skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Siri, the app Apple acquired from a promising Palo Alto startup once upon a time, for close-ended, fixed phrase commands hasn't changed that much for accomplishing Apple-specific tasks. However, yes, going out to the interwebs or answering open-ended questions is more problematic now than it used to be.

Amazon's Echo has also enshitified such that many skills don't work and command phrases that used to work no longer give the same results. I used to be able to ask Echo "What's the IMDB rating for [movie name]?" but it invariably gives an unrelated or a wrong answer or does a HAL-9000.

It seems like an obvious category killer app to have an AI personal assistant able to perform free-form queries and operate on allowed services with a degree of trust and care so that it can't email everyone you've ever known a photo without a high level of interactive confirmation.
Oh, you’re upset because you’re one of those “r/politics tells me what to think” NPCs. What’s it like being a breathing LLM trained on input data chosen by a Reddit moderator?
It's not an "argument", it is a fact. Neom has many parts, one or more of those parts are finished. It is not an "imaginary" project, period. An imaginary project does not get to the construction phase. You cannot call this imaginary without significantly and unilaterally re-defining the meaning of that word.

From there, The Line =/= Neom. That said, 170km is still the plan for The Line – the first segment was supposed to be 5km by 2030, now it is 2.5km by 2030. And again, them not building as much as they said does not mean it is cheaper (cost is what we're discussing, after all). If anything it means they are already over budget.

Stargate is a new company, so OpenAI (a different company) having data centers does not seem relevant. Also, I do not think OpenAI actually does own any data centers – for the most part they've been using Azure infra AFAIK. But I did not claim that Stargate was imaginary, so I am unsure how this is a relevant point for you to make.
>including a jailed android

no. I would only consider a Linux phone to get away from apple and google
Datacenters can still achieve ROI, but in some cases, it may take longer than expected. This delay is primarily due to the increased complexity of managing operations with the variability introduced by intermittent energy sources. While batteries help mitigate this issue, their current costs make them less competitive compared to non-intermittent energy setups.
Synthetic data is doing wonders for models like Phi-4, and at least part of the dataset for DeepSeek-R1 came from their earlier models.

If you read the literature from the Phi-4 team it talks about synthetic data allowing better control over the training process. The upfront investment is greater but pays off over multiple generations of trained models - and doesn’t leave you with SolidGoldMagikarp ;)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldm...
On your 2nd paragraph, I love in London and go hiking every now and again. What about London made it hard to get to the country? 30 mins on the train and you're out there!
Ok, but then I'd still prefer a method that sends users to a unique URL. OP's method may help with obfuscating the changing of the code, but I'm sure there are ways to better achieve that without having to introduce this quasi-randomness. The simplest would probably be to just to regularly hide/show the code (which would happen anyway on a typical digital ad display that cycles through a number of ads).
All of the content and resources associated with their production is their platform.
You have a 12 year old article about manual reporting of smog levels that's moot given the past decade of gas measuring satellites, and you ignore the fact that China isn't a closed country, it's one routinely visited by internationals including those from the IEA that directly inspect energy infrastructure.
We definitely agree to disagree… I am trying to understand your point of view but failing - if they understood the loan and still took on it does that mean that they are just being irrational? or stupid (I don’t mean to sound mean here but lacking a more PC word here…)?
I will wait when its available for the plus users but if it becomes available in the API and the price is reasonable then it will definitely change website automation testing.
Those are fascinating observations! Do you have any recommended reading for those interested in learning about medieval construction?
PennyFarming - Tractor motorcycle penny-farthing [video]
“SOA does not collect any vehicle-generated data unless the vehicle is associated with an active STARLINK subscription service. To sign up for the STARLINK service, you must have a MySubaru account.”

https://www.subaru.com/support/privacy-policies/vehicle-priv...

So looks like you’re only tracked if you are signed up with Starlink, having first obtained the prerequisite MySubaru account.
Arent most of the SOTA AI models able to solve captchas?
My solution is tied to Home Assistant, which is running for the whole house 24/7 anyway, then, a Z-Wave smart plug to turn the PC on/off, and, finally, an EnOcean kinetic battery-less switch to toggle it on and off. While we're at it, Home Assistant also powers on/off the TV, sets the input, sets volume, and dims the living room lights.
This is a big achievement. Used the tool along against Hotjar and the likes and loved VWO.
I mostly use it to tag media files (music, video, photos), pdfs, docs/spreadsheets. So far I haven't encountered any issues. But obviously if you tag a plain text file you are gonna see the tags at the end.
Considering app store revenue, smartphones are 75% handheld game console and 25% other stuff.

I don't see a strong argument for treating the game console part differently from the way other game consoles are treated.

Which can work both ways, of course.
can you install this into a discord? i volunteer to help. I've been wanting a text-based hackernews chat with alternative moderation.
Unlimited free OpenAI o1?

OP, isn't that really expensive to maintain?
There was that time (2009 or so?) I wrote 2 million files to a single directory on NTFS and that filesystem was never the same again. It didn't seem to be a hardware problem. I used to be really careful to not put a crazy number of files in a directory on Linux and Windows storing them in subdirs like

b7/b74a/b74a56

where the digits are derived from a hash of the file name but lately I've had some NTFS volumes with a 1M file directory that seem to be OK.

Hardware problems also manifest in mysterious ways. On both Windows and MacOS I had computers that seemed to be OK until I did an OS update which caused enough IO that a failing HDD was pushed over the edge and the update failed; in one case I was able to roll back the update but not apply the update, in another case the machine was trashed. Careful investigation (like taking the disk out and inspecting it on another computer) revealed a hard drive error although there was no clear indication of this in the UI and the average person would blame to software update
Field (no pun intended) testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxcB_-C-E4
Debian tends to put their principles above pragmatism (for better or worse), so would they even agree with such vendoring when it's entirely meant as a way to bypass their vision/requirements/process for how dependencies should be handled?
Most sources, but not all! To me, watching 8 hours of puppies, kittens and rainbows in a day would have a pretty negative impact on my life. That kind of content is negative when it becomes excessive. Heroin feels really good when you use it too. Doesn't make it a positive thing.
...but what if you did? man wouldn't that be something??!!
How can I test this without giving you money?
Tangential but once in a blue moon I come by some situation where I’m on my phone and I’m looking at something that has a QR code showing on the screen of the phone itself.

And so I do something silly like airdropping a screenshot of it to my laptop so I can scan it with my phone camera, or I get someone else (friends, family) to use their phone to scan the code from my phone screen with the camera app on their phone.

And all this time I was annoyed why I couldn’t just get the link directly from the image on my phone without involving another device, and without having to install yet another third-party app.

And today I learned that all I had to do was long press the QR code in the screenshot in my camera roll and it would actually parse it and make it so I could visit the link!

I think I must have tried long pressing QR code in an image in the camera roll years ago because it always seemed like something that would make sense to support via long press. Maybe they introduced this feature after I had tried to long press a QR code in an image in the past. Or maybe it was always possible and I didn’t actually ever try to long press it. Or maybe I long pressed the wrong part of the image that first one or two times I ever tried to do it in the past. Either way, very happy to have learned that this is actually possible.
You can just hack on ATProto
I think you're missing the forest for the trees, here.

The io.Reader/Writer interfaces, and their implementations, are meant to provide a streaming model for reading and writing bytes, which is as efficient as reasonably possible, within the constraints of the core language.

If your goal is to make an io.Reader that respects a context.Context cancelation, then you can just do

type ContextReader struct {
ctx context.Context
r io.Reader
}

func NewContextReader(ctx context.Context, r io.Reader) *ContextReader {
return &ContextReader{
ctx: ctx,
r: r,
}
}

func (cr *ContextReader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
if err := cr.ctx.Err(); err != nil {
return 0, err
}
return cr.r.Read(p)
}

No goroutines or mutexes or whatever else required.

Extending to a ReadCloser is a simple exercise left to the, er, reader.
Congrats Paras, I remember when I first found out about VWO in 2012.

An amazing outcome and a testament to you and the value of staying the course over 15 years!
Ergodic Lagrangian dynamics in a superhero universe
Well there's the so-called usual arithmetic conversions that will basically convert every uint16_t to an unsigned int. The C and C++ languages do a silent conversion on your back anyways so you might as well make it explicit.
Even simpler, ask it to reason through getting out of an escape room.
When I long-press on iOS, it shows me the mastadon link as the main "Open" link, as well as "Open in Github" (app link) in the context menu.
They essentially use a focused ion beam to determine the contents of an antifuse programmed memory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focused_ion_beam
Can it still be called "rock solid" with a data corruption bug in its younger history? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38770168
Given the name, I expected it to be more like "write a 500 page novel that a publisher accepts", "solve an open math problem", "improve united airlines' flight schedule", "develop a novel commercially-viable pharmaceutical", "control this humanoid robot to cook a fried egg in this random person's kitchen", "decisively pass the turing test where the judge is an expert in AI". Academic trivia is cool but is nowhere near the "last exam" necessary for AI.
Assuming I'm reading them correctly, these seem to be Yale's numbers:

2003: 2294 Arts & Sciences PhD students and 3500 administrators + managers

2021: 2895 Arts & Sciences PhD students and >5000 administrators + managers

So administrative growth seems to have outpaced PhD student growth by some margin over that time period.

Regardless, the secret to high research productivity (per dollar) at universities is cheap labor from grad students and postdocs.

Sources:

https://oir.yale.edu/data-browser/student-data/enrollments/g...

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/11/10/reluctance-on-the-...
Are there any Mario iterm2 color schemes?
I already use it in prod because it is light years better than the alternative
How to Make Oxygen on the Moon
Many different sources and read between the lines. Acoup.blog - he mostly covers earlier times but you can still get a sense. https://christophermschwarz.com/ has done a lot of research into historical woodworking though mostly latter time periods you can still learn a lot.

those are the big ones. After that tons of youtube library books and so on. Just beware that at least half is false and you get to figure out which confident self proclaimed expert knows anything. (i at least admitted a lot of ignorance and speculation above)
So the researcher didn't get a bounty from Apple then, no?
A Tale of Two Routes
Did you read Caro's books on Lyndon Johnson yet? If you have not, stop what you are doing and read them, especially the first two. He spends a lot of time talking about Hill Country. I suspect you will find them very interesting having spent so much time there.
I think many people in “out groups” identify with that aspect. Like I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about me being human - but if I was abducted by aliens into their society I probably would identify as human a lot more.
Sorry, there have been many charged topics that have hit the front page recently. I do see some of the aggressiveness in my comments reading them once again. Making a mental note not to do that.
> Yeah, "just colonize somewhere else" is pretty much the response that I expected.

How is immigrating to a new country "colonizing"? Are you suggesting Mexicans (for example) who come to the US are "colonizing" it?

> None of that makes the US government one bit more legitimate.

Of course not, why would it?
The cognitive origins of these must be interesting. Rooted in our understanding of existence?
The only reason to believe that statement would be that training data is finite and cannot be meaningfully synthetically generated in a way that is useful to the LLM model.

If you can agree that there are certain things which can be qualitatively measured by deterministic logic (e.g. "does this build", "what is the cyclomatic complexity of this", "does this pass the unit tests", "what is the performance characteristic of this", "can this be proven to be susceptible to a XSS bug", ...), and you can see that there are ways to use this information for feedback into the models, then there's no reason to think that the available training data is finite and limited by unclean generated data.

There's several missing steps in that logic that would be difficult to (linguistically) prove with certainty, but I'm reasonably sure that your statement is false.
I didn't fully understand the details when they were explaining it to be, but iirc something was disconnected around the corner, and they couldn't just reconnect it because it wasn't the right hardware.

This played out over several months
A well-configured C++ compiler will error-out on such a silent conversion.
Real question : how do you verify that the source code matches the code of the service you’re using? Is there some service that builds and hosts and you can verify what it builds against the hosted location?
Was shutdown around '89. Was there from '80-84.
By grade I mean a score of how many of the tasks were completed successfully.

K/N or as a percentage.
> maybe you can build some special indexes to support or maybe you have to adjust what's being queried. Either way, you patch that hole, and then a month later you have a new page that's failing to load because it's generating a query that is causing your DB CPU to jump to 90%.

> To me it also makes no sense at startups, which don't generally have such a high wall between frontend and backend engineering.

Startups are where I've seen it work really well, because it's the same team doing it and you're always solving the same problem either way: this page needs this data, so we need to assemble this data (and/or adjust what we actually show on this page) out of the database we have, and add appropriate indices and/or computed pre-aggregations to make that work. Even if you make a dedicated backend endpoint to provide that data for that page, you've still got to solve that same problem. GraphQL just means less boilerplate and more time to focus on the actual business logic - half the time I forgot we were even using it.
Why are there Seven Sisters?
Well ... https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/94326/a-cryptic...

(Someone made a cryptic crossword[1] whose clues and solutions were in the Bahasa Indonesia language, and it was solved by a couple of people who don't speak that language at all.)

[1] These are mostly a UK thing; the crosswords in US newspapers are generally of a different type. In a cryptic crossword, each word is given a clue that typically consists of a definition and some wordplay; there are a whole lot of conventions governing the wordplay. So e.g. the clue "Chooses to smash pots (4)" would lead to the answer OPTS; "chooses" is the definition, "smash pots" is the wordplay, wherein "smash" indicates that what follows should be anagrammed (smashed up).

Disclaimer #1: it took those people a lot more work than it would have taken them to solve an English-language cryptic crossword of similar difficulty, and they needed a bunch of external resources.

(Dis)claimer #2: one of those people was me.

Disclaimer #3: I do not claim that something needs to be able to do this sort of thing in order to be called intelligent. Plenty of intelligent people (including plenty of people more intelligent than me) would also be unable to do it.
"Arithmetic coding for data compression" by Witten Neal and Cleary. 1987. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/214762.214771 It explains that all that's left to work on for better lossless compression factors is better (higher likelihood) models of sources. It provides C code and a good explanation of arithmetic coding.
Morse code is also deliberately in another Mike Oldfield album, Amarok. (Yes, the KDE music player is named after it.)

Oldfield was locked into a predatory Virgin Records contract written by Richard Branson (Tubular Bells was the first ever Virgin Records release) and he was increasingly irritated that Virgin was not promoting his albums.

He hid a message in Amarok and offered £1000 of his own money to anyone who could find it. The message is "FUCK OFF RB" in morse code.

Apparently, no-one claimed the prize.
What You Might Miss When Backing Up CDs
Playing with These Things
Interesting. This is such an extremely toxic post.

Peer feedback is valuable, it is important, and it is expected of senior team members. I guess it is a fun game if you have a poor manager, but the whole argument around the strategy isn't even internally logical, and if you play it out it is a poor outcome:

1. Company expects Senior Engineers to provide input on their teammates.
2. Senior Engineer has a Bad Manager, and decides to intentionally withhold feedback because "that is their manager's job, and up the chain"
3. Senior Manager (skip-level of Senior Engineer) determines that their Manager is a Bad Manager, and replaces them.
4. Good Manager joins, determines who is performing, and asks "Why did none of the Senior Engineers identify this earlier?"
5. The supposedly competent, but intentionally malicious Senior Engineer in this hypothetical is (correctly) deemed either incompetent or not believable by the New Good Manager.
6. Good Manager finds a component Senior Engineer with any sense of character to replace them.

This post is such hogwash, it is so fully of toxicity, and it is a dumb strategy. When things "hit the fan" this person is being tossed out in the regime change as well.

I would truly hate my life if I worked with people even a fraction as toxic as this.
Yes, I usually share it with Google App, and Lens tab.
Super Mario sunshine blatantly missing
I take a different view on this. IMO the tricks that existing file systems play to get more performance (specifically around ordering and atomicity) make it extra hard for developers to reason about. Obviously, you can't do anything about fsync dropping error codes, but some of these failure modes just aren't possible over file systems like NFS due to protocol semantics.
There are almost certainly different approaches depending on the environment and situation. But, especially if this is a "culture" problem one of the best fixes I've found is to make shorter meetings with a defined agenda, such that you can always pull out a, "I'd love to take this offline, but we need to get back to..."

I've personally found you should almost never need more than 30 minutes unless you specifically want to get into rabbit holes. And if you do need more than 30 minutes, it's probably better to split it into multiple sessions of no more than 30 minutes anyways to prevent this from happening. If you still have this problem at 30 minutes, shave 5 from either side (or both), which you can even use the excuse of giving time to transition between meetings.

That's not to say you shouldn't genuinely allow room for brainstorming, but if you're going to take an entire room of peoples time, make sure it's something the room agrees is worth discussing and find another time to do it instead of getting sidetracked now. If not, offer some 1-on-1 time, and move on.
If dithering isn't stable in motion it creates distracting 'shimmering' and other effects as the camera or objects move, which can be unpleasant to look at.

Unstable dithering is also potentially harder to compress in videos.
Eightyeightthirtyone
Bundles are a nice addition that helps with this as well
> Ann Altman, the sister of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, filed a federal lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing her for several years, an allegation the billionaire tech CEO and his family said was “untrue” and claimed Ann faces “mental health challenges.”

> “Our family loves Annie” the statement read before claiming that she “faces mental health challenges” and the family has tried “many ways to support Annie and help her find stability.”

> “This situation causes immense pain to our entire family. It is especially gut-wrenching when she refuses conventional treatment and lashes out at family members who are genuinely trying to help,” the statement added.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/01/08/openais...

I question the validity of the claim that this is due to her mental health. Maybe she has mental health problems because of abuse.
Trump-crossposting X account advertises fake memecoins that make $1.25M
The ZX81 was my first computer. I remember writing an adventure game, but because I only had the basic 2k RAM, each room in the game was a separate program that was saved to tape at a specific tape counter location. Then, when you made a decision in a room, it would ask you to wind to a specific tape location to load the next room. Got played once, by my brother, but I was pretty proud of it.

Soon after I got a job as a student working at an astronomical observatory. The director had just bought a ZX81 for his personal use, and when he heard about my experience with the machine he gave it to me along with an article describing how to reduce photometric data. This time I had the luxury of the 16k RAM pack, so I wrote the whole thing, including data reduction, graphing, analysis in one app. Lots of fun accidentally knocking the RAM pack and losing everything multiple times. Once it was done and demoed, I was asked to publish it. However the observatory did not pay up for a printer so I had to use a typewriter to bang out the code for the article, meaning of course there were plenty of typos. Got amateur astronomers from various countries using different machines trying to get it working. Back in the days of paper envelopes with source code printouts to debug.

Good memories, and the launchpad for my programming career.
As far as I can tell, it's purely artistic.
Thanks for the reply. As far as how much I could pay, that would be between $8 and $12 a month. Sadly, the mortgage comes before subscriptions :-(