skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, 3 profiles: personal, work, side-work
Lol, Germany was bought and paid for decades ago and the party with the most political power is the Hells Angels. They even got their rivals federally banned, even though they are not!
U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China's ambitions
How RISC-V, the US-developed, open-source chip instruction set architecture, became a central tool for Chinese companies and governments, leading to US concerns — A U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China's ambitions. Washington is debating whether and how to limit the technology.
(January 2024)
Positive eugenics would result in more smart people with zero drugs or genetic engineering involved. And it requires zero oppression or violence. Just pay couples with high IQs to have babies.
I realized this about myself years ago, but I don't (think I) have ADHD.

I have always been able to learn faster than most people. No clear reason why. It appears I was just born this way.

But if the Pareto Principle holds, and I'm learning twice as fast as average (estimating for the sake of easy math), that means when I'm a beginner learning the 20% of the skill that gives me 80% of the results, I'm learning like 32 times faster than somebody learning at an average rate who's in the 80% of work that produces 20% of the results, even though they're better at what they're doing. I look like an absolute rockstar out of the gate.

Problem is that my ego has been tied up in that since I was little. Early life is all about learning high-leverage things as quickly as possible, and since that's also when you're forming your sense of who you are, it's a sticky trap. I have really struggled to build the patience for the rest of the grind, where even if I'm still learning twice as fast as average at the harder level, any average newbie is learning/improving twice as fast as me.

The end result is that I'm moderately proficient in dozens and dozens of things, but I'm not an expert at anything except obtaining moderate proficiency.
...well, technically there's a RAII-like implementation in Linux kernel

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...

which is explained here https://lwn.net/Articles/934679/
Firefox Multi-Account Containers ("container tabs") together with Temporary Containers[0]. Every tab is as isolated and ephemeral as possible unless there's a need.

I also use profiles, for work and leisure. Mostly for differentiating extensions and the data they get access to (no container tabs at work, and very few extensions there overall), but also for bookmarks.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
I want my work to be in-office full-time and I’m going to keep pushing for it. Consider that from my perspective you’re the one “ruining it” for me.
Passkeys Are Almost Awesome
I'm not sure why container tabs don't work for you, they keep separate cookie jars, local storage, etc. and behave exactly like separate profiles for this use case.
After years of working with web frameworks in Python and Java, and then picking up Go along the way, I've come to appreciate Go's approach much more. That is, with a rich and capable standard library, you really don't need traditional frameworks. Need an HTTP server, router, etc.? Use stdlib. Need templates? Use stdlib. Need an ORM? You don't, but you may want to consider a small 3rd party query builder library of your choice. And so on.

This avoids depending on a complex framework that may or may not exist in a few years, improves security by minimizing the amount of 3rd party dependencies, keeps the learning curve low for any new developers joining the project, and is more flexible and easier to maintain. I don't have experience with Rust, and judging by the comments here, web frameworks might still be useful for it. Which is a shame, since the batteries included stdlib approach is far superior IME.

Anyway, I don't want to shoot down your efforts. Congrats on the launch and good luck!
IIRC the patent court and tax court are the only two that non-lawyers can practice at in the US.
Ideally you have swap, so that stuff that's not actually in use ends up in swap instead of occupying physical memory.

That's why you still usually see machines with unreasonable amounts of GB of RAM having swap partitions: Instead of having data that's rarely, if ever, used occupy precious DRAM, it's much better to have that data in swap so that the DRAM can contain, say, filesystem caches.
just because we can't prevent something from being invented, doesn't mean we can't prevent its spread: we limit technology all the time

like chemical weapons were invented, bioweapons were invented, meth manufacturing was invented, but we prohibit people from manufacturing them because they're harmful

same logic could apply to generative machine learning (obv not as harmful as above examples, but same idea)
Source Code Is Poison
Good. Every time I see AI "art" it's just someone with the worst taste spewing their slop everywhere. It drowns out actually good art.
Feed readers and self discipline I would guess. I don't want to pay or host a feed reader right now, and I'm bad at self discipline, so I just limit what social media I use to HN and some blogs.
SF is proposing its biggest subway project ever
Incompressible, freeze around 0°C, corrosive to metal, got it.
The lack of multiple browser profiles WITH cloud settings sync has blocked me from switching from chrome for a long time now.

- Firefox? Sync but difficult browser profile management

- Brave? Multiple profiles due to being chrome based, but they use this weird sync system that I'm not a fan of

- Opera? Sync but no multiple profiles on mac (last I checked)

- Safari? Sync AND profiles, but the safari ui really doesn't do it for me

Hopefully this update to multiple profile UX in Firefox will make it viable for my typical use.
you can't expect all at once. just one step forward. note how fast everything moves since 2020, and accelerating. finally 'it's' coming...
When I take a dump, I do it exactly like a violin virtuoso does. I am not a violin virtuoso.

Trust me, I'm really not.
1) it's not a black swan if we see it coming, or could see it coming, and predict what it will do

and 2) the massive rise in residential housing prices correlates to that risk, as commercial holders want to get out ASAP or at least hedge their risks by buying and renting.
> This is ludicrously off-base for fossil fuels, even if we're only talking about local pollutants from the plants themselves, nevermind things like Exxon Valdez or the pipelines or the act of mining.

The energy density of fossil fuels means that those side-effects would be worse with other sources of energy.

> is a result of urbanization mostly

Urbanization, made possible by the economical source of energy that is fossil fuels.
US1 Nothing can be done until daylight. US2 Nothing can be done until tide has risen. US3 Nothing can be done until visibility improves. US4 Nothing can be done until weather moderates. US5 Nothing can be done until draft is lightened. US6 Nothing can be done until tugs have arrived.
One possible idea is to simply publicly fund the political parties and do away with political donations entirely.

They're an essential part of your democratic system of government and could therefore be considered an essential service, so they would be funded in the same way as any other essential service.

That would not only solve this problem but also prevent the corporate lobbyists from having too much influence and corrupting the system.

Hopefully it'll be capped and that will mean less ads everywhere.
These chips could have been manufactured by TSMC before the US issued an export ban:

> It is unclear how the chip made its way to Huawei. In 2019, the company released its Ascend 910 chip series. At the time, prior to export controls, the chips were produced by TSMC, two sources told Reuters earlier this year.

The question of why the US has the right or power to tell TSMC, a Taiwanese company, who it is allowed to do business often comes up in these discussions. I've often seen the response that this is US technology, and that any country would apply similar controls to its own technologies. What I don't think people realize is that these sorts of "secondary" controls are very unusual, internationally.

The US imposes controls on goods manufactured abroad using US-made tools or intellectual property. This is a bit like the way that the GPL "infects" other projects, and forces them to abide by its terms, and to my knowledge, the US is the only country that does this (in any case, it's the only country doing this on such a large scale). If you think of how integrated the world economy is, these sorts of "infectious" controls are extremely disruptive.
> they do not use liquid sodium. They are PWRs. Rickover would spin in his grave.

Except for the early days of the (one-off) USS Seawolf, before its liquid-sodium reactor was replaced by a LWR. But yes, the KOG would surely come roaring out of his coffin screaming, "WTF are you idiots doing — wasn't once enough?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Seawolf_(SSN-575)
whats hilarious in this farce is how these are being rebranded from "co-pilots" to "agents"

just goes to show, it is all a big song-and-dance. much ado about nothing.
Google is saying they re-did the test and reversed their conclusion. New conclusion was running is better.
FreeBSD doesn't create user tmp when setting up a new user using the automatic tool. I don't recall if that's an option or not. There is, of course, a /tmp
There is no theft; this is simply how any being, human or not, works, or else you would be a caveman.
This model seems to be largely uncensored, at least compared to previous releases. For example, it is surprisingly familiar with the physics of interactions between human skin and yogurt. According to a friend who was testing it on replicate.com. I would never prompt for something like that of course.
Breaking Up Big Tech: Cui Bono?
Had a play about with it for a few weeks. Was interesting enough but didn't really get to the point were having multiple LLMs combining their various outputs felt like much of a benefit.

The founder seemed super enthusiastic and constantly tweeting about how great everything was. My guess is it's mostly hype but I guess now they have funding they might prove me wrong.
Right. Woe is the startup that doesn't have an AI story right now.
Optimism meets skepticism at Quantum Summit in Chicago
Give IBM a trillion dollars and they couldn't threaten a 7 year olds lemonade stand business, I think we'll be safe lol
> tech enabled people all had hundreds (if not thousands) in unknown subscriptions

I don't really understand how people can't easily see this on their CC bill(s). You don't even need to check monthly, just every so often and make sure you recognize all the charges.
Thanks! I was waiting for your benchmarks. Do you plan to test haiku 3.5 too?
It would be nice to show API prices needed to run the whole benchmark too to have a better idea of how many internal tokens o1 models consume.
Well for example, like Firefox did with the Pocket add-ons, making "pro" essentially unable to be removed using the packaging system despite it not being an actual integral component of the system.

Both of these I consider to be extremely user hostile moves as there was an establish way to implement the behaviour, but the company subverted that to prevent removal - presumably because they (rightly) presaged that "their" users would not want the changes.

Yes, distros make decisions that users won't agree with (SysV v SystemD, say). But, within that it never seemed like structural changes were made solely to prevent users from removing advertising (pro) or solely to prevent users from avoiding installation of specific apps (as with Snaps).

To me, there has been a sea change, a clear line crossed towards user hostility. I've been with KDE since KDE3 (maybe 2, I can't recall), I know about effed up updates and projects being opinionated - this isn't just that, to me it's a malevolence. Hence why I'm jumping ship.
AI is the new bottom-of-the-barrel outsourced contractor.
That’s like saying men shouldn’t vote on matters relating to abortion. People can vote you their feet.
Logistics depends on where you are not the inherent price of the commodity. Plenty of things like air and are freely available but you still need ventilation systems in caves and whatnot. Moving free dirt around when building roads can be extremely expensive due even if it’s just being moved a few miles volume adds up.

So yea desert sand is essentially free, even if you pay for shipping.
One of the main goal of a lien is to make sure that the debtor pays. I would say the locking mechanism helps that greatly.
The people who can are leaving the internet and moving to using AI models. The people left are the ones who don't know how, or have a bone to pick with them.

As an example I've not had to use google for a knowledge search in months now. Perplexity is much better, both for a summary of what I'm looking for, and for finding non-garbage links.
No Brains, No Problem: The Surprising Intelligence of Fungi
Having seen both of my parents develop dementia at different rates, I'll say that yes it does sneak up. There wasn't a clear day where yesterday they were self-sufficient and now they are not.

It is natural for the sufferer to develop coping mechanisms hide problems from themselves and others. The problems have to grow until the coping mechanisms start to collapse, and then suddenly they are much more evident. Another aspect is the child's denial. It is a significant shift in your worldview to see a parent go from being self-sufficient to dependent. To recognize the myriad day to day functions you took for granted that now require a caregiver's involvement.

Also, the cognitive problems do not develop as a slow and continuous trend. There are different cycles overlaid with seasons, illnesses, and even time of day. So you see fluctuations in their capacity and returning moments of lucidity and function help sustain denial.

I've heard it said, and I agree, the process of caring for someone with dementia includes a grieving process with all the complexities that ever has. You are watching many layers of the person die, sometimes over and over. At times you are faced with the living husk of the person you remember. Or worse, a strange subset of their prior personality traits and memories.

It can take a crisis to force the issue, if families get stuck in denial. Sadly, this also makes later caregiver arrangements more difficult. As far as I can tell, the happiest dementia sufferers seem to be ones who were able to transition into a supportive care environment before they progressed too far, so they had the capacity to adapt and familiarize themselves to new routines. Those routines help them cope in later phases. Those who go down kicking and screaming may be stuck with a care environment that seems (to them) threatening and disorienting.
FWIW, other publicly traded companies disclosed[1] their breaches since the rule went live a year ago.

[1] https://last10k.com/stock-screeners/cybersecurity
Note that the AVX-512 code we're referring to is the code that Intel also contributed to OpenSSL.

As a side-note, I believe the CPU we tested this on does not suffer from the AVX-512 power limits reported with earlier AVX-512 parts. https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/08/19/icl-avx512-fre... seems to confirm that.
You can patch Firefox (no rebuild required) to not reserve keys if you'd rather. Discussion here [1] and convenient AUR script here [2].

[1]: https://github.com/glacambre/firefox-patches/issues/1

[2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-no-reserved-keys-...
True overall, but I think it makes a lot of sense to evict rarely used data in tmpfs to swap, so that the DRAM it occupied can be used for valuable caches instead of holding some obscure temporary data that will be rarely or ever accessed.

Rarely used data that got evicted then behaves more or less like a normal /tmp filesystem when it does eventually get accessed, i.e. it gets read in from disk, while other data still gets all the benefits from tmpfs (e.g. ephemerality).

(If you take the thought experiment to its logical conclusion, you'll anyway end up in transparent hierarchical storage a la AS/400, where all data is just addressed by a single pointer in a very very large address space and the OS decides where that currently points to, but let's stay within the confines of what we're mostly used to...)
In the US, with the first amendment, it's hard to ban private spending.
Well in terms of processing speed the AI could iterate on different designs until it finds an extensible one, with some kind of reinforcement learning loop. Produce a certain design, get stuck, throw it away, try a new one. Just like humans learn to write good code really - except at an unfathomable speed of iteration. But it still all sounds ridiculously challenging. There is something there that isn't about predicting next tokens like LLMs do. It's about inferring very complex, highly abstract metastructures in the text.
ARP, DHCP, DNS, are all unencrypted and spoofable protocols.
Livebench updated

https://livebench.ai

Model | Global | Reasoning | Coding | Math | Data | Language | IF

------------------------------|---------|-----------|---------|---------|---------|----------|-------

o1-preview-2024-09-12 | 66.02 | 68.00 | 50.85 | 62.92 | 63.97 | 72.66 | 77.72

claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 | 60.33 | 58.67 | 67.13 | 51.28 | 52.78 | 58.09 | 74.05

claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 | 59.80 | 58.67 | 60.85 | 53.32 | 56.74 | 56.94 | 72.30
Thanks for making me aware of this. This guy's heart is clearly (to me) in the right place, but his understanding of power is seriously lacking. That's probably what gave him the hubris to create Wayback and IA, but he'll be absolutely dumbstruck when they shut it down.
I'm not arguing for it (or against it for that matter), I was just pointing out that the analysis in the comment I responded to didn't make sense. Every book won't be allowed to fall out of print and copyright just to exploit the authors because it would also hurt the publishers, they also benefit from exclusive publishing rights. Publishing rights are granted by the copyright holder (the author) to the publisher, much like patent licenses.

Regarding unprofitable books, they'll fall out of print anyways because they're unprofitable. Those authors won't be getting ripped off because they won't be making money either way beyond initial commissions and what few sales they get.

> Much better for it to revert to the author in that situation IMO.

The publisher doesn't hold the copyright, the author does, so copyright (the particular right under discussion) can't revert to the author as it never left the author. What the publisher holds is publishing rights per a contract with the author. That could revert back to the author (or be voided or however it's structured), and that would be reasonable but we don't need any laws for it, that would fall under normal contract terms. Whether it's a common thing now or feasible for a particular author (with no clout? maybe not, with billions in sales from prior books? probably) is another matter.
Thanks, been wanting some temporary containers but did not know about this.
There's also a big lithium deposit in Nevada, and preparations for mining are underway there.[1] General Motors put in $650 million for guaranteed access to the output of this Thacker Mine.

It's in a caldera in a mountain that I-80 bypassed to go through Winnemuca, Nevada. Nearest town is Mill City, NV, which is listed as a ghost town, despite being next to I-80 and a main line railroad track.
The mine site is about 12km from Mill City on a dirt road not tracked by Google Street View.

Google Earth shows signs of development near Mill City. Looks like a trailer park and a truck stop. The road to the mine looks freshly graded. Nothing at the mine site yet.

It's a good place for a mine. There are no neighbors for at least 10km, but within 15km, there's good road and rail access.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_lithium_mine
This is nonsensical, private companies (like individuals) can choose who they allow to use their products, just like they always have.
Maybe it could be faxed back in time through a white hole?
This is actually very relevant: most people think this is just an arms race to see who can get the better percentages on benchmarks but to me all this technology is useless if we dont give programmers and end users the right interfaces to utilize the technology.

Anthropic seems to have a better core design and human-computer interaction ethos that shows up all throughout their product and marketing.

I wrote on the topic as well: https://blog.frankdenbow.com/statement-of-purpose/
New reports are saying it wasn't the meat at all, but the onions. QPs use slivered fresh onions and not rehydrated chips.
Yep. I am not so much surprised by the news as the fact that it is news.

Of course a creature sensitive to light infiltration and dissolved gasses has a way to control buoyancy. Flagella would burn too much energy if that was the sole mechanism. Now we know. Or think we do.
Sounds nice until you actually have to find some other thing, especially with the bar for entry being high for most interesting and well compensated jobs. It will be even worse when you have huge numbers of other devs also looking for a new job.
> "Fourth Amendment case law overwhelmingly shows that license plate readers do not constitute a warrantless search because they take photos of cars in public and cannot continuously track the movements of any individual," Flock Safety said.

Case law regarding license plate readers might apply when cameras cannot continuously track the movement, but the point of the lawsuit is that the cameras gather footage 24/7 and then the footage gets analyzed, mapped, etc. such that you can track the movement.
Agreed on all fronts. Go has nailed the stdlib and every other language is in its shadow
I think we ought to be focusing not on whether it was "real", but on whether it was written by somebody that the user trusts (or maybe there are n trust-hops between reviewer and user). That way users have recourse when they're misled: they can revoke trust in whichever connection exposed them to the misleading review.

Eventually the scammers will be isolated such that they're just paying each other to lie to each other, meanwhile the rest of us can be authentic with each other: we need to learn trust hygiene and bake it into our apps.
Ongoing copyright issues notwithstanding, it's because 99% of the mainstream usage of generative art, generative music, generative LLMs is noise. And sure, noise existed before but things like Suno and Midjourney amplify the issue by an exponential factor.

It crowds out the people who genuinely devote thought, skill and time into their creations.
MyCFO: Corruption in Financial Services: Inevitable? (2014)