skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My niece and I were talking about this. She's older and has heard all songs she grew up with countless times, even to the point where any nostalgic value has been worn out. Many of those songs are in commercials, TikTok videos, etc. So easy access to the discography she grew up with is bland and uninteresting to her.

But weird, bizarre, interesting and novel stuff is all over YouTube, stuff with less than 50 views, stuff that isn't on Spotify. The same is true of SoundCloud and Bandcamp, and you even have the occasional mp3 shared on Discord by musicmakers that didn't bother to put it on any type of service. So she's all about the music library, because there is no way to know when that truly unique and meaningful stuff will disappear.

I'm desperately trying to get her to understand what she is doing is wrong, and I hope to succeed in setting her on the right path someday. Because there are plenty of legal avenues now, and an artist or company pulling their tracks from a service without warning is simply something we should all live with.
I’m definitely in the category, however, the job situation is so dire that if I quit my job, there’s nothing to replace it.
How do you distinguish the path to fancier autocomplete from the path towards AGI? Why think we're on the former rather than the latter?
Do they really? They may be intended to do that, but if you think from the basic law of supply and demand the effects are clear.

This policy will lead to more expensive batteries, EVs and solar panels. This will be the effect. Policies can help, when they improve the competitiveness of the industry, usually when there is less regulation and taxation.

Chinese EV's cost 10K, comparable US cost 25K. Yes, we can legislate to forbid these communist law-breaking people to stop selling us their cars. But the effect will be more old clunkers on the road, more pollution and less money to spend on something else. And the Chinese will build and sell them to the rest of the world and grow their companies to such size that the moment you remove the tariff US companies will be dead. To fight this only productivity and technology will help, not legislation. You can't legislate your way to a full belly. Profit should come from somewhere. And if the US hadn't had the US dollar as a reserve currency shit would have hit the fan much faster.
It looks like Alaska will sell you tickets for PAE to SEA via any one of SFO, LAS, LAX, PHX...
I wish I could upvote this more than once. I feel like every conversation about AI changing society comes from rich founders telling Joe banker to "Just start a company. AI will make it easy."

The reality is, this transition is going to be painful for the average person.
Sure, but large scale solar probably isn't globally practical without a world grid.
The Excel spreadsheet brought the network down
Precisely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
I'm sure if you dig just a bit further you might find some other agreements that have been made, and then broken (by NATO nations), prior to the start of the war in Lugansk/Donetsk/Ukraine as a whole.

Except you can't, because no (legal) "agreements" as such were ever made.

Meanwhile the Budapest Memorandum is an agreement with treaty status, and it was unequivocally violated by Russia starting with the 2014 invasion.
I did.

Nobody gets it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyu7NB7W6Y
> As I see it, if your startup's business model relies on your core code being proprietary, you don't have a business model.

That’s an odd statement. Most software companies have their core product as closed source. Microsoft and Google built an empire on closed software.

The only ones that use open source have a business reason to do so, usually because they make tools that depend on widespread adoption.

E.g., there’s no need for Jira, Salesforce, Notion, or Facebook to be open source because they don’t directly integrate with their customer’s software development or IT process. Their products have almost nothing to do with software so the code inside doesn’t matter to the customer.
It would be an inverse correlation. Teen pregnancy rates have been falling.

https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2014/09/what-behind-declines-...
Scalable PDF document processing with DataChain and Unstructured.io
> Although it will happen incrementally, astounding triumphs – fixing the climate

This is so rich coming from a tech field that's on track to match the energy consumption of a small country. (And no, AI is not going to offset this by 'finding innovative solutions to climate change' or whatever)
> Who thought it was appropriate to negate the "no means no" phrasing that has almost exclusively referred to sexual consent for all recent memory?

Most likely he did it for the same reason any of his video titles are what they are. He's an influencer (or these days, a corporation pretending to be an influencer); he lives and breathes clickbait.
I hear you!

I really need to let go of these self-sabotage tendencies fast!!
Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
Im using my ipod every single day. I installed a usb-c mod[1] and 512gb flash storage[2] and its perfect. Plays my flac in rockbox. I

[1] https://oxyllmods.square.site/

[2] https://www.aliexpress.com/store/911808103
> Surprisingly, candidates from wealthy families performed worse during this round. This is counterintuitive, especially when compared to contemporary educational systems where socioeconomic background often correlates positively with educational access and performance. Our research revealed a negative correlation in imperial China.

> We attribute this to the emperor’s reluctance to appoint officials from independent power bases to central government positions. The final round selected the most important officials for the imperial court - those who would design future keju examinations, advise the government, and have direct access to the emperor. This system effectively marginalized the nobility and successful merchants.

This is a pretty brilliant mechanism: an emperor normally draws a certain amount of jealousy and hate from the nobility and successful merchants, but by promoting rustic wonks over them via this system, might the emperor have been playing "let's you and him fight": diverting their animosity onto a bunch of "academic, gate-keeping, elites"?
That shape has three cusp-like corners -- one at each sharp point, with smooth curves (convex/concave) between them. This satisfies the "at least two" condition.

The even simpler "lemon" is an even more egregious example, as it satisfies the conditions in two and three dimensions and yet is rather old and well-defined: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LemonSurface.html
OmniGen – A single model for Text2Image, Image edit, Reasoning
I loved the tensor puzzles you made. I spent the morning revisiting and liking all the videos on youtube you've made. Hope for many more in the future!
[random parental advice from the internet]

Pick an adult solution and sit with them to provide adult guidance. You are at the stage where your relationship with your child becomes peer to peer.

If game programming stays their jam, you will be learning game programming from them in the blink of an eye. It's joyous and wonderful and only gets better.

Sure you will miss them being a small child, but you will know an amazing adult. (and they will always be a small child sometimes just as we all are).

The platform doesn't matter. Your relationship does. Good luck.
> * "if you create the descendants of humanity from a place of, deep fear and panic and anxiety, that seems to me you're likely to make some very bad choices or certainly not reflect the best of humanity."

This line of reasoning doesn't hold for me, as you could apply it to any technology, including ones actually very likely to destroy human civilization.

Sometimes, not building a given thing at all is better than building it with even the best intentions.

I'm personally not sure on which side AI falls, but denying that such things exist at all seems intellectually dishonest.
> But we're also definitely some way away from AIs doing their own research, and I'm not sure if scaling the current architecture alone will get us there.

Hot take: I think it's fairly obvious the current architecture is not enough BUT it's already or almost at the point where it can be the backbone for a proper AGI/ASI system. Linking human communication and some light language-based reasoning to other AI models that handle the rest of the world model and reasoning, using special tokens to coordinate them.

I think it's just really early and most of this stuff hasn't even been attempted yet. There's tools/function calling which is kind of a proof of concept, and a lot of academic labs researching transformers applied to other fields like robotic control and learning, but no one's put it all together yet.
I visited Tokyo a few months back, and while the convenience stores seemed nicer than equivalents in America, I also wasn't particularly impressed. I think if I had just encountered them I'd be impressed, but the internet has hyped up the convenience stores of Japan so much I thought they'd blow me away. They're nice, they're good, but not amazing.
Nah, it's the base thing that a standard can be built out of. This is how things usually get done.
I have 163 current feeds covering a couple dozen topics. I use elfeed on emacs to read and manage the list. The filtering and sorting rules provided by elfeed along with bookmark management under Org-Mode/Org-Roam have solved all of my current needs.
I’m working on a PhD adjacent to computational differential geometry, and while I’ve made a lot of progress on the computation, I still don’t have much intuition for k-vectors and k-forms. I love coming across articles like this that help me build intuition. The article for which this is the second part was really helpful, but I’m going to have to come back to this second part a few times to fully grasp it. I also loved this quote from one of the articles listed as a source (but with a broken link, I found it at http://yaroslavvb.com/papers/notes/piponi-on.pdf): “Think of a vector as a pin, and a one-form as an onion. You evaluate a one-form on a vector by counting how many onion layers it goes through.”

Edit: This one also looks good: https://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2018/REUPapers/Bixler.pdf
Wikipedia: "The Gaia hypothesis... proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet." [my emphasis.]

this rosy view has to contend with the fact that once (the great oxygenation event), and possibly twice (the cryogenian), life on Earth was making the environment inhospitable for itself, and at least in the first case, had to evolve to avoid a problem it had created for itself.
Yeah, I am willing to trade being locked to that carrier for a massive discount to my phone.

I hope this doesn't mean the discounts go away, because then it will cost me so much more to upgrade phones every few years.

It was only $350 for my iPhone 14 Pro at launch for example due to a $1000 discount with trade in. I just looked at the trade-in list and bought the cheapest one on the list refurbished from Amazon, which cost me $350. Traded that in and they gave me a new 14 Pro.

I have 0 issues being locked to ATT for 3 years as I need service and I like their service anyways.
Oh maybe you missed the analysis pieces from the Victorian era that explain very logically and with great authority why india can never be anything else than agricultural and backwards, and the looms are best placed in Great Industrial Britain? There was massive plunder, extermination of any that would raise their heads, and great damage imposed by the crown on its brown subjects.

You just wait.
> I think it’s fair for the creator of the product (WP) to criticize competition that undermines a feature he considers important to him

That his own product ALSO gates access to, unless you pay the top tier for?

I don't think it's fair to criticize the competition for that, and not acknowledge that you do the same, no.
This is mostly dumb, but the dragonfly mating style battery swap in mid air is fun to watch.
It does at least look like their docs for the equivalent policy are not vulnerable to this attack though

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level...

ie: The "Update Policies" DSL ensures that the user does not change the user id of a row
Thanks, that makes me feel a little better because I did use the https bookmark I had and didn’t type in the addr.
>Can you craft a QR code with the same data but change the timestamp to achieve for infinite refills?

I'm hoping nobody is this naive to let your client have mission critical info to implement something as crucial as giving a discount or refills in your case. It would be just be an extra column in your db table, the only identifier available to the user should be just the UUID, along with some identifier.
> if performance wasn't as important as you seem to imply, it's very unlikely that ripgrep would have gotten popular given that performance (and filtering) are its two more critical features.

I'm not saying performance isn't a feature, but if one want performance they shouldn't use grep, and use ripgrep instead.

There was a need for a high performance grep replacement, and you filled it perfectly. But now that ripgrep exists, I don't think it makes much sense for a grep perfect clone to seek max performance, since it will definitely fall behind ripgrep no matter how hard they tried (at least because they can't ignore files or restrict the kind of regular expressions they support by default).
I'm reminded of some stat (which I haven't verified) that there were ~15k tripadvisor restaurants in London (a "large" city). There were 65k for Hong Kong... Tokyo had 80k

Granted, Tokyo is very large. I got a bit burned out in my first two trips because hauling from one side to the other constantly to hit different sites is kind of exhausting but yes as another comment mentioned - it's totally normal to find restaurants on floors 1 through 10+++ so you can stack a lot of restaurants vertically. Within the city I was told not many people cook and a friend living there told us a lot of apartments don't even have a kitchen beyond a tiny heater for cooking instant noodles or simple stuff.
It isn't. Ticketmaster is also a way to dominant middleman with way too much influence in the sector.
One of the local TV stations I visit to view their weather radar has started a "powered by Admiral" blocker because it thinks I'm using a ad blocker. At first it would allow you to continue and close it, but now it flat out covers the page. The cat & mouse is starting to go nuclear
I have also used these, and they are crazy awesome for this specific usecase.

Shokz Openswim. The "Pro" version also offers bluetooth connectivity.
To be entirely fair, they did announce it well in advance and made it really easy to download your entire archive AND they made your music available in your YouTube Music account. I have a bunch of music I bought from Google Play Music and while it sucks that Google killed it, I have to give them credit for making the transition very painless. Desura going down was a lot more abrupt and disruptive.
Same. I've been self hosting since the early 90's, starting with a UUCP feed. Over the years, I've used smail, sendmail, qmail, postfix...
(Some extra nuance: it is of course true that, ceteris paribus, wearing helmets is strictly safer. It's just that the Dutch stats show that proper infrastructure is even more important, and cyclists are less of a danger to other traffic participants than people in cars, which is why there's no stronger push for making people wear helmets — it might cause them to stop cycling. At an individual level, for sure, wear helmets, but as a society, there are better things to focus on when it comes to traffic safety.)

I don't actually know how strong the evidence is for that.
It’s easier, but is it better? At what, exactly? For the past few decades people enjoyed collecting music, but it turns out that once you remove all friction of acquiring music, it no longer feels like collecting anything.

My physical music library is neatly organized and carefully picked. Meanwhile my streaming “library” is a mess. It’s made up from random bits and pieces of music that I liked at some point and absentmindedly clicked to add. It feels like we’ve optimized this problem to a point where it’s no longer really fun.
I think it's not necessarily Google's fault, it's an arms race and they're losing it.
Yes, that is amazing
> "Let's train an LLM that can decode C++ compiler error strings!"
> No, let's make better tools.

LLMs exist and they pass the Turing Test, which was something we couldn't have said or even hoped for a few years ago. Additionally, they have an IQ of 90 - 120, depending on which one you are working with.

But LLMs aren't good at all things nor in all ways, and they have strange failure modes. And so what will happen now, and is already happening, is that we'll (re)design programming tools and languages such that they are the kind of thing that LLMs are suited to using well. This will be part of the process of figuring out how LLMs work. There will be a virtuous cycle, and it has begun.

Better tools will increasingly mean, "tools that LLMs are good at using." That's where the puck will be.
Newsom
I have a similar setup and love it! If you haven't already, check out Plex and Plexamp as a way to listen to your library on your phone & computer. Plexamp gives you lots of Spotify-like features including playlists, streaming & download management on mobile devices, keeping the mood going with similar music (via sonic analysis), etc.
Thank you for doing this. TIL about Seicomart and its absolute dominance in Hokkaido
> My complaint is not directed at trans people, but the people who care much about gender identity

That’s what I understood.

> The pink/blue was not a reference to US politics, it was a reference to the gender binary

Again, that’s what I took it as. Especially since I’m not American and neither was the non-binary person I mentioned. I didn’t take your comment as political.

Unfortunately, I think the medium of asynchronous text comments may be working against us here. I feel it would’ve been beneficial to have this conversation in person. Your take seems nuanced and not outright dismissive so I think it would be worth exploring further and attempt a consensus. But it’s getting late and I still have stuff to do.

Still, thank you for a civil conversation and indulging in my questions in good faith. Have a nice <insert your time of day> and week.
Cloudflare is more of a symptom of underlying problems. I for sure don't use cloudflare because I love what they do.
Compared to other languages, 'lisp syntax' is very minimal. It is just a prefix notation with parenthesis for enclosing expressions, the first item usually being a function. There are only a handful of special forms to learn, which deviate from this.

The real power of lisp IMHO lies in:

- Repl driven, dynamic development. This is hard to explain. Its like chocolate. You have to try it. You either love it or hate it.

- Macros. This is again enabled by the 'lisp syntax. Actually lack of it...'.

Here is an example I recently ran into when checking out Hy

https://github.com/hylang/hy/discussions/2608#discussioncomm...

This shows how much you can abstract, hide the noise without any runtime penalties..
Yeah, in my class (a couple years ago, but not decades) they were covered as something that seemed like a neat idea, but then didn’t help much for actual programs. The general theme in that class was that everything cool added more complexity than the performance benefit could justify, and got in the way of making things wider.

Same for branch delays slots.
I suppose just like any other open source company etc…. By fund raising or Donations.
I don't have a 3D printer and I unfortunately don't have the time.
This man is such a snake oil salesman, holy cow. All hype, zero substance.
One of the most disturbing posts I read ever from some tech executive; instead of encouraging competition and driving quality forward for the users, instead he spreads his venom and calls his competitor a cancer?!
The question a judge (or jury) would answer is: would a reasonable person think they had permission to access it?

API documented on the website under a section called “For Developers”? Probably, yes. API reverse engineered by intercepting requests? Probably not.

Note that the blog was taken down before I could read it myself.
Gmail.
You got 2000 by day.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/166852
Sad Boomers, Sober Zoomers: how AI sees different generations
I was on a project once that developed an IPC API based on remote procedure calls. The first thing they did was hide the RPCs, precisely for this reason. And the second thing they did was ditch the RPCs in favor of TCP/IP socket reads and writes, because once you hide them the RPCs don’t buy you anything but headaches. Bye bye DCE.
A little bit easier on the eyes: https://rauterberg.employee.id.tue.nl/lecturenotes/DDM110%20...
You'll just be lower on the list the AI makes of people that would be a threat.
Right? Our only truly dense city seems to be New York City. Almost everything else is not even close.
Probably just a few ad networks which means they have to show everyone. It isn’t ’you details will be shared to all of these’ but instead may be shared
> the foundation of civilization is standing on the shoulders of giants [...] Progress in large part is figuring out better ways of doing that

Cynical take: When it comes to helping someone find exactly the right piece of esoteric knowledge needed... There's no profit for that in a search engine, and an LLM reflects word associations rather than facts.

IANAScienceHistorian, but I find myself thinking of how DNA analysis would be different if nobody had found Thermus aquaticus, with it's extra-hardy variant of polymerase, or how the history of stealth aircraft was kicked off when someone realized the implications of Petr Ufimtsev's equations for reflected EM waves. (A work which went--heh--under the radar inside the USSR.)
Yes, my 4 year old VW has more technology than I will ever use. People buy baubles.
Ah yes, async.. in theory it's good. It lets you context-switch. Unlike a computer, context switching for humans isn't nanoseconds.

And because the other person is also replying async, you have to wait. So you get the same fan-out problem as microservices.
> disable a lot of things

Like how wordpress.com disables stats unless you're on a premium tier? Or like how wordpress.com disables plugins entirely unless you're on another premium tier? That kind of disabling of things?
It might be an unpopular opinion but I am in principle OK. However, it would be really great if telegram would automatically report any of such requests after an embargo period of e.g. even 6 month to the subject of the request. Further they should always require a court order, which should be straight forward in most countries. The worst thing about government actors is their intransparency. Even in Germany we had Nazi police officers requesting personal addresses of human rights attorneys. All this only gets noticed pretty much by chance.