skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a time when in the name of progress people were killed for whatever resources they possessed, others were enslaved etc. and I was under the impression that the measure of our civilization is that we actually DID care and just how much. It seems to me that you are very eager to put up altars of sacrifice without even thinking that the problems you probably have in mind are perfectly solvable without them.
Did he see it turn without signals?
I agree that is misleading. It has its own F-droid compatible repo so you can use an F-Droid client. When I hear "available on F-Droid" I assume it means its in the F-Droid repo.
DEC was always finnicky about naming; the PDP series originally wasn't supposed to be called a computer because computers were thought of as much bigger than the products DEC sold, and customers in the 50s and 60s might be put off by a name they associated with multi-million dollar expenses.

But the PDP-10 and VAX 9000 were basically mainframes. Million dollars or more. Whole large room with three phase power. Standard building AC might suffice but that was pushing the margin. And the faster clocked VAX 9000 was water cooled! That's not a minicomputer.
The problem is more doing it in sufficiently little space, and using little enough water and energy. Doing one that you just feed dishes individually and that immediate wash them and feed them to storage should be entirely viable, but it'd be wasteful, and it'd compete with people having multiple small drawer-style dishwashers, offering relatively little convenience over that.

It seems most people aren't willing to pay for multiple dishwashers - even multiple small ones or set aside enough space, and that places severe constraints on trying to do better.
I had an experience like that where an education researcher was attempting to prove that a certain style of teaching was more effective. It involved a test measuring how much students remembered from a conventionally-taught course taken the year before; the researchers hoped to show that these scores were low, and therefore that conventional teaching methods were ineffective. I and another classmate aced the test so the researcher accused us of cheating, even though there was no incentive to cheat (the test wasn't used for any grade, so if anything, the incentive was to save time by leaving answers blank). We denied cheating, explained that the course instruction had been very memorable, and proved it by correctly answering followup questions on the spot. Ultimately our high-scoring test results were discarded as outliers and the hypothesis was successfully validated.
> This is a blog post that claims that racism isn't real.

No, it does not make that claim.
o3: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/opena...

Or this discussion at #1 now and on the front page for several hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473321
Have any forks from the FOSS version picked up any traction?
One way to distinguish them is the retrospective analysis of the outcome. What happens when someone obtains or goes without each category?

To go deeper, I think one needs to more fully defined "need”. Need for what? Are we talking about needs.. to sustain biological life? Are we talking about needs... To sustain happy and productive lives?

If we take the second definition, there is a pretty clear difference between a desire and a need. Satisfaction of a desire does not necessarily advance that goal, and can very well be counter to it.
Even NASA Can't Explain the Alarming Surge in Global Heat We're Seeing
A couple.

https://github.com/rbanffy/altair-mpm/blob/develop/TEKLINES....

This repo has a couple BASIC examples that should run on CP/M.

This other is probably more useful:

https://github.com/rbanffy/fun_with_tektronix
Qualcomm already had a "modify" licence, back from when they were doing their own custom ARM cores.

So the actual central issue was if Qualcomm had the right to transfer the technology developed under the Nuvia architecture license to the Qualcomm architecture license.
I had a swollen elbow a short while ago, and the amount of things I've never thought about that were affected by reduced elbow join mobility and an inability to put pressure on the elbow was disturbing.
Uhhhh… It was trained on ARC data? So they targeted a specific benchmark and are surprised and blown away the LLM performed well in it? What’s that law again? When a benchmark is targeted by some system the benchmark becomes useless?
There's a tragedy of the commons when it comes to the question of "what do all of the single people do?" Each relationship beyond monogamy can be thought of as "taking away" an opportunity from the partner you would have paired with had you been monogamous. ie a relationship opportunity cost.

Typically, societies with imbalanced relationship ratios, an in particular single males, tend to be more unstable. Should poly folks design their life around the consequences of disaffected young males? No, of course not. Nor should we artificially privilege monogamy to ensure social stability for obvious reasons of individualality and moral policing. We should study the phenomenon and remedy the male psyche to ensure social stability and discover, scientifically, the threshold at which we can expect it to be a problem.
In SpaceFlight Simulator it’s quite easy IIRC (it’s been a while):

1. Orbit yourself around low earth

2. When entering the transfer window (opposite side of the sun-facing earth, i.e. above midnight longitude) booooost

3. For orbit, aim for tangent with your target. For sun discovery, aim for sun center. Choose but don’t change.

The game is in 2D and you got nice auto-calculated transfert windows and trajectories. Is it one of those game simplification that makes it easy or there’s more difficulties?
Wow, this has been settled already? I mean, I am sure ARM will appeal.

ARM did massive damage to their ecosystem for nothing. There will for sure be consequences of suing your largest customer.

Lots of people that would have defaulted to licensing designed off ARM for whatever chips they have planned will now be considering RISC-V instead. ARM just accelerated the timeline for their biggest future competitor. Genius.
No it's not. This is a completely different thing.
I love how this might mean "non-Effective", non-"Effective Altruist" or non-"Effective Altruist AI" folks.

Yes
Live or Visiting the Bay Area?
I don't think that's right. Free societies don't tolerate total mobilization by their governments outside of war time, no matter how valuable the outcomes might be in the long term, in part because of the very economic impacts you describe. Human-level AI - even if it's very expensive - puts something that looks a lot like total mobilization within reach without the societal pushback. This is especially true when it comes to tasks that society as a whole may not sufficiently value, but that a state actor might value very much, and when paired with something like a co-located reactor and data center that does not impact the grid.

That said, this is all predicated on o3 or similar actually having achieved human level reasoning. That's yet to be fully proven. We'll see!
I suggest https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-... instead of the empty link
>We had hand prosthetics that could play Mozart at 5x speed on a baby grand

I'd love to know more about this.
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Build a multi-cloud architecture. And by this, I mean connect two cloud's networks without traversing the public internet to connect two applications running in each respective cloud. And then, put that into IaC. It sounds like not much, but the issues you uncover are pretty illuminating and it is a fantastic interview question to give to senior-ish infra guys to see how they approach it and the challenges they expect.

And you're right, we're all weird.
> These models are tools to help engineers, not replacements. Models cannot, on their own, build novel new things no matter how much the hype suggests otherwise.

But maybe models + managers/non technical people can?
Ok I'll expand: The delusion was that people held the mistaken belief that their windshield was not pitted the day before they checked. They said: "The pitting happened overnight." Where they should have said: "I don't know when the pitting happened." That can reasonably be described as delusion. That idea, that pitting was a novel thing, was spread by media reports and had no basis.

Similarily, these days people hear about drones in the sky. They look up, see lights, and think the lights they see are drones. Their interpretation of the lights is coloured by media reports. Even if the lights were there last year! And some lights may absolutely be of drones too! Much like pitting was a real occurrence.

The pitting story reminds us that just because there are more reports, doesn't mean there is more of the thing. Because people's perception is selective. And that can lead into delusion.
Parent is not wrong, but definitely could have some improved manners and tact.

As a linux user I wanted to make sure to say thank you for supporting and thinking about linux!
Aren't you editorialising by doing so?
I thought about this and it gets even better. You do not really need shelves as you just use the clean dishwasher as the storage place. I honestly don’t know why this is not a thing in big or wealthy homes.
How’s that American?

They know their user base is mostly teens. Their USP is ephemeral messages. And then they say, sorry, can’t be responsible? Who can? The minor can’t, because he’s a minor. And the parents can’t, because the messages are ephemeral.

They should be sued.

Think about it. You make a startup whose whole premise is that there won’t be any paper trail. If that takes off, you know exactly why. There will be illegal stuff going on.

Anyway. I don’t know if they’ll win the lawsuit or not. But to say it’s a question that shouldn’t even be asked, or that asking it was some form of “not taking responsibility for your life and of just looking for a scapegoat” seems odd to me, given the circumstances.
Not sure I agree with the idea that satisfying management disqualifies someone as dumb, but it's a decent point that at work, at the end of the day, we're just there to deliver what's expected of us, which adds some relevant perspective IMHO.
where it says available on fdroid it links to their personal fdroid repository. plenty of projects both open source and not have their own fdroid repository. fdroid is both a repository that only allows open source software and a packaging infrastructure tool for people hosting their own repositories. based on the fact their claim that they are on fdroid literally hyperlinks to their fdroid repository i don't see how anyone could find that misleading. if anything it's fdroids fault for giving their own repository the same name as their infrastructure tool instead of doing what every other project did and give them separate names. for example docker and dockerhub, flatpak and flathub, etc.

here is a list of 100+ not official fdroid repositories.
https://github.com/userkilled/FDroid-List-Repository
Sorry. The point of my post was to respond to the claim that you can't effectively integrate meaningful amounts of rooftop solar into an electricity grid in a cost-effective manner when the evidence from Australia is that you can and we have.

If I'd looked the example when South Australia's interconnector with the rest of the NEM went out, they had periods with the instantaneous penetration of rooftop solar was over 90%. AEMO, the body that manages the Australian electricity grid, are aiming to be able to support a 100% instantaneous renewable mix on the NEM within the next year or two.

As for Australia's overall electricity mix, that is rapidly changing (and the numbers get a bit distorted by the amount of self-consumption of rooftop solar). We're at 40% renewables overall now, and while it may not hit the government's 82% target by 2030 we will almost certainly reach 70% or so by 2030 and I'd think 90% by 2035 is very doable. The last 10% is harder, but there are enough options (gas with CCS, green hydrogen, biofuels, long-term energy storage of other kinds) that I reckon we can get there. We are in the fortunate position of not having solar completely go away for months in the winter.

As for nuclear, it's never, ever going to happen in Australia (despite the claims of the conservative side of Australian politics). Even if Australia could build nuclear power as efficiently as South Korea - an extremely big ask, given we have the same challenges at building large infrastructure as the rest of the English-speaking world - it still doesn't make economic sense.
Intelligence is the thing distinguishing humans from all previous inventions that already were superhuman in some narrow domain.

car : horse :: AGI : humans
> Boston City Hall is objectively beautiful

This opinion puts you in a very small minority, to put it very kindly.

It is a poster child for the dystopian, a cubist insult to anyone who has the misfortune of laying eyes on it. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here".
Don't worry, I also got that wrong :) I thought her affair would be the biggest problem for John.
There is a third way between bland boxes and horror show.
i think there might be merit to gdiamos's point that python is a popular language with a large number of users, and this might mean that python package management isn't unusually bad, but more users implies more complaints.

i think there was a significant step change improvement in python packaging around 2012, when the wheel format was introduced, which standardised distributing prebuilt platform-specific binary packages. for packages with gnarly native library dependencies / build toolchains (e.g. typical C/fortran numeric or scientific library wrapped in a layer of python bindings), once someone sets up a build server to bake wheels for target platforms, it becomes very easy to pip install them without dragging in that project's native build-from-source toolchain.

venv + pip (+ perhaps maintaining a stack of pre-built wheels for your target platform, for a commercial project where you want to be able to reproduce builds) gets most of the job done, and those ingredients have been in place for over 10 years.

around the time wheel was introduced, i was working at a company that shipped desktop software to windows machines, we used python for some of the application components. between venv + pip + wheels, it was OK.

where there were rough edges were things like: we have a dep on python wrapper library pywhatever, which requires a native library libwhatever.dll built from the c++ whatever project to be installed -- but libwhatever.dll has nothing to do with python, maybe its maintainers kindly provide an msi installer, so if you install it into a machine, it gets installed into the windows system folder, so venv isn't able to manage it & offer isolation if you need to install multiple versions for different projects / product lines, as venv only manages python packages, not arbitrary library dependencies from other ecosystems

but it's a bit much blame python for such difficulties: if you have a python library that has a native dependency on something that isnt a python package, you need to do something else to manage that dep. that's life. if you're trying to do it on windows, which doesn't have an O/S level package manager.. well, that's life.
How can he not see? :)
Hmm, that doesn't match my experience. It takes me a lot more time to put dishes into the dishwasher, because it has different places for cutlery, bowls, dishes, and so on, and of course the existing structure never matches my bowls' size perfectly so I have to play tetris or run it with only 2/3 filled (which will cause me to waste more time as I have to do dishes again sooner).

And that's before we get to bits of sticky rice left on bowls, which somehow dishwashers never scrape off clean. YMMV.
How is it non-centralized? Basically everybody actually using crypto uses exchanges.
Depends heavily on the company. Fidelity, for example, has super friendly, local sounding support employees. They will sometimes call you directly, too, for things like "checking in on your retirement goals". If someone called sounding professional, it would not be a tell that it isn't actually fidelity.

Plus, most of the weird "customer support" scams I've gotten in the past are people with thick accents on a garbage connection.
I feel very dumb. There is an example on that page with 4 nodes (a,b,c,d) and it shows a total of 24 possible combinations.

What is the generalised formula for calculating this, given the number of nodes but also edges need to be considered.

It doesn't appear to be explained in the article. I think it may be a factorial?
IIRC originally SUBST was designed for that - early programs didn't understand directories but did understand drives, and so you could make a directory appear to be a drive and they'd be happy - otherwise they'd dump everything in the root of C:\ (or A:\).
20-30 year old mechanical meters tend to be pretty accurate, but when they aren't, they tend to read low. Especially if your usage is fairly low, the minimum usage to push the wheels forward may be higher than your standby loads.

If you've been on a meter that reads low for a long time, a new meter (mechanical or electronic) will be a big jump.
How do you define density?
Hate to sound like a broken record but the barrier isn't the technology, the barrier in the USA is permitting and soft costs.
This: https://www.amazon.com/Razor-Sharp-Edgemaking-System-Kit/dp/...
It's really too bad this isn't around today. We'd have so many videos about every nook and cranny of this place, so many videos exploring the lives of the people who live there. But now all I can find are a handful of documentaries, the same interview with some residents and the same recycled 1 minute clips everywhere.
Nobody said anything about deliberately controlling those fingers to play yourself. Clearly it's not something you do for the sake of the enjoyment of playing, but more likely a demonstration of the dexterity of the prosthesis and ability to program it for complex tasks.

The idea of a prosthesis is to help you regain functionality. If the best way of doing that is through automation, then it'd make little sense not to.
The PDP-10 was a mainframe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10#cite_note-1
It seems to be intentionally designed to confuse and to disorient; misanthropic, as if designed by a demon.
Sorry, that's not true. I have (non-optimal) solar panels in the UK. I generate 100% of my annual electricity usage from them across the year.

In summer, I can easily get over 20kWh per day - against a daily usage of 10kWh. I release all of my data at https://gitlab.com/edent/solar-data/

Today, in the dead of winter, I got 2.8kWh - https://bsky.app/profile/solar.bots.edent.tel/post/3ldqqrvkw... - a not insignificant amount. My battery charged overnight, so I only drew about 4kWh from the grid during the day.

You can read all about how well solar works in the UK on my blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/solar/
Not everyone wants to pay $99/year to be able to notarize software that is not going to make them any money.

https://github.com/disable-gatekeeper/disable-gatekeeper.git...
It's nice in NixOS, but my experience on MacOS isn't great. It could be due to me having an x86 2017 Macbook Pro with only 8GB of RAM but I regularly have to wait for bug fixes to update my system.
What would that accomplish? The passenger is not operating the vehicle. If the cyclist and the passenger make eye contact, so what?
We are all nerds because we love the technology, science, and math behind it.
That sounds reasonable to me because the compute cost for this level of reasoning performance won’t stay at 10^22 and phones won’t stay at 10^12. This reasoning breakthrough is about 3 months old.
Not explicitly, I think. But if it uses the turn signals without turning, I wouldn’t feel to confident that an actual turn would be preceded by a signal, much less one with enough time for me to react (“I will turn” vs “I am turning now”).
It looks like something that has survived an earthquake, but not left unscathed.
Only in the minds of folks with certain minority worldviews. Whose favorable regard Elon obviously has little interest in.
> Ghosn is familiar with desperate moves — it’s been five years since he fled Japan in a Yamaha music case to escape prosecution on corruption charges.

An interesting person to be accusing anyone of desperation.
It looks like Agents are less about DAG workflows and fully autonomous "networks of agents", but more of a stateful network:

* A "network of agents" is a system of agents and tools

* That run and build up state (both "memory" and actual state via tool use)

* Which is then inspected when routing as a kind of "state machine".

* Routing should specify which agent (or agents, in parallel) to run next, via that state.

* Routing can also use other agents (routing agents) to figure out what to do next, instead of code.

We're codifying this with durable workflows in a prototypical library — AgentKit: https://github.com/inngest/agent-kit/ (docs: https://agentkit.inngest.com/overview).

It took less than a day to get a network of agents to correctly fix swebench-lite examples. It's super early, but very fun. One of the cool things is that this uses Inngest under the hood, so you get all of the classic durable execution/step function/tracing/o11y for free, but it's just regular code that you write.
So, the solution is to bury a small piece of unshielded highly radioactive material at the entrance, just enough to lethally irradiate the first party that breaks in? ~
I am very difficult to please when it comes to dotfile managers. I tried all of them and I'm quite fond of rcm[0]. It's been a few years so it's hard for me to remember exactly what it was but I think both chezmoi and yadm involved some kind of step to "apply" changes but I just want things symlinked into a dotfiles repo that I have a cron job which basically does `git ci -a && git push` to synchronize changes.

That said, I don't think rcm should be anyone's first choice. I'd check it out if nothing else seems to work for you. From what I hear, chezmoi seems to be most people's favorite so I'd start there. I don't know a single other person that uses rcm.

[0] https://thoughtbot.github.io/rcm/rcm.7.html
I think the problem with estimating a distribution is the same, it might simply not match reality (actual unknown success rates, actual unknown variance of your estimation of success rates being correct). In particular, if you are too optimistic relative to reality, Kelly betting will lead to ruin with high objective probability.
It always seemed like [from ARM's point of view]: "oh, you're going to sell way more parts doing laptop SoCs with the license instead of servers... if we'd known that before, we would've negotiated a different license where we get a bigger cut"
Ajar, to mean, slightly open. So, not a open door (anyone), not a revolving door (everyone), and not a closed door (no one).

It's a bit of a contrived term and there's not much to read into it. It's like how "hitting a home run" is slang for getting laid, and rounding the bases was an associated metaphor that evolved from it; they only make sense by the association with the original metaphor.