skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematics From The Birth of Numbers (Jan Gullberg, 1997)

It's a pretty large tome, but covers all the basics and is a great reference. It goes well with Khan Academy videos for example.
I'm still on the fence. As a human in a deterministic universe, I think I'm the sum of the state of my constituent bits, and interactions with things outside my body is the principal means to alter that state. The direction these state changes take depends on the interactions, i.e. what I am exposed to changes the results. That makes intuitive sense: If I see something sad, I feel sad. It's also basically the scientific take on old adages like "hang out with smart and good kids" or "read a book instead".

So ... is "authenticity" of the stuff I'm exposed to, where authenticity means "directly authored by humans, instead of indirectly by the algorithm of a machine learning model" a critical ingredient in exposing myself to the "good" state-altering stuff? Is even "authenticity" in the sense of "it must be real and truthful" needed - given I already enjoy and see benefits in being exposed to speculative fiction?

I'm not so sure. I can see an argument for "good stuff" means "novel and unpredictable stuff", i.e. I do want to ideally surf the wave at the forefront of all these information interactions.

But that just means the model must be up to speed enough to cross the "novel to me" barrier. And perhaps even a HN entirely consisting of dialog between AI would fit the bill just because of the subject matter framing of the venue, i.e. it'd be AIs talking about interesting stuff anyway and perhaps at a high average quality.

Bottom line: Yes, AIs will literally enter the conversation. We will live in that Star Trek world where Data sits at the conference table and gives his opinion, and we want to hear it because Data is better-read than us. And maybe that's OK. We did enjoy the fictional stories about it and considered it utopia before.

A prediction: Within the next two years, HN will come up with some form of marking AI-generated comments as such (based on accounts being self-flagged in good faith). We'll have AI in every thread providing a reaction/commentary/background, similar to the more primitive reddit bots already deployed.
I don’t think their affiliation means they’re completely wrong. Just that their ideas should be expected to bias in a particular direction.
China's tradjectory if anything should concern South Korea, US, Japan and Taiwan. They are increasingly investing in the ultra-high tech end of the spectrum. Gen 4 nuclear reactors, solar, semi-conductors, batteries, factory automation, agri-tech.

Probably doesn't help the US is playing right into the CCP narrative by employing tech sanctions on China, further feeding nationalistic desire to be self-sufficient. That wouldn't be a huge threat if it wasn't for the huge STEM graduation rate of Chinese students (not just in China, but around the world) and the huge amount of funding put aside for these efforts. Take away ASML EUV machines from the one country most capable of developing their own EUV source and associated optics...? Like how dumb do you have to be to make that mistake.

My guess is this ultimately boils down to the US making the call that they have to stall out Chinese tech/military ambitions by ~10 years to prevent China population peak also coinciding with tech supremacy peak, because if that was to happen in about 2035 then it's very likely China would be much too powerful to prevent them breaking out of the Island Chain containment.
> People make mistakes, but people understand. Therefore, the existence of mistakes do not unilaterally discount understanding.

I'm not claiming people don't make mistakes or that an algorithm has to be perfect, I'm claiming the algorithms makes the same mistakes that people do when they're clearly don't understand something but try to cover it up with basic word association.

> You have to do actual argumentative work to demonstrate the system that shows occasions of model-based reasoning is not in fact doing model-based reasoning.

The burden of proof is on you. I can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a neural network is a gigantic algebraic function. You have to provide convincing evidence that it actually "understands" or has anything resembling what humans would call a "model of the world."

> All else being equal, a single (convincing) example of model-based reasoning is enough to demonstrate the existence claim.

Might as well have a quadrillion monkeys banging on type writers. As long as one of them manages to output Shakespeare's Othello, they must be as smart as humans, right? That's just cherry picking to support your preexisting conclusion.

> You have to provide an actual argument to undermine the value of the example by examples of unrelated failures.

See above. The burden of proof is on you.

For what it's worth, my mind has been blown away over the progress we've seen in the last few months and I'm very bullish on AI. I've been regularly using Replicate and OpenAI for both business and pleasur and my conclusion isn't that computers are becoming "smart" but that Brooks-Moravec-Minksy were right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
In Wyoming, it’s not criminal trespass unless you have been notified by the property owner or law enforcement. So perhaps one of the first two encounters included such notification.

https://wyoleg.gov/InterimCommittee/2019/01-2019060313-01LSO...
By and large Google can't open source anything internal even if they wanted to, because it's so closely tied into Google's own ecosystem (Borg etc) that it's useless outside it.
Yeah, you have some good points. It's a complicated situation.

>while it was booted and asleep (thus defeating the full disk encryption)

Well I thought it would require a cold boot attack which would be extremely hard against a laptop with soldered RAM (like my stolen macbook pro). Until I looked it up just now and found this video...

https://youtu.be/RqvPZnLkP70?t=2327
> Do you honestly still think that anything is ever genuinely "trending" on Twitter? On YouTube? On Reddit?

No, I never put much stock in those aspects of social media because I've always found those curation features to be somewhat limiting. This feels entirely different because I'm beginning to question if I'm even talking to a human right now. Sure, companies have done all kinds of things to look more legitimate on the outside, but this is very different. This upends the fundamental assumption that you are communicating with another human when you have a direct conversation online.
> the AI also knows you'd like a new pair of headphone

I understand how Google knows that I'm currently searching for a new pair of headphones. But how did _you_ know?!?
Autonomous trucking upstart Embark has gone from $5B+ to basically worthless
The part that was last touched in 2019 is the spec + homepage. By this measure, UUID was last touched in 2005 (if we count RFC 4122).

Most ULID implementations are still actively maintained and people are still using it in production. Most implementations also have liberal license like MIT so no, you should not worry about the GPL spec (unless you plan to distribute the spec with your app).
Yes. The Zonker Harris Beach Access in Malibu has been "closed for repairs" since 2016.
Imagine if the SaaS charged 100x the agreed price for the last month, refused to fix the charge, and when you issued a chargeback, they deleted all your lifetime data.
Yea but the whatever part is what makes no sense. Sorry.

Paris-Zurich is very different from Lyon-Geneva
Google suffers from a perception problem for consumer-oriented products, agreed. I don't think anyone faults Google for haphazardly closing down enterprise products. The enterprise world runs differently - deprecations have long timelines, are well-telegraphed ahead of time, and sudden deprecations may come with contractual penalties. Which Cloud products are analogous to Google Reader?

Stadia, I think, is the biggest example of a Google product failing bc of this perception. But it had other, big problems as well.
> Notice that you didn’t show any message from Biden asking them to do that.

From my comment above,

> the "DNC" [3] and "Biden team" [4] were apparently asking Twitter to clean up certain content in relation to that story.

If it isn't true, the Biden team and DNC can publicly deny what's presented in those messages.

The Atlantic article you cite makes a different case than you do. They're saying no violation of the first amendment occurred, and I agree with that. I've always found the released communications interesting nonetheless.

> you know where there were direct messages from a campaign and officials while in government? It was from the Trump team and Fox. Tons of them.

All are concerning regardless of party. Sen. Hawley has been probing the same of this admin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfJZ2MTDEWY
I've been working on this, it's pretty nice

https://github.com/mmabrouk/chatgpt-wrapper/pull/6
How an AI native uses AI in his workflow
> I'm really surprised to see these repeated baseless accusations on HN.

I just made the hackusation because it seemed funny to me. Your insistence on further explaining the difference in severity between the different types of cheating just makes it seem even funnier.
"Universities in the US are hotels that provide a particular flavor of entertainment to their attendees. Particularly in undergrad."

Then why bother with having any academics at all? If all it is to you (and your kids) is a nice hotel, I'm sure you can actually find better accommodations and amenities for far cheaper. And children can 'network' with others also staying at the "good" hotel.

"The actual intellectual/academic parts of the journey- even given the fact that they are all academically strong, 1500 SATs, etc- are relatively minor and incidental."

And that is very much a reason for why such a situation has come to pass today - parents valuing branding far more, if not exclusively, over academics.
> This is so obviously a place where existing laws around easements should apply that it's laughable that it's made it this far. Someone can't block your access to your house by buying up your neighbors properties.

Despite such a view of the law on easements, there may not be any conservation easements.

There are 8.3 million inaccessible acres of public land in Wyoming. [1]

HB0103 would tweak that legal gray space the defendant’s attorney is using and clearly change how trespassing is defined when it comes to corner crossing. Specifically, the bill would amend the definition of hunter trespass that currently states that “no person shall enter upon” private property, according to WyoFile. [2]

[1] https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_n...

[2] https://www.gohunt.com/content/news/new-bill-broadens-corner...
Only a handful of games in the history of gaming have had open source / openly available multiplayer servers. Nobody is playing multiplayer games if users vote with their wallets like you want them to.

And the reason for this is because multiplayer games are hard to maintain and without a profit motive it becomes long-term unviable.

I used to play a lot of a game called BZFlag, which was fully open-source etc, but it always struggled to keep up with any amount of advancement in the gaming world because it was entirely built by volunteers with limited time on their hands.
It's a substantial part of the company. There are as many employees in Google Cloud as there were in all of Google a few years ago.
> Clearly if your only means of survival when something goes wrong is your phone

We don't know that he didn't have other means, just that he used this. And that he had appropriate clothes and firestarting materials.
How come there are tons of reports of journalists being hacked by NSO, but none of journalists being hacked by the US MIIC?
Show HN: Designed a poster for Twofer Goofer, Midjourney-powered word game
It sounds like we're talking about different situations.

I'm talking about defined benefit pension schemes for public sector employees, which have a high NPV but are not accounted for today.

People in my city often think that teacher pay is low, but they don't take into account the NPV of this future pension income.

It can be rational to borrow from the future, but in the example I'm thinking of it's not that simple because the number of students in my local school district has gone down ~30% during the career of some current teachers.

So, even if you assume that:

- total comp was set at market level (rather than being the result of school boards being captured by unions), and

- market returns are constant

you still have the problem that future income will be lower than past income. So a larger and larger percentage of current school district revenue will be paying pensions, meaning less will be available to teach current students.
Using the argument that "X is not a magic bullet" is a pretty sure sign you're not worth listening to.

Nothing is a magic bullet, and we all know that.
How about this—the post did not contain any links to substantive support for claims that Atlantean theory is “inherently racist” much less than Hancock is racist other than a general association with what some unnamed people said about ancient stone forts in SE Africa, which my cursory search did not find linked to any theory of Atlantis.

Did Cassandra cry wolf? Some folks need to stick a finger in the undead to accept the least charitable interpretation.
Some of Earth's Oxygen May Have Come from Tectonic Source
> the current generation of 'flood the net with crap and see what happens' hasn't interfered with my browsing markedly

Wow really? Whenever I search anything now half the sources I click have the same (verbatim) content, just different branding. And SEO optimization has gutted a ton of content and replaced it with trash.

> I increasingly believe my feedback on any forum is 50/50 with a troll seeking karma points

This is the last bastion of human speech left in the internet already and already we see HN posts they’re just GPT.
You are correct in the name, Palladium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...
The whole, "did Rome fall, or did it just morph into the modern European states?" thing has sort of been overblown. Even the Medievalists (my old camp) have always recognized that the traditional story European states told themselves about their origins weren't entirely accurate.
But those stories weren't created out of thin air. Evidence of continuity abounds. Interwar scholars like Henri Pirenne overstated their case, leaning into economics at the expense of politics.

Most historians and archeologists today are firmly in the "fall" camp. I'm generally with them. A couple of recent books:

Bryan Ward-Perkins. _The Fall of Rome_. Oxford, 2006.

Peter Heather. _The Fall of the Roman Empire_. Oxford, 2007.

There are two good studies that could be read as leaning towards cultural and economic transformation while still acknowledging that there were political breaks:

Peter Brown._The World of Late Antiquity_. Norton, 1989.

Peter Brown. _The Rise of Western Christendom_. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Brown is the giant of 20th century Late Roman scholarship (he practically invented the idea of "Late Antiquity" in the 1971 first edition of that book, which I eagerly consumed as an undergrad in 1975). The main strength of Late Antique studies is in a worldview that acknowledges the continuities of Roman civilization in the East _during and after_ 476 (for me, the really critical period was in the 6th and 7th centuries when Constantinople failed to support its colonists on the frontier, and the consequent abandonment of settlements which were by then behind barbarian lines -- aptly described in the contemporaneous "Life of Saint Severian").

On Hancock: He's undoubtedly a grifter at this point. Anyone who has studied Plato seriously (as all good students of history and archeology from the Golden Age into at least the Renaissance have) will know the legion of arguments supporting the modern consensus that Atlantis was no more real than Numenor (which it inspired).
TLDR:

Activision has been criticized for its faulty anti-cheat software, which has resulted in permanent and unappealable account bans for players of its game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Affected players are unable to access the single-player game, even though they paid $70 or more for it. The bans come with no explanation or ability to communicate with Activision. The issue has been met with "shut up and go away, cheater" responses on social media, and attempts to raise awareness are being suppressed on forums. Players are organizing to file reports with the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
I agree with almost all of your post. However I would caution against underestimating Xi.

One doesn't bubble up to the head of the CCP without being an incredibly savvy political operator. It's non-nonsensical to imply that is possible without intelligence. Even if he may be uneducated, education and intelligence are separate axis even if we normally conflate them.

Also evidence suggests he is a good strategist, even if a bit brutish in his execution.
It sure isn't, but how about we do it anyway, and then take it from there, because it's the right thing to do?
No they won't. Whenever in the US a white nationalist group does anything violent, it is never labeled as what it is: domestic terrorism. Or terrorism.
Teams may work well if you are fully in the Microsoft ecosystem and have a dedicated enterprise level IT organization. That is not the kind of place I work.

Sometimes I have to use Teams for meetings and it is incredibly frustrating. First, it makes me sign in to an account. Then, it is not sure which account to use since we have a corp account and I did the sin of buying office365 with my work email. Eventually I reset one or more passwords via its login flow and it lets me in (just using the password does not work). On the call, background blur is not usable from the menus or UI, but a StackOverflow post saved me: the keyboard shortcut still enables it. Also, Teams insists on always starting at startup and I can’t make it go away.
One thing to note is that many stand-alone solar installations cannot operate without a live grid connection.
There's no value in defending authoritarians. They simply cannot control their nature and they will make a fool of you, as Musk is making a fool of you now.

I estimate it will take you a further 10 years to understand this. By then enough time will have passed for you to be able to reminisce about Musk's "good old days". But what you won't have understood is that there were no good old days. He was always like that.
It's awesome to hear that Kagi is experimenting with this. Even if it's some extra paid opt-in feature, I'd give it a chance.
> You're projecting your opinion onto someone who doesn't share it.

Two things:

1. interfacing with politicians (I'm including both executives and senators in this group from personal experience) has taught me that many are exceptionally diligent with the words they use. "Brave" and "creative" are neutral adjectives politically even if they have positive connotations interpersonally. If a politician doesn't say something exclusively, denotationally positive, it's almost always a deliberate hedge. I'm not saying that's the case with Reed, but I'd bet a dollar that it is, because most people who's impressions he'd likely care about (execs, congress, etc) use and read the same language.

2. Unless you spoke with him and heard otherwise, aren't you likewise projecting?
On the contrary. It serves me very well to ignore a swathe of organisations if they get caught fabricating information. If your friends caught you lying in a social interaction, they would ostracise you (and rightly so). It's no different for the industry of bullshit.
Musk doesn't need any help from me to damage his reputation. No one is doing it to him, he does it to himself.
you need remove good search engine from market, too.
california is a terrible place to base any kind of metric.
Opportunity for a "clearinghouse" of sorts.
UUID also suffers from a serious issue: there is no standard way to encode them as string and in binary format.

In binary, UUID can be encoded as Big Endian or Little Endian or even Mixed Endian, and while the string encoding is usually lowercase with a certain hyphenization rules, I've seen variations of that.

The (hexadecimal) text encoding is also quite inefficient compared to more modern standards like ULID or kSUID.
Check out 14 CFR 91.119 [1]. Over sparsely populated areas, there is no specific minimum altitude requirement—only that you need enough altitude to safely land following engine failure.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
And thirty years ago he was called a crank for suggesting what scientists acknowledge to be true now: That civilization is older than we thought.
Three and a half hours? Just the first half hour exceeded my tolerance for whiny disingenuity.

The stone boxes in the Serapeum suffice to show that the copper tooling presented is laughably inadequate. Pretending otherwise, apparently just to avoid admitting ignorance of the real method, is disingenuous.

We really don't have any clue how they could have done that work. Certainly nothing found has been up to the job. What would be so bad about admitting that? It would be much better than lying.
https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/44s9ln/a_clev...
Right and wrong: ten choices in language design
Again, I can only speak for Cloud. I find product changes are reviewed by a dozen people at least and take months to finalize. It can be slow, but usually we're sure why we're making the decisions, and where risks lie. A large weight is given to customers asking for features, so they're in the loop.

It's absurd that there's no Google strategy documents. There's company-wide and division-wide OKRs that get major events to publicize them, with large Q&As and all. It's easy to learn what the priorities are and why. But, usually you just pay attention to what your local group is working on. At a smaller level, every feature has a business rationale backed by customers requesting them or hard dollar figures.

I really don't know what's going on here. Do people think Google runs the same way as it did in its early years? It's a fairly mature company with a good track record of revenue growth, especially for such a massive company. These things don't happen haphazardly.
That is a good point...
Perhaps str_pop_first_split() should pop, even if no delimiters are found. I'll give this some thought.
I'll put that macro in too. Thanks.
I asked it to write a synopsis of a satisfying version of the final episode of the TV show, and the result was passable (but not inspired). It could be the average of all fanfic/discussion on the topic.
This still doesn't acknowledge the argument made upthread! It's just an attempt to dismiss all arguments about racism as "crying wolf".

It's not like the argument is irrefutable. But you have to at least engage with it to do that.
I would love if you could publish the set of prompts you used to generate this game (I guess that's the new equivalent form of source)
Its covered extensively in the article.
Related:

Nibbler 4 Bit CPU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379017 - Oct 2015 (19 comments)
That's really great. I think that experience is something that's very often missing in online discourse and I'm glad to hear you sometimes write about it
> Like, could you float two meters above someone's private ground legally, without criminal trespassing? …drones coming onto your private land…

Yes, because this is navigable airspace (by drones), making it part of the National Airspace System. Federal judges have struck down laws by municipalities trying to draw a line in the air where private property extends, saying that organizing any and all airspace is strictly an FAA power.