skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone confident in what a winning strategy might even be? The market keeps getting more crowded and yet AI is still only creating incremental value for company's that adopt it. It's not clear to me that this is going to be quite as much of a sea change in how businesses run as people like Altman have been pitching.

Nor do any of the top 10 AI companies have any kind of moat. The fact that Elon Musk can found a competitor out of spite and have a plausible competitor in 6 months with a multi-billion dollar value actually just dilutes the perceived value any of the market leaders. OpenAI is still riding the high of being first and having the ChatGPT brand be so strong.

Google doesn't need to win on all the benchmarks, they just need to embed themselves in enough enterprises and they have a huge leg up in that regard.
lol someones about to knock knock at ur door.
I wouldn't be so snarky when your own reasoning leaves out a key part of the series of events there..
Well, these days you will need a non repetitive physical skill. ER doctor, electrician, comedy tour guide, painter, etc. If your job required you to sit in front of a computer, your job will be the first eliminated. Humans are quite cheap for physical labor compared to a full humanoid drone. Software costs are about to go to zero. Bachelors degrees would turn more into guilds.
> OpenAI beat them to the public presentation of this stuff because they didn't care.

This is lack of interest will kill Google in the end, IMO.
>This does not mean that Google is making Android a closed-source platform, but rather that the open-source aspect will only be released when a new branch is released to AOSP with those changes, including when new full versions or maintenance releases are finished.

I'll believe it when I see it. These days, words are basically meaningless from these large tech companies. Actions are what matter.

at the very least, I'm not convinced this internal branch and AOSP will be close to feature parity if they do throw some stuff out.
I admit to hyperbole.

The interesting part is that the main marketing and sales is by word-of-mouth and quality of product. All the hardware is not even on the website, which was very confusing to my understanding when writing. It makes sense under the resource constraints.
> Walmarts notorious "people greeters" are there to prevent theft

How is some old pensioner sitting (or worse: standing) at the entrance going to deter theft? Thieves don't care unless there are actual security guards on patrol.
Beyond LARPing the feasibility of building new computers post societal collapse, the website's proposal for collapse being so imminent is... weakly justified?

I'm not an optimist in today's societal climate, but the rationale [1] stems from peak oil and cultural bankruptcy. Peak oil is (was?) the concern of limited oil production in the face of static or increasing demand. The 2019 peak from big oil wasn't about declining production, but declining demand [2]. Which is good, if the ideal is long-lasting migration to renewables.

I won't try to predict the future w/r/t what current societal trends mean for the long-term success of global supply chains, but I would be greatly surprised if cultural bankruptcy alone causes the complete collapse of society in the next 5-10 years.

[1] http://collapseos.org/civ.html

[2] https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/c...
This isn't some random project nobody cares about, it's the most widely used operating system in the world.

Gating access to their main branch behind a GMS license was already extremely evil, this is just adding insult to injury for Android fork maintainers.
Well, that's an interesting question. Most fabric is of sufficient quality, so I select for style and look for bold color. Summer shirts are mostly light cotton, and there are a million places to get that. Quilters and garment sewers are the textile equivalent of Star Wars/Star Trek fandoms and don't cross paths much, but any store catering to quilters is a good place to look for summer shirt fabric.

For winter shirts, I like flannel, and Joann was the best for that, particularly when they would put it on sale for $2.50/yd. I'll miss walking the aisles, scanning a hundred patterns all at once, but will figure something out.

There are plenty of web stores, but it gets tiresome going through patterns one at a time instead of seeing a row of bolts in one glance, but that's where we are at now. Fabric.com used to be the best web store, but amazon bought and destroyed them a couple years ago.

Having favorite designers helps narrow the search a bit. Alexander Henry Fabrics was my absolute first choice for patterns. They did magnificent work, but Marc DeLeon, who was the lead, passed away a few months back and his kids are shutting down the company. Robert Kaufman fabrics and Michael Miller fabrics are two others that have some very fun prints.

One place where quality was an issue was Hobby Lobby. Stopped in to check out their selection when Joanns imploded. They had a nice selection of patterns, but the fabric felt like sandpaper. They also only sold house brand thread rather than Coats or Gutterman. Michael's seems to be expanding their fabric selection in response to recent events as well, so I'm sure the local options will eventually rebound.
Now you are elevating life is common to a default position, simply by declaring it so. I disagree. Me, the complexity of the simplest living thing makes the default assumption that OoL is incredibly unlikely.

You should be aware that the logic you are using, vulgar Copernicanism, was used in the 1700s to conclude that the other planets in our solar system must not only have life, but intelligent life!

What your argument ignores is that we don't live on a randomly selected planet in the universe. We necessarily live on a planet that has life. This "observer selection bias" has to be taken into account; the rarer life is, the more biased our local observations will be.
Not just power generation but also the calorific and opportunity cost of working on that (or indeed anything that does not immediately pay off in energy terms). Or else you die before your compiler is done ;)

If you have more than one survivor, you quickly need to learn to trade and cooperate to maximize your energy return, or else you all die, one by one.
TOPS on old PDP hardware (or an emulator) is quite interesting. If nothing else, it gives an appreciation for the age of many of the ideas that ended up in later OSes like CP/M and MS-DOS.
I regret to inform you that 01960 is an invalid octal literal.
Is this any different than saying that nowadays most people in the USA are physically weaker and less able to work on a farm than their predecessors? Sure, it's not optimal through certain lenses, but through other lenses it is an improvement. We are by any rights dependent on new systems to procure food, which is even more fundamental than other types of human cognition being preserved.
Basically. The questions were easy enough that they were doing it in their heads. She figured it out when she made them show their work, and their "work" turned out to be just plugging the right number into the equation.
Maybe the part where he slanders Chuck Moore disciples?

>main problem has been people who have been forthing at the mouth

:-)
I think most of what this sort of AI can achieve has already been achieved, and at enormous sunk cost in data centers, power for data centers, and water for data centers. We keep ignoring that these systems require VAST resources with unfavorable scaling and speculative VC money that we know will not last, but at the same time we imagine a future in which that isn't the case.

I'll believe in the hope/doom when it doesn't involve the energy budget of a large nation being used to produce very little.
Just today had Gemini write a shell spot for me that had to generate a relative symlink..
Getting it to work xplat on linux & mac took more than ten tries and I stopped reading after the second

At the end, I spent probably more time and learnt nothing..
My initial take was that this is the kind of thing I don't care much for so giving it to a llm is OK... However, by the end of it I ended up more frustrated and lost it in the simulation of working things out aa well
What do LLMs “get right”?
the rollout of this program has gone badly.. when there is a button to push for more money, that seems to be the one thing that always does happen. Pure theory does not deal with the actual implementation of this national program.

entertaining and skilled - recommend Princeton University, Center for Information Technology Project, "No WANs Land: Mapping US Broadband Coverage" .. you might be surprised!
This is a two-way street. Without money flowing in from other states, then who's going to buy that Kansas wheat? Increased competition for staple crops internationally is part of the reason why the USA began having a trade deficit for agriculture products in 2020, which has ballooned since.

Plus, without those subsidies the whole food economy would shift. Maybe those blue states import more from Mexico/Canada/Asia/Europe. Maybe they produce even more crops locally.

Most states used to grow enough food locally to sustain their populations. There's nothing stopping them from achieving self-sufficiency again. Especially with modern farming techniques.
look into SimpleX
The legal question is identified in the original reporting on the lower court's ruling:

> Oldham said the USF funding method unconstitutionally delegates congressional taxing authority to the FCC and a private entity tapped by the agency, the Universal Service Administrative Company, to determine how much to charge telecommunications companies. Oldham wrote that “the combination of Congress’s broad delegation to FCC and FCC’s subdelegation to private entities certainly amounts to a constitutional violation.”

This certainly seems to me like an important question for the Court to weigh in on. The power to tax is clearly Congress's, but it's not clear that we should want Congress to have the power to delegate that power to anyone they choose.

https://apnews.com/article/rural-access-broadband-universal-...
That's odd. Why would wine not accept improvements using fsync from Proton?
Next-level back ends with Rama: storing and traversing graphs in 60 LOC
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>Is Australia particularly bad about it perhaps

I'm an Australian, and Australia is absolutely terrible in this regard. There's a saying: the problem with Australia isn't that it was founded by prisoners, it's that it was founded by prison guards. I've lived in quite a few countries and never found anywhere with as many smug and self-righteous people as back home. There used to be two kinds of Australia: the larrikin (fun loving, prankster) Australia, and the wowser (fun hating) Australia, but in recent years the wowsers have thoroughly won.
>Do you think that was the plan? Release the first version in 2007 and then wait 18 years and pull the ol switcheroo?

Sure. Not a long con, but I'm sure some executives were arguing for years, even a decade+ about moving stuff privately. It's an argument every company has at some point regarding its code.

I'm sure those who championed for OS are either gone or have given up, so now this prevails.
There are plenty of people outside of tech circles talking about and using ChatGPT. In fact, that was a massive indicator for me, I heard from them about ChatGPT before I had gotten around to mentioning it to them.

That doesn’t mean Google won’t win, I’m just saying ChatGPT is absolutely in the zeitgeist.
I find this to be less unhinged than say TempleOS, but it still seems unnecessary to focus on outdated languages and ancient CPU's.

If/when civilization collapses, we will have zero problem scavenging for x86 CPUs.
Why? I'm pretty sure my public school education prepared me for all of these questions by 8th grade, excepting some notation that we no longer use and some specific history questions that are now less relevant.
This is only a problem if those nondeterministic inputs are actually included in the hash. This is often not the case, because the values are included implicitly in the build rather than explicitly.

(Just playing devil’s advocate here.)
ConfigHub secures $4M to address the configuration crisis of app operations
The fact that you can parse CSV in reverse is quite cool, but you can't necessarily use it for crash recovery (as suggested) because you can't be sure that the last thing written was a complete record.
I am not convinced that many people outside of tech circles knows about ChatGPT. "AI" sure, but ChatGPT I am unconvinced.
Either way, I am pretty confident Google will "win" long term since Gemini will be the AI built into search, YouTube, android, Gmail, chrome, etc etc in the consumer side. It's going to be there when the billions of people are using Google products so people will just use it there. The average person won't go out of their way to open a separate app/site with a lower-performing (as of today) and standalone/siloed/isolated AI that doesn't have access to their data/apps just because they recognise the name.
Losing their jobs would be the least.
ChatGPT has 400m weekly users. X / Twitter has 600m.

It's pretty popular!
The disappearance of Gaia, ESA spacecraft will be turned off on 27 March 2025
"Chemtrail" bill set for House circuit described as "nonsense"
Is this a real open source project or a pretend 'source (maybe-kinda) available' kinda thing where the really useful part is stuffed behind a paywall and the 'open source' part is just to lure you into the walled garden?
The behaviors demonstrated by Lidden here in the article sound to me like classic autistic behaviors. Is there any protection under the law in Australia for the fact that he's acting out an obsession tied to his "personality disorder"? Obsessive collecting, the interest in trains, and ultimately an overabundance of honesty and trying to rigidly follow rules to his own detriment, the court system should also be looking out for him as a defendant and not furthering this travesty of justice.
"I have a brilliant plan, I'll take all this food I have grown and throw it in the trash! I'll show those pesky Blues who is the real boss! I will destroy my livlihood to own those damn libs! Now where is my crop subsidy and stimmy check?"
Don’t want to belittle the achievement but they launched it as in „had it launched by the commercial launch provider SpaceX“, not on a self-developed rocket as it sounds like on the first read.
An intuitive understanding of Policy Gradient Methods via interactive examples
I extended the search to all 2^n where n < 10^15

https://github.com/tdunning/EvenDigits

This uses much higher order sieves so that it runs about 32000 times faster than the naive algorithm and was able to search to this point on a single core. It is also possible to thread this algorithm relatively easily.
>Because his language ability is much higher than his general problem solving ability

I don't see how you can say his language ability is much higher than his general problem solving ability if you don't know what proficiency of language he is capable of reaching.

When you are learning say English as a second language, there are proficiency tiers you get assigned when you get tested - A1, A2 etc

If he's learning all these languages but maxing out at A2 then his language ability is only slightly better than his general problem solving ability.

This is the point i'm trying to drive home. Maybe it's because i've been learning a second language for a couple years and so i see it more clearly but saying 'he learned x language' says absolutely nothing. People say that to mean anything from 'well he can ask for the toilet' to 'could be mistaken for a native'.

>I don't know what you are trying to say then.

The brain has over millions of years been tuned to speak languages with certain structures. Deviating from these structures is more taxing for the brain. True statement. But how on earth does that imply the brain isn't 'thinking' for the structures it is used to ? Do you say you did not think for question 1 just because question 2 was more difficult ?
Sounds like it's finally time to abandon windows...

All efforts to force users into ever newer versions of browsers are primarily motivated by goggle's ever increasing surveillance in each new version.
This is great news.

There's a big ecosystem growing around MCP but it was hindered by the fact that only Anthropic had first-party (official) support.

Now that OpenAI is on the bandwagon (at least somewhat), I can see others joining as well.
I'd rather have wheat and no money, than money and no wheat. I suppose the people who would buy Kansas wheat would be anyone who wants wheat. The US currently considers food security a vital part of national security. The blue states in this scenario can outsource their food production if they want, and hope there's never any conflict which stops those shipments.
I believe that real incomes, even under some expert analysis incorporating my vaguely-proposed adjustments and assuming I'm even right in the first place, are up! I haven't done the legwork to be prepared to argue against that, and anyway I very much doubt it's wrong. We are better off, over all, I think, than in the early 20th century (say).

I just also don't think we're as much better off as some common metrics suggest. I especially worry that those kinds of measurements have been badly decoupled from reality over, in particular, the last ~50 years or so, such that experienced improvements in standard of living are far smaller than one might think from looking at the numbers, and I think that's true not only because we see certain very-important things like housing, healthcare, and education costs outpacing inflation, but because of declines in the quality of many (not all!) goods at nominally-same (inflation adjusted) prices. In fact, I think this is part (in addition to the oft-blamed Baumol's cost disease) of why those important things are outpacing inflation so very much—they can't cut quality as readily or as much as other categories of goods have been able to, so only have actual productivity increases to put downward pressure on their costs, and I think actual productivity increases have been... quite a bit smaller over the last five decades than some figures suggest they are.

I think progress is far more mixed—and that an awful lot of real progress has manifested due to regulation forcing quality above certain levels, in concert with improvements in industry & materials, not solely from productivity increases or better materials. This is a sharply different narrative than the common one, especially since Reagan in US popular culture, and in modern libertarian-influenced discourse that's now fairly influential.

We have better ordinary, bottom-tier ready-made bread than in 1850 because it's illegal to mix in sawdust now, and not only is it illegal, there's a good-enough chance of getting caught and punished that it isn't really a thing any more. We have better housing (to the degree that it is better, which is a mixed bag but I would certainly concede leans overall better) due both to improvements in how we build houses and to new materials, and because legally-required minimum quality is way, way higher than it used to be in a variety of important ways. Cars are very safe mostly because of regulation (they're more reliable largely due to international competition! Market pressure does work, I'm just extremely skeptical that they're as magically-effective, and certainly not as optimally-effective-when-minimally-regulated, as some suppose)
OpenAI is already solving the problem for all its competitors by hobbling its models so much.

With voice mode OpenAI hears its own voice as interruptions, then misrecognizes what it itself is saying to be some topic that is off limits. It then gets into a loop of “I can’t talk about that… would you like to talk about something else?” And this is with completely innocuous topics. Absolutely infuriating. No idea how they are possibly dog fooding this and not seeing the problem.

The insane level of overcranking the PC knobs led me to end my subscription and add more Google to my portfolio. I’m sure I’m not alone. That’s not to say Google won’t have the same issues, but there’s always Grok.
> I am not convinced that many people outside of tech circles knows about ChatGPT. "AI" sure, but ChatGPT I am unconvinced.

The non-tech people don't even know there are alternatives to ChatGPT. Google is to search what ChatGPT is to LLM for most non-tech people in my experience.

My kids use it, their friends use it. My neighbors have brought it up. I work at a non-tech company and talk to a lot of non-tech people and it's rare to speak to someone who doesn't know about ChatGPT now.
Neither is overturning one as unconstitutional that Congress explicitly created and the President signed into law, especially on the sole basis of "well we're not certain Congress still wants it, even though they could get rid of it easily if they cared".
Flutter widget design.
This is a deep topic. First, God is not the author of evil [James 1:13, Ezekiel 33:10-11]. You can read through Genesis 2-3 to get a good idea of why we're separated from God in the first place. God doesn't owe us forgiveness- as Creator he has every right not to save anyone. It's out of His grace that forgiveness/reconciliation is offered. A lot of people have trouble with the idea of a God who punishes/will punish their wrongdoings, but the central message of the Bible (back to that Ezekiel reference agin) is that God saves us *because He loves us* and that we are saved not simply from our own evil, but from *His just wrath*.

How then is God a just judge, if He both promises to judge evil and refrains from punishing those who are forgiven? Their punishment is poured out on Jesus instead. That's the Gospel. He died willingly so that they can have life. If you believe, this is for you too.
> last version before the abominable 'ribbon' that no other windows app ever emulated

Isn't the modern (Windows 10, don't know about 11) file explorer UI a "ribbon" UI?
If have to use a dedicated tabular data editing program, I may as well use a spreadsheet application. What do the options you propose do better than libreoffice calc?
> Just today I upgraded the CPU fan to a new one that required to completely take apart the whole casing (because the fan has a plastic mount that needs to be on the other side of the motherboard); doing this, and putting it all together, took maybe 40 minutes? And everything restarted just perfectly afterwards. I love this machine.

This is a crazy irrelevant example. Why would you expect any other OS to act differently? CPU fans connect with a 4-pin header, it's not like switching out a major component of your system.
This, it's dumb but Excel handles csv way better if you 'import' it vs just opening it. I use excel to quickly preview csv files, but never to edit them unless I'm OK only ever using it in Excel afterwards.
That Lazarus can be used for Android, comes from jmpessoa[1]. He is an independent, that's not part of the developer team. Users were asking and begging, for years, for a Lazarus solution to develop mobile apps (check the OS section of their forum). The developers basically ignored and refused. Their users are still begging for an iOS solution. Even though, the person who jmpessoa looks to have partially got the idea from to create LAMW (Lazarus Android Module Wizard), used it to create iOS components (but many years ago).

So, even though Android and iOS modules could be more thoroughly integrated into Lazarus or they putting forth an integrated LCL based solution, they're not. That's very weird. From the perspective of how much more useful Lazarus can be, and from their users asking for it.

[1] https://github.com/jmpessoa (LAMW)
Why would the executive branch feel the need to enforce any of these rulings on Elon or his companies?