skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK based travellers travelling to Europe via either the Eurostar or Le Shuttle go through French immigration on UK soil before departing, this facilitates easy exit in France. Makes perfect sense to me, as a UK national I don't see this as impinging on UK Sovereignty.
AI Does NYT Connections
I've been using Duolingo to learn French for 1300+ days, and one of my ways to measure real improvement is by comparing how well I would do on the TEF ( Test d'Evaluation de Français). During the first two years, I noticed a clear improvement, mostly because of vocabulary, but Duolingo's interface and the way the classes are built made it harder for me to fully understand some of the subtlety of the language, so I feel like I'm stuck forever at a B1 level, even though I keep progressing on the "Duolingo Score".

I believe it is a great tool, especially if you want to skip the beginner's lessons, however, it seems to me to have diminishing returns with time.
Well-made CNC machines are a controlled export item in the U.S. if they have the ability to precisely machine certain materials to create certain parts. See recent news stories about Haas CNCs churning out Russian weapons.

Multiple axis CAM software is also export controlled.

The folks who make the hobbyist machine I linked have a page on this:

https://www.pentamachine.com/blog/whats-the-deal-with-5-axis...
Look, I understand what you're getting at regarding epistemological foundations. Yes, we all operate on some basic assumptions about reality, consciousness, and the reliability of our senses. But there's a meaningful difference between accepting base axioms necessary for any kind of knowledge (like "my sensory experiences generally correspond to reality") and accepting specific supernatural claims that contradict observable evidence.

When I say "can be dismissed," I mean exactly that - claims that contradict known physics, make untestable assertions, or rely on circular logic can be provisionally rejected until evidence is presented. That's not faith - it's methodological naturalism.

You're right that I'm working with consensus reality and scientific heuristics. But these approaches have demonstrated predictive power and practical utility. They've given us everything from smartphones to space travel. Religious claims haven't demonstrated similar utility beyond social/psychological benefits that can be explained naturalistically.

No, I don't think you're dumb or confused. You're making a sophisticated point about epistemological humility. But I worry this kind of radical skepticism, taken to its logical conclusion, leads to a philosophical paralysis where we can't meaningfully distinguish between well-supported and unsupported beliefs.
> That’s the point of generative AI, though, isn’t it? You put in text, you get out an image, no more need for discernment or skill or labor.

The best tools in this space are spatial editors and node editors. Text is weak sauce.

Also, you can't use text modalities for film and 3D. It has to be art tooling to get good results.

Artists will always have a job. They'll just be doing way more than they were before.
There you have the gambling, the risk, the reason why programming isn't mechanical.

One has to use judgement. Some generalisations are quite cheap, others very costly. It's always worth using the cheap ones and very important to use the expensive ones carefully. e.g. Use a named constant rather than a literal - that's hardly ever a bad generalisation...or making repeated code into functions.

OTOH, writing all your code in e.g. asynchronous python on the assumption that you might need it to be async next year....that's an expensive effort which may never ultimately be justified. You have to be fairly sure that you will want it.

It's also worthwhile to use languages that support change. So you can tell yourself that upgrading your code won't be an impossible pain in future. C++ is not one of those flexible languages so you feel pressure to get it right first time.
Booting only requires decompression which mighty explain why LZ4 doesn't shine there.
> personal responsibility

Ah personal responsibility! The magic bullet that mitigates all accidents.

All of your personal responsibility will vanish the instant you injure yourself horribly - then you'll be wholly reliant upon numerous other people who will have to deal with the horror of what you've done to yourself, or else be delayed in receiving their own care because of it.
A retrospective on making a map editor and a big campaign for classic C&C games
are there any established speaker metrics that would get at something like "reconstruction error"? i've seen total harmonic distortion (THD) published in some spec sheets, but i'm not clear if there's a standard method for how that gets calculated or if it's just marketing hype.

moreover, i'm not sure if/how something like THD relates to accuracy of reconstructing more complex naturalistic (i.e., non-sine wave) signals.
Quote: In 2018, Israel’s team produced an internal report that found large racial disparities in rates of “involuntary terminations” at Cognizant over the first eight months of the year. Black employees were let go at a rate 23 times that of Asian workers, the data showed. For Hispanic or Latino employees, the rate was 16 times the rate of their Asian counterparts. For White workers, it was eight times as high. (The Asian workers were overwhelmingly from India and were working on visas, according to the report.) Israel told the jury that those were some of the most extreme racial disparities she’d ever seen. She also said that when she reached out to Cognizant’s hiring managers with those findings, her supervisor told her to stop sharing the data beyond HR leaders.
> The problem is that in 2024, kids can play video games and watch stupid videos in the comfort of their own home

With that thinking, why do restaurants exist when you could just eat from the comfort of your own home (or going to a sports game in-person, etc).

What’s being sold is the experience and/or convenience.

In the case of Chuck E Cheese, it’s a bit of both. Parents get to buy an experience for their kids, and if it’s for a birthday party - they are buying the convenience of not having to host/cook/cleanup a party.
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
When my oldest child was younger, we had a gas stove with a microwave above the stove that vented back into the house.

Always had a persistent cough.

Moved to a house with a hood that vents outside. Now still gets seasonal allergies, but persistent cough is gone.

Correlated? I can't say. But now we always vent when using our stove/oven.
> AI will eventually basically make artists obsolete just like every other job.

No it won't. We've hit a wall and the low hanging fruit are gone. OpenAI hit a wall and is searching for enterprise customers to maintain their valuation, and Google and Facebook are calling them out on it. Meanwhile, text is entirely inadequate for manipulating visual things effectively.

AI will supercharge artists that embrace it. Text-to-art is not good enough and real artists will be working with layers, node editors, and in 3D/video modalities.
Good and fairly high, respectively. That doesn't stop people from woodworking though.
I love that logo.
Funko still exists, ergo, they have licenses from Disney.

Disney chases down little daycare centers: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/daycare-center-murals/

They would not miss Funko.
> just use something wise.

Sometimes autocorrect is serendipitous.
If your child watches a lot of YouTube, or any at all really, you should really invest in YouTube premium. It's incredible how much people use YouTube but because there is a free option, few bother to fork over $14 a month to remove ads, especially when it vastly improves the experience for your children. In a case like this I think the obvious solution is self-regulation.
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Whilst I agree in principle that deliberate disruption of other people's websites/serivces should be more harshly punished, I don't think it's particularly practical. There's so many ways that modern companies can obfuscate the reasoning behind what they do, so I've come to the conclusion that if they're causing harm to someone else, then they should be punished/made to pay no matter their excuse.

If companies hide behind negligence/incompetence, then we need to make it costly for them to be negligent/incompetent.
If it was really designed for representing JS objects then it was really bad job.

Neither JSON supports JS objects (lack of NaN) nor JS supports JSON (lack of arbitrary precision decimals).
Windows is not an OS any more, it's and advertising platform.
I believe the photoshop ai integration will be the most seamless starting point. I personally am waiting to get a 4090 to do more graphical work later locally.
I disagree that NASA should be fully transparent about the investigation while the investigation is ongoing. NASA waited until they got findings and results and are now presenting that to the public. The article doesn't mention, but hopefully they'll make all the technical details available to the public.

Why do I disagree that NASA should be fully transparent during the investigation? Because every Tom, Dick, and Harry has an opinion and the whole thing would have turned into a social media circus and nobody would be happy with the result, regardless of what was decided. If NASA doesn't have the best engineers involved in identifying and resolving this issue, then that's the root cause of any future problems. If NASA engineers came forward and said they felt pressured by NASA management and leadership to resolve this issue in a particular way, then that would be a problem. But this article isn't claiming any of that.
This pricing cannot be sustainable in the long term right? The LLM companies are currently bleeding money.
> The complicating factor is that it isn't just "their property", it's an essential destination of many people's ability to function in society

That's a much bigger can of worms, one that reaches well beyond just airports. Many modern societies are extremely complex and assume individual access to a long list of resources and services.

Its a pretty slippery slope though. People can absolutely choose not to fly, it isn't a basic requirement for life. The slippery slope leads to larger and larger government - as long as society continues to create implied requirements on the individual it seems reasonable to give more and more power to a central authority to ensure everyone can have that access.

It sounds reasonable enough, though there isn't a good guardrail built in to avoid eventually building a totalitarian or communist state as so many things are now " basic necessities."
Been eyeing this project for a while, hesitant to pull the trigger before a 1.0, just because email is a pain to configure, and having to keep up with changes before a 1.0 would have been a pain.

I'd love to see a blog or some post on the roadmap for this project (and the org in general).
A way to think about it is, if you went into the liars house to prove him wrong, you could find one non-green hat to prove him wrong. If he has no hats you wouldn't be able to prove him wrong.

Which reminds me of a quote from the British TV series Yes Minister: "A good speech isn't one where we can prove he's telling the truth. It's one in which nobody else can prove he's lying!"
The ease of mass surveillance and analysis/tracking makes it worse. Machine powered automatic analysis and tracking is more than just video recording. I hope that difference is apparent.
Neat. I used and loved “mh” in college, but that was before html email became prevalent. It was beautiful to have different commands and treat emails as individual files. Unfortunately mh was grotty old C code and just couldn’t keep up (IMHO) with how we use email today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
> Obsolete… The fucking hubris

There are some real dangers here that need to be navigated.

Junior artists who get their start doing commissions are not going to have that path anymore.

Reddit's job boards for junior artists are a literal desert now.

In a sense, the activation energy gradient to producing good results has lowered such that the economic reward for up and coming artists has deteriorated.

> Why don’t you let the artists maintain their own practice, rather than pressuring your friends to join you in yours?

Artists who get their start in AI early can build recognition and clout within the community. They'll potentially be at a big advantage.

a16z is investing in non-technical artists to bootstrap production and community. There's actually a lot of interesting stuff happening when you dive in to AI art.
I used infomaniak once, I'm sure you spended quite some time at their office.
I’ve wondered from time to time if we could replace some of the wordiness of laws and legal documents with bullet lists. For example, a trial about some interpretation of a word in a law could be contributed back to the law as a bullet point that says, “this also applies if …”.
It was definitely implied. Wonder if AI can fill in the information like humans who know history.
Cats Effect and ZIO eventually catch unhandled exceptions but you are right, there's no way to know for sure, we're merely assuming that 1) Scala libraries have a sane behavior (i.e. no exceptions at all) 2) the developer is familiar with the Java libraries they're wrapping and will use IO.attempt pervasively.

However, in the near future, the compiler itself should be able to handle all exceptions statically:

- https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/experimental/ca...

- https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/experimental/cc...
> When I registered a domain with my surname in it, the registrar had an automatic process in place that checked for this trademark and took away access of the domain. So far so good.

I don't think this is good.

Trademarks are country-specific, not global like domains. Further, within a country trademarks are only valid within the scope of certain classes, which means:

* There will often be more than one trademark holder of even non-surname trademarks.

* You can't trademark a surname to prevent its use generally, you can only restrict its use in a narrow sphere.

I understand why domain registrars automatically overenforce their country's trademark laws (they can't deal with the legal complications that will result from them not doing so), but it's very much not good that someone like you can get to a domain for your surname first and be told you can't have it in case the trademark holder (for which class???) might want it.
I learned about Vacuous Truth the hard way recently when I found out that `every` method in JavaScript returns `true` for empty arrays as well.
The (Many) Crimes of United Healthcare [video]
How the Econic is protecting pedestrians and cyclists in city traffic (2018)
Context: As of September 2024, the NHTSA is proposing that the US adopt pedestrian safety crash requirements for vehicles up to 10k lbs. North Americans may not be aware that engineering solutions already exist for medium-duty trucks such as Mercedes-Benz's line of low-entry trucks, linked here.
Americans with six figure salaries on holiday in Italy from their AirBnB in central Rome:

"US sux, Europe has such a high quality of life"

Meanwhile in the article:

"More than a million Italians, a third of them aged 25 to 34, have left the country in the past decade due to low salaries and lack of recognition for their skills."

Such a high quality of live that makes you want to leave.
I've heard a ton of stories about .io, IMO, they play fast and loose in a space where that isn't okay, and they get away with it mostly because they are a ccTLD.

The last time someone I knew had an issue, they had to get a senator to make waves to get anything resolved.
You see no difference between

Being seen by others, being recorded incidentally, being recorded constantly, and being recorded and analyzed by machines in real time?
Distribution theory has lots of applications in physics. The charge density of a point particle is the delta function.

Also when Fourier transforming over the whole real line (not just an interval where the function is periodic), one has identities that involve delta functions.
E.g. \int dx e^(i * k1 * x) e^(-i * k2 * x) = 2 * pi * delta (k1 - k2).
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One could say the same back. It’s just Gen X dark humor, being sarcastic about whatever is popular. (I’m Gen X too btw.)
> What resources would you point your friends to who both want to learn about generative AI and assuage their fears that AI will make artists obsolete?

Step 1 - get them to sign up for AI image tools.

* Midjourney is best for quick images

* Playground AI is good if they need to modify images but the quality doesn't need to be perfect

* Leonardo AI (now owned by Canva) is a good full suite

* Photoshop AI feature is best if they already work in photoshop

Then show them how to use these tools! That might require you signing up for these tools first and learning yourself.

Step 2 - For learning about how AI image generators work here's my video list.

1) AltexSoft - has a low viewcount but it's a great overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rke0V_VkF3c

2) Jay Alammar - it's technical but also visual and he explains it well - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXmacOUJUaw

3) Gonkee - again, technical, but visual, great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFztPP9qPRc

Workflow example: good for seeing the workflow of SD as of May 2023
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ldxCh3cnI

Too technical for what you're looking for: Computerphile, Ari Seff, Jia-Bin Huang

Step 3 - For assuaging their fears about becoming obsolete - I think the following is a great podcast episode. https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/michael-webb-ai-jobs...

But their fears might be valid. A test is perhaps: if their boss spent a few days learning to use AI image generators, would they still need them? For some artists the answer would be no, for many the answer would be yes. It'll change over time as the tools get better, but that's a pretty good proxy. If they're doing things that require more iteration, interacting with users and humans and the physical world, nuanced judgement, in-person work, safer. If they're doing things that are contract based, no iteration, get a request and deliver a result, much less safe.
Are copyright and patent included in zero-based deregulation?

For that matter, which regulations are included? Clean water, pure food and drug? Traffic regulations? Jaywalking? Seems to me there's room to shade this "deregulation" towards one or another special interest.
> preferring family today is seen as nepotistic

That's kinda the definition of the word so it isn't surprising.

Nepotism as a negative is a relatively new phenomenon, historically speaking. I suspect this is what you actually meant.
Why are circular saws less prone to injury?
At least with American currency it varies, e.g. one dollar is $1 while one penny is 1¢.
After the fundamentals, you'll learn more building something on your own than following any course.

This is even easier today than it's ever been with ChatGPT at your side.
> You give it a URL, and it tries to cut through all that noise

Does it use AI to do this?
Now explain Spain which is an Atlantic/Mediterranean melting pot: Iberians/Aquitanians/Celts/Tartessians/Phoenicians/Romans/Goths/Franks/Occitans/Suevians/Beribers, and who knows how many Ethnics/tribes/peoples.

And then you have both microclimates/microcultures everywhere because you will find mountain and valleyss in less than 100kms near around. What kind of genetics do raise here? You have the infamous 'sleep illness' located in the North of Spain around the Cantabrian Sea regions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia
In Dutch the currency symbol always comes before the number as well, so this is intentional of the author.
First you sit them down and watch Saltburn.
>a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game.

I'd expect them to remove that, they're not a host for fan pages.
You are asking the question from the wrong side.

The right side is - why those bureaucrats are so stupid, short sighted and people hating that we have the frustrating banners even on harmless websites.
I did a mistake.
"comment" may be relevant to the object. Maybe using "_" for the whole object comment would be safer?
> ... It also includes rsync (which actually was my main motivation for this project)

I would take rsync any day over unreliable GUI apps that silently fail to complete remote transfers, often as soon as the screen is turned off.

I've used an iPhone for the past few years but may move to a Pixel running GrapheneOS for my next phone. It's apps (well, modules) like this and Termux that tip the scales in Android's favor.
> I’m also thinking of making a Chrome extension

What's the point of giving all this data to Google?
Review: Reentry, by Eric Berger
Biometrics may help solve a problem but they also create a new one.

Tying account access to one small, portable, highly vulnerable device with questionable reliability is an inherently bad idea in my opinion. Lose access to the device for any reason (lost, stolen, dropped, the fingerprint reader fails or the phone simply dies) and you also lose access to your account.

I prefer to simply create decent login credentials and store them only in my head --- not in a app and not in a web browser either. This way, when (not if) my phone stops working, I can immediately switch to an older backup phone without missing a beat.
Europe still suffering from post ww2 reverberations.
TIL! That’s great to know.
After testing many clients I learnt to stop worrying and just use Mail app.
I can go a week now without receiving a single useful email...gmail or fastmail are fine
The network community co-founded by Charles Hoskinson approved a new constitution to increase ADA holder participation.
They were quoting the Bloomberg article.
Interesting, I knew that it was written $1 for dollar but thought it depends on the currency, not the language.
I feel as though buying a book like this is a great way to start learning about black hat work. Doing things out of curiosity is how everyone starts in a field like cybersecurity.
From a few months later:

https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1661/01/03/

and after that to the Theatre, where was acted “Beggars’ Bush,” it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage.

and a few years later: https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1664/10/04/

Thence-setting all them at home, I home with my wife and Mercer, vexed at my losing my time and above 20s. in money, and neglecting my business to see so bad a play. To-morrow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play, called “The Parson’s Dreame,” acted all by women.

tangentially, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/oct/18/nell-gw...
I havee had 2 cards. I had issue with both under linux.