skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slowly but surely we're moving towards general AI. There is a marked split across general society and even ML/AI specialists between those who think that we can achieve AGI using current methods and those who dismiss the possibility. This has always been the case, but what is remarkable about today's environment is that researchers keep making progress contrary to the doubter's predictions. Each time this happens, the AGI pessimists raise the bar (a little) for what constitutes AGI.

Just in the last five years, here are some categories of pessimistic predictions that have been falsified:

- "AI/ML can't solve scientifically useful problems" - then AlphaFold changed the protein folding field

- "We're entering an AI winter" [0] - then transformers continued to show promise across multiple domains

- "ML models can't perform creative work" - then came GANs, large language models, DALL-E, and more.

- "Generative ML models are just memorizing the dataset!" - then came multiple studies showing this to be false for well trained GANs, diffusion models and other types of generative models. Take a look at DALL-E 2 generated images of "a bear putting on a shirt in H&M".

- "AGI is impossible - look at language models, they have no understanding of the world and make silly mistakes" - the second part is true, large language models are artificially limited due to being language-focused. Nowadays there are approaches such as Gato and other multi-modal models. Humans develop intuition through multiple sources of information: sight, sound, smell, and touch. Given enough multi-modal context I'm confident multi-modal models will be able to show human-like intuition.

I'm not anti-skeptic. Skepticism is essential to all good science. I think the danger of skepticism with respect to AGI is that we're being complacent. Given the trajectory of improvements in machine learning, we should start preparing for a world where AI is indistinguishable, or far superior, to human intelligence.

[0] - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51064369
> If you own a house, you pay property taxes. That's not a benefit!

I've got news for you. If you rent, you still pay property taxes, it just happens to be bundled with your rent.

Saying you don't pay property taxes because you rent is like saying you don't pay gas tax because it's included in the price posted at the gas station.
when you say spin-spin coupling, do you mean exchange of momentum between the spin of the black hole and the spin of the galaxy that contains it? I normally think of spin-spin in terms of atomic/subatomic particles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-coupling)
I can't say I've ever taken the second hand into account when looking at an analogue clock to check the time, nor do I usually find myself reading the minute hand more precisely than 5 minute intervals. I've certainly watched it slowly approach 12 when waiting to get out of class or something like that, but I could just as easily watch a number count up toward 60.
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> Find

(Just to be sure, here is a reminder that some HN members are in that. No need to find - it's part of this public.

The author of Leaflet is the first that comes to (my) mind, and many others then.)
That would be dumb unless all mammals are potentially involved in school shootings. If you think statistics are easy to manipulate, I'm not sure that the smarter alternative is to ignore them entirely and operate through prejudice and fear.
UX feels better - Trello is faster and more lightweight than Notion.
What would you like to see?

Disclaimer: Engineer on the IAM team at Cloudflare
> Im just proposing leveling the playing field between renters and owners by limiting owners' right to capitalize on land value increases.

Nobody is capitalizing on unrealized land value increases. That’s literally the definition of “unrealized”.

“Make everything terrible for everyone” is one way to level a playing field, but rarely a good way.

> That is, taking away what are effectively handouts given to you. Free money. Wealth you didnt earn because the land value isnt about you or your house.

What free money? The wealth is unrealized. If I want to continue living in my community, it may never be realized.

When and if it ever is, you can tax it.

> With a higher land value tax land would HAVE to be used more efficiently

Forcing more people from their homes and destroying their community.
I guess it can be argued that Finland joining Nato is not very surprising (has been discussed in Finland for years) and therefore not very interesting. But Sweden joining Nato this quickly would be more of a surprise and therefore much more interesting.
I hate working with DAWS and plugins. I went all in on modular a few years ago and wish I had done so a decade earlier.
we regret to inform you...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin...

AMD still has closed-source binary blobs in their cards too, as does everyone else. Their userland is also closed-source too, just like NVIDIA's.
One thing that hasn't been clear to me about CentOS Stream is if it is possible to determine that the repos at this instant are identical to a given RHEL minor release (and possibly stay there temporarily). For example, if I have a non-production system running CentOS Stream 8 so I can test out changes to RHEL earlier, can I be confident that testing on a certain date will be applicable to the next RHEL release when it comes out, or do I still need to test on RHEL separately when it is released?
I think the most surprising thing about Rust modules is that you need to """pre-declare""" them, especially since Rust doesn't really use function prototypes.

So when you try to move a module into its own file, you need to keep the `mod foo` in the original file.
And I’m opposed to the argument that the current distribution of property is somehow more just or fair than one that results afterwards from a change in tax policy. Currently, suburbs are massively subsidized by big cities and without those subsidies taxes in suburbs would roughly double to pay for infrastructure (higher increases in poorer neighbourhoods where the tax base is smaller). You assume the resultant communities from all these subsidies are morally neutral and have strong rights to exist unchanged. Cities have a right to take back the tax dollars that are unfairly siphoned to suburbs and the resultant change in taxes would be just as disruptive to the community as anything being proposed.

Georgism has a better moral basis than suburbanization. It’s possible to come up with a moral theory that justifies LVT and philosophers have done so. No philosopher has found a consistent moral theory to justify taking money from poor apartment dwellers and using it to pay for well-off suburbs. The current communities that exist are created through injustice and it’s unreasonable to demand they continue to exist unchanged when doing so requires perpetuating that injustice.
You make the assumption that the commoner’s privacy will actually be broken, make it so that using the backdoor requires a warrant, and can only be used legally on suspected traffickers.

Rapists and slavers shouldn’t have access to military grade encryption, full stop.
I always thought it was written with the surveillance tendencies of the Soviet union and their vassal states in mind, in particular the DDR.

After all, animal farm was also targeted at communism and how it corrupts itself.
SQLite in Go, with and Without Cgo
Trusting social media as a measure of general opinion is not a good idea. They could be a tiny minority making a lot of noise.
You're not the only one. It's blatant false advertising and downplays the complexity of an actual OS.

Another example is monday.com claiming to be a "work OS"
nothing wrong with using javascript in the UI, is it that much slower? i mean GNOME uses it and i can bring up the js console on my OS, does not seem to make any performance difference then something written in C++ etc.
The Deluge is huge (size-wise) compared to the OP-1 and doesn't run off batteries, have wifi/bluetooth connectivity, sample editing, etc, etc.

It's a nice groovebox but I don't think it really compares.

$2k is a steep price but there's a lot going on here that's not immediately obvious to a lot of folks.
>Logic gates don’t work instantaneously though – there’s a delay on the order of nanoseconds as they process the inputs. That’s plenty fast enough for modern computers, but there’s always room for improvement. And now the Rochester team’s new logic gates blow them out of the water, processing information in mere femtoseconds, which are a million times shorter than nanoseconds.

This is a bit misleading, no? Sure, signal does take time in order of ns to pass through entire CPU units, but on the individual gate level aren't we talking of time in the picosecond range?
Just a small correction/clarification - using GPL code inside a non-GPL project doesn't magically cause it to become GPL, it just means you would be committing copyright infringement if you distributed your project afterwards.

It's still something you want to avoid, but the outcome would potentially be a lawsuit from the copyright holder, rather than forcing you to relicense your project.
This is how TOS should be updated!
The capability for a government agency to conduct a warrantless search of the mobile devices of all citizens (citizens being a narrow search target) for arbitrary data.

This capability does not exist today, and I would argue it should not exist.
Well, since you glossed over it and then defended it I kinda assumed.

Please explain why the house of lords is ok but the EU commission is not.

If you're not in favour of the HoL maybe we should start there and not spend ages talking about an institution our country does not need to try to ruin anymore: since it left.

and since I now live within its borders, and it applies to me.
You're making a good point about VST compatibility over time. One way to at least ensure a track remains playable is to bounce your midi tracks to separate audio tracks (waveform). Clearly, you lose the flexibility that comes with manipulating the original score, but you're guaranteed to be able to playback, eq, and mix the original performance. Not ideal, but better than nothing.
Ravens Play with Wolves
RedHat Linux 5.2 on PCem Pentium 75
Krebs is funny, writing as if this is something new calling for review. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

If we assume for the moment that state-sponsored foreign hacking groups can gain access to sensitive government intelligence in the same way as teenage hacker groups like LAPSUS$, then it is long past time for the U.S. federal government to perform a top-to-bottom review of authentication requirements tied to any government portals that traffic in sensitive or privileged information.
just don't use dependencies write the stuff your self.
> The EU is no longer rescuing drowning migrants and the number of refugees continues to fall.

In May 2022 already most than 10 thousand people reached the coasts of Italy via Mediterranean sea. [1]

Between 2013 and 2016, over 600 thousand people have landed here.

I think Italy is doing its share on that side.

How many of those immigrants went to Hungary, for example?

That's where EU is failing IMO, it should not be permitted to Orban to refuse redistribution of migrants.

Not on CSAM regulations. If governments wnat to know what people are up to, they have to simply open social networks and wait for the people to write it publicly.

No need to spy their conversations.

The reactions here are completely paranoia fueled.

[1] https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/mediterranean

On another note: if USA can please stop bombing African countries, maybe people shouldn't escape from the puppet regimes they install there...

> So here you gave already proof that politicians can tell the coast guard what todo right

They can try forcing the law.

What Salvini did was and still is unlawful.

His popularity dropped in a couple of years to a quarter of what it was.

you can also convince people to march armed against Capital Hill, doesn't mean that that's a President's prerogative, it only means that crazy people are everywhere.

At least we haven't built cages for immigrants' children.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/07/11/written-testimony-kids-c...

> You know that's we she got into troubles...bringing drowning refugees to europa's coast.

No, it was because Salvini was (temporarily thank God) Interior Minister of Italy.

> Thank you for the proof.

I proved it to you that if the system is resilient, no assault on democracy will last forever.

You're welcome.

Next time we'll talk about what constitute a rightful political action and what doesn't.

In a dozen lessons you might learn how democracy works.
Like those radioactive diamond batteries...
> Why You Should Never protest outside someone’s home

Why ? While i fully agree that this is not a good development, having people accountable for their action, is. Who controls those people who give laws as they like ?
Or is it ok to defend some liberties but not others ? Is there a list of liberties which can be defeated in the land of the free ?
If the judges need more "american children" ( which might explain their actions) they shall make them themselves. Not deny abortion after a rape.
There is about 2.5 billion euros in budget used by the organization directly. This includes people employed directly by the organization, costs related to head headquarter buildings, etc, some command and control infrastructure owned by the organization rather than individual members, some things like deployable radar systems owned by the org directly, plus funding for certain operations that members have agreed to fund via cost sharing, rather than by having any participating members finance their own costs.

Remember, NATO is not just a defensive pact, but also command structure set up to enable the member forces to be utilized as a single cohesive force, rather than just a bunch of allied but disjointed forces. That means communication systems, and setting up unified commands to which portion of member forces can be assigned, making sure equipment and communications systems are intercompatible, etc.

This central funding money is pretty negligible compared to the 2% spending on defense commitment of members. Like the whole central funding would be around 6% of Germany's military budget, but would be fraction of a percent of the US budget. However the central funding is shared amongst all the members. Germany's actual share ends up around 1% of its military budget, UK's actually share is about 0.6% of the UK's budget, and the US share might as well be a rounding error, being my my quick calculations less than a tenth of a percent of the overall budget.

It's certainly not nothing, but is is not like we are talking about super significant portions of countries military budgets.
Ask HN: Does video game design require more creativity than CS research?
What do you think?
The Booming Business of Cyber Crime
You can't post like this to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that break the rules this badly, and unfortunately, you've been breaking them pretty badly on several occasions lately. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

I'm sure your strong feelings on this conflict are quite legitimate, but that doesn't make it ok to post that way to HN. You may not feel you owe better to the enemy side, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Fair question. The short answer is: the designs are completely different.
We designed mysc. to make it more casual.

Tho having some similar features, mysc. is designed especially for short and segmented content (like shower thoughts or random ideas) we created on mobile devices with (hopefully) a much gentle learning curve. Therefore the main interface looks more chat-like than note-like.

We don't want to be a tool with the most features but a tool that provides most of the features that matter to people's daily life in the most accessible way.
None of those shootings resulted in more than 2 deaths, and half of them resulted in no deaths. They would barely qualify as a large casualty rate if they all happened at the same school.
Baby Formula Shortage Could Last Months
It takes an inordinate amount of time for a repair shop to replace batteries, meaning that it costs 5x more to replace than it should.
> artistic movements and styles are also some type of socio-political movement

Cyberpunk was social and political commentary from the start. Solarpunk is too, but feels less genuine. It feels like a corporate feel-good aesthetic designed for pharmaceutical television commercials hocking anti-depressants.

I've never seen much in the way of social or political commentary from steampunk. Steampunk is extremely kitsch. It looks cool, but there's not much more to it than looking cool and invoking pseudo-nostalgia for the 19th century. At best you get some weak commentary about 19th century colonialism and industrialization chewing people up, but mostly this genre is about glorifying the Victorian/Industrial style.
https://archive.ph/Rdyti
Only Apple's implementation was limited to images. There's nothing in the current or proposed laws that prevents searching other media. Otherwise, since an ebook is just a zipped HTML page with its resources, it leaves a huge loophole in the identification of CSAM.
Attention is all we need
The actions of a Russian leader directly resulting in their border with NATO growing by 1500 km has got to go down as one of the all time great strategic eff-ups.

If this whole fiasco does result in WWIII, it'll be because of Finland joining NATO.
"To the hard working (current and former) Tweeps out there who made all this happen: Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this place "

Tweeps? Is that really a term of endearment they refer to each other as? Really?
The purpose of CT is so that shenanigans have to be done out in the public view where they can be more easily detected. Depending on the logs you are using, an attacker may not be able to submit a self-signed certificate (I haven't looked at which logs Chrome is using these days).

Regardless of the documentation, Chrome does roll out changes to protect against local threats. I think they just don't want to be on the hook to address every local threat. Happy to give examples in private if you want to email me.

Disclosure: ex-Google employee
Twitter product chief Kayvon Beykpour is leaving at the req of CEO Parag Agrawal
Should have also included Hetzner. It's really cheap compared to the alternatives.
> surely

Would you mind substantiating this?
I didn’t mean to deny that the victims don’t bear any responsibility, just that, because time is zero sum, time spent on an issue tends to be better spent in a “binary” fashion (fluctuating through time though, so that integrated it is non-binary).

E.g. instead of having a never-ending discussion on how exactly a perpetrator/victim share blame, we can shelve the discussion on what share of the blame goes towards the victim, and instead focus on how to best deal with the scammers.

If we get trapped in a never-ending discussion on blame sharing, we never get to deal with the scammers through action (this is what I meant by muddying the waters, it’s an involuntary and voluntary phenomenon that can delay action indefinitely).
Though many of the queries don’t make complete sense the mapping of queries to Star Wars is :chefkiss:
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Nice job firefox team!
> Not having the cash in hand isn’t a good basis for not charging a tax

That’s a great basis for not charging a tax.

> … especially when that tax is a tiny fraction of the actual value of the property.

How does that justify a tax?
mitmproxy dev here, very awesome! :) This seems to be particularly useful to quickly generate clients for reverse-engineered APIs.
Ask HN: What's the “best” way for a senior to begin learning how to code?
My mother told me her 72 year old friend wants to learn "how to code" and that she mentioned Python. She's starting from zero, so my first thought was that could be prohibitively complicated to get to "Hello World".

I'm interested in suggestions about what language/platform/resources I should suggest. Something she could show off to my mom and their friends would probably have value to her.
Have you tried the Korg Kaossilator? It's 20 bucks upfront and so far I didn't want to spend that without being able to try it. The description sounds cool though.
Ask HN: Interview tips for a blockchain based startup
I am a 19 y/o, currently in my freshmen year. I was approached by an early stage startup (based on my profile) for working with them on a blockchain intelligence product, which might be used for placing orders under certain conditions.

Any general tips to be kept in mind when aiming to work with companies in the web3 ecosystem ? Anything which should be known beforehand ?
I am new to all these things, and this will be my first formal interview.
I know you don’t want to give any ground on privacy, but it’s gonna happen. So is there a better way to solve this problem or not?
A terrible idea, taxing unrealized gains !

Once again, the tax person writing this article just assumes that it's OK for the Govt to come up with new and inventive ways to take our monies.
Do you think the stock market crash was due to a few whales trying to game the market as well? Both fell due to the same effect, people who invested their savings in index funds/crypto now wants top cash out, so they sell.
isn't north kora involved in this? Do you think cyber crime is getting better or worse?
>"Nausiccaä of the Valley of the Wind" is "Post apocalyptic" solarpunk manga (and an old one at that).

By that same token, I think I heard LoZ: Breath of the Wild described as post-apocalyptic solarpunk once
This is totally doable depending on the NDA, you just can’t say the company or specific identifying things. But you could say that a large wallstreet or oil company has been using raspberry pi’s for trading and calculations with custom code. Etc etc. this dances around the specifics but still could be interesting. (The above is entirely made up).
Yeah, it's hard to know how to feel about this without that detail. Would the author's app have beaten it to market? Was the competing app actually there all along, and the author hadn't done market research? Are they really even solving the same problem? I've had plenty of instances of "I thought of that 10 years ago!" or even "I solved that 10 years ago!" but it's not that simple. My solutions wouldn't have succeeded because they weren't usable enough and I wasn't motivated enough.
One of the things I like so much about the movie Rounders is that it respects its audience enough to drop unexplained references throughout without elaborate explanation (in a way you hardly ever see in mass media). Many about poker, but many other little gems, too.

Consider the line, "Like Papa Wallenda said, 'Life is on the wire, the rest is just waiting." If you don't get the reference, you aren't missing much, but for those who do it's such a delightful little moment in the film, made better by its lack of supporting explanation. Thank god they didn't add clunky exposition to inform the viewer about the Wallendas.

Another favorite: when Michael is walking back into KGB's place, the place where he previously lost all his money, he says: "I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea." Who is Bucker, what is Shea, and what does it have to do with KGB? The film takes the chance you'll get it.

There are lots and lots of poker terms and references, too, most introduced without elaborate fanfare on the theory that a smart audience will pick them up as they go, but it's these random lines -- "In the legal sense, can fuckin' Steinbrenner move the Yankees?" -- that have always stuck with me.
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