skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to overcome the insecurity of a screenwriter (2012)
Stupid people are the majority in most common groups of people and so this argument can basically be used against anyone, espeically politically. Also, there are countries besides the US. Americans sometimes forget that.
We don’t need a statement of intent because we have historical records of their work process simultaneously using both TV and computer displays.
Perl had a similar motto ("Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible")

https://books.google.com.sb/books?id=3Fc4DQAAQBAJ
this right here. all the people in this thread acting like "everything is fine" and things aren't so bad for most people...i sincerely hope they get the reality check they deserve but not like this. to see a loved one - who did nothing wrong other than existing - to be murdered by the system? i've witnessed this first hand and to say one's blood boils is understatement of the century. all preventable but when profits are always always always always the most important thing...you're nothing but a cost; an expense to others' egregious profit motives. and as such....expendable.
What if 2,000 people from your community collaborated on an art piece that spoke to their own personal experience?

The artistic message would be disjointed, muddy, but indisputably an unmitigated human expression.

So you put an artistic director in charge of curating and unifying the collective work.

Still a human expression.

This is what AI represents, and what the prompt writer represents.

The data in LLM is undeniably human. Everything it "knows" is an extension of and exclusively composed of real human data.

The prompt writer has a choice how much of his own human input to prioritize, and how much raw humanity to allow spontaneously.
Same observation. I don't know how or why, but I seemingly words, and I absolutely have to reread what I wrote, and usually do updates after that. And every time I'm surprised by how bad mistakes I made.
What does that have to do with the official itch account posting there? How would your seemingly personal beef with Bluesky impact the credibility of that?
> and not humans making the choice to be Quislings

What is with the obsession with calling people quislings? Have all the nationalists transferred their hyper-patriotism to more socially acceptable targets, instead of just learning not to be like that?
English is likely not your first language and it’s fairly obvious what you mean, but the word you’re using a lot is spelled “intention”. Not at all how it sounds, stupid English.

(It’s also likely that this minor error is spawned by the use of intension, a very uncommon word, in the description of Tree Calculus.)
Not least by the idiots in power saying STEM STEM STEM and defunding the departments that provide context to the world.
That could be nice. If you think that rabbits crawl like on the sora.com homepage, but then you see one hopping in real life, you might have more of a sense of wonder about the world.
Let me know if I can help. Or just feel free to take the pics as they are.
Better than rolling out an AI to hopefully find the docs you're looking for, it would be better to create an actual framework for the docs. This would remove uncertainty about where docs live and improve discoverability to peruse as needed.

AI and search is only as helpful as the content provided, and most applicable to those already familiar with the existing domain.
So we fedex him a laptop and then agi by end of week
> debanking in general is bad unless it's against people he doesn't like, which is a position held by literally everybody

I don't hold this position. Should I?
It's bureaucratic violence. Slow. With maximum kafkaesque torture to draw it out.

How many people die for greed? Is that not violence?
Something like uiua [0] could be workable, especially with the virtual keyboard. I can probably see images based environments (common lisp, smalltalk) wokring too due to the interactive nature of live programming.

[0]: https://www.uiua.org/
I see this repeated all the time on Hackernews and this is absolutely not the case. Aging, gut microbiome changes and an enormous variety of medications can directly induce weight gain - while diet and exercise remain the same.
Pattern: Pre-Rendering Content
> if I wanted a procedually generated world that just exist for no reason in particular, I'd walk outside..

Oops, old.reddit.com/r/outside/ is leaking again
These CEOs have found a way to game the system, but the system presupposes mutual respect. If one side reneges on this contract and says that technically they're following the rules, well, the other side will just disregard the rules. It's like the kid at the playground who won't play fair but insists that technically they follow the rules, ignoring completely the outcome -- kids just don't want to play with them anymore, and will probably be mean to the `cheater'.
> Skills mismatches call for greater alignment between education and the labour market

with about one-third of workers in OECD countries being overqualified or underqualified for their positions, the misalignment has economic and social implications, particularly for overqualified individuals.

The question here is how to align educational actions with market demands. Skills alignment is only possible at a very granular level, and mass initiatives fail to meet this need. Companies lack the tools to understand people on a very deep level. This is my current obsession.
This is a non-answer without content. They fucked up because their legal department used third parties they didn't have under control and who harass people that aren't involved in this in their stead.

Until they clean up their shit, the Funko copyright mafia should pay with PR goodwill until they apologized and reimbursed the damaged parties. Everyone profits if companies like AI brand protectors suffer for it as a side effect.
! (that had more context than what wound up on reels; thanks!)
> It's really no wonder far-right candidates promising to fix everything are doing well lately.

Many OECD countries would have had a large chunk of the population now +50 yrs old who where born in a time where they physically didn't have access to education and where child labour was normalized.

Secondly, I hear a shockingly high number of University educated Europeans (in historically social-democrat countries) quite simply repeating TT talking points that Trump is a better choice for the 'economy'.

What we are lacking is proper education on human biases, and on identifying and understand how propaganda operates.
Seems that this indeed changed since I last even had to use that command and archlinux should just do this automatically now: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/c...
The kicker about Stables' LLM skepticism
I tried finding why Brussels and Wallonia did not participate, but could not. Any idea?
I read them as sarcastic. Please reply here with your output.
Yeah, I would've expected something like /(great-){13}grandchild/, tbh...
Most of it isn't even good. I'll admit I'm not a good cook, but most fish just doesn't hit spots, and it's super expensive to boot.
The skills you really need to thrive in the world aren't listed:

emotional control and social navigation

I've seen plenty of people be successful without being able to do algebra, while barely ever reading a book. I've never seen anyone reach great heights without being in control of their own feelings and understanding the feelings of others.

Of course it's hard to measure such nebulous skills, but we've all come across it in our day-to-day. We've all met that guy who seems to know exactly what to say in every situation.
Indian IT Support Scam Enjoyer
Tauri 2.0 QuickStart: Rust for Desktop App with JavaScript/TypeScript UI [video]
I wonder if there is a niche to ameliorate this sort of thing by offering payday loans on insurance payouts.

The incentives are pro-social: insurance companies have an incentive to delay payouts, because their profits come from interest (they pay out more money than they take in) so the longer they can hold onto money the better. But that's reversed for this hypothetical loan issuer - they want to make the payout as fast as possible in order to earn as much interest as possible as quickly as possible.

And if there's a systematic tendency for medicaid advantage plans to deny claims that eventually get approved, and if you could predict which ones will get approved 'just' by really understanding what medicaid would approve, then this might be self-sustaining or even profitable?
Throwaway because market is too bad to say the truth.

Managers who code learn they are inviting political suicide.

1. Managers need to navigate office politics - a full time and full energy job.

2. Other teams will use lack of 8 hours of "coding output" as a weapon to prove that manager is not working.

Putting more political pressure on them and their team.
The OG film for that was Forrest Gump. It is often lauded as one of the first movies to use CGI heavily but in completely, and intentionally, unnoticeable ways...
I feel like tariffs may make the problem worse as the cheaper the battery, the smaller the tariff hit, and so people may be incentivised to go even further down the quality ladder
Heh, fun headline to apply Betteridge's law to.

> However, on average across OECD countries, 18% of adults do not even have the most basic levels of proficiency in any of the domains.

This is painful but unsurprising.
> Doesn't change the fact that it is not a web standard.

Let the "Safari not Supported" era begin!
> If you're not touching code you're not an engineering manager

Surprise: Not all engineering is software engineering.
What’s really sad is seeing people decry the fact that technological improvements lead to social change.

Yes, they do, of course. But from radio to TV to the word processor, technology has made life better, people more productive, and the world a better place [1].

Of course there are exceptions. Ask typists who were laid off how they feel about word processors, or ask lathe operators how they feel about CNC.

The difference here seems to be people working in tech having the epiphany that they are not immune to the effects. The same programmers who wrote word processors and found it easy to dismiss the eradication of the typist role are suddenly very concerned about automation of programming.

It’s not that bad. If you’re willing to learn continuously, you will adapt. If not… well, why should technologists be exempted from the impact of tech advancement? It’s very disingenuous to take a “oh, now that it affects us, it’s gone too far” position.

1. https://wdr2021.worldbank.org/
You stand at the fork in the tracks. Pulling the lever will divert the train from a track with 10,000 people on it, to a track with 1 person on it. Do you pull the lever?
As I understand, he uses both "intention" and "intension". "Intention" as a desire to do something, and "intensional" as opposite of "extensional": https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/intensi...
Wow, you were not kidding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocfRVAH9yU
in my left leaning circles there's still general support. maybe he was a bit of a median voter, listened to Rogan a few times, but he seems to have radicalized on a few issues in the end and I'm not seeing a lot of anger about what's basically centrist right stuff. it's not like the guy seems racist or anything.
I can see how that's off-putting, but I've learned to ignore the occasional cosmetic hiccup and just trust that it will sync up correctly. I use it with --predict=experimental (largely undocumented), which seems to be even more aggressive, but it works great for me.
Before Throwing Out This Camera, Play Tetris [video]
Ooops, thanks for catching, typo fixed. That Tree Calculus is intenSional (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-intensional/) is one of its main selling points, so that spelling must've rewired too many motor neurons.
Well his manifesto seems to imply that he is sacraficing himself and expects to suffer but that he beleives its the honorable thing to do.
> It’s one thing to be upset and angry about capitalism and businesses.

Right, we should all continue grumbling about it for the rest of our lives as law and government intended. Nothing will change and the meat grinder will continue churning. Imo, this line of thinking of "they're angry and upset in a way that upsets me!" is easily exploitable towards complete inaction.

Also I'm so sorry but having sympathy for effective oligarchs? Come on. Wishing their death might be a bridge too far but at best these people deserve ambivalence, not pity.
Assuming this (now deleted) post outlining his justification was indeed penned by the killer, he clearly had a motive to kill UH’s CEO but not others.

https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.s...
LINQPad 8 for macOS
It doesn’t.

Had to manually refresh keys a couple months ago.

It’s a yearly ritual to appease the arch penguin.
I had a similar argument this morning with friends. Italy has a strong humanities imprinting in its society and school programs, and math/physics are usually taught in a horrible way, with the end result that people saying "I can't do math ahahah" are quite a common thing amongst the non stem people. However, if you say "I don't know shit about Dante" you'll be seen as ignorant (rightfully so, imho). I don't think the guilt is on the people saying they can't understand math, because they probably are right in that they have troubles with simple maths. The school system still lays on the fascist philosopher Gentile.

However, I don't think that stem is inherently less apt at creating citizens than humanities. For some things required today to be a decent citizen, a bit of stem knowledge is required, let alone if you want do dwelve into politics choices. Most engineers I know are pro nuclear. Amongst non engineers, this support is way less present. If I try to talk to someone about digital privacy, chances are nobody is gonna be interested about it except for a few stem people. And yet these are all things that are actual topics in the public discourse. Stem stem stem isn't inherently bad in itself. It's bad if you go stem stem stem and you think you are superior, but I don't think it's bad in itself. I think I've mad a bunch of different arguments and some might be a bit hard to understand, feel free to ask for clarifications
Solar Paint: Developed by Mercedes Benz
I been writing programs for over 50 years and I shuddered at the thought of doing it on a phone. My first thought, he must be a masochist. Then I thought he might not had anything better to work on. I'm a touch typist who doesn't need to look at the keyboard why typing. Given my cataracts and tiny screen and tiny keyboard, it is torture to type on my phone.
Not to defend Google, but they end up saying much the same:

> The next challenge for the field is to demonstrate a first "useful, beyond-classical" computation on today's quantum chips that is relevant to a real-world application. We’re optimistic that the Willow generation of chips can help us achieve this goal. So far, there have been two separate types of experiments. On the one hand, we’ve run the RCS benchmark, which measures performance against classical computers but has no known real-world applications. On the other hand, we’ve done scientifically interesting simulations of quantum systems, which have led to new scientific discoveries but are still within the reach of classical computers. Our goal is to do both at the same time — to step into the realm of algorithms that are beyond the reach of classical computers and that are useful for real-world, commercially relevant problems.
The biggest factor in improving LLVM compile/link times is sheer RAM capacity. LLVM compilation is extremely voracious with memory and the more you have the faster it is; otherwise, much time is spent swapping in and out of disk.

I've been compiling it with MSVC on Windows and the swap file after an LLVM compile balloons to ~60 GB. I inserted a couple more sticks to bring my 32 GB to 64 GB and my compile times shortened significantly (I don't have exact stopwatch times right now).
Show HN: Tales – AI Podcasts for All Your Books
Hello Folks,

We’re the team behind Tales.so

Over the past few days we’ve been hacking on Tales.so [1] - An AI podcast for all your books.

Some features that we’re most excited about are —

- AI podcasts for 10K+ books

- Choose b/w podcast styles, i.e. — single person, or 2 people podcast

- Evolving AI powered Book recommendations, based on your interests and listening history

- Book reading lists of successful people, e.g. Marc Andreessen's [2], Elon Musk's [3]

- Chat with Book Author AI Avatar

We used OpenAI, Claude, ElevenLabs, and the Cursor IDE to build this app up in just a few days. It’s astonishing how fast it came together.

Why Tales.so?

We were re-watching The Matrix and Chuck (TV Show) over the Thanksgiving break, and were struck by lightning when we saw the — “I know Kung-Fu moment” [4][5][6]. Thought, it might be cool and possible to build something similar, with AI at the helm. So, we built Tales.so for you to try it out.

Where to next?

A few ideas:

- Crowdsourced podcast script editing, wikipedia style,

- Funny mode, interactive modes for each podcast

- Short videos to expand beyond Podcasts

Known Improvements —

We’re going to dramatically improve the audio quality for the 2 people podcast in the coming week, but didn’t want to wait to show what we have already till then.

We’d love to hear what you think!

Arpit, Charvi

[1] Web app — https://www.tales.so?ref=news.ycombinator.com

[2] Marc Andreessen's Book Recommendations - https://www.tales.so/collection/marc-andreessen-book-recomme...

[3] Elon Musk's Book Recommendations - https://www.tales.so/collection/elon-musk-book-recommendatio...

[4] I Know Kung Fu (Matrix 1999) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrzgxUhnYjY

[5] Chuck gets the intersect / First Flash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snIO7L6ulmo

[6] Chuck - I know Kung Fu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWciCU97bdQ
Shorts are designed to trade your valuable attention for trite, low-effort content. Most decent shorts are just clips of longer-form content.

Do yourself a favor and avoid that kind of content, opting instead for long-form consumption. The discovery patterns are different, but you're less inclined to encounter fake content if you develop a trust network of good channels.
There are a lot of them, but Runway seems to have good controls and they are aligned with people who will actually use it - filmmakers and content creators.

In terms of image quality. Runway, Luma, and a few of the Chinese models all give "ok" results. I haven't seen anything from Sora to convince me they have done any kind of significant leap.

The issue there is alignment. It's cheap for Runway or Luma to continue in this path since it's their only path to profitability, they do nothing else.

But for OpenAI, I don't think this is near their top list of priorities. I doubt that they will be able to keep adding features like their competitors. Seems to me like this is the equivalent of a side project for them.

edit after watching direct comparison videos, I've changed my mind. Sora is ahead.
I think you're right, and I've decided that the same is true for meat, in that large animals are basically in the same category as us in terms of morality, ie I don't know where the line goes but it's not ok to kill them.

However, I am a massive hypocrite and I don't let my moral thoughts bother my everyday consumption patterns.
Why do animals adopt?
> these laws are largely ineffective at stopping actual money launderers

This is a non-goal. Taking it at face value is extremely naïve, and no one in the fintech world thinks this way.

AML laws exist solely for the purpose of enforcing the American grip on the world's politics via financial means.
In German there are three.
Yes, probably. But I don't think we're at an actual tipping point. I don't think we're about to see a breakdown or anything like that, soon, but we're certainly heading in that general direction.

What is the euphemism I'm actually looking for? Knife edge? No.
Sora: An Idiot's Guide
You're talking about expectations from economic theory, while I'm talking about expectations from societal values; or, in other words, the economy defining society, vs society defining the economy. Obviously the first is factually correct in the US at the moment, but I think the second is what most people believe/wish for. Worth noting that other capitalist countries put better brakes on those feedback loops, they're not inherent to the system.
Isn’t this just selection bias? If he had been wrong and not seen the CEO, we would never have heard about him.

For all we know he made 15 attempts before this.
The Courage to Be Imperfect (1957) [pdf]
I was a "first-line" manager, for over 25 years. I managed a small, high-functioning team of experienced and mature C++ image pipeline engineers.

I chose not to go higher, because I felt that I was being most productive, where I was, and because, quite frankly, I didn't trust anyone else to do the job right (I still believe that this was a correct assumption). I had absolutely no stomach, whatsoever, for the political games, "above" my level, and was making enough to keep me satisfied.

When I first became a manager, I continued to code, but, as time went on, I hired people who were better at it than I was (I was pretty good, but they were better), and also, I couldn't be reliable enough to be in a "critical path," so I worked on tools and experimental projects that didn't have deadlines.

My managers did not want me coding. They actively discouraged me from it. Eventually, I stopped coding for the company (but kept coding on my own). I feel that continuing to code on my own, made me a much better manager. I think my bosses were dead wrong to discourage me from being technical. It was a cultural thing; not a practical one.

I feel that "first-line" managers should still be very technical. Maybe they shouldn't have "critical path" responsibilities, but I believe that they should be absolutely conversant with the latest technologies and techniques, as well as be extremely sympathetic to the challenges faced by their employees.

I believe that the rules are different for higher-level managers.

BTW: I hated every minute of my work as a manager. I don't regret it, but I was glad to see the back of it.
Google uses NTRU-HRSS internally, which seems reasonable.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/why...
Not familiar with UK either, but in PL, you're mostly right, with the addition that you can also use this account for simple business, aka "one person company" for which you don't need to have a separate account.
have you noticed the trend to turn STEM into STEAM by adding Art?

https://artsintegration.com/what-is-steam-education-in-k-12-...

It's mind boggling that art was crammed in. Ruled by midwits.
No, the problem with everyone livivng off the land is that is incredibly inefficient. On the other hand, we have subsidized every kind of farming to such an extent that it now cannot survive without the induced demand. There are thousands of livelihoods today that depend on the process that is destroying livelihoods of tomorrow.