skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here, I asked ChatGPT to generate an image using a pith helmet for you: https://sora.com/g/gen_01jqzmab6hfxxtrt3atd0jgpg7

You can just ask for whatever changes you want.
Don't expect much. Modi's overnight demonetization of Rs. 1,000 bills back in 2016, caused a lot of inconvenience to almost all the Indians for 3/4 months at-least. Demonetization and flawed implementation of GST caused many small scale companies to shut doors.

With media in their pockets they can get away with anything.
> Some companies try replacing call centres with AI, but it doesn't really work and everyone hates it.

I think this is much closer than you think, because there's a good percentage of call centers that are basically just humans with no power cosplaying as people who can help.

My fiber connection went to shit recently. I messaged the company, and got a human who told me they were going to reset the connection from their side, if I rebooted my router. 30m later with no progress, I got a human who told me that they'd reset my ports, which I was skeptical about, but put down to a language issue, and again reset my router. 30m later, the human gave me an even more outlandish technical explanation of what they'd do, at which point I stumbled across the magical term "complaint" ... an engineer phoned me 15m later, said there was something genuinely wrong with the physical connection, and they had a human show up a few hours later and fix it.

No part of the first-layer support experience there would have been degraded if replaced by AI, but the company would have saved some cash.
It is being done in countries like Switzerland and Norway. Not exactly poor countries.

As I understand, in both cases, the tax resident has to declare their global (netto) wealth and have to pay a small percentage (close or less than 1%) of that wealth.

Don't you ever had tax obligations due to shares? Sell-to-cover is one solution. But I suspect at that scale you get enough dividends from these companies to cover.
Your comment has changed substantially from its initial version.

For the latest version: I think Anduril knows who they're looking for and how to get those people. This commercial, for example, is quite deliberate in filtering out the people they don't want https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQrci3Wff8
> Trump: I want you to deliberately reject certain races

Which race are colleges not allowed to accept? Source for this?
Loomered!

> In a statement, [Senator Mark Warren of Virginia] praised General Haugh’s leadership and said his removal would not make the country safer, jabbing at the White House for sharing sensitive material on a commercial messaging application and ousting members of the National Security Council staff at the urging of Ms. Loomer.

> Amid such actions, Mr. Warner said, the firing of a “nonpartisan, experienced leader” like General Haugh is “astonishing.”
99.9999999% sure that was their point? Why else would they bring up that particular work?
It's giving too much. The US should not manufacture games, whether by subsidy or tariff. Full autarky is bad policy for the US.

What it does get right though is policy certainty is important. Tariffs won't bring back much manufacturing if capital thinks that they're going to be revoked, either by congress/courts or by the next administration.
> Maybe in 70 years everyone will know the true reason ... hahahahaha ! :)

There were some "rumors" about the "chinese" powning the "american" telecom network since years. Ah, and also breaching the "passwords are obsolete" company was interesting from a national (in)security POV.
Not an american myself, and I've always disliked the excessive gun culture and pro gun lobbying in the USA... but damn, these pasts months, that second amendment is suddenly looking extremely useful
The contents of the Trump administration's Signal groups are as likely to be backed up and handed over to the national archives as the contents of Hillary Clinton's or Ursula Van der Leyen's blackberries.
Given that Trump wants to enact insane ass tax cuts for the ultra rich, their framing sounds pretty reasonable!
Given how they violate archiving laws I doubt that
https://archive.is/DWCN1

> a U.S. official briefed on the matter said Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and outside adviser to President Trump, called for General Haugh’s removal

Which official briefed on the matter claimed this?
The finbonacci on this computer should be faster than rust.
There is no reference to ChatGPT in the tweet. Seems like a clickbait
Higgs Audio – Advanced Audio Understanding and Generation
That's awesome! That's a lot of data and a great speed increase. I think that as long as you test and don't just accept exactly what it outputs without a little thought, it can be really useful.

I take it as an opportunity to learn too. I'm working on a video library app that runs locally and wanted to extract images when the scene changed enough. I had no idea how to do this, and previously would have searched StackOverflow to find a way and then struggled for hours or days to implement it. This time I just asked Aider right in the IDE terminal what options I had, and it came back with 7 different methods. I researched those a little and then asked it to implement 3 of them. It created an interface, 3 implementations and a factory to easily get the different analyzers. I could then play around with each one and see what worked the best. It took like an hour. I wrote a test script to loop over multiple videos and run each analyzer on them. I then visually checked the results to see which worked the best. I ended up jumping into the code it had written to understand what was going on, and after a few tweaks the results are pretty good. This was all done in one afternoon - and a good chunk of that time was just me comparing images visually to see what worked best and tweaking thresholds and re-running to get it just right.
ThePrimeagen's programming setup and IDE [video]
> tests of loyalty

A quick side-observation: The real purpose of forced loyalty oaths are not to create trust, but to destroy it.

The fascist saying "pledge loyalty or be fired/jailed" knows that an affirmative response doesn't mean anything, but that's not a primary goal.

Instead, they're forcing the remaining people to scar their own reputations in a way that makes it harder for them to self-organize. It seeds a doubt: "Even if this guy didn't really mean it, it still means they were willing to lie when their job/freedom was threatened. They say they're on my side, but... have they threatened again, and are they lying to me now?"
More:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578475
How does Laura Loomer have a say in who gets ousted?
"We found that when people broke the rules, teams were less likely to win games."

This seems like a prima facie bad conclusion to their hockey study, considering that the Panthers won the cup while being effectively tied for the lead in penalty minutes, with #3 not being particularly close. Yes there's a weak correlation between penalties and losing, but considering that the absolute best teams usually have a high rat index, there's a big lost opportunity to go into the rat factor in hockey and how it translates to the corporate world!
I feel like the people who say things like "communists were treated like some sort of conservatives because of identity politics" are telling on themselves.

If you look at the people on the actual political left in the US (Bernie, AOC, etc) are they talking about identity politics? Last time I checked they were talking about the problems that impact non-billionaire Americans: Healthcare, Social Security, Raising Minimum Wage, and other efforts to improve quality of life for Americans.

The only times I ever hear about identity politics is when I listen to conservatives describe what people on the left are talking about.
An ini->JSON converter + jq should be enough.
> Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft

Maybe vomit.
So many days lost trying to use Windows, Office and other "apps"[1] from Mictosoft.

[1] They were never able to write programs.
DALL-E 3 already uses a model that trained on synthetic data that take the prompt and augments it. This might lead to the overfitting. It could also be, and might be the simpler explanation, that its just looks up the right file from a RAG.
If figuring out how computers work starting all the way from logic gates interests you, but you don’t want to start by ordering parts and soldering, check out the ”game” Turing Complete.

Of course it’s not the same thing as actually building the electronics! But it can be a nice introduction.
On Android, both the first and last example scroll to "Conclusion" in the exact same way for me, and the heading shows up in the same place within the div they are showing the examples in.
The NYT always uses this language.
These is a timer to substantively act and it's soon coming up.

Right now the government is avoiding truly unpopular unjustifiable policy while it is purging the old government and placing loyalists into positions of power, something anyone would recognize as a coup if it happened in a foreign country.

The administration is mildly bound by law so long as they don't do anything to provoke into action those who took an oath to protect this country from enemies foreign and domestic and to act in service to the constitution... but once people in positions of enforcement are replaced by loyalists, the constitution truly becomes just a piece of paper. Laws and ideals are just words on paper. It is the enforcement mechanisms which turn those ideas represented on paper into something that interacts and molds physical reality.
Looks interesting. Will give it a try. I have been following AI startups developing various agents(Agentic phenomenon). Are you using OPenAi and any other LLM service APIs or you fine-tuned an open source model?
This has nothing to do with internet connection and everything to do with hardware accelerated graphics.
HP sold what they called a "personal computer" in the 1960s, well before Apple and Microsoft came around. It wasn't exactly what we consider to be a personal computer nowadays, but MySpace wasn't exactly what we consider social media to be today either. I'm not sure these things happen in discrete steps like you seem to imply. There is a clear continuum. I think it is quite fair to say, for example, that Meta help define its industry like Microsoft and Apple helped define theirs.

There will never be exact replicas of Apple and Microsoft again, but there undoubtedly will be many companies in the future that we will eventually look back upon in the same way.
The same timing is actually suspicious. And it would not be the first time something like this happened.
The pool is named backups according to zpool status and the paragraph right after.

But then again the old id doesn't match between the two commands.
Great examples!

Polluting vs. not polluting sounds super straightforward, but then you look outside and we often pollute rivers, so it's clearly not that simple.

Personally, I'm fully with you on not polluting. But that immediately puts us in an ideological position - we value preserving the environment and staying healthy.

A neo-liberal might come along and say we're wasting economic potential. Keeping the river clean means not building a factory near it. If the products from that factory and the jobs it provides offset the negative effects, they'll argue we _should_ pollute the river.

Same with taxing sugary drinks - uncertain results aren't the issue. The issue is we have different opinions on how much a government should be able to regulate certain aspects of life in the pursuit of improving public health.

Even if you have reliable statistical data from countries that implemented such a policy, some people will argue their freedom to drink whatever they want is what's important here and your bean-counting of medical expenses is completely missing the point.
Atop Security Update
I like this a lot. One of my biggest concerns with discord is privacy. How is user data managed, any plans for e2ee?
As a side note, reading "But How Do It Know" for a total beginner like me can help to scratch the itch of understanding the basics. I really loved the book and will buy my 3rd copy (lost one and gave away another).
Enabling Autonomous AI Agents to Make Payments: Challenges and Solutions
Dogs offer humans no economic value, but we haven't genocided them. There are a lot of ways that we could offer value that's not necessarily just in the form of watts and minerals. I'm not so sure that our future superintelligent summoned demons will be motivated purely by increasing their own power, resources, and leverage. Then again, maybe they will. Thus far, AI systems that we have created seem surprisingly goal-less. I'm more worried about how humans are going to use them than some sort of breakaway event but yeah, don't love that it's a real possible future.
And then all the folks that used to write M$ served the open Web in a plate to Google, now with the exception of Safari, what we have is ChromeOS, in browser, and being packaged in "native" apps.
How will you use your gun to protect yourself when the government is kidnapping people? They are starting to test this power with foreign students. If you think it won’t be anyone who disagrees with them eventually this whole thing looks exactly like the 1930s except technology can make this much much worse.
Windows Recall
The Remarkable Way We Gain Insights
I suspect that if the order goes as you suggest (Greenland, Panama, Canada), there won't be much of a US military left after the first war (the one against nearly all of Europe). Not because we'll have lost, but because the majority will have quit.

The US military relies heavily on contractors and civil service for logistics these days, it is basically non-functional without them. Unlike members of the military proper, civil service and contractors can walk away with very little trouble (other than finding employment, of course). Members of the military will risk court martial and other disciplinary actions if they refuse and may have their resignations refused.

Who maintains our weapon systems? Civilians. Who maintains the communication networks? Mostly civilians. Who builds our aircraft and munitions? Civilians. Who maintains our ships? Civilians. Who builds our ships? Civilians, but they're not very good at it anymore. Who maintains our nukes? Civilians, but they keep getting fired and rehired.
I dont think they're doing this to kill off browser engines; they're trying to sift browsers into "user" and "AI slop", so they can prioritize users.

This is entirely web crawler 2.0 apocolypse.
There are reasons for Americans to be concerned; more importantly, they should protest and now hide.

Rhetorical question: Who would you rather be loyal to, (a) a man who grabs women, pays prostitutes to silence them, and has been convicted of multiple crimes or (b) all the people of Canada?

If the citizens of the USNA are smart, they will choose the latter. (Loyalty should be to a country, not to a leader - the latter concept applies only in dictatorships.)

Oh, and the Panama Canal will continue to be labelled "Panama Canal" on all my maps as long as I live, and there is nothing any president can do about that.
interesting!!, great use of graph flattening
Amazing homepage, congratz!
What paints the Dolomites pink? The magic of the legendary 'enrosadira'
Not if the guns are in the hands of the MAGA
> We want secure housing, good education, healthy food, and an opportunity for promotion in life.

How come dismantling education, medical, various protective agencies and services will help with that?
> how are future generations supposed to know which is real

Reality/truth/history has always been an expensive pursuit in the face of evolving pollutants.
Chrome Extension for NoteUX is now live! Thanks for all of your support.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhgibmcoiahciekchd...
> In 2014, a shop called VMS Software Inc (VSI) strikes some kind of deal with HP where they get to develop and support new versions of VMS while older versions continue to belong to HP. As part of this, they finally announce an x86-64 port. This port first sees the light of day in 2020.

And interesting factoid about the x86-64 port is that they've switched to LLVM-based compilers rather than making x86-64 backends for their legacy compilers.
Mostly balance and quality of life, the UI especially improved a lot. Better AI opponents as well, and a few new units that fit well within the rest (and improve balance between races)
Makes me wonder if the generic servos of the described kind are really close enough to the performance a cheap-class servo can have, or if modern advances in monolithic power stage ICs could allow a servo free of sliding movement (no brushes, no wiper potentiometer (maybe a capacitively coupled differential sensing of angle, or the tricks of the cheap digital calipers with their iirc nonius-like scale read through several parallel tracks of non-touching capacitive electrodes?), instead just a clever chip digitally controlling a brushless electric machine using the feedback sensing available to it).

Being able to run an even just very simple digital controller allows things like severely dropping negative feedback gain at a resonance frequency of the larger system.
And so much more.
I wonder if California were to pass Calexit in response to this administration's ongoing actions, what happens to the military bases and personnel in the state? Last year's Civil War movie by Alex Garland showed California and Texas with their own military fighting the US government. I took it to mean the military units in those states seceded with the state, instead of remaining part of the US Armed Forces.
It is not about trademark laws. It is about where laws apply.

If you torrent a movie right now, you'll be fined in many advanced countries.

But a huge corporation led by a sociopath scrapes the entire internet and builds a product with other people's work ?

Totally fine.
A classical example of legal bad behaviour is that of patent trolls.
The accusation is harsh, but I think Zig's BDFL had a point. V-lang seems to have been poorly led for many years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27441848

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503446

Many links paint a picture of constant false advertising, even deception.
Give me a break, I read the article, I'm not convinced does anything to further his specific claims about the community. Frankly the whole thing is just a rant about how things were better back when.

"But the tradecraft is slipping. Analysts are skipping the hard parts. They’re trusting GenAI to do the heavy cognitive lifting, and it’s changing how we operate at a foundational level."

Next we're going to be hearing about how participation trophies and DEI are also contributing to this imagined "problem."
So you’re saying these tests won’t also mean people are purged?
The bad (good) things is they replace these people by incompetent ones.

It give me The-Great-Leap vibes.

Escpecially RFK Jr.
Here's a copy of The Official C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception mentioned in the article. It's 179 pages and sounds interesting [1].

[1] https://archive.org/details/cia-manual-trickery-deception-20...
It's confusing because she looks so much older, but Laura Loomer is only 31.
'Chemtrails,' cloud seeding would be banned under bill passed by Florida Senate
Interesting post, but this perspective seems to be the main focus, like all the time. I find this statement to be completely wrong usage of AI:

“This is especially noteworthy because I don’t actually know Python. Yes, with 25+ years of software development experience, I could probably write a few lines of working Python code if pressed — but I don’t truly know the language. I lack the muscle memory and intimate knowledge of its conventions and best practices.”

You should not use AI to just “do” the hard job, since as many have mentioned, it does it poorly and sloppy. Use AI to quickly learn the advantages and disadvantages of the language, then you do not have to navigate through documentation to learn everything, just validate what the AI outputs. All is contextual, and since you know what you want in high level, use AI to help you understand the language.

This costs speed yes, but I have more control and gain knowledge about the language I chose.
Spartan: Revisiting Val Kilmer's most underrated gem, a David Mamet thriller
Related: currently the Mini Globe round the world race is on for 19' plywood boats:

https://minigloberace.com/

Specs/plans of the boats here: https://classglobe580.com/specification/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/chemtrails-debunked/
Do you really think the source would say anything if their name is in the news?
There is a deal between antitrust regulators (would need to look up who exactly...) and Microsoft that secure boot on x86 must allow to install your own keys and thereby alternative operating systems. It does not cover any other architecture, so ARM devices can be and have been locked. Just Microsoft is not very relevant in the ARM space so it's less disturbing. (Others are locking ARM, too. But that's a different discussion.)

Also I would not trust on the current US administration to keep deals that limit US corporations in force forever.

I have used secure boot to secure Linux systems, so it is useful for Linux users. But the danger that oligopolists will misuse it is not unreal.
Europe won’t fight the US, that’s insanity!
>Most games do skill-based matchmaking

<Bitterly laugh-cries in Rocket League>
Yeah I think the real (or maybe just more interesting) story here is – like with a lot of stories about LLM’s – the reaction to and characterization of the results by the user of the tool.

They may have asked how to correct a trade imbalance but completely changed the characterization of the calculation from “trade imbalance” to “tariffs and currency manipulation”.

With any tool unless you understand how it works there is a danger you can’t accurately communicate what is happening. Or, for malicious users, it gives you an easy way to come up with a method to mislead and attain nefarious goals.
No one's gonna solve anything. "Our" world is based on greedy morons concentrating power through hands of just morons who are happy to hit you with a stick. This system doesn't think about what "we" should or allowed to do, and no one's here is at the reasonable side of it either.

lest we run the very real risk of societal collapse or species extinction

Our part is here. To be replaced with machines if this AI thing isn't just a fart advertised as mining equipment, which it likely is. We run this risk, not they. People worked on their wealth, people can go f themselves now. They are fine with all that. Money (=more power) piles in either way.

No encouraging conclusion.
This underestimates the switching costs from mainframes. As one CIO told me, it’s basically career suicide. You take a rock solid system that’s been working forever and embodies decades ago of knowledge and replace it with something that while modern and cheaper exposes you to massive risk.
That’s a much harder claim to prove. The value of an attention span is non zero, but if the speed of access to information is close to zero, how do these relate?

If I can solve two problems in a near constant time that is a few hours, what is the value of solving the problem which takes days to reason through?

I suspect that as the problem spaces diverge enough you’ll have two skill sets. Who can solve n problems the fastest and who can determine which k problems require deep thought and narrow direction. Right now we have the same group of people solving both.
> Nobody would vote for a politician who just makes things worse, that doesn't make sense.

Yet, that's what they did. Repeatedly. After he already demonstrated how much worse he would make things.

Oh yeah, he denied that he would execute the planes for how he would make things much, much, MUCH worse, that had been
very openly stated by
his close associates.

That's enough for it to "make sense" to you, I suppose.