skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lmao, this is exclusively for the wealthy jetset. Give me a break
1. There will be at least one AI droid that is set off upon us to destroy the wealthy.
OpenAI announces Advanced Voice with Vision [video]
Also announced a Santa voice
That doesn't add up, we're not dependent on medical innovations for human survival. They're just nice to have. But we got this far as a species and expanded into the billions even while enduring all kinds of cancer and leprosy and cholera and syphilis and measles and whatever.
Is there a keyboard that uses GPT-2 or some other such LLM to predict what I'm trying to write? SwiftKey is amazing because I can tap in the general vicinity of keys and it always writes the right thing, but it's fairly abandoned with a few perplexing bugs.

I'd love to find a maintained keyboard that can predict as well as SwiftKey, and has all the other "simple" niceties SwiftKey has on Android (second layer with long press, configurable durations, customizable keys, emoji search, etc).
Confronting Risks of Mirror Life
I have been using this for a few years now. Has all the keys I could want. Actually makes ssh-ing from termux not a bad experience.

My mom (not a programmer) uses it as well because she is able to type much faster with the swiping than with a regular touch keyboard.
How long does it take to learn https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key ?

Is it like retraining yourself to use Dvorak? Or more like learning the Palm strokes?
Both spellings are considered correct, although i personally prefer 'judgment'.
His long thinks is thought to be due to the fact that he simply hasn't been preparing. He stated he prepared for about 3 weeks for the championship match which was considered insanely low amount of time. But Caruana has stated he would be amazed if he even preped that long based on his games, and he always just looked like he was winging it every game.
It's not at all surprising to me! I fully expect to want to euthanise myself once I'm done with life (and I'm going to be pretty upset if it's not an option for me when it gets to that point).

People tell me I'll change my mind (perhaps similarly to how people treat people who say they don't want kids). But I doubt I will. I've seen lot's of older people (and people who's lives are not good) still want this when it comes to the time when it applies. The only reason it's not more commonplace is social stigma (and legal obstacles) against it.
I unfortunately didn't have the opportunity to watch Pink Floyd play live.

I did watch Roger Waters play The Wall twice though. Complete with styrofoam wall and an airplane flying overhead and crashing onto it.

Incredible concert! Hence the second time. :)
What's interesting is that Matt is going only after WPEngine. Other providers making lots of money from WP are off the hook. Maybe, ironically, because they didn't go 100% on WP and diversified into other cms.
You took pride in your car. If it was your car, you saved up for and not one your parents bought you you had a connection. You knew you were looking after it. I've never had fancy cars, they were almost in the state of rust buckets. People used to knock their doors in to it because "it's old, I mustn't care".

No, I saved money to buy that car. It's a feeling you just can't experience without looking after the car practically. The feeling of changing the oil and hearing the different it made.

The principle of saving and owning things too is gone.
If someone is focusing on extracting data for a small area, they can manually browse the CellMapper data. An API isn’t required for that—it’s a matter of accessing and analyzing what’s already available through the platform.
AI will help us develop technology to explore the universe and solve climate change, and access virtually unlimited energy. Everyone will have superpowers. Sounds awesome and very fun.
Microsoft Edge Is Testing an AI Powered Blocker for Online Scams
I remember going to the Apple Developer's Conference in 1986 (Nob Hill Hilton I think) and seeing the A-T gang (they brought more people than anyone else) wearing matching leather jackets.
This is pretty interesting, I think you should do two things right now:

1. add a message box stating that it is experimental and has only a very small set of companies right now

2. add an option to get notified when you have a more complete dataset (just use a Google form to collect email addresses)

Reason: Searched for my company, no result, ok, we're too small. Searched for some DAX companies, no results either => site looks broken.

Additional ideas:

* Add information from insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de, it's a major PITA to find someone there
* Provide a (paid) API so it can be integrated into shop systems etc.

A Creditreform membership is quite expensive, probably worth it for larger shops, but for small enterprise your solution might come in handy.
Not sure how it works in Canada, but in the US I think most life insurance actually does cover suicide. There's usually just a stipulation that suicide isn't covered if it happens immediately after someone signs up
That’s a weird way to say the FTC is being consistent. Google marketed Android as open but didn’t mean it, while Apple never promised otherwise. While I’d like both to be more open, there seems to be a clear message that you need to give consumers what you sold them.
afair I've mostly only used fold when doing maths not covered by the standard sum or product. Fold is similar to map reduce but it's just one expression.
Readability is subjective. I personally find fold almost always more readable than a for loop when the accumulator variable has a simple type. This is because merely seeing fold can already telling me several things: it will iterate over the entire collection without early exits like "break" in a loop; the data dependency between each iteration is made clear into a single variable.

I find it slightly difficult to read when the accumulator variable actually has multiple parts, like a complicated tuple. It's worse when part of the accumulator is a bool indicating whether it's finished; that's just a poor emulation of "break" in a for loop.
I had a similar relationship in the 90's with the guy who started the Magnum Mania website for fans of the show Magnum PI. It was fun to communicate directly with somebody who was even more enthusiastic about the show than I was, and fun to send him pictures when I bought my Ferrari 308 after seeing the car on the show and literally saving up for it for 20 years. I haven't talked to him in many years now, and he doesn't seem to update the website as much these days, but the forum there is still pretty active, and there's still tons of info available.
Not OP, but the answers are:

1. People can sue you for any reason, whether legitimate or not, regardless of what you do

2. Copying style is not copyright infringement, as copyright does not cover style
Decoding the 90s
This particular Li2O battery is a little under 700 Wh/kg, with the theoretical maximum being 11k Wh/kg, compared to gasoline's 13k Wh/kg. It's an incredible accomplishment that they have managed to get such a reaction reasonably stable. Minor improvements to the battery cited in the paper would be beyond the theoretical limits of existing commercial lithium chemistries.

> The results shown in fig. S9 indicate that this solid-state Li-air battery cell can work up to a capacity of ~10.4 mAh/cm2, resulting in a specific energy of ~685 Wh/kgcell. In addition, the cell has a volumetric energy density of ~614 Wh/Lcell because it operates well in air with no deleterious effects (supplementary materials, section S6.3)
Ok it's enabled by default on iPhones, but once disabled it stays disabled. What is silently enabled exactly?
Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible
Found this old Wayne Ratliff' interview in a 1984 PC-MAG issue[0].

PC: What is this “big picture”?

RATLIFF: I have to be a little careful about what I answer. It's probably safe to say Artificial Intelligence.

PC: How would you define Artificial Intelligence?

RATLIFF: One way to define Artificial Intelligence is "making computers easier to use." However, we don't Just want to make them five percent easier to use, want to make them dramatically easier to use. We are looking for a breakthrough. Eventually, what we want Artificial Intelligence to do is to take over mechanical duties, to free people for non-mechanical things. I want to see computers in my lifetime — preferably in my hand — performing chores in a human, nonrigid, easy-to-use way. I'd like to be able to tell the computer, "Go and total all the checks I wrote in the last 10 years for medical expenses." That's a nonrigid request.

PC: Do you foresee that dBASE II will be a nucleus for an artificially intelligent system?

...

[0]: https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1984-02-07/page/n135/mode...
Health insurers are denying claims to protect float
No point for the secrecy/nighttime-only operations.
I didn't notice that and it is indeed gross.

In terms of the site style, you've got to remember that this was self published in the early 2000s. Sites that look like that were very normal for technical content back then. As someone who grew up with these default styled web designs, I have a certain amount of appreciation for their simplicity.

Here are some other old ham radio adjacent sites I happen to recall that look very "ugly" by modern standards but have interesting info:

http://www.nbtv.wyenet.co.uk/

https://www.electronixandmore.com/adam/crystal1.html

https://www.hpfriedrichs.com/index.htm
Predicting the present (09 Dec 2024)
Reminds me of this experience of someone from the UK: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/05/19/granddad-died-today/

"Terminal dehydration is a way to skirt the Suicide Act, because we can claim that withholding water is just like withholding treatment. Ramping up painkillers and sedatives is a way to skirt the Suicide Act, because we can claim that the medication helps the patient cope with their death, rather than inducing their death."
SQLite in Production: Dreams Becoming Reality
Oh jesus H ch. no one wants Boltzmann's brain, they would go insane.
> When undergoing this kind of mental decline, does anybody remain happy?

According to some people I know who work in care homes: yes, some people do. They're confused, have no idea what's going on, but are nevertheless mostly happy.

(but that is in no way to negate the fact that many don't)
I used the term "parent" here because it was the descriptor I thought people would understand best.

For me personally, I was awful at working when my parents were hovering over me.

In the past, I used to work with a professor on a project and we'd spend significant amounts of time on zoom calls working (this was during COVID). The professor wouldn't even be helping me the entire time, but as soon as I was blocked, I'd start talking and the ideas would bounce back and forth and I'd find a solution significantly quicker.
You might be narrowing the definition of life to mean "body and mind fully active; useful spirited existence; painless existence". But ask the senile when they are no longer senile, or the once-despressed, or the ones who live in pain (sickle-cell anemic?) if death is better.
I don't believe they are proactively stealing user files, but they absolutely pit in backdoors for the NSA and other western intelligence agencies to exploit at will (and I'm sure non-western agencies do it too any time they can discover them).
40 million doesn't seem like the right denominator - how many veterans called the hotline?

They also lost/didn't store phone records so it's totally possi there are more who can't talk about their experiences because they accepted the offer of MAiD
I’d like to add: Programs should not add files to your home directory and should respect XDG_CONFIG_HOME and friends.
I was considering posting this, but then I realised the hypocrisy in my use of the word "data" :)
I can understand this intellectually/rationally, but I can't imagine actually making such a decision.
I found out about Fei Fei Li when Computer History Museum hosted her for an interview on her life's work (1hr 16m) https://youtu.be/JgQ1FJ_wow8
Animals is also one of my favourites.

Now, this may sound like blasphemy but I find Les Claypool's Frog Brigade's rendering of Animals even better than Pink Floyd's. Heavier, darker and incredibly visceral, whilst still being as faithful to the original as it could be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n4Cc7lX4NI&list=PLiEEpOHWcm...
U.S. Firms Battled a Government Crackdown to Keep Tech Sales to China
> what customers intend

This customer, at least, is firmly entrenched into "if I wanted you to remember it I'd tell you so", which actually describes many everyday activities like saving a document with a filename, clicking "save" in my password-manager, making a browser bookmark, etc.

In contrast, any assistant that is "constantly looking over my shoulder" (human or AI) to implicitly remember things needs to be trustworthy to (a) have my best-interests at heart, and (b) to understand what it's seeing and what my intent is. I don't think the current bleeding-edge is ready to provide both of those.

P.S.: An interesting exception might be automatically-kept data like bash history or browser-history, however I feel those are very different from "anything I type anywhere", since each is a narrow and regimented kind of data/purpose. Both also have "forgetting" rules as a required feature.

> but you are not warned or prompted

And perhaps not even capable of noticing the problem, such as where a semi-transparent border-decor of a window overlaps the secret password text just enough that you can't see it but an aggressive OCR proess can pick it out.

More generally, I fear a world where someone uses a botnet to make a funny picture go viral, and the picture contains subtle pixels to make each victim's Artificial Stupidity Assistant exfiltrate all their passwords back to the attacker.
> Doesn't this just shift the problem?

No. Perhaps counter-intuitively the "problem" isn't trust here.

What I'm raising above is not the necessity to trust but the extent to
which verification is possible or frustrated. For example, with open
versus proprietary code you may or may not have the capacity to audit
it, but you always have the possibility.

> I would rather trust a company with x persons

Trustworthiness does not scale in this way. Though the "many eyes"
theory has some weight, we also say "two people can keep a secret if
one of them is dead." Assigning more cooks to the broth yields rapidly
diminishing returns for reasons Fred Brooks explains [0].

But that is not my strongest objection. A more serious reason not to
trust a BigTech company with your security is the "principal agent
problem" [1]. As Ross Anderson puts it; "If Alice guards a system and
Bob pays the cost of failure, you can expect trouble!" [2]. Microsoft
does not "pay the price".

Worse, Google (and Meta, Linked-In etc) base their business model on
your insecurity - they are primarily in the business of acquiring data
about you to use in selling your person to advertisers. They are
therefore motivated, however weakly, against your actual security.
It's a scandal that such companies also act as data processors and
suppliers of services like online storage.

So while you can outsource trust, you cannot unload responsibility to
verify. A solution is education based on a credo of "principles not
products" [4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem

[2] https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/dertouzos-distinguished-lectu...

[3] https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/25/Technology_rights_or_res...

[4] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/principles
great library! I just tried it out and compared it with iter-tools

I like Lfi better, great documentation!

Here is the example I use to compare: https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-ia9ujg6m?fil...
Nope, it would cost more than an expensive car.

The only openly available price I've seen for such things is from China, and then it's $80k. The Teledyne FLIR stuff is probably quite a bit more expensive.
Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Right, most probably closed-source just like Android wear. Even manufacturers may not have access to the source code, they would just put their stuff in the vendor partition.

A good friend of mine works for a manufacturer that make watches running on Android Wear, and closed-source system updates pushed by Google turn OS-level regressions (like battery consumption issues) into nightmares. So they are switching back to their own AOSP-based OS.
Reading the godbolt it looks like for the push loop llvm is unable to remove the `grow_one` capacity check after every push. Becaue of this the Vec could possibly reallocate after every push meaning it can't auto vectorize.
Grusch was given access specifically by an act of the U.S Congress to investigate UAPs. Watch the CSPAN link of the congressional hearing I provided for the full details.

Read the link to "The Crowded Galaxy" theory for what's probably going on based on that testimony. It answers all your questions. There are probably millions of planets with life in the galaxy. We're not remarkable except with how hyper-violent and invasive our species is, which is why they're keeping an eye on us. We evolved here so we have the right to live here, but we don't have any rights to live anywhere else in the galaxy. Transforming is probably a ghastly notion to them.
Adding connectivity could lead to integration with RetroAchievements and online 2-4 multiplayer. Imagine Contra with a friend online. Or save states with cloud saves. Leaderboards! It could actually become connected to online NES communities and existing web services to ensure it stays alive. That would be so cool
Your business logic should not be tied your persistence, that's what I mean by it.

By "domain objects" I don't mean that you need to embrace OOP, they could be simple structs without any associated logic.

> PPS - N+1 queries are kinda trivial to resolve in most cases in Rails? There's core ORM functionality for it.

The problem isn't that you can't fix N+1 queries in Rails, it's that it's incredibly easy to create them by accident because your ActiveRecord objects carry a DB connection around everywhere, even in views.
In my experience this isn't as real as people think. More often than not, more resources increase scope which increases time.

Cutting all three too often results in things being delivered faster.
FWIW this seems like a reasonable question.
But I'm not selecting with gestures! I press ctrl-a most of the time. Then I might adjust with shift-space-swipe, much like I would with arrow keys on a physical keyboard.

I hate long pressing. It's so slow and imprecise.

Ctrl-z to undo is an action usually not available from the context menu or elsewhere.

Oh and pressing ctrl-d to send EOF in a subshell in Termux is much more convenient than typing "exit" or whatever.
It is correct that on x86 all normal stores have release semantics and all normal loads have acquire semantics (only a few instructions behave differently, i.e. the string instructions and the streaming "non-temporal" store instructions).

However the ordering properties of the x86 stores and loads are stronger than that. An x86 store is not only a release store, but it has an additional property that could be called of being an "initial store", i.e. a store that is guaranteed to be performed before all subsequent stores.

An x86 load is not only an acquire load, but it has an additional property that could be called of being a "final load", i.e. a load that is guaranteed to be performed after all prior loads.

The research paper that has introduced the concepts of acquire loads and release stores (in May 1990) was mistaken. They have claimed that these 2 kinds of accesses are enough for the synchronization of accesses to shared resources.

While it is true that acquire loads and release stores are sufficient for implementing critical sections, there are other algorithms for accessing shared resources that need the other 2 kinds of ordered loads and stores, i.e. final loads and initial stores.

On x86, this does not matter, because the normal loads and stores provide all 4 kinds of ordered loads and stores, so any algorithm can be implemented without using memory barriers or other special instructions.

In ISAs that provide only 2 kinds of ordered loads and stores, i.e. acquire loads and release stores, like Arm Aarch64, the other 2 kinds of ordered loads and stores must be synthesized using memory barriers, i.e. an initial store is made by a weakly-ordered store followed by a store barrier, while a final load is made by a weakly-ordered load preceded by a load barrier.

Arm Aarch64 does not have load barriers, but it has stronger acquire barriers, which can always be used instead of any load barriers. The Arm Aarch64 acquire barrier has the confusing mnemonic DMB.LD, apparently inspired by the x86 LFENCE, which is also an acquire barrier, not a load barrier, despite its confusing mnemonic.

(a load barrier guarantees that all prior loads are performed before all subsequent loads; an acquire barrier guarantees that all prior loads are performed before all subsequent loads and stores; such memory barriers are stronger than necessary; the weaker ordering properties provided by the 4 kinds of ordered loads and stores are sufficient)
I find these kinds of responses interesting. It's not like you have to use these glasses, so this isn't really about you. It's about what you think other people should do, but shoulds are kinda funny. Why should someone know how to change a wheel? Why should people experiment with cooking? You're telling people what they should enjoy, but that's a bit weird isn't it?
You can use xmpp
Silicon Valley would build the nukes that end up burning us if the price is right. Even if it kills them in the process.
My grandmother was absolutely unambiguous about it. Even when she was still mobile and living at home, she'd say things like "I hope it's my time soon" and "I want to follow your grandfather." Quite happily, too. She didn't seem depressed. Just sick and tired of her friends dying and her own inability to do anything for herself.
You can't regret dying. Let people do what they want.
> One of my favourite live performances of music of all time.

As a broke college kid, my friends and I all camped out for tickets (remember those days) to the Division Bell tour in 1994. We got phenomenal seats, and the show is definitely the bet live performances I have seen. The second act as a complete play through of Dark Side. Lots of great memories from that entire night including sitting in traffic to get to the venue. Getting lost in the parking lot in pouring down rain to the point of asking the cops for directions to where we parked.

I got into Floyd from my dad, and he never got to see them live. The closest he got was 15 years later when we went to see Aussie Floyd. It was the closest thing to the real thing I had ever seen and told him it was a really damn good 2nd place.
Or testing our own response. If we want to test what China's response might be, both public and military, but its too provocative to try, we might try it on ourselves.
Thank you for clarifying! I've edited my comment to - hopefully - sound less confrontational
Applying to college today is incredibly public and incredibly isolating
> In Germany the system is that you are guilty until proven innocent.

This is total nonsense.