skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider just war. Current drones are revolutionary but are dependent on a radio communication link which can be jammed.

There’s a strong incentive to make a drone that can compete its mission autonomously if the comm link goes down. If the target is solidly on enemy territory that’s one thing but weapons like tanks and artillery and drones work best when they are closely integrated with each other and with infantry so such a system needs to be able to reliably distinguish enemy and friendly troops as well as civilians with all the moral questions that arise.
People are worried about Large Language Models
op figured out iteration and incremental improvement
It says very clearly on the title page it's for the Mark II, and in the text he says the advice is based on experience with the Mark I, so it's definitely for the Mark II.
The assembly on the test was much larger than the snippet you provided. I wish a kept a copy of the old test so I could just copy and example problem. Honestly though, that wasn't the worst part of the tests. It was the most dangerous though because many of the questions/instructions relied on previously completed questions/instruction to be correct.

So, like if you passed a wrong value to a certain register, then downstream, every problem that used that register would be off.

The tests were often 4 pages front and back with the handwritten assembly, definition matching, word problems, essay responses, etc.. We had like 75 minutes to take the test too. This was all at a public, no-name state university too. I was no MIT student or anything.

Anyway, I'll never forget the first day of class. Our professor said we were to have 4 tests and a final and some labs.

My friend in the class: "If we make a 100 on all 4 tests, do we have to take the final?"

The professor: "Hell, if you make 100 on 4 test, then I will let you write the final."

My friend: "Why? Has no one ever done that before?"

Professor: "No, in fact, in the 20 years I have taught this class, no one has ever scored a 100 on any test."

We all knew we were in for hell after that.
Because the stakes and standards were lower. So long as you did what your father did before you, and him before he, then you will get admiration and respect. You will get a family, you will have your job, you will be the shoe cobbler. Or the baker. Or the farmer. That's you, who you are, and we need you.

Things are complicated today. Doing what's always been done is not enough, you need to do better. Having a job is not enough, we no longer view jobs as purpose.
> What it's done is successfully learn from the past, scooping up the good ideas and ditching the bad ones. Its real selling point is how it wraps all of those old ideas up into a modern, well-maintained, stable package that's ready for use in the real world.

Which is no small feat. I wish OCaml cleaned house and settled on just one stdlib and removed a lot of legacy baggage, and oh yeah, add built-in Unicode support, and 5-6 other things I am forgetting now.

Sure you can muscle through all that but having Rust around really makes you wonder if it's worth it and in my case I ultimately arrived at "nope, it is not" so I just use Elixir, Golang and Rust.
It's not unheard of [1]. It happened a number of times in my iPhone ownership that the phone became significantly hotter than usual for no apparent reason.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/26/iphone-15-overheating/
Consider that the algorithm cannot evolve without human interaction. That's what I'm saying, it's a symbiote to us. If you consider "weights in the Instagram recommendation algorithm" to be "the machine", what we are talking about here has been happening for a long time now and has seen many generations, with each entity influencing the other.

I don't think we'll have true machine culture until we have fully autonomous agents in the wild that are interacting with the world independently on its own terms. Right now the substrate is text which comes from a human mind -- it does not arise naturally from nothing. So the machine is a symbiote for now until we solve some difficult robotics problems.
Not a single fire on North sentinel island
Wow, It looks realy interesting, I will definitely look into it.
> I may try read the Foundations paper (https://ukfoundations.co/ - it's not that long)

> What's the underlying mechanism that got them to that state?

It's the people behind the ukfoundations.co site who got Britain to its current state. The site is literally the work of Adam Smith Institute members whose Thatcherite neoliberal policies have dominated the UK since the 70s.
That was interesting. I just casually clicked on the link and before I knew it I had read 20 pages.
You can have your pick at https://craftcloud3d.com/
AI boom is driving a surprise resurgence of U.S. gas-fired power
the blog makes it seem like the bot buys access

but if they are only tracking the bot via the user agent

then can't i piggyback on that user agent?

no ai scraper is going to include an auth header when accessing your website...
The parent article literally says
> In a summary of evidence given to UK watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), AWS denies that customers face any difficulty in switching from its platform.

This CMA was investigating amazon's possible monopoly on cloud. So, this whole thing started rolling exactly because authorities are asking the exact same questions as you "In what way is AWS a monopoly." and in doing so, see enough leads to at least ask for reports and AWS's reply.
Let's compare Apple, Google, and Samsung's definitions of 'a photo'
Love the design, it looks really clean
yup, there's provider like shapeways, but you can also find people on reddit that could print it for you
I had heard of this kind of operation before. What I had heard is that the initial series of messages attempt to phish you, but after you ignore them, they try to intimidate you into giving up the password by sending you threatening messages and maybe even a video MMS of someone showing off a gun.
It's funny because your post in another thread is one of the reasons I brought it up here.

I would regard that as one of the exceptions in the "virtually no" caveat.
Love the idea, but for unreal engine 1% royalty is fair, you've built your entire product on it.

But what about 1% of revenue for a UX libary or database product from uber?

I'd say that the old elastic licence is great to standardise and so is the 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% or 2%; over a Million, 5 Million or 10 Million.
So I'm used to working with lists and maps, which doesn't really track well with tackling problems on thousands of cores.

Is the usual strategy to worry less about repeating calculations and just use brute force to tackle the problem?

Is there a good resource to read about how to tackle problems in an extremely parallel way?
Good catch. It's for the Mark II and seems to be written based primarily on his experiences with the Mark I. I do not know if you are tripping.
But bad for the kids of these existing home owners, because they will not be able to afford to buy a house.
> Wind/PV/storage can hit 95% or 99% or 99.9% a lot cheaper than Hinkley can hit 95%.

I think the geography of the UK helps with offshore wind getting good capacity factors, but the general averages aren't great, often peaking at ~40%:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, I can see in real-time how wind goes up and down, while nuclear just keeps chugging along:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply

And nuclear is cheaper (CA$0.101/kWh) than wind ($0.147) or solar ($0.474); see Table 2:

* https://www.oeb.ca/sites/default/files/rpp-price-report-2023...

Of course our infrastructure and/or geography may not be as well-suited for wind.
Copyright infringement is a civil matter.
qq: did you print it with supports?
this looks awesome. i printed the other version you mentioned in the article, but it didn't quite solve my nightstand problems, which you correctly identified and fixed with your tray. and it looks great!
Hacking seems to have taken on so many different meanings.

I've always known hacking as a term specifically related to bypassing security in digital systems. Think Matthew Broderick gaining access to government networks via a phone line. This was hacking that would always get you in trouble if caught.

I'm not quite sure when "hacking" was repurposed as a term for using something in a way it wasn't intended ("life hacks" or "kitchen hacks", etc).

Now hacking is about challenging social norms? I'm very lost at this point, in an "old man shakes fist at clouds" kind of way.
> Private property first appeared as a concept in sacred contexts

I can't watch a couple of dogs fighting over a bone and believe that the concept of private property is a recent or human or even mammalian invention.
I built a simple kivy app a few years. Working with kivy and testing on my (linux) dev machine was great. Even side loading to test on my phone using the kivy launcher wasn't too bad. The pain point was that building APKs that the play store would accept was an ordeal and then when they change requirements you have to hope the kivy folks update their build tools in time to recompile with a new version of the NDK before google delists your app.
If anyone is interested why there is "Potrzebie" above "what, me worry?" on the drum: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie
Semi-related: one thing I liked about the video game Turing Complete [1] is that, once you've built the computer and implemented its (binary) machine code ... it doesn't give you an assembly language, or suggest one!

It has you start programming in binary, and then just tells you how to make your own mnemonics to substitute for having to write out each 8-bit input. So you end up picking them based on what commands appear most often in practice.

One instruction I ended up creating was JNEQCI, "jump if not equal, comparing to immediate". (jump if not equal where the first operand is treated as a register and the second as a constant/immediate value)

[1] from LevelHead, and similar to nand2tetris in that you build a computer from its circuits and then program it
PyTest Fixtures for Databricks Workspaces
PyTest Fixtures are a powerful way to manage test setup and teardown in Python. This library provides a set of fixtures to help you write integration tests for Databricks. These fixtures were incubated within the Unity Catalog Automated Migrations project for more than a year and are now available for other projects to simplify integration testing with Databricks.
Tessellation is more clever tiling. In general you get fairly simple concavities in tiling, like darts or deltas, whereas tessellation typically has compound inclusions that require being assembled from outside the plane.

In the real world you can usually push tiles into place, but tessellated objects have to be dropped in place from above, like puzzle pieces. Or I suppose grown in place if it’s organic.
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ReCAPTCHA absolutely hammers Firefox compared to Chrome for me. On sites that use it for login I rarely just get the "check the box" challenge anymore, and am instead being asked to train their CV algorithms by picking 5+ images of stoplights or motorcycles. Punishment for avoiding the Chrome universe I guess.
that's awesome! i wish you'd kept a copy too
F# is pretty good but the language has so few users, while Rust strikes the balance of best in class toolchain and also a growing user base.
I can't edit the title now, but I think it should have been:
Why aren't there more AI doomers?
His “Debt: The first 5,000 years” is excellent also
You can easily develop and self host such a thing without whatsapp business api
True, I should have said ML-like language, not strictly an ML.
We were talking about economic aid, but if you want to talk about broken promises...

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.

Gorbachev - one of Russia's few non-shitty statesmen, after his resignation, took a lot of issue with those violations of them, and you're going to have a hard time describing him as either an expansionist warhawk, or an enemy of the West. (The guy spent spent the last three decades of his life trying to patch up east-west relations, and was appalled and devastated by the war in Ukraine. If he thinks that there's something rotten about how NATO behaved in the late-90s and 00s, listen to him.)

Combined with large parts of NATO starting (for the first time in it's history) a string of offensive operations (some on good pretenses, and some on absolutely terrible, illegal ones), and even a dove will start getting security anxieties.
True.

The 8 index registers ("B-tube") are called B0 to B7 in this manual.

The B0 index register is hardwired to have the read-only value "0".

A read-only null register continues to be used in many modern instruction sets, e.g. in POWER or in Aarch64.
Yeah I wouldn’t anyone to mess with my milk either.

(You typoed diary and I couldn’t resist ;) )
Is the knowledge practical in any way? Or largely irrelevant in the day to day?

Is there a modern justification for such an onerous process? I am all for well trained professionals, but at some point people have to recognize gate keeping. Years of full time study is an impossible ask for many without external support.
LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of O1 on PlanBench
"The ability to plan a course of action that achieves a desired state of affairs has long been considered a core competence of intelligent agents and has been an integral part of AI research since its inception. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), there has been considerable interest in the question of whether or not they possess such planning abilities. PlanBench, an extensible benchmark we developed in 2022, soon after the release of GPT3, has remained an important tool for evaluating the planning abilities of LLMs. Despite the slew of new private and open source LLMs since GPT3, progress on this benchmark has been surprisingly slow. OpenAI claims that their recent o1 (Strawberry) model has been specifically constructed and trained to escape the normal limitations of autoregressive LLMs--making it a new kind of model: a Large Reasoning Model (LRM). Using this development as a catalyst, this paper takes a comprehensive look at how well current LLMs and new LRMs do on PlanBench. As we shall see, while o1's performance is a quantum improvement on the benchmark, outpacing the competition, it is still far from saturating it. This improvement also brings to the fore questions about accuracy, efficiency, and guarantees which must be considered before deploying such systems."
Is "Composable" on Your Roadmap?
Time to boycott iphones made in india
Why does this not inspire confidence in Tesla. Their internal software stack is available to their own developers who can review what is actually there.

Why does it have to be perfectly documented in a public github? Are all other car companies "properly" publically documenting things in github?

Does it inspire more confidence in VW's software stack if they don't share it? Is VW's confidential stack some big competitive advantage? I've used a VW ID electric vehicle. I did not come away that impressed.
Yeah and I acknowledge now that a large subset of suicides are totally impulsive, so any momentary disruption of the thought process is enough

I think for a different subset that none of the resources are fixing the underlying stressor or interest in ending self preservation
The cost of the bag has to be $0.08 plus sales tax at minimum.

https://ecology.wa.gov/waste-toxics/reducing-recycling-waste...

> Where does the 8-cent fee on paper and reusable bags go?

>Businesses collect and keep the entire 8 cents to recover some of the cost of providing the bags and to incentivize customers to bring their own reusable bags. The charge must be shown as a taxable sale on the receipt provided to the customer. Businesses may choose to charge more than 8 cents per bag.

My above comment is technically incorrect because there is an across the board ban on thin, single use plastic bags. But it’s not super inconvenient or costly to have to pay $0.08 (the only price for bags I have ever seen).

However, that price might go up in the future because the regulations call for even thicker bags in Jan 2026, which I did not know.

> In January 2026, the minimum thickness requirement will increase from 2.25 mil to 4 mil.
Day 9999 – The End
the problem is that when you care (unpredictable but hot branches), there are probably too many of them to execute in parallel (use up all your speculation depth). 2^n, you know!

not to mention that you burn a lot more power.
This so very much.

But of course you could argue that dogs were badly influenced by humans .. but also most other wild animals know the concept of territory and fight over it.

But I think was meant with the quote is formalized property. Ownership tied to a piece of paper eventually - and this is indeed something different at some point.
I thought infiniband was more expensive and that even AI where bandwidth is super important was trying to get away from it towards cheaper options.
Japan made me want walkable cities in the US. I'd love it if I could just stroll down my street and pick up melon bread and Boss coffee in the morning.
Snakes in the grass. Despise not what you covet in another, for that is hypocrisy.

Democracy's greatest failing is that it does not favor self solutions over public rigamarole. China isn't why Americans are ignorant, confused, and not the fountainhead of solutions.

We have lost our way, turn from your incredulity to the path of the undeceiver.
most are community-based, plus, the prize can far exceed such a rate
I have tried to opt out and by the time I finished my sentence it’s done scanning my face. You’re also facing social pressure to just opt in from the people behind you, because opting out often takes longer, or is implied to take longer, since it isn’t the default. People who also cut it close with their flight times will understand ;)
> sqlx+sea-query (or sqlx+sea-orm)

I tried sea-orm, but I find its ORM API way too limited (it can't even do multiple joins). For anything beyond simple queries, you end up needing to use its query builder (sea-query) which is blind to your db schema so you need to manually hand-validate all your queries. It's basically no better than pushing string queries + manually validating the output with serde.

> I found their query building catastrophically bad the moment the query isn't build all in one place

If you're talking about its crazy return types, there's the auto_type macro that lets you generate return types for functions automatically.

> There was also pretty bad security issue

That sounds concerning, can you link it here?
Considering that BF is about as "turing-machine-like" as you can get, it does seem like an essential thing to determine. As if we were to delve any deeper we'd have to split atoms to measure our progress; it's downright primordial.
I messed up my calendar and wrote a script to fix it
Move code into database functions (2015)
AFAICT you should be able to do this with a regular Windows 10 computer.

Docs:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/import-photos-an...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120267 (see the section Import to your Windows PC)
My thoughts exactly when all mighty Tim Cook granted us iPhone addicts a Journaling app
That’s not their problem, that’s their kids problem. Absurd, I know, but look at public policy for the last 30 years.
Serverless Sales Insights with Modal, Postgres and a Small Llama
The parent article is about the CMA researching whether AWS is a monopoly and the answer to that from AWS.

> Declining revenues isn't the sign of not being a monopoly.

Thats a definition thing, though. Monopoly can mean a lot, depending on which side you are defending.

In this case I meant that AWS had insane margins when they were the only player - first mover advantage etc. But those margins didn't decline when their "competition" started becoming serious. In fact, if you look at their shareholder reports, AWS, GCP, Azure etc all have similar margins now, and AWS's didn't decline.

This tells us not if there's a monopoly. But it does tell us that there's no competion on margin/price.

Bu, what I meant was that if "on prem is a true competitor to AWS" we'd see their gross profits decline, as people are moving off AWS. And if we don't see this happening, than it's not a true competitor.
Challenge accepted!

I've built a bunch of web apps for big companies, and I love the hell out of Pivotal Tracker and am crushed that it is gone. I immediately fired up my editor and took some exports from my pivotal tracker account and am working on building a data model to import them into and move from there to the UI.

The base product is pretty straight forward, but there is a lot of nuance to how some things have developed in it.

I will likely not capture everything in an MVP, and I am wondering if there are some key pieces that might be not thought of for an MVP, but you absolutely love about Pivotal Tracker that would be sorely missed in a new product trying to fill it's nitch.

I also see some things that could be broadened and improved that are common in other project trackers. What are some thing you feel pivotal tracker was missing that really made it a difficult sell in businesses?

Feel free to comment on this thread your feedback. I'll be watching it, and also, if any other competitors want to lock horns on developing it, they can have at your feedback too!

If you want to be alerted to when I release this, as well as other things from me, sign up to my email list: https://mailchi.mp/73f113e474f1/robert-kohrs-blog or just follow my blog's rss feed at https://robkohr.com
This will be great for deciding on voting districts
They don't have to lock it down all the way, just make dev license mandatory for any local code compilation.
Had the same issue and wrote a blog article about it. A bit dated but it should still work (Linux):

https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/access-and-recover-files-fr...
What orientation did you print it at, and did you use supports?
I read the magazine religiously as a kid (early 2000s). I got special editions for christmas (collections of prior articles/comics on particular subjects). There was one about advertising (Called MADvertising or something) that has a lot of information about old advertisements from the 1950s onward
Are you a dog?

What of the cooperation an ant colony?

People love finding examples that reinforce their biases
I‘m not a lawyer, but if courts would deem this to be fraud, Tesla would have to take accountability towards their customers as well as their shareholders.
What does Rider use? I assume it's not a proprietary MS one? Or did they license it?
You can't reorder some kinds of branches, like retry sequences.

I have absolutely no idea how important that it. But there exist that bit of extra complication on the real world.
Yes, there is minimal support because the phone part is tilted. If you print with tree support, you should be OK.
I’ve used a local library. Their print settings are usually turned down in density, and you end up with a print that’s filament held together with boogers.
Augmenting the Client with Vue.js
Unauthenticated RCE vs. all GNU/Linux systems (+ others) disclosed 3 weeks ago
* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago.

* Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs).

* Still no working fix.
People always slacked off in the office. Probably a lot more than at home.
Great podcast and great episode.

Keiju system was a tool for the emperor, not for the ruling classes. The first two rounds were anonymized and in the highest level exam the gentry performed worse than those coming from lower ranks. The incentive for the emperor was not to allow potential competition into high offices. It was meritocratic, but it also homogenized the ideology and stifled innovation.