skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are cool projects looking into that (e.g. PostmarketOS, which is the system used in the article).

While I think it is cool, I am really wondering if there is a future with the idea. If the goal is to run Android apps through Waydroid, then I may as well run Android. If the goal is to be more private... well I think AOSP-based systems like GrapheneOS are in a better position because they get the Android security model.

The cool thing about running Linux is the freedom, but honestly I generally don't need that on my phone. On my phone I want the mainstream apps that allow me to connect with friends and family (yes, that includes WhatsApp and Signal). It quickly ends up being a fancy RPi with a screen and battery (and tons of sensors that probably won't be useful), but then I can actually go with an RPi and SSH from my laptop (I think such server projects suggest removing the battery anyway).

This said, I truly admire all the mainlining work that the PostmarketOS contributors are doing. This really helps everybody, including the AOSP-based Android alternatives.
How do you diversify away from a tech salary?
The ups and downs of the job market especially with AI is making me pretty nervous. Also I am about to hit 40 and this industry isn't the most age friendly. How do you diversify your income stream? Likely something passive so that you are not shit out of luck when the inevitable layoff hits and there isnt a pants on fire emergency to get back to employment? I understand that the comp + RSUs will always be the thing that if saved leads to wealth but is there a sane income diversification strategy that goes beyond save + VIX? Curious what you all are doing
The problem goes the other way - developed nations, the ones where you have people living comfortably enough to talk stuff like RiverCrochet's nephew, are all living below replacement rate. As things currently are, our countries are already extinct, they just don't know it yet.

The irony. For the past 50+ years, we were so obsessed with the threat of overpopulation that we didn't think of the opposite; didn't even realize that people who care about such things will all have bred themselves out of existence way before Earth gets too crowded.
> plague of the unsheltered is caused by the cost of housing

Well, it kind of is; almost any nonzero cost. If they had to come up with a hundred bucks rent, it would be a problem. At that level, it's unconnected to any housing crisis.
It seems like the primary argument is that it is owned by China. I don’t see how applies to FB or other companies.
Reasons that I can't take this benchmark seriously:

1. Existing brute force algorithms solve 40% of this "reasoning" and "generalization" test.

2. AGI must evidently fit on a single 16GB, decade-old GPU?

3. If ARC fails blind people, it's not a reasoning test. Reasoning is independent of visual acuity. So ARC is at best a vision processing then reasoning test. SotA model "failure" is meaningless. ("But what about the other format, JSON?" Yeah, I would love to see the human solve rate on that...)
> Open borders means open to illegal immigration.
No, open borders mean that the immigrants are legal by default. It doesn't mean the borders aren't secure enough for your paranoid xenophobic liking.
You can download LM Studio today and try it out. I've had success with the Mistral Small Instruct IQ3M model, which fits in VRAM.
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My experience, especially post-COVID, is that meetings on Friday are discouraged and nobody blinks at noon departures. Etc. Not quite a four-day work week but came pretty close for a lot of folks.
Maths stands for Mathematical Anti-Telharsic Harfatum Septomin.
An evaluation of frontier AI models: OpenAI's o1 was capable of scheming
But we're talking about our inability to avoid the box. The existence of public options in other countries has no bearing on that.
But actually whenever this happens you get rich signal about the hidden didactic assumptions of your method of prompting it about things you yourself are unsure you can verify for yourself, and also of how you thought the tool worked. This is a good meta skill to hone.
This assumes that your off-shore is doing CAPEX work...
Those armchair vigilantes handled the marathon bomber perfectly, I'm confident they'll pull through again this time.
The job of the court is not to decide if this law is the best possible solution.
The cons of a gas station in the neighborhood are when it's a convenient store with pumps. The sale of lotto, beer, smokes, and low cost food attract it's own crowd that the NIMBYs do not like. Switch that to a storeless unmanned set of pumps, and all of that goes away. I've seen a few of these types of locations around town. Just an awning with a few pumps under it. That's pretty much what all of the electric charge locations look like. Just "rent" spots at existing places on the highway with parking nearest the main road (which is typically the least desired spots in the lot). Pretty much any hotel would be a good candidate.
We don't need to be rivals at all. What a frustratingly shallow worldview. I don't know why people swallow that tripe. The world is big enough for multiple empires.
Agreed, but not even a battle-hardened production compiler requires a particle accelerator or an optical fibre cable to the Webb space telescope. Similarly, a shopping site or text-based social media does not require a soup of web frameworks. It just doesn't - it's not a solution commensurate with the scale of the problem. Complexity is expense, and this doesn't remove complexity, it introduces it, reams of it, and totally needlessly.

No one has ever sat in front of a shopping site and thought - 'you know what this needs? A dozen extra mb of JavaScript that introduce no actual new customer-facing features, but that put a noticeable delay in every interaction, break the user's scrollbars and screen readers, and dramatically complicate maintenance.'
Is this a health insurance company or are you providing property insurance?
did the bots vote???

"influence operation"... we must keep influence operations out of politics LOL
and WhatsApp
> With good hardware, I would be happy with a Linux mobile OS.

You mention autonomy a lot, and I agree. I don't think it's a question of hardware: I can install Android on my PinePhone and see that it uses much less battery than a Linux system.

Android was built for that: it is extremely optimized for battery usage. I think it will be very hard to beat that with Linux.
Isn't eventual consistency theoretically trivial...? You just delete the whole document after every transaction. I think it's safe to assume anyone talking about this _means_ the results remain meaningful - which for text/meaning is subjective.
Indeed. And it's a social thing, which makes OrganicMaps a SoLoMo app :)
Eventually it dovetails with the dynamics of: "The way you have to pretend to believe/avoid my obvious lies is a demonstration of my power and an implicit threat to others."

Then: "By forcing you to publicly sacrifice your integrity, I've poisoned any future resistance with mutual doubt."

> He thought: the worst thing about Vorbis isn’t that he’s evil, but that he makes good people do evil. He turns people into things like himself. You can’t help it. You catch it off him.

-- Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
There's clickbait out there like BGR's headline, "ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down".

What the test actually showed is that, given two conflicting goals from two human instructors, the model attempted to resolve the conflict by following one set of instructions, and subverting the other instructor.

It’s a good demonstration about how these models behave and what could go wrong. It is not an example of volition or sentience.
good q, the people from the last two "challenges" got their payouts https://www.freysa.ai/act-i and https://www.freysa.ai/act-ii, i'm not apart of the team but ive chatted with one of the creators and think its an interesting project
Excellent news. And all social media should be blocked until you are 16+
Genuinely interesting: what's the benefit of using a non-Android OS if you end up running Android apps anyway?
Your link to the Usborne books is dead—this works:

https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
I see what you mean, but I was going by the definition of "UUID" used on everyuuid.com. The UUID of 32 "f's" isn't in the list.
I think people who have always wanted to have a family don’t really take cost into consideration. I actually asked some friends with kids and no one cited cost as a factor.
> My bet is that your friend can't really afford a car but is well off enough to try

Second reaction - jeez - what a garbage assumption to make. Paraphrasing you: "oh, they must just spend too much to have any money. Bad life choices." Garbage assumption dude, you so missed the mark - you would be ashamed if you knew the person in question here.

Further, they are not the only person I know in that situation - and if it were just due to excess of spending money; I would have not raised it as an example of "my sampling bias".

It's very bad practice to assume and then contradict someone else's lived experience based on that assumption. It's a great way to be wrong, way wrong (and sometimes not even know it). Your bet is bad. I'm sure there are plenty of examples out of the millions of people that we are talking about, where it would be right. In this case, nope - just ignorant and wrong.
and/or making the website using the most modern design trends sets us apart and reinforces that we are a cutting edge company.
real estate (house hacking, Airbnb), side jobs outside of the industry (construction).
I would like to be able put multiple websites, I had to build a script based on "Guessing the feed URL" approach to get the rss feeed of a bunch of websites that I had bookmarked
> Does that amount qualify as "F YOU" money? I always thought it was if you have multiple years worth of savings.

F YOU money is so that if your boss/employer/... pisses you off you can tell him "F YOU" and pack your shit and leave without a single worry on your mind

> The amount is highly dependent on your situation and risk comfort level and can be argued back and forth

Absolutely not - it is a simple math. If I spend $10k per month, I need $60k or $120k saved to have a cushion of 6 months (or 12 months). there is no argument, I said F YOU and I am now without a care in the world and can take my time to figure out what I am going to do next without needing to stay somewhere that makes me miserable (or same if I get fired)

> Is there something I am missing?

"According to a YouGov survey from May 2023, only 18% of Americans have savings between $1,000 and $10,000"

Now of course probably 2% of them or less are here on HN...
how many sequential chars of a uuid do you need to calculate the rest of it, or infer the rest of it from a smaller set of all possible ones?
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Governments destroyed the notion of family. Now they want kids. Nobody sees the contradiction?
I agree that they are tradeoffs and I find it strange to use a term like "sensible" to describe them. In my mind, it implies that if you're not using them you're not being sensible. And in my experience, people who can't explain that these are tradeoffs often use words like that[0]. Of course English is not my first language so that may be the reason why I think that.

These may be useful settings for a certain kind of application under a certain workload. As usual, monitor your application and decide what is suitable for your situation. It is limiting to think in a binary way of something being sensible or not.

[0] Like "Best Practices". Any else you can think of?
10s may help the commute, depending on duration of local rush hour. I've worked places where leaving at peak meant an hour drive home, and waiting an hour (or two) meant a 30 minute drive home.

Otoh, if you take mass transit, waiting an hour or two may put you into all stop trains which could increase your commute time.
Diary of a CEO should not have the proxy-BBC approval Steven enjoys. He regularly has quacks and misinformation pedallers on there shamelessly, and his willingness to fall under their spell demostrates concerning levels of naivete or (worse) willing negligence for engagements sake.
It's interesting insight that if you encrypt something in a way that the cipher-text is exactly as long as plain-text (counted in bits) it's as if you just listed all possible inputs and mixed them randomly.
I would be so proud to be able to use my iPhone 3G again :)
Well my friend, you probably didn't use Windows before. FoRmaT /Q /f:NTFS c: is as valid as it gets.
AI trying to figure out user intention and incorrectly so due to their heuristics or inherent missing context in merges, is why autocorrect has become almost more trouble than it's worth these days. Texts on phones are impossible to start with "well" or "we'll" as it will replace with the other before the second word. Algorithms need to stop saying that what they find more likely must be true; "more" likely is less useful when there's a 51/49% chance or a 4/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3/3...3% chance. Sometimes the AI will be right; sometimes it will be wrong. I'm far more upset when its wrong than the few times it's right. The same problems with offline editing will raise their head as AI forces its way into our lives attempting to make decisions based on not nearly enough info.

Basic symbol or character-by-character manipulation cannot reveal why the changes occurred, just what happened.
> Raising small children is an extreme challenge that requires all your resources

Indeed, and in the past, this would've been offset by everyone around the parents - the old, the young, the other families and the childless aunts and uncles - all chiming in to share the burden. Social security & retiremenet is basically an attempt to give a substitute for that, for the village, but things are getting more and more pathological with each generation.
I know this has been discussed before but it changes frequently: what’s the good “generic” Mac desktop client these days? I’d like to use Ollama and/or ChatGPT. Maybe Claude. Perhaps Perplexity, too. I primarily want to use AI chats in various apps, like typing “write a function to…” into whatever random editor I’m using at the moment. It doesn’t have to be a desktop app, either. If there’s a great PopClip plugin or Keyboard Maestro macro, or even something that works as a system service, that’s perfectly fine by me.

MacMind is nifty, but that feels like a lot of money for something that’s a front end to someone else’s API. “Stop being a cheapskate” is a legitimate answer.
“Russian” is not a race.
There's two opposing perspectives to consider here:

1. We don't know the details of the internal politics between the approved maintainers of this private repo, but, licenses aside if someone decided to make a private repo I created public without consulting me I would be pissed. I would consider that at best rude & at worst misconduct.

2. It seems evident that the original creator of this repo was extracting labour from other volunteers(?) under the facade of it being an open source project. Attempting to undo that retroactively is drifting toward fraud & at best heavily outweighs the severity of anything in (1) above.

Really hope OrganicMaps survives this, absolutely beautiful, invaluable app.
The judicial branch needs to get involved when the election process is being tampered with. In the past there were times when "democracy" won, but society lost: 1789 France, 1933 Germany, 1949 Romania, etc. If only the will of the people rules you sometimes get abuse and dictators. The concept of a "republic" means the rule of the people under a set of laws and a constitution which protects all people from abuses of the majority. The decision to call for another presidential election was taken by the Constitutional Court - similar to the Supreme Court of US, which is the one that needs to validate the results of elections before they can produce results.
On a Windows or macOS desktop, the OS-provided MessageBox() can be freely moved around the screen - but that's not how in-web-page modals tend to work.
Become a landlord.
You could use the plain api libraries for each llm and ipython notebooks, conceptually each block could be a node or link in the prompt chain, and input/output of each block is printable and visible to check which part of the chain is the part that is failing or has sub optimal outputs.
And who's Europe largest and closest supplier of Uranium?

You can't change geography, Europe doesn't have raw resources, Russia has tons of them. We're destined to have a close commercial relationship.
Fighting Discrimination Does Not Entail Defending Shitty Social Behavior
I remember seeing one of these for Bitcoin addresses a long time ago... Very funny :)
The question remains: why did they vote for him? What was the motivation?

The ads, or matching of the fundamental values represented by him. Protest? Or something else?

Of course this is futile play with thoughs while democracy is in danger from the benefitiaries themselves (demos), apparently not knowing what and how to do with it, paid influencers and social platforms shepherding them to wherever those want. It happened before.
Some combination of investments and labor, those are your choices.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/05/29/how-much-do-i-nee...

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/11/29/how-to-retire-for...
The real problem is people scared of tHE aLGOrItHm
That's a direct outcome of the contemporary fashion that code changes should be as narrow as possible and only touch existing code where its strictly necessary to their implementation.

It's not the only way of working, but it tends to suit the challenges faced by very large teams with high turnover, diffuse/negligent code ownership, many juniors/early-career contributors, and low trust.

It also produces software that resembles papier maché -- increasingly thick, disordered, and glutinous, with poor visibility and low durability.

If your team isn't subject to the challenges that make papier maché coding necessary, encourage people to escape its cargo cult. Small teams of people who trust each other, where code has long-term owners who can speak to its purpose and direction, can dynamically sculpt and rework code more like clay. And you get better software when that can be done.
I think it's a mistake to project changes in US society onto that in Japan. Kids there are still largely free range.
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> It's a good idea to avoid Android because of kernel security as well.

Well it's "just" a matter of updating the kernel, right? Those linux projects like PostmarketOS do a lot of mainlining, which benefits custom Android ROMs.

I agree that if the goal is to use the device as an RPi, then it's better to avoid Android. But I wouldn't say that Android is less secure than Linux in general (on the contrary, Android has an interesting security model).
Telemarketer Sentenced for $67M Health Care Fraud and Money Laundering Scheme
Seems like something that would be worth pinging OpenAI about because it's a pretty important claim that they are making on their pricing page! Unless it's a matter of counting tokens differently.
How about overturning the result when the elite accepts it, but then discovers that he (or whoever helped him) actually manipulated people via TikTok?

It's not really a true people's vote in that case any more, so it seems rather like defending democracy.
One solution, if you can, is to take part-time work. Then you can reduce your expenses to that level, take time off for living, without having to spend down your savings (or only very very slowly). Then it's sustainable.
A team who works in the space thinks it's sufficiently likely they are going to spend time working on it. These aren't a pack of losers off the street - these people have real options in life to do all kinds of interesting work.

There is no chance it has no chance.
I mean... Maybe? I guarantee that if you do any of the things he discusses in code that is getting reviewed in any company I have ever seen, you will get shot down for premature optimizations.

Just look into Gosper's hack someday and tell me that that would pass most reviews? (Which, I think is probably unfair? But I can't imagine many places being good with using standard int variables to represent subsets.)
Eastern Europe is very different. Years of eastern-block, and the poverty afterwards does that to you.
I knew what this was going to link to even before I clicked. :)

That movie messed me up as a kid. Fantastic OST, though!
or a single Romanian expat who “made it” in Silicon Valley (I think this would be also illegal though)
"A society grows great when the old plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit."
I’m pretty sure “managing up” refers to the extra work the IC needs to do so that their non-technical manager doesn’t look incompetent to their own manager.
IIRC, they changed it to get more value out of the 260 character MAX_PATH. I know there was some sort of manifest to enable longer paths, but I'm not sure what the current status is.
I am not, let me try to find you a link. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
> you can’t have a fair election where some people are registered to share their net worth.

Didn't he do that? As for the election spending even if he's lying about the spending they can't prosecute and convict him without delaying the elections for many months if not more.

At this point any outcome seems like a huge failure of the Romanian electoral/political/legal systems.
Propaganda channels need to be shut down and replaced with information sources. While originating with politicians, the advertising industry has turned propaganda into a science you can study at University and this is the result - populations, not just dumb individuals, without agency, and democracy just a game to be played by the manipulators. Political truth and spending laws also need to be become agile, because the US election showed you can dump billions into disinformation if you are fast enough to not be blocked until after the election. But it is toothless while someone outside of your legal framework gets to choose the next leader by hiring a marketing graduate and giving them an advertising budget.
All of them, more or less. There are a few marker bits but the rest are pure data. There is no error correct or redundancy.
No, the rest of the comment is mainly a list of crimes that are alleged to have been committed in financing the political campaign, which is the grounds for the anullment
Or just use algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/
I’ve got a 512GB phone with 112GB used. I’ve put absolutely no effort whatsoever into keeping that number done, and I’m not shy about downloading stuff to it.

I’m certain plenty of people need way more than 128GB. I figured I’d be one of them when I bought this. Nope. I bought a much bigger device than I actually needed.

If I’ve used less than 128GB, I’ve gotta think most other people do too. Not all, clearly! But most? I’d bet on it.
Parent of small kids here. Tricky to estimate, because the desire to not have your kids be worse off because you didn't do enough, and the desire for them to have it better than you, are strong and not really bounded.

However, the idea of parents giving 100% of themselves to the children is also an unsustainable one, and fundamentally horrifying one - if everyone things this way, generation by generation, then this robs existence from any meaning. It's admitting that all the good and nice things in the world, all that separates us from other animals, are all accidents, all made by people who weren't good enough at giving their children their best, and instead wasted their time on stuff like arts and sciences.

So I think there must be a point somewhere. And perhaps a hint of that is the observation that kids are better off with happy parents than with unhappy ones.