skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the world lost half it's people, it would be 1970s level population with modern technology. I think you and the parent poster are underestimating the amount of redundancy that exists in most every industry.

Another way to think about it is the USA population is 3.5% of the world population and trade (both ways) makes up 20% of the USA GDP. If the rest of the world were walled off, we wouldn't go back to the stone age.

If everyone else in the world fell over dead and the resources were available, the US would be massively better off than now.
why is bill gates so obsessed with bringing back clippy
I think the big problem would be getting rid of or containing them while maintaining the ecosystems we need for survival.

If I were ant emperor I’d attack human farms and food processing places.
https://archive.is/dVnrA
It’s not only that API access is hard, it’s also they don’t listen tot the community.

Example: It’s not possible to filter for workouts without gear. Sometimes I forget to add my bike or a pair of shoes, so such a filter would be helpful.

It would be very easy for them to add add that filter to the app and / or connect website.

But without a community manager, there’s no engagement possible.

Imagine they had a public tracker where people could request features. They could review them and use that knowledge to build better stuff, making more money.
Exactly right. There's a huge benefit to encode the ability for compile-time evaluation in the signature of the function itself. Much better than doing it "ad-hoc", like how template instantiation does it. Sometimes it will work, sometimes it doesn't. constexpr functions always work.
I was going to say, that or put it into a Google Street View style map. That would be amazing.
I'm in academia, and I think it has many good points.

The number one issue in my mind is competitors labs don't call you out. It's extremely unusual for people to say, publicly, "that research was bad". Only in the event of the most extreme misconduct to people get called out, rather than just shody work.
The main technical hurdle with the "use AI to contact Google customer restore my Google account" bot is that your account is disabled, so you can't access it.
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Competition makes life better, is my point of view. I started using electronic communication around 1985 when I got a 300 baud modem and I was dialing into BBS [1] with a TRS-80 Color Computer with a 32-column wide screen.

My expectation since then was that every few years there was going to be a new scene, at any given time I'd be involved in a few scenes, sometimes old scenes were going to fall away.

This cycle seemed to be interrupted around the time Facebook (and Twitter) came around. Some of it might be that normies aren't so inclined to be multi-scene. Some of it is that Zuckerberg knew what happened to MySpace and ever since he's been terrified that it will happen to Facebook. He know it's a matter of time, which is why he is "all in" on VR.

I've heard a lot about journalists, professors and other lefty "expert" types who feel stuck on X because that is where their audience is, they've been driven to Bluesky in waves and Bluesky has been giving them a lot of visibility with the algorithmic feed [2]

I think the basic problem is that these people think they have to commit to one platform, I think the real answer is

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

and that people should cultivate audiences across many platforms. I think people who were making the most in social in 2011 were thinking this way (it was the age you could get funding for something like id.me)

I think Bluesky is the best thing going. The best think about it is that they are not suppressing outside links (yet) so it fits the POSSE lifestyle. Actually I like the Threads approach to moderation that is even harsher about suppressing emotionally negative viral content but I don't like the anti-link policy. I'd be on that too, but for some reason they won't let me make an Instagram account and I don't know why.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

[2] People think it's doesn't have one, but it does. Until two weeks ago I really loved my "Discover" feed because it was 75% less toxic (I looked at a N=100 sample) than my "Following" feed. In the past two weeks it has been overwhelmed with politics, particularly it seems to be including a sub-stream of posts from authors who also show up in a "suggested users" you can follow. It's trying hard to help these people get an audience and get their posts read in the immediate term so they feel like they can switch.

I sure hope they quit showing me politics in my "Discover" feed because there is only so much I can take thoug.
Sorry about that and thanks for the attentive read.
I didn't move the goal posts; I just used a slightly different word. No offense, but it's ridiculous (sorry, "insane") that I'm dealing with pushback on the point the point that religious believe things that would be considered insane if not labeled as "religion". "There's an all-powerful being that is behind everything... etc." If you're not willing to give any ground on that, then it's not a productive discussion in the first place.
The "How it was made" section of the README was not less interesting than the tool itself:

> The way we have set things up is that we live and practice together on a bit over a hundred acres of land. In the mornings and evenings we chant and meditate together, and for about one week out of every month we run and participate in a meditation retreat. The rest of the time we work together on everything from caring for the land, maintaining the buildings, cooking, cleaning, planning, fundraising, and for the past few years developing software together.
This looks great!

The GitHub profile points to https://www.monasticacademy.org/about which I have no particular opinion on but it did leave me wondering what the connection is between their monastic training retreat and their projects on GitHub.

Edit: Oh, I didn’t go to the bottom of the readme https://github.com/monasticacademy/httptap?tab=readme-ov-fil...
It is good for $9! It would still be good if it cost more.

It surprised me that the jump to devices like the Fosi DS2 that have modern DAC and driver chips with higher design aims was big.

Specification-wise, I’d have expected that noise floors and distortion levels and, idk, the amount of current flowing were in both cases more than enough to sound practically the same, especially in the context of driving line-level devices rather than headphones.

Nnnnope!

I got the little Fosi device for two purposes: To better drive headphones I have – more volts, more current flow – and to kind of disprove to myself that there was a difference working with line-level signals.

Very surprised at the difference with the latter. Surprised that there was a difference. –And it’s not a loudness difference!, which can be deceiving.

It’s a bigger-than-$41 difference, I find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems

Microsoft get that patent granted: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200413106A1

Possibly the shadiest attempt on patenting math so far in history
A Visual Guide to Reasoning LLMs
Amazon's Build System (2017)
Probably not needed in the end to reason in latent space. Unless constrained by human preference/SFT data, RL spontaneously should create new additions to language to help with new reasoning methods/new concepts invented by the system.
Have you ever gotten to a C1 level in a language you learned as an adult that isn't close to your native language? If so, what kind of effort did it take you?

Or if you only learned closely related languages, what aspect of it was "really successful"? Accent? Writing ability? Something else?
On desktop, it's scroll to zoom.
I thought this was a pretty good discussion about this: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/38132/why-is-it...
Chrome doesn't override the OS trust store, Firefox does.
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There is not a bespoke setup that you need to implement atproto. In fact, there are already a variety of applications making use of it (some to a higher degree than others). There are community implementations of app views, relays, PLC directories, and PDSes already in the wild, and - although I admittedly have a biased ear on the conversation - developers tend to appreciate the _lack_ of complication when implementing things.
You mix real concern with conspiritorial language. Why do you think Trump didn’t win legitimately; do you think Louis Bonaparte also stole the election? People elected Trump to destroy the federal government; of course he is going to try to take advantage of it as far as he can, but what makes it susceptible to his attacks also makes it open to forces from below as well. So, be scared, weak, cowardly, but it won’t help! You can’t trust the state to help you anymore.
5-µm-Diameter Needle Electrode: Enabling Year-Long Neural Recording
Anything unsavory to associate a major brand with is generally actively ignored in mass media. Could be something weird or heinous or merely frowned upon like partying culture these days.
Question to ponder: if Trump and Musk were hostile foreign agents, how would they behave differently?
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A net gain for everyone? Tell that to the artists its screwing over!
AASM Sleep Prioritization Survey [pdf]
Cool, but isn't this encoding a potentially very long thinking process into a fixed embedding? Intuitively should not work as well.
isn't this dangerous?
isn't the efficiency given at the expense of safety and interpretability?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093 (Alignment faking in large language models)

https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-fakin...

PS I m definitely not an expert
The misleading thing about this approach is that the decorated function is no longer Python at all. It’s another language with Python syntax. Which is a neat way to get a parser for free, but it’s going to set up expectations about semantics that are bound to be incorrect.
Stephenson was one of the first people to work at Blue Origin, back when it was more of a "talk about cool space shit" club. He left long ago though, around the time it started to become a serious rocket company.
WRT last sentence: I think the recent breakthroughs are precisely not caring at all about the cot itself and evaluating only the end product, allowing the model to develop a method of reasoning which is not necessarily procured by human data distribution (has the benefit of allowing it to collapse to a "personalized" reasoning pattern)
I haven't used this, just explored the docs a bit, so maybe I'm misunderstanding, but my feeling is that one-share-per-user is too small--you could only use that to chat with yourself.
Pretty much everything they've been doing is illegal. The million-dollar question is whether they'll be held to account. Trump has a pretty good track record of facing little to no consequences for his crimes. The pessimist in me says this time will be no different. We'll see.
It’s a joke likely, since most people only use a few top apps
There is a preliminary version with more -- but the final version has fewer cycles
What instantly came to mind for me was that this is yet another step forward in turn-developers-lives-into-dystopias. It wasn't bad enough that the algorithms would flag and ban-hammer people with no ability to reach a human, but now we have to use "AI" to make those decisions. Hopefully not the same AI that routinely fails to accurately summarize news articles... And don't worry, once the AI decides the person is evil, it proceeds to nuke everything associated with them as well so that way their personal photos in G Photos and personal gmail account etc will also disappear, and ideally they won't even be able to use their Android phone.

I have little sympathy for (truly) bad actors, but it seems we've completely abandoned Blackstone's ratio in favor of returning to a world where the nobility can execute a peasant without a trial. Now the human doesn't even have to hear the peasant's explanation or petition!

I would never do a startup nowadays that relied on shipping an app to the Play Store (or the Apple store for that matter, but that's a different cause which is off-topic atm). In fact, I've pivoted my current org to focus first on developing a great web app experience, and the native apps second. Putting your livelihood or company on the mercy of these app store people is a terrible and increasingly inexcusable risk.
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I believe 540 is on USB-C. I have an Edge 840 (same generation as the 540).
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Tesla Sales Decline in California with Model 3 Plunging 36%
The thing is, Musk doesn't need to be competent either. He only needs to follow the playbook by throwing money at single-party Management long enough to ensure that systems are brought under plutocratic control. What all of this is counting on is that up to now, nobody has been able to do anything about their illegal acts. The Supreme Court has been giving the green light, and the American people voted to enable this situation in November. The Military is not going to stop what the majority of American people have either asked for or deigned to vote against.

The Plutocrats don't want or intend to "destroy" the economy; that would be foolish. They want to laterally move it out from under checks & balances and into systems under their more direct control, at a pace that the already compromised DoJ and FBI cannot keep up with.

The Military is an expensive operation and the Plutocrats actually are willing to maintain the flow of bread to the right places. When the cash-flow is under plutocratic control, their military budget can be used to ensure no disruptions to the new system. Enough service members will still get their paychecks as to not incur any wrath over the switch. Military High-Command might be in political trouble, sure, but where it counts is the vast numbers of Low-Command, who are a mix of those directly loyal to Trump or those duty-bound to the orders of the compromised and rapidly replaced High-Command. When both still get their paychecks, both will hesitate to interfere with that cash-flow.

Adherence to the Constitution was based on an honor system that we did away with in November by not showing up to vote to continue it. At the end of the day, what drives the function of the Military is money. "No bucks? No Buck Rodgers."

All of the American people, from rich to poor, have survived terrible economic crashes before, and this one probably won't be any worse to the top 10% than 1929 was. But consider this: If you made $1000/hour, working 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year for 100 years, you still wouldn't make enough money to even compete with the upper end of these guys. The average American is desperately trying to maintain a life that is so utterly insignificant to this wealth that bribery isn't even necessary; a return to the currently declining status quo continues to suffice. The allowance of entry into the middle and upper classes are their own benefits and loot. It's a suffocation strategy. And social media is the circus.

Ultimately, the way this coup works is that Americans will not be bothering to risk their livelihoods to rise up for a French Revolution. The Plutocrats are counting on the same incompetence in us to assure their success as we are in them to assure their failure. But they have all the wealth, and now the power. Do gamblers ever actually defeat the casino?

For all our sake, I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like it this time around. No empire lasts, though, so there is indeed hope after our lifetimes.
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Be less obvious that they're out to destroy America. A hostile foreign agent would be too concerned with having their cover blown if they were that obvious.
I love that magic trick, but wouldn't that significantly thicken the cardstock flipbook ?