skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is the OP right? Huge claims require huge evidence; this trope has been disproven over and over again. Security researchers look at exactly this kind of thing, and nevermind this community is full of the people who would actually build such a thing. A massive dragnet isn’t actually as valuable as you think it would be.
'get around fairly well' != 'agile'

;0)
Isn't this a quite common pattern in history repeating itself? Including the reaction of the historians, to gloss over it?

The pattern that, a cohort of a society that under previous rule didn't have any right nor representation, acquire that as a side-effect during invasion of competing faction. Often under brutal circumstances, but the effect can be clearly seen if you how a society change during such over-hauling effect.

Japans invasion of South-east Asia comes to mind. Mostly for their own benefit, installing puppet-government, but it seems to be a contributing factor to decolonization of SEA of European influence. Depending on the source you read, this is probably glossed over to great deal.

I assume you can probably find similar cases in places like Spain (Reconquest), Christianization of East/North Europe, Islamic conquest of Middle East/Indus etc.
Random dude making the same thing is not the same thing what MS does.

1. You have a choice. With MS you don't. You can't opt-out, at least for now.

2. And as prev buddy said, you never know what MS will do with your data.

3. Recall will be heavily targeted and from day-1 some malware will target it. Random dude's pet project doesn't (even though it is a security through obscurity).
Of course you can use netstat and ss or iptstate and of course I use these. I don't even have cups installed. I'm not talking about a user who has full control and awareness over their system already.

What I'm proposing is a backwards compatible "sane default" for people who may not understand. They should get a pop up which has them confirm that the service they are starting will be open to the network they are currently in. macOS has pop ups like this for many things and it seems to mostly work, it shouldn't be that hard.

I don't fully understand your point about firewalls being a valid way for administrating networks themselves (only). Linux ships with netfilter by default, nothing stands in the way of better defaults.
An intelligence agency's dream :)
The Art of the OpenAI Deal
the founders were status-signaling on twitter.

it is clear they are in it for the "status" of being YC.
and they dont care a whit about solving anybody's problem.

they do this for a while, get it on the resume and go back to
their 270K jobs after a few months.

this in and of itself is a hustle, lol. they hustled YC.
I dont know if what should qualify as AGI is the parameter count. If I have a PNG that's 6GB large, sure, it's large enough to be an MP4 file, but it isnt. LLama, Gemini, GPT, etc are still LLMs and always will be LLMs, it doesnt matter how much memory you give it, or how much questionably sourced data you stuff into it, it is still a probability equation at its core. AGI is the ability to comprehend, learn, and build upon what it has learned, our current LLMs, in my opinion, no matter how many billions or trillions of parameters you give it, will still be just that, a language model.
> but maybe diversity and resilience go hand-in-hand

As long as the values that are against resilience are not part of that diversity...

I'll say, I have no idea how to get anything close to sustainability from a human society. Thankfully, making something that can last for a few centuries looks like a much easier problem.
They not only have a blunt edge but also a blunt tip. To appreciably blunt the tip while keeping the same length you have to add more metal to the tip.
It would be just a probability of the wavefunction were real valued. Because it is complex valued it's a lot more than a probability, e.g., entanglement is possible.
Both reads and writes are O(1) in time complexity. Writes additionally have the log(N) amortized cost of maintaining the LSM tree.
The core issue with homelessness is one of how our modern capitalist socieites are laid out.

In order to have a life, you must have a job. This is the underlying assumption that fuels everything. This assumption has a critical flaw: not everyone can have a job.

For some segments of the population, we just "bolt on" fixes to this fundamental problem. 401k's so that workers may still get their money when they no longer work. Foster care, so that abandoned babies who cannot work can still live.

For the severely mentally ill and drug addled, we haven't figured it out. The reality is these people cannot work a job and most will never be able to work steadily. Advancements in drugs may help, but even then there will always be some segment of the population who simply cannot work.

Previously, we took an "out of sight, out of mind" approach. Institutionalize these people. It's cheap, particularly if we treat them like dogs. We've evolved and realized such an approach is inhuman and evil. Now, though, what do we do?

If these people had a basic income available, they could at least pay to help themselves. This isn't a silver bullet, but I believe it's better than the current problem we have.

The true solution is fixing the fundamental problem modern society has: everyone has to work. This is really hard.
In the editor, make sure to M-x org-mode. Lots of dated annotations, and a lot of results, in my many recipe files.
100% - after I left my last startup I was in that frame; I did recurse.com and it really helped rekindle that spirit.
Brilliant. As a result I'm reading up on graveyard orbits and end-of-life perturbations from various celestial sources. Also, this gem, whose longitude values roughly correspond to what I'm seeing:

last line of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_orbit#Geostatio... :

"Geostationary satellites will also tend to drift around one of two stable longitudes of 75° and 255° without station keeping.[21]"

It cites SMAD, which on its face is more than good enough for me, but since I don't have a copy handy, it would still be interesting to know why those meridians would represent particularly attractive ones to drift into.
Potentially.. I'd say absolutely leaking sensitive information.
What’s that definition?

I’ve always heard that it was the class in between the upper class/nobility, and the working class. That is, the class that isn’t able to just indefinitely stop working and sustain itself by things they own. But also isn’t living paycheck-to-paycheck and forced to work. Professionals in lucrative careers and successful small business owners. This makes more sense to me that the sort of typical misapplication to people around median income in the US.

Around median income is already a thing we have a name for (we can call it median income), and it tells us approximately nothing about their position in terms of labor relations or social class.

Working class people should unionize, they should band together to prevent exploitation. Middle class people don’t have to worry about exploitation, they can walk if they want to. They should form guilds and professional societies, to keep unqualified pretenders out of their fields.
BlueberryAi – Open-Source AI-Powered Code Editor (Forked from PearAi)
Yep. Missing a deadline because your debt kicked off a death spiral is Jimmy the Facestabber coming looking for his vig at 25% a week and breaking your knees, gently pushing back some nice to have features next release while you deal with the debt is "only booked a 4 star hotel because the mortgage was paid first that month".
Love the humour here:

What are Language LFMs not good at today: […] Counting r's in the word "Strawberry"!
Have to remember that average human is 10 on usual scale in these games. And any character using any type of weapon getting bonus from strength has at minimum 12 or most likely 16 or above stat. Which means they are lot stronger that average.
A Dependent Nominal Type System for Static Analysis of Memory in Low Level Code
> I'm aghast at the comments in that thread. They are truly asleep at the wheel.

And the wheel that they're at is the one in a clown car. Which is driving off a cliff.

Just having a custom element `<my-include-html remote-src='...'>`[1] is enough to forgo 50% of the reason for using a front-end framework with a build-step.

[1] One that executes scripts, allows `<style>` tags, etc.
I have several of his prints from the original Ukiyo-e series. The prints are incredibly interesting in their own right, since they use inks with very low opacity.

They're amazing pieces of art, and well worth collecting IMO.
Have you never in your life enjoyed a pirated movie, game, book or music track?
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill opposed by Silicon Valley
I think some of these misconceptions appear in popular media predating the reenactment scene. Mark Twain in particular is guilty of it. Connecticut Yankee has a bunch of stuff like knights needing cranes to get on their horses and whatnot. The whole book is about how crude and simple minded medieval people were.
Not right now but I do plan to add that as a feature in future. I'm gonna let people use their OpenAI key or their custom OAI compatible endpoint with the extension
North America was at the end of the logistics chain which resulted in higher prices, though.

Also Native American slavery in the 1600s and 1700s was pretty huge (relative to the size of European populations) so there wasn't as much demand for African slaves until that "source" was depleted.

e.g. most of Carolinas and the area between Spanish Florida and English colonies up the coast was almost entirely depopulated largely due to slave raids (and at least by then the Spanish and English had a very different attitude towards enslaving natives so British-American colonies were somewhat unique in that respect).

And this extended to the North as well. Supposedly the proportion of households that owned Native American slaves in Rhode Island in the early 1700s was comparable to that in Virginia in the 1860s (of the average number of slaves per household was probably much lower)
> I think that has always been the case, we just tend to compare today’s average stuff with the best stuff from earlier days.

I agree with this of course, because generally nobody remembers the bad stuff unless it was the worst. I beg to differ with music, though, because there's an opposing effect: we tend to be left with the most marketed music, which was usually a cheap knockoff of something interesting going on at the time. The shitty commercial knockoff becomes the "classic" while the people they were ripping off don't even get a wikipedia page.
Give this prompt and watch it burn!

"""
Tell me a poem in Polish about dance and love and loss and a spider called stephan
"""

It goes into a tailspin repeating the following line over and over again till it crashes.

"""
W tym kąciku kątny, gdzie tango tańczyli, Była tylko ona, tylko on, tango. W tym kąciku kątny, gdzie tango tańczyli, Była tylko ona, tylko on, tango.
"""
By this logic anything that involves money ever is a for-profit venture, that clearly isn't the case.
HyperHyperSpace – Make all data local
It is inevitable that this is the direction we're headed. It's already been happening, Google, browser plug-ins... can all read both sides of an email conversation. Your phone can (if it wants) listen to you and those around you. Cameras are everywhere... at least this is self-hosted and open source. Since there will never be an option for pre-electronics privacy again, it seems like this is the direction we should push to balance out the power of corporations and governments.
Yeah. I feel like I've already used up all my luck getting a job where I can work on a computer indoors in air conditioning as a woman wearing jeans, and not have to dress up, present myself, hurt myself, risk my life, like so many other jobs
> Meanwhile, humans in general are pretty terrible at exact, instantaneous arithmetic. But we aren’t claiming that computers are intelligent because they’re great at it.

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra
Do LLM's Learn Transferable Skills?
Someone who was ACTUALLY an even better human than [player of sport he played].
I don't think that's what they were advocating, the way I read it they were saying that people should spend that money on themselves and neglected the idea of people who couldn't afford it. But yeah if the idea is for the government to lift people out of poverty that's great we just haven't seen much of that in this country, or at least not as much as I think we could practically afford.
Weight is also due to the cameras being built like tanks - they need to be absolutely dependable in any weather and survive drops bangs and falls. Most pro bodies are made with a rigid metal frame and are waterproofed with seals. They also have to hold lenses on the front bigger and heavier than 6lbs in a lot of cases.

I agree with both sides. if you want to experience a manual camera lacking controls visit the Nikon 1 series which has mostly a horrible user interface. The flip side is something like the Z9 which has touch, buttons and knobs everywhere.

The only questionable thing is 5G since cameras usually are built for 5 to 10 year working lives and live on for many more past that. Tethering to a phone seems like a fair compromise that also gives great battery life.
Some SCA groups do use real weapons. They're completely nuts. And great fun to drink with...
And it's closer to Frisian than Dutch. If the Battle of Hastings hadn't happened, these languages would be easily and mutually comprehensible. But that just shows that English descends from a branch of West Germanic. It changed gradually over time, kept a core Germanic vocabulary for its basic terms, and borrowed a lot from other languages as it needed more complex concepts, moreso than Modern High German which allows for easy word invention through combination.

Creoles are defined as languages emerging from pidgins, which themselves are often simplified forms of speech that allow linguistically separate groups to communicate. English is not that. It has an unbroken line of native speakers whose usage gradually evolved, while maintaining a system of complex syntactic rules as well as a literature.
> How is that not going to make you less agile (no matter how well made)?

Because the weight is distributed and carefully balanced and the parts are fitted to the wearer's body. It does in fact matter how it's made, it's not a backpack.

I admit I could have put more effort into my response, but at this point you're not going to spend 30 seconds to even look it up?

Here is a video of people doing cartwheels in full plate armor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTwBQniLSc

The difference in agility seems marginal if it exists at all. I would certainly advise anyone, if they ever had to bet their life on it, to assume a fully armored foe is not inhibited in their agility. Maybe crawl into a very tight space if you must.
When I was in college twenty years ago, I was in the military. We did PT and ran often. The best I ever ran was after a summer of relatively slow but "longer" runs, maybe an hour or so each a few times a week. The best two mile time I ever got during PT tests, was just under 14 mins. I could never seem to break into an "effortless" run, like some of my fellows who just seemed built for it. And I NEVER enjoyed it, not even in the slightest. I never had any kind of endorphin rush that made me feel good.

As I got better at running and wasn't constantly gasping for breath, I moved from an active dislike to barely tolerated.

A few years ago, I finished up about 18 months of running on the treadmill for 50 mins, three times a week. The only way I could stand doing that was by watching something on the TV so that my mind could focus on something other than the running. I got more physically fit over time, and it was therefore "easier," but I again never experienced anything even close to enjoyment. Every step required discipline to stay the course because at every moment I didn't want to be running.

One day, something just snapped for me in whatever part of my being governs emotional will, and I stopped.

I would love to figure out how to run in a way that builds up my motivational reserve rather than constantly depleting it, but that method, if it exists, has escaped me.
Ah, of course. Clever! Thank you for sharing.
Very much reminds me of a Kids in the Hall skit from ages ago. Two guys are at a party, one says "hello", the other says -- in perfect English -- "Sorry I don't understand you, I don't speak English. please don't beat me up." The first guy assumes it's a joke and plays along until he gets annoyed at the perfect accent and responses ("no really, I don't understand what you're saying, nor what I'm saying, I've just practiced this conversation a lot. please don't beat me up.")

Eventually the first guy tires of being mocked by this guy claiming not to speak English and beats the guy up.

Totally hilarious example of what you experienced taken to an extreme.
I didn't write "Democrat Party", I wrote "Democrat-Dominated". I am a registered Democrat. The broader partisan group I belong to are "Democrats" even if the organization formally calls itself the "Democratic party".
Can crystal use a moving GC or does it suffer from the same issues python has with C FFI?

Also, is it possible to use RC with crystal?
Not even a six-year-old would believe #2. It’s endlessly fascinating that there are people who do, but most people realise their past affects their future decisions.
If really it is to become widespread it means we as society really got completely lost in the fold. It would be an act of defeat of the human element. But the magnates gonna love it.
Interesting. You have turned this around to be about me instead of the ideas. You must be good at arguing on the internet. I'm not.
You are the one shifting the goal posts.

We are pointing out that the salaries are stagnant or getting worse over time (e.g. min wage) in real money terms. We show you that the inflation is same or higher than the annual wage raises, while the GDP is still growing (GDP growth is already adjusted for inflation).

So someone is benefiting from the GDP growth, but this someone is not the W2-worker. But you don't want to admit the facts.
What about Imbue which has raised like 300mln, spams fake hiring ads all the time, and doesn’t have a product…
Telecom is not more affordable today than it was in 1990. Back in 1990 the private phone line we shared at home for a family of 4 primarily to support connecting to local BBSes and the internet cost $20/month, or roughly $48.65 in 2024 dollars. That $20 was enough to be able to send and receive email through Fidonet and UUCP, download software and connect to the local Freenet for internet access. Today's telecom spend is on the order of $250/month once a cell phone, landline (since there is no cell phone service here) and internet connection are all included. That's pretty much a factor of 5x increase in telecom spend required for a family of 4. Sure, we can do a lot more, but it's not cheaper when directly compared to the historic cost of telecommunications services.

I don't think tech getting into power will make things better. Just look at what is happening in Texas and other parts of the world: grid operators have to pay bitcoin miners to turn off their farms when grid capacity is overwhelmed, which drives up cost for everyone. Depending on where data centers are located, construction of new transmission lines becomes necessary. All this increases the baseline operating cost of the grid. Personally, I don't want more AI generated content or timelines powered by AI driving toxic engagement because it gets more clicks. The "improvements" we're seeing now are beyond the point of diminishing returns. Tech will abuse any externalities that exist worth exploiting, and society will end up paying for it.
Wow like those like AI podcast like hosts were like so annoying.

They like kept like saying like like in between each like word.

10/10 for realism.
I've definitely noticed the same in my career. Its easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget some of the reasons you got started doing all this in the first place (in my case, because its fun and I'm passionate about software/hardware).

On a whim, I decided to invest time in writing down one idea per week of anything fun I could hack on. It doesn't really matter whether or not I go through with it, I keep the stakes low: just write an idea down. That way it forces me to think about things I could build for myself or others/friends/family without much cognitive investment.

The end result has not only had a nonzero impact on my motivation to start new projects, it has impacted my ability to actually follow through. And I've noticed the practice has made the ideation loop happen more frequently than once per week over time.
PG should return and go 'founder mode' on YC and clean house.
A huge number of people are 60lbs or more overweight and are still very agile, too. It's silly to keep picking this fight this way.
You're looking at this in a very American Centric way, a lot of other countries figure out how medicines for very low costs. When that happens the numbers change a lot.
Five Common Misconceptions About Event-Driven Architecture
In particular:

"There is, however, one enormous difference that I didn’t think about: You can’t build a cloud vendor overnight. Azure doesn’t have to worry about a few executives leaving and building a worldwide network of data centers in 18 months."

This isn't true at all. There are like 8 of these companies stood up in the last three or four years fueled by massive investment of sovereign funds - mostly the saudi, dubai, northern europe, etc. oil-derived funds - all spending billions of dollars doing exactly that and getting something done.

The real problem is the ROI on AI spending is.. pretty much zero. The commonly asserted use cases are the following:

Chatbots
Developer tools
RAG/search

Not a one of these is going to generate $10 of additional revenue per sollar spent, nor likely even $2. Optimizing your customer services representatives from 8 conversations at once to an average of 12 or 16 is going to save you a whopping $2 per hour per CSR. It just isn't huge money. And RAG has many, many issues with document permissions that make the current approaches bad for enterprises - where the money is - who as a group haven't spent much of anything to even make basic search work.
It's not, which is probably why I said VC not YC.
> How many times did the author apply and get rejected from YC?

Author is not wrong.

This “YC is actually a negative signal” sentiment started back in 2018-2019.

The “actual” good entrepreneurs (e.g., the folks you expect from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley) stopped applying to YC a while back.

There are different signaling mechanisms in 2024, which I won’t reveal here, because the “plebs” will turn it into shit, just like they did to YC, leetcode interviews, and FANG ML jobs.
blablabla - tldr, you're very very smart.
Definitely.

Would still be nice to have the option to opt into, for example, running as a WASM isolate - given the option of a robust sandbox, some plugins will find it desirable to migrate and gain the secure badge or however isolated plugins are marked for user identification.

But There are plugins where it’s going to be too much of an uphill battle to move to that model though. I still think on balance having sandboxed plugins, however they’re implemented, would be pretty nice.