skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem at all clear that Willingham was innocent. While his trial maybe shouldn't have happened because of flawed evidence, there has never been another explanation of what happened to leave his children dead under his care and allow him escape relatively unscathed.

In fact, while he, in hindsight, probably shouldn't have been executed for murder, he absolutely belongs in jail if for no other reason than the refrigerator positioning which doomed his children as much as anything else.
You must be very lucky. The majority of places where I worked was headed by people with fragile egos that you had to slowly guide to the right conclusion without the presence of an audience.

If you told them something that could be interpreted as a criticism of a decision in front of others they would in principle not accept it and play to the audience. If you just told them a fact thst they disliked they would argue against it, I had a superior argue against fundamental laws of physics bscause he disliked the conclusion that followed from that lae being true.

Luckily I am a very diplomatic person and have no issues with that — but apparently things within organizations aren't as they should be.
One possibility I considered is that your script could use an "apt install" to provide out of band data, you could put the information you need into the operating system from the universe repositories/your own package server.
The argument about security comes up a lot and makes intuitive sense. Although it seems far more complex than just protecting farmland and a simple yearly statistic. Developed countries can be ridiculously dependent on centralised supply chains to process and deliver food. And many of the inputs and equipment require a complex industrial base to support. We don't just need the space to grow food. We need to feed it, protect it from pests, harvest it, process it, deliver it to people. In most countries Iit is very dependent on electricity, heavy industry and global trade for equipment.
About 10 years ago there was a project called "Sightsmap". It was a heatmap of the most photographed sights in the world.

I really loved the map for planning road trips and city trips.

I would love such a service again.
I think OPs data/maps represent basically the same information.
> electrons shells

Has almost nothing to do with actual orbitals. "Filling electron shells", "octets" are just idiotic old rule of thumb ideas only accidentally aligning with reality.

> wave function collapse

I think it's going away pretty fast as we exprimentally find quantum behaviors in increasingly macroscopic objects. At some point it will become clear that nothing collapses into particles and it's just that through interaction wavefunctions narrow down when they exchange some energy and momentum. But other interactions can spread them apart back again. We are gonna create consistent description of the process in both directions.

> pseudo-vectors

they are still used but they are gonna be replaced by bivectors as they are more natural

> relativistic mass

true that it's partially sovled, but we need a generation or two of people not mentioning at all in educational context or metioning it negatively for it finally go away ... today it's still treated as "useful educational metaphor" which it is not

> xyz

Basically breaking down math calculations to coordinate wise caluclations

People will stop doing that because most symbolic maths in education is going to be done with computers and rarely anyone will be doing any element-wise transforamtions on anything.
Agreed. Esp if you gonna call an API, you can call something cheaper than this embeddings model, like 4o-mini, summarize, then use a small embeddings model fine-tuned for your needs locally.

I was critical about these guys before (not about their quality of work but rather about building a business around embeddings). This work though seems interesting and I might even give it a try, esp if they provide a fine-tuning API (is that on the roadmap?)
Llmbox: Making AI Conversations Limitless, for Now Only for Claude
This doesn't make any sense. Germany has storage for more than a season's worth of natural gas. The price went up because Russia stopped selling cheap gas to western Europe after its attack on Ukraine.
Is this truly a 64 bit processor?
Youd be shocked to know the amounts of money possible from merely standing holding a sign in the right place.
That legendary number however isnt expected and isnt the primary motivating factor. Many areas even for those who would prefer to work are devoid of jobs, especially where other groups not necessarily US born have snatched up all opportunity in whatever skilled labor the person might possess. Also most homeless have no vehicle either. Try getting a labor job without one. The reason for standing with the sign is simple. Severely limited options. And the man is hungry.
I started reading the article but stopped out of sheer jealousy of that guys PC rig:

"I'm using a 6 GHz Intel Core i9-14900K CPU. It has 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores with a total of 32 threads and 32 MB of L2 cache. It has a liquid cooler attached and is housed in a spacious, full-sized, Cooler Master HAF 700 computer case. I've come across videos on YouTube where people have managed to overclock the i9-14900KF to 9.1 GHz.

The system has 96 GB of DDR5 RAM clocked at 6,000 MT/s and a 5th-generation, Crucial T700 4 TB NVMe M.2 SSD which can read at speeds up to 12,400 MB/s. There is a heatsink on the SSD to help keep its temperature down. This is my system's C drive."
As much as I appreciate the complexity of your comment and its unique view, oh my god, paragraph breaks! They exist for a very good reason. That was damn hard to follow line by dense line.
When some form of phonetic writing is developed, it's almost invariably syllabic. If anything, the very intuitiveness of syllabaries is why all alphabets, abjads, and abugida originate from a single source while there are many syllabaries that have developed independently.

Further, Hangul is not "syllabic". It's an alphabet. It happens to organise its letters into syllable blocks, but that's it.
To contrast this, Super Nintendo World initial investment was $351M to open just the first Japan location while this $110M is expected budget for first two Minecraft locations. Gives a concept of scope —- relatively low budget minimal project, which given the popularity of Minecraft this seems like a conservative experiment.

https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/8/18215682/super-nintendo-wor...
Surely you can find a quote of Fauci saying this?

Hint: You cannot.

You’ll find Trump and his appointed Surgeon General (who is also the ONLY person in authority who said concretely “masks don’t work” instead of “we don’t know if masks work,” which was true)
Not everyone has to do everything.

Not everyone wants to (Openness), or could reasonably do a good job of respecting the host culture and environment (Agreeableness and Conscientiousness).
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
As an avid childhood fan of Lego, Infiniminer server mods (the precursor to Minecraft) and then Minecraft itself completely scratched that itch for me in a way that Lego will just never scratch, especially now that Lego is so focused on builder kits and collector items vs what I grew up with.

There is absolutely nothing unfortunate about it. Like you said, Minecraft is a better value for the money. And it's also far more freeing.

As a kid I've entered Lego competitions via school. Lego Technic kits were amazing, Mindstorms was wicked cool, and I spent hundreds of hours playing the old Lego flash and Shockwave games and generally being a part of the online community. Spybotics: The Nightfall Incident is still one of my all-time favorite puzzle strategy games.

But Minecraft still blows it all out of the water. When tedstone was introduced, my entire world opened up. I was implementing clocks, CPUs, registers, screens, not to mention all the standard redstone engineering. The game is very deep and can be very technical.

That said, I haven't played it in a decade now. Been considering getting back into it.
I would say most websites are wasteful wrt the customer, which is usually advertisers. There are websites where the user is the customer, but they’re rare these days.
> providers could choose not to generate electricity for a grid if it were necessary

Enron basically forced this exact situation in order to charge inflated prices.

Maybe worse is that this isn’t even the reason they ended up in court.
Hi all! Expect great translations! Try it out and share your feedback - either via twitter (https://x.com/doloc_io) or mail (hello@doloc.io). Would be happy to get in contact with you!
> it doesn't sound very convincing

That's because it's not a strong conclusion. It's a "better than the alternatives" hypothesis. Repeating my tldr above "they don't know it's alphabetic".

> doesn't bring any EVIDENCE .. some morphological characteristics of the inscriptions

I'd say the "morphological characteristics of the inscriptions" count as evidence and I'll just recap everything linked that I think counts as evidence: the graphemes include several repetitions even with only 12 signs in total; they don't resemble cuneiform at all; they have a weak resemblances to some Egyptian glyphs but weak and Egypt didn't have these clay cigars; they have a weak resemblance to some Indus glyphs and (later) Byblos glyphs but again weak; they don't appear to be numbers, potmarks, etc.; but what they do strikingly resemble is later alphabetic signs, to the point where the author, one of the foremost experts on Semitic epigraphy, really wanted the dating to be wrong.

Now the blog post doesn't go into much detail on these items but Schwartz's 20+ page 2021 paper (I had no trouble getting a free, legal copy) does (not always a lot more detail but also covers more possible alternatives). But, like the blog post says, the case Schwartz 2021 makes is still extremely cautious and he basically concludes that we just have to hope we can find more examples to confirm what kind of system they are from, and to increase the chance of deciphering them.
Do you seriously believe we still live in such world? I'll start believing when I will see breakups of for example: Boeing, Meta, Google.

I am not holding my breadth regardless of who is in white house, not even for single one.
> Journalism needs to pursue facts and produce new information as events take place or new developments emerge.

Journalism is competing against post-truth entertainment content, that thrives on conspiracies passed as facts. How can they compete with that, when facts are boring and go against their beliefs?

> Also, a lot of investigative journalism takes work and fearless collection of sources and other dangerous activities.

For years you've had journalists being murdered in Russia for doing their job, and you had Tucker Carlson doing the classic "Russia lives better than us - look at their grocery store, they have nice bread!" - which ones do you think had more reach and had a greater impact on people? The actual journalists who risked and paid with their lives, or Tucker Carlson's lies?

Because that's the competition of journalists, millionaires sitting in the comfort of a podcast studio, with no accountability or responsibility, and a massive reach.

This is what we're dealing with here. Yet you demand so much from journalists, isn't this unbalanced?

In the sphere of information, LLMs at the moment are more a tool for the amplification of deliberately produced disinformation at scale, rather than a way to create/develop information. That's the true problem in my opinion, not in terms of developing content.

> As an alternative, news reporters can have somekind of twitter(X) like channel somewhere, where they can post latest events, bits of investigation

Do you genuinely believe this wouldn't be hammered down by the algorithm of "it's a platform being controlled by the deep state/spreading lies/echo chamber/woke news"?

Remember people rallied for Elon Musk to buy Twitter, with the banner of free speech, only to support him converting it into a right-wing/MAGA propaganda platform - and they still support this, claiming its better than ever. Until recently we could claim "its a loud minority", yet here we are.
The part where Fauci didn’t say the things you claim he said?
What evaluation metrics did you use?
Sorry, brain fart, shifted the words around and didn't fix the sentence up. Corrected, thanks.
You're probably referring to the Ishango bone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishango_bone
This happens with any sort of foreign investments into any other country that has different sets of values. Even now the locals in my country are complaining about neo-colonialism and india/china-only perspectives in the companies they work for. Protectionist reactions are real and shape politics.
First, the task force never said what you’re claiming – slowing the rate of growth is not the same as over – but also, surely you’re not under the impression that he somehow outranked the president on that task force?
Great inspiration, thanks. Been working on something that has gamified elements, and the pin has dropped that this style might be perfect
Nice option to have, can't wait until they expand it to more commonly used languages of the world.
https://github.com/betaveros/noulith

Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/38255808

> I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out that the programming language I was working on fit the task remarkably well.

-- "betaveros, the guy who won 1st place in Advent of Code every single year since 2019"
The Sydney Metro is like a futuristic movie where everything is beautiful
> This survey is refuting that argument. AI art can be used in media just like human art and people can't really tell (or care if they can't tell the difference).

Sure, as long as the AI art - and the human art it might be presented with - is presented without context and in low resolution.
Lightweight release workflow using annotated git tags, with continuous pre-release versioning via git describe.
There's tech that can do a reasonable approximation using a sample a couple of seconds long.

Any control over that is going to be through social and legal mechanisms, it isn't going to work to try to prevent access to the needed data.
To add to this, anti-social assholes who kill team jive tend to hide from responsibility with e-mails. Even when it needs to be a meeting.

They need to be dragged out of their comfort zone kicking-and-screaming for public display for the pleasure of others.
The downside of infrastructure projects, aside from environmental, is that they can sometimes be huge sources of corruption and waste, like bridges to nowhere. This happens in all styles of government.
Peter Woit agrees:

>By the way, if somebody is hiring journalists to write propaganda pieces entitled “Field X is not dead”, you can be sure that field X truly is dead.

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14260
It is undisputed that Willingham's kids slept in the room where the fire broke out, while he slept in a different room. This is a pretty solid explanation for what happened.
I'm bringing overlayfs to people at my company to save time on a lenghty CI process, and they are in awe at the speedup. But after demo-ing it to a few people I realized they could just use / (I could have brought them) docker.
The reality is that it's much easier to bring a lawsuit over damage done to shareholders (dropped stock value is measurable and easy to see, security fraud), than it is to bring a lawsuit over damage done to users (harm done to individual users is hard to measure).
True.

Proving damages by externalities is very hard unfortunately.

For example I remember a case where foresters around here tried to sue coal companies for the acidified rain which killed a lot of pines and saplings and cost them a lot of money.

The courts denied any compensation because they should have known acid rain was a risk and they could not prove which sulphur compound molecules originated from which company. And I suppose courts would treat misuse of personal data the same.
Taiwanese were raised with a spirit of freedom and democracy, so no, they will not go along with China if it was to happen.

Look at how HK was destroyed.

What will probably happen is that the smartest and skillets one will flee, most probably to US and Europe, to our advantage. There will be a carnage of repression with abusing jailing and deportation for the one staying to resist to défend freedom.

And China will import mass of Chinese immigrants to replace the majority of the population of the island in a few years. Then it will become just another shitty Chinese island with a weak economy and little activity. But the technology parks will certainly not continue to run like if it was nothing.

In the same way that HK is mostly deserted nowadays.
Google Pixel Tablet 3 will take another step toward replacing your laptop
Honestly by the time you hear these stories the people these stories are about have traveled vast distances through the phases of their homeless experience and you hearing this tale is well past all the results of said attempt to curtail the issue such that it is no longer in present moment a possible solution having run its course. Frankly people who have mismanaged their lives to the point their day to day choices no longer resemble rational thinking cannot be expected to put hard cash to best use at the moment. Eventually there are habits that enevitably become adopted whereby seeking immediate relief by any means that can be had becomes more of a priority than anything else. To someone who sees no end in sight to the nightmare this and only this makes life bareable anymore.
Is it just me or does this page render improperly in Firefox while appearing correct on Chrome. Interestingly, the homepage looks correct in both browsers but the layout for the story pages are wonky in Firefox.

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Firefox 132.0.1 (64-bit)

Chrome 131.0.6778.85 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Fedora 41, KDE Plasma 6.2.3, AMD64
It is great, but kids need those delicate motor skills too.

They're trading one set of skills for another. They get good at moving things around on a tablet, with a mouse, and a joystick, but they lack the practical motor skills of placing blocks ontop of each other and imagining how to build a house from bricks IRL.
I'm the first person in my family to have gone to college, and we never really had any money.

Still, I've always been interested in science growing up. I was programming video games and building little robots before I was 10 and envisioned myself being a robotics engineer when I got older. I got into Johns Hopkins for a double major of physics and astronomy, I couldn't actually afford it, didn't win enough scholarships (they only awarded a very small subset), and my family didn't have the money.

In the end I ended up going to a local college for computer information systems, and while I love my IT job, it's well under six figures, and I'm $60,000 in student loan debt that I'm probably gonna be paying off for the rest of my life.
To be honest I was surprised at the newsworthiness given it was hidden in the lighthouse (not a message in a bottle at sea) and then in that context only 132 years old. If I started lifting floorboards and breaking plaster at home I'm fairly confident I'd find something older.

At school we buried a 'time capsule' for the millennium I think for 50 years thence. That'll be cool for the pupils in 2050, but it won't be news.
The YouTube Algorithm and Manufacturing Consent
I didn't know that, thanks. The article and the OP are about the situation in UK universities.
I guess the people who flagged the post have read just its title.
The Arabic writing system is an abjad, not an alphabet. The two kinds of system are closely related (the Phoenician script was the origin of both the Greek alphabet and the various Semitic abjads and was itself an abjad) but are not the same thing. Abjads are well-suited to Semitic languages where the vowels are less important for morphological reasons, but in Indo-European languages (like Greek) and Turkic languages (like Turkish) vowels are important in writing for comprehension. It's no surprise that switching to an alphabet aided literacy in Turkey.

Abjads are no more or less complicated than alphabets though. They're just a bad fit for Turkish.
As a counterpoint: I often see technology-specific gitignore files, created from a template, that attempt to cover all commonly used tools. Can't really tell what is actually used from that.
In fact, there are used languages today that are not written!

I have family that just returned from a 2 year religious mission in pohnpei. The native language there is just barely starting to be written. One of the challenges to learning it is because of it's mostly unwritten nature, the language evolves rapidly. That fast evolution is part of what makes turning the language into a written language difficult.
What a nice bubble world view. "People don't work less hours because they would gain so much more money if they worked more"

What is actually much closer to the reality of the majority of working people is that they work 15hours a day and STILL they can't earn what they need to live a quality life.

His prediction was wrong because his theory was wrong
Myself I'm not affected by this. It's used too much as a counter argument, it's not universally applicable - even in Germany. The price spikes were happening before the war too.
> For everyone else, it was namely about getting rid of Trump but also attempting to normalize the regulation of speech and assembly, commerce, and healthcare and expanding the powers of the Executive Branch at both Federal and State levels to limits unprecedented at the time.

This is an enormous claim to toss out without support. You’d need to start by establishing what you’re even referring to since, for example, speech was not regulated and it’s unclear why people who wanted to get rid of Trump would have given him “unprecedented” power so you’d want to explain that theory a bit more.
And with Xedge IDE - a web based IDE. I would want to use my own editor and not rely on any company dependant frameworks.
With entitlement evident
Victorian engineers denigrated by Internet generation
Whose vapidity is greater

Is that poetic enough for you?
optimistic view: girls learning anti-aging products are junk ought to lose far less over their total lifespan than women eventually learning they are.
This is very interesting, yet it feels like it doesn't address the real issue. Most election sceptics would probably disbelieve a sophisticated system just the same, or not believe it is privacy-preserving.

If there are academic experts coming out to really argue the system is watertight, that would only make it worse!
Beating Posits at Their Own Game: Takum Arithmetic
I moved from a country with almost no inflation to the country with the highest
A fee is paid as an exchange of value by prior agreement. That is, you agree up front to pay the platform fees in exchange for use of the platform or specific features of it.

Fines are not an exchange of value, even if some firms attempt to treat them that way. They are also not subject to agreement. They are risk and can be arbitrary.

So no. They are not the same.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186507
How I got here in the end – my non-writing careers
HSBC (a bank where I have some CD accounts) requires me to shout “my voice is my password” to authenticate whenever I call them.