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Olmo by AllenAI and Pythia by EleutherAI.

I find it more useful to anchor the concept of "real" in what one has direct access to. Beyond that there are many ways to describe our shared reality and the space of possible rea…

Some of the most intrusive cookie banners I've seen are on EU institutional websites. If they can't find a way to provide access to information without pages of consent boxes what …

No sarcasm intended, from the details of both incidents they seem unrelated and not meant to send a message. Whatever the motives it seems unlikely anyone could arrange a storm to …

It's not mentioned in this article but it seems Michael Lynch's codefendant in the HP trial Stephen Chamberlain died a few days earlier - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

When was this? I would have thought the internet was well established before fiber optic cabling was widely used.

Well said, too many people conflate AI and crypto, and dismiss both without understanding either. Crypto has demonstrated very limited benefit compared to its cost, exchanging valu…

Why is it so hard to accept that different people can have a different internal experience of our shared reality? Perhaps different people have conscious awareness of different asp…

Can the title in the HN post be changed? I agree it's totally misleading after reading the article.

It is, until you get to all the Musk and Tate posts under the thread.

This is the third formulation I've come across that sounds like this with space and time emerging from particle interactions. The other two are from Stephen Wolfram and Carlo Rovel…

Yes, PoW crypto is now a much more concrete example of the potential damage from poorly aligned utility functions, as well as the challenges in containing a system once it is relea…

I think some audio books are slightly slowed down by default, many I've listened to sound more natural at about 1.2x

I was told of Algebra coming from Al-Jabr meaning "number games". I was surprised I didn't see this mentioned in the article, until I found the book mentioned in Al-Khwarizmi's bio…

> Oracle has just open sourced the entire JDK. Last time I had to download a JDK I got a warning about having to pay a license for commercial use. I think most enterprises care mor…

More like Wexford English (Yola), which was a remnant of old English.

Threading in email clients has been around for decades. Actually I must check if there are mobile versions of mutt or elm.

I didn't have the concept of the eschaton until today, looks like an interesting rabbit hole to explore.

I don't know how old your kids are, but if they're younger than 3 it gets easier. Never is extreme, you will surely have time for side projects at some point, but if you really car…

A cell has no way to conceive of a worm, and worms probably can't conceive of humans. But they probably have some conception of birds, and birds can perceive humans. Where are our …

It is ironic, but there are still a couple of member states that rely on English. I think it's unlikely to be deprecated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_Brexit_on_the_Eu…

Are many US based businesses considering limiting access to EU consumers to avoid GDPR? Reselling user data seems to be part of many business models, and I don't know if EU is such…

Reminds me of working in a telecoms manufacturer in 2000 before the .com crash. There were times before end of quarter when unfinished devices were put in trucks and sent for a dri…

I switched to using this style in the last few years, but it only works well where the code is reasonably good quality otherwise, in particular with short methods and classes. If y…

I hope it is just a traffic surge, not a great cannon.