skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An ID doesn't have to be national to be secure and state issued is still government issued. AFAIK RealID has the states check with other states electronically as part of the process of issuing a new ID, it's why some people have been so resistant to getting a RealID and we've pushed back the original deadline requiring RealID for plane travel for at least a decade (maybe 2 at this point?).
Ah okay, I think it's a perfect analogy, and this helps clarify where our disagreement is.

I do believe it's a binary thing: One day a model gets released which is sufficiently good at programming that I don't need to be able to debug or write code any more. That's the exact day my skills aren't relevant.

They aren't only 50% relevant 6 months before that date, because I need to entirely maintain my code during that 6 months, so that 50% is effectively 100%.

Seeing it as a spectrum carries a specific risk: you neglect your skills before that point is actually reached, at which point you're relying on code you can't understand properly or debug.

I think if you wanted rigorous technical discussion, this is the sort of specificity your article would've needed.
Tech Company Layoffs: The Covid Tech Bubble Bursts
SpaceX Swapping Dragon Capsules to Bring Butch and Suni Home
I think people give the US a lot of unnecessary shit. I don't think my government releases any zero days but I am sure they must have found some. Every government today probably uses zero days but it seems very few release information about them?
How do you discover the principles in the first place? You can discover them once and then apply them in all applicable places precisely because you generalised them.

You have a point that the result may very well be more easily explained in concrete terms to practitioners of a given field in which you applied it, though.
A brain-inspired AI technology boosts efficiency and reduces energy consumption
And popular with women too. You’re not going to meet many women if you’re racing motorcycles.
of course! :)
> Pre-training is crucial for this mechanism: models trained from scratch to add numbers only exploit low-frequency features, leading to lower accuracy.

what's the convention on the meaning of "pre-training" vs "training from scratch" ?

Is this a nomenclature shift?
RustDesk – open-source alternative to TeamViewer
> There's a simple fix to removing discrimination in hiring practices that no one seems to notice. Remove all demographic questions from the application.

For job applications? (How) do you also hide their appearance in the interview?
10 free searches a month would work well for me, I think. A small free tier might be enough to get me to pay for Kagi. Currently I'm just not sure I'm missing anything and I don't have a way to test that, last I checked.
> He won the popular vote.

Assuming I did my sums right, DT won by approximately 1.5%. Hardly a ringing endorsement. He got 31.59% of the voter-eligible (VE) population. I count active yes votes as for a candidate and non-voter passive no votes. Some non-voters support a candidate, but since they didn't vote, their non-votes count against each candidate.

%of ballots %of VE population
Democratic Kamala Harris Tim Walz 226 42% 75,019,230 48.34% 30.66%
Republican Donald J. Trump J.D. Vance 312 58% 77,303,568 49.81% 31.59%

voter eligible population 244,666,890
non-voters 89,278,948

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-1...
here are the rules we enforce inside `pyproject.toml`
https://gist.github.com/v3ss0n/3b0a8ac808f6930ea04e4ada62d90...
This is .. pretty interesting! According to the abstract, models trained long enough use some feature layers for magnitude assessment, and others for modular assessment, (e.g. even / odd). It's surprising to me that this is a stable outcome for trained LLMs when they encounter math. Definitely not what seems simplest to my meatspace brain.
Funny. I still remember it $FDED on the Apple // series. But printing text out like that was really slow. For fast text printing you had to write to memory locations between $400-$7FF and deal with the non continuous memory block -> screen location mapping.

It was even more of a pain with 80 columns when half of the text was in the main memory and the other half was the bank switched memory.
Yes, I want to also be clear my point was philosophical not technical and i'm not trying to start a flamewar. I don't know there is a "right answer" here - I just have one perspective, I don't see the others as being less valid in exploration. I've thought about your point a lot over the years (I helped build a large cloud provider from scratch) - you might be right I don't know but in my experience outages on less centralized systems tend to go on for longer and are harder to deal with if the surface area is too diffuse, there is probably a happy medium, but I still don't have a problem with cloudflare, they seem generally fine, we've known them a long ass time now. i am quite concerned however about when Matthew and Michelle move on, as I expect they will one day, who takes over... you have to have a lot of gaul to run cloudflare correctly.
both those possibilities are there, but there's also the third possibility where you make this thing that there's clearly a need for and it saves time/money, and you sell it for money, and you get rich.
Paranoia and conspiracy theory is central to post WW2 American politics. The Republicans do it, the Democrats do it. It's easy to see the other side doing it more than ones own. This article shows that the right wing thinkers do this too to justify or legitimise their theories. (And we can see their opponents engaging in paranoia and conspiracy theories against them as a reaction)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_Americ...

Us vs them is how politics works in the USA. In reality (realpolitik) I imagine there's more cross party compromises and people who see nuance but the public face is totally oppositional and people are caught up emotionally. I wonder if realpolitik is changing too.

Paranoia stops thought. It's a mind killer.
That String Concatenation Frisson
A cheaper and faster way to deploy Binderhub
This is baldfaced relativism. It only takes a moment of reflection to understand the absurd consequences of this position. For example, how it becomes meaningless to speak of caring about the craft if there is no objective definition of what exactly one should care about, or what is important. It ceases to have intersubjective relevance.

> What you call “stressing over minutiae” others might call “caring for the craft”.

So what? The presence of disagreement is not an argument in favor of relativism and subjectivism. People can be wrong, and they can be wrong about what is valuable. Value is not subjective. The fact-value dichotomy is false.

That's the general principle. As far as this particular example is concerned, the author didn't say things like code style and linting rules have absolutely no value. They have some value. The question is how much, especially in the grand scheme of things, and whether one's concerns, attention, and efforts are proportioned to the objective value of such things. That's how this question should be framed. The author's position, charitably read, is that it is objectively irrational to obsess over such things.

If you wish to rebut, then go ahead and provide an argument, but don't retreat into the bollocks of subjectivism.
whenever i encounter a blog or website that i find hard to read, i usually open up the dev tools and do the following (taken from Matej's blog):

1. limit the text's container to `80ch`
2. set line height to `1.5`
3. (optional) change the document's root text size to `112%`

this makes any page 99% of the time much easier to read.

(i've never liked my browser's "reading mode", so i don't use it)
the ideal angle for maximum horizontal displacement is 45 degrees
NOBUS is a disaster. Knowingly leaving citizens unprotected is an absolute failure of government. Having a robust policy of identifying a resolving cybersecurity faults, and holding organizations accountable for patching and remediation is necessary if we are going to survive a real cyber “war”. We are absolutely unprepared.
"Outrage fatigue can wear us down"-- the subtitle of the article :P
automotiveMastermind helps dealerships sell more cars by predicting and targeting likely buyers.
Well, then the 50% of Americans being alienated should make better content.
Is this the behaviour you're observing? (my recording of HIBP) https://imgur.com/a/cloudflare-makes-have-i-been-pwned-unusa...
Almost said nonstarter for us, people dead set on programming, but then remembered there are still co-working meetups.
> they only need to download the zig binary because it bundles the entire toolchain.

But that can't be possible... neither in principle nor in practice, because each projects needs a different toolchain. Different languages, different tools, different target platforms etc.
>When your DB or cloud service gives you a printout of your 10 slowest queries, you then have to figure out what object code that relates to

Not if you have proper telemetry set up... Tooling like instana was extremely useful for me to diagnose exactly where SQL statements caused issues

>Extra magic: if you've read a class from the db, pass it around, and then modify a field in that class, will that perform a db update: now? later? never?

For hibernate if you understand the concepts of:

- application level repeatable reads

- it's dirty checking mechanism

- when the session is flushed / entity lifecycle

That 'magic' isn't magic anymore. But every abstraction is leaky (even SQL)
You’re assuming we couldn’t have mutually agreed upon interoperability treaties.
Which part is delusional?

Yes most people would struggle to resist a $5m buyout (e.g. Larry and Sergey) but if you had $5m in the bank you would be quite robust in your ability to resist further economic pressure - if you wanted to.

Most 20 year olds can get by on <$20k a year if they are willing to flat share, move home, eat noodles etc, given SWE make $150k+ most can generate this short of revenue on their own in short order.

The vast, vast amount of software is unbelievably bad. It does the task it's designed for just barely, the idea there isn't massive opportunity for improvement, fun and profit is patently absurd.

Not sure what part of this is delusional.
I'm not an advanced user of pdfs so I'm not sure if there's anything major missing from these, but either Okular or just the built-in browser ones works well enough for my basic needs of reading and the occasional form filling for the desktop, and on android I use muPdf.
AVIF support is irrelevant. JPEG, PNG and soon JPEG XL is all you need.
>>So tell me exactly what we are afraid of

That's your(American) argument, not mine. When I ask why is America building anti-missile batteries and stationing their troops in my country, the answer is "because it furthers their interests". There is of course always some bullshit of "because it improves our security" - but everyone knows that's not true. They are here because they want to project they are a superpower and therefore have bases all over the world, not because they love us.

>>We can start with the Burmese scholarships that gives 300k per student

Well I had to look it up, and apparently this is what Trump said about it:

"We also blocked $45 million for diversity scholarships in Burma. Forty-five — that’s a lot of money for diversity scholarships in Burma. You can imagine where that money went," Trump said.

I wish he was more specific. What is he insinuating, exactly?

>> please tell me exactly what the American interests are.

Having a population of burma(a historically very active conflict area) that is well educated and more likely to oppose the military Junta? Of course no one will ever say that openly, it's "humanitarian aid".
Jeez that sucks, was it all due to the decision to offload streaming to 3rd parties? How could they not do any cost estimations? It must have been a huge project that lasted months.
It is also illegal in the US to consider race or gender when hiring.

https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices
Something I’ve noticed in these headlines is a lack of clarity when saying “because of AI” between “retooling the workforce towards an AI strategy” and “AI is doing the work people used to do”.

Reading multiple press releases on the workday layoffs all suggest this is the former and not the latter.
Serverless Container Framework [video]
Github: https://github.com/serverless/containers
The Hague to ban fossil fuel ads
Putting a CAPTCHA in front of robots.txt in particular is harmful. If a web crawler fetches robots.txt and receives an HTML response that isn’t a valid robots.txt file, then it will continue to crawl the website when the real robots.txt might’ve forbidden it from doing so.
Well good news, nothing is stoping you from bringing home a full cartful of groceries that walking distance either. You just have more options.

Now, if you are really attached to your car and are only open to using your car for groceries, stay in suburbia, it's oversupplied through centralized planning and not at risk of going anywhere!
The board needs to be replaced.
As someone watching and following all this from across the pond in Europe: This looks like a fucking coup alright.
Bulk updating old pages with a new timestamp isn't "gaming Google"? ICE didn't just add an "this is archived" message, they also added the date. Not just that, they did it across hundreds or thousand of pages as part of an administration changeover. And no other agency is doing the same.

Sounds like basic SEO, no?
I think jamming resistance is a red herring. AI weapons will have their own failure modes due to jamming. Any sensor modality will have its own particular weakness. Also reasoning model malfunctions as well i.e. hallucinations.

Not to mention false GPS etc...
I don't necessarily see a problem with "outrage fatigue". It sounds like a self-solving problem: if a source gives you such fatigue, you will stop reading it naturally.
Wait until you hear about PaperBooks. They're like a Kindle download except, once you finish reading one, you can give it to anyone else to read. And BookNotes are completely portable - anything you write in it stays with the PaperBook and can be read by any other person.
Well, also they have reduced scaling costs as well, so they need adding in. But yes, I just renewed and I'm getting keener on not renewing again.
Is it able to have data come out of it though, or is it fully... "sandboxed"? I am guessing the only output is the visual feedback you get when it's rendered?

Oh... I guess if you can somehow have it trigger a "load an image with this query string" or something that could be a way to communicate with the rest of the world
PDF actually has the ability to define which elements are displayed vs. printed (Optional Content).
I'm more worried about the US conquering Europe.
You claimed that Guardian's banners state that they are anti-Trump. They don't. Game over.

And when Biden was elected, I'm pretty sure he didn't say “in this term, everybody wants to be my friend,” hence I'm pretty sure the banners were also different.
Use a traffic cone. It will be easier and calm the chicken down.
To clarify, I think betting against AI being compute hungry in the future is probably a bad idea.
London in particular is a great example because the two cities are similar in many ways. London for sure has its share of junkies and hooligans, and I even hear people complaining about it using almost word for word identical language, but the magnitude and pervasiveness is completely different. Especially riding the tube vs the NYC subway is a completely different experience most of the time and I don’t get the feeling in London that the inmates are running the asylum that NYC has gotten over the past few years. Same story walking the streets in the west end vs lower Manhattan, sure you’ve got the phone snatchers on e-bikes now that constantly make the news and there’s random deranged people, but it’s less common for one, but more importantly it hasn’t crossed the threshold where it’s been normalized and people are desensitized, so even in these cases people are less brazen, less aggressive. London today feels more like NYC did in 2019, before it passed the tipping point. Even there I think its a lot more tranquil than NYC was back then, but at least the city hadn’t been surrendered as it is now.
I mean egg prices became a meme for exactly the subtext you're implying. This election season was unbelievably frustrating because of how large a focus was placed on economic conditions which as a general rule leads to throwing out incumbents. And the new generation running the GOP is a bunch of people who look more like a conspiracy forum than a government. To the point where Democrats got nervous and ran someone who in 2008/12 could have run as a Republican. Trying to give moderate Republicans for whom the economy is their biggest issue someone to vote for.

But as soon as the election was over the economy was suddenly great and none of that mattered. Despite consumer prices having either not moved at all or gotten worse thanks to bird flu, looming tariffs which look to extract straight from people's wallets and a proposed tax policy that is about the same for everyone who isn't mega rich. The egg price thing has become a, "guess we know what people really voted for." I was looking forward to the tax cut that'll probably never come.
I wish there was a bulk buy discount then these would make for awesome party bag fillers at my kids birthday parties. Much better than giving out candy...
$4.99 impulse buy. I bought a pdf to put on my remarkable 2 for my next plane trip. I hope that doing it this way doesn't violate the spirit of using paper :)
I wonder what the trademark situation is on apps named paper…I’ve had at least 1 Dropbox owned paper app and a drawing/painting app of the same name
Exception: Telegram Desktop, which has “Open in new window” in each chat’s context menu.
stat command gets the detail of when the OS was installed on the machine. uptime doesn't give that. I wanted to say that I have been using the same development machine at work for 4.5 years. "running" was not the right word for it, obviously.
It doesn't matter how it's read,
the reality is just ordinary layoffs for all the usual reasons.
Spreading some "AI" icing on it may keep investors from getting nervous.
Firstly, i have to say i am not surprised it's coming from a Republican senator. Secondly, he proposes lots of shit. Nothing gets close to law. The real question is how did he even become a senator? It has to be investigated.
> This isn’t true. The biggest companies are all rich because they cater to the massive US middle class..

It is true, but I can see why you'd be confused. Let me ask you this: if members of the "the massive US middle class" can be replaced with automation, are those companies going 1) to keep paying those workers to support the middle-class demand which made them rich, or are they going to 2) fire them so more money can be shoveled up to the shareholders?

The answer is obviously #2, which has been proven time and again (e.g. how we came to have "the Rust Belt").

> That’s where the big money is at

Now, but not necessarily in the future. I think AI (if it doesn't hit a wall) will change that, maybe not instantaneously, but over time.
Similar, but my thought is that they found out some other gov(s) know about it as well. And that it hurts others more than it hurts the US gov.
It is funny how it is easier for google to acquire companies than do strategy in-house. Like they buy Youtube and Android and then pump them with resources instead of trying to do in-house.

If they had bought a video-call company instead of doing inhouse with google meet they would probably have monopoly on that too.
I've used it for a few years but still have to look up how to do references and links every time. The API has some hilariously bad parts too (you must mark a section link above the heading, but in the AST it's then not part of the section.. why!?). It's also quite slow, and has silent failures that produce garbage in the output sometimes.
I wonder about these takes. Have you never worked in a complex system in a large org before?

OK, sure, we can parse a PDF reliably now, but now we need to act on that data. We need to store it, make sure it ends up with the right people who need to be notified that the data is available for their review. They then need to make decisions upon that data, possible requiring input from multiple stakeholders.

All that back and forth needs to be recorded and stored, along with the eventual decision and the all supporting documents and that whole bundle needs to be made available across multiple systems, which requires a bunch of ETLs and governance.

An LLM with a prompt doesn't replace all that.
Governments who want power will hoard the knowledge, which is power. Other governments will share. This is perpetual tension: we collectively receive utility when good policy is active (rapid dissemination of vuln info), but we need third parties to seek these exploits out when government cannot be relied on. Very similar to the concept of journalism being the Fourth Estate imho.

(vuln mgmt in finance is a component of my day gig)
What is the job anyway?

Almost all of the publishing is ultimately funded by ads, therefore the primary job of everyone involved is to generate ad impressions.

What's being attributed to "professionals" in this thread is actually the opposite of what the job pays for.
Adding cooking oil to asphalt to create self-healing roads
Miniature Minox camera of 1930s: https://3seaseurope.com/minox-spy-camera-latvia/
Productive Struggle: The Future of Human Learning in the Age of AI
Presumably it's because music is far cheaper to produce and distribute.
To make that blanket statement about twitter layoffs is just blatantly not true
Thank you! There’s absolutely no reason for me to rant since we have a solid foundation to build on now :)
I doubt it. Historically, most government agencies around the world have had appalling security and each iteration is just as bad as the previous with a few half-assed patches on top to cover the known holes.
Meh, just maintain an audit log and an escalation subsystem. No need to be luddites when the problems are process, not tech stack.
This frightens mostly people whose identity is built around "intelligence", but without grounding in the real world. I've yet to see really good articulations of what, precisely we should be scared of.

Bedroom superweapons? Algorithmic propaganda? These things have humans in the loop building them. And the problem of "human alignment" is one unsolved since Cain and Abel.

AI alone is words on a screen.

The sibling thread details the "mass unemployment" scenario, which would be destabilizing, but understates how much of the current world of work is still physical. It's a threat to pure desk workers, but we're not the majority of the economy.

Perhaps there will be political instability, but .. we're already there from good old humans.
> Am I missing a cheaper rental service that runs about $1 per film?

Honestly where I am I can buy used DVDs for €1 each. I actually went out and bought a DVD player to connect to my TV a year or so ago, because the price was just so compelling.

One benefit to physical DVDs are that they can't disappear like a streaming-service can, you paid for it and you get to own it "forever". DVDs often have subtitles, which is nice for language-learners like me.

(I used to stream content from my PC, via VLC, to a chromecase, but subtitles were never streamed. That was annoying, but not a huge deal.)

It might not apply to all, and local shops are very expensive for "new" releases, but if you have a lot of used stores DVDs are essentially free for both TV series and films.
And you can invade getting any jail time for 34 felonies if you become a president and strike deals with billionaires!