good idea which turned out to be too complicated.

A language has to use destructors to clean up for almost everything for this to work. "?" has no "catch" clause within the function. So if an object has an invariant, and that invariant must be restored on error, the destructors must restore the invariant. If that just means unlocking locks, closing files, or deleting data structures, that works. If some more complex invariant needs to be restored, "?" isn't enough. The calling function has to clean things up. This usually means encapsulating the function that does the work in a function that handles errors and cleanup. Basically, a try block.
> 1,337 additions

cough
There is a Peter Attia interview with Michael Easter that explores this concept and anecdotally supports it, where he investigates a tribe (Tsimane tribe) with low obesity and cardiovascular disease, and his personal experience eating their plain and unseasoned diet compared to normal western foods.

I normally dislike the typical podcasters/podcasts because of their self promoting and low information density nature but I thought this one was ok to recommend.
I don't think this is heresy at all. I read this and just think you have a giant blind spot because you seem to be assuming that the way you learn is universally applicable.

I went to an unremarkable state school where I had classes with a hundred other students. Even my senior level courses were about a dozen to one teacher ratio. I still remember my professors and specific moments during their lectures when I was able to ask a follow up question which triggered that Eureka moment we're all looking for.

I wish I was able to just sit down with a textbook and learn a meaty subject but that doesn't work for me. I, and many others, need (or at least it helps a lot) the academic structure to learn effectively. The academic calendar, lectures, textbooks, homework, and other students you can study with all work in concert. The way you're dismissing all of that strikes me as really myopic.

There are many examination authorities but employers basically ignore all of them and have gone all in on college degrees as the signal for employment. In that way colleges are gatekeepers to higher level jobs, but they're hardly the only actor here.
New Library for native WebGPU apps in C++
Tao and Aaronson are optimistic about LLMs. What are they telling their students? That math and science degrees will soon have the same value as a degree in medieval dance theory?

If they are overly optimistic, perhaps it would be good to hear the opinions of Wiles and Perelman.
Idk I think the fact that it needs “hints” and “prodding” is a good thing, myself. Otherwise we wouldn’t need humans to get those answers, would we. I want it to augment humans, not replace them.
This is not a sound laser; the beam has some similar properties to a laser (e.g. collimation), but it works more like a directional antenna.
No, but it’s also a painting instead of a digital file, so different considerations apply (maybe the copy wouldn’t be strictly identical, maybe the value is affected by “knowing that Van Gogh is the one who applied the paint to the canvas” or by the fact that only one such copy exist), and this is therefore a false analogy.

If you copy the number written on a piece of paper to another piece of paper, is it the same number? Yes, it is, and a digital photograph is defined by the numbers that make it up. Once you have two identical copies of a file, what difference does it make which one you read the numbers from?

Or are you arguing that when the camera writes those numbers to the raw file, it’s already a different image than was read from the sensor? After all, they were in volatile memory before a copy was written to the SD card.
this should be up front and center as example next time unrequired, undesired connectivity comes up for consideration
The problem is finding that intersection. If you are really suited to journalism you will have a hard time financially in 2024. And the experience of studying a thing and doing it for a living are different, and in 2024 its hard to try different careers out because most employers want credentials and experience. There are still jobs where you can walk into the office and talk someone into giving you an internship but many organizations force all hiring through online applications and the HR bureaucracy (and the 'talk yourself up' approach works better for extroverts from the hiring manger's culture).
My step great grandmother is currently the oldest in the UK, the family had to take her car keys off her when she turned 100, she wasn’t best pleased about it.

https://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/
Personal Task Management with Integrated Time Tracking
> 36 Hacker News users in North Korea

Some hacker was trolling and moving people there. Should be fixed now!

> due to the tool expecting this data to be the only thing in the user's bio

Shouldn't be the case! Seems it's good for you now. If not, don't hesitate to share more details.
I use ~10 desktops across the day (physical, remote and virtual). They all have Firefox (rel, ESR, nightly) as their primary browser. I also use of Ffx alts every day (presently Waterfox).

I co-use Ffx alts to segment browsing - and as a quick fix for when sites develop Broken Control Syndrome.

Outside of the Ffx ecosystem, I'm using Brave (today) to test Google products and deal with Google's passive-aggressive hostility to Firefox.

I had tried Opera before Brave but it felt like being trolled. Something is very wrong in that house.
> you get to roughly the same 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 that I like to use

But your numbers are 1/2, 1/4, 1/4. I think you're being a bit optimistic.
Sorry for that, should be fixed now!
all the way either way!
My fiance takes a lot of videos on her phone. She has become a pretty talented video editor. Watching her “work” is actually a wild experience because it really is a whole different way of using a computer. She is comparably fast to someone on a desktop editor.

4K video editing — you need a pretty powerful desktop PC to smoothly edit/preview 4k video. CPU, GPU, and memory.
The point is that the successful businesses produce lots of value for people, and for risky bets to work out on average you need some to do very well to balance out the ones that do only OK.

If you have an ideological opposition to economic growth, then yeah, venture capital isn't going to make much sense to you. As was mentioned up thread, there are other funding sources better suited for people who aim to sustainably make 1-2x returns.
Where were parents? Don't tell me they were absent in such a massive decision that absolutely defines rest of their kids lives.

Yes its horrible to force 17-18 year old to make such an important decisions and also schools should have known better and counsel heavily beforehand. But lets not forget that for the state you are 100% responsible for your actions at that point including any crime, state will happily draft you and send you to get killed if the need arises. Loan management pales in comparison with this.

Truth is harsh, society is harsh and unfair in many aspects. I don't see this improving unfortunately anytime soon.
If I dismiss a tab the "you dismissed a tab" popup blocks the view of the next tab. If I full-screen a video, the "you fullscreened a video!" message blocks the entire video progress bar so I can't move forward or back. I don't need the damn browser to tell me what I just did. I was there. Adjusting the volume while watching a full screen video drops the whole browser into a 4mmx4mm picture-in-picture window on my home screen. Oh, and the bug where using the back button sometimes completely breaks the "view desktop site" button until I manually kill the app is still there.
More research wouldn’t hurt but is not like there is none e.g., here’s video on seed oil that does cite some research https://youtu.be/XJ_uyV-ER_g

tl;dr seed oil is better than butter (saturated fat-wise), it is ok to heat it at home upto 200 Celsius, not ok “ultra processed” fastfood fries due to more heat, reheating (trans fat-wise)
> I could definitely see a starry eyed 17 year old deciding to do.

That's the addendum to the "most important part." These people without an education in complex debt instruments are the vast majority of the time either children, or were children quite recently. Even when it comes to the ones in grad school, I have jeans older than their legal ability to sign contracts.
> stupid rules they have to follow

A belief in that speech in the Iliad which justifies getting the best portion of everything at home because of one's willingness to stand in the van overseas being one example of a custom/rule which proved exceptionally stupid in the years leading up to 11 Nov 1918.
The market may simply require less engineers. I think entry levels are cooked (they kind of already are anyway). I'm quite confident that the near future of SW development will bean experienced engineer working in tandem with these systems, guiding, reviewing and correcting their work.
Further future (>2030) if AGI actually pans out then white collar work is mostly cooked.
If there is such a thing as passing the BOFH torch, this is it. I'm sure someone here will thank you for mentioning this!
To be better than humans they have to able confidently say "I don't know" when the correct answer is not available[1]. To me this sounds like a totally different type of "knowledge" than stringing words together based on a training set.

[1] LLMs are already better than humans in terms of breadth, and sometimes depth, of knowledge. So it's not a problem of the AI knowing more facts.
Wow that is surprisingly cheap actually.
Producing text is only the visible end product. The LLM is doing a whole lot behind the scenes, which is conceivably analogous to the thought space from which our own words flow.
> Wait! The fact that arguments with a leading hyphen are interpreted as options is not bash's fault. It's ingrained in the convention of UNIX tools and there's nothing bash can do to mitigate it. You would have the same problem if you got rid of any shell and directly invoked commands from Python or C.

A better system shell could make it easy to define shims for the existing programs. Also it could make their calling easier, e.g. with named arguments. So when you wanted to delete your file called -rf, you would say

rm(file="-rf")

or something like that, with your preferred syntax. It would be much safer than just pass big strings as arguments, where spaces separate the different arguments, also spaces can appear in the arguments, also arguments can be empty. Bash or Posix sh is not very good at safely invoking other programs, or at handling files.
This is just the source code for the blog. It is readable in normal fashion at os.phil-opp.com.
Incompetent Graduate Students is the name of my new sketch group.
plot twist. it is the black hole in the center of the galaxy

so we are inside an object that we can observe looking outwards to the stars
If you are writing an article about time series databases, and you don't mention KDB - straight to jail. It is the grandfather of time series and predates influx by about a decade. It is still the fastest out there too. It is used by about every major financial and trading institution in the US and Europe.

Everybody thinks TSDB are something new-ish, but they've been around since the days of APL. All you youngins disappointment me every time you write about time series, vector languages, or data-oriented programming and entirely neglect all the work that comes under the APL/Vector umbrella. SOA and DOD have been around for 50+ years, and they didn't start with c++ or Pandas.

Now the creator, Arthur Whitney, has a new one out called Shakti that is even faster (but has also ditched from the "niceties" of Q.

https://shakti.com/
I may get some naysayers for this, maybe because I'm on macOS and not Linux or Windows but...

Two features I love about Safari is:

- Pinch/Zoom to view all my tabs as windows to switch between tabs

- What at least appears to be total isolation between tabs when in private browsing mode. If I login to Facebook in one tab, then open up a new tab and go to Facebook, it will not see me as logged in.

Chrome nor Firefox have either of those features.