skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it applies to other contractors. My point is that the success is tightly coupled to the willingness of taxpayers to fund the operations.

You’re muddling points. I’m not saying the NASA contract was a subsidy. Tesla is a better example of subsidies.

No private capital was willing to contract to SpaceX until the risk was lowered. They’ve succeeded in doing so and deserve credit. However, they would have never gotten to that point without taxpayer dollars. Governments were the only institutions capable and willing of taking on that high initial risk. That point still stands. It’s odd that your stance denies that when Musk himself has admitted it.
Docker compose
> "In order to migrate all COBOL code into a more modern language within a few months, DOGE would likely need to employ some form of generative artificial intelligence to help translate the millions of lines of code, sources tell WIRED"

This brings up an interesting question of maintainability. Would millions of lines of Java code generated by AI be more maintainable than the previous COBOL code? And if not, what is the point of this exercise?
The arrogance of these guys is breathtaking.
> I'm not sure what this means. You can definitely get a degree in mathematics.

Are you a bot? The text is very clear - I said `PhD` not `degree`. You cannot get a `PhD in Mathematics` - the title of the PhD is never ever (ever) `PhD in Mathematics` (or `Physics` or `Electrical Engineering` or `Computer Science`). In fact it's literally only ever `Doctor of Philosophy` that gets listed on the award. The department is also listed on the award as `awarded by X department` but it matters about as much as the football team of the school. The only thing that matters is the title of the dissertation. That's how you get people in physics departments doing dissertations that are pure math and vice-versa.

If you still don't understand what I'm saying I'd be happy to take a pic of my PhD certificate and send it to you.

>On the contrary, there is absolutely zero departments of nonlinear optimization. This is actually a true fact and not an alternative one.

Lololol:

http://math.ac.vn/en/cao-hoc/211-organization/departments/de...

and if you actually read that page, you'll see it reveals that usually these departments are called "Department of Operations Research", such as

https://orfe.princeton.edu/

https://www.orie.cornell.edu/orie

https://nps.edu/web/or

> You seem to be missing critical context, which is what I was responding to

You seem to have selective reading/recall abilities - I have directly quoted already what I'm responding to

> No one that is an expert in nonlinear optimization has a PhD in... nonlinear optimizations

So I'll repeat - there are many many people that literally have PhDs in nonlinear optimization.
Oracle Cloud Hacked Twice, Denied Thrice
A bad week for Oracle - their health business and underlying cloud platform has suffered multiple massive breeches with damming evidence, and overt denial, minimisation of the matter.
He says he has read some code:

> First of all, Signal is open source. And, yes, I’ve read some of the source code for some feature I was interested in. I’ve also read through some very deep audit of Signal source code.
It matters when you say it has the "most convincing" evidence as if you have read them all and are keeping up with the field and didn't just summarize them with some service like https://consensus.app/

I don't know if what you are repeating is slop, etc. I can't trust the source.

A single recent systematic review is more trustworthy than that.
Lots.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266184
Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data
Sure they can. Just build something that allows for abuse, set up controls that prevent individual employees from abusing it, then have an exec secretly do whatever they want without your involvement.
Some day we should have everything sandboxed on the hw level. Like computers in 1980
This is very deeply troubling to read. Can’t believe this is happening in this day and age and in the USA
None of them did anything even remotely similar to "inciting domestic terrorism" or "vocally support[ing] terrorist groups" (though the latter would actually be protected by the 1st Amendment).

If they had been in any way involved with domestic terrorism, then they could be charged, sentenced, and probably deported as a consequence. But what they actually did was peacefully protest, write Op-Eds, and generally speak their minds. That's 100% covered by the 1st Amendment.

The Trump administration hasn't charged these students with anything. It's asserting the right to deport legal immigrants purely based on their political opinions, which is an obvious breach of the 1st Amendment.
The project started, as you stated, as a clone of Cube World (the name CloneWorld was thrown a few times, did not stick). But it was rapidly decided that the direction we wanted was different. Veloren is a look-similar (and I would argue that not that much) of Cube Wolrd, but it is headed in a completely independent direction.
> Some were tired of the media ignoring stories like the Biden laptop story.

The endless litigation in the laptop case against Hunter Biden wasn't enough? Every media company must also cover it if MAGA says so?

> Others wanted more details on Hunters $500k no show Ukrainian job

Hunter Biden does not and has not held any position in public office, but regardless a House Republican investigation into the Biden family found no wrongdoing[0].

I'm sorry that you feel persecuted when your side just got control of all three branches of government, had the richest man in the world buy Twitter to help you win, and also controls the largest cable news network in the country.

[0]: https://archive.is/SAkcs
Frankly the "this didn't exist before" and extend-the-line "it will keep getting better" is not only bad reasoning, it's getting tired.

Yeah transformers doing NLP well is pretty impressive. No, it is not worth burning hundreds of billions of dollars on GPU data centers. And please, stop the hype. Non-technical decision makers are really spoiling everything with magical thinking about "artificial intelligence". We still have to learn domains and engineer products. There is no silver bullet.
I haven't read Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan, but I think he introduced your second point in that book, in 1964. He claims that the content of each new medium is a previous medium. Video games contain film, film contains theater, theater contains screenplay, screenplay contains literature, literature contains spoken stories, spoken stories contain folklore, and I suppose if one were an anthropologist, they could find more and more chain links in this chain.

It's probably the same in AI — the world needs AI to be chat (or photos, or movies, or search, or an autopilot, or a service provider ...) before it can grow meaningfully beyond. Once people understand neural networks, we can broadly advance to new forms of mass-application machine learning. I am hopeful that that will be the next big leap. If McLuhan is correct, that next big leap will be something that is operable like machine learning, but essentially different.

Here's Marc Andreessen applying it to AI and search on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://youtu.be/-hxeDjAxvJ8?t=160
Kids often snack on little raisin boxes and their squishy nature make them easy to stuff.
Sounds like someone wants Lindows/Linspire.

https://www.linspirelinux.com/
And minecraft started as an Infiniminer clone intended to have Dwarf Fortress elements. Inspiration all the way down.
Stuff like this?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
With the Linux kernel references is this only a Ubuntu issue, or could Debian also be affected?
I worked in a recruitment company in SEA for software devs and management/exec layers.

Just sharing my perspective, Taiwan's Software Devs were paid 1/3 of what devs in SG or HK are paid, the biggest reason being there aren't any software companies headquartered in Taiwan that are big/growing fast enough to offer competitive salaries to SG / HK. In SG/HK you have banks, hedgefunds and tech companies all competing for talent—Grab, Amazon, Google, Shopee, DBS, HSBC, etc, pushing up prices to be competitive globally. Taiwan's local companies have to make enough money to pay global salaries for strong talent, or they just get their best talent poached by SG/HK or China (which has plenty of strong tech giants of their own).

But... a tiny 23 million population island where the average wage is low and people are generally happy and content... is not a great business environment for startups. I think some local startups saturated the Taiwan market with like 70% of the island's population in their database... and like $2-5m US revenue/yr? Great achievement but not a large base for continued rev growth.

As a Taiwanese company, you are not winning against bigger tech companies in China. Neither are you building for english speaking audiences of SEA because Taiwan's english is not native... in short, the local market conditions is just unable to pay for global level talent, who leave.

This is a software dev focused view of Taiwan, but it applies to all or most other industries not named TSMC.
This is what people mean by "polarisation". Parties (and party members) are less defined by what they stand for and more, A LOT more, by that they hate each other. On fox news this is easy to see ("Far left threatens European peace treaty ..."), but in reality you see similar things on the right part ("The brazen hypocrisy of the right's Tesla protest outrage ...")

Both parties are trying to demonize each other. Biden did not fuck up the country with communism, obviously. But Trump is not hitler ...

Meanwhile I've seen democrats spit on other democrats because they were pro-Israel. It's not just on the right. And then you read about republicans responding to someone's wife getting deported by stating she deserved it. Fucking hell, where are we going?

People need to come together again. And yes, Trump is not making that easy, but it is the way forward.

Here I am. I am pro-Israel, I can even defend Netanyahu (well, his actions in a war defending Israel, where I have issues is him turning authoritarian). I am pro-Ukraine, pro-EU-US cooperation. I am anti-deportation (isn't everyone?) and pro-science. I am anti-mass-layoffs in government. I DO see the democrats as the party of the rich (WHY are they doing this btw? Are these people morons? If Trump manages to get the poor on his side, even with lies, and the democrats keep doing their poor=dumb thing, even when it's true, the democrats will lose every time). I was an Obama democrat (and since didn't vote).

Where should I go, if I don't want to be attacked.
That is entirely too narrow. Laws that constrain the government are being ignored. Thats a LOT more than just privacy. Or “consumer wellbeing”, which as a term reviles me — We the People are more than mere consumers — but I take your meaning generally.

Much too narrow. They’re ignoring due process. Just ask anyone not white detained by ICE. (Is that everyone detained by ICE?)
My county is about 35,000 people. There's no pickup for batteries, but they accept them for dropoff on site (along with other recyclables).

I think this is pretty common, probably any landfill with a household hazardous waste program.
It matters because your statement of "Here’s a list of the most convincing studies or meta analyses." assumes some kind of curating. If all you're doing is providing something akin to a google search, it's not really valuable.
it will be one of the pictures in tens/hundreds of millions of pictures, maybe.
Actually had to think about what phrase you meant here. For other readers' benefit, it is "Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache", which is indeed a known phrase (with the obvious direct translation)
You need fiber for that -- I have a pair of them (100' to my desk, 30' to my TV), and they've been rock-solid for 4 years.
However the fact that she did protest the war means that she has a potential political asylum case.
generic artificial intelligence is a sufficiently large bag of tricks. that's what natural intelligence is. there's no evidence that it's not just tricks all the way down.

I'm not asking the model to translate from one language to another - I'm asking it to explain to me why a certain word combination means something specific.

it can also solve/explain a lot of things that aren't language. bag of tricks.
Apple would be much better saying to the world, "we're going to make Siri better". That's concrete, people get it, LLMs are good at it, and something we'd all appreciate.

Instead they're failing to build a bunch of stuff that nobody asked for under the banner, "Apple Intelligence".

Please Apple, just make Siri better.
"But LLMs are not deterministic "
> the time that the Western world had smog events like China had up until their Olympic Games is decades in the past.

China has actually made very significant efforts to reduce smog, and there's been a huge improvement in the last 10 years. There's still way more smog than in the US or Western Europe, but it's gotten dramatically better, and it will probably continue to get better.
If only it weren’t subscription model. At least I can still install LaTeX without a credit card.
?? that quote makes me think it's accurate, not inaccurate
The link opens AppStore (on iPhone obviously) to the “Venu: Find Things To Do” app
I am not aware of any geographical constraints you might have but from what little I have seen, try picking up a good school either in Germany or Switzerland for your undergrad. Get a masters fellowship such as Erasmusmundus or DaaD, then move to Berkeley/Stanford for PhD…
> but it's equally true that you could lock down a TCP socket to a specific process with about the same amount of work.

Can you educate me? I'm familiar with SO_PEERCRED that returns the user/group/pid on the other end. Would you then checksum the exe of the pid from /proc?
principal naivety here seems to be by the author
Not well-versed in graphics libraries, but - isn't this reinventing the wheel? I mean, aren't there several others C GUI libraries/toolkits already?
Interesting - do you have any materials about it that I could read up on?
Because, as they say in the paper, the data only say a foreign body was removed - not what sort it was.

However, a different study showed that 75% of incidents in kids under 6 was due to coins.

Given that the change appears to coincide with the UK's move to cashless, it is a reasonable assumption. Although they do note the limits of their conclusion.

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1308/rcsann.2024...
It is a fairly plain shirt with a basketball design that reads "Ban Dolan"
Generally getting things out of space also requires effort/fuel. A graveyard orbit is specifically easier to get to but uninteresting from a "hitting other things" perspective.
DeaDBeeF 1.10.0 is out, adds built-in media library
first of all, Anthropic is hardly more successful than xAI. they get a lot of headlines, but how many people actually use Claude? and what else do they have going for them? as far as I've seen and heard Grok is just as successful if not more.

second of all, I would suggest that twitter's value as a whole is very nebulously related to its actual revenue numbers, and is far more related to: - its potential revenue numbers, which are way higher in the hands of someone less controversial and - profit, which we don't really know about because its private anyway, but is likely much higher given the amount of cuts that have been made.
Do you also judge crack cocaine's value by its number of users?

I don't think most people are capable of doing a cost/benefit ratio calculation on how what they do affects the rest of the world, and the wealthy are far and away the worst abusers of this sadass truth.
They were BSing you or working in a different part of the company than SWE.

Back in the day Keynote files would just be passed around via a shared server so you and the people you were collaborating with could make and merge changes between them, eg I’d do one part of a presentation, Rick would do another part, and we’d copy our slides out of and paste them into each others’ decks to get a complete version for rehearsing with. If we had notes for each other, we’d give each other the notes out of hand rather than just directly change each others’ slides.

There’s a lot of mythology that people just make up about how secrecy works at Apple. It’s mostly sensible.
The layman, almost by definition, would refer to most things as impossible until he sees them done; then he takes them for granted because he has no idea how difficult they were. His opinion about the difficulty or resource requirements of any feat is worthless.
Or, say, a number one search provider ;)
>Fifty four percent of American adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level

I have a 4th grade child. When she was in 3rd grade, I realized that a 3rd grade education allows you to function in many different forms. A 3rd grade reading level is more than enough for living in nearly every situation.

I would hope that full grown adults develop other "intellect" skills that help them in life, but as far as reading level - 3rd grade is plenty.
> If for any reason it fell from orbit, later

You’d need 320+ m/s of delta-V to knock something from Sun-Earth L2 to Earth [1]. Not impossible. But akin to the energy required to go from Earth transfer to Mars or Venus transfer [2]. Less likely to fall to Earth than become an orbital pest.

(It's a good question.)

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Duration-and-delta-v-req...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_system_delta_v_ma...
Last year I had the privilege to learn about the IBM mainframe, and the mainframers converted me. It is one of the most advanced systems I have ever seen. IBM solved most cloud-issues 30 years ago, and the backwards compatibility is insane. Everyone is worried about 'code from the eighties' still running, but this just proves that the system is reliable. And in this datacenter (that I was learning about) the mainframe did 80% of calculations while only using 8% of the datacenter's power, because the machine is so terrifyingly efficient.

This is not just about converting COBOL code. This is about converting the JCL (batch processing) jobs to whatever cool real-time processing solution the new architecture is going to have, and about translating the security boundaries from RACF to new security controls. Using AI to 'convert' it might prove difficult, because I don't think we have the datasets to train an AI to do this properly.
Small typo: GUI Guider
poor editors, having to work with a magic keyboard
Well said and insightful, thanks.

And the name-comment synergy slaps, as the youngins sometimes say :-)
Oh that's not practical at all.

We have battery drop off points every neighbourhood supermarket, which is in every couple of kilometers or so (Europe).
> The fact that the “security” team is going through online images to feed into there facial recognition banning software is kind of weird and creepy.

Why would any team go through anything? I'm sure can just ask AI to maintain a list of offenders, fully automated. So much more efficient.
Nah.

Just evolutionary biology and psychology.

You see an ‘other’..
Assume the worst.

That’s worked for hundreds of thousands of years. Millions actually.

Everyone does it. Because no one can help doing it. No one who is human anyway.
I've noticed that Siri has gotten far worse at playing a song based on a verbal request. Frequently Siri now assures me that songs are not downloaded to my phone only for me to discover that they have been the whole time.
Repeated games are studied in game theory, and the winning strategy is to "trust, retaliate, and trust again". Logic isn't limited to first order logic.
We keep trying to find justifications for business use of LLMs.

We keep getting shut down by simpler, purpose built tools that work predictably.

LLM is just good for synthesizing vague inputs.
I can’t tell if this is a serious question. But if it is , I’ll take a crack at it. Because a major airport experiencing a power outage costs a crap-ton of money.
This is my experience as pretty heavy speech-to-text user (voice keyboard) - as they’ve introduced more AI features, I’ve started to have all sorts of nonsense from recent emails or contacts get mixed into simple transcriptions

It used to have no problem with simple phrases like “I’m walking home from the market” but now I’ll just as often have it transcribe “I’m walking home from the Mark Betts”, assuming Mark Betts was a name in my contacts, despite that sentence making much less structural sense

It’s bad enough that I’m using the feature much less because I have to spend as much time copyediting transcribed text before sending as I would if I just typed it out by hand. I can turn off stuff like the frequently confused notification summaries, but the keyboard has no such control as far as I know
'if you start a ̶r̶i̶s̶k̶y̶ venture that earns 2%, when you could invest the money safely in bonds at 5%'

The US invented flat screen technology. The return on manufacturing didn't fit American business profit levels so they sold the technology off to overseas companies. Tariff's aren't going to fix that. They might artificially boost the return short term, but unless we are going permanent protected markets this sort of low return manufacturing isn't coming back, because of American management style, not 'Canada bad', not 'trade deals bad'. If anything a better cause statement would be to say 'American MBAs bad'.
Which ones do you have in mind?

This is a very low level embedded GUI library when you have a screen where you just set pixel colors or can draw some primitives like lines.

This is not something you would use to program a GUI program running in a real desktop OS.
You can check socket credentials, indeed. You can set up filtering rules to match on UID using nftables. You can do things like put a cookie somewhere else to exchange and authenticate the connection a-la xauth. You could use TLS and check the host key vs. a public key stored at install time. There are many ways to do this, none of which require more than a few dozen lines of code/config.

But really the simplest thing would just be to use a port <1024 so that only root can open it. That's literally what the feature was for. You can still be "attacked", but only by someone who already has local root.
“Severance” is exactly how Apple’s New Product Security and Public Relations organizations would like all employees to be, to an absolute T. However, the rest of the company is much more pragmatic and understands well the value of collaboration and employees having enriched lives that they share with the workplace, since that leads to greater innovation and works well as a recruiting tool as well.
> It’s obvious there’s a “there” there with LLMs (in a way there wasn’t with, say, Web 3.0, or “the metaverse,” or some of the other weird fads recently)

There is a "there" with those other fads too. VRChat is a successful "metaverse" and Mastodon is a successful decentralized "web3" social media network. The reason these concepts are failures is because these small grains of success are suddenly expanded in scope to include a bunch of dumb ideas while the expectations are raised to astronomical levels.

That in turn causes investors throw stupid amounts of money at these concepts, which attracts all the grifters of the tech world. It smothers nacant new tech in the crib as it is suddenly assigned a valuation it can never realize while the grifters soak up all the investments that could've gone to competent startups.
Zorin OS supports running .exes directly (via Wine of course). https://help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/windows-app-support/
this is a confusing take to me. could you explain your aversion to launchers?