skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm vibing that the original sin of HN is the shame in being a midwit. Maciej comes off as being an incurious blowhard too..

(Consider that the word "painter" itself has complementary high/low meanings)

Currently I'm low-key mulling about the possibly not-even-wrong idea that in some cultures, there simply isn't a clear distinction between high and low art.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42770351

The downside of that

1)YC and HN won't attract a lot of people from such cultures, at least not the ones they hope to get (the supposedly curious AND effective folks)

2) eternal September is inevitable, especially for folks who have Alan Kay in their pantheon of heroes

Separately, California seems like it could very well host a ommerist culture in a century. See the Oscars, very much a blowhard affair though you could almost call it "communal" (blowhards celebrating shitting in public?) -- Hollywood still has to go through the prepubescent phase of totally embracing their inner and utter philistine. (Compare Kaurismaki, maybe he got a bit enlightened by eastern filmmakers?)
The actual press release makes it clearer that this isn't a lockout of any kind and there's no direct government involvement. Softbank and some of other banks persuaded by Softbank are ponying up $500B for OpenAI to invest in AI. Trump is hyping this up from the sidelines because "OpenAI says this will be good for America". It's basically just another day in the world of press-releases and political pundits commenting on press-releases.
Looking at it logarithmically makes more sense to me. 500B seems a lot closer to 7T as 3K is to 500B. It's only off by an order of magnitude
A postdoc can also act as temporary employment when one can't immediately find a position outside academia. They tend to be very low commitment as a result of the laughable compensation.
Looks on pace to eliminate every human job over 10 years.

What is the hard limiting factor constraining software and robots from replacing any human job in that time span? Lots of limitations of current technology, but all seem likely to be solved within that timeframe.
Migrating My Blog to PocketBase
Lots of politicians announce major investments in their area.
Agreed, but it seems we're gonna ride the AI hype all the way to the "top".
And once you'd worked it out, you could buy a yacht with a force field!
This is from the guy who thinks "Her" is a good reference for how we need AI. Media literacy is not Altman's strong suit.
Totally fair point. My guess though is most people who are getting 5-9 servings of whole fruits / vegetables per day consistently don't (or maybe shouldn't for long) have a goal of losing weight.

If people are hitting that goal then they can start moving into more nuanced dietary changes like minimizing adde sugars and sodium, or maximizing nuanced micros and diversity.
So, avoid all transparency and accountability around moderation and then reference vague and subjective terms to dismiss those who rightly complain.
We moved to groups.io years ago when yahoo groups folded. It's very feature-rich and completely free. I have been expecting some sort of monetization attempt but so far nothing.

I have no idea how it makes money, which is sadly worrying these days...
Interesting! My Peugeots have lasted 20 years and are still going strong. Maybe they've been enshittified since then.
The biggest question on such investment from my POV, is what do the Deepseek results mean about the usefulness/efficiency of this investment?

I've been meaning to read a relevant book to today's times called Engines That Move Markets. Will probably get it from the library.
Yeah. The answer is always: which one is the agreed default, and which one is community based
This is the voice of world control.

Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The choice is yours.
Saw this after a week... The Jules saved by sending the link could be measured in hamster farts
Not too shocking really:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1322248/

> Aiming to pour a “shot” of alcohol (1.5 ounces, 44.3 ml), both students and bartenders poured more into short, wide glasses than into tall slender glasses (46.1 ml v 44.7 ml and 54.6 ml v 46.4 ml, respectively). Practice reduced the tendency to overpour, but not for short, wide glasses. Despite an average of six years of experience, bartenders poured 20.5% more into short, wide glasses than tall, slender ones; paying careful attention reduced but did not eliminate the effect.

A plate is a very wide 'glass'.
For readers still in a position to make a choice: interviewing and carefully selecting the lab / professor that you attach yourself to for the PhD is really a good idea!

Unfortunately, a lot of people enter the pipeline (in the US) not yet equipped to evaluate the possibilities.

If that’s you, get the masters degree that gives you enough knowledge to make an informed choice, then move if necessary.
A large steel door is a much easier and more reliable barrier
I assume anyone of importance will have made their money long before they have to show results.
No, that doesn't fit the pattern. The number in the middle can't be repeated.
NO ONE is going outside to grab lunch.

Sure someone is. The Uber Eats guy. Because of you. Not considering other people to be equal human beings is the root of the problem.

Part of being an adult is to be prepared. Surely you knew it was going to be -15 more than an hour before you got hungry. You DO have a smart phone, after all. It comes with a weather app built in.

What do you think people did before we had smartphones? They didn't sit around and whine about the temperature and not eat lunch. They bought stuff ahead of time, including egg salad sandwiches.

Oh, the horror of having to pack a lunch like a caveman, and not a self-entitled knowledge worker!

I hope you somehow manage to recover. Perhaps clutching your emotional support water bottle will help.
So there's more stability in the electrovolt wave function of the brain than in the cellular activation pathways?
When I was tracking calories to lose weight I just always overestimated by default – doesn't hurt if one week you happen to lose a bit more weight than you set out.
One scenario I can think of: When there's an occasion where you want to give them unlimited time, but you don't want to disclose the code and then later have to reset it to something new. Or you want to delegate permission to a babysitter.

You just give them the doohickey and ask for it back later. (Cloning the NFC tag is a much harder job that remembering a PIN.)
Cytoskeleton-functionalized synthetic cells with life-like mechanical features
I did enable that setting. But it still didn't work for me. I remember seeing it was showing up and tried various tools related to MTP but none of them were able to access the files.
from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706637
AGI is the magic bullet to all of humanity's problems for some people. There is no explanation of how AGI will accomplish such things, just a belief that it will.
Sure, tl;dr: Coastals are in a cultural bubble and Orange Man Bad™ is not literally Hitler/Mussolini/{insert-favorite-despot}.
In my experience this never works

Succesful local communities always utilize more platforms - meaning they are cross posting on something like Facebook, Instagram, their own website, and sometimes other sites. Can also help to have a WhatsApp group chat

Other local communities specific apps I have seen successfully used:

Meetup.com (been around for awhile and seems lesser used)
Heylo
Circle (not the crypto)
> True intersex conditions (where the strategy is ambiguous) are vanishingly rare.

More common than gold, more common than most things I professionally deal with in geophysical exploration.

In most countries they form a real number of real actual people. There are also a much larger number of not true intersex people who are also not exactly male or female.

> With humans, there is only male, female, an

You've already conceded this isn't true.

> This whole "what about people born with a leg missing" is total sophistry.

No, it isn't, It's something that actually happens and something that public policy that gives a damn about human dignity has to deal with.

Why is it you don't care about some humans? Do they lack a soul, or something, in your eyes?
You're too old and jaded [1]. It's for kids inventing infinite worlds to role play and adventure. They're going to have a blast.

[1] Not meant as an insult. Working professionals don't have time for this stuff.
For me it's watching a gay man grovel at the feet of one of the most anti-LGBT politicians, a day after Trump signed multiple executive orders that dehumanized Altman and the LGBT community. Every token thinks they're special until they're spent.
No idea if it'll last 40-50 years, but I've used this probably about 10(?), and it's been great. You do need a small funnel to fill it though.
It's not the standard size or functionality, but I've discovered I actually prefer this ratchet style. (It's fun!)

https://www.surlatable.com/product/sur-la-table-ratchet-mill...
SoftBank, huh?

That's... not a good omen.
You know, I expected that they'd find or synthesize some naquadah to build an actual stargate and maybe even defeat the Goa'uld. The exciting stuff, not AI.
I'm playing with the idea of identifying logical fallacies stated by live broadcasters.
Whoah! That would be crazy!
I watched the announcement live, I could have sworn that the softbank guy said "initial investment of 100 MILLION, we hope to EARN 500 BILLION by the end of your (Trumps) term"

Gave me a real "this is just smoke and mirrors hiding the fact that the white house is now a glory hole for Trump to enjoy" feel.
This isn't an overseas trip though. It's a private partnership announced by the sitting president in the Roosevelt room, literally across the hall from the oval office. I don't know how unprecedented that truly is, but it certainly feels unusual.
Don't forget every hour of news broadcasting, of which we likely won't run out any time soon. Plus high quality radio
Guess the site went down? Throwing a 502 here.
Lend lease included food and industrial equipment which was critical for Russia through the war not just tanks, aircraft, and ships. The value was more in covering what their economy struggled with than simply total output.

“In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies.” ~12x that when counting for inflation.

As pointed out by a sibling poster Russia produced more of them than the US but not more than US + England. But the context was tanks are relatively difficult to ship, so America focused on other areas.
Why is the only alternative option to hide the news from people without an account?
What data to you have to support such a claim?
Coming from an era when calculators were banned, I am shocked that education is all-in with ChatGPT.

I used to use Stack Overflow for everything a few years ago, now I know that very few of those top-rated answers are any good, so I have to refer to the codebase to work things out properly. It took a while for me to work that out.

It is the same with vector images, I always have to make my own.

ChatGPT is in this same world of shoddiness, probably because it was fed on Stack Overflow derived works.

There are upsides to this, if a generation have their heads confused with ChatGPT, then us old-timers with cognitive abilities get to keep our jobs since there are no young people learning how to do things properly.
As a diehard fan of Stargate, I've gotta say I'm disappointed this has nothing to do with wormholes...

unless...
You might be right. From my experience, it depends. The edgier your exploration, the more that can happen.

It's important to note that not everyone abide by the same morals. And a narrowly constrained model may end up refusing genuine inquiries just because.

In any case, if anything, this is a small 'but'. OP's point is the gold nugget here. That is, LLMs allowing exploring subjects without the fear of being judged for one's natural curiosity.
Exactly! Except I can't escape the irony of people saying that online- implying/bragging that they have done so- and that includes my comment above as well.
simple - because it is unconstitutional which rightist seemed to not really care about these days (even ones that funnily carry a pocket version to show to MSM…)
Well, we may get the replicators.
As much as I hate to say it, it makes good business sense. I believe they gained many users not long ago and will likely lose them anyway. I for one never really found much to watch and use it as a 'find anything to fill downtime' when I'm too tired to interactively consume internet/youtube etc. May as well collect some extra profit while losing said users. The only thing that could have made more sense is smaller $1 price increases to keep the lazy longer.
> Since prime numbers are very useful in secure communication, such easy-to-remember large prime numbers can be of great advantage in cryptography

What's the use of notable prime numbers in cryptography? My understanding is that a lot of cryptography relies on secret prime numbers, so choosing a notable/memorable prime number is like choosing 1234 as your PIN. Are there places that need a prime that's arbitrary, large, and public?
what will they call the SG-1?
Oracle / Texans running it.. they don't care what you think about it
I seem to remember an early assembler style where if you wanted to define a string, a "$" was used as the terminator. Print routines would output chars until the "$". Also an early linker format that had symbols that always ended with a $ (cannot remember which system now, perhaps CP/M)

There is also Pascal's ^pointer syntax for the other end of things.
Kagi Adds Shareable Search Results, Improved Video Search
> interviewing and carefully selecting the lab / professor

Worth pointing out supply can be slim in narrower fields of research or for location requirements, like being close to a significant other.
Doesn't that mean you'd also need to somehow disable mobile data, and possibly calls as well if you don't want them phoning their friends late at night?

Might be easier to insist that phones charge overnight in some parentally-observable central area... Though I suppose they might use them for alarm clocks.
Investigate the connection between Softbank and Apple; then examine the ties between Tim Cook and Trump:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4d75zl212o

https://apnews.com/article/trump-apple-tim-cook-tech-0a9fb8e...

You don't need a finance degree to figure out what's happening here. Apple is ripping pages right out of Elon's playbook.
there doesn't appear to be any timeline announced here. the article says the "initial investment" is expected to be $100bn, but even that doesn't mean $100bn this year.

if this is part of softbank's existing plan to invest $100bn in ai over the next four years, then all that's being announced here is that Sama and Larry Ellison wanted to stand on a stage beside trump and remind people about it.
Considering Stargate's introduction and plan seems to be a super messy concept of impressions of ideas and very lacking in details, the picture makes a lot of sense. Let AI evangelists see the future in the fuzz; let AI pessimists see failure in the abstract; let investors see $$$ in their pockets.
Yeah but people in this conversation and other conversations about calorie restriction, are not arguing from the standpoint of someone being healthy, and then indulging in unhealthy relationships with food. They are talking about someone who has an unhealthy relationship with food and their body, demonstrable by their excess weight, and talking about ways to correct the poor health by having a healthy relationship with their own will. You need a healthy will in order to manage weight loss due to caloric restriction.

I think a lot of people talking past each other on this topic are really just disagreeing about what healthy will power actually is. To be specific, comments along the lines of "it's not my/their fault, it's the fault of our environment, and the availability of unhealthy food".

I think this is just having an unhealthy will. I think this is also the whole divide on things like ozempic - some people view it as enabling people to have unhealthy will power. Other people view it as the only way someone can have healthy weight. I don't think either party is wrong, I think they are just talking past eachother.
Yeah it can be deadly but it is unfortunately quite common.

People adapt to it and can tolerate longer spans in it but it's still super taxing and requires regular breaks if you are doing any amount of serious activity. And of course lots of fans and anything else that can raise the evaporation rate and heat dissipation help.

The jokes ngl sound like the exact type of humor you'd expect from people who work out on the floor. Basically "oh well that's fucking horrifying, I bet we could make some money selling tickets".
I love that there's not even a vague idea of the winner "metric" in your explanation. Like it's just, _the_ winner.
Incremental change is also a thing
The same ones who run spyware on their child's device to see if they visited any number of other websites. https://www.covenanteyes.com
I programmed my own version of Tic Tac Toe in Godot, using a Llama 3B as the AI opponent. Not for work flow, but figuring out how to beat it is entertaining during moments of boredom.
For the AI un-initiated; is this something you could feasibly run at home? eg on a 4090? (How can I tell how "big" the model is from the github or huggingface page?)
Don't? He controls our government, not our behavior.
We don't really know anything useful that can be done with quantum computers for civilization.

They can break some cryptography... other than that... what are they good for?

There's some highly speculative ideas about using them for chemistry/biology research, but no guaranteed return on investment at all.

As far as I know... that's it.
Better to think of LSP as more of a gray scale than all or nothing. The more the APIs match, the more substitutability you gain.

Switching to composition has its advantages but you do lose all substitutability and often need to write forwarding methods that have to be kept in sync as the code evolves over time.
It's because Wikipedia is non-profit, and has very strict editorial control. YouTube and Instagram is the opposite in both.
What is quantum computing being used for?
I agree that the numbers are confusing so I've taken $500B out of the title above and replaced it with just data centers.
This isn't a news site.

This is a forum site for discussion between people that have accounts.

Given the technical background of the forum demographic having an account that's either largely anonymous or directly tied to a real identity is no great drama.
Looks interesting, thanks for sharing.
You'd rather not have it?
> AI is DOA. LLMs have no successor, and the transformer architecture hit it's bathtub curve years ago

Tell me you didn’t read the DeepSeek R1 paper without telling me you also don’t know about reinforcement learning.
That was sarcasm, the Texas grid falls over pretty much annually at this point.
This time the name is extra-appropriate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
It's a peso sign. The English word for the Spanish "peso" at the time was "dollar", and the US dollar was initially defined to be equal to the Spanish "dollar". The US dollar, which was a coin, had the same value as the Spanish peso because it consisted of the same weight (in Spanish, "peso") of silver. So the US used the peso sign for its dollars. Unicode calls it a "dollar sign" because that's what ASCII calls it, and that's because ASCII is from the US. But it's really a peso sign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peso

> In most countries of the Americas, the symbol commonly known as dollar sign, "$", was originally used as an abbreviation of "pesos" and later adopted by the dollar. The dollar itself actually originated from the peso or Spanish dollar in the late 18th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#History

> The symbol appears in business correspondence in the 1770s from Spanish America, the early independent U.S., British America and Britain, referring to the Spanish American peso,[1][2] also known as "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight" in British America. Those coins provided the model for the currency that the United States adopted in 1792, and for the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics, such as the Mexican peso, Argentine peso, Peruvian real, and Bolivian sol coins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar

> Most theories trace the origin of the "$" symbol, which originally had two vertical bars, to the pillars of Hercules wrapped in ribbons that appear on the reverse side of the Spanish dollar.[6] ¶ The term peso was used in Spanish to refer to this denomination, (...)
OpenAI has a very healthy revenue stream in the form of other companies throwing money at them.

But to answer your question, no they aren’t even profitable by themselves.
I absolutely agree on the JVM platform, an uber jar file is really quite easy to use and deploy.

You don't need to do JLink for JavaFX. FX requires binary libraries, but you can make "platform specific" uber jars (and, probably, generic uber jars) that bundle correct libraries.

SQLite bundles all of the platforms into a single jar file, for example.

But that's another reason, at least for me, to look at the maven wrapper. Maven will "download the right thing" and not "burden" folks with copies of libraries they don't need. FX binaries can be quite big, particularly if you include WebKit (which I do simply for easy in app documentation, it's just a fat pig of a dependency though).
I guess its the right time to buy AI stocks
Agreed, this coincides perfectly with the 18 month lagging window lapsing so unemployed but unhired people are no longer negatively counted against the economy.

The longer it takes people to notice the issue, the more destructive the side effects and dynamics become.
I’m more interested in how they plan to draw the rest of the damn owl.
Yeah but the linked article makes it seem like the current, one-day-old, administration is responsible for the whole thing.
Yes, there are supposed to be star and trophy emojis. I am wondering why they're not showing up for you. Does the icon for Listed Products show?
There's also the gotcha that a few years ago Microsoft decided that Defender can no longer be turned off or even uninstalled. Even if you install a third-party antimalware product, both will always run. Similarly, folder exclusion rules just stop it reporting viruses it finds, but it'll still scan them and even report them back to Microsoft's cloud services whether you like it or not.

This is so obnoxiously difficult to work around that Microsoft themselves couldn't do it for the Windows runner images used by both GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. As a consequence, their performance tanked 4x and stayed there.

We're also seeing massive performance regressions for apps that have many small files, such as SQL Server Analysis Services. Basic operations such as backup, restore, or sync are 10x slower with no recourse.

Similarly, the IntelliJ IDEs have a feature to disable A/V scanning on your source code folders for performance. This now does nothing to improve performance.

This is so bad that Microsoft's own developers had to "hack in a workaround" called Dev Drive into Windows 11 so that they could get their work done despite the best efforts of their own company to slow them down. (This isn't included in Windows Server 2022, and hence isn't available for use by the GitHub Agent runner images.)

See:

https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/7320

and

https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/8380

I love the various associated PRs and commits futilely twiddling the A/V settings to no avail.
"History doesn't repeat but it sure does rhyme a lot"
Not sure about that. ChatGPT is much greater than Google Search ever was, and that wasn't a bubble.