skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change has the potential to radically change weather patterns, possible causing severe disruptions to global food production. If that happens, I guarantee you the likelihood of a world war will be even higher than today.

Besides, there is no real energy shortage. Renewables and nuclear work very well for most of Europe. The only problem are the Germans who thought being dependent on gas supplied by an insane dictator is better than operating nuclear power plants.
> Hacker spirit. Nowadays, the word “hacker” conjures up visions of Russian trolls, Julian Assange, and Angelina Jolie’s 90s pixie cut. But a nobler usage predates this. Hacker culture, in the original sense, grew out of places like MIT in the 60s, with its tradition of highbrow silliness and elaborate technical pranks.

Implying that Julian Assange's endeavours were not noble, or in some sense comparable to "Russian trolls", or in some sense antithetical to the "hacker culture" of yore, is heinous and ahistorical. I mean that specifically in the sense that I think history will show it to be false.

Not only that, it's also a gross misunderstanding of what Wikileaks was - a huge "hack", in the early MIT sense. A problem was observed, and a solution with genuine "hack value" was applied to it.

The facts illustrating this are already in the public domain, although I am of course aware that they're floating around in a sea of insinuations and fake scandals and half-truths and propaganda and bare lies.

Source: I followed Wikileaks and Julian Assange since around 2009. It naturally goes unmentioned in the majority of newspaper and documentary treatments of the subject, but Wikileaks is deeply rooted in the cypherpunk ethos of the early 90s, which itself is historically tied to the earlier MIT hacker culture.

Stallman, who this introduction goes on to cite as a bona fide representative of the early culture and an "open source gnuru" (shudder), is a vocal supporter of Assange, and has stated clearly his belief that Wikileaks has that hack value I mentioned above.

I recommend the book Cypherpunks to get a feel for the actual cultural and technical ethos surrounding Wikileaks, for anyone interested. For a rebuttal to the incredible amount of crappy reporting on the legal side, Nils Melzer's book on the Swedish case is good. There are plenty of good articles too (in the middle of a couple of orders of magnitude as many bad ones), but here's one that might be a good start for someone interested:

https://theindicter.com/the-significance-of-wikileaks-as-inv...
This is my first weekend with no subscription to a model since the day chatGPT4 came out.

I feel like I got to a point of increasingly diminishing returns from the models. I know what they are good at and what they are not good at so I started avoiding what they are not good at.

It reminds me of Jaron Lanier saying years ago that we have to be on guard to not start acting stupid to make AI seem smarter. I had surely started doing that.

This is quite a nice feeling. I can still learn things the model sucks at. I could feel a creep coming into my head that there was no point in learning something the model wasn't good at.

The models are amazing at reinventing the wheel in React. Mapping this as if it scales to all human activity though is completely delusional.
She took a DNA test. Police used it to charge her grandma with a 1997 murder
All code can be abused for naughty things, including crypto miners in modern Web APIs.
Epidemic of Vicious School Brawls, Fueled by Student Cellphones
I think they meant to post this link:

https://www.reddit.com/answers/
Really cool, but as a foreigner in Germany it also saddens me that there is a need for so many apps and softwares to deal with bureaucracy.
I read that part differently. I didn’t see it as a statement about the legal merits of ARM’s choices so much as the pragmatic business outcomes. It is possible for an action to be 100% legally correct and a bad business move (see: creative IP companies that sue their biggest fans).

Even granting that ARM is completely within their right, this is a pretty bug reminder of the dangers of building on sole-source licensed IP when there’s an open alternative. I have little doubt that ARM drove some number of startups into choosing RISC-V.

Which may or may not matter in the long run. But it is rolling the dice and by definition a short term maximization strategy.
Could be - making sure that everyone at the table always has a choice of conversation to listen to, instead of being trapped in one they have no interest in.

I doubt it's that explicit, though. Maybe it's just worked out better that way over the years, without anyone fully realizing the why?
Never have I used "python -m" to run pip. Never in 20 years of using Python. I think you're imagining problems to gripe more about pip. Not that pip is perfect but we truly don't need anything else. It could turn out nice but I think having to learn Rust will turn off most people in the Python community when it comes to contributing.
I hiked 1000 miles on the AT in the winter of '22, and to this day I marvel at potable water on tap, AND it gets hot! Too hot even! What a delight.

Also plumbing and a bidet! No catholes, no rashes, no norovirus! I wake up every day with gratitude in my heart for this abundance.
Which part are you struggling to understand?
I hope you do realize that without numbers your argument against caps is just a speculation too. Whether it’s some bias or not, we can figure out only via research: the impact is easily measurable.
In which one of the five images would you say your comprehension fails?
That’s fair. I was offering Buzee for free! The inertia is real. As much as they appreciated the speed, it seemed like they didn’t really want to find their files faster.
It seems like an elegant addition to the understanding.

Maybe if you viewed an animation where `a` starts larger than `b`, and steps till it's smaller.

Then you could see where the negativity happens. And seeing is nice.
I don't think I agree with your statement.

But even if it's true, at least it won't be boring, right?
This is so beautiful! I could have never imagined this. I learnt this formula by rote when I was in school. Didn’t realize that it had a geometric equivalent. Same thing with differentiation and integration. Couldn’t understand. Learnt that too by rote. Is there a geometric equivalent for most formulas if not all? Is there a website?
> when the user has tweaked as necessary they can just check out.

And what happens after the user spent all that time adjusting their order, submits it, and then is told at the very end that some items are out of stock? Do you think they're going to be happy about that?

What if their browser crashes and the order they had built up carefully is lost? Will they bother to try again?

Will you do price calculations properly with a proper decimal library or allow the user to see what IEEE754 floats think '0.1 + 0.2' should be?

Lot of questions come up with the client-only approach.
Let’s go back to the OP, which asked about coffee. A quick search shows the LD50 for coffee is about 118 cups. At 6 oz per cup, that’s roughly 21 liters. The LD50 for water is listed as 6 liters (below what you’d drink “without significant issue” btw). So someone is much more likely reach the LD50 for water well before caffeine when drinking coffee.

Are there other caffeine delivery mechanisms that differ? Of course, but that’s not what the OP asked. The question was about the toxicity of coffee. That’s why it’s not worth arguing when something like caffeine powder provides the majority of ODs. Likewise there’s going to be variation in toxicity between individuals but those numbers are intended to be generalizable numbers to a population.
'Buy the rumor sell the news'. I'd expect most people to not know that advice but pros would. that is pros would know that before most major announcements people had alread guessed based on other indicators and so the announcement is priced in already.

if you could find an alien civialization with a stock market I'd expect pros to do similiarly well just based on that.

amature traders in the real world tend to be more in tune to rumors and thus more likely to get it right since they had already traded by this sime. (or so I would guess)
An new form of ancient human may have been discovered
One of the reasons I like D&D and board games is because it gives something to do while socializing.

The idea of inviting someone over just to hang out - or being invited to do so - without an underlying activity fills me with dread. But if I'm being invited over to play a game, then that's great - and I can chat and socialize while doing so.

I don't think it has to be Bunko, or any one particular thing. Hell, even helping friends move is fun in a way, as long as your spine is up to the lifting :P
what I love about X is how stable it became after it was abandoned.
The o1 release blog post contains 8 full examples of o1 chains of thought (not the summarized versions visible to users). They're English.

https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/#chain...

I have seen the summaries dip into completely random languages like Thai, so it might switch between languages occasionally.
Air crash inquiry uncovers detail from 100M miles away
Human settlement of Mars isn't as far off as we might think
Experimental Wayland support is a dealbreaker.
The Influence of the Family in the Development of Talent in Sport (1999)
I still wouldn't call any of that "bad" art, because that term means more than just "failing to achieve greatness".

> you also said your view about what art is is the “common sense” view. In other words you are right others are wrong. Which is what i take an exception with.

I questioned whether the general public is right while the art world can't see the emperor has no clothes.

> > Ask a million people if Vermeer is art. I can't imagine a significant number of them will say it isn't.

> Why would that be at dispute?*

Great, now ask a million people if Duchamp's Fountain is art. That's what I mean by common sense. That's what's at dispute.

> You postulated that this work of art has no contemplative value. As if you are the final arbiter of that. If you would have said “folks, this doesn’t do it for me”, I wouldn’t have cared. But you choose to pontificate on it in absolute terms. As if your analysis is going to have universal value.

I'm really repeating myself here, but to be clear I'm not saying I am the one who is deciding its artistic merit. I'm saying works that evoke no contemplative experience through their aesthetic characteristics shouldn't be called art, even if they evoke contemplative experiences through other features such as political relevance.

This is certainly not pontificating in absolute terms. It's just debating Theory of Art. My analysis doesn't have to have universal value to be logical and cogent.

I'm aware that goes against the contemporary view of art in the art world, which seems to equate artistic intent with artistic expression (or some other long form variant of that statement). To me that's just a charade, a long con, a hack. It solves for high-browness at the expense of beauty. But b e a u t y m a t t e r s.

And that's what I take issue with, hence this thread. If you're allowed to challenge my view, why am I not allowed to challenge yours?

I never claimed that my analysis would have universal value, whatever that means. What I am trying to do is to arrive at a definition of art through first principles. But the cognitive dissonance is deafening in this thread, so most of my energy has been spent trying to explain why I'm allowed to even present an argument instead of actually debating the issue. Oh well.
It is not. a and b are not symmetric in this equation, you can't just swap them.
+1

And the statistics would agree with this intuition:

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2020/comm/busi...

Over half of business owners are over 55 years of age. This includes small businesses, IT startups, etc.

But even within tech, the majority of founders and CEOs I worked with, from small startups to large enterprises, tended to be 40s and up.
You’re conflating a license to use something granted without charge and something actually free to the public. Licenses come with terms, public resources only come with social pressures of fair use.

It is unfair for SeriousCompany to pretend that resources it releases to the public (usually as a PR move or to advertise a paid product) must flatter their motives and the narrow confines of what they envisioned the public might use them for. That is wishing a free resource had a license when it only has a social contract. If the provider could set limits, it would no longer be free.
>Taste is one thing, the nutrient content also differs.

Also the water content. The highly 'productive' varieties/methods have a lot more water compared to the traditionally grow varieties/methods.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proof_without_wo...
I always liked the star gate universe (?) series where the ships skimmed the stars they passed to charge up. We’ve essentially got a bunch of EV chargers dotted around the universe, although galaxy to galaxy might have some range anxiety.
It's nothing. This study is narrow and shows no changes in cognitive capability, only sleep. A huge longitudinal study has shown screen time has minimal effect on cognitive ability or behavior of kids:

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/no-evidence-screen-time...

There are far worse things in modern culture that are stressing out kids out.
I don't see that as negative area. I see it as subtracting two areas. Both the room and the pillar have a positive area, none of them has negative lengths or areas.

Kids learn subtraction before they learn negative numbers - once you learn negative numbers, you know that addition and subtraction are almost interchangeable, but this is not necessarily intuitive to begin with.
It is possible to draw on a map in other ways, yes.
that quote has been attributed to many over the years. I can find an origional surce.
All nighters are usually the result of poorly set expectations or poor planning. Give yourself some grace and set reasonable expectations for yourself. You just sound burned out, not old. At your age, you need to give yourself some time to figure out, and recover, from whatever is going on in your life, not blame the passage of time.
That’s a very uncharitable interpretation of what they wrote, and goes outside of how what they wrote is supposed to be interpreted.

The researchers are not claiming that cognitive ability changes would definitely take longer than 21 days to appear, they’re suggesting that that is the next thing to test.
Great museum.
Europe's innovation problem: Trying to regulate the future
Very good of you to get back to me with such a generous reply.

I'm happy reading it. I'd studied and played (in a club, real tournaments, etc) pretty "seriously" for about six months a couple of years ago, before stopping completely, even though it was going quite well, when some unavoidable life things got in the way.

Progress had been steady, climbing up to almost 1600 classical (before the statistical ratings hike last year, putting me on 1750). I was maybe going to at least temporarily settle around there, or slightly higher, it looked like. I'd played for a few years when I was younger, but didn't have serious coaching, unfortunately, so this was not 6 months from scratch at all.

What I'd come up with when studying tracks with some of your main points above. I was focusing very much on tactics, because I love them and because it seemed unavoidable - even the high-rated players who don't consider themselves "tactical players" still have an extremely solid tactical reading of any position, and spot all the usual patterns with ease.

I'd even mostly ignored heavy opening work! Which, I must say, is not a popular approach. A friend who'd seen a bit of your game would come up to you after a match in a tournament and say: "I can't beleve you played that on move six against the French defence, that's not the best move!", and I'd struggle to convince them that openings were not my main area of concern aha.

Anyway, thanks again, and congrats on your chess accomplishments - the tournaments truly are wonderful to be involved in, I find.
Sorry for posting this more than once, but it's not anything:

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/no-evidence-screen-time...

The York study was a tiny set of kids and the only change was sleep pattern. There have been numerous studies done on larger groups and they results coalesce around screens not being a problem.
What do you mean by poor quality media?

WhatsApp and similar offer exactly the same kind of media transfers that iMessage offers.
So much this… if you get enough sleep, exercise, hydration, and proper nutrition, everything works so much better.
There is some geometric equivalent for any formula that can be built using some arbitrary combination of the four operations of arithmetic, plus square roots. If you allow for either 3D geometry or origami folds, you can extend this allowing for cube roots too. Note that the geometric equivalent is not going to be necessarily trivial or intuitive in most cases, though.
It works wonderfully until it fails miserably. At least, a couple years back that was the case. Someday, my local vision model will prefecth, take screenshots to check for my desired contrast, and iterate. Then the 3-5% of sites (perceived) that ruin rule based tools like DarkReader can finally perform reliably and not ruin our sleep or give us headaches.
He was probably actually exercising and injected some extra fun. Cycling could have been an acceptable faster method. Driving is right there with using Paint to do the whole thing, only less convenient.
That's exactly what I was going to say. Every software dev I know who works on apps, social media, etc. all keep their kids from going near the shit. They know, conflict of interest or not. I've not seen anyone behind these products once they hit a mature state where they start psychologically stripmining their audiences who's eager to get any of their family onboarded.
This is best considered an illustration, rather than a proof, as it fails for any of the following:

a=0 and b is non-zero

b>a (result is negative. If you swap the variables, you have to imagine the area is a negative area)

either variable is negative
Making your own app-icons is notoriously difficult.

$ cat /usr/local/bin/noko-make-icon
convert -size 24x24 -gravity center -background yellow -fill black\
label:$1 ~/.local/share/icons/$1.png
file=~/.local/share/applications/$1-noko.desktop
echo [Desktop Entry] > $file
echo Name=$1 >> $file
echo Comment=noko-made >> $file
echo Exec=$1 >> $file
echo Terminal=false >> $file
echo Icon=~/.local/share/icons/$1.png >> $file
echo Type=Application >> $file

"convert" is from Imagemagick
Really appreciate the write up. I am one of the authors of MCP and this helps a great deal giving a good overview of where we need to do better.

I was a bit under the water over the last few weeks with talking to people about MCP and just generally a bit overwhelmed about how well it has been received.

I'll take a look at issue88 this week. Thanks so much
With this additional justification I accept it, yes. But (imo) now you are doing algebra. And then you might as well prove it just by distributing the RHS of the original expression.
This would be pretty great for generating descriptions for the vision-impaired, but it doesn't provide any profound insight beyond what you can tell from a glance.

It has a lot of "trying to sound smart" waffle, for example, it had this to say about some tree branches:

> A careful observer will also note the subtle variations in the thickness and texture of the branches, implying a natural, organic growth pattern.

Gee, thanks, I might've thought it was an unnatural inorganic tree otherwise.
A serious answer as to why I didn't answer the question directly?

The RISC-V community is dominated by a culture that is fighting the semiconductor war of 20 years ago. Consequently their core ideas are those that were in play then, and they remain steadfastly attached to them. In this case the sea of baby cores is actually an ideal application of RISC-V.

You cannot point out the core problem for a multitude of reasons, one of which is that if you did it would just turn to "prove it", and honestly another is that even though many of us would like an alternative ISA to succeed we do kind of enjoy watching people like SiFive spin round in circles. A strongly related problem is the likes of SiFive are promoting premature ossification before the thing has evolved to practical utility.
Damn, it's impressive how trusting you are with them. My parents would never had done that.

Seems like your kids are being raised well.
It's quite a common trick in airplanes. Someone drew a "50" over half of the Netherlands for the 50th anniversary of the flight school I teach at.

In airplanes it's not that hard. You can draw the route on your iPad on the ground, then load those GPS points into the plane via Bluetooth and fly it. A modern autopilot could even fly it for you, but you'd have to sit there being bored for a few hours.

If you do it at low altitude in uncontrolled airspace you're free to draw whatever you want. In controlled airspace you may get ATC interfering with your drawing. But even that can be coordinated, mapping companies do that all the time, fly very specific patterns in coordination with ATC.
Wow. It's amazing how quickly this crashed off the HN frontpage. Not a popular topic.
This is kind of the classic “kids these days” argument: that because we understand something from what we consider the foundational level up to what we consider the goal level, anyone who comes along later and starts at higher levels will be limited / less capable / etc.

It is true, but also irrelevant. Just like most programmers today do not need to understand CPU architecture or even assembly language, programmers in the future will not need to understand for loops the way we do.

They will get good at writing LLM-optimized specifications that produce the desired results. And that will be fine, even if we old-timers bemoan that they don’t really program the way we do.

Yes, the abstractions required will be inefficient. And we will always be able to say that when those kids solve our kinds of problems, our methods are better. Just like assembly programmers can look at simple python programs and be astounded at the complexity “required” to solve simple problems.
Hacking Discord for $5000 Bounty [video]
It sounds to me as though what you're saying is that when you write Rust programs which don't scale very well they don't scale very well, whereas when you write C++ programs you don't do that, I suggest learning not to do it in Rust either.
Serverside includes are a thing in Apache or nginx.

If you don’t mind a little coding, it wouldn’t take long to build a tool that lets you store the bodies as template files, wraps them in the header/footer, and minifies them.

Even less effort is pandoc’s standalone mode which lets you provide a wrapper template.
XFCE is the one running late here. Gnome, kde, and even all the wlroots based compositors have been pretty solid
Very interesting talk, I remember trying to setup Falcon for a simple app once but the docs was lacking and I didn't get it to work, but this was years ago. It seem to have matured a lot since then.

I also remember the Parallel gem being higher performing than Ractors, is that still the case? Does anyone know?

There is also iodine, I kinda wish it got covered, I am very curious about it.
https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine?tab=readme-ov-file#iodin...
Sorry e/acc, Accelerationism is Anti-Capitalist to its Core
Why does the Falcon server scare you?
THIS. In general, the industry incentivizes learning abstractions before fundamentals, and it shows.