skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK (and broadly under the UK GDPR and PECR – the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), yes, you generally do need to get consent before setting non-essential cookies, even if it's just for rudimentary analytics like a unique visitor count.

Here's the key distinction:
Strictly necessary cookies: No consent needed. These are required for the site to function properly (e.g., shopping cart cookies, login sessions).

Analytics cookies (including the case with a unique ID for tracking visitors): Not strictly necessary, so consent is required.

Even if the data is anonymous or pseudonymous (like a randomly generated unique ID), if the purpose is analytics and it involves storing or accessing data on the user’s device (like setting a cookie), you must ask for consent.
Understanding Flash Attention: Writing the Algorithm from Scratch in Triton
Come on, you can do the critical thinking here to understand why these companies would want the best in class (open/closed) weight LLMs.
> I don't want politics discussed at work, it's annoying and a distraction

This would be a ridiculous expectation if you were working for the federal government. Politics affect your work to an extreme level there. Not discussing politics at all is not discussing your job.

> I don't want people badmouthing their job or work or company. All of these behaviors are toxic and I would guess 80% of people are like me.

If your company was involved in something really bad, you'd rather just not know? If you worked for Theranos, Nikola, or Enron, you'd rather be able to continue on with your nose down than know what's going on?

I want to know the truth about my company. I don't want to be complicit in crimes or things that I consider unconscionable, and I don't consider willing ignorance a good excuse for partaking in unethical or illegal activity.
Congratulations! I wish I had this inside emacs so I can use paredit
- Even if 'only' 10 years construction time: How much solar energy can be build in that time at a fraction of the cost?

- So we need to find secure expensive, leak-free storage only for 1000 years? Most countries cant even plan 5 years ahead.

- No words on generated Energy produced per Dollar.

Your rebuttal is not as significant as you might think.
Sarcasm doesn't translate well in text. Please, elaborate.
Ingredients: ... sweeteners (aspartame, acesulfame K)

Unfortunately that's the new "not really Irn Bru" recipe :(.
If fossil fuels are growing at a decreasing rate that means that eventually they will stop growing. That's the point.
Sorry to hear the distress. As an MIT alum, I can say the most important thing I learned was not the material for major, but how to think - how to approach problems, break them down, and develop creative solutions. These skills will serve you well for the rest of your life. When I changed jobs in my mid-40s (at the C-level) the number one thing board members brought up in my interviews was that I had graduated from MIT. I know this sounds elitist, but I am simply describing my experience.

Most of the comments highlight that you will likely be several years behind the curve of cohorts before you just because of when you were born and went to school. I agree with that. However, it can be overcome, you will simply have to work harder at it. You will likely have to change jobs more often, ideally within the same company. This means you will have less comfort and calm in your early days, but it can help catch you up to where you expected to be.

Good luck. You have to stay positive to succeeed at this.
In hindsight, yes, the right seems to lack belief in democracy and freedom.
If your employer isn't listening to ethical or moral concerns internally speaking out in a "major meeting" becomes one of the only options (short of striking or leaking to the press).
So, never, for your part, is what you are saying? Have you updated this copypasta at any time over the last 15 years?
Not surprised something like this happened, one of the persons behind Abracadabra had been outed as being Michael Patryn, Co-founder of QuadrigaCX.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sdsp0i/shoc...
I don't see anything in the article about being caught. Maybe I missed something?
And I thought Burt Munro was a character....
Does it matter that much? If you need 1:1 private comms, personal SSL certs and a Dockerized chat client are available?

Email only persists due to nostalgia. We have literally dozens of other methods to sync state between two machines.

Private git repo?
Private IRC?

Note how providers are not blocking other options. Email is inherently insecure due to the header structure, and open to the world by default is an invitation to be misused by spam.

Sorry everyone but an "open world" has revealed we're all just biological meat suits everywhere doing human shit, hallucinating there's some culture binding us (which just translates to "practice of a cult").

Breaking Bad ended 10 years ago. Star Wars was decades ago. Email is terrible in many ways. Move along.
Birds communicate with signals and that seems to be enough for them. They don't generally live in social communities, or hunt together.
There’s a great app called Bartender that does this. I’ve been using it for over 10 years. Very stable.
It's usually windy when it's dark and cold and vice versa.

You should be wondering about the combination of solar + wind energy + short term storage + long term storage.
You have to take Simon with a grain of salt he confuses demonstrations with solutions. I was just looking at some other code he generated using vibe techniques and it's generally not suitable for anything remotely robust and for some reason the models still think markup languages are regular and can be handled with regular expressions, among many other foot guns present in just about everything. But don't worry! It is us sane people who don't get the joke they'll say and that it is "good enough" lol. I have a really hard time with LLM people who still consider telling people who dissent to go fuck themselves when their work is so insulting and ignorant.
> Apple seems content to let UK Apple computer owners mistakenly believe they can trust the company's promises of "privacy"

Not as far as I see. To me, Apple have been very clear that their "normal" protection can be accessed by governments, and they have withdrawn ADP completely from the UK (users not already using it: now. users still using it: at some time in future) - to let its UK customers know they have no expectation of privacy from their government.

Apple can't stop the government demanding the removal of user privacy. But it can, and did, let all its users know this is happening.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

> Data with standard encryption is accessible by Apple and shareable with law enforcement, if they have a warrant.

> In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed" that the security feature would no longer be available to British customers. "As we have said many times before, we have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products, and we never will," it continued.

> Existing users' access will be disabled at a later date.
Hi, I write as a hobby and really like Sudowrite. There's a huge gap between it and virtually every other AI writing tool I know of. The insight that writers:

A) Largely only want AI when they are blocked, and not all the time
B) Want to consider options (which is how writing happens all the time, IMO)

Is really what sets your product apart. So I'm curious, how did you get these insights? Were you a writer and instinctively knew of these, and so you dogfooded your own product? Or did you do a YC style feedeback loop to writers to find this differentiator?
Matt Levine has a common refrain which is that basically everything is securities fraud. If you were an investor who invested on the premise that Meta was good at AI and Zuck knowingly put out a bad model, is that securities fraud? Matt Levine will probably argue that it could be in a future edition of Money Stuff (his very good newsletter).
Dual-class stock gives US company owners same power as ByteDance has over TikTok
I'm sure there are a bunch! I'm an artist, I talk to a bunch of artists physically and online. It's not the prevailing opinion in my experience.
I still use it for that. Built a really nice packer based process that pulls in Chef cookbooks and applies them in zero mode. Even have an integration test of the resulting AMI in later stages using test kitchen (Chef's "killer app" imo) with the EC2 driver to spin up an instance with the AMI and run Inspec tests on it.
Congratulations on a great product and getting it distributed like that!

Did they take your product as is in those two weeks or rebuild it?
> The onus is on you to try to prove otherwise.

You each made claims. You each have onus for them because you made the claims, not because someone says you do. That's how the burden of proof works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)
That question has been answered; cloud has been unambiguously a huge win. There are a select few companies where their business makes more sense to use on-prem rather than cloud, but those are the exception. For most, it's outsourcing a non-core business function at a fraction of the cost.

If there were a tariff-induced mass migration off AWS/GCP/Azure by enterprises, it would be to a competing cloud vendor, not back to on-prem.
What seems to be lacking is the path to accidental discovery that underlies these stories from the past. Is there a reasonable way people will find themselves building drones without being intentional about it?
IME both ChatGPT and Claude had a sycophancy problem, but I'm surprised by the claim it's more of a Claude thing. Is that the general opinion of people who keep up with both?

(I unsubbed from OpenAI after Altman's coup. ChatGPT was annoyingly sycophantic up to then at least.)
Clever sounding but rather dry without an example - anyone seen one?
The UK plans are mostly wind e.g. from the latest carbon budget:

> Low-carbon supply: by 2040, our Balanced Pathway sees offshore wind grow six-fold from 15 GW of capacity in 2023 to 88 GW by 2040. Onshore wind capacity doubles to 32 GW by 2040 and solar capacity increases to 82 GW

And once you multiply by capacity factor the solar and onshore wind are about equal so solar will be less than a third of modern renewables.

Plus UK wind peaks in the winter.
Not to be a kinematics nerd, but the top of that tire was going 300 mph
Absolutely love this. Feels like a real step forward instead of another patch on a broken system. Invisible, secure, and actually useful—huge props to the team behind this. Hope LLM providers start paying attention.
To be clear, I’m not saying your or anyone else’s life is “nice.” I’m saying that however nice (or not) your life currently is, it will be worse. Those goods at Walmart will cost 30% more and still be equally threadbare. You’re mixing two things together, the declining quality of goods, and the places those goods are made.

Did you know you can buy premium clothes made in China? You can. Check out producers like Bob Dong or Bronson. Ironically, they make a lot of thick, quality clothes inspired by vintage US work-wear. The reason you probably never heard of them is buyers have to pay extra for that quality, and the appetite isn’t there.

The fact that everything you buy is cheaply constructed of cheap materials is entirely due to that being what sells. Most consumers won’t pay a premium for quality, so you have to go out of your way to look for it. Moving mass-market garment manufacturing back to America won’t change that.

If you just want to pay fistfuls of dollars for quality American-made clothing, you can do that today. Go buy yourself a $70 t-shirt from Lady in White. I’m sure we’ll be able to make shittier clothing cheaper, but it’s still going to be a lot more than shoppers are used to paying. You’re never going to get any American-made shirt for $4.98.

As to why tariffs constitute withdrawing: other countries can and will retaliate. China is not going to buy our expensive American-made commodity products, especially when they’ve got a 55% import duty on them, when they can buy equal or better quality things made at home or in SE Asia for half the price.

Even if successful, tariffs will make goods expensive. There’s no way around that. There is 0 reason to believe they will make goods any better. With reduced competitive pressure, quality is more likely to drop, if anything.
I love the last one
Well, sure, it's hard to hide a half dozen carrier groups.

China does not have what would be necessary to deny air and sea access to a hostile island 80 miles off its coast.
Your lord and savior the government cannot do anything about the fact that it's cheaper to manufacture new than to repair. Unless you want to de-industrialize, which of course is a popular ideology among Europeans.
And feels like a spiritual relative to the Itanium sales forecast chart:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Itanium_Sales_Foreca...
> AI is both terrible and wonderful. It's useless and some things and impressive at others

That's kind of my problem. I am saying that it mostly only appears impressive to people who don't know better

When people do know better it comes up short consistently

Most of the pro AI people I see are bullish about it on things they have no idea about, like non-technical CEOs insisting that it can create good code
I meant to write a blog post titled "What's good about ClearCase" in 2014, and I wish I did because now I've forgotten most of it.

ClearCase is a terrible version control system I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, but it did have some good points that git still doesn't have. Large binary file support, configuration records, winkin, views.

With various big companies going towards giant monorepos and the local git repo just being a view into the super-centralized repo, I think they will re-invent parts of ClearCase.
It's definitely both, and you can see I mentioned it in a follow-up reply to another commenter.

But Trump can only impact public sector at the moment, right?
To put a finer point on it: How's basing the US economy on advertising looking?

I went to college and eventually got a PhD in physics. I've built specialized machine tools. Yet I'm considered a schmuck because I didn't go into software development, and the software developers are considered schmucks if they didn't go into financial services or advertising. And none of that was about emphasizing college. Becoming a programmer doesn't require college.

And lazy knucklehead stories are part of the workforce culture in virtually every occupation and industry. I'm sure I'm the lazy knucklehead in some of those stories.
Other machines can do it with single roundtrip (2s pause between pressing and printing). That one single manufacturer is slower than everyone, but hey, maybe the app (which requires location, phone number and vehicle number) will be faster?
And in 15 years it will be over 200%
Good point.

Although almost everyone has a price or list of things they would change about their current job.
> Isn't this kind of what an Agent does in the world of Hollywood actors

I was thinking this too recently. But the entertainment is a little bit different. Jobs are shorter (even TV shows take only a few months) and talent agents get 10 % of all your work - but would you pay your IT agent for 2-3 years (I'm guessing the average length of a programmer's tenure at a single company) 10 % even when he literally does nothing most of the time?
At this point the "real cryptocurrency economy has never been tried" sound an awful lot like "real communism has never been tried".
And this is all before integrated circuits, so the circuits are still very large, consisting of many circuits on boards mounted on a backplane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360#Basic_hardware_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Logic_Technology
Wait until you find out what fracking and oil drilling do.
Ok, so then take Israel, whatever. Despite the ethnic cleansing that Israel is carrying out, it is not valid to look at a person with suspicion just because they're from Israel.

"But it's true!" is in my opinion a poor response to accusations of prejudice. "Black people are criminals" "That's racist" "But it's true, look at the statistics!" It doesn't make the original statement any less racist.
I don't know where you live but for most tech jobs here even outside of sv its almost as bad as putting your photo on a resume. Even for very senior non-technical roles you're better off showing up in slacks and a blazer than the whole enchilada
That's not how these things work. When a company sells an asset the funds go back to the company that sold that asset. So if the "seller" has debts or other obligations those still remain and proceeds from the sale would go towards satisfying those. However, in this case it sounds like the deal was largerly about the employee costs + some cash to the sellers.
> sometimes reducing it to a one line lambda.

Please don't do this :) Readable code is better than clever code!
The executive branch is really not supposed to have complete unrestrained control over the entire federal government.

The point about AI isn't about efficiency, it's about accountability. This administration already has a huge accountability problem, and the AI is another layer of "Oh, that wasn't really me who did that thing I did." This isn't just cynicism, the current admin is incapable of taking responsibility for anything they've done wrong (and perfectly willing to take full responsibility for things other people have done right).
Intelligence requires bigger brains, which comes at a cost - huge energy requirement (20% of total for humans), weight (for birds), head size (issue for human birth), etc.

Many animals have no need for intelligence/generality since they have a very limited behavioral niche (e.g. herbivores, crocodiles, sharks), so it wouldn't have evolved in the first place, but even for those that do the benefit has to outweigh the cost.

If every animal was a generalist they they'd all be in competition with each other, so I'd expect if you ran simulations you'd find that an ecosystem full of species that don't compete head-on is more stable, and therefore likely to result.
I usually agree with most of Gary Marcus' points, but I'd really like to hear his take on this. One of his examples is that "the system can't generate a horse riding an astronaut" and in fact I tried a lot in the past but it would always draw the astronaut on top of the horse. Well, here is the result now: https://postimg.cc/QFtRjbHM
That graph measures whether they are importing or not.

So it's not the emissions that are stagnant, it's the per capita imports of emissions which are roughly flat.

They have a separate graph which reflects "consumption" based emissions:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...
I think Scotland is already a net exporter of electricity due to wind.
Fantastic game, and really enjoyed the thought you put into "submit-gate" and entertaining ideas from the peanut gallery.
>Instead I do consider it critical to "take a step back" and "evaluate the problem statement at hand". Is the end goal more consumption or better living?

Except the context of this thread is talking about tariffs on laptops, not random trinkets from aliexpress. If someone is willing to part ways with $1000+ to get a laptop/phone, I think that's a pretty good sign the goal is "better living".
The govt already has full access to your bank account! Always did and KYC ended privacy.

Preventing convenient payment technology only hurts the rest of us.
If you want redundancy buy gold coins.
"Ask for a non-trivial code or work sample, something they have written."

I haven't written non-proprietary code in a decade.
I mean, a garage dweller works just as well.
They did though. The studio engaged in tremendous amounts of work and created good will, in addition to their specific creative works. Their visual style is tied up in that good will. Use of the visual style for profit without consent is, at least ethically, misappropriation of another's value. And "You should be pleased I used your creative work because now more people will know about you and you will make a lot of money from this!" is one of the oldest defenses to misappropriation of creativity.

I'm not even mad. We do a terrible job in our society of valuing artists and creative people generally and in explaining the value of intangible things, especially something like good will. People have been misappropriating fonts and clipart and screenshots in presentations and posters and whatnot, duplicating clever branding ideas and the creative efforts of others, and so on for _decades_ if not longer, all without ill intent. It's something we need to fix and never will. But when that becomes a channel for another to directly profit, it begins to venture out of harmlessness.
If you're not doing the work, you're not learning from the result.

The CEOs in question bought what they believed to be a power tool, but got what is more like a smarter copy machine. To be clear, copy machines are not useless, but they also aren't going to drive the 200% increases in productivity that people think they will.

But because management demands the 200% increase in productivity they were promised by the AI tools, all the artists and programmers on the team hear "stop doing anything interesting or novel, just copy what already exists". To be blunt, that's not the shit they signed up for, and it's going to result in a far worse product. Nobody wants slop.
That doesn't sound small?
Very easy but time-consuming
When LLMs came out I suppressed my inner curmudgeon and dove in, since the technology was interesting to me and seemed much more likely than crypto to be useful beyond crime. Thus, I have used LLMs extensively for many years now and I have found that despite the hype and amazing progress, they still basically only excel first drafts and simple refactorings (where they are, I have to say, incredibly useful for eliminating busy work). But I have yet to use a model, reasoning or otherwise, that could solve a problem that required genuine thought, usually in the form of constructing the right abstraction, bottom up style. LLMs write code like super-human dummies, with a tendency to put too much code in a given function and with very little ability to invent a domain in which the solution is simple and clearly expressed, probably because they don't care about that kind of readability and its not much in their data set.

I'm deeply influenced by languages like Forth and Lisp, where that kind of bottom up code is the cultural standard and and I prefer it, probably because I don't have the kind of linear intelligence and huge memory of an LLM.

For me the hardest part of using LLMs is knowing when to stop and think about the problem in earnest, before the AI generated code gets out of my human brain's capacity to encompass. If you think a bit about how AI still is limited to text as its white board and local memory, text which it generates linearly from top to bottom, even reasoning, it sort of becomes clear why it would struggle with genuine abstraction over problems. I'm no longer so naive as to say it won't happen one day, even soon, but so far its not there.
> It's usually windy when it's dark and cold and vice versa.

Usually, but not always. You can have many days or weeks, e.g. in mid-winter of overcast weather and very little wind. This is a real problem for renewable energy sources, they're not comprehensively viable unless supplemented by alternatives like gas peakers or perhaps nuclear.
Per capita fossil fuel consumption has been dropping for ~10 years. 2025 will be the year where total CO2 emissions drop and continue to drop. They were hoping that 2024 would be that year, but 2024 GDP growth was higher than expected. The 2025 trump-cession guarantees that CO2 emissions will drop in 2025.

https://climateanalytics.org/comment/will-2024-be-the-year-e...