skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have database-backed storage backends for Jujutsu at Google. There's no Git involved there. So I think it's wrong to say that it's a wrapper for Git.

Even when using the Git backend, it's only commits and lower-level objects that are stored in the Git repo, and even some parts of the commits are stored outside Git (e g. the change ID). The operation log (which powers the undo feature) is also not stored in Git.
He's been "represented by the media, both mainstream and popular-alternative, as some kind of anti-vaxx leader" because he has gone on record multiple times questioning the efficacy of vaccines and advocating for people not to take them. Just because there are people even crazier than he is doesn't change the reality of his beliefs. Don't giga-brain your way into the wrong conclusion, occam's razor is right there.

But just for the readers at home who may want to buy this bs, here's RFK _on video_ with Lex Friedman, timestamped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtBkw5uD-0&t=6938s

"There's no vaccine that is safe and effective", "the polio vaccine causes cancer". Says the man with brain worms.
Any technology that's advanced enough is indistinguishable from magic, or something along these lines...
Now some of us would like an override checkbox to enable your demo again!

I didn't even know I had prefers-reduced-motion turned on and I certainly didn't know it affected web pages via CSS!!!

Another 0/1 bit for fingerprinting. Doesn't appear in https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ (panopticlick). Also see prefers-contrast, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-color-scheme, inverted-colors
If possible, you shouldn't rely on colour alone for important cues. You could try underlining them, since that's often the expected behaviour for URLs anyhow.
Data is king. Even when a new better model comes along a high quality dataset is still just as valuable.

Paying top performers above market rates to do nothing but data labelling is a moat that just keeps getting deeper.
First two nominations, in fact - Flow also got nominated for Best International Feature Film which went to Brazil's "I'm Still Here." Flow is a beautiful film and I can wholeheartedly recommend HN audience to watch it. It also has 97% audience rating and 98% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The amount of developers I've met who will just download, compile, and run stuff from GitHub in the same way as if it was closed-source, i.e. paying no attention to the fact that the source is available for inspection, is surprisingly many.
It's not rocket science

First, you're not blind - you can test your product to see what the "plenty" is.

Second, many components have rated use, so it's easy to estimate mean time to fail and pick the one beyond the warranty period with whatever buffer you like. It's not like you need seconds level of precision here!
I'll bite. There are multiple factors.

There were less humans alive in the past than there are now.

Having lived in an Australian rainforest, flesh and bones rot very quickly and the native insect and animal count is higher than what you'd see on the plains, so they would likely be eaten by larger predators before they even had the chance to rot.

I have hunted and killed pigs, leaving their carcasses that had decomposed to basic materials in less than three years. Getting buried in a rainforest wouldn't guarantee that a body would survive the below-ground decomposition either. Many first growth and second growth trees roots rot due to the sheer amount of decomposition and matter churn in rainforest floor.

The forest itself is quite a beautiful machine.
No, Penrose is not dumb. He gives a very good argument in his books on limitations of AI, which is almost always misrepresented including in most of this thread. It is worth reading "Shadows of the Mind".
Ah, this is awesome! I currently run k3s on a decently spec-ed NixOS rig. I tried getting k3s to recognize my Nvidia GPU but was unsuccessful. I even used the small guide for getting GPU in k3s to work in nixpkgs[0], but without success.

For now I’m just using Docker’s Nvidia container runtime for containers that need GPU acceleration.

Will likely spend more time digging into your findings — hoping it results in me finding a solution to my setup!

[0] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applicatio...
I did not find Flow to be a technically impressive movie. The animation was very imperfect. The rendering (especially shadows and textures) were off. The whole movie looked like a video game cut scene.

But oh boy, what an amazing cutscene to watch. I'm worried that the story the media is putting forward is that this was an innovative and cutting edge movie - based only on a superficial appreciation of the (stunning) art design. But the real story is how the director worked within his limitations to make something equally enjoyable and meaningful as the other guys.

Most importantly, this movie passed the Actual Kid (TM) test. My 7 year old and his friends sat raptured through the entire movie without any slapstick, pop music numbers, or even dialogue! Not once, but 4 times now!
I know in Sweden it's required to do both sewing and woodwork in school upwards to secondary high school.

I think that's a wonderful because both genders are forced to learn skills that can be helpful in life.
Batteries alone are too expensive to solve the problem well. The solution will be a complicated mix of solutions. Current batteries are excelent for short term variation (<1s). New Grid scale battery designs (e.g. flow batteries or molten salt batteries) are likely to make batteries pretty good for the <8 hour range. Hydro is unbeatable in the day to year range. That said, a lot of the solution will also likely come from demand shaping. Hot water tanks can be heated, and homes can be heated and cooled extra when there is excess power, charge EVs during work hours rather than overnight etc. There will be thousands of minor tweaks to take full advantage of solar. The power is cheap enough that it's worth reworking our entire economy around it.
Great example.

In the theory-land of Solarpunk, pretty much all the more fleshed out example I’ve seen imagined also have a similar issue with reality. In particular I’m thinking of KSR’s (otherwise great) novels.

It’s a shame because I think most people would agree some version of “Star Trek” is desirable and working toward a realistic imagining of it helps work toward a path to getting there.
Yeah, CUDAs to the Team!
Moore’s law never mentioned die area, and not because Gordon thought die sizes would never grow.
A massive part of modern military operations, including cyberwarfare, is the understanding that a battle happening in someone else's territory is better than one happening at home. Or, more prosaically, "the best defense is a good offense".

Offensive cyberops help us identify when our own systems have been breached and give us valuable information about future attacks, even before you get into the very real physical warfare happening in Ukraine.

Every day it seems more like these guys are _actually_ working for the Russians
Only if it's registered! Registering a new binary isn't usually in the customer motherboard menus.
I'm a believer in progressive taxation, and I think the principle applies here too. That principle is that the "burden" of taxation should be about the same for everyone, and in turn relies on the concept of the marginal value of money: for someone who earns 10k/yr, an extra 1k is a gigantic gain (or loss), but for someone who earns 10M/yr, an extra 1k is basically noise.

I'll leave you to fill in the rest of the story.
I did a lot of research for building my own little iPod Nano sized player, which should also have the ability to be controlled by a wired headphone remote.

So here are my results up until now:

- The best device I found is a LicheeRV Nano[1] - also used in NanoKVM.

- It has enough CPU+RAM to support more complex formats like FLAC while still being very small.

- It has a full featured MIPI 31-pin / 6-pin touch display port, although I could not find any available display smaller than 7" to order without hassle (there is an unavailable official 3" though[4]).

- It also has USB-C, where it should be possible to use one of these external USB-C to audiojack adapters with mic support.

- Some of these adapters should support headset control buttons out of the box (via kernel usbsound) - on my notebook this works flawlessly.

- There also is a full featured configurable buildroot[2], so, less work to get started with an optimized build.

- Combining a TP4057 battery charger and a battery gauge (MAX17043) you should be able to support a 1200mah battery, read out battery status via I2C and recharge within a < 3" 3D printed case.

- All you would have to do is create a custom buildroot and a nice user interface via LVGL, they already have a music player sample on there samples listing[3]. Unfortunately this is where the workload is huge ;)

1: https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/lichee/RV_Nano/1_intro.h...

2: https://github.com/sipeed/LicheeRV-Nano-Build

3: https://github.com/lvgl/lv_demos/tree/master/src/lv_demo_mus...

4: https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006519668532.html
What a throwback! I discovered these as a kid in the early days of the web. I remember the perl being a little too obtuse to grok as a preteen, but I figured out where I could change things at certain parts of the code to make things look a little differently. Those were magical years that inspired me to get into coding and problem solving as an adult. Thanks Matt.
Have you heard of brain organoids?

A Google search yields "three-dimensional tissues that mimic the human brain and are grown in a lab"

The distinction between natural and what is man-made (aka artificial) is itself artificial.

We are learning how to recreate nature, whether from silicon or in 3D tissue or ab initio (google "synthetic life")
Agree that (pumped) hydro is good where it is practical.

You make a claim about reworking our economy,

> The power is cheap enough that it's worth reworking our entire economy around it.

Can you substantiate this? Would it be fair to describe it as a utopian claim?
I'd be fine with planned obsolescence if the mfr had a duty to disclose the means of obsolescence and the Product lifespan.
I think that was MTG boyfriend but still stands.
Same. You can clearly tell how much better of an author she got by the time the Psalm came out. It is a very solid book. The second one in the series seemed more confused, but the first one felt very thought though and intentional.
> The RP must protect against CSRF when receiving the authorization code

Is this via PKCE or (ID) token nonce validation?
Sure it does. The "ANGLE backend" flag affects everything from frame pacing to whether DRM-protected content can be screenshotted. On websites that don't touch WebGL at all whatsoever.
Examining the Security of Federal Facilities (2023)
"I've been saying we should do this for years. I walked on the moon. Did a pushup, ate an egg on it. What else can you do with it?"

Mr Show has held up well, maybe even gotten better with time.
I was wondering that as well as the crater edges look smoothed... Billions of years of Space Dust? (Obviously a fresh impact crater would be starkly different, but if its craters are all from after it was formed, and then was still being inundated with a cloud of micro hits - and then the cloud of all the dust that was left from all the collisions turned to that powder, and finally settled over the surface.
so you want software you don't pay for but you also don't want ads in your gratis software.

and I imagine also that you are a software dev and you want to get paid for your efforts yourself.

Got it.
Temperature just changes how an llm samples from the token distribution so I wouldn’t think that constitutes “memory” that would contradict the Markov property
I agree. But it has a similar aspirational quality, to me, as well thought out proposals for eg Moon colonization.

I suppose the question left is overcoming the blocking path dependence - the method of mass action to get there.
> … and you have no way to tell.
This is exactly my point. If we have no way to tell, what experiment could you possibly use to test whether we’re in a simulation or not? The simulation hypothesis lacks falsifiability and is pseudoscience.
This is a really generous take. Much more likely is that the Trump admin is very friendly with Putin, sees Putin as an ally, and sees Ukraine as an enemy. (I'll leave the 'why' for future speculation)
Again, modern CSS is much different from where things were 15 years ago.
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Expand into the time dimension, evaluate infinite execution paths by reversing the pipeline, rerunning, and storing the results in a future accumulator.
Disappointed this wasn't about Venus
They link here [0] for more details, which might be less geo-intercepted.

[0] https://securelist.com/gitvenom-campaign/115694/
On further thought - since I was just trying it out as a standalone tab, and not a default search page, it just felt awkward. However, if I wanted to bookmark it or make it the page that appears when I open a new tab - that would be ideal. Sorry if I unnecessarily inquired too soon.

So what made you create that site? Any plans to monetize it or was it just for fun? Can you mine data from what people are searching or is it fully anonymous?
This is yet another example of how declarative languages almost always evolve into full programming language if popular enough.

Usually with really bad syntax because the original design didn't expect that to happen.
Those students might do better if they are taught practical uses of math, rather than STEM-focused abstractions.

(I was one of those kids going "why the hell are we learning this" until I got to grad school and was able to put it together).
It seems to me the assumption of consensus with disagreement coming from small fringe factions mirrored much of the American experience during the TNG era.
Thanks! Yeah I've seen that before. Nice that it's online and nice little puzzles but pretty limited in what it can do by comparison.
Very interesting for me as I have a deceased friend's SCSI disk containing his novel in progress.

Now to find a SCSI card and cable ...
This doesn't do anything to disprove the above commenter's point. Land value taxes incentivize constructing denser housing, because that's the only way to stay profitable when owning valuable land.

If there's 1 million people that want to live in a city with only 700,000 housing units, the only way to keep housing affordable is to construct more housing. No amount of regulation or tax changes will overcome the pidgeonhole principle.
The Apollo astronauts used Hasselblads for still photography. I'm pretty sure Firefly is not sending back rolls of 6x6 film.
A more accurate term is "value engineering."

If you have a product that's been in the market for a while and it looks like it's meeting service life expectations you start looking at it trying to find ways to save money by substituting cheaper parts. You swap out metal gears for plastic gears, for instance.

If these parts have a shorter service life, but the service life is still longer than the warranty, then maybe that's a win in two ways for the manufacturer.
> A part of me does wonder if that White House press conference was all theater to show Putin a false “tough on Zelensky” front, or if it was a genuine continuation of Biden’s frustration with Zelensky.

The whole thing does looks very suspiciously like kayfabe. Since when are meetings between the US President and other heads of state televised live anyway?
Mine is basically: git log --oneline --graph --all master~1..

A combination of "--all" and "branchname.." shows all descendant commits, and "--graph" shows their relationships visually.
Again, I still choose the third option, because it is the better of the three, compared to restricting what functionality the software people write is allowed to have, and extremely blameful postmortems (which are bad).

You seem really stuck on the first two options. Why does it matter, given that the third is the best? Do you still insist upon a false dichotomy?
Speaking of how the guy starts out on one side of the scrollbar and “walks” to the other, a decade ago I programmed a “scroller” js tool (behavior) that I could add to any element. It basically made it so that when I pressed a trigger with my finger, a menu would appear under it, and then I could move the finger without lifting it until I reached the item I want and release. The memu would scroll under my finger, so that if I reached the bottom (minus a margin) it would already be scrolled all the way to the bottom. Same kind of math as the guy here.

I was tired of having to tap, then scroll, then tap again, on phones. Yes, I really made sure that mode worked too, but the “hidden mode” was to get the selection done in one swipe! Just like I could always do on a Mac, in one mouse swipe!

For mouse interaction - you didn’t even need to press, move and release. You’d hover over the trigger element and then move your mouse down, then click. In that case the menu would disppear if you moved the pointer out of it.

You don’t have to imagine, just try the Developer menu on https://Qbix.com for instance (the menu isn’t long enough but try turning your phone horizontally to make vertical space more limited.. or the tech savvy among you can use Safari debugger to copypaste some more menu items into that menu).

By the way, I now have dozens or hundreds of such “tools” I use to create interfaces. Menus. Dialogs. Tooltips. Onboarding Hints. Speech. Tabs. Chatrooms. Live videoconferencing. Peer to peer broadcast that’s uncensorable. Ok that escalated fast :) https://intercoin.app as an example.
Hey there! Never heard of Luanti, but the reasons I chose to make this in Pygame using this particular open-source voxel engine implementation are outlined in the post :D
Better word is “bay area”.
I don't know who in their right mind believes that the Trump voter gave a mandate to "Pragmatism".

There is nothing pragmatic about giving jobs to media personalities for loyalty.
It looked like you were being sarcastic, implying I was trying to suggest that I thought I was better than the average person in regards to handling AI. Particularly this line:

> People like me can use them but others seem to be killed when making contact.

If I misread that, fair enough.
Mimicking brain doesn't necessarily make it conscious. So again, all of that proves nothing so far.
This is not a presupposition for Penrose, but a conclusion. The argument for the conclusion is the subject of several of his books.

Secondly, the issue is not being a genius, but an ability to reflect. What can be shown, uncontroversially, is that a formal computer system which is knowably correct, a human (or indeed a machine apart which is not the original system) can know something(like a mathematical theorem) which is not accesible to the system. This is due to a standard diagonalization argument used in logic and computability.

The important qualifier is 'knowably correct' which doesn't apply to LLMs which are famous for their hallucinations. But, this is not a solid argument for LLMs being able to do everything that humans can do. Because correctness need not refer to immediate outputs, but outputs which are processed through several verification systems.
Might I suggest reading about the normal distribution?

Or, I don’t know, perhaps giving slightly greater consideration to the people in this thread who’ve actually worked on physical device engineering?
In both of your linked examples, the people in question very likely had at least some sort of mental instability working in their minds.

I have a hard time imagining any sort of overly verbose, clause and condition-ridden chatbot convincing anyone of sound mind to seriously harm themselves or do some egregiously stupid/violent thing.

The kinds of people who would be convinced by such "harm dangers" are likely to be mentally unstable or suggestible enough about it to in any case be convinced by any number of human beings, or by books, or movies or any other sort of excuse for a mind that had problems well before seeing X or Y.

By the logic of regulating AI for these supposed dangers, you could argue that literature, movie content, comic books, YouTube videos and that much loved boogeyman in previous years of violent video games should all be banned or regulated for the content they express.

Such notions have a strongly nannyish, prohibitionist streak that's much more dangerous than some algorithm and the bullshit it spews to a few suggestible individuals.

The media of course loves such narratives, because their breathless hysteria and contrived fear-mongering plays right into more eyeballs. Seeing people again take seriously such nonsense after idiocies like the media frenzy around video games in the early 2000s and prior to that, similar media fits about violent movies and even literature, is sort of sad.

We don't need our tools for expression, and sources of information "regulated for harm" because a small minority of others can't get an easy grip on their psychological state.
PCR is Polymerase Chain Reaction
You’re right about the price difference. My MacBook gave up the ghost and I’m looking for a good Windows laptop to install Linux. Do most Linux laptop users wipe Windows or dual boot? pros/cons?
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Good data and good evals are two legs of the 3-legged stool that a lot of AI teams are missing.
> Checking out your profile, did you already have dissociative identity disorder before finding your way to LSD?

yes. I believe the reason I first tried LSD was because another friend with DID said that LSD permanently gave them the ability to "think in parallel". unfortunately it did no such thing for me but it does do something else interesting that makes it still worthwhile. also I experienced an accidental ego death once and it was probably one of the most interesting things that's ever happened to me.

(I think ego death can only ever happen by accident because the moment you realize it's happened, that realization means it's over.)

> How do you think the two interact?

In my experience, LSD allows for a clearer identification of parts, especially in memories. That means while normally I can recall memories and feel like I was always the only one there, on LSD others can recall the same memories and realize that they were there too and had some influence on what happened at the time. I think there are also some memories where I wasn't at all and that can only be recalled while on LSD.

LSD I think also helps with switching and like "identity" of parts. It's easier for them to be completely themselves, I think. Less blurry/fusion/unknown/etc. stuff
(...)Serfactant Interaction Yields(...)Spreading in Complex Branching Networks
I am out of touch with the latest and greatest Blender features. If best/highest fidelity renders are required, can Blender scale with a render farm?

Last I heard that was the advantage of the propriety/in-house alternatives.