skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's first define how the heck a UBI would actually help.

Writing everyone a check just increases prices and racks up more federal debt.

The real kicker is that we simply can't test it. There have been studies trying to do a real world test, but the data is useless because they can only test a small bubble of people getting free cash in the middle of our existing system where no one else gets that same money.
And yet, reality is that for many companies, an off-the-shelf CMS is all they need, and all they can afford, and all they can figure out without hiring IT.

Which means, if we want to kill WordPress, we need to offer a better solution. Not just for WordPress, but a coherent system that also reimplements the top hundred or so plugins.

If anyone wants to join me rewriting it in Laravel so we could add a WSL-like layer for WordPress cancer plugins… I don’t know. I wish someone would have the conversation. I don’t even care whether it’s Rust.
I second this. Lem is one of the best sci-fi writers I've come across.

I would also recommend "The Year's Best Science Fiction" edited by Gardner Dozois, first to 35th editions.
These title editors aren't talking about Metallica are they.
> If everyone has this attitude, the system can break down.

Yes, that is why "I like how people [in comments] are keen to change the world", I don't want everyone to be as lazy as I am.

> Refusing to give good reviews harms the drivers who are already barely scraping by. This is a very good example of how you can cause real world harm with by trying to game the system for yourself.

No uber rider owe feedback at all, even if there is no gain of skipping it..

I would understand your argument if I were giving negative feedback on purpose for good drivers, which I consider a false testimony and a lie, but every user have all the right to skip reviewing, owing no more than the ride fees.
https://archive.is/RztnK
Trending towards negative.
Living this dream in Python right now (inherited a code base that used nasty nesting of lists & dicts). You don't strictly need to do OOP to solve the problem, but it really does help to have a data model. Using dataclasses to map out the data structures makes the code so much more readible, and the support for type hints in Python is good enough that you can even debug problems with the type system.
What the author is looking for is a modern DAP like the [Activo P1](https://www.activostyle.com/p1).

The P1 is particularly an Android device with Play Store support, enabling it to run Android apps of major streaming platforms.

You can load music files into the DAP for local playback or use the Roon ecosystem to stream within the local network.
> they're looking for their lost keys under the lamp-post because it's easier there

This is a strange criticism. If you're looking for your keys in the dead of night, and there is a lamp post where they might be, you should start there.

The streelight effect criticises "only search[ing] for something where it is easiest to look" [1]. Not searching where it's easiest in all cases.

In this case, we know averaging destroys information. But we don't know to what significance. As the author says, "we now have the tools we need to find out if averaging is showing us something about the brain’s signals or is a misleading historical accident." That neither confirms nor damns the preceding research--it may be that averaging is perfectly fine, hides some of the truth that we can now uncover or is entirely misleading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
> ...absolutely nontrivial...

My head is clearly full of custard today. This should have been "absolutely tractable".
My slightly earlier submission with a direct PDF link for people who aren't able to view Twitter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631920
I'd expect "we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible" to be either exposing model weights, or making the training sets public.
He might find the hype cycle itself entertaining and engaging, but I doubt he’s taking it seriously. I think he’d be worse at his job if he did.
Without additional context the letter does read as persuasive.

Is there significant additional context? Having looked at Matt's comments in the speech I'm not seeing any actual substance of what's wrong with WP Engine.
Yes and no. An alternate perspective is that the output of each neuron in an artificial neural net is analogous to an F-I curve in a real neuron (spike frequency-input DC current curve). In this way, different neurons have different slopes and intercepts in their FI curves, just as a network of ANN neurons effectively have their activation functions tweaked after applying weights.

I usually only say this to other neuroscientists who have a background in electrophysiology. The analogy isn't perfect, and is unnecessary to understand what ANNs are doing, but the analogy still stands.
This is recurring a pattern of poor opsec on behalf of OpenAI; just today a scammer posted this on Sam Altman's personal website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628167
I’m glad you acknowledged pre-Trump.

Republican Party definitely ain’t pro-freedom or pro-life.
In a decade there will be a light rail that is even faster than the shuttle! (Between Everett and SeaTac or the city)
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621705
I appreciate your input, thanks.
Zoho's been around forever and their Mail product costs $1/mo: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

They also have a "forever free" plan that might do what you need.

I always thought of them as the budget alternative to Google, iCloud, MS Office online, etc.
> I cannot stand the idea that I have to pretend to be slower than I am, in order for a computer to not think I'm a computer.

It is not only about detecting if you are a computer or not. They intentionally waste your time (regardless of whether you are a human or computer) to make it unfeasible to scrape millions of pages. The actual "detection" part is relatively less important.
One difference is that a single dog can't claim to own all the bones in the country.
I wonder to what extent that can be attributed to its ubiquity versus its quality. I've never worked with WordPress.

For example, I notice that most of the automated "attacks" on my server are WordPress related. Is its defect rate significantly higher than other systems', or is it just that if you're going fishing you should bait for the most common fish? PHP and Apache come up a lot too.
Cat Country by Lao She is debatably science fiction, being set on Mars as a way to satirise and criticise some parts of Chinese life in the early 1900s; there isn't much science in it, it's social commentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Country

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky were white Soviet Russian men, famously wrote Roadside Picnic (among other works) which became the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic

They were trying to tell stories critical of the way things were, but set in a fantastic world so it could get past the censors. Part of a genre of Russian/USSR sci-fi: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/22412.Russian_Science_Fi...

Possibly including Stanisław Lem writing in Eastern-bloc Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem

Reddit thread on African sci-fi and fantasy book suggestions: https://old.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/11zngrs/afr...
Wheat is not an essential thing. It is useful in cold/temperate climates because it grows there and has an extremely long shelf life. But in the tropics you have fruits and vegetables growing year round including alternative carb sources like bananas, yucca, sugarcane, avocadoes, mangos, rice, etc.
[dupe] Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621705
So you're saying scammers target Musk adherents for the same reason Nigerian Prince emails are rife with spelling errors.
As a millennial I never understood any time I hear about this sort of thing since I remember phones were strictly forbidden and teachers would take them from you. Not sure if California was different from Florida, but I could have sworn Florida passed similar legislation if I am not mistaken.

Only after school were teachers laxe for obvious reasons. During lunch time we were not expected to use phones.
That one is pretty simple. You have a Car object with four fields. The types of the fields are, respectively Optional<Make>, Optional<Model>, Optional<Year>, and Optional<Colour>.

Hickey makes it sound worse than it is.
> The owl house literally won an award for best childrens tv (albeit it does look deep enough to be enjoyed by adults)

Yes, but it also has a large adult following. It is not TARGETING children unlike a show like Blue's Clues. Therefore I don't think you can classify it as you put "pixar level children shows" (which I don't even know what that means).

> Wikipedia describes Final Space as a comedy

Maybe... personally while I think Final Space does have comedic elements - it also has an overarching storyline and is more of an epic adventure dealing with tragedy, death, and loss at a pretty adult level.

> Infinity Train can't be legally purchased

Literally this has nothing to do with the main point which was that western animation does not have variety

> Sure, but that is both a cause and effect of it failing to capture audiences the way anime has.

We weren't discussing whether or not something appeals to an audience. We were discussing whether or not there was sufficient variety. I think the root of our disagreement is in "volume" and I would argue that there is plenty unless you absolutely need to be consuming media every day.

There might be significantly LESS from a quantity perspective, but the DIVERSITY in shows is 100% available if you know where to look.

And in fact the actual OP post that I was addressing (because I think we're getting a bit off track) was that "cartoons in the USA fall under the rough set of same humor or writers" which is, assuming one possesses even a modest amount of experience with western animation, patently false.
It’s kind of perverse of Matt considering:

A. He accuses “WP Engine” for being confusing branding. He literally owns WordPress.com; which confuses tens of thousands of people on a daily basis. (“Are you on the WordPress login page?” “I swear that I am!”)

B. He complains about the post revisions not being limitless. But until recently, WordPress.com had a limit of 25.

C. If post revisions matter, surely plugins matter, right? WordPress.com requires going up two tiers to use any unapproved plugins.

D. Matt was an investor in WP Engine, and even appeared on their podcast last year, even though this revisions system limitation has been in place for a decade?

E. This is the same Matt who wrote the WordPress Bill of Rights, complete with specifically saying “The freedom to run the program, for any purpose” and
“The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.”

F. The same Matt who wrote in the WordPress trademark policy that “WP” is not a WordPress trademark and anyone may use it however they wish?

G. The same Matt who forked B2, and if B2 was still around, would be quite vulnerable to B2 potentially complaining about Matt’s lack of contribution to them?

It goes on. I hate to say it, but every sign points to Matt being a hypocrite. Even an extortionist.
Bogus title. This is advertisement.
From the nice graph at: https://ourworldindata.org/images/published/Life-expectancy-...

In 1850 a 0 year old would expect to live to 41.6 years. A 5 year old would expect to live to 55.2.

If we waved a magic wand and let all infants survive past childhood with nothing else changed in 1850 life expectancy would still be 27 years lower than it is today. Or put another way you'd have the same life expectancy as someone in South Sudan or Somalia.
CrowdStrike: Company to face questions over global IT outage
Yes you're right. SOC 2 is our priority for the next few weeks.
If you have experience in enterprise sales, I'd love to chat (nael@panora.dev). Thanks.
> In that case "make your profile private if you don't want to be harassed/stalked" is not really that palatable.

If someone is harassing you on twitter, then blocking them still stops that, modulo them making a new account. Stalking, in the sense of looking at your public posts, can't be stopped, because it's trivial for them to open your posts in a private window, or create a new account just for stalking (which of course they wouldn't tell you about, hence you couldn't block it). So in fact the only option you have to avoid such stalking is to make your account private, period.
Yes, rating is used for prioritization when proximity is equalish
I think what's really special about the main thread is that Rust (and I believe in some cases the OS) forces the process to exit if the main thread completes. I think the difference in panic handling is mostly down to that. I think the description in the docs for std::thread describe this distinction the most explicitly.[1]

Fundamentally panic recovery works the same way in all threads—for both the main thread and spawned threads the standard library implements panic handling by wrapping the user code in catch_unwind().[2][3] It's more or less possible to override the standard library's behavior for the main thread by wrapping all the code in your main() function in a catch_unwind() and then implementing whatever fallback behavior you want, like waiting for other threads to exit before terminating. In some cases something like this happens automatically, for instance if the main thread spawns other threads using std::thread::scope.[4]

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/#the-threading-model
[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7042c269c166191cd5d8d...
[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/7042c269c166191cd5d8d...
[4]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.scope.html
Two months on from the global IT outage on 19 July, the full impact is still only now becoming apparent.
A general reply to all of the comments thus far: you are completely missing the point here. OP is not a meaningful forecast, and it's not about nuclear power or any of that. It's about laying the groundwork for the privatization and establishing rhetorical grounds for how the privatization of OA is consistent with the OA nonprofit's legally-required mission and fiduciary duties. Altman is not writing to anyone here, he is, among others, writing to the OA nonprofit board and to the judge next year.
Engineers Side Quests
Trying to write every week about topics I'm interested at or learning, and some personal experiences!

This week, I talk about Side Quests. In the post I dive into how side projects can help your engineering career and create great results, while sometimes lifting you from a work that might not be the thing you most crave to do. From building new skills to exploring daily problems, these side quests can make a difference in your work and be a impactful thing to be proud of.
Not to mention his text messages. It's clear that if they were willing to pay, he was willing to not even mention them in his keynote. It looks quite clear that he wanted money and was willing to let everything slide if they got it.
Nuclear war between US and Russia could kill 5B people
Is the scientist's analysis the blocking part of innovating in medicine and healthcare? I would have though the main problem is experiment time to actually get useful results back, and even approval to attempt the experiment.
Seen this before with other models. 1 TiB is a factory option, so it's not like the days when Asian market hacks gave 4x or 8x what was available.
Using the JH7110 chip they are starting with, somewhere around the last Pentium 3s and PowerPC G4s, but quad core instead of single core. And 64 bit. So maybe the closest comparison is the original Core 2 Duo MacBook Air, which ran at 1.6 MHz (for about 4 seconds before it throttled to 1.2 GHz, which the RISC-V shouldn't do).

Or, in the Arm world, a bit slower than a Pi 4, but a lot better than a Pi 3 (especially because 8 GB RAM and PCIe/M.2 not 1 GB and SD card).

I'd expect a 2nd generation motherboard fairly quickly. If it comes in the next six months (Eswin EIC7700) then probably about the speed of a mid-range Core 2 Quad. If mid next year (SG2380) then early i7.
> This purpose, the researchers believe, is sacred – designed as part of a pilgrimage to Cahuachi, the ceremonial center of the Nazca culture, which overlooks some of the glyphs from high perches atop mounds.

Just some of the glyphs? Then what about the rest? Someone(s) put in a lot of time and effort, and other-than-some wouldn't have been seen?
Like everything in machine learning it only really runs on Ubuntu 22.04. Anything else is unsupported and you need to spend weeks tinkering to get it to work, then never upgrade.
I use a VPN when bittorrent is running, and I've found that several websites outright block me "for security reasons." They like to show me my IP address, too, like a great secret has been revealed and the SWAT team is on their way.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuri...

there pushing for whole new cities which i think would work
Great idea but two typos.

Multiplying the adjacency matrix by itself gives the number of walks of a specified length. Therefore you would keep multiplying the matrix by itself until all values are nonzero. Then the previous iteration shows a zero where the longest routes are.
Local LLM models can be many GBs each. One can have many of them.
Looks like a map of the Tokugawa bakufu
Probably not much. As OP points out, this is not even the first time OA accounts have been hacked. It mentions the CTO and chief scientist and a top researcher already got hacked - and in fact, omits that the same researcher got hacked yesterday for a second time. (Yes, really. I have no idea how they all keep getting hacked by bottomfeeder cryptocurrency hackers. It doesn't speak well of OA's security, especially coming right after that congressional testimony...)
Anybody know why this has to be a law? Whats stopping each school or the DOE from making their own rule, just like all other school rules?
By leaving the app before booking, I often get 10%-20% off (it claims rates went low, of course it's just a retention discount), not sure about others.

It doesn't work everytime btw.
Statamic for Laravel is pretty great for what it does.

I wrote a WYSIWYG CMS for Laravel called Prodigy that I really enjoy but it hasn’t gotten much market pick up.

There’s definitely some thinking in this area on how to move WP users toward Laravel.
Not to get off topic but (some myth busting is in order) the updated theory is excessive volcanic activity had already been killing off the dinosaurs. The asteroid wasn't the primary killer, but more like the last straw.
We had that problem in barebones WP with no plugins at all.

Once we installed a few security plugins, it worked out just fine!
I don't know what this part of graph theory is called but I noticed in college that this is taught in the graph theory class from the mathematics department but not in the graph theory class from the computer science department.
Disclaimer WP Engine Customer -

I read the comments from Matt M yesterday, and it felt like a hit piece.

I run a website for a couple scifi like conventions, we need cheap reliable hosting without me having to deal with the vagaries of running wordpress myself.

I would have bought a product like WP Engine directly from Automattic, but AFAIK they dont offer one, this feels like lashing out at a competitor because they failed to enter a market segment, and now feel their lunch is being ate.

I ran websites for a long time without any version control, and would have no problem doing it again, the benefit of WordPress is the semi-WYSIWYG editor and the plugin ecosystem.
Statamic is awesome; watching Jack McDade in person at Laracon last month was great.

However, Statamic is not a WordPress replacement. We need a system that can be installed, with hundreds of themes and plugins available, without touching code. An open-source Squarespace, basically.

Statamic has a role, but not as a WordPress replacement for most people unfortunately…
Looks like some excellent suggestions, thanks!
Yep, this should be flagged, it's a highly tendencious article spinning the truth.
> This assumes that the goal is egalitarianism, and filtering by "merit" is merely a means to achieve that goal.

This is a deceptively false assumption. I think it makes sense that anyone would make this assumption, because it is correct via low order approximation.

The issue here is that there's an implicit assumption that this is a zero sum game that is also locked in time. The assumption being made is that by spending resources to seek out these others (let's say "farmers") that can contribute that you have to give up places for "nobles" or that this effort comes at a cost of time to progress. But neither of these are true! There is no need to have a finite and fixed set of positions (unless you have a strong belief that an increased number of workers decreases efficiency, due to some other process coupled with this one or through some self-feedback) nor does this mean we can't perform merit testing by current standards while simultaneously seeking to improve those standards. Those can be done in parallel! In fact, if you are increasing the number of workers you have, then you clearly have no problem of diminishing efforts. The question is then more about how these workers' efforts are best spent and we can't just look at the first order approximation because if we're defining a task to look at increasing our workers then we have a rate of change factor and so need to analyze at what point the investment pays off.

For a more concrete example, let's use scientific progress. We'll take the reasonable assumptions that the difficulty of scientific progress increases over time (we have strong evidence of this as topics become significantly more nuanced as you dig deeper into them), as well as the reasonable assumption that one's educational level directly correlates to the likelihood of them contributing to progress. We'll also take the naive assumption that progress is random, in a Monte Carlo process; i.e. scientists stumble into progress (presumably in reality scientists are better than random, but there is clearly some randomness to the process).

With this system, scientific progress advances faster by the number of scientists we have (very much like we've observed over history and even in specific fields and niches!). In such a system, it warrants allocating some "resources" to increasing the efficiency of the training and selection process.

In other words: do you think the world of science would advance faster if there was 1 Einstein or 100? If you believe the latter, how many Einsteins would you be willing to allocate to achieve a total of 1000? Inherently, these are coupled, not separate issues; which is what my post was about.
Not looking good.

I'd be surprised if the board doesn't vote him out of his CEO position.
Banning is pretty dumb. I like the WA law of 8c per single use bag.

High enough that it makes you think whether you need yet another bag. But low enough that if you need it, it’s there.

I also love Aldi and Costco not having bags. Slight inconvenience but easy to workaround and then it becomes a habit.
Semi-off topic observation:

Does the prevalence of cryptocurrency-related scams point to the actual effectiveness and use-case of cryptocurrencies as a legitimate* means of value exchange?

Criminals and pornographers are often the acid-testers for new, fringe technologies.

*where legitimate is the ability to exchange value from one party to another, as opposed to the delivery method, ie. hacking / scamming.
How many scrapers are sophisticated enough to go this far though? Most of them are probably of bad quality and can be detected.
That's true, but it's also not the point I was addressing which was that all western animation has the same humor/writers which is LLM hallucination level wrong.