skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how soon well be able to make a fingerprint of a running computer system in a way that an answer can be automatically tested against a [sanitised] virtualized machine?

Within a limited domain, like Ubuntu installs, this seems doable -- though maybe in a future of essentially unlimited bandwidth and storage we can just upload a virtualized version of our computers.

Like, here's my computer, my Chat AI keeps swearing at me, how do I fix it. Then solutions posted on StackOverflew can be interpreted and tested by an AI against the virtualized copy of the machine.
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But you’re paying the fee for credit cards anyways, just not getting anything in return including consumer protection that credit cards offer.
You guys are unbelievable. Of course GDPR makes some things harder. It’s the whole point. GDPR is probably one of the biggest pro-freedom laws of the last years. Not big corp freedom for sure, but people freedom, and that’s GOOD. But Americans with their skewed vision of freedom just can’t see it I guess.

Honestly if GDPR pisses off Americans, it probably means it hit on the nail.
The comments I’m talking about are not speaking about Luxembourg they are speaking (incorrectly) about the US and copyright in general. Also the Luxembourg system does work this way. In the case discussed here, they simply said the underlying work was itself not deserving of protection. Were it ruled deserving of protection, the derivative works would have been infringing.
Investing in grocery store stocks would seem safe?
Dark matter is not a “recursive property of gravity” because it’s not consistent like that, as your own initial objection suggests.

The concept of a particle that only interacts via gravity is straightforward. Consider neutrinos, which only interact via gravity and the weak force. Trillions of them pass through your body every second. Take away the weak force interaction and add some mass, and you have a dark matter candidate particle.

> I fail to see how dark matter could ever be falsified.

You’d have to explain what should be done about that. It could nevertheless be a correct theory, and we might one day verify it more directly.

Naive falsificationism is an almost useless principle at the frontiers of modern physics. We’re long past the days when you could run some simple experiments and come up with a clear yea or nay. That’s living in the 19th century, basically - which admittedly, many people still seem to want to do.
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But if they have emigrated, they are by definition resident?
So because people don't routinely make use of their freedom to pay in cash, it's okay to take it away?

I now understand why some people in the states walk around openly carrying firearms, exercising their rights.
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The minimum mass for a black hole is about 3 times the size of the sun. So we would definitely detect such an object. In fact it would have pretty catastrophic consequences if it entered the solar system...
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Or it didn't really use Oauth, and just outright stole his password.
Not all Europeans thank goodness. Switzerland and Germany are usually careful with big government. Even France was the birthplace of libertarianism and has a healthy ancap scene. I only wish they weren't so quiet, because so many people give up their power to the state here.
The EIA understands energy and power, the unit names used for energy and power, and is using them correctly in this short article. As much as I hate it when they use terms like "billion kWh" in some of their reports, it is their prerogative and a correct use of terms.

Why do people think that battery storage doesn't have a power specification? To the point that they will incorrectly declare others to now know what they are talking about, when in fact the accuser doesn't know?
If you have one of the "cheater" VW diesels, and you smoke one cigarette while driving 100 miles, you have emitted more excess pollution than the car.

The "Emissions Scandal" is largely bunk.
I think this reply from @mezoliad has the most plausible explanation why the court would rule in this way:

> As a Luxembourger, I am sadly not surprised by this. Dieschburg's lawyer is a well known figure (and well respected by many) with a solid amount of anti-American and racist bigotry.

> As an Asian-American woman, being up against a white Luxembourger, with the country's most prominent lawyer, on a Luxembourg court with a Luxembourgish judge, the outcome was almost inevitable.

https://twitter.com/mezoliad/status/1600705700023656448
Reviews specifically mentioned that this was not overridable anymore.
I like to complain about complex German taxes as much as the next guy, but this is way overblown.

You can send in your tax documents digitally and there are decent software packages to help you do it correctly. For most people it shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours a year.
That is for your typical employee. If you’re running a corporation, do not try to file your taxes without a tax advisor.
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As I mentioned in another thread, people were complaining that there were not longer any workarounds for the artificial limits.
About 1/3rd of the cost of an airline ticket is labor. Many people in the travel industry would rather be at home with their families, traveling themselves, pursuing other hobbies instead of working
The uninformed bullshit by the person you replied to is the reason I typically don‘t comment on German topics anymore on HN. Alas, my Gell-Mann-Amnesia is strong and I read comments on other topics even though they are probably as little based on reality as these comments on Germany.
Genuine question, where does that leave them as far as earning a living?
How does the copyright system in Luxembourg work?

In Germany for example (this will ignore a lot of nuance!), there is no applying or denying of copyright. If you created something, you own the copyright. It is even in the German name: "Urheberrecht" literally translates to "right of the creator". It can not be sold.
And then there is the second concept of "Verwertungsrecht" or "Nutzungsrecht", which defines who has the right to "utilize" something (often for monetary gain). That fundamentally also starts with the person that created something, but can be sold (either before or after the work is done, for example via a contract).

As far as I know the US copyright system is very different from that, where you have to register or apply, and put (c) on things to show you own the right to moetize (this is even more vague, that is just the impression I got in the last 20 years of being on the internet).

In Germany the big discussion then is around "Schöpfungshöhe" - "threshold of originality" in English maybe - that decides if something is even in this system or not.

Is the discussion in the tweet about that really? If the work deserves to be in the system or not? If so, for "right of creator" or "right to utilize"?
Elster is an electronic version of paper forms. It requires redundant manual input of information that is present on different sub-sheets of the forms. Like the paper forms, it requires input of information that the government already has. Filing on paper doesn't take more time than filing through Elster.

Also, it's not unlikely that the government is printing the electronically filed information in the traditional paper format to be able to process it the traditional way. (maybe not for taxes, but it's surely the case for some other processes.)

But I agree that "3 months" is probably the time required to collect information, not the time needed to summarize the information for the government. Some banks take a couple of months to send the required yearly investment income/taxes-paid statement.
Many of the people I know who don’t have kids look sad and seem to be in a meaning crisis. I used to be one of them until I realized I don’t have to make life perfect for my kids, and my failing parents gave me a difficult life that I’m still happy to have, after all. The decision not to have kids is a bit like the decision not to eat because food is too expensive.

We’re failing as a society if not having kids is the best option for most young adults.
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Becase if we didn't, there'd be 95% of us still producing food manually and the other 5% would be blacksmiths and other supporting roles for food production.

Now, only a tiny percentage of people produce food, and the rest can be community managers on twitter.
Why does nlp need to mimic human brain function to count as cognition? This seems overly reductive; I see no reason to believe that biomimicry is necessary for intelligence. The argument is overly reductive: only brains think, and this is not a brain, ergo it does not think.

(To be clear, I don't think this system is an AGI; just making the point that better goal posts are needed...)
Hormonal birth control isn't available in Japan.
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does this produce the polio vaccine scar we most commonly see on people born 1950-70
On the one hand: I agree that years of delay are pretty wasteful, considering a lot of projects are really needed to solve urgent problems. With windmills, the same thing happened in my village, which was all up in arms against them. On the other hand, democracy is inherently slow and wasteful, if you want to protect also the rights of the minority, that will have a cost.

What if it isn't something like windmills that clearly are a net improvement for society over coal, and the objections aren't merely 'not a nice view'? For example, suppose some big corp wants to frack the environment to pieces for big bucks, leaving a poisoned, nearly unlivable habitat for the nearby village.

How can we safeguard against this, in a way that the village inhabitants can protest against such threats with real teeth, without grinding everything to a halt that is a mere nuisance but offers real benefits to society?
Costs for LFP are around $350/kWh and about half consists of BOS like inverters, charge control cooling, fire control, etc.

10-20% YoY drop in manufacturing cowts is pretty likely, although demand will keep up with production and lithium extraction capacity so this might just turn into profit in the short term.

Sodium ion is presently scaling, which should remove most of this raw material limitation by late 2020s. Additionally the lower volumetric capacity, higher coulpmbic efficiency and higher thermal stability should reduce cooling and fire control.

TL;DR Some/most people expect it to drop each year similar to what solar did. I expect prices to be stable for 2-4 years while anyone with a lithium mine or existing production builds a small ocean of cash to swim in and then crash abruptly to <$80/kWh
You cannot learn this shit from just by reading webpages under hundred years. Where this insight comes from, I truly do not understand.

-- Mikä on ero sanoilla "talossa" ja "talosta". Explain in English.

-- The difference between the words "talossa" and "talosta" in Finnish is that "talossa" is the inessive case of the word "talo," which means "in the house," whereas "talosta" is the elative case of the same word, which means "out of the house." In other words, "talossa" indicates a location within a house, while "talosta" indicates movement away from a house.
Further details here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/3587
Google will not disappear. They already have much larger neural nets almost ready for deployment, plus they will be able to afford even larger ones in future. And size is all that matters while the techniques are mostly trivial.
Below is the small framework we use to fuzz a network client. It works by creating a Unix socket, forking, then having the client (under test) on one side of the socket and a small loop which reads the input file into the socket on the other side.

https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd/-/tree/master/fuzzing
You are wrong, the unit is GW, not GWh.

Grid resources' most salient aspect is their power rating. For lithium ion batteries, there is typically four hours of duration when discharging at maximum capacity, though sometimes it's as low as one to two hours. And for the earliest lithium ion battery that were used for frequency regulation, it was as low as 15-30 minutes of duration. But today, it's usually safe to multiply the GW by four to get GWh for grid batteries, if one cares about the GWh more than GW for some reason.
I have a Kyocera color laser, no nonsense, it’s a great printer and works fine out of the box with both Linux and iDevices.
> If Plan 9 had been released earlier before Unix took over the world, then there's a good chance Plan 9 would've taken over the world instead.

If something different had happened things might have been different. Maybe. There's also a good chance it wouldn't have, in my opinion, and Unix still would have taken over the world.

> Bad decisions can be made without the second system effect coming into play, and vice versa.

Yes but Plan 9 is a classic second system syndrome. Unix made "everything is a file, but not quite". Plan 9 took that to the absolute extreme, demonstrating that they clearly missed what was good about that Unix design choice, which was was not some theoretical purity. Unix was a highly network-able system, and Plan 9 took that to the absolute extreme trying to develop a distributed single system image, again missing what was good about Unix networking, which was not the ability to make a remote machine behave as though it was the same system as the local one.

> Releasing plan 9 as a propietary OS during that time was pure folly, but not the second system effect.

No you're right, the proprietaryness of the OS wasn't the part that was the second system syndrome. Over-engineering something that was not needed or wanted and releasing it 8-10 years after many successful commercial and academic Unixes had been used.

I mean if it was a research effort to inform how Unix might evolve and be improved in the real world sure, but they expected actual users to switch over to this warmed over Unix-ish looking thing with lots of things you don't want, oh and it's incompatible with your existing systems. Come on.

I know this hurts Plan 9 fanatics to hear, but it's not amazing. You can listen on a network port with a file, and you can access a file or run a program on some other computer "in the ether". Neat. Then you go on with your life.
....but this reasoning/ruling now apply to all other portraits?
As the Boeing max fiasco showed sometimes the plane can decide to go where it wants while contradicting the pilot.
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> Did Germany change over the last 20 years, or were my perceptions off from the get-go?

There has always been corruption. Germany under Kohl was also called Bimbesrepublik at times. "bimbes" being a cutesy/deragatory term for money in Kohl's idiom.

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article5883815/Ab-he...
OR companies are reaching a tacit agreement not to provide "pre-jailbroken" printers anymore. That agreement may be tacit.
Wake me up when you can reconcile that picture with relativity.
This is often the case. Many years ago in Glasgow I couldn't find a parking space near a building where I was dropping off huge boxes of equipment, but - aha! here comes a parking attendant! So, I asked him where I could park near there.

"Oh, just park right there behind that car" he said.

Yeah, but that's on a double yellow, won't you give me a ticket for that?

"Yes, I will, and because the *end* of the double yellow has been all dug up by someone and crudely filled in with tar but without repainting it, the double yellows are not correctly terminated as per the regulations. Which is what you'll tell the parking ticket office when you phone them to contest it. That will be backed up by the photo I take, and the ticket will be cancelled."

Wait, are you sure?

"Yeah, of course, I've been telling them to fix that for months now!"

Okay then.

So I did, he did, I rang, they looked, and that was the end of that.
I own a secondhand Brother inkjet printer. I bought it on eBay under the influence of posts like these. TLDR, they now DRM their cartridges. Each ink cartridge has a chip in it. One of the first experiences I had was my printer refusing a back ink cartridge. I had to throw away a full cartridge.
What are you talking about?

The very first chart in the article is titled "U.S. Battery Storage Capacity (2015-2025)", but the vertical axis is labelled "gigawatts".

Storage capacity is not measured in gigawatts.

Edit: yes, batteries also have a power delivery rating, but that is not what is implied by "storage capacity".
Landowners versus wage slaves. Nothing changed in politics over 25 centuries.
You're absolutely right and this is the one thing about dark mayer that doesn't sound like "just keep sprinkling it on your problem till it works."

I don't know enough about the found examples of gravitational lensing to know whether all possible arrangements of black holes that could have the same effect, have been considered and found lacking. But I presume so.
The predominant issue (at least in the US) is that parents have fewer kids. The number of women who have had at least one kid hasn't dropped that much in 45 years.[1]

In 1976, 90% of women between 40-44 have ever given birth. In 2016, it's 86% (up since a low of 80% in 2006).

[1]https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2018/01/18/theyre-...
IPv6 have many defects BUT allow a lost thing we desperately need NO DAMN needed NAT. Witch means that with a 2Gbps+ f.o. connection you can host your service at home, with a static IPv6 global address and a domain name bound to it.

IMVHO many giants obstacle IPv6 NOT because it's hard and not so nice BUT because they fear loosing their privileged position. Oh, sure most people do not have TODAY a homeserver but how much would it take to see pre-packaged pseudo-FLOSS homeservers like we see for android "pirate-TV minicomputers"?

Try weighting that before judge.
I think together, you and ggm raise a troubling point. Your exchange
is presently civil and exploratory (all very HN), but I expect we will
see a rapid descent into accusations of impersonation and ML assisted
posting elsewhere.

Yuri Bezmenov and others have detailed the active psyops tactics to
systematically undermine a society by destroying mutual trust between
individuals and between and within institutions.

Ultimately making a group fight each other with "information judo"
leverages the group's own strengths against it. This is the weakness
they saw in a democratic and tolerant societies.

It may be that GPT is the perfect self-devouring weapon. The more it
feeds on our protestations, arguments and demonstrations of "humanity"
the more powerful a deceiver it becomes.
That's not the scenario they're describing, postgres has most likely already been designed and worked on to scale to their workload, using postgres means you don't have to replicate that for another system.
Awesome! checkout https://text-generator.io which is a language model as a service similar to OpenAi that can cook but much cheaper

I would recommend for vast majority of people to experiment around with these pretrained models first before getting the dedicated GPU/training etc, but cool that your company helps with it
Automation doesn't need to have The Matrix as the end result; it could be a Star Trek utopia.

If automation was truly in the spirit of freeing people from having to struggle to survive, imagine a system build around an automated future where because everything is so efficient and there's no need for menial labor, you can just kind of do whatever you want; art, research, gardening, you name it. Freeloaders in the system sum up to a rounding error for the resources needed to support them because the system is efficient. Enough people like the system that they willingly work to maintain it and improve it (it's even exciting for them to study and build new and better ways of providing the resources than the existing way), but ultimately you just have time to do the things you tell yourself right now you can't do because you need to take meetings/clean up the house/work 8+ hours a day to sustain a basic living, etc.

It's likely going to be a tough transition as long as we still think in terms of "I as a person must maximize my gains and protect them from everyone else", but automation could easily provide such a life for everyone if it advances enough. That transition is gonna be a hard one though as the habit of personal gain is a tough one to break after living in it for so long.
Thermal degradation will likely take it out before 100 years, but odds of wearing out next gen sodium ion batteries by cycling are pretty slim https://natron.energy/product/
Exactly, there's a reason the "Two-man rule" exists for when a single person should not be trusted with the outcome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-man_rule
> and the rest can be community managers on twitter.

I now understand just how much progress we've made as a civilization
It’s not good because it means there is something in nature that we cannot understand and study, because we cannot in fact observe it directly.

The gravitational discrepancies we have already, but without an explanation or observation, they’re not very satisfactory.
Whilst I also recommend Brother if people ask, and also go to a local bureau for colo(u)r, the mono laser printers I've had at home for the last 20 years have been HP, simply because those are the ones needing very minor repair that I've picked up for free!
Even more broadly, what takes time is the governance, legal, bureaucratic, etc, processes. Governance is a lore unto itself.

While we may think we are dealing with 'reality' we are mainly dealing with the artifacts of the governance system - and it believes itself to be the determinant of reality itself!

It only pays lip service to the idea that it is there to facilitate and improve people's lives - the idea of governance/social contract/etc is an just an expedient idea that aseerts itself to be the master not the servant. It is the enemy of the individual.
Isn't this a variant of the Philosophical Zombie problem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

Or the Chinese Room and similar unsolvable / undetectable stuff.
Thank you for the clarification, Ultimo (so there is at least two of us), but the rationality of the measure is still doubtful.

This starts making half-sense - it is not to curb the possibility that the merchant evades, but to hinder spending earning coming from evasion. Unfortunately, that money that may come from evasion is the same money that comes from normal earnings: so the damage is spread, not surgical. For example, now Men (is it just the two of us?) in Spain cannot purchase, say, a Macbook (the threshold there is reportedly at 999€).

It seems like one of those generalizing measures like "Populations labelled as irresponsible socially extroverts as an aggregate will have individuals bound to confinement in case of epidemic", which even when they work as an effect involve massive lateral damages.
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You can now predict the ranks of a team of players since v3.2.0 of openskill.py. OpenSkill is a rating system designed for complex n-team, n-player matchups and is ready out of the box with 5 different models and 3 prediction functions to suit your needs whether it be building video game leaderboards, matchmaking players or predicting how well a sports team will do.

OpenSkill is not only up-to 20x faster, it is also now has the same accuracy as TrueSkill and sometimes even more (we benchmark against TrueSkill's implementation of win prediction). There are also no implementations of TrueSkill that are free from patent and trademark issues.

It's time to ditch Elo and TrueSkill for good.