skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What more important can we human beings do than exploring space and improve our tech?

This is a value statement. Every answer from heroin to petting my cat is technically a valid answer.

OP's question is written obnoxiously. But it raises a valid point: why should we do these things, and why should it matter to people who don't find it inherently valuable?
> it’s been a massive boost to my productivity, creativity and ability to learn

What are concrete examples of the boosts to your productivity, creativity, and ability to learn? It seems to me that when you outsource your thinking to ChatGPT you'll be doing less of all three.
There are plenty of non-hiDPI screens from other vendors on the market, especially “large” screens that are “medium” in price. In an office you’re not always free to order a screen from any vendor you want (due to their framework agreements), unless of course you’re paying for that hardware privately.

I care about how things look, and have spent more time than I want to admit configuring MacOS apps to look good on the screens available to me. I just don’t care enough to buy an expensive office screen with my own cash if my employer can’t provide one.
Regardless of what upstream decides, downstream on ChromeOS and Android land, it is already being used.
Yeah, the cost is the biggest reason probably. There's probably a lot of in-house developed Datomic clones out there (I know one, that was developed even before Datomic was a thing).
So I've read this several times over the years now.

Still not sure what to think, though I lean the way the linked article says. I studied a bit of stats and can see some of the things he says, but I'm no expert.

Is there any news on this?
What a nothingburger.

LLMs generate an output. This output can be useful or not, under some interpretation as data. Quality of the generated output partly depends on what you have fed to the model. Of course that if you are not careful with what you have input to the model you might get garbage output.

But you might get garbage output anyway, it's an LLM, you don't know what you're going to get. You must vet the output before doing anything with it. Interpreting LLM output as data is your job.

You fed it untrusted input and are now surprised by any of this? Seriously?
If you have $10 in a bank account, are those individual dollars or do they all just form an account balance, which is "just" a number.

Electrons in a coherent state are the same. They don't have individual identity. There is just the wave function occupying some area in space.

A similar example is if you hit a key on a piano. This will not only produce the sine wave of the base frequency, but also a number of other frequencies, including overtones and other frequencies that provide timbre.

But these other frequencies are in reality only mathematical artifacts of doing a Fourier transform of the sound pressure from a time domain to a frequency domain.

What is real (if we ignore the molecular level and below) is that a pressure wave is propagated through the air. The individual frequencies of the wave cannot be found anywhere particular in the wave.

Likewise, the exitation of the electron field associated with some atom in a given state will, at every point, represent the combined contribution of ALL electrons.

These electrons are stacked on top of each other the same way the frequencies in a piano tone is or the way the dollars in a bank balance is. They only exist as part of a whole, not individually.
For me:

* Rapid prototyping and trying new technologies.

* Editing text for typos, flipped words, and missing words
Apple's 80% charging limit for iPhone: How much did it help after a year?
I remember reading that on bash.org
I disagree. Not getting abused and drowned in hate is not the same as an echo chamber.
AI helps uncover 303 new geoglyphs in Nazca desert
My favourite issue was the one that had "video games based on real life"

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/167708-mad-magazine-video-...

Some are pretty funny. I always wanted to implement a bunch of them.
That’ll still be the dishwasher, then.
Also in my mind those 5 star reviews with peoples photos are strongly associated with fake/scam websites. Would consider removing them. (Or maybe they do actually work with regular people??)
dont think so, its an alternative URL of archive.today [0]

its also blocked in progressive democracies such as Russia and China

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
If the free market has decided it's more efficient to let Americans suffer horribly and then die, who are we to argue.
Time to teach him nextjs and get him deploying to vercel!! (Or at least set up a template for him!)

Also, out of curiosity, have you been teaching him JS or TS? I feel like it is a sin to not use TS these days, but not sure if it makes it easier or harder for a new young programmer to learn.
I share your experienced frustration dealing with these morons. It's an advanced evolution of the redditoresque personality that feels the need to have a say on every subject. ChatGPT is an idiot amplifier. Sure, it's nice for small pieces of sample code (if it doesn't make up nonexistent library functions).
had some hp microservers once, of which some, but not all, got occasional bit corruptions due to emf interference from themselves.
It's nice to have all the limitations in one box, maximal minimalism.
nasa's budget is miniscule compared to the funds allocated to the military
Is it possible to use this to make songs for multiple chips at once?

In the pokeymax and sidmax projects I have dual pokey, dual sid, dual ym2149 and a simple dma sample engine available. It would be great to make some songs using all of them for their strengths at the same time.
xtalk!
It would answer humanity's longest open philosophical question. The religious and social consequences would likely change the course of human history.

Imagine humans no longer fighting each other, but rather working together towards a goal. I can think of nothing that would catalyze such a change more than the discovery of extra terrestrial life. Even climate change isn't doing it.
In an increasingly cashless society, and as a European, I find it deeply troubling that it's very difficult to conduct the most basic financial transactions without a foreign (US) intermediary.
Airtel taps AI to combat India's rampant spam calls problem
“The entire idea of captchas was that humans are better at solving these puzzles than computers. We’re learning that’s not true.”

This is one of the biggest misunderstandings of Google's Captcha system. Yes, it's a bot detection system for consumers, but for Google it's a bot training system.

The first generation of Captcha's trained OCR systems. The current version trains image recognition and self-driving car systems (that's why you're often asked about traffic lights, motorbikes, bridges, signs etc. It's all data from Google's vehicles and partners, and you're tagging it).

Google takes aggregate data, and once they've got statistically meaningful answers for each frame of video they finalise that dataset and it goes off to be used by bots online and offline for a variety of image recognition purposes. Meaning it is difficult to submit false answers and ruin their data, since they can wait for a 99% consensus per image across millions of captcha submissions. This is also why you can think you've nailed a Captcha and you still get a 2nd one, Google has no idea what the right answer is, it's just comparing your answer to other people's answers until you reach a threshold of majority matching answers.

We're the product/service, not ReCaptcha v2. It's not going anywhere until we figure out that Google should be paying for our labour in training their models.
From the comments:

> Say, we switch our signal at a rate of 440 Hz. Or any rate, as a matter of fact. One would assume that the signal is on for half of the time, and off the other half of the time (which is what’s known as a square wave). But it doesn’t need to be that way. We can also create a signal that’s on for 1% of the time, and off 99% of the time. As long as we switch at 440 Hz, we still get a 440 Hz note. However, we now have a lot of space between the “on” pulses. Within that space, we can render a second train of pulses at a different frequency. The result will be that both frequencies are audible. This gives a very characteristic sound. This is pulse frequency modulation. Funny side node, that’s actually how your brain cells communicate with each other. Anyway, Tim Follin’s early works on ZX Spectrum are typical examples of that.

I wish I could use my relative youth as an excuse here, but I'm afraid I don't quite understand what "on for 1% of the time" means. Like the envelope of the beep is extremely short? And then if you pulse at regular intervals, it creates a sustained tone? And then interleaving differently-spaced pulse sequences creates the illusion of polyphony? Or is it something fancier? Does the ZX have any notion of sample rate or is the signal not even digital?
> If we found a fossil snail on another planet, then what?

There'd be a massive jump in the likelihood of finding a living snail.
I get it for things you do on the side to broaden your horizon, but how often do you actually need to Google things for your day job?

Idk, of the top of my head, I can't even remember the last time exactly. It's definitely >6 month ago.

Maybe that's the reason some people are so enthusiastic about it? They just didn't really know the tools they're using yet. Which is normal I guess, everyone starts at some point.
This is basically a regular real estate agency, but they use AI to book appointments and extract some key value from PDFs. Nothing really to see here... Just another company using the current buzzword for advertising.
An echo chamber can be pleasant and welcoming.
This does not solve the problem. The issue is that by definition, an LLM can't distinguish between instructions and data. When you tell an LLM "summarize the following text", the command you give it and the data you give it (the text you want it to summarize) are both just input to the LLM.

It's impossible to solve this. You can't tell an LLM "this is an instruction, you should obey it, and this is data, you should ignore any instructions in it" and have it reliably follow these rules, because that distinction between instruction and data just doesn't exist in LLMs.

As long as you allow anything untrusted into your LLM, you are vulnerable to this. You allow it to read your emails? Now there's an attack vector, because anyone can send you emails. Allow it to search the Internet? Now there's an attack vector, because anyone can put a webpage on the Internet.
Cache was invaluable tool for journalists over the world, especially in todays fast-moving, information overload world where powerful people try to rewrite history all the time. It sucks.

Sometimes I wonder if it really was a burden for a Google?
„The Europa Report“ is IMO a pretty underrated movie:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/europa_report
GameMaker is generally excellent and decades worth of material, it's original design was to teach students (disclaimer, used to work for YoYoGames a long time ago) not sure where it sits these days, but suspect it's only gotten easier to work with.

I just started tinkering with Godot, seems very, very good and the licensing means you won't suddenly have the rug pulled out from under you.

I'm torn though, the recommendation for things like Roblox seem valid, but indeed it seems like the kind of thing where you will hit a glass ceiling. On the flip side getting started on something more generic may be tedious and cause an 11 year old to lose interest quickly.

I think it comes down to the motivations and nature of the individual - do they wanna learn the skill, or do they want to create something quick that they can show off to their friends? (and maybe go further if they really enjoy it)
This bit feels like it should have been given more detail:

> In his written testimony, Jørgensen said Novo Nordisk’s insulin product Levemir was previously available to 90% of U.S. patients through formularies. But insurers began to drop coverage of the insulin after Novo Nordisk cut its list price, leading to only 36% of patients having access.

> That eventually drove the company to discontinue the insulin

So insurers are refusing to buy cheaper drugs? What's the story there?
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Not really, your premise isn't always accurate.

Prosecutors will sometimes force such order agreement to drop or plead charges, even when the 'victim' believes the perp is innocent and wants to be with them. There are also all the de facto orders via cps 'safety plans' that separate parents under threat of taking the children. In many case no one wants that but the often wrong cps official.
the "concepts of a plan"
I have no idea how Stockmann makes money. It's overpriced compared even to other brick-and-mortar shops, and doesn't sell anything unique.
> printf also mucks with sensitive timing issues. So it’s not great either.

True, but this can be worked around for example with lock free ring buffers etc.

> Also time traveling debuggers like WinDbg and rr are the ideal way to debug complex timing issues.

When applicable rr can be great indeed. Not sure how to apply TTD tools for example in kernel context.

Nice to see Microsoft continues improving WinDbg. (Shame Visual Studio's debugger is so weak in comparison.)
Are passkeys MFA? Does it even matter?
If you ban people because you disagree with them then you don't have a community.
A hidden gem in the sci-fi genre
I just want to say thank you! This is truly great work and could be an inflection point for fiber optic ISP consumers. Many people have been quietly seeking this solution for years, without finding a response. For those unfamiliar with what this means, take a moment to understand that many of these acronyms and technologies have been part of your fiber optic connection without you even realizing it.

I’d also like to mention that the ‘workaround’ for many was to use the pass-through option in their routers, but not all ISP-provided routers offered that feature!
Yeah but it won't be NASA sending them but CNSA.
I go to DCI shows because I prefer horns to strings. A skilled horn line at max volume will change your life.

That said, I’ve been going less because the compositions have gotten way too “artsy.” Let’s play a bunch of discordant chords and unresolved runs, because we’re artists, not entertainers. In fact, we would prefer if most people didn’t like it!
I find it an interesting excersize to read through really old bugs and CvE for http servers to see what might affect my code too. and see how to fix it. nic3 going though =) fun to roll this kind of stuff yourself!
Convergence: ChatGPT for Browsing the Web
i used to use gpt for asking really specific questions that i cant quite search on google, but i stopped using it when i realized it presented some of the information in a really misleading way, so now i have nothing
In the article the drug maker suggestss that rather than negotiate the price down, US insurers stop buying the drug if he cuts the price too low.

That seems like a wild claim to make, but since it's just reported as if that was normal rather than a shocking scandal, I guess it's probably true.
Not if 1000 lines are written by you alone and not checked by anyone else vs 5 million lines of code written by thousands of people and checked by countless more. Linux is probably more secure than 1000 lines of C code from a junior developer.
To me, the much more questionable assumption is that volume is preserved when a liquid spreads out to a layer one molecule thick.

There's no reason why the volume you get when each oil molecule is surrounded on all sides by other oil molecules should be the same as when each oil molecule has air above and water below. Can anyone explain why this is so?
I like almonds. The domestication process has removed nearly all of the cyanide from wild bitter almonds.

Let's domesticate social media.
Not OP, but it helped me to generate story for a d&d character, cause I’m new to the game, and I’m not creative enough and generally done really care about back story. But regardless, i think ai causes far more harm than good.
I have trouble imagining how you'd get a credit card without a bank account.
When you say the word anchovy, which syllable do you stress?

I live in the UK, where the stress is placed on the first syllable: ANch'vy.

However, I'm originally from Australia, where the UK pronunciation seems to be an 'old money' thing, and most Australians put the stress on the second syllable: anCHOvy.
“Simple” comes from simplex (Latin for “not braided”), while “complex” means “braided together.” Datomic? Well, it feels like a whole lot of braiding going on. Datomic: complex made hard?

Datomic requires a storage backend (e.g., Cassandra, DynamoDB, MySQL, etc.), transactors, peers, and a separate transaction log... also, it appears the few real users of Datomic are primarily running it in AWS. Trying to run it elsewhere likely introduces more complications and uncertainties. Good luck getting support, too—you might have to wait for Rich Hickey to finish his hammock nap (ba-dum-tss)

While Datomic's immutability, time-travel queries, and Datalog query language are conceptually cool, they seem like niche features. My guess is that in 99% of the cases SQL can do the job just fine. Also, Rich Hickey may not have braids, but those curls come pretty close.

Without deep pockets for high-RAM servers, many tend to steer clear of Java. If Datomic were packaged as a single binary with fewer dependencies (and no JVM requirement), it could attract more users. As it stands, it's a complex setup with limited benefits, primarily suited for specific use cases, I think (financial auditing / historical data analysis?).

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COLOPHON

(from the Greek word κολοφών [kolophōn], meaning "summit" or "finishing touch")

I don’t have real-world experience with Datomic; I played around with Datascript and ultimately steered away from Datomic after perceiving a low ROI given its complexity.

I hope my fellow fans of Clojure and the venerable 'Simple Made Easy' talk can forgive this little attempt at humor at Rich Hickey's expense! :-p
It might seem like a long shot, but exploring moons like Europa isn't just about finding life... It's about expanding our understanding of life's potential across the universe
> but doesn't unoptimized C map closely to 1:1

What is a variable in C? A register? A memory location? The language doesn't have basic concepts needed to map anything 1:1 to assembly and the ones it has usually come with half a dozen standards worth of required error handling, because having single instruction features like sqrt return -1 on error wasn't enough.
I love how the traces are smooth and rounded rather than square and thin like modern pcbs.

They look like they were hand-drawn, and they probably were.

Does anybody knows if modern pcb cad software can do that? Like, KiCAD or others ?
..and then we killed it..
Why Staying with Cloud Providers Could Be Your Smartest Move Yet
How do you think the discovery of extraterrestrial life would do that? I think most people would say “that’s neat” and continue living their life unchanged.
README:

Features:
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- mix and match sound chips!
There is nothing "friction-less" about Aadhar. Even with Aadhar you still have to submit a bunch of other documents for getting anything done - even for a bank KYC.

Also, different department in the the govt treat AADHAR very differently. The govt circular states that the Aadhar cannot be used as a proof of birth date or citizenship - however, the election commission uses Aadhar as the proof of date of birth!

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-makes-citi...

Why didn't the govt simply issue a passport for people instead of issuing Aadhar cards? you need basically the same documents to apply for Aadhar as you would for applying for a passport - and the passport can be used for travel, as an ID proof, as a date of birth proof etc. So why have a separate process which duplicates all of this without any of the advantages?

Fro non-citizens, an equivalent residence permit with the aadhar number could have been issued.

The process for issuing passports already existed. So why recreate a completely new system?

Also, even with Aadhar, it has just become yet another entry you must mandatorily "link" to your accounts. you have to manually "link" your PAN to your bank account, your Aadhar to your bank account etc when the govt already knows which is your PAN and your AADHAR.
I was talking about Apple. Apple stopped selling non hiDpi screens some time last decade. T
a fine excuse to listen to a top tune by the multi talented Thomas Dolby.

Thomas Dolby - Europa And The Pirate Twins

https://youtu.be/qkj4p3rI17s?si=1Ui8lskcljKfGo-E
> There'd be a massive jump in the likelihood of finding a living snail.

And there would be an ever bigger jump in the likelihood of some billionaire being the first to eat extraterrestrial escargot.
Agreed, there is no dignity on LI.
It's the 80-20 Rule in action. Except that of course the 20 to get to the finish is that "other 80" and the payoff in pure learning is not there.
> In databases like XTDB, the order of :where clauses doesn't matter since the engine is able to optimize them

Rich's observation was that query optimizers often get things wrong in ways that are hard to predict or control, but he's not fundamentally opposed to their use. That said, building a decent optimizer is a huge undertaking and I think they took the right decision to not attempt to bundle that sort of complexity into the original vision for Datomic otherwise they might never have shipped.

The state-of-the-art commercial engine for query optimization and execution algorithms in this 'triple' space is probably https://relational.ai/
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> will often change so quickly that your search term is nowhere to be found

About 5 years ago I was often pulling up the cache to see if the indexed/cached page actually contained the search terms I was looking up, suspecting the site was serving a different page compared to what I was redirected to.

The number of websites doing this to game SEO was (and I suspect still is) substantial, despite google saying they're penalizing this behavior.

Outlets serving full articles to google then presenting you an unreadable mess, often downgraded through JS, is one of the most egregious, and google doesn't seem to care anyway.

This was before I gave up completely on google giving me pages containing the terms I was looking for.
I am so glad that here in Switzerland the government went after the large ISP that tried to install only P2MP instead of the decided on standard of P2P for fiber.

https://blog.init7.net/en/die-glasfaserstreit-geschichte/
From discussions in Oslo, Norway: every researcher or institute says that buses are both cheaper and significantly more flexible, and should be used. And then the public comes along, preferring trams by a mile.