skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should do a study where they do fake maids (like catching a jumper) and then seeing if they regret living another month.
It depends on how you define dangerous—some of the most dangerous men in history have been dangerous in part because of how insecure they are. That's how you get men like Putin, putting on an extremely self-conscious show of masculinity while slaughtering hundreds of thousands.

Obviously not every schoolyard bully gets an army and a navy to play with, but they're all dangerous in their own ways, and that danger often stems from a self-conscious desire to project power.
The GOP isn't the party of that side anymore. Only on paper.
Nobody's forcing people to be doctors.

Nobody's forcing people with religious or moral objections to commit suicide. If they object to paying for others to do so, then they can stand with the people who have similar objections to paying for a military. Or with the people wondering why the churches those religions people belong to aren't paying taxes.

I don't even know where you're going with that kidney comment.
> so many people somehow inherited FORTRAN style (from where! you're younger than me!) and declare variables at the top of a function.

I thought this was a C 89 requirement too, and I thought until recently that some Linux distros lifted the build requirement to C 99.

I've worked on a few code bases with all the variables declared at the top of a function though and you're absolutely right - plenty of variables that end up unused or shadowed.
Good point! Thanks for the feedback.

Let me add that to my todos.
And they don't have to. But the ones who are ok with it should be able to.
This is one I learned when the record first came out. Single-handedly as a teenager just banging on acoustic guitar.

Played it thousands of times, usually for myself to warm up.

Different every time, and still haven't sounded very much like Pink Floyd yet ;)

Still most people have never heard me do it ever.

There's not that many Floyd tunes that are so great without a band of some kind anyway. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;)

I'm not an active musician or songwriter at all and when I do play for people intentionally it would usually be things that are more familiar.

But every now and then somebody will hand me a guitar or just say "play us something". They know it's going to be oldies :)

In the right situation as I accept I sometimes answer with the simple question; "Childhood's End?"

Without allowing enough time for a response then I just start banging. I already saw the look in their eye.

This is a tune that keeps giving and I'm trying to give them what it's giving you :)
That's a result of massive recent change. The US hasn't had that, since the basic infrastructure was built long ago.
Back then you were probably using CRT or some other low-res monitors which would have given you eye-strain regardless.
It's funny you say that, because I OD'd about 5 years ago and it reinforced my non-fear of death. It's fine. You're just gone.
Yeah okay - this was an MSVC project with inline assembly.
All this research into prime numbers and for what? (Serious question)

Is it that the methods required to do serious research on them ends up helping us discover other things?

Is there some deeper truth about the universe hidden in the prime numbers?
Developer Containers
GPU workloads cannot be tested on local machines and need access to specialised hardware and specific types of GPU machines and production deployments need Docker containerised files. This abstraction connects your machine via SSH to an ec2 instance and enables hot reloading Docker containers with GPU enabled. Makes it very easy to test out containerised GPU apps.
It’s always an option. It’s just not always an option to force someone to help you, which is what maid is.
Yeah, note that this article is from 2016. I distinctly remember during that time that these hot-swap deployments were all the rage in the Elixir community, and then fell out of fashion with time.
The pluto is the inspiration for about half the devices used in the government world. They're all just the pluto design ripped with a PA+tx switch and marked up 100x.
My mom died on her own terms in the states at 57 and her doctor gave her the pills to do it at home. It wasn’t as nice as dying in the hospital, but her life quality had been pretty bad for the last decade and doctors will help even in my state where assisted suicide isn’t legal (Washington state rather than Oregon).
The single bureacrat in question was flagged, investigated, and removed from contact with veterans.

Their action in suggesting MAID was not policy, was rapidly caught, and was the subject of a very public inquiry.

Had the suggestion been followed up by the veterens in question there were layers in place, interviews and checks, to make sure that MAID was both desired and appropriate.
One concern I have is that this gives the FAA ammunition to further limit hobbyist/recreational drones.
I think that's exactly the reason why they've brand it under "Android" and not as a product for mass market. Seems more like a platform for other vendors and just a proof of concept, than a real product they might want to move forward with.
There are several neural network based engines these days, including one that does exclusively what you describe (i.e. "patterns only", no calculation at all), and one that's trained on human games.

Even Stockfish uses a neural network these days by default for its positional evaluation, but it's relatively simple/lightweight in comparison to these, and it gains its strength from being used as part of deep search, rather than using a powerful/heavy neural network in a shallow tree search.

[1] https://arxiv.org/html/2402.04494v1

[2] https://www.maiachess.com/
Many people are opposed to capital punishment due to the small minority of innocent folks it eliminates.

> By steering the discussion to that [innocent] minority, which even itself is still debatable, you risk flushing the child with the bath water [and killing the really bad criminals].
The entire reason why the mental illness discussion is complicated is because with mental illness it’s not clear it is a choice.

And this isn’t even something made up for the particular case of assisted suicide. The idea that someone with mental illness cannot make legitimate
choice has been around in the legal system for a while, with mental illness leading to reduced sentences, and even being the basis of acquittal in many situations.
Decent corporate lawyers are exactly the lawyers who are effectively bundling Carta into their services when you onboard with them. You get some VC investment, you meet with a lawyer from Cooley, and they set everything up for you. Part of that is Carta and it’s pitched as “everyone does it, it’s what investors expect.” I don’t know if they get kickbacks for this, but they really push hard for it. And then when you’re closing down your company, the Cooley lawyers are nowhere to be found unless you’ve set aside $30k for closing costs. So I wouldn’t expect them to come to your rescue when your bank account is nearly empty and you’re trying to cancel your Carta subscription. Oh and don’t forget you signed the rights of “transfer agent” over to Carta when you onboarded with them, so they control your shares.
Solved by multigenerational living.
What this article does not explain is that "symbiotic engulfing" did not stop with mitochondria, but continued with the seven "clades" of plastids.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastid
Looks like it punches way above its weight(s).

How far are we from running a GPT-3/GPT-4 level LLM on regular consumer hardware, like a MacBook Pro?
Ultimately what you're probably looking for is Meshtastic. No to minimal UI, integrates with TAC among others, can just pair to a phone and turn it into a long range p2p or mesh device for whatever use case you want.

A Pluto sdr would also work if not for micro USB. The problem is you'd need a bunch of modulation/demod software, power amp and TX/RX switch, hence the project.
The logic behind NYC's push to force license plates on electric bicycles
Or a massive not-violent one. Just stop working.

The ruling class will bring the violence soon enough.
Britain needs more moonshots to hit the target
This is a massively loaded question because "productive" is such a vague term.

The answer also doesn't generalize to corporations versus small firms. Every company hasn't different incentives.

The only constant I've found in my career is that people will self-select into companies that match their ambitions over time.

Some company cultures incentivize doing the bare minimum while not rocking the boat. They don't reward productivity. This attracts people who like constant, easy jobs. It drives away people who want to be rewarded for their work and who prefer to be surrounded by people who also work hard.

Other company cultures reward productivity and penalize underperformance. These companies attract people who enjoy being productive, while driving away or firing people who don't meet those expectations.

I don't think it's clearly delineated between big and small companies, though. It's actually easier to find large corporations that reward people very well for high productivity (FAANG).
I haven't worked on a large C++ codebase yet, but with Rust my refactoring technique has been
1. Roughly model the data flow on paper so you don't have to fight the borrow checker or make design changes later.
2. Make the obvious changes related to the refactor.
3. Listen to Rustc and Clippy.
4. Everything usually works with surprisingly few issues.
This reads like nothing more than an advertisement of Clion’s refactoring features. Some of the tips are even quite dangerous and highly context dependent, like creating a base class when two classes share common functionality.
That sounds like a refactoring nightmare to happen.

I’m currently working through a difficult refactor and the most important tips I can give are:

- test everything after each change,

- make (very) small adjustments.

- Use version control.

- sometimes make large sweeping adjustments, copy the main logic of it to a scratch file and then create small commits that bring you to that larger change.

- don’t be afraid to reset to your last “checkpoint”, sometimes you just go a wrong direction / overengineer something. Just throw it away and use it as additional guidance to build the right thing.
“Walks out of bar drunk - let me have the keys! How dare you wait!”

Once you understand the neuro-chemical underpinnings of stress etc. time delays will make more sense.
Might as well replace the jury with AI personas
I think it depends how widely used that branch of maths becomes. In fact, I'd say that the word "branch" is a bit misleading - for many theories it's much more of a "knot", with influences tying them to many many other theories across the mathematical landscape. And those theories are themselves tied to others, etcetera.

It would be a very strange situation if the foundation fell apart logically without any ramifications in the rest of this "knot". A huge swathe of free-floating mathematics that's completely internally consistent but for this one error? Difficult to imagine for me in the case of cohomology from the article.

I guess strictly speaking this is more of a philosophical stance - I like to believe that a lot of the current mathematics has been discovered "naturally" in some sense =)
You can also "hack" Plutos pretty easily to essentially be a USRP. The 9363 is just a derated 9361 which can go down to 70mhz, so they'll usually work if you swap the FPGA software load.
I find this sort of thing cloying because all it does is show me they keep copies of my chats and access them at will.

I hate playing that card. I worked at Google, and for the first couple years, I was very earnest. Someone smart here pointed out to me, sure, maybe everything is behind 3 locks and keys and encrypted and audit logged, but what about the next guys?

Sort of stuck with me. I can't find a reason I'd ever build anything that did this, if only to make the world marginally easier to live in.
honestly, the scrabble world would have been a lot more surprised had he not won.
And sometimes one of the specialists can vote more than once to kill you to break the tie (crazy but it happened).
Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight
Why surprising exactly? Sounds like their life sucked at that point.
This is like trusting people to behave while owning guns. Curse of knowledge writ large.
I would say the differences are subtle at best.
For the same reason we send probes to outer space. We are curious about the universe. There's is something special about the prime numbers that we don't understand. Until we do, people will have the itch to keep looking.
Everybody wants them.

They are semi bespoke.

Ramping up supply chain takes time.

Something novel we want to sell you in ieee space.
Some provinces (notably SK) do not offer self-administered MAiD, just FYI.
Vercel/fun: ƒun – Local serverless function λ development runtime
Those who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge but weren’t caught (intentionally).
> but is force upgraded after two consecutive hot upgrades, as only two versions of a module are allowed to exist at the same time.

Force upgraded is maybe misleading. When a module is loaded for the 3rd time, any processes that still have the first version in their stack are killed. That may result in a supervisor restarting them with new code, if they're supervised.
I don't know what it is that make people think of science in an over-confident binary (yes or no) manner.

If you read the original article, you'd see that the idea of experiments about quantum supremacy is an important issue. The whole reason they want to conduct such experiments is to prove that quantum computing actually works empirically.

The question is not whether "I think" quantum computers won't work. I don't "think" anything, I'm not an expert in the field and as such what I personally think is irrelevant. Scientifically, there aren't enough empirical experiments to conclusively prove whether they work. Whatever I "think" or you "think" are pure speculation. The chances of QC working and scalable to non-trivial number of qbits might be pretty good, but they haven't built a machine that can break RSA yet for example.

And yes of course the theorists could be working on the "wrong" theory all the time. It happened with Newtonian physics. You can't build accurate GPS systems with Newtonian physics without taking into account relativity. Similarly, we already know QM does not take gravity into account. Is it possible that quantum-computers-as-we-know-it are not possible under a gravitational field? Unlikely(?), but it's possible. You can't just take your personal speculative belief as truth and call everyone else flat earthers.
Can you imagine what would happen if we had another carrington effect (which we will eventually) and were suddenly faced with having to build thousands of transformers....
Wittgenstein also had serious changes of opinions.
It's easy to argue that Llama-3.3 8B performs better than GPT-3.5. Compare their benchmarks, and try the two side-by-side.

Phi-4 is yet another step towards a small, open, GPT-4 level model. I think we're getting quite close.

Check the benchmarks comparing to GPT-4o on the first page of their technical report if you haven't already https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.08905
You’re missing a rather fundamental way that nonstick pans (teflon or “ceramic”) differ from metal or seasoned metal: nonstick coated pans are usually oleophobic, and oils do not wet or otherwise coat them well. So you can’t cook your eggs on a very thin layer of butter or oil. But steel and seasoned steel will be wetted by hot oil or butter, and you can properly fry your eggs.
> He can be President all day long in jail.

Playing devil's advocate, at least in part...

In practice, he cannot perform many of the duties of the office effectively - or perhaps at all - from jail.

The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it says he should be President (given the outcome of the process we had). The laws that say he should be in jail are subordinate to the Constitution and so rightly lose out in the minimum way practicable - a delay in sentencing.

...

I do have problems with some of what I've written here, but it seems like a sensible position that could be held unreservedly by someone who disagrees with me on a few questions of fact that do have a subjective component.
he knows them anyway
It's just something I come up with when I want to share my love for Linux. No need to look too much in to it. I use to have it rhyme more after my 'tell you some more' bit but, not this time.

I just love linux.
This is it. I’m not sure what manner of business you work in/at/for but I do feel that there is a set and forget expectation with enterprise software in startup land. Once you’ve been around the block a few times on finance/operations, you just expect that things might not work efficiently/automatically and build in safeguards. That isn’t to say that Carta can’t do better…
>by tweaking the formality of our register).

what does register mean in this context? the tone of voice or something similar?
I’ve never found this compelling. Sure, if you cook at silly hot temperatures, then certain things won’t stick. What if you don’t want to cook at silly temperatures, though?
Relaxed atomic operations
So a bid of $200 in a Vickrey auction that results in a $101 sale price doesn't imply that you could have otherwise gotten $200, because in a different type of auction the bidder wouldn't have bid that much.
Agreed. It's not an appeal to authority it's a paragraph I enjoyed reading and remembered in this context
Hidden in plain view! Ok, let's put 2016 above, on the assumption that the edits since then haven't been too major.
It boggles my mind that you would launch without that as a prime directive.
> carrington effect

Event*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
It feels really gross that he was acquitted in the second impeachment partly because he argued that criminal court was the appropriate venue for the issue, and then turned around and argued in criminal court that he was immune for not having been convicted in the impeachment.
The "International AirBnB Style" isn't of a place but it's definitely of a time, and that time was probably ten years ago to now. I think it's fading. It always feels like styles will be eternal until they go out of fashion. Probably by 2035 it will be completely uncool and replaced by something different, maybe local. Maybe not, since we're more interconnected than ever, so styles end up propagating fast and wide. In 2050 though, it will be cool again, like all the other things that went out of fashion.
So selling the Anarchists Cookbook is illegal? Being a YouTuber targeting teens for <extreme political positions> is illegal? This is honestly news to me given how many political YouTubers there are who are apparently criminals?

Given some of the examples I'm not so sure a human would be charged for saying the same exact things the AI has said. Without an actual push to suggest violence and even that's difficult to prove in cases where it does happen (eg. The cases where people pressured others into suicide or convinced them to murder)
I’m not following this. While intimidation certainly has many dimensions, I don’t see why not looking like much makes them better able to defend themselves? Or be dangerous?

Unless you’re talking poisoners and embezzlers and the like who don’t need to warn because they don’t engage in direct conflict.
That article was emptier than my step dad's promises.
There's a famous quote usually attributed to Churchill, which like all famous quotes is probably apocryphal. It's about somebody saying much the same regarding drafting poets and artists for the war effort.

His response was "what's the point of fighting?" And even as apocrypha I think it gets to a point: if you stop doing social science (which isn't a science) then what do you do when people turn out to need social scientists? Aren't we interested in having a balanced, happy society?

Sure, NZ is financially fucked. I get it. Cut down all the forests, sell the water, sell the land, sell the bees. Sell the lifestyle to Peter Theil.

I like New Zealand. It's not perfect. Cutting social science won't make it better any more than cutting te reo will.

"The flogging will continue until morale improves" also comes to mind.

Helping the economy by cutting wages and living conditions? Is that what they want people to study?

NZ has been broke for decades. They survive on the smell of an oily rag. This is selling the oily rag.

(An Ozzie btw)
Yes, and yes.

Investigating primes is nearly as old as mathematics itself and its reasonable to assume other ideas where discovered in the hopes of applying them to various problems incorporating prime numbers.

From a practical, applied, perspective, “understanding” primes, that is making their “hidden” structure a known “truth”, would either confirm or deny the Riemann hypothesis wherein many other conjectures that assume the hypothesis to be true would also be “truely” known.

Or from TFA:

> …In the 19th century, research on these kinds of statements led to the development of much of modern number theory. In the 20th century, it helped inspire one of the most ambitious mathematical efforts to date, the Langlands program. And in the 21st, work on these sorts of primes has continued to yield new techniques and insights.

> …Their[the article’s sunbjects’] proof, which was posted online (opens a new tab) in October, doesn’t just sharpen mathematicians’ understanding of the primes. It also makes use of a set of tools from a very different area of mathematics, suggesting that those tools are far more powerful than mathematicians imagined, and potentially ripe for applications elsewhere.
yes. so there should be, for human languages, some variation of that Alan Perlis quote, that goes something like: a (programming) language that doesn't change the way you think, isn't worth learning.
if not, someone should make one up.
It's a demonstration that the system currently in place has verification checks.

No one was killed against their will here.

There's a legitimate debate to be had on the question of whether it was even wrong to alert an injured veteren that MAID was an option given they had the free will and the gumption to reply No way, Feck off, Not interested.

The onus here should be on secondary interviews sorting out whether a person really did have insurmountable chronic pain and problems or whether they were depressed and lacked resources to deal with a situation.
One has to wonder if there isn't some legal reason why they can't just turn off the public API and stop this kind of unreasonable funmaking?

Local or state freedom of information legislation perhaps?
Ribet to Receive 2025 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Research
I’m the one who posted the article. This is the first time I’ve ever even heard of NonStop.

From the entitle I assumed it had something to do with discussions that had been going on for a long time or kept coming up and it was just a typo or something.

Interesting to find out there was a an OS I never heard. Unfortunately the Wikipedia page isn’t very comprehensive.