skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have deep insight to whether it works or not. But I can say is it gave me the ability to state and understand some basic sentences in an obscure language that I’m interested in.

I can’t talk about Duolingo without emphasizing how annoying their attention getting strategy is. The push notifications, the email and the sentiment contained in both of them are very offputting to me. I get that they try and promote an addictive draw that encourages practice, but they do it in a way that just makes me mad. when I get the notifications it makes me want to stop using it. Further, there’s not like a fast mode. You have to suffer through cute little animations and pop-ups and downright malarkey rather than just charging through.
I think we all remember, and if we forget, we're reminded every time we see them at airports or doing city tours.
Java’s type erasure means that generic type information is not available at runtime.

C# lambdas: although non-capturing lambdas do not allocate, capturing lambdas do.
"calls through them are virtual" is due to the underlying implementation of delegates in .NET.
The first game was unimaginably popular after its release in 1993. It quickly became the best-selling computer game of all time, and stayed there for nine years until The Sims unseated it in 2002. It's still the 25th highest-selling computer game ever[0]. Kids these days!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_PC_games
Genetics of people who need little sleep
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Know
TUHS = The Unix Heritage Society

* https://www.tuhs.org

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_UNIX#The_Unix_Heritage...
I think it's particularly bad with ChatGPT because of the expensive, black-box nature of it. In some cases you can switch to another LLM, but do you want to take the risk that it gets shut down, the price goes up, performance gets worse?
They're not talking about your anecdotes, they're talking about the capex and returns. Which are overwhelmingly negative.
There is a numpad, quite nice. Ctrl key to bottom right.
The price for austronaut launches to the ISS.

I'd wager mainly because there is no competition, and there is no motivation for SpaceX to charge less.

The cost for regular launches has gone down a lot.
But, to be fair, it has not gone down nearly as far as it could. SpaceX still has big margins there. I assume because again there is too little competition, and because going from 60 to 25 Million doesn't increase the potential market by all that much, so no huge motivation to drop prices.

Starship might allow them to go so much lower that entirely new markets can emerge, but I'm skeptical.

It's a bit of a different story for rideshare missions, those do make it way, way cheaper to launch small satelites.
I am not talking about drones like DJI quadcopters with grenades duct taped to them or even large fixed wing aircraft, I am talking about small personal humanoid drones.

Civilization is going through a birth rate collapse. The labor shortage will become more endemic in the coming years, first in lower skill and wage jobs, and then everywhere else.

Humanoid robots change the economics of war. No longer does the military or the police need humans. Morale will no longer be an issue. The infantry will become materiel.
I was a little kid the age my son is now when I went with my dad to buy a 486 cpu and motherboard… he said he wasn’t getting the pentium because he did scientific computing and was worried about this bug. It’s funny that I only now understand what the significance of that was due to this thread.
Honestly not convinced it was about that. I'm sure he likes the stock going up but I think he is somewhat earnest about why he bought twitter, or at least what he wants to do with it when he got stuck with it.

As per usual, he bet the house and won. The vibes are shifting, Trump won, etc
I'm just teasing out the one-time costs. Keep in mind, I'm using the above example to trace the libc/libc++/libcxxabi/libunwind runtimes. The first time you throw, it does a bunch of extra stuff, like getenv() and additional locking. I think the first throw needs about thirteen synchronization barriers total.
There was certainly a meaningful choice, but it was between status quo conservatism where the plebs get thrown a few bones but no overall reform to ever-ratcheting corporate control, and spiteful populist destructive rage taking for granted everything we still do enjoy. Spite won. It's hard to tell if another Trump term will be merely another standard of living haircut via rampant inflation and corporate giveaways, or the actual end of US hegemony and western society, because the guy is a verbal diarrhea chameleon. But we as a society have bought the ticket, so I guess we're taking the ride regardless.

It is unfortunate that we didn't have a Luigi Mangione a few years ago, and maybe a few copy cats. Not because escalating to that type of accountability dynamic is something to be celebrated, but rather because the wide outpouring of understanding is the type of unifying pressure relief valve our society desperately needs, instead of being divided and conquered by different flavors of authoritarianism.
Stacking and Agentic PRs Go Hand in Hand
Agreed. Like I can probably read these comments at 900 wpm if I wanted but if you put Kant in front of me I’m reading at like 10 wpm.
Additionally the XHTML content can just be a single large file instead of one file per chapter/section. Paginating and rendering the large single file is going to be more effort than the same on a smaller file. This is all on top of the pitfalls and variability you mention.
Of course! I'm hoping to have a web reader with Media Overlay support built in to Storyteller available in the next few months, along with some much needed library management tooling, so maybe that will be useful for you! I'll try to make it snappy :)
Using a carrot as an audio adapter [video]
That's Boeing's problem, not SpaceX's. Boeing used to be a great American company.
Intel tempers expectations for next-gen Falcon Shores AI GPU
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Isn't an AI Problem
> SpaceX still has big margins there

Probably to fuel the R&D cost
I believe I used the Mac's 'say' command with one of the default voices (perhaps with some parameter tweaks).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Barton

completely stolen :)
You are just yapping for the sake of yapping. You have no evidence to back anything you are saying, so you go first lol.
That's simply unrealistic. Medicine is more of an art than a science and most treatment plans fall into gray areas. While insurers do file formal complaints with authorities when there is clear evidence of fraud (like a single provider billing for more than 24 hours of patient encounters in a single day), there is an enormous amount of waste and abuse by providers which can't be proven in court as fraud. The fee-for-service financial model incentivizes over treatment.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/22/7673763...

The fundamental problem here is that demand for healthcare is virtually infinite while supply is limited. Healthcare already consumes about 20% of the US economy and there is no excess capacity to expand it further without dragging everything else down. We can make some things more efficient and reduce administrative burdens but ultimately we have to draw the line somewhere and ration care. That's going to be true regardless of whether we have commercial insurers or socialized healthcare.
Genius. Thanks.
True, but in that case you knew it had to be CGI because Kennedy didn't talk to Tom Hanks in any capacity.
I don't think I've seen a Segway in close to ten years. Also I suspect most people under 25 have never even heard of Segway.
or just use pymupdf
> Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process?

Yes, frequently and loudly.

When Altman was collecting the award at Cambridge the other year, protesters dropped in on the after-award public talk/Q&A session, and he actively empathised with the protestors.

> So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence.

I just got back from an Indian restaurant in the middle of Berlin, and the table next to me I overheard a daughter talking to her mother about ChatGPT and KI (Künstliche Intelligenz, the German for AI).

The product market fit is fantastic. This isn't the first time I've heard random strangers discussing it in public.

What's not obvious is how to monetise it. Old meme parroted around was "has no moat", which IMO is like saying Microsoft has no moat for spreadsheets: sure, anyone can make the core tech, and sure we don't know who is Microsoft vs StarOffice vs ClarisWorks vs Google Docs, but there's more than zero moat. From what I've seen, if OpenAI didn't develop new products, they'd be making enough to be profitable, but it's a Red Queen race to remain worth paying for.

As for "much less a superintelligence": even the current models meet every definition of "very smart" I had while growing up, despite their errors. As an adult, I'd still call them book-smart if not abstractly smart. Students or recent graduates, but not wise enough to know their limits and be cautious.

For current standards of what intelligence means, we'd better hope we don't get ASI in the next decade or two, because if and when that happens then "humans need not apply" — and by extension, foundational assumptions of economics may just stop holding true.
Cuprates are also brittle ceramics so they’re difficult to shape and larger pieces and assemblies tend to run into issues with grain boundaries that interfere with superconductivity, so there’s a lot of practical issues. The classic superconductors are very low temperature but are much easier to cast.
That's the one I was trying to avoid, since there's so many ways to create fake accounts with it :(
Thanks! That's what I'm thinking, too. Companies are focused internally on their security, while their customers are consistently targeted with no actionable support.

It would take a lot to be able to doxx, most are using anonymous servers and clean of any direct connection, but causing them pain could show some cracks
> (b)

I think dang's answer about this is on point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411843

> I could see it as a nice way to meet like-minded people while traveling [...] it's nice to meet some locals.

Exactly what I had in mind as well!
The new Apple Silicon machines outperform full-size desktop workstations. I'm OK with that.

(According to Geekbench, this machine outperforms my desktop 12400F by 20% in single-core and over 100% in multi-core, and it's also less than 5% behind my RTX 3090 in GPU performance... in practice though, I've noticed certain work tasks drop down from taking over 10 seconds to under 3 seconds.)

The reason I don't like thin and light Windows laptops is because they freaking don't.
I think what they mean is that you can program without a GC in a GC'd language, but it is much harder to do it the other way around.
I remember serious discussions about how we'd probably need to repave all of our sidewalks in the US to accommodate the Segway
Under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), there is a very limited and specific definition of preventive care services which health plans are required to cover. An echocardiogram is not on the list.

https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/preventive-care-benefits...

In your particular case it might have been medically necessary, but not legally classified as preventive. This is a huge hassle for patients because the nuances aren't obvious or clearly documented. It's likely that Stanford Healthcare erred by failing to obtain the necessary prior authorization from HealthNet before performing the procedure.

Since 2022 there are some legal protections against balance billing. Although those might not have helped in your case.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/no-surprises-unders...
An open synthetic safety dataset for aligning LLMs
> That same space company said that they'd do point to point commercial travel using rockets.

I think they still hope to achieve that in the future. It is just there are a lot of more critical milestones they need to hit first before they try to tackle that.
We are at a stage where we are discussing edge cases of euthanasia and it's all related to widening the use; these discussions mostly happen among professionals. There is pretty much no discussion anymore on "vanilla" euthanasia among the general public. I agree it's complicated, but you don't have to solve every edge case with the first iteration.
I don't know that the latter is even necessary, save to simply familiarize oneself with the format. A good verbal score probably just requires being rather an*l about grammar, logical argument, and the retention of information from the question passages and sentences. My 800 came well after I'd transitioned from filling my spare time with reading YA novels (Dune and Shogun would have been the top end of my experience, and I didn't even finish the latter) to filling it with sketching, and I believe that I took the test around the same time that I was copping Bs and Cs in English because I couldn't keep up with the class' pace on Huckleberry Finn. Lawyers in the family (and the many, many arguments with them) was probably my advantage.
"Valkey" is not called "Redis" because as much as the development is shared by the community, the trademark isn't.

A lot of developers and users are sticking with the community and the license instead of sticking with the trademark holder.

> Names signal who has control over a project

Trademark is a specific form of intellectual property and there are many others. I don't understand how you got to that conclusion to be honest. A restaurant in my neighborhood had to change name recently because it was too similar to a big chain, does that mean it's a different restaurant now?
A few things:

1. The location resolution is too high for regions - ex: all of the Seattle area should lump together and only break apart into smaller locations (Bellevue, etc) when zoomed all the way in.

2. Email notification worked for kismet, but I don't know what the uptake is.

3. Having a way to participate in multiple locations would be useful.

4. Profiles are interesting, but per another poster, finding a way to capture interests and make connections would be even better. Maybe a combination of profile + scrape of comments/submissions/socials to generate profiles (that are only accessible to signed up users)?
> it is best if they are written in a language which makes the developers more productive than Rust does.

AIUI, recent assessments (including by Google) have found that Rust developers' productivity is competitive with GC languages such as Go.

There's also plenty of reasons to think that a program that's first written in Rust will have fewer defects in the long run than the other languages you mentioned. Of course alternative languages may still have a role to play for quick-and-dirty, purely exploratory coding, but that's about it.
The question shows a total disconnect from reality. People who are unemployed with no money today don't die. Even street people don't die.

If AGI labor is cheaper and as effective as human labor, prices will drop to the point where the necessities cost very little. People will be able to support themselves working part-time jobs on whatever hasn't been automated. The tax system will become more redistributive and maybe we'll adopt a negative income tax. People will still whine and bitch about capitalism even as it negates the need for them to lift a single finger.
Sure, but the nuance is Elon only wants what benefits him most at the time. There was no philosophical change, other than now he’s competing.

He's allowed these opinions, we’re allowed to ignore them and lawyers are allowed to use this against him.
I remember seeing OpenAI like 10 years ago in GiveWell's list of charities along with water.org, deworm the world 80.000 hours and that kind of things.

It's a wild take to say that they have gotten nowhere and that they haven't found product-market fit.
This made me laugh but also made me think, "...that's it? That's all it takes?"
Even if true no need to attack a poster
>So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit

Literally every market has been disrupted and some are being optimized into nonexistence.

You don't know anyone who's been laid off by a giant corporation that's also using an AI process that people did 3 years ago?
Good points yeah, I wasn't imagining shogi to be a game with early momentum for white since I don't play it but it make sense.
Kudos !

Is the pump alone compatible with a nespresso machine ?
That's not the case. Depending on the version, (Chat)GPT seems to be able to play between ~1400 and ~1800 elo, very rarely making invalid moves.
Pronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called asfasfastanians.
I mean, inference costs have decreased like 1000x in a few years. OpenAI is the fastest growing startup by revenue, ever.

How foolish do you have be to be worrying about ROI right now? The companies that are building out the datacenters produce billions per year in free cash flow. Maybe OP would prefer a dividend?
How Garmin Fenix 7X Pro Solar Saved My Life
A bit gauche that “the full panorama” link hotlinks the CDN of a dead social media site (cohost) without citation. Far more information about the print can be found in the corresponding post there: https://cohost.org/belarius/post/6677850-architectural-cross.
You mean Steve Wozniak.

Close but no LSD
Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun? [video]
Silicone is plastic, Silicon is the element.
"Level of functionality" what does that mean?

I've been at this a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490415
The Segway was a bit early, and too expensive, but I would defend it... sort of.

Electric micromobility is a pretty huge driver of how people negotiate the modern city. Self-balancing segways, e-skate, e-bike and scooters are all pretty big changes that we are seeing in many modern cityscapes.

Hell, a shared electric bike was just used as a getaway vehicle for an assassination in NYC.
There was a computer that wrote stories.

It made people forget how to write stories themselves.

The rest is like Canticle for Leibowitz.

But for children.

Good luck.
Storyteller seems pretty cool in general. Can it be used to host books for other people?
It’s something so complex and yet so simple, the brain is just an FPGA. it creates the wiring for a task and the more you do said task the more it optimizes it, perhaps the difference for some people is just the ability to create or optimize the connections in a faster or easier way.
Yah what you described is really interesting to me, when I'm "in thought" I am for sure looking at movies and pictures, but the idea of thinking that way is super weird, me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out, half the time I just close my eyes to do it because I'm jut touching typing anyway (I actually like to keep my eyes closed generally when thinking), reading it looking at the word, making my brain remember what the word sounds like, making the word sound using the voice in my mind, thinking about the voice in my mind, reading is VERY inefficient. On colour, my degree is in digital imaging technology and I have studied colour from the perspective of gamuts and profiles etc. Certainly we all experience colour differently. I suspect much like a real colour profile, there is approximation done between (real world light frequencies/real "colour") them and mixing them, it would make sense there is some compression and "fixing" in the "brain gamut" as well. Blue is between about 450 and 495 nanometers, never mind the neurology, the physiological difference between us alone to account for that, nature is magic but I'm not sure it's perfect? My totally unsintific just from hours of doing colour correction with various humans, is maybe a 1%ish difference in shade, and somthing about where in the colour range it falls also has a variance/tipping point (dress colour thing?) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-gamut_RGB_color_space)
One wheels (Segway evolutionary grandchild) are almost as popular as electric skateboards.
>Where you get 10 from, I don't know

5 times, yes. 10 from is the fact that he held the title of "undisputed world champion" for a decade.
Nope they aren't lying, but they lost me as a customer. My Arby's gift card lasted longer than my OpenAI credits, it's a horrible business model and I wish them luck, but I won't be a part of supporting bad models.
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, & Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
On the bright side, the mission goal was five flights and Ingenuity completed 72 flights in three years!
The End of Stealth? – Communications of the ACM
What do you think the capex returns were for DARPA NET?

These reflexive humanist anti-AI takes are going to age like peeled bananas.
Super interesting. At one point thought control flow guard + DEP/ASLR was suppose to prevent this stuff, guess it can't be prevented nearly completely by now. Sounds like this took a lot of work to figure out, well done.

Any comment on reporting to Microsoft or perhaps motivation for this research?
Without diving into my personal experiences with a specific department, I invite you to take a look at google scholar for peer reviewed publications grounded in theory approaches such as queer theory and critical theory in geographic studies: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=que...

Also please note that me calling these theories non-scientific is not a colloquial dig at them. I'm speaking precisely that the literature contributing to these theories explicitly and frequently opposes the scientific method as a tool of oppression. Even though I believe in (bounded) rationality, I do agree with this viewpoint in part. Science, as practiced by fallible humans, can be used for bad things! But, where I disagree with critical theory and its children, is that this somehow delegitimizes scientific epistemology.

A specific publication I remember reading years ago as an assigned reading cites, as a limitation of the paper their use of the Cartesian plane in mapping, as the Cartesian plane is incompatible with queer theory: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/000456007017340...
I dislike this style in Go. It adds a lot of noise to the source and essentially builds a stack trace manually. In Go 1.23 there is errors.Wrap() that adds the error stack automatically so maybe at some point Go will consider again adding some sugar for automatic error propagation.
I would be up for signing up for email notifications for events in my area.
It’s been studied somewhat, at least with satellites:

> Assuming a dish antenna with 1-m diameter, for a downward-looking antenna the total noise temperature is about the same as the Earth’s for all frequency bands of interest, with ±15 percent deviations. For an upward-looking antenna, the noise temperature is less than half that of Earth. [1]

[1] https://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/2000-2009/progress_report/42-149/...
SLAM is likely exactly what they were doing on Mars (it falls apart if there’s no image features to register against on the ground) and ToF lidar works great for vertical position and velocity but doesn’t help much for horizontal position or velocity if there isn’t much terrain variability for the lidar to reflect off of nearby.

100% agree on the RF beacons. You might not even need the directional antennas. Using things like RSSI might be enough to augment the local sensors. Alternatively having a digitally-controlled phased array could probably result in quite excellent positioning.