skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always worth mentioning: if you're a fan of Grim, The Journey Down is a game that borrows a LOT from it, while taking advantage of the advances made in the interim.
PWA: I agree, but the look and feel of native is just better. Additionally I‘m also planning widgets and these are just easier to implement if the rest is already native.

Privacy Policy: I‘m using an external service that I‘m paying for monthly to host that. With the payment, there shouldn‘t be any ads, but looks like they‘re still shown. Will definitely spin up something on my own on Cloudflare pages or similar, thanks for the heads up!
This lab automation product already exists and the couple of startups in this space face the same headwinds as everyone else trying to sell hardware when the stuff people are essentially really paying for is software.

Also nobody’s academic lab is buying $1m startup lab equipment. A whole core for 30 research groups is buying something, but it will be a piece of equipment that directly leads to publishing, ie, something with history. That is why you don’t have the exact thing you are talking about, which exists, in labs.
thanks, pretty thoughtful, going through a ruby book a now. I am not sure about "build your own X", always thought it's a bit boring too. Looking for an open source project I can work on
Practice is the boring person's substitute for a diversity of real projects that interesting people work on to strengthen their learning. If you are boring, you can't be helped.
It's absolutely for that reason. TSMC might as well be Taiwan's defence force, given how useless the real military would be if invaded by PLA.
> This post may as well be titled "Why it will never be the year of the Linux Desktop".

"There will never be a year of minimal GNU/Linux distros on desktop."

Fixed that for you.
The reason for the AGI definition is to indicate a point where no human can provide more value than the AGI can. AGI should be able to replace all work efforts on its own, as long as it can scale.

ASI is when it is able to develop a much better version of itself to then iteratively go past all of that.
> with no restrictions on the text in fields or the need to try and escape characters.

Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it still need escaping for those ASCII separator characters (or alternatively, a restriction for the stored text not to have them)?

It's true that having to deal with escaping much less often (since the ASCII separator characters are rarer than commas/quotes) would be convenient for manual reading/writing, but I feel that's canceled out by the characters being hard to type/see (likely the reason why they're rare) - and it wouldn't necessarily save on writer/parser code complexity.
My Gym Code of Conduct
This is pretty misleading and 5x is totally wrong. You’re quoting the approximate box office number for film, but leaving out home entertainment (streaming & DVDs) and merchandising entirely, while at the same time including those categories on the games side. Film industry revenues as a whole when including streaming exceed $100B per year, and approximately matched the games industry, at least as of 5 years ago. See Wikipedia’s entries on film & game industries [1][2] — in 2018, film was $136B, while games was $135B. It’s only very very recently that total games revenue exceeded total film revenue. Making this much harder to reconcile is that total film revenues are generally not public information and they are notoriously misrepresented and downplayed, maybe to help reduce taxes, royalties, and bonuses, or maybe just for competitive reasons, but either way film numbers are unreliable and underestimated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry
Rules like https://cisofy.com/lynis/controls/AUTH-9282/ are something that NIST calls outdated and dangerous password practice, but foreign security bodies mandate. Go figure.

Also, the suggestion from https://cisofy.com/lynis/controls/NAME-4404/ is just wrong on systems with nss_myhostname (from systemd) configured.
"... and can be used for everything from writing poetry and code to analyzing complex data and solving mathematical problems."

Provided by claude-3-sonnet-20241022.

P.S. This was generated only with providing the paragraph where the sentence appears as context. It will likely have a different output had the entire text been considered, especially with the generative claim that the LLMs can produce code, on which point the author considers LLM production to be weak.
ctrl-letters are used for other things
Yes I'm here!
The US Navy has has a problem with people hijacking their old FLTSATCOM comm satellites as a walkie-talkie.

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/
Out of curiosity, in which general circumstances do you tend to see this sort of data? A lot of the support I see for ASV/USV/whatever comes from the idea that this is negligibly rare, which has always sounded to me like a dangerous assumption for a general-purpose format.
we're not talking bugs or stability here - we're talking about the objective suffering experienced when forced to use the highly polished spyware & ad delivery platform that is win10/11
Post-war Germany relied on cheap, foreign-worker labor instead: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastarbeiter

Note: The European guest worker model of the 1950s and 1960s doesn’t work for the United States, due to the birthright citizenship status.
Latin alphabet using languages that do it similarly as nordics: german, dutch, czech, polish, hungarian, latvian, etc. Also the international phonetic alphabet.
It has to do with the election results.
The whole point of the extensible system is that you can, in fact, extend it as much as you need.

... I just threw this into my zillion-ifier program and ... huh, it took 12 hours even with the GMP version, though I'll admit I didn't really optimize it ... the output is about a gigabyte of text

eight tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliduoseptuagintaseptingentillion,
eight hundred sixteen tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliunseptuagintaseptingentillion,
nine hundred forty three tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentilliseptuagintaseptingentillion,
two hundred seventy five tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentillinovensexagintaseptingentillion,
thirty eight tredecilliquattuorseptuagintasescentillioctosexagintaseptingentillion,
...
"I’ve exclusively used the astounding llama.cpp. Other options exist, but for basic CPU inference — that is, generating tokens using a CPU rather than a GPU — llama.cpp requires nothing beyond a C++ toolchain. In particular, no Python fiddling that plagues much of the ecosystem. On Windows it will be a 5MB llama-server.exe with no runtime dependencies"

Will definitely give llama.cpp a go, great selling point.

I've tried running both Meta Llama and Gpt2 and they both relied on some complex virtualization toolchain of either docker, or a thing called conda, and the dependency list was looong, any issue at any point caused a blockage. I tried on 3 machines, and in a whole day, as a somewhat senior dev I couldn't get it running.
Except via policy you can adjust how much each percentile has. If you set a tax at 70% over a million dollars of income/capital gains/etc, and bolster lower brackets to have more income kept (eg fewer sales taxes), you can increase the amount of discretionary incomes for people where a little bit more goes a long way. It’s not like there aren’t controls available for wealth distribution.
Doh sorry, Evan Ratliff

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/549566/the-mastermi...
Hi, tahnks for testing :)

> Am I using this wrong?

Kinda. It's not a grammar corrector. The editor won't correct grammar mistakes or any "dictionarized" mistakes. It will only highklights hints for a better redability, like complex words, complex and long phrases, jargons and things like that. I think for this we have plenty of alterantives (better ones). Even the browser itself.

It works more like Hemingway App (https://hemingwayapp.com/).
> At the supermarket, I boycott automated self-checkouts even if the lines are long so the nice cashiers keep their jobs.

I’m not sure this is Owning the Bots the way you think it is.
Thanks =D
It depends a lot on what hardware one has and what software one uses, in my experience. A laptop that’s a generation or two behind built without discrete graphics, Intel networking, and a display that’s usable at 1x UI scaling? Smooth sailing. A bleeding edge tower with off-brand integrated networking and an Nvidia card hooked up to a monitor that requires fractional scaling on the other hand might be more trouble.
“No matter how long you live in Japan… “ bit more like even if you are born in Japan with a non-Japanese heritage you will never be Japanese.

There are people born in Japan, raised in Japan that aren’t considered ok Japanese. Some don’t consider themselves Japanese because that’s the cultural norm.

Many other people in other countries would consider themselves a citizen of that country if born there. Japan is different.

https://youtu.be/oLt5qSm9U80
Perhaps we have different definitions of ascetism. It's about having less, not more. Less guis, less random traffic, etc..

That said, linux is in a way like processed foods, and windows is organic.

Linux is distilled down to the essential components through chemistry, it's like sugar or table salt, or maltodextrine.

Windows is just a thing that is alive, but not even a single thing, it has a flora that the manufacturer can't even tell you what it is in the ingredient list (can't share source code, they don't have it) they can't put all of the natural bacteria that coats an apple in an ingredient list.
And how do we escape those characters? With ESC (27)? Inside a SI/SO (15/14) pair?

I think CSV or TSV are good enough. People keep trying to find a format where you can separate the records and fields with a simple string.split and there's no need to contemplate escapes.

But that's not possible, no matter the format you'll have to parse it right. And then, a format that uses visual delimiters has the obvious advantage of being editable with any text editor.
I've occasionally chosen to use Linux in this way. To abstain from certain aspects of the operating system to better learn Linux. Several of my close friends and I will also do things in Linux for the learning more than the outcome, but most of them use their whole toolbox. It's interesting to put a religious connotation, because I was doing this behavior while recovering from a heavily religious childhood.
Navigating from HackerNews to Medium is exactly the kind of downgrade we're talking about. A bloated ad-filled horror-show of openly hostile design.

Firefox tells me it had to download 1.9MB, despite that the only graphic in the article weighs just 60kB.

Thankfully modern browsers have 'reader mode'. There's no such simple solution for Windows.
> There is no ethics problem involved in choosing the best solution to a problem, when that solution exists.

I constantly see people insisting there is, though. Lots of people boycott software just based on the surrounding context.
> Even the oldest trainsets in Paris and London (as old as from the 50s) have at least a static map of the line; none in NYC out of those I was one had even that.

You might have missed it. I absolutely guarantee you that every single car in the NYC subway has at least one system map and multiple line maps. On the older cars, the (paper) system map tends to be at the front of the car, and the (paper) line maps are generally in the middle of the car.

I don't particularly disagree about destination-designated services being confusing. However, that's the norm for subway systems AFAICT; Paris's metro directions were equally confusing for me as a visitor.

(You're also right about the noise although, again, I think Paris is a relative outlier among large metros in terms of low noise levels. To my understanding, this is a result of using rubber tires on some lines, continuously-welded rail on others, smaller trainsets overall, and - yes - better maintenance.)
This sounds like a noisy format.
But really you could have used any other character that wasn't going to appear in your strings, especially a visible one like “␟” U+241F "Symbol For Unit Separator".
At least some of this is probably preserved as way we express dominance over you, the out of down visitor.
These Physical Intelligence guys are very talented, but they will never raise enough money to achieve their goals. Their problem is saying it costs $30m to develop such a technology, when it will cost at least $1b, and probably closer to $5b.
The world will come to no one's aid. The West doesn't have the appetite for war and will make every excuse to accommodate tyranny.

Junk away....
Almost didn't read it because of the length and how it starts. Generally I just want the meat, not the backstory. But your comment convinced me to read it, and it is indeed great!
“ of how technical skills and personal integrity need to go hand in hand.”

I would rather say people should realize technical skills does not necessarily imply personal integrity.
Self publishing has been viable and an arguably better option for more than a decade. For works of quality, that is.

And story writing has literally always been a niche trade, since the dawn of time. A very minuscule fraction of those who do it make it big, and even they start only as hobbyists while having another stable day job.
I think this would catch on much more quickly if text editors treated the Record Separator character as a new line, and there was a special character for the Unit Separator.
As with all entry-level advice, this isn't "how to write a great story", but "how to avoid writing a terrible one". You can't teach a beginner how to become a pro overnight, but you can teach them how to avoid the most basic mistakes.
I mean if they are a murderer then would not the legal system put them in jail? Also if they serve their sentence are they not adjudicated?
Innovation comes in two flavors: incremental, which is what you'll mostly get from your establishment, and paradigm shifts, which you're more likely to get from your cranks.

That's not to say all (or even many) cranks are secretly geniuses. But they're able to explore parts of the search space that the establishment can't for all sorts of reasons.

In other words, your establishment has all the resources and can incrementally make its way to local maxima better than any crank could. But any members that start making bold claims that might threaten that establishment will be punished, out of a simple survival instinct.
> There is no other valid use for them, so no escaping is necessary.

Famous last words...

> Have you ever used ASCII value 30 for anything, anywhere, in your life?

No but if this format took off I would be.

And then because text editors start displaying them so the files make sense, people start using them for other purposes, like separating values on a line or copying spreadsheet cells to the clipboard, because it's more "semantic", and those lines get pasted into a field in a tool that exports its data as CSV.

What then?
Nvidia calls it Omniverse. It's googleable.
I love the image of Bill Joy as a masked superhero, who returns from out of nowhere and deletes your Windows partition.
Citymapper shows this in their transit directions. They tell you the best part of the train to get on and the best subway entrance/exit.
> The topic on my mind around this was: in the large, like MJ or Woody Allen, it's hard to make a call on the art vs. artist

Why do people think this is a dichotomy, or a call to be made in the first place? Instead of artist being an inseparable part of the art itself?

Chuck Tingle put it pretty well:

> strange when buds talk on 'separate the art from the artist'. a painting is not just a square that ends at canvas edge. it is history and intention. if you build wall between them you are numbing yourself and only experiencing half the art. the artist IS THE ART, at least to me

> separating artist from art is like walking out of a play during intermission youre missing half the show bud, for better or worse. gotta accept theres a whole second half and grapple with that because its all one big performance
Debian is for kids, RHEL is for men
From the abstract: "The burial is explained as a composite Neolithic burial that was reworked 2500 years later with the addition of a new cranium and grave goods."

The hypothesis here would be that the assembly was originally created in the Neolithic period, but that it was later modified with new bones in the Roman period.
That's for concatenating. He's splitting.
it's a skill that takes 15 minutes to learn. maybe 30 if you include roasting your own beans. it could be taught in highschool to everyone.

hardly requires a bustling industry to solve this 'problem' or provide this 'value'.

starbucks is a monument to the lazyness and exploitation of this lazyness in homo sapiens.
KDE is solid but I think is just different enough to throw off less technically oriented would-be switchers. I think a fork of KDE that changes it to be more of a 1:1 match to Windows would be highly beneficial here, especially if this fork has a dropdown menu that can switch which version of Windows it mimics (lots of people miss 7 and XP and would find a zero effort way to get that experience back tempting).
Fairly hyperbolic and opinion based. West has been freely aiding Ukraine where no 2nm chips are made at all. Without Western aid it'd all be Russian, or so Zelensky says.
Reminded me of this Stallman quote "People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance". (I use (Neo)Vi(m) BTW)
Sure, hate on medium, I’m certainly not here to defend it, but I think you may have missed the joke.
That's a huge technical obstacle for most people though. The whole point of XSV formats is to be human editable. There are better formats for computer-to computer records. If you can't the core delimiters on a keyboard, your format is going to lose out despite any of us other benefits
Its a POP chip, soldered on top of CPU like in Raspberry pi. Nothing magical about it, and nothing to do with CPU yields.
What a great write up of a clever technique, I don’t know much about graphics but I could follow it. I submitted to HN as I’m sure others will also enjoy it :) thanks for sharing!
I think the title should be "AI time-travel street-view" if it's going to have hyphens anywhere,
> I remember vividly being a very tech-involved twenty year old, extremely excited about Reiser4 when this all came to light and thinking "There's no way he did it!

Becoming involved with a person and/or their project has a way of clouding judgment. ReiserFS blurred the lines between person and technology, so getting excited about the file system in a way meant you were backing the person, too.

None of us likes to imagine ourselves supporting a murderer, criminal, or other bad person. So when the accusations come out, the first instinct is to deny them. Admitting they have any truth would be equivalent to admitting that we supported a bad person, but denying them allows us to remain consistent.

This plays out frequently with celebrities, internet personalities, and politicians.

More recently (and without the crime, obviously) I'm reminded of the revelation that Andrew Huberman was not a great person in his personal or professional lives, and that his podcast content is full of misleading claims. The poor accuracy of his scientific content was well-known in the research community, but people didn't want to believe it because they liked Huberman and his personality. When the revelations about his personal and professional activities came out, people rushed to his defense and dismissal. Even today mentioning his name online will summon commenters who downplay the accusations or try to defend him. Listening to hundreds of hours of someone speaking charismatically has a way of charming people into denying any information that goes contrary to what they want to believe about that person.
If you are okay with needing tooling to be able to edit half decently then the problem it "fixes" in CSV doesn't exists to begin with
Good point.

When I was younger, I'd have argued the collective action problem is just a matter of time and development, but I've now seen dozens of technologies stalled out.

I firmly believe it's the reason we don't have flying cars. I can sketch out all the pieces needed to get there, which in the simplest-to-explain version consist of a few regulatory changes, an autogyro, a control system, and some infrastructure, but those few changes easily add up to an obscene amount of money. Once invested, the next competitor can do almost the same thing almost out of a garage.

Lots of medical technologies too. And medical systemic changes. Education too.
they break all the time,
whole point is to have less pain.

2 invisible ascii characters evidently no one's rlly used for anything else (other than nextvalue nextline) sounds like an order of magnitute less pain on parsing the escaped escapes along with the whole junk paste of llm generated markdown+code junk probably pasted in there.
plaintext is obsolete. Only good for storing passwords.
no the quandary is political. it's about how others see you.
I don't really care about "the Linux Desktop" and I don't quite understand why so many people do. I use Linux and it works great for me. If it never makes inroads among my non-technical friends and family, who cares? They are doing fine without it.

I guess this is what survives of the 90s/early-2000s Slashdot mentality where people defend software for ideological reasons and get in Linux vs. Windows fanboy fights, but I think that's anachronistic today. Linux Desktop is never going to take over among average people (increasingly many of whom don't even use desktops at all) and that's fine.
Years ago DragonFlyBSD seemed by far the coolest, anybody know how it's doing these days?
Until AI can somehow exist in physical space, it is incapable of doing journalism, so you are cheering for the death of journalism with no replacement. That seems like a bad outcome.
You’re doing it again: complaining about one person’s generalization from a few examples, then making your own, far grander and more absolute generalization, on an even flimsier, vibesier idea, contained only in your head and personal experiences, that you feel is too cumbersome to share, making it subject to none of the scrutiny you are making.
I used it for a few months, lost a few files and moved on to ext3 at the time. I think his press notoriety came soon after that.
Whose döner kebab? Why the beloved snack is at the centre of a food fight
Mac mini M4 Pro first impressions, cores and more
Apple's Expansion Plan: Glasses, Home Devices, Mixed-Reality Headsets, AirPods
That's an extremely fascinating angle I've never seen before. Thanks!
you don't always control how csv files are made. Most of the time you are just given them, and this is when you start pulling your hair.
CSV is a terrible, terrible format, because it fails in too many use cases.
That’s the real problem. That those system claim the read or write CSV but in reality it’s a bastard form of CSV.

Never had a problem when both sides know the rules.

But I doubt those other system even support ASCII separated value files.
> descent epub reader

I found Sumatra PDF to be great, at least at rendering / reading comfort.
How to tell the difference from imagination?