skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, family ties. European monarchs were a really tight bunch. For instance, the tzar of Russia and the king of the British Empire at the time of WWI were brothers.
OpenAI continues to muddy the benchmarks, while Claude continues to improve their intelligence. Claude will win long term. It'd be wise to not rely on OpenAI at all. They are the first comers who will just burn cash and crash out I suspect.
If it's just a random box you move left or right and keep going. Sure there might be a conversation, but frankly it's not gonna slow the army down more than a smoke break will.
Same experience over here, I was already on Mastadon, and finally joined the Bluesky crowd.

It has finally become the kind of content Elon Musk fans love so much.
How do you get the land for your empire to begin with, with peace and diplomacy? I guess war is a hard habit to break
I wondered if the bamboo was sold for a loss
How much worse would you say has the side show gotten?

Would you say the sideshow itself is being undermined at this point?
Here we have a group of people that have given up on their duties re: checks and balances because following orders is easier. What a surprise that they're spineless in other ways too.
Those are just examples. Whatever the reason for each, sovereign jurisdictions don't allow free access to their resources/markets just out of spite. That includes Europe.
Since we're at it, I read a theory that Albanians may be the descendants of Dacians, from the Roman province: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Dacia

Their language is unique in Europe and probably originates in the Thrakian, Illyrian, and Dacian languages. With the important mention that one must not apply today's assumptions of a unified language when referring to something as "Dacian", think more of a situation like in today's Dagestan, where on a surface of 50,000 square kilometers, 3 million people speak no less than 40 languages.

The theory is that during the Roman retreat from Dacia, the population (estimated to as low as 100,000 and as high of 500,000 people, so not exactly a Biblical exodus), migrated to south of Danube and eventually today's location. The toponymy is strangely Albanian, like even the name of the Romanian capital "Bucharest" means "beautiful is" in Albanian.
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Especially when art and experimentation and expression is largely done online and you can create tools for near total control of online spaces.
Exactly this. Great Britain colonized huge parts of the globe and had an empire. They were kings of trade and the world. Now they are just a surveillance nanny state and hollow shell of their former self.
You're saying this yet anyone can buy a random Bambu and just print.

I've owned or used probably every major (and some minor) printer released in the last 8 years and for most people Bambu really will just be "plug and play" (and even if something goes wrong they'll hold hands as much as needed)
Posting about politics on social media changes exactly zero. In the end you will only have people with the same opinion as yours around you which distorts your world view. If you really want to get involved, you should start with your local community and make things better in your hometown. You can't change country-wide politics.
Can you provide any statistics to show that it's an outlier?
Windows is pretty good with backwards compatibility. We bought some software back in the early '00s and it still runs fine on Windows 10. You do have to install the manufacturer's update after installing it off the CD, though. Even though the update says only for win2k machines. :)
Not worth it. Maori rights are an intractable problem - the only way to win is to avoid the topic and punt it to a future government. I'm sure you've worked on projects sunk by a non-technical distraction so you surely understand the mechanics.

National says they (and ACT) are the business party but they seem to be mostly windbags. The NZ government traditionally screws over businesses and founders - they certainly fail to encourage businesses while producing a lot of ineffectual programmes.

I don't recommend anyone try and start a business here. Plus NZ society generally cuts down tall poppies - especially capitalists (sportspeople is the main way to achieve without approbation). Be an employee or leech on the welfare state are the usual alternatives.
Whats a process server in this context?
> On a personal level, their model is getting beat handily by Claude Sonnet 3.5 right now. It doesn't seem to show in the benchmarks. I wonder why?

I do use Sonnet 3.5 personally, but this "beat handily" doesn't show on LLM arena. Do OpenAI game that too?
I am sure there are some Emacs modes or plugins for other editors that could go back and forth between this and the more commonly-seen style.
Legally, no, it doesn't
If we wanted to replicate the 90s, 00s, and even the 2010s era gaming experience - mostly single player, no micro-transactions, and so on - how do we do that today? Is there way to discover games that aren't trying to extract as much money from you as possible?
Here's one:

As relayed by Russian propaganda outlets: https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1820724008637063664

Reuters fact check: https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-arrest-over-faceboo...

>VERDICT Missing context. The clip shows a June 2024 arrest, according to Devon and Cornwall Police, and predates the Southport knife attack by around a month.

Hence not debunked (a strategy we're used too).

Times article on the subject: https://archive.ph/3OkeG Police arresting nine people a day in fight against web trolls

>More than 3,300 people were detained and questioned last year over so-called trolling on social media and other online forums, a rise of nearly 50 per cent in two years, according to figures obtained by The Times.

>About half of the investigations were dropped before prosecutions were brought, however, leading to criticism from civil liberties campaigners that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech.

>Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said the Crown Prosecution Service emphasised section 127 was to be used only in “extreme circumstances”. “But the problem is ‘grossly offensive’ is not something you should normally be prosecuted for. It’s not showing harm to other people. It’s not showing that somebody is being harassed ... attacked or threatened.”
But it's also highly visual. I forget where I saw it, but someone showed people an episode of Friends without any audio, and they could still understand the plot based on the overly dramatized physical communication.
I'd love to hear from anyone else who work(s/ed) at Apple to confirm or deny this story.
And when he bought it, it was
I am surprised the artist/handcraft community has not yet agreed on a way to signal that, given the strong sentiment.

It totally would make sense in, e.g. art or photography (or, strangely, crocheting) circles to show that this image of a mouse was not vomited by an ML that had eaten too much LAION
IMO the UK should look at what Singapore did and maybe learn from that.

There's really no excuse for a country like the UK other than ordinary plain and simple mis-management from the top.

Singapore did not depend on neighboring countries to climb out of 3rd world poverty. To name an example.
Yes. Vast majority of computing is still under powered. Chromebook for example. Apple Silicon fanless MacBook Air only arrives in 2021. And I would argue if we want AR or latency sensitive applications our computing power is still off by at least an order of magnitude.
As menctioned, pro-gamers train combos for hours daily. The best of them can press up to 10 keys per second without thinking. For example, the fastest StarCraft II player Reynor (Riccardo Romitti) can sustain 500 key presses per minute, and do short busts of 800. He has videos explaining how to tweak the Windows registry to achieve such rate (it involves pressing some keys once and the OS autorepeats faster than you can press), because it can't be done with the standard config dialogs. And you are trying to tell me that you can do double that... not only double that, "much faster" than that.

I dare anyone to make a script that, after launching, will ask you to press Ctrl+C after a random wait between 1000 and 3000 ms. And record your reaction time meassured after key release. It's allowed to "cheat" and have your fingers ready over the two keys. Unless you jump start and get lucky, you won't get better than 150ms.
But they're not dominant by any means. They are pretty good, I was seriously considering buying them to replace my AnkerMake (got it as a gift).

So even setting the ethics aside, it's not going to do any good.
Communism has a definition. In the same vein, when someone says “democracy,” you can know roughly what they mean without knowing, eg, is it a representative democracy, is it a republic, does everyone vote together on all issues in a town square. Communism has basic characteristics involving the abolition of private property (not the same as property) and class. China has moved away from socialism to a kind of state capitalism over decades, and I don’t remotely understand why we’d call it communist.
Look I don’t want to carry any water for him whatsoever, but I think it’s going to be essential to couch criticism in the rule-of-law setting we think should prevail. To that end, the text of the relevant section is:

> With respect to a foreign adversary controlled application, the President may grant a 1-time extension of not more than 90 days with respect to the date on which this subsection would otherwise apply to such application pursuant to paragraph (2), if the President certifies to Congress that, […]

where “would otherwise apply” is pretty clearly not predicated on the preceding section having come into effect or not.
The two things you brush over are the most important though - and feed into each other: network effects are relevant (and very much so because they affect all sorts of things you can do with something) and they are directly influenced by the number of users, which makes them incredibly relevant. What others choose are also relevant because of these network effects.

I can hack up a "device" with a raspberry pi zero or whatever and call it "HaxyDeck" and claim it is all open to anyone who wants to tinker with it, but at the end it'd be irrelevant because only me (and perhaps a couple other people) would have it. The aspects you want to ignore (number of users, be something other than Apple, what others are using) would actually affect my use of HaxyDeck directly: since i'd be the only one (or one among a tiny number) using it, i'd be the only one having to make it do things i want, it wont have software from others, it wont support software other people may want to use for communication, software some services that theoretically have nothing to do with phones or computers (e.g. banks) wont work because HaxyDeck's userbase is irrelevant for them, etc. All of these have to do exactly with what others are doing.

Basically see how all the non-Android Linux phones (like PinePhone) are faring. You can't just ignore what effect having a large user base some platform (be it a device, an OS or even service) has and say "just use something different".
It becomes much harder to notice if you have closed all the right matching parens, and hence where a token after the closing paren belongs.
When the closing paren is exactly below the opening paren, on the same column, it becomes much easier to see the structure. It's a very good thing for students who just learn Lisp.
Isn't the disillusionment of the main scientist related to the violent abuse of the CCP (and he loss of faith in humanity) core to the reasoning of why she reached out to the aliens, despite their warning? How do they restructure something so core to the plot?
Two Things:

1. If you were a bit more familiar with Apple history, you'd know that the Mac was actually Steve Job's push to make things more proprietary and locked down, not less. Make of that what you will.

2. If your ideological stance is in opposition to companies like Microsoft/Apple/etc. and you work in the tech industry, the most effective action you can take as an individual is to deny them your labor.
Thanks for correcting, I only remembered that 3.2 was the latest so went one down since I remembered compute wasn't part but seems it was in 2 steppings. :)
Apple also cultivates "pets" who suck, but for some personal-connection or political reason have received or curried favor that results in them being retained and even promoted through Apple's organization despite high-profile and embarrassing failures. See: the Aperture fiasco. And also: Jony Ive.

When will it substantially harm the company, enough so that someone ("activist" investors?) raise a hue and cry? Developers clearly can't wield enough influence; I say this from experience.

Nor customers. Apple's shoe-horning of "AI" shit into its products to pander to "pundits" and "analysts," shames the company that once held itself out as a rebel and disruptor.

And even Apple adherents have noted profoundly slipping quality. Absurd defects persist, and new ones arise. The "AI" BS reminds me of one of my favorite longstanding Apple blunders: If you are going on a business trip and you enter all your appointments and flight info into Calendar, you're in for a surprise (and potentially embarrassment) when Apple CHANGES THE TIMES of all of them simply because you TRAVELED to a different time zone.

There is no way to tell Calendar to simply USE THE TIME SHOWN ON THE PHONE. If you set up an appointment and then travel east, you will miss that appointment (or return flight) because Apple will change the time of that appointment to make it LATER. This is mind-boggling detachment from reality, but that's where Apple operates... and far too often gets a free pass on it. Is it any wonder that its "AI" is just as bad?
Could this method be applied toward distilling truth from a knowledge graph generated from a corpus of both real & fake news? Or from a corpus of inconsistently-reliable witness statements about any given phenomenon?
Why not hire US consultants to get from starting to mid-sized?

I’m curious, if you think the issue is cultural.
The Chinese government carefully controls foreign access to its market already (unlike the US), and already bans quite a few foreign companies from operating on the Chinese Internet (again, unlike the US).

I imagine Apple already complies with whatever they need to comply with in order to make the Chinese government happy.

> 'cos we're all equal, no?

No, we absolutely aren't. The Chinese government has ensured for decades now that foreign businesses have only tightly controlled access to the Chinese people while Chinese-owned (i.e., easily controllable by the Chinese government) businesses have advantages not given to outsiders. (And those outsiders need to open up a Chinese subsidiary that is majority-owned by Chinese investors/companies.)

On the other hand, most Western countries have given Chinese companies near-unfettered access to their markets.

If anything, this TikTok ban is actually making things more equal, if only by a tiny bit.
Yeah, framing is the key. Put LLM in autocomplete, and it is "oh wow this thing reads my mind". Present it as an expert counselor and "this stupid bot does not know we have no bridge in our city" or something.
idk i always just put a newline before every single open parens and that worked for me
Plenty of culture isn't gigs and nightclubs - London isn't terribly good, for its population size and economy, for those anyway.

Think museums, parks, galleries, theatre, exhibitions.

Granted it's not the only city with those, the problem the UK has is that its small, desirable cities are unable to grow or reinvent themselves. Cambridge and Bristol should be ideal for hardware startups, but the cost of both housing and working space is insane for small, provincial cities, partly because NIMBYism and partly because building infrastructure is absurdly expensive when you're constantly having to work around 200 year old buildings and 800yo city plans.
Legal changes are making it increasingly very difficult to sell perpetual licenses. For example, in Germany, a new law recently took effect that clarifies that if you sell a software license for a given period of time, you're liable to provide whatever updates/support the customer may need over the course of the software's licensing period to enable the customer to keep running it, at no additional cost, regardless of what it costs you. I'm not a lawyer and may be getting this wrong, but if you're contemplating getting into the business of selling perpetual licenses in software, definitely check with a lawyer. It's not like it was in the 90s.

In the 90s, a large driver of recurring revenue for software was that when the OS and hardware landscape changed, you made a new version of the software adapted to that change, and then, if customers wanted to upgrade their OS or hardware (frequently for reasons unrelated to your product), that made them come back to you to pay for the new version of your product. Under the new legal regime, you would be forced to give them the update for free, so if you sell an actual perpetual software license, you have a fixed amount of revenue on one hand, and a potentially unlimited liability to incur additional costs on the other.
Lisp users are a diverse crowd. I won't be so bold as to sign off for all of them.
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I built a tool to help you manage clients, projects, tasks, invoices, payments, and communication -all in one place instead of going from tool to tool
Sure, deca- as in "decade" is understandable. But why would deci- as in "decimal" be any less understandable?
Most bunkers were in line of 5, and connected by ditches/trenches. So, they almost were never by themselves (unless in some isolated aerea), but in lines, and connected to a network of trenches. As the war in Ukraine shows, trenches are still useful.

There was also communication lines, (hard telephone lines), in ditches about 1m deep, in order to survive nuclear / emp attacks.

When I was a little kid, we'd play hide and seek in those bunkers, or we'd play 'castle take over' with self made wooden swords, romans vs illyrians as kids. (Or Albanians vs Turks). Which team conquered the most bunkers, would win.

They were fun as a kid, but we had to watch out for wild animals (or snakes), take refuge on those bunkers.

Now most of them are being scraped, to recoup the metal, so there are few left.
Also even the safe job wage in the UK is perhaps only 2/3 of in Germany for example
AFAIK, Apple has never retroactively removed functionality from devices people already purchased

Selling a walled garden is one thing, building walls around a garden you already bought is another thing entirely
I don't want any incoming texts at all if they are trivial complaints that can wait until we see each other in person and can actually have a conversation. Now if the AI could judge "this isn't an emergency" and just present the messages at the end of the day, or at least when I'm not otherwise busy, that might be something.
They disrupted the 3d printer market with printers that just work out-of-the-box at at price points where you typically only get enthusiast products that require a lot of tinkering.

A lot of their business model is seemingly based on making long-term sales from consumables. Their solution for multi-color printing is more convenient to use with filament sold by them because they embed information about the filament on proprietary RFID tags.

A couple days ago they announced locking down the API for their most expensive line of printers, locking most API calls to only their own software because of "security". Users are obviously upset.

Rumours for the reasons range from protecting themselves from user mods that replicate the RFID functionality on any filament by configuring the printer via API calls, to Bambu Labs wanting to launch some kind of subscription service for print farms.
A blasphemy is a very useful thing in cases when a discipline turns into a religion.
(Yes, I know about jokes.)
Many other reasons to ban TikTok, including many examples related to national security already in place for the US and its allies on government and military devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok
Well it’s not necessarily a good thing. In Europe we are traditionalists and we retain a lot of spirit (Geist) by not striving for pure progress
I mean, the solution is inside your definition of the problem. Infinite capital growth isn't possible. They will either finally make their products unusable or collapse. When they have collapsed enough and we have reached the plateau of innovation someone will make some basic device interoperable with everything and leave us be to count their millions instead of billions.

Its just another bubble, one predicated on mining the users rather than expanding the product.
Yeah, NFC truly is the hot path to the majority of CVEs on Android, right?
It's a nice article, but like so many I feel like it has a reluctance to address some of the issues head-on. Like this:

> I’m not calling the tech industry evil.

Well. . . why not? I think at this point the tech industry is evil. Not in the sense that water is wet, and maybe not even in the sense that mammals birth live young, but sort of in the sense that ice occurs near the Earth's poles. There are some bits and pieces here and there that don't follow the pattern but they are the exception and they're getting smaller.

That doesn't mean that technology is evil, but the ways its being used and developed often are.

And that gets to another aspect of this that I feel like people in the tech world sometimes overlook when talking about this: enshittification is not a technological phenomenon. It's a social phenomenon that is driven by our socio-legal apparatus which allows and encourages high-risk pursuit of sky-high profits. Corporate raiding a la the Sears debacle, consolidation in grocery stores, even something like tobacco/health or oil/climate-change coverups, all these are forms of enshittification. Tech is the most prominent venue, maybe because it's especially suited to certain forms of vendor lock, but it's by no means the only one.

Enshittification happens because we are not willing to take a sledgehammer to the idea that making businesses bigger and bigger is a good thing. Timid reforms focused on things like data privacy are woefully inadequate. Large companies need to be directly dismantled, wealth needs to be directly deconcentrated, and broad swaths of behavior that are currently happening left and right need to become the kind of thing that will land you in prison for 10 years.

I'm not optimistic this is going to happen without some kind of "hitting bottom", though, whatever form that may take.
Because it's endlessly profitable and very low risk to run a utility, the company's board is... unlikely to ever decide to do a stunt. For what payoff?
I’m sure Msty is a good app. And it might be better for some users while it might be worse for others. For example, it’s not a native app and doesn’t support “inline usage”, which some users may find not appealing.
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A wide open door to get foreign political donations (see: bribery) in plain sight.
You can and people do.

It’s just a lot more expensive and labor intensive to apply.
> It is questionable if Trump's claim of not penalizing violators of the law prior to an approved 90-day extension is legal; the law allows no such powers to the President.

The president has the power to pardon, which could be interpreted in that way.

I'm no legal scholar, but I think offering the pardon up front with the intention of circumventing the law would itself have been a crime up until the recent July supreme court ruling that now appears to make it perfectly legal: absolute immunity for all official acts including pardons.