skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment leads me to be a bit confused regarding what you're saying about free will. You seem to want to place blame on the individual but it is philosophically and scientifically unsound. It is absolutely undeniable that people's diets are the result of the culture they live in. Many of our behaviours are the result of the advertising industry, data science and algorithms being applied like an attack on us. These problems I am referring to have been explored by Sapolsky and Yuval Harari.

Do people need to exert a determined sense of self-control to overcome this, reeducate themselves, and take responsibility for their own health? Absolutely. But placing blame on them seems irrational, unnecessary, counterproductive. I wouldn't want to get diet tips from someone that had that antagonistic attitude toward me
When taking another look at the Wikipedia articles for the XB-1 and the Overture, I also noticed that both of them mention the fact that the XB-1 still uses the original trijet engine configuration planned for the Overture, which has however since been changed to a quad-jet (https://airinsight.com/boom-supersonic-radically-changes-ove...). So the XB-1 is even less representative of the full-scale Overture than I thought...
Well there's two sides here.

Consumers of AI do have sensitivity to pricing. Many OpenAI customers "ration" their usage. I imagine lower costs open up new demand for these people.

On the Service side: it seems to have reduced the cost of operating a "commercially viable" (something people will actually pay money for) LLM. But even beyond that, "self hosted" models are also far more affordable now, which means models that target specific niches can be viable to build or buy.

However, this won't be an overnight phenomena. In the short-term, it will seem like demand drops, but in the long-term demand will go up. Big caveat: that demand may not be concentrated on the current incumbent players.

And finally, the elephant in the room: AI still needs to become more useful to reach its full potential. Easily a decade+ more needed here.
That's one of my favorite optimistic applications of AI-assisted writing.

Our society is very openly discriminatory against people who aren't able to produce written communication that fits a huge number of unwritten rules.

LLMs know those rules. Helping people with ESL better interact with a world that requires them is a huge win in my book.
"Decreasing the security" is not binary thinking. It's just a fact today. Also, ability to run software doesn't make you less secure. I never saw any real proof of that. It's the opposite: Competition between different browsers forces them to increase the security, and it doesn't work for Safari on iOS.
The headline makes this out to be deception by Seagate but the article reads as if it's just one shady, but approved distributor who's sneaking these out as new drives.
I don't use ST as my daily driver any more but I still use it for fast editing of large files occasionally. I am daily driving Merge though. Any other Sublime apps in the works?

Have you also considered offering ST and SM as a bundle price with a discount? I'd be interested just because of my lopsided use of the two apps.
Given that this uses standards and protocols iPhones largely already support and are licensed for, not supporting it would seem more like active blocking at some point.

As an iPhone user, I really don’t need more instances of Apple telling me what I’m allowed to do at a software level, and on top of that Apple has had no problem allowing network connectivity to networks under all kinds of interesting ownership.
My work is running a business where I sell my time and skills.

If I don’t bring my identity, I don’t make sales. My business is an extension of who I am (and my decades of experience).

My identity helps customers understand that. It’s part of a brand story.
I'm not sure this is on-topic, but let's put a clicky link anyway https://www.heartvoicegifts.com/

You have only a very quick video of the processes. Perhaps a more detailed explanation of the photo->digital and another of the digital->IRL parts may get traction. Technical post get more traction here and perhaps after reading them someone may buy one.
I definitely still use Sublime. It's not my go-to for everything now, but my job has drifted in a way that means I don't DO those kinds of tasks that often anymore. For writing I've gravitated towards tools with better innate outlining and/or Markdown support (Obsidian); my work notes are still mostly in emacs/orgmode.

But if I need to open a big-ass text file, or process something in a pure text environment without anything helping me or trying to preserve formatting... yeah, it's probably still Sublime.
This "paradox" is being cited everywhere, and while it might apply to AI, people are wrongly using it to justify why nvidia should have a $3.6T or greater valuation.

What happens to a holistic system doesn't necessarily apply to every player in that system.

nvidia's heights are largely because of a few super capitalized players dumping enormous amounts of money into data centre GPUs, letting nvidia enjoy outrageous profit margins selling rapidly obsoleted, rapidly iterating products to mega-money players who are all counting on this giving them such a differentiation that it's financially worthwhile. If AI is just some free thing that has little differentiation between the players -- commoditized, so to speak -- the market for $200,000 GPUs probably isn't going to be as big. People won't be rushing to build $500B buildouts.

Another argument I keep seeing is smaller models and edge compute. NVDA has almost no stake in that, and there is no reason to believe they're going to have any particular advantage if they tried harder there, any more than Intel could leverage PCs to Smartphones. The core operations of running a model are well known by all of the silicon makers, and they can all make massively scalable FMA matrix operators, etc.
Sublime text is the best. I change _one_ setting (disable word wrap by default) and I have an entirely usable editor, I then install syntax packages as needed. Its beautiful, simple, and performant.
In many cases the solution to 4 is also to make them faster, because many tasks are checkable.
They are decorations. Very common for lawyers and finance pros to have similar styles for sales purposes.

Elons brand isn’t really being a historian or an academic guy. I don’t think he reads and I don’t think he pretends to. Just focus on the projects.
Good news is that AI is equally adept at turning long polite business speak emails into short, blunt, and sweary emails, so you can choose what you prefer.
The politics is inextricable from this since we’re talking about separation of powers. There is always a tension between democracy and the government’s status as an employer or contracting party. But if the political issue is loyalty of the federal bureaucracy to the agenda of the elected president, can Congress constrain the president’s ability to act on that political issue? I think that’s a very different analysis.

And there’s no such thing as “unitary executive theory.” It’s a label created to make the meaning of Article II seem somehow esoteric. It’s like saying “first amendment theory” or “equal protection theory.”
Forget Newspeak, we’ll just have get everyone on VR and polish their language until it’s identically upbeat no matter the situation.
I do like this article a lot for showing how to do this pattern of slurping data and inserting it into a DB, in the context of Arrow Flight.

The concurrency rules of DuckDB is here [1]. Reads/writes need to happen in the same process, but multiple threads can do so.

This is putting a server in front of a DuckDB instance, so all read/writes are funneled there in that one process. DuckDB takes care of the concurrency within the process via MVCC.

You could do the same thing with an HTTP server or other system, but this shows it with the Flight RPC framework.

NOTE: I had an incorrect comment for about 2 minutes that I deleted and restructured here. Sorry if you saw that noise.

[1] https://duckdb.org/docs/connect/concurrency
Often you can't because the heater and the AC is literally the same unit, the heat pump.
Because there are a certain number of people who want to do all work on the terminal, this is a wonderful app for such people.
Garmin still has training readiness, training status, training plans, suggested event-based workouts and much longer battery life which makes them work better for endurance (hobby) athletes.

On the other hand, Garmin UX is horrible and the watch faces are utterly ugly

(saying as former Apple Watch owner and now Garmin FR 965)
I am a current Clementine user. It is pretty good, but I don't feel it is optimized for collectors with large libraries the way Meelo appears to be. For example, the duplicate finder can't distinguish between the same track that appears on two different albums, e.g. the album it debuted on and a "Greatest Hits" release.
The old human:

1. Born into plague
2. Never learns maths or writing
3. Nor spelling
4. Half the time your life ends before childhood does
5. Nothing happens in your life
I got a burn-out and lost my job. In the meantime my license expired. Once I get a job again (if ever) I will once again buy a license.

I'll give zed a look. One thing I miss with ST is remote editing.
'Please watch this 5 minute ad to receive your next tank of oxygen'
> swipe left and right to find your soul mate ...

> Women only like 4% of the men they see on the app.

> Men like more than 60% of the women they see on the app.

this ends with 20 women with the same soul mate and 19 men without any. you need to add

> no kids, no grandkids

to your litany.
> postmodern

It is, isn't it. It's the Sokal Hoax on a society-wide automated scale: rather than being concerned with what a "text" might "mean", generate millions upon millions of "text" sequences and mechanically separate those which pass as real enough. Baudrillard's simulacrum.

> It's art. It's probably not art they intended to make, but it's art.

People seem to be very insistent that the output of AI is not capital-A art, because that threatens their worldview, ignoring how artists had previously pushed to expand "art" away from any concerns of technique, intent, legibility etc.
I wouldn't say the author's style is unique or individual in any way. Every single tumblr blog sounds like that. You could easily create a "make edgy" function that would feed your formal writings and turn them into that kind of prose. Is it better or worth than "polish"? There's no substantial difference. The "polish" version sure sounds less exhausting than the original.
Very smart humans don't want to do random tasks, they want to study number theory.
Hence my very first point; the dose makes the poison.

Yeah, it would be super impressive, perhaps another point SMT solvers algorithms have improved faster than the hardware for a very long time and are incredibly useful. But we are not spending infinite money on SMT solvers, quite the opposite.
That sounds very nice.

OTOH, European history features many centuries of the powerful (generally the high-functioning, hard-working, and aggressive nations) bullying the weak (the opposite) into complying with the wishes of the former.

I've seen occasional calls for European nations to actually adopt some of the virtues of the historically powerful. But outside of Russia and its current and obviously-next victims, I've not heard of real interest in heeding those calls.
Worth noting that the author of this letter works at Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, where JET is located. 'Abingdon' was a clue but they could have filled in the detail.
That's also what I do. I hand-write every email because these words have my name under them. On the other hand, if I'm asking the tax office to issue a specific document, I let AI handle it.
A few years ago some friends and I did a carefully controlled blind test between 320kbps mp3 and FLAC. Studio monitors, identical source HW, etc.

The person playing them was not in the test, we randomized 20 second samples of different styles, randomized order determined in advance.

I don’t remember exact results but it was completely inline with binomial probability.

To this day I feel like there’s something wrong with high frequencies like open hats in 320 mp3, but on that day I could not tell a difference so I’m accepting it as negative placebo.
something seriously out of whack with this
>I realize there's some devils in the details here with regards to social pressures and the like.

I have a no-socials policy for my kids until they're practically adults. It's not an easy policy, and the oldest who had to deal with this policy first, was not thrilled about it.

But it did bear fruit. My oldest is at university, and is not entangled in social media drama. Which is not entirely due to my policy--the oldest is also extremely independent--but I can't help but notice it played a part.

It's not easy. Regardless of whether it's a good or bad thing, they definitely miss out on some degree of what makes up the public commons for kids today.

Every now and then there's a story about a (usually) millennial who swears off social media and finds value in doing so. Sometimes they go back, sometimes they don't. But millennials marinated in this world for so long, it's really difficult for them to break out. (At least the Zoomers got "touch grass" pretty early on.) I feel for the millennials trying to navigate through all this. For GenX it would be like making it through the 80s without knowing the lyrics to Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'. You almost have to be an extreme outsider or a very independent person indeed to escape the milieu.
> My Dad is like that and doesn’t understand why nobody else in the family gets off on self-imposed austerity.

My gut feeling: men of a certain generation seem to have confused the skill of seeming aloof-- like when meeting a stranger or thrust in a new situation-- for being emotionally unaffected in general. One sign I associate with this would be talking only in the past tense about having felt certain emotions, but you never really witness the person feeling or expressing those emotions (outside of anger/frustration). Alternatively, the person may never really engage in discussions about certain negative feelings, unless it's to offer low-effort problem-solving advice to others.

This is difficult because there are obviously times when a small, seemingly insignificant problem can trigger an outsized emotion. It's natural and helpful to be able to sit with that negative emotion-- to feel it, express it and talk about it as an emotion you are experiencing-- to be able to eventually come to terms and get to know better whatever it is that's driving it. It's scary to do, but most people have some techniques for doing it.

If you have few or no tools to do that, it must generate an immense amount of stress. Hence wacky alternative stress-relieving techniques that are more physical and less emotional in nature. (Plus the projection of "lack of discipline" makes me wonder if he'd feel shame from sitting with a negative emotion.)
In germany the old system of requiring everyone who has a TV to pay for public televesion was replaced by requiring every household to pay, when it became clear that TV was on the waz out.
Touche.

So what’s the takeaway, life a bitch and then you die?
promising what?

It needs to promise to eventually be cheaper, or otherwise better in some niche.

I can imagine it being useful for spaceships, for example.

But I can't see it ever being cheaper than eg solar, without some kind of breakthrough, like cold-fusion.
I didn't want to switch to VS Code and kinda did b/c there is less friction when I'm using the same tools as my counterparts. I like VS Code just fine. My first true love was textmate tbh. :)
I worry a significant portion of the populace does not have anything better to fill their time with, so phones/Internet fill the void. You have to put something better than that in place, but that can be hard when everything is hyper-optimized for dopamine. If we step back, it’s obvious we’ve created TV 2.0. A lot of people prior to the Internet had TV fill this same role.

These people need to decide they want something better for themselves to have a chance of changes sticking.
There’s good old #4 again: fusion processes inevitably create extreme neutron fluxes capable of turning everything they touch into radioactive waste. Meaning the reactor vessel and all involved fluids and support structures for handling thereof.

Congrats! All the hassle of fission with more steps. Proceed to scream at me!
Unfortunately what you say is true for many legacy programs, but it is a consequence of the programs not being well structured by the programmer, or not being well optimized by the compiler, or due to a defect of the ISA, other than the lack of big immediate constants.

Some of the global-stable values are reloaded because the ISA does not provide enough explicitly-addressable registers, despite the fact that a modern CPU core may have 10 times to 20 times more available registers, which could be used to store the global-stable values.

This is one of the reasons why Intel wants to double the number of general-purpose directly addressable registers from 16 to 32 in the future Diamond Rapids CPU (the APX ISA extension).

In other cases the code is not well structured and it tests repeatedly some configuration options, which could be avoided by a proper partitioning of the code paths, where slow tests would be avoided and the execution time would be reduced, even at the price of a slight code size expansion (similarly to the effect of function inlining or loop unrolling).

Sometimes the use of such global-stable values could have been avoided even by moving at compile time the evaluation of some expressions, possibly combined with dynamic loading of some executable objects that had been compiled for different configurations.

So I have seen many cases of such global-stable values being used, even for CPU ISAs that do not force their use, but almost none of them were justified. Improving such programs at programming time or at compile time would have resulted in greater performance improvements, which would have been obtained with less energy consumption, than implementing a load-value predictor in the CPU.
Seems to me like that would be the number one offered advice when you get less than five minutes of time with a doctor under typical US doctor visits. Seems like a very convenient way to cycle patients through faster. The only downside is there's not really any scripts you can write which lowers your quota for which ever bigPharma the doctor has sold their soul
Are employees at google not being paid for what they're risking?

An investor risks their post tax capital, and then when it works like google gets the upside and when it fails they get...shares in blackberry or IBM.

An employee risks their time, which they are guaranteed by law at least for the time they risk, to be compensated in cash and benefits.

An employee also risks their reputation and career opportunity cost for which they get...checks notes...options that go up/down the same as an investor.

An employee is participating in both value buckets, and one might argue at Google specifically, in the most compensatory bucket proportion in the history of all people ever.
I understand the downvotes but it is an interesting point.

First thing, Eclipse is not just free as in free beer, it is also free as in freedom, which can matter.

In addition, you may be surprised how much free (as in free beer) matters to large companies and governments. Of course, a multi-billion dollar company can pay, but the simple act of acquiring a license, no matter the cost, can be a lengthy bureaucratic process for the lowly developer who needs it. It is usually much easier to use free software, especially big names like Eclipse that may be pre-approved. Of course, using a free licence you have no right to, let alone piracy is a big no no.

And while I don't think corporate inefficiency is a good reason, it is a reality and you have to work with it.
I call this exploratory prototyping and I think it's an absolute super-power. Sitting down and noodling with a prototype for 30-90 minutes is an incredibly powerful way to build a deeper intuition for a project. You can throw that all away and still be in a much stronger position to design the approach (and have useful conversations about it).
Good to hear, several people around me did not have that experience with covid, but sure there must be good doctors.
CSTML is targeting many of the same weaknesses in JSON. It's fun to see a whole different, competing set of design choices at work. I had a very different take on schema validation and how to use the < syntax.
Legal issues for who?

Company A pays OpenAI for their API. They use the API to generate or augment a lot of data. They own the data. They post the data on the open Internet.

Company B has the habit of scraping various pages on the Internet to train its large language models, which includes the data posted by Company A. [1]

OpenAI is undoubtedly breaking many terms of service and licenses when it uses most of the open Internet to train its models. Not to mention potential copyright violations (which do not apply to AI outputs).

[1]: This is not hypothetical BTW. In the early days of LLMs, lots of large labs accidentally and not so accidentally trained on the now famous ShareGPT dataset (outputs from ChatGPT shared on the ShareGPT website).
I ignore it. Use filtering mechanisms if it occurs in places you don't want to ditch entirely (i.e. on HN I block certain key words and sites).

It's way too incomprehensible and corrosive for my mind otherwise.
Somehow I don’t have this problem
with notepad.exe or vim or pandoc or imagemagic or textedit.app or resolve or blender.

Maybe it isn’t the tech industry, and just consumer-facing apps.
Given the likes of sama & co were asking for unfathomable levels of capital, chipmakers had backlogs, datacenter & power supply chain companies were getting bid to the moon, etc.. having a dramatic decrease in compute requirements might just bring things closer to a supply/demand balance.

Where was Stargate gonna get $500B?
How was Altman ever going to raise.. $7T? (~1/3 of the entire GDP of US)

Does a 10x or even 40x decrease in compute cost just mean they can actually raise & spend the capital that their compute requires?
Also relevant: The Trouble With Fusion [1]. It's from 1983, but could well have been written today, as nothing has really changed in the grand scheme of things. In short, there are multiple technical and economical challenges that stand in the way of nuclear fusion becoming a viable path towards clean energy, even after the first successful demonstration of a self-sustained burning plasma. Which, by the way, still seems about 10 years out, with the latest round of delays on ITER. I think most of the people involved understand this, but there is ongoing political will to sink billions of dollars into these projects, so here we are.

1. https://orcutt.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Tro...
Italy's privacy regulator goes after DeepSeek
This doesn't really serve as an example.
Online shopping and Wikipedia were a thing years before smartphones though. In the post-cell but pre-smart era that the author is glamorizing, you could already scroll inventory and look things up on Wikipedia from the comfort of your own home.
I ran into this exact situation when I went to post something on reddit, thought it was too "rude" and ran it through chatGPT to make more polite

After I posted I immediately regretted it. It sounded too structured and should have been more whine-y. Weird, but it would have been more like-able.
> This study found that peak was at p < 1e-37

This is many orders of magnitudes better confidence than any physics experiment, it feels unlikely a biological result can even be this strong, so it makes it sound like a statistical error.