skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New to me: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/317985/beyond-sun AKA "Tech Tree".

There's enough going on that it can hold my attention, but, each turn is super simple. And now that I think about it, while there's strong degree to which it feels like an engine builder, it mostly isn't. You do get combos, but they tend to be one-turn things. It's got the right mix of determinism and random; RNG won't win or lose you the game, but every game is going to be at least a bit different because of it.

Also new to me: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/342942/ark-nova AKA "Zoo Mars", since we like it for many of the reasons we like Terraforming Mars, although it's simpler, and turns go by faster. It does have a bit of an issue in that poor card draw on your part (or, in one game, excellent card draw on one player's) can lose you the game, as you do build an engine but not all cards will work with the specific engine you're building.
To avoid your editor from puking with bunch of invalid HTML markups?
In 2014 there were AI experts on record saying that an AI beating a top GO champion was at least 15 years out.
Maybe for certain domains it's okay to fail 5% of the time but a lot of code really does need to be perfect. You wouldn't be able to work with a filesystem that loses 5% of your files.
People cook to their own tastes. An AI cook may be able to follow a recipe, but can it adjust the recipe on the fly by tasting, smelling, feeling the food? If it can’t do this, it won’t compare well to a real chef/cook
The book Crucial Conversations says to be "100% honest, and 100% respectful". It made me reconsider what I can directly communicate. In the past I would consider 1 or 2 ways to say something and then give up, but the truth is there are hundreds of ways to communicate something and unless you've spent a lot of time actively considering them, you haven't considered them all. (Spending a lot of time passively stressing and worrying about what you want to say doesn't count, because those are probably poor thinking patterns.)
This makes no sense. Tell us how Musk comes out ahead financially in this situation.
Ask HN: Opinions on unprecedented FINRA U3 halt on trading of MMTLP?
Traders were originally told that they could trade until the 12th (SEC, FINRA approved S1). On the 12th, FINRA stopped trading, trapping shareholders who wanted to sell and forcing them into a spin-off (MMTLP into a new company). People estimate double the shares in the float being sold, with a huge number of synthetic shares. Unproven as of yet.
That does not mean they are marginalized. For every communities, you will find neighbors quarrels, and the examples you show are mainly that (for the ones I was able to access): someone wants X, someone wants Y, hence quarrels.

It would have been more relevant to show examples where the "attacker" did not had any stakes or if it would have been proven that the "attacker" has reacted this way because the person is christian, but would not have reacted if the person was muslim, or atheist, or ... but defended the same actions. For each of your examples, I really doubt there would not have been exactly the same conflict if the person was atheists but had the same strong views.

At the end, it may even feel like Christians are slowly discovering that they are people like others and that there is no reason the society should always settle to their advantage. In a way, it feels like the "threat" in question is "stopping being privileged".
The first problem I see is separating my online identity with my real identity. I really don't want anyone at my job finding out which dog I am on the internet.

My coworkers and family really wouldn't appreciate my shit posting. :)

The second is friends of friends can get really awkward. There are some people who are friends with me that are also friends with people who never want to see me again.
Please don't trivialize hogs by calling them pigs. 'Pig' is a diminutive term derived from "piglet". Calling a hog a 'pig' is like calling a man a 'boy'.

If you really want to show respect, then call them swine.
Wrong is hardly the ideal metric here. Being less wrong than random can beat being correct and utterly trivial.
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Cuts 2023 Hashrate Outlook by Nearly 30%
You funded a criminal operation? That runs DDoS attacks? On behalf of owners of domains and websites everywhere, thanks a lot.
Amazing work. Can this be applied to voice?

Example prompt: “deep radio host voice saying ‘hello there’”

Kind of like a more expressive TTS?
A battle at one university is a case study in why higher ed is so slow to change
A problem though is how real world social networks operate. People love to gather with a bunch of strangers over coffee or at restaurants but have absolutely nothing to do with each other besides sitting in close proximity.

Everyone wants to design an online social network as if there is all this spirited high brow debate going on at the local Starbucks when in reality it is a bunch of people shoulder to shoulder ignoring each other.

If people really wanted interaction it would be trivial in the real world. Online social networks let people indulge in their want to talk AT strangers. This is absolutely a feature and not a bug of the software.

Even within myself, the idea of a 19th century style salon sounds really cool but I would never show up to one physically. An online salon with more than a handful of people would be cool but it would break down quickly as it scales up past 20 or so participants until it basically approaches Twitter.
The faster battery life deterioration might even be desirable for those manufacturers with planned obsolescence in mind, especially phone manufacturers
I'm doing a rotisserie rebuild of my MG Midget right now, and am gluing new floor pans in using 3M (auto industry) panel bonding adhesive.

It sure brings in the, "It should be welded on as Donald Healey and god intended!" crowd with some online forums.
Because people already have two decades of SHA-1 hashes in their database and a rewrite + rescan is completely pointless? Hell, I have such a system using md5. So you produced a hash collision, cool, now fool my follow-on byte-by-byte comparison.

Edit: Before anyone lecture me on SHA-1 being slow, yes, I use BLAKE2 for new projects.
What's something that only you can uniquely do that no other person in the world can, and is also under threat by AI?
Simatic Smackdown ICS Malware Adds Wiper Functionality
SIMATIC Smackdown ICS malware incorporates wiper functionality to effectively send S7 STOP PLC commands before wiping the filesystem of the engineering workstation.
Yes, but it's a bit hard to convince your boss to allow buying a lot of them (just 10 is already $900).
And that there's a place for everyone in the current economic model.

I know from experience that I'm happiest doing 2-3 part time jobs. But in order to get things like benefits, job security, a salary over 15/hr, etc. I'm stuck with a single place of full time employment. I try to find jobs that let me do a bunch of different things, but it's not really the same.

Being a generalist sucks.
When I was a moderator for tagfam.org, I was privy to internal research that the founder had done. About 20 percent of members were active on a regular basis and about 10 percent more were occasionally active. The rest lurked and just read.

People can readily navigate a community of about 150 members. On two different forums, once current membership got past about 750 people, things started splintering off into new groups. Do the math: 20 percent of 750 is 150.

Above that figure of 150, the way people handle social interaction is with formal processes and protecting their privacy. They try to limit what they share about themselves on a "need to know" basis. Some people are better at this than others.

This is where my life got very painful when I first went online: I didn't know how to do that. I had never really interacted with "the public" though I thought I had. I had been a homemaker and before that a student. I knew lots of people, but those people were mostly family and friends. I had extremely limited experience with customers, bosses, etc. and didn't really know how to be selective about the details I shared with an eye towards protecting myself and this went weird places.

To remedy that, I have had to consciously think about such things a whole lot. I've even collected data at times and so forth.

Many people are not super clear about such distinctions. If they grew up in a big city, maybe they don't readily share intimate details with anyone and don't really think about how much they leave out. If they grew up in a village, maybe they make no real distinction between friends and strangers and just let it all hang out and don't understand when it comes back to bite them.

A lot of the problems we have currently online exist because the internet puts us rather unnaturally in touch with a much broader selection of people than in-person interactions are likely to for most people. It's harder to say things online that won't have someone up in arms because you stepped on their toes without realizing it.

I've been trying to sort out how to interact positively with people on Twitter (and in other online spaces) for a long time, people I may not know at all but may have interests in common with. I think a lot of our online social media issues ultimately will be solved -- if they get solved at all -- by working on this issue.
Well, Canonical did put ads in apt[1]

[1]: https://askubuntu.com/q/1434512
Dozens of Telehealth Startups Sent Health Information to Big Tech Companies
Electro-fuels currently cost about $15 per gallon - In case anyone else was curious.

https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/fuels-us-euro...
New MH370 debris suggests that pilots lowered landing gear
I am happy if gender therapy helped you I think it is fine for society to be critical however. I don't want to see documentaries in 20 years about people having regrets.
Sadly any discussion is immediately considered a personal attack so we two camps.
The fight over single-family zoning changes is also a fight over phrasing
I have an early copy of Switched-On Bach, and I sometimes wonder if I should put a bit of tape on the front. It's probably sufficient to remember, and call her Wendy.
Nature paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq1158

For those wondering, yes, these are the same results reported in the February 2022 pre-print here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07814

As in the preprint the authors report their system's average ranking as top 54.3% in past competitions but the meat and potatoes of their results are in the reporting of test accuracy, which they don't advertise in the abstract- because it's not that good. From the body of the Nature article:

>> With up to 100,000 samples per problem (10@100K), the AlphaCode 41B model solved 29.6% of problems in the CodeContests test set.

So the best test set performance they got was 29.6% with the 10@100k metric. See also Figure 3 in the Nature paper (graphically presenting results listed in Appendix Table A2 in the preprint).

"10@100k" means that their LLM generated millions of programs for each exercise, of which 100,000 (100k) were selected by filtering and clustering and various other heuristics, and of those 100k, 10 were selected to submit as the system's solution.

So 10@100k means to take a few million guesses, then take another 100k guesses, and finally andother 10. And still only get it right 30% ish percent of the time.

This may be enough to rank in the 54% of CodeForces participants, for a system fine-tuned on CodeForces-like data (the CodeContests dataset developed by DeepMind specifically for this task). But it's not enough to claim that AlphaCode "conquers coding, performing as well as humans", per the title of TFA.
https://archive.md/xLgCE
> You seem to forget that storage also has no operating expense.

Who said operating expense only? I was definitely considering capital costs too, amortized over a few decades.

Steam turbines are fine for backing up unreliable renewables.

> But the steam turbine would not be the only operating expense for fusion. [...]

Okay, but I was only addressing the idea of steam turbine costs by themselves.
I wonder if it's possible to fine-tune an image upscaling model on spectrograms, in order to clean up the sound?
You can get the same tax loophole!
https://www.schwabcharitable.org/non-cash-contribution-optio...

If you have appreciated stock, transfer it into a DAF, realize a large tax deduction to offset a high income year, and take the standard deduction other years.
Indeed, fellow molecular biologist! Luckily I work with plants, so we can manipulate to our hearts' content. But I have thought a lot about ways to communicate the new and developing paradigm of genetics that includes interplay, signaling, epigenetics, etc. Looking back at my earliest coursework I can think of so many things that have changed in the field.
My version of Greenspun's Tenth [1] is that any sufficiently complex static language contains an adhoc, informally specified, bug ridden and slow version of a dynamic "any" type.

Thx OP for providing an example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun's_tenth_rule
This is incidental. The current Jupyter CSS needs to be improved - so what? That's not a bug unique to Jupyter, I've seen dozens of other websites with similar problems (some with extremely bare HTML and CSS that was minimal but bad - so the problem is unrelated to complexity, too).

This has nothing to do with the parent comment's topic, which was about using computational notebooks as blog posts, and is in effect "complaining about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage" - which the guidelines explicitly forbid.
> If you want Windows 95 in 2022

Indeed the metaphor is apt: font/positioning problems that still can plague Linux in 2022, but didn’t appear as much in Windows in 1995 :^)
The core issue is that they are unreliable when there is no wind or sunlight. Storage at scale is still not affordable or available for the whole world. The recent electricity issues that western Europe faced are indicative of the failings of unSustainable energy.
Neuralink is not realistic in its current conception, they won't easily solve the problem of input to a brain
Because now that person works for you, for free, instantly, anywhere, anytime. There's at least a temptation.
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/

Some programmers are upset and already filing suit.
Reddit files to take the company public
I did actually come looking for a reference to Lords of Synth, and I wish I could upvote this twice.
Where's the equal or louder negative attention for billionaires who profit off death and destruction? That use actual slave labor for their projects that result in tens of thousands of deaths? That wreck the environment without consequence? That promote harm and violence to disadvantaged groups? That exploit child labor?

The issue is clearly not that Musk says dumb shit on Twitter and missed a deadline for his pickup truck. The issue is that society has a rage boner against him and people like you are perpetuating it while missing the wealth inequality forest for the Elon trees.
There was Rediscovering Lost Scores, a two-volume CD set, as mentioned in the article. https://www.wendycarlos.com/+rls1.html https://www.wendycarlos.com/+rls2.html
I would say it's not "generated," but interpolated...

It doesn't make anything new or fresh. It doesn't pull any real-life emotions or experiences into a synthesis that a person can relate to. It's more like asking a teenaged comedian to imitate numerous impressions of music styles. e.g. in Clerks when the Russian guy does "metal": https://youtu.be/7gFoHkkCaRE?t=55

Of course the modern conception of music in the West is as an accompaniment to other, mostly drudging, activities, as opposed to something to be paid singularly attention. Therefore, there are many "valuable"(*) occasions to produce "impressions" of music. E.g. in advertisements and social media flexes where identity and attitude are the purpose of music. For these, a shallow interpretation or reflection of loosely amalgamated sound clips will suffice. But we don't just attend concerts or focus sustained energy on sonic impressions. We listen to lyrics and give over our consciousness to composed works because we want to find secrets others give away in dealing with this crazy thing called life- ideas to succeed, admissions of failure, and what the expected emotional arcs of these trajectories looks like. This lofty goal is to date not within the scope of AI stunts.

As Solzheinetysn said, "Too much art is like candy and not bread."
> click bait, outrage, etc, again are what people are looking for

I don't think people actively seek clickbait and outrage, but rather, are simply drawn to it when they see it.
What empathy were you expecting in a nation that refuses to pass easy access to healthcare for all?

When was making living through art guaranteed? Society has mocked artists for centuries.

Let them make art and give them a UBI.

AI will replace programmers too; if a user can ask a future AI to organize their machines state into an arbitrary video game, photorealistic movie, generate reports from sources abc, weighing for xyz on a bar chart; only the AI code base (whatever boot strapping and runtime it needs) becomes necessary.

Why would I ask an AI that can produce the end result to produce code? Code is just minimized ideal machine state.

You’re correct; there is a lot of empathy lacking in our culture, but it’s not just when it comes to art.
Not even that. It only requires that the hash is not reversible.
> They would have to find another “the sky is falling down” cause.

You've nailed it. The people in power don't want to fix these problems. They'd like them to get worse, actually. "Never let a crisis go to waste" has the corollary "if a crisis doesn't exist, create one."
So how did they make the connection?
What Is a Query Planner?
> if you can efficiently find inputs where the output has lots of leading zeroes that's a partial break, and lets you mine bitcoin more efficiently

Depends on the type of break.
If the break only allows finding a hash with 128+k leading zeroes in 2^{128+k/2} time, that would still be quite useless for bitcoin mining.

The break would have to cover the bitcoin regime of around 78 leading 0s.
Zigbee was bigger in Europe, Z-Wave in the US. Or at least that was what I always read ;)

Philips Hue was always the big "Zigbee? Never heard of that" Zigbee producer, nowadays, there are also good and cost-effective things from Sonoff and Aqara, and cheap but hit-or-miss devices by tuya (heavily white labeled)
John Company 2nd edition is a fantastic game.

Instant favourite, the smoothest rules (I could not have imagined a game with this complexity could flow so well and have a manual so easy to navigate)
Insanely good player interaction, at no time boring, and there's basically no downtime. Paying attention to other players is necessary and effortless. Paired with great rulebook and well defined order of actions, this made my first game flow incredibly well—even though the short scenario took over 6 hours. 2-3 hours in we all felt like we had been playing for 45 minutes.

True competitive co-op, nothing like terraforming Mars (which is co-op in flavor only). You generally want the company to do well while skimming a bit more off the top than your opponents.

And the game does not abstract away the horrible things you do. It's very clear that the players are not the good guys. Power is central to John Company, and not just in the sense of "might", although military strength s important—in the sense of political and economical power, unchecked except by those who would like that power for themselves.

10/10 might not be enough of a rating
I wonder what tiktok's total revenue / tiktoks total views is? If they paid out every cent that came in, what would that compensation rate look like?

I've got to imagine it would still be a number many people would be unsatisfied with.
Your phone is terrible at phone calls. Here’s how to fix it.
I feel many people are just reading the first paragraph of my post and reacting to that, my point is further down in my original post.

Still to reply to your comment:

Sure, in the short term that is true, but I'm thinking long-term consequences... If you would have told me ten years ago where we would be at today with AI development I wouldn't have believed it. Would you? So where will we be in another ten years?
A transformational transport hub for Europe
I think it's valid to not want to use software if you think that using it will contribute to a philosophy that you don't like. And it is true that many people choose GPL because they didn't bother to do any research and think it's just a safe default, but enough people do choose it because they believe that proprietary software is evil or morally wrong in some way.

Personally I'd like to see BSD become more of a serious contender for the user-friendly FOSS desktop, able to use proprietary blobs of code without legal factors to consider.
> where transit lines are run before the city builds up around them.

I'm not sure even this is true. The city may not build up in the way the planners anticipated. Even if it does, it will change over time.
I never read the name that way, but now I can't unsee it ever!
To shreds you say? And his wife?

Hearing a lot on this thread about folding real life back into social networks, making the system designed to keep people on the happy, healthy, human-scaled social path. Today's SMBC lines up pretty neatly - https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addicted
There is a delay, true. Inevitable with the compilation phase, and I do find it irritating that my Go stuff builds so much faster. That said, there's reasonable (not perfect) live reloading happening these days which helps somewhat.
Fair enough. But for me, when talking about `having an insight`, I don't imagine a non-human entity doing that. And to be pedantic (talking about Germans doing research, I hope everyone would expect me to be), the institute is called Fraunhofer IIS. `Fraunhofer` would colloquially refer to the society, which is an organization with 76 institutes total. Although, of course, the society will also claim the work...
It appears that all solutions to this problem require one of:

* All countries to agree on an incentive scheme (unlikely - although big trading blocs like EU/China/Russia/USA might be able to bully the rest of the world into it with the threat of sanctions if they do not agree)

* Some countries to agree on a scheme, and to break WTO rules to penalize (carbon tax) imports and subsidize exports to/from those who do not.

Or... the world continues on the current trajectory of decarbonizing highly visible things only (Electric cars, solar panels on the roof!) to appease voters while avoiding decarbonizing anything that much affects nationwide competitiveness (eg. steel/fertilizer production).
This! Perfectly stated!
https://archive.vn/HJSSr
> The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing...

The thing is, empathy doesn't really do anything. Pandora's Box is open and there's no effective way of shutting it that is more than a hopeful dream. Stopping technology is like every doomed effort that has existed to stop capitalism.
The way I see it when talking about Tesla it’s talking about the pre/post Tesla (aka the transition from ICE to EV in all auto makers) and not the build quality of Tesla per se !
YC's business model is to invest in "everything you can try." I don't think this intended to be a list of opportunities that YC believes are 100% likely to succeed; it's intended to be a list that probably includes one or more ideas that will succeed.