skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice the person would not have to pay the fine. The company would. If the company had no cash to pay it then it could be forced into insolvency.

No a large company can't spin up a CIC to run a business website (because it is not community interest), but it doesn't need to, it is already a limited liability company. However this is not a farce, the limited liability applies to the shareholders, not the company. The company gets fined, and has to pay the fine or risk having its assets siezed.... then the shareholders have lost their company. The liability of the shareholders is limited to the shareholders invested amount, ie the shareholders can't lose any more than they put in. So if the fine was more than the company can afford, the shareholders lose their company, but don't have to pay the rest.

It is not a farce, because losing a profit earning company is bad for a shareholder
In case you haven't seen it before, my absolutely favorite watch resource:

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
It's a lengthy, private, 1 on 1 interaction with a complete stranger. I've seen nothing but (minor) problems on the uber and lyft subreddits about male drivers and young solo female passengers.

More robust processes protect everyone.
It's gonna be a long while until we reach that point. For comparison, there are roughly 10000 airplanes in the air at any given time in a 5 mile band above the surface and the skies are pretty clear outside of some congested airports. In orbit you have the advantage of 3D, where satellites can be in a band a few hundred miles thick. Unless someone goes and intentionally creates vast quantities of uncontrolled space junk I think LEO won't have too many issues.
Misses the point in a big way, by randomly intermixing degree/credential requirements and over-credential requirements. There is no requirement in any state that a retail salesperson or stock clerk has a college degree, that's the private market doing what it does. And there are definitely rent-setting licensing, such as of florists in some states.
But I see the work ethic of native-born Americans in work on my home, and filters that weed out the morning alcoholics are lacking.
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My first program was indeed C++. In 1998, my high school had a computer lab setup with Turbo C++, and I took a non-AP computer science class. In college, starting in 1999, after entering as a computer science major, we were guided to use Visual C++ on Windows. We got Visual C++ from our department - I can't remember if we paid or if it was just provided to us.
Drop the "cyber attacks on" and you got yourselves a fact.
No, I think there's cases in which if you can't do the last mile, you aren't entrusted to do the first either.
Hey, I'm one of the developers of Daft :)

Thanks for the feedback on marketing! Daft is indeed distributed using Ray, but to do so involves Daft being architected very carefully for distributed computing (e.g. using map/reduce paradigms).

Ray fulfills almost a Kubernetes-like role for us in terms of orchestration/scheduling (admittedly it does quite a bit more as well especially in the area of data movement). But yes the technologies are very complementary!
I find that the best way to set up test cases, regardless of language, is usually to use string constants in the proto text format (https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/). For arrays, and especially for oneofs, it's way less verbose than how things are represented in Go, C++, or Java, and generally at least on par with the Python constructors. Maps are the only thing that suffer a bit, because they're represented as a list of key-val pairs (like in the wire format) instead of an actual map. Your language's compiler won't help you debug, but the parse-text-proto function can point to the source of the issue on a line/character level.

With Go generics - and equivalent in most other languages - you can write a 5-line helper function that takes a string in that format and either returns a valid proto value (using the generic type param to decide which type to unmarshal) or `t.Fatal()`s. You would never do this in production code, but as a way to represent hand-written proto values it's pretty hard to beat.
In this case, they were filling positions through a staffing agency, which (in some cases, at least) can mean that the staffing agency was 'hiring' them and then contracting them to Jabil.

In that case, it would mean that Jabil had no knowledge of, nor reason to have knowledge of, their immigration status. They paid the staffing agency to supply X workers, X workers showed up to do the work, and they assumed that the agency did their due diligence (i.e. followed the law).

This leads Jabil to discover two things:

1. Their staffing agency was breaking the law on a large scale
2. There aren't enough people in the area to actually fill available jobs

In this circumstance (assuming I'm right about contracting out to the staffing agency), Jabil didn't do anything wrong and now they're up the creek, metaphorically speaking.
> An inefficient business invites competition (which is for losers)

Unless you reach the point where you have a monopoly and it's impossible to compete. At this point, you can become inefficient and still keep your monopoly. For a very long time, at least. And this is something we observe in software.
They were falling for those conspiracies before LLMs and arguably even before the internet. They're just able to be much louder now.
The linked audio only video is literally a song from the Tool album Salival, it is not a “reference.” I linked it because the song is a joke in the same vein as this game.
Love it. Very similar to mine which I embarrassingly have not written about (other than a readme) for the going on 3 years I've been using it daily.

But I think the point of these type of systems (small, immutable, simple) is that they are so simple that aside from introducing people to the concept there isn't much else needed. Anyway, go forth and build, these type of systems are fast, fun, and teach you a lot (even for a grump using Linux for 20 years like me)
Given that the looms’ punched cards already represented non-math stuff, the thought wasn’t entirely far-fetched.
JuliaSim looks interesting! From my understanding, it's 100% proprietary/commercial, but built on top of the open source https://github.com/SciML/ModelingToolkit.jl?
Indeed. Which would seem to indicate that positive growth along the Kardashev scale will lead to hypertrophy not atrophy, as conjectured by the OP. One could hypothesize that growing control of energy is highly correlated with the ability to empower a population to increase in muscle mass. Of course, history would seem to indicate that there can also be a correlation to increased obesity.
AI summaries of Hacker News articles
Basic HN table with filterable/sortable columns and AI summaries of links generated by Gemini 1.5 Flash.
https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/talos-es.html
I wasn't there for the debate, but was there for the reversal. I don't remember there being anything explicitly said about it. The only thing I can think of is that I know of some important projects that couldn't migrate to proto3 because of this implicit field issue. So some people were still writing new code with proto2.
> Depends on your use.

Okay, but look… If I wanted that, I’d create a wrapper library for it and call it a day. But not by default, please.
Ah, I understand your logic now. Fair enough, and since I'm not benchmarking LLMs to begin with, I guess it doesn't much matter whether I fully agree or not. But:

> You can always run the new question retroactively on an old models for comparison purposes so that's not a concern either.

Good point, but it's still somewhat of a concern. Especially if you're benchmarking via a chat interface, my understanding is that there are plenty of finetuning, system prompt, safety, and other post-training changes that can influence results. (Perhaps unlikely with an SVG generation prompt, but reasonably likely with "reasoning" prompts.)

> Do rotate your questions every few months to whatever comes to mind at the time. When nothing comes to mind there is no point in running a question benchmark anymore as it already answers every possible you could possibly question you can think of

Isn't that assuming it's answering your questions reasonably well? On a hard benchmark, you may be watching the progression from absolutely miserable to not quite tolerable.

You may even be using a constellation of questions to try to delineate the boundary between what it can and can't do.
I believe it's open source but requires a commercial license; free for academics.
When a company trains an AI model on something, and then that company sells access to the ai model, the company, not the ai model, is the being violating copyright. If Jimmy makes an android in his garage and gives it free will, then it trains itself on youtube, i doubt anyone would have an issue.
Why would that be the assumption? An eFuse is a literal trace that gets burnt up, you can't connect it back again.
Fantastic addition, no appologies neccesary.
Based on current methods of productivity scoring, I'd try to make 2 tickets for that...
I guess more coal and gas was "kind of the point"
- A "individual query" can be a very complex, turing-complete computer program. A single query may do >1 IO operation like read or write more than one database page. io_uring & async IO strategy would allow this work to occur concurrently.

- Even if no new op-codes are introduced and the design is basically exactly the same, io_uring could allow some amortization of syscall overhead. Doing (N ring-buffer prepares + N/10 syscalls) instead of (N syscalls) will improve your straight-line speed.
1. Yes that's correct to some degree. Depending on the model details we might need to do some manual tweaking to get everything up and running, but generally we can get a model up within a day. There's always optimizations and tests we like to run before listing something as publically available to ensure the best experience for our users.

If a fully self-serve system is something you would like to see, we would love to hear more!

2. Could you please elaborate on the 50% cheaper option? If you're referring to the line on our website, that is due to our efficiency at scale. This efficiency benefit allows us to provide the models at the price that we do without implementing rate limits to manage our costs. Additionally, this 50% more efficient GPU utilization also benefits anyone looking to use our infrastructure for on-prem solutions.
touché on the medicare!

I see you conveniently ignored the fact that any emergency before age 65 is hard to shop around for. From a hospital bed and all that…

Anyway i simply think the idea of “shopping around” for medical care is barbaric. As a concept. We’re talking about peoples lives here. I think as a country we should have some actual pride and treat our citizens well. Not like an inconvenience.

just my opinion, as a lucky person with great health insurance.
This makes me wonder if in spite of all these years of education by play, Elementary Piagetian* education is still overlooking mental methods of arithmetic that musicians use. Musicians have an easy time understanding structure - and also knowing how to learn by repetition (to tell a student to repeat something is often a task in itself)!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget%27s_theory_of_cognitive...
> How does a research ban even work? It seems to me that at some point someone is going to research it; at which point everyone is left flat footed by having not researched it.

Someone's going to need to work it out, because if the problem of "how to ban existentially dangerous things" is not solved, eventually we'll be fucked.

And realistically, we're probably fucked, because humanity probably simply lacks the maturity to not fuck itself over at some point (e.g. because of the logic "if we don't do it someone else will" is scarily effective, and some people are just unhinged for really stupid reasons). We probably only made it this far because of external constraints limited what we could do.

Part of me thinks it may turn out that a that a full-scale nuclear war that knocks out industrial civilization (especially if it's followed by A Canticle for Leibowitz-style anti-intellectual social changes) may not be such a bad thing in the long run, if it buys humanity a few more millennia.
School shootings are real, and are legitimately frightening.

But I suggest that active shooter drills do more harm than good.

And I suggest that it's a mistake for parents to legitimize active shooter drills by giving their kids special silent-phone-text-me-safe-words instructions.
Every app on macOS supports smooth scrolling. That’s why people use it. You’re using the lowest common denominator and going “wow everything is the same I can’t tell the difference”.
I thought they finally learned their lesson... then they cancelled the funding of ZLUDA... then they seem to have gone back on an agreement and demanded the open sourced version to be taken down.

The years it took them to get their Linux drivers into a usable shape are another issue.
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I'm exited to share this project I've been working on with you. Simply, it makes productivity and studying instantly rewarding and engaging from the start, increasing the chance of consistency in the long term.

You can start "training sessions" which are the timers where you are meant to focused. During this, if you are studying you can take AI generated quizzes based on certain subjects. Right now its a dropdown selection of set topics as I'm not sure of the safety of allowing people to type whatever they want to the AI, but I might change that.

After the training sessions, based on the time trained and the team you have built, you receive points. These points can be used to build up your team by opening packs of various rarities. With this, you feel rewarded from getting points and being productive instantly. Along with this, you can join 'leagues' which are rooms with other people to compete to be the best. Also, you can compete in real time matches against others to make your team have more worth than show.

Its publicly released but I'm still improving it daily and all I would like is for people to use it and give feedback, good or bad. Thank you!
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It's all manual, but we have a few scripts that help us extract data from the YouTube API.
I agree she was a visionary, but take note that by the time she was active, people were already building complex mechanical automata that executed stored programs implemented using cams and gears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillardet%27s_automaton). I think a small number of very intelligent people would see Babbage's work and Jaquet-Droz and conclude "hmm, if we mash these together with some creativity, it seems reasonable the result would be a programmable automaton capable of painting".
> This system only tells when a stock is objectively undervalued. There are a few ways to know this.

> - Market cap is less than free cash flow x 8

Lol. "Objectively".
> Bottom line, you don't see too many assembly language developers anymore.

And where you do, no LLM is going to replace them because they are working in the dark mines where no compiler has seen and the optimizations they are doing involve arcane lore about the mysteries of some Intel engineer's mind while one or both of them are on a drug fueled alcoholic deep dive.
In the Peoples Republic of China they call this 寻衅滋事, "starting a fight, provoking a dispute". A lot of them are very proud of their laws as well.
I have dyscalculia (and dyslexia) but I can keep time like you wouldn't believe. I once met a hotel lobby musician who was unreal and I said to him, you must be excellent at math, he said actually I can't even do basic algebra. I have a very rich audio/visual memory and thinking style, I can think in sound and movies, but that thinking style kinda creates the limiting factor for numbers and letters (literal no framework for them) maybe?
430 million people currently work in textiles[0]; how big was the industry before mechanical looms?

[0] https://www.uniformmarket.com/statistics/global-apparel-indu...
Website keeps crashing and reloading on Brave iOS.
There was a vulnerability of 7-zip found in Nov, 2024.

Yes, 7-zip.

https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024...
So, are you going to tell your boss to decrease your salary to the level where it covers just your basic needs and no more?
Ah I didn't see that.

That explanation sounds very plausible.
> It's provably true that LLM's can generate working code.

What I've seen of them, the good ones mostly produce OK code. Not terrible, usually works.

Although I like them even for that low-ish bar, although I find them to be both a time-saver and a personal motivation assistant, they're still a thing that needs a real domain expert to spot the mistakes they make.

> Developers seem to focus on the set of cases that LLM's produce code that doesn't work, and use that as evidence that these tools are "useless".

I do find it amusing how many humans turned out to be stuck thinking in boolean terms, dismissing the I in AGI, calling them as "useless" because it "can't take my job". Same with the G in AGI, dismissing the breadth of something that speaks 50 languages when humans who speak five or six languages are considered unusually skilled.
If the person committed a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act then they would face criminal sanctions, personally.

The Online safety bill gives Ofcom the power to levy regulatory fines, not criminal sanctions, so is very different
Apologies for making you prove the statement. That wasn't my intention.

I was musing on how expensive a C++ capable setup was back when I was learning. I was probably closer to having it as an opportunity than I realize. But MS Access and the like was already something that was beyond my realistic budget for things. That was largely helping out with business software friends of the family were using.

I am probably also more sour on just how silly difficult it is to put pixels on a screen nowadays. Python's turtle graphics kind of works ok, if you are only doing turtle graphics. But just getting a sprite and moving it around can be surprisingly involved, it seems. I wanted my kids to learn with the Code the Classics book. May have them give that a try again, soon. First pass, they all have far more mileage with Scratch.
The key difference is that American judges are typically political appointees or elected officials. They are deliberately chosen for political reasons. In many other countries, judges are more like career civil servants. While they are technically nominated by the executive branch and appointed by a figurehead president, it's usually a scandal if politicians try to influence the outcome. In practice, judges are selected by panels that consist of judges and other legal experts.
Same; at my previous job for the serialisation format for our embedded devices over 2G/4G/LoRaWAN/satellite I ended up landing on MessagePack, but that was partially because the "schema"/typed deserialisation was all in the same language for both the firmware and the server (Nim, in this case) and directly shared source-to-source. That won't work for a lot of cases of course, but it was quite nice for ours!
Notice how logos recently all look the same?
Color me surprised you actually tried it! Thank you for reporting back, and giving them a shot.

Sorry to hear it didn't work out. They do so well with Ethiopian, Colombian, Rwandan (which is where my palette is dialed—berry, tea, honey, citrus), I assumed their treatment of the Kenyan beans was representative.

Do you have a source of Kenyan beans that tells the story of what Kenyan is like at its best? I'd love to try!
If you want to test leagues, copy and paste this code on the leagues page: "9tblLS". Thank you for testing.
Could they just send lots of ships on the same path and specifically design them to break apart outward if destroyed, eg spin them at very high rates, to basically sweep the path clean, or would most of the particles in the path only be there because they happened to move into the path momentarily? I don’t know much about the velocities of interstellar particles.
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That’s an interesting idea, but I wonder, how would it know who you want to hear? Like if I’m sitting at a long table for a big family meal, I’d want to hear everyone, but if I’m sitting on a bus I’d like to only hear the person I know, sitting next to me. I can’t imagine there’s a good way to differentiate those situations.
Yeah. Went with my cousin-in-law to his grandmother's funeral. I had maybe met her twice. It wasn't for her. Meant a lot to him, though.
one of these :

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for calibrating PET scan
I feel like the major life events always put our life span into a perspective that otherwise might be missed or overlooked. It makes life feel shorter than it is.

Btw, which post are you referring to? I am curious to read it as well.
"The muscles are severely atrophied and the internal organs appear to be under-developed. The sensory organs, including the eyes, do not appear to function at all.

The brain, however, is well developed and draws on a high proportion of the body's blood supply. It is a mystery as to how this creature can sustain itself without external support."

The above quote is information you get from studying deceased bodies of a particularly advanced alien race in the original X-COM game, released in 1994.

(The X-COM in-universe explanation for the aliens' physiology is more psionic than cybernetic, as OP suggests. This makes OP a bit more credible than the Microprose writers, at least if your object is a discussion about plausible aliens or far-future humans in the real world within the known laws of physics. The aliens' psionic powers are kinda terrifying AF, so the Microprose prose does just fine for its intended purpose: Good storytelling for a computer game that makes no attempt to be fully real-world plausible / "hard" SF.)
Sound advice. Conversely: always have a funeral.

I know several people who expressed a wish not to have a funeral. Sometimes this wish stems from a desire not to be an inconvenience, or a sense of guilt or shame that one's life was not well-lived. Sometimes, simply the view that funerals don't matter, so why bother.

In every case, I think this desire is mistaken. The need to mourn the dead is an instinct older than our species itself, and in dismissing it we wound the people closest to us.

If you're the sort of person to whom the idea of skipping your own funeral sounds tempting, I kindly ask you for the sake of your loved ones that you reconsider.
They're rapidly burning part of their core value proposition for finances. They are increasing transaction friction, via much higher store prices and requirement to use their app, forcing use of touchscreen ordering, etc.

Boeing appeared quite financially healthy in summer 2018 as well.
Look at all of those that fell for monotheism. The situation is improving vastly.
Indeed:

> HIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A 'Less than Cat 3' LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

> Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many week