skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really two ways to read that behavior:

1. bad faith: They're a corrupt band of thieves trying to plunder our pocketbooks

2. good faith: They're ideologically committed to this strategy and believe it is beneficial

I think I can argue #2 from a GOP perspective but I've always found their arguments to be thoroughly unconvincing so I don't know if I truly understand it.

It's much easier to handwave people away as corrupt and incompetent but that's effectively a stand-in for any power broking behavior you don't understand.
This is the future of entertainment, it just isn't evenly distributed yet.

People like this are going to have access to Hollywood-grade AI that they can run from their home PC using open source models soon.

Every theater kid or improviser will immediately be able to become an orc or space trooper.

The pipe dream of becoming a Hollywood actor had to go through the Instagram/TikTok/Twitch phase, but it's about to come full circle.

Creators will own their own audiences and stories rather than having to fight for a spot at the top of the Disney pyramid. They won't be subservient to Disney producers, brand guidelines, or controls.

Studios only existed because (1) distribution was hard and (2) financial capital, human capital, and logistics were steep barriers. Neither is true anymore. The indie creator studio can thrive.

The future is going to be awesome. Steam/Bandcamp for TV, film, fantasy and science fiction.
We Need a Cyber Bill of Rights
Yeah good points. You can easily imagine composing graph based/data flow programming languages with just your mouth, ie “create node:<type>:<name>; connect node:<name>:<outlet> to node:<name>:<inlet>” as a relatively easy way to synchronize a visual programming language’s traditional mouse-based construction engine to speech based construction with realtime visual updates etc.
NoPixel
In my experience, a software engineer wears all the hats nowadays. Even crossing into product design and user experience.
I've spent an afternoon attempting to compile and run RWKV7 locally.. and I just don't get it. lotta errors in compiling... and it's a lot. Like a lot, a lot... it's walls of versions and sub projects.

Any kind of quickstart guide?

Also found.tried rwkv.cpp, and I can't seem to compile that either.
JWST seems to be showing that more than a billion years of star and black hole evolution happened in the "first billion years". For about a year I've been pretty sure that the first billion years might have been more like ten billion years, maybe Timescape explains that.
MixBox: Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting [pdf]
Here's the link for the record
https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books

I tried to use the wayback machine version, but it didn't cache the PDFs right since I guess they're hosted on a public Google Drive
Or, stop being friends with those people?

I'm good friends with some very rich people. Everyone knows they have money. They learned how to say no, and how to let go of people who just want to milk them for cash.
Fiber Broadband chief slams Starlink as a 'cop out' for BEAD
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42588139
Yes, TeamLab is the low-hanging fruit, low-effort version of what I wanted to see
Some people would like it just for the contribution they are making, and the salary is far from shitty. The top of the range would triple my own anyhow.
It still kind of low-key boggles my mind that so many developers choose iPhones and buy into that ecosystem. Not criticizing them... everybody makes their own choices and gets to decide what's good for themselves. But I just don't get it.

(And it's not because I haven't heard the stated reasons. They just don't resonate with me.)
Worlds Longest Redirect Chain
It refutes nothing, it attempts to place the blame for cloudflare incompetence at the feet of a user who has done nothing wrong.
OP here,

I apologize for the longer video, I should've done a short video rather than explaining the whole thing. Didn't realize it'd impact that much. I can understand your frustration. Give me some hours to make a new one.

I'm sorry, it was my first time creating any product and thinking about SaaS, and I'm still learning it. Please correct me, it'll help me improve and do better.
What an uninspired and dishonest view of Mullis.

This basically presents him as an idiot that just got very lucky once - a
"complete fluke," that had an unfortunately awful personality... and then goes on to try and spread the credit for his invention to other people that did trivial and straightforward parts of proving he was right after the fact.

You cannot separate his weirdness from his ability to invent PCR: his unconventional way of thinking is exactly what made both his discovery and his behaviors and personality. It is quite frankly, disgusting that our culture and scientific community cannot accept intellectual diversity and neurodiversity, and people like him that are different enough to actually bring a new perspective are systematically pushed out.

If they're accepted at all, it is the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer story- only as long and because they are useful, while constantly needing to provide massive value that others don't have to provide, just to exist in the same spaces while being neurodivergent.

I've had the opportunity to know and work with a few people that were just as "weird" as Mullis and had ideas just as good- but all were pushed out fast enough they didn't get to contribute anything and/or the credit was stolen entirely. Of two of the smartest and weirdest colleagues I've known as scientists- one is now an off the grid subsistence farmer in the middle of nowhere, the other dead by suicide. Both were capable of far more than any of the people that pushed them out.
My son happens to be working on a flat spacetime variation of GR and that makes it much easier to think about these sorts of things.

To have flat spacetime you have to distort things other than spacetime -- other than space and time. Which things? Mainly the speed of light, but also there's length contraction (why? because the effects of gravity in GR are anisotropic). Thinking that the speed of light might be variable is very strange, but even in flat spacetime the speed of light is always the same locally (in all directions), just not globally (nor in all directions). So now think of the path a photon in the CMB took to get to us, and now trace it backwards: as you trace it backwards through a great void it speeds up! And as you trace its exit from a great void it slows down, but it slows down extra because now the density is higher than where we are (because the universe was denser in the past, and less dense now due to its expansion). This also means that there's different amounts of red-shifting when traversing different regions of the universe at wildly different times and differing wildly in density. There is even some blue-shifting due to traversal of great voids.

We use differences in attenuation of brightness of faraway standard type 1A supernovae candles (which we assume always have the same brightness locally at the time of the event) and their red-shift to infer acceleration of the expansion of the universe. (Assuming not much gravitational lensing we can expect attenuation of brightness of standard candles to be a simple function of distance, and then we'd expect the red-shift to agree, but if it doesn't then... if the red-shift is stronger we assume that extra red-shift to be due to the acceleration of the expansion of the universe.) But the differences in red-shift might be artifacts of the great voids that the light traversed in order to get to us. That's what this timescapes hypothesis is about! The difference in z might be explainable by great voids rather than by acceleration of the expansion of the universe -- or perhaps a combination of both even.

Flat spacetime is not actually incorrect. Einstein's field equations and its solutions (e.g., Schwarzchild's and Kerr's) are mappings between flat spacetime and curved spacetime. For example, the Schwarszchild and Kerr solutions for a single massive body (non-rotating, in the Schwarszchild case, rotating in the Kerr case) are expressed as curved spacetime second derivatives of time, space, and angles where there is an `r` variable which represents the flat spacetime distance to the center of the massive body. This is so much so that one could be forgiven for wondering if curved spacetime is not just a mathematical crutch, or a projection much like -say- a Mercator projection of a 3D map onto 2D. It sure does seem like flat spacetime is more fundamental than curved spacetime given that we have a flat spacetime `r` in the solutions.
If you want to try another bookmark manager, I recommend you check this out

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From your link:

"According to historian Bob Moore, although the repatriations did occur, Tolstoy's intention was to minimize the culpability of the Cossacks for having sided with the Nazis, and in doing so he had undertaken manipulation of the sources and made "outrageous claims" that were exposed during the trial."

Great successor to the noble bloodline that enjoyed benefits of the work of serfs they owned.
I use them to share the entire experiment with other developers , so they can clone the gist and have the exact copy of what I have

e.g. https://gist.github.com/tonymet/d5df33b6a5003e1281c458a2d58d...
You don't apply thru flood gates because it doesn't make sense. You reach out to your network to get a referral.
You are misremembering. The “irrational over-response” came once we realized just how incredibly contagious the disease was, since it ran the risk of completely overwhelming hospitals and causing a collapse of health care systems. (And came very close in some places such as Italy.)
Is it really too much to ask to use the correct terms here, static and dynamic typing?

Strong and weak are sort of coherent as a spectrum, but they aren't a typology, and they do not in any sense or in any case reduce to static vs. dynamic types. Conflating them is not useful: I can make a good case that Julia's type system is stronger than C's, but Julia is dynamically typed and C is statically typed.

There's no reason to keep doing this. It's a malapropism, we could just.. not say that. Especially in a thread which is specifically about types.
Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles
That's really interesting. Any further cost savings going from Go to Rust?
The number of Miller-Rabin rounds has to be bounded, so if you're not going to base your bound on reaching a cryptographically negligible change of false positives, what are you going to base it on? Should we do 10? 15?

The problem with "x should be enough, but why not do more?" arguments is that they can be applied recursively, and never answer the question "ok so when should we stop?"
Stick with Newton then. Unless you're a specialist, this model explains almost everything you'll ever need to explain, predict, or encounter.
Also “Grand Theft Hamlet” which I learned about during the trailers at a recent visit to the theater.
If they keep the amount of revenue they had last quarter times 4, they might make $10B back
To be honest, record labels are doing a fantastic job still impoverishing artists even in the age of Bandcamp. I don’t doubt that Disney/ABC will plow some venture capital into a machinima venture, too, in the same way that the the Big Three have/had stakes in Spotify.
Why not? Effectively the USA lets state of California decide emissions controls for the country. Seems like a valid use of US style federalism.
I have a question about RAG in general (I am quite ignorant regarding LLM and I an trying to reason about possible hurdles before starting experimenting).

I would like to "train" an LLM with a few thousand analysis documents that detail the various enhancements applied to a in-house app over the last twenty years.

My question is: some of the modules that are part of my app have been totally revamped, sometimes more of once.
So while the general requirements for module Foo are more or less consistent, documents talking of it from 2005 to, say 2018 describes either bug fixes or small enhancements.
In 2019 our main Foo provider completely changed their product and therefore the interface, so the 2 docs talking of Foo in 2019 are "more authoritative" than anything before that date... but then COVID happened so we have now Foo 3.0 which was implemented in late 2022 and is now being idly maintained with, again, small enhancements and fixes.

Documents have IDs which include an always increasing number (they start their life as Jira Issues)so just saying "newer=more accurate/valid/authoritative" could help, but I hope we do not need to rank/tag/grade every single document manually in order to assess how much weight it has on any specific topic.

Is this something that needs special treatment or will it just "work"?
This video is delightful! I wish Sony were just a fraction as innovative and engineering-driven as they used to be.
gist's "clone with ..." feature is very powerful. It's a unique and (from what I can tell) permanent remote that you can push to. it has some restrictions on naming and file content.

but i would love to see your product run with "clone with..." but make it work for all your experiments

I just wrote up a guide on doing something similar with subtree and a large "experiments" repo .

https://dev.to/tonymet/how-to-put-everything-in-git-2b3d
The document does not give any rights to anyone. It is a piece of paper. What it does is describe an idea. The idea is that there are certain unalienable rights. You may disagree with that idea, but you cannot deny its existence.

> many of its signers were holding slaves

I can separate the idea from the people that held it. Can't you? I think this idea of liberty was a very good idea, and I support the expansion of those who qualify to be as free as described. What I'm arguing against is the erosion of the definition. We are not nearly as free now as free people were when the document was written. We are subject to much more authority.

It seems as though in your view, anything "society" does is legitimate, is that so?
I like outliers too! I think the best opensource option, besides emacs, is logseq which is now developing a tag concept very close to Tana's supertag: https://test.logseq.com/

They are looking for a name for the concept, so suggestions are welcome!
They can be configured globally with core.hooksPath or init.templatedir git config options.
it really has been incredible to watch. the whole main crew behind this really are genius.

i always wondered why someone didn’t do a long term role play with a big group and WoW. no pixel does it sooooo well with gta5, WoW always seemed like the perfect fantasy genre setting for it.

but omg if you’re a completionist, you can really dump a crazy amount of time into keeping up with the lore since it unfolds in real time over so many streamers.
I agree with respect to that old advertisement, but GenAI + acoustic physical modeling (SWAM) are likely poised to disrupt music more than you'd think.

You can 100% believe that the moment a composer/company/etc. can sketch out the cello/viola/whatever line of a song as pure midi and have an AI that can render it in a realistic articulable fashion (think some kind of futuristic band in a box coupled with physical modeling of the instrument)... a TON OF GIG/SESSION musicians will unfortunately lose their jobs.

It also wouldn't surprise me with the advent of MPE (Seaboard, Linnstrument, Osmose) that we start to see more instrumental approximations that are considered good enough for many lines of work.

Obviously though live performances will always have their place.

https://youtu.be/11Qprwtzl6s?si=qKlWX35zeOHIkiSS
Wasm4-miniciv: Multiplayer Civilization type game for WASM-4 game console
Sounds like we are about to get a bunch of AI slop garbage. Every time I watch streaming now I appreciate the studio system more and how it at least attempted to create something of quality. So much now is like reading a novel that didn’t have an editor.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540342
I can also attest to having a similar experience with scrum. I've seen it thrive in a single company I worked with, coupled with sharp product managers that know their shit better than any of us developers but at the same time take feedback to heart.

Never experienced it since... Each following employer has abused scrum to a/ say in front of stakeholders that scrum is in use and b/ utterly fail to use purely time-based estimations for tasks as a metric to a team's or a team member's performance. All this coupled with inept PM.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42554722
https://archive.is/7j4cF
> They won't be subservient to Disney producers, brand guidelines, or controls.

Although given that we're talking about content set inside World of Warcraft, if this ever actually started making Disney-level money then you can bet your bottom dollar that Blizzard will come seeking their pound of flesh (and don't bother arguing that this would be foolish and self-destructive, this is Blizzard we're talking about).
It's fun trying to get LLM to answer a problem that is obvious to a human, but difficult for the LLM. It's a bit like leading a child through the logic to solve a problem.
OnlyFangs making it into Rolling Stone is pretty irie 'mon (The troll race all RP with Jamaican accents).

It has been great second monitor content for someone like me who has never played WoW.
YouTube is obsessed with AI [video]
I'm always curious on how you guys use your note taking apps? I tried multiple (obsidian, notion, logseq ecc..) but always struggled to find a real use/need for them outside of work.

Am I missing something on going straight to applying my knowledge, after having found a solution to whatever problem I'm facing from a variety of sources, and not writing down many notes outside code comments/README.md ecc..? E.g: I'm currently building a mobile app with flutter, would you guys suggest that I log what I'm learning, even considering it's pretty basic stuff due to the fact that it's my first encounter with flutter/dart?

Now that I think about it, writing notes during the process could perhaps help me have more material for my blog posts
The endosymbiosis that resulted in the harnessing of mitochondrial energy production appears to have only happened once (see work by Nick Lane) and resulted in a ~20 fold increase in available energy to the cell was followed very closely by the Cambrian explosion. We could still all still be bacteria today without it.

https://nick-lane.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lane-J-Theo...
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I don't think it's accurate to compare it a theocratic phenomenon. Ask any physicist, they will say that science requires checking our theories against the evidence and changing our theories as new evidence comes to light. It's not like they issue scriptures to all grad students about what you must believe.

In practice, science requires balancing multiple criteria. Does a model have the right level of simplicity and complexity? Can I convince my peers that it's correct? Should I trust the results of a crank over the results of someone who has a long history of excellent work, and how much onus is there on my me and my research group to reproduce every single published result?

Keep in mind, no one expects to be responsible for a revolution, so you get an effect similar to "poll herding" -- it is desirable to have a consensus, and as consensus emerges around a theory for how to describe some new observations, you get people going along with it even if they maintain personal reservations. In fact, it has been clear to many physicists that dark energy is just an ad hoc explanation, and there has been serious contention about what better model could exist, and there have been several competing models. But every model had its flaws. It's possible that the timescape model will also have flaws that cause it to be re-evaluated.

I recommend a book called "What is this thing called science?" by Chalmers [1]. When I was an undergrad it gave me a more nuanced understanding of the Philosophy of Science.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_This_Thing_Called_Scie...
I had the pleasure of working adjacent to the St. Jude team while at CHOP, and I can vouch for the passion and professionalism of this team. This would be a great team to contribute to.
I'd love to be able to get a specced down, "low"-power, version of this to use as a home server:

- lower-end cpu (the 32-core version would be just fine for me)

- keeping the possibilty having lot of ram around (128gb? 256gb? 512gb?)

- low-end gpu or no gpu at all (it would be headless anyway)

- keep the ipmi around

- maybe some 4 hot-swappable 3.5" drive bays ?

I could see myself blowing 2000-3000$ on something like as long as I can keep it working for ten years. Maybe update it a bit over the years.

And i'm not joking about the ten-years: I'm still using a 2014-era HP MicroServer Gen8 and it works great. It shows its age, but it does still work great.
Have you read their document [0] on how to navigate the process?

[0] https://bertrand.might.net/articles/algorithm-for-precision-...
The worst part is that Apple is attributing the false claims to BBC News, making it seem like they're the source of the misinformation.

They could at least take responsibility for their own idiocy.
I had the same experience. It’s clearly very limited intellectually.
I thought so too until the invasion of Ukraine, but it's been increasingly hard to apply this narrow motivation to the world events of late. At least with regards to Putin and his inner circle — the outer oligarchy of Russia is of course just taken for the ride and they would rather it all stopped, but they won't speak up.
Origami Black Hole
AI will replace programming languages, as optimizating compilers replaced Assembly programmers.

Anyone that thinks code generation will stay as is, is fooling themselves.
> This is too theoretical to grok for me

Here's a fast, easy, practical way to think about CAST:

1. Causal: Novices may believe accidents are due to one "root cause" or a few "probable causes", but it turns out that accidents are actually due to many interacting causes.

2. Analysis: Novices may blame people, but it's smarter to do blame-free examination of why the loss occurred, and how it occurred i.e. "ask why and how, not who".

3. Systems: Novices may fix just one thing that broke, but it turns out it's better to discover multiple causes, then plan multiple ways to improve the whole system.
This reminds me of that Supreme Court case from 1923 where the entire case was about deciding “are Indians white”.

Crazy how that was not that long ago in historical terms.