skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Government regulation is critical to a healthy market economy. No economy should be totally unregulated as it will end in a monopoly. Instead you need a moderate level of regulation to prevent people from abusing positions of power. That's what this is. They're purposefully making their products impossible to repair without them, and using their market dominance to enforce it. You're welcome to disagree, but every stable economic theory relies on some regulation.
Peaceful protest does work and has worked; that's quitting on it. Adopting violence is self-defeating. What basis do you have for your theories, other than the passing fashion of despairing and quitting.
It appears to be made with Wix.com website builder.

https://support.wix.com/en/article/supported-browsers
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Sociopathy isn’t the same thing as duplicity.
One has still to know that "tree" stands for "source code".
A telling quote about Sam, besides the "island of cannibals" one. Is actually one Sam published himself:

"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions"

This definition of success is founded on power and control. It's one of the worst definitions you could choose.

There are nobler definitions, like "Successful people have many friends and family" or "Successful people are useful to their compatriots"

Sam's published definition (to be clear, he was quoting someone else and then published it) tells you everything you need to know about his priorities.
Frankly, it sounds like you don't understand how gerrymandering works in the American political system.
OpenAI is playing catch-up of their own. The last big announcement they had was "we finally built Artifacts".

This is what happens when there's vibrant competition in a space. Each company is innovating and each company is trying to catch up to their competitors' innovations.

It's easy to limit your view to only the places where OpenAI leads, but that's not the whole picture.
Musk kicks butt and is taking us to space. He proves my theory.
It's a captured market. Free markets are where no one has extreme market power like with a mono/duopoly or monopsony or whatever. A free market would be one where Deere is broken up by antitrust action. Making right to repair rules is the soft-touch approach to curbing their abuse.
If you can slide a conceptual wedge between the free choice to use GNU over Microsoft because you believe in the Four Freedoms and the free choice to not work with FSF until they oust Stallman because you believe he's a creep, go for it.

It's the same thing: personal choice intended to influence the shape of the world.
What comes to my mind is that decipher has a well established common meaning, but decrypt just means "dis-encrypt".
Thanks so much!

Just want to point out that this hasn’t been updated in a minute, and in particular, you’ll get some messages about branches being bookmarks now: https://github.com/steveklabnik/jujutsu-tutorial/pull/34

I have started on a second iteration of the tutorial in private, and am gonna see if I can get it in shape this weekend.

Happy to answer questions about jj!
Also worth looking into are some of the extensions for Razor/HTMX views, which IMO is a way better approach than server-managed Blazor. Jetbrains has a few good videos and really nice dev extensions for this approach.

I also think wasm Blazor is a non-starter as well until WASM GC integration in the browsers gets fully integrated for C# targets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS6m37jhdqM
Gattaca wasn't futuristic at all; it was obviously a commentary, and condemnation, of historical racism and prejudice.
I've been rolling the idea around that perhaps if a product is encumbered by a subscription then it's not a first sale and the product counts as inventory. And gets taxed as such.
I think that's very true -- and it felt like one of the real opportunities we had in the paper: that we have real production tasks whose results we need to stand behind, and so we can try to explain and show examples of what matters in that context.

One of the sentences near the end that speaks to this is "...[this shows] a case where the type of medical knowledge reflected in common benchmarks is little help getting basic, fundamental questions about a patient right." Point being that you can train on every textbook under the sun, but if you can't say which hospital a record came from, or which date a visit happened as the patient thinks of it, you're toast -- and those seemingly throwaway questions are way harder to get right than people realize. NER can find the dates in a record no problem, but intuitively mapping out how dates are printed in EHR software and how they reflect the workflow of an institution is the critical step needed to pick the right one as the visit date -- that's a whole new world of knowledge that the LLM needs to know, which is not characterized when just comparing results on medical QA.

Giving examples of the crazy things we have to contend is something I can (and will!) gladly talk about for hours...
I have that a lot. It seems my mind needs to try a lot of combinations and suddenly stumbles upon one that makes sense and a light lits up. Browsing through the code or reading the docs only tends to get in the way for that process.

There's the need for some noisy creativity to be able to try to match a lot of combinations including the non obvious ones, where the solution space is.
No way! That's fascinating, thanks.
This one is hilarious
It's a devil's bargain, and not just in terms of the _individual_ payoffs that OpenAI employees/executives might receive. There's a reason why Google/Microsoft/Amazon/... ultimately failed to take the lead in GenAI, despite every conceivable advantage (researchers, infrastructure, compute, established vendor relationships, ...). The "autonomy" of a startup is what allows it to be nimble; the more Microsoft is able to tell OpenAI what to do, the more I expect them to act like DeepMind, a research group set apart from their parent company but still beholden to it.
Depends for what, the energy you are required to spend to keep updated on new stuff coming up is greater than any other job I'm aware of.

Most other mental jobs change at a much slower rate than in tech.
I did! See also: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=pelican
> 1. There is no known painting technique - even now, for getting this image onto the shroud. There were no pigments or dyes in sufficient quantity to explain the image on the shroud.

It still does not mean that it has anything to do with Jesus. There are plenty of things we don’t know how to make anymore.
Didn't realise there was a more primitive NES version but I really enjoyed playing these on the Mega Drive and PS1. As a young kid I was not thinking about the people behind the games at all, so all such development/business trials and tribulations are news to me!
> 4 represents “NOSPLIT” which we need for some reason

For those who are curious: "In the general case, the frame size [the parameter after NOSPLIT] is followed by an argument size, separated by a minus sign. (It's not a subtraction, just idiosyncratic syntax.) The frame size $24-8 states that the function has a 24-byte frame and is called with 8 bytes of argument, which live on the caller's frame. If NOSPLIT is not specified for the TEXT, the argument size must be provided. For assembly functions with Go prototypes, go vet will check that the argument size is correct."

Source: https://go.dev/doc/asm
Compile and drop it into /usr/local or /opt:

* https://github.com/ulif/diceware
Thank you Steve! Really enjoying this tutorial. No questions so far.
So, great, another place to host and sell your music. Love bandcamp. Nothing really that special about it. It rose to popularity because it didn't take that much of a cut of sales from the artists and was offering the easy ability to host all the digital files etc. What's different about this? The 'artists' will have a say on the cut that Subvert is taking? Shrug. All sounds fine and not really that complicated. It will all come down to traction and getting a lot of artists/labels to move there, and that is a crapshoot really. Especially since Bandcamp currently hasn't been impacted in any major way. That and the usual not-really-that-minor challenges of hosting/bandwidth/payment processing fees at scale.
Seems more like a 'compression' of the large number of games, or even like an approximate 'index' of the database
Do you mean the ads they serve that contain malware?
That's why I make all my software AGPL now.

I haven't published any software at all recently. But if I did (anything non-trivial), it would be AGPL. Or even SSPL.

Permissive licensing (MIT, BSD, Unlicense, public domain, etc) is a scam to make you work for companies for free - if your software is worth anything to them, that is. They told developers they should use MIT licenses so more people would use their software. That's true. They didn't ask whether that was a good thing.
Not building an app myself right now, but I worked a lot on the desktop app space, leading development at various companies and been thinking of writing a book on the topic (I'm an O'Reilly author in another space). I tend to blog on macOS stuff every now and then, like https://www.jviotti.com/2022/02/21/emitting-signposts-to-ins....

Quick questions for everybody here:

- How do you develop your apps right now, mainly cross-platform ones? QT? Would you enjoy a C++ cross-platform framework that binds directly (and well) to Cocoa?

- Are you using Electron? If so, would you appreciate premium modules for Electron that bring a lot more "native" Cocoa functionality instead of reinventing the wheel in JavaScript?

What would you wish a book on modern desktop app development would cover?
Still depends on the definition of success. Money and companies with high stock prices? Healthy family relationships and rich circle of diverse friends?
Is medical bankruptcy common in Switzerland?

600chf sounds like passable value for money, as long as you get excellent care and as long as that's all you pay.

But my concern is always what happens to the poor. Yeah, yeah, the Swiss are rich - but not literally every Swiss, I presume.
Can you elaborate on what indirect control would look like in your opinion?

No matter how many layers of abstraction you put in between, you're still eventually going to be passing a value to the setTimeout function that was computed based on something the user inputted, right?

If you're not aware of these caveats about extremely high timeout values, how do any layers of abstraction in between help you prevent this? As far as I can see, the only prevention is knowing about the caveats and specifically adding validation for them.
Same here, I actually made a tool for this called www.jsonmergepatch.com - give it a try
do you imagine caring about pixels is moral and good behavior? isnt it demented and unhinged to concern yourself?
One would hope but you're still relying on the 1-N layers of management above that person to not try and hold onto the irrelevant workload for fiefdom size reasons.
Also depends a lot on if the rule writing organization is the one actually paying to enforce it.
Because Tren de Agua is really building the country up and enhancing it...
Some very good points!
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I know we're just supposed to use upvotes rather than saying thanks or great job, but this is already super useful. Great work!
King snakes will control other snake populations, but I imagine boas not so much.
I can believe it either way, but some of that is because carbon-intensive industry will be based out of the city and its products imported in.

I doubt there’s a cement kiln, cattle farm or oil refinery within city limits.
Example of stubbing toe was about how unpredictable life was. Getting a wound to go septic was basically random for a long long time. Most of the time, stubbing your toe was about the same as it is today. Annoying and nothing more. Have it go septic, though, and it likely looked like someone had been cursed to death. And note that this goes for more than just literally stubbing your toe. Snag on a bush? Bitten by animal. It would have seemed far far more random.

My post is specifically in response to the one above me. It is framed with modern events and pushing that they are obviously going to seem unpredictable to people. My assertion is that they can be seen that way, sure; but don't think this is somehow a modern thing.

To your point, I would expect that reward processing is influenced by these events, sure. I would also expect any indoctrination that was happening at the same time to stick. My current bias is to expect indoctrination to stick more effectively than raw experiences. And yes, this is somewhat cheating because the indoctrination is almost certainly done to compliment experiences.
9k a month is not typical for sure.
I would argue this is not subjective. "Healthy family relationships and rich circle of diverse friends" is an objectively better definition than "Money and companies with high stock prices".

I await with arms crossed all the lost souls arguing it's subjective.
That's the optimization problem. I find one can't always have it all. Sometimes health means have a less than delicious meal or skipping a restaurant.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'm far more likely to regret the things that I did eat opposed to the ones I didn't

I actually think this is an important part of cultivating healthy relationships with food. I needed to stop thinking about boring meals as missed opportunities for consumption.
One other interesting comment in there -- the note about how people think the worst records to deal with are the old handwritten notes. But actually, content-wise they tend to be very to-the-point. Clean printouts from EHR software have so much extra junk and redundancy that you end up with much lower SNR. Even just structuring a single EHR record can require you to look across many pages and do tons of filtering that doesn't come into play on the old handwritten notes (once you get past OCR).

Long way of saying: I feel for today's clinicians. EHRs were supposed to solve all problems, but they've also made things harder in a lot of ways.
> That study [0] is published in a non-peer-reviewed journal with a very low impact factor, Heritage.

Haha, MDPI. lol. It’s worse than low impact factor.
I run a self-learning music discovery engine called Gnoosic:

https://www.gnoosic.com

I can confirm that when you suggest a random band to a random user, they will dislike it with over 90% probability.

I'd be interested to hear how well Gnoosic works for your musical taste.
You should really read the OP's theory as: clearly untrustworthy people lose out. Trustworthy people, and unclearly untrustworthy people, win.

OAI's problem isn't that Sam is untrustworthy; he's just too obviously untrustworthy.
So, I'll start off by saying I recommend a different approach than what I often see, with book recommendations.

Usually there's this hope that there's one book that's going to be THE book that kicks your social media addiction. Like imagine a Harvard psychiatrist wrote a book called "Social Media: The Evidence Against It." You read it, you raise a hand to your forehead saying "My God" or whatever and then you delete Twitter/Insta/Facebook forever. I don't think that's realistic.

What works however - and it really does work! - is to read a series of these books that really force your attention on to these abstractions (social media, addictiveness, your own relationship to it) and gently, gradually, distances you from them. It's not a one-book solution. It's multiple books, which are each slowly reshaping how you think about the Internet and how you use it, a little piece at a time.

I think the book cited above, "Irresistible", looks great, and I plan to read it (though I have not).

The ones I have read are: Smith's "Traffic", which isn't so much about addiction per se, but about how the game for traffic is played, by people who played it, the incentives for it; "Meme Wars" by Donovan, about memes and their effects on culture & politics (kind of adjacent to Reeve's "Black Pill", which I also read); and then multiple others which I won't cite here, which just made me think more about my relationship to culture, the good parts which I wanted to amplify vs. the bad parts of "mindlessly scrolling on the Internet."

I also thought Netflix's "The Social Dilemma" was good, for shining a spotlight on your relationship to these platforms and how you relate to them.

Note that you could pass on all of these books and honestly that would be okay with me. In a way that most important thing is to read a book that really immerses you in the mechanics of what you're doing when you're on tech platforms and the negative aspects of that (which I think we all know - spending too long on them, wasting time, negative self-image, etc). Over time, reading books like that release you from the grip of social media & the algorithms. If nothing else, they loosen it, which is helpful.
If you invested in Kleenex at OpenAI valuations you would lose nearly all your money quite quickly.
Following the Reagan era, the GOP had a period of wanting to reign in the federal government, but I don't think that's quite true now. Folks like Trump or DeSantis are not pro-small-government, they just want to use it to advance different social policies. In the fight between farmers and Deere, I doubt they'd side with the company.

Data point: Trump's VP nominee likes what the FTC is doing - https://fortune.com/2024/08/11/jd-vance-5000-child-tax-credi...
AI is externalized assistance. Used one way, it can be a guide that helps a individual learn. Used differently, it's no different than asking someone else to do your work for you.

The issue here is academic honesty, not necessarily the definition of "AI". Should a student using Grammarly submit all drafts of their work and cite the changes they didn't make? Should students receiving external help in the form of parents and tutors cite that assistance?

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing in an age when ubiquitous search and the internet democratize access to information resources. It's trivial to duplicate documents today, and It's no more of a burden to students to disclose how they are writing.

When I was growing up, teachers knew families who didn't have a home library or had only one car and didn't live near the library were at a disadvantage, so research periods were granted during class. Essays were written and turned in during class periods, and sudden changes to handwriting or style were easy to catch.

Today, the challenges are different, so it seems fair to change the requirements and criteria in response. I've advised friends in education to try assigning AI generated papers with citations as tests and ask students to correct them and expand them from sources.

Asking Siri whether information matches a particular source still isn't possible, and if you're going to have to go through the effort of compiling a bunch of sources for RAG, I think any student equipped to do that would also find it reasonably more efficient to simply do the work directly.
Your experience being different than mine does not make mine "not true" nor is what you are saying mutually exclusive with what I am saying. There's most likely a lot of things going on at the same time here- that are interrelated in complex ways, and likely somewhat different in different people.

Lots of research shows that overstimulation of the reward system, e.g. from high satiety foods overrides the feeling of fullness in a way that integrates both what you and I were saying in a coherent way - especially if you think of "mild discomfort" as a state of low stimulation of the reward system [1]. This is probably why so many different seemingly mutually exclusive diet protocols work equally well- anything that restricts some foods and not others, regardless of what they are, lowers the total reward system stimulation from food.

For me, I am still hungry while fasting, but the hunger becomes easier to handle over time. I also notice afterwards that I am full with less food like you noticed, in addition to the other things I mentioned. It is also easier for me to stop eating while still a little hungry after fasting.

In my case years of logging my bodyweight on a digital scale show I only gain weight during stressful events, but then keep it the rest of the time... and if I'm consistently taking cold showers or doing regular short fasts, it prevents that effect and causes gradual weight loss on top of it. So I have fairly convincing data that what I am saying is true for me, but it may not be true for everyone.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2012/03/09/seduced-by-food-obesity-an...
Sure? That feels to be stretching the adversity definition, though. Not having a good teacher does not mean you necessarily had a bad one, after all.
Pretty sure that Meta and X.ai both do.
The shareholders don't care about any of that if they think the board did a decent job of propping up the stock price.

Firing a board is generally risky, and the shareholders probably haven't fired them because even though the board has, almost objectively, not been good - firing them is likely even worse for the stock short term, and there aren't a lot of long-term, active investors left in the world.
Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP
What about second-order effects? If Trump does these tariffs, then other countries are likely to do the same to US exports. If that happens, how much do Americans lose in earning power? Has anyone done that analysis?
Audio Generation
While I can understand the author’s frustration, the whole «banning tech/country» based on one experience with one person from said country/tech is taking it too far.

In addition, specifically outing people like this by name without letting them have any chance to respond in the article is unprofessional, especially since it isnt needed in order to drive the point home.
That only works for a subset of music. It works well for electronica. It works less well for singer songwriters.
There's also this guy: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5JB_bzQwtZ8

I don't know how his numbers stack up, but he's amusing to watch.
I don't see this ever happening.
If you become a sysadmin, not only do you save $100 per month but you can also add it to your CV.

DHH (Rails founder) thinks you should dare to connect a server to the internet: https://world.hey.com/dhh/dare-to-connect-a-server-to-the-in...

(I already submitted this once, but given the discussion here, I think it's worth posting again, if my rate limit allows it)
Once you bag a snake, they're pretty easy to move around. Getting them into a sack isn't as hard as you might imagine either. Obviously, it's going to be more difficult for a larger snake, but it's way easier than getting, say, a cat into a cat carrier.
Brother, it is not operating your computer, YOU ARE!
I skimmed what I can while on break. What I didn’t see is something I’ve heard from doctors but can’t verify. It’s that insurance companies require them to do extra procedures or have extra employees they don’t think they need. Some who didn’t take insurance say it keeps their cost down.

One told me the insurance companies incentivize him to treat patients like an assembly line where cash only lets him spend one on one time with customers. He also might treat people for several things on the same bill which he claimed he’d have to itemize and charge separately for with insurance.

So, do people here have specific examples (esp links) to support or refute those anecdotes? If they were true, it would mean insurance rules were driving much of the cost. Looking at their causes, my first guess would be how they respond to losses from both real malpractice and greed-driven lawsuits. I can’t imagine that costs aren’t impacted by this with all the lawyer ads I see for suing insurance companies. ;)