skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty great, I read the translation on arxiv.org[0] and he said that at the start of the universe there was only one or a few quanta. I'm not sure how much information you can encode in that, probably not much, I would guess a couple kilobytes max? What I think he's saying about God is that any initial "push" or change he did to the quanta can't really control anything, so he would have to be in the universe in some other way or be able to control it from outside. I think I'm correct that all large structures in the universe came from when the universe was really hot/high energy and small enough that quantum fluctuations in that state could expand with the universe to become very large. Even with the best possible predictions, a theoretical "before universe" (not that it makes sense) God probably could not do much of anything with control of those couple kilobytes of information. To clarify, earlier in the universe quantum fluctuations could cause bigger changes relative to the size of the universe because the universe and everything inside it gets bigger/further apart as time goes on.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.07198.pdf
That’s a bit entitled. If I make something, I get to modifying it as much as I like as the creator, if I change my mind. Maybe my changes suck. But that’s not my problem as the creator.

Complaining about format is also a bit silly. No one has to continuously release things you like in the format you choose. Loads of things are out of print. That’s just the nature of technology. And in this day and age, there’s a torrent.
Somewhat off topic, but I'm getting a lot of network errors lately. Has anyone else noticed an increase? I'm also curious if any Plus users here can share their experience...
It's pretty hard to be pro-"safety" on things like social media, news, AI, etc., and then turn around and say with a straight face that infrastructure shouldn't be allowed to be moderated.

I long for the net neutrality times when we were still sane.
There are open standards for browsers to communicate with software deployed in web 3, regardless of what an isp would care about doing. For an ISP to fiddle with that goes far beyond sneaking around net neutrality as a principle. It would entail blatant violations of existing laws. In broad daylight.

Not to mention it would accelerate the adoption of Starlink and other alternatives, as well as community-deployed mesh networks that are already covering cities in the United States of America as we speak. And this hardware will get cheaper and better with time and be deployed at larger and larger scales.
Fantastic!! Need of the hour. Will save valuable resources including time.
Can't you address this with adversarial training items that build upon each other?

I will be doing some testing of this against the base davinci model over the next few weeks.
Ask HN: What do you think of the big clouds (AWS/Azure) quota system?
On AWS and Azure if I want to run an EC2 instance I need to "request quota" for a specific instance type in a specific region then wait for some unknown number of hours until eventually someone gets back to me and maybe grants the access.

On AWS I used to be able to run instances as I need, of the size I need, in the location I need. No more - that capability is gone. Feels like I'm just interacting with "big corporation IT department" instead of doing state of the art scalable fast moving cloud computing.

The quota system seems like a giant backward step and gives more fuel to the argument to leave the cloud and self host.
This can certainly be done. Here's one example from 2021 demonstrating training an LLM to use a scratchpad ("talking to itself") to greatly improve accuracy on arithmetic problems:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.00114.pdf
> and I cannot register on Linux without a phone number.

Yep, but it doesn't have to be a real, publicly routable one. You can get one from Telegram without having to provide government provided ID like I have to for real phone numbers. See sibling comment.
Fwiw even their Android App has gone from Meh to Worse.
It used to work well. Then they introduced mandatory user sign up/in. For local printing/scanning! And then started the white screen bugs.
HP Smart is the only app on my Android that i pinned to a very old version and am never upgrading.
Bummer!!
Social security has always been simply a means-tested welfare program like any other we have in the US. The tax to to support it the same thing - just an income tax to balance out the budget.

I wouldn't describe myself has having "paid in" to SNAP, or disaster relief funds, etc. Just as I wouldn't describe myself as having "paid in" to social security. I simply paid an income tax at the time like any other. If I'm lucky, when I'm in need some other poor sap will be paying it forward as well.
I don't believe erythritol does much of anything to the stomach.

Now, if any makes it through the lower intestine without getting absorbed and gets into your colon...
I recently decided against a 1+10 Pro for a 9 Pro. Price was a factor, as was the fact that they are not massively different in capabilities. But the final nail in the coffin was alternative rom support. Both are not officially supported by Lineage (yet?). But there are inofficial builds for the 9. Apparently OnePlus stopped supporting some tool that is needed to safely develop roms without risking to brick the phone.
> that subsidize urban cores

Subsidized by urban cores.

Who do you think is paying for those $50M highway exits and overpasses so everyone can quickly get to their strip malls? Its not the local residents.
Your workflow looks great!

Have you considered going full clojure and using blambda as a backend?

https://github.com/jmglov/blambda
You misunderstood my point... f in this example is the function which computes the first number that does not show up in the first X samples of OEIS sequences(so in the paper cited, OEIS stores only the first 180, so when x is 180, f(x) = 20067).

Interestingly, this will create a paradox because it could itself be expressed as an OEIS sequence, which would mean that it does not belong in the sequence... but if it doesn't belong, then it should belong(Russell's paradox anyone :D).
Looks a lot like https://mod.audio/dwarf/ which I own and love.
EDIT: Previous mistake in parent that was corrected leads to this

I'm a little confused about the implication that Verizon and AT&T have merged (they haven't). AT&T acquired some spectrum from Verizon back in 2013 [1], and there have been various cases of customer-base horse trading between them, but these two merging at a corporate level would be a massive news story, and it strains credulity to imagine the top two wireless providers merging without being struck down by the FTC for antitrust. Maybe you could shed some light on what you mean?

Tom Wheeler did indeed have it way more right than Ajit Pai, though.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/at-t-completes-acquisition-...
No, this seems misguided. Section 230 protects the small Mastodon instance I'm on in the same way it protects Twitter. My instance is pretty well-moderated, but if you know the background of section 230... if you're an operator of a mid-sized Mastodon instance, how certain are you that nobody's posted anything that a modern-day Stratton Oakmont might come after you for absent section 230? I'd hazard a guess and say not very certain at all.
They would stop you by making it illegal to use any chat app that doesn't conform to those plans.
America’s newest transit system, in Austin TX, starts to take shape
I find it's best (if side effects and state mutation make you nervous) to think of hooks as essentially part of the function signature of a react component, both on the parameter side, as well as on the return side. They are not written as such, because of syntactic limitations of JavaScript, but essentially a react component that starts off like this:

function MyComponent({}) {
const [count, setCount] = useState(0);
const [active, setActive] = useState(true);
useEffect(() => if (active) setTimeout(1000, () => setCount(count+1)), [count, active]);
...

can kind of be thought of as if it accepts an extra hidden set of parameters, kind of like this:

function MyComponent({}, hook1 : useState, hook2 : useState, hook3 : useEffect) {
const [count, setCount, hook1Result] = hook1(0);
const [active, setActive, hook2Result] = hook2(true);
const hook3Result = hook3(() => if (active) setTimeout(1000, () => setCount(count+1)), [count, active]);
...
return [<div></div>, [hook1Result, hook2Result, hook3Result]];
}

In this version, those hook functions are side-effect free, pure functions that our caller provides us with, closed over the previous stored state of our component in the tree; and when we return the results along with our rendered output, our caller has the new state of our component together with our desired DOM.

Instead of forcing us to write all that extra code, route those extra variables, and figure out the metadata mechanism whereby the caller of the render method figures out what hook functions to supply, the rules of hooks let you use JavaScript's imperative, procedural syntax to call hooks which are implemented using ugly side-effecting impure techniques, but in a way that pulls off something semantically identical to this pure functional flow.

It's a pretty neat trick, honestly.
> "ISPs must not oppress us, but it's fine when social media platforms do it"

The difference is that ISPs have no competition and that social media platforms are actively recommending things.

If social media truly became "dumb pipes" and operated only on the desires of their users, I'd agree with you, but that's not the case.
Please don't post swipes like this. It's against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.
Shares in the company are about control. Founder teams (ie., founder/co-founders) should decide early on about how much control each cofounder is going to retain through their ownership -- this is anyway part of forming the founding team based on the skills and capital they bring to the table.

When it comes to expanding the team with key employees outside of the founding team, giving them equity share is a decision that the founding team needs to make. A policy decision could be x% of the shares will be dedicated to key employees equity participation.

Also, key employees doesn't have to be all employees. You can segment this by role, service duration etc., For eg: an entry level role may not be eligible, but may become eligible after x months of service in the company.

There are opposing philosophies to the above. But most use some form of probation period to make employees eligible for participation.

Edit: Also, typically the equity is granted through options vesting. So, it is part of deferred compensation over a vesting period that runs over several years. It is also tied to differentiated performance-based pay.
You are correct that it was a lot of astroturfed political wrangling. But the visionaries back then were correct to worry about it. If you were to project current trends out 100 years from now, one could conceive of a future where these platforms are much more powerful and the politically correct of the future subjugate everyone else by stunting their intellectual development via administrations of cheap content at higher speeds or higher recommendation frequency than the quality stuff, simply because you hate someone's religion or color or sexuality or view and wish to reduce their viability.

It may not be a problem now, but if the platform power goes up then so does the risk that we need to have these systems being built now.
exactly, this just happened to me!! i need the chats back, I was doing an assignment with Chat GPT and all the feedback and information are gone!! I went to go to the bathroom, came back, and all the chats gone!! wtf
Guess I'll just have to ban HP printers from my home or office.
Printers are pretty difficult to manufacture compared to a laptop. They have specialized high precision parts and a lot of mechanical parts that have to work together for a particular design. A laptop can be pretty much made from off the shelf parts aside from the chassis and PCB, which you can easily have made by any number of contractors.

And I’m sure printers are probably a minefield of patents.
I think you're making a big leap to saying that economics are the reason people aren't having kids. Many people who are financially well off don't want kids either. I haven't looked for good numbers, but it seems the poorest members of society have the most kids, while the richest have the least (could be some issue with lack of controls here).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
If Web 3 isn't an alternative to big ISPs, then it has nothing to do with net neutrality. If it is an alternative which can save net neutrality, then it is a threat and will be blocked if it gets big enough.

Not sure about the alternative to ad revenue either, as the first site you linked to was illegally storing tracking cookies without even an opt out.

Finally, nothing whatsoever suggests that blockchains could ever compete with cloud providers on price. Everything about running a program on Ethereum for example is much more complex and requires much more CPU than running it on an EC2 instance.
How does one restrict network access for a library?
It would be rejected, the OEIS is for sequences with a well-defined mathematical meaning.
Political polarization has been increasing in the US[1], so it is entirely expected that both sides are more interested in taking steps that most disparage the other. Neutral policies that benefit both sides are not helpful in this atmosphere, and are expediently left out.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_polarization_in_th...
How so? That's like saying you shouldn't be able to drive if you like country music (no offense to country music). Infrastructure enables the freedom of association on the internet just as driving enables your freedom of association based on your physical location, so the people that make that infrastructure probably shouldn't be able to say which websites you can and can't visit.
ChatGPT doesn't well understand relationships between numbers. There are far too many of them, compared to words, since every slight perturbation of a number is a different valid number. (Also, I'm not sure if it even treated individua5 digits as separate tokens, but it might. Someone with API access can check.)

To give it a fair shot, you need to describe the problem using logical conceptual vocabulary, not numbers.
Sounds like you have something to hide, citizen.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've already asked you to stop. We ban accounts that keep doing this. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Also, at that point I would expect the newly combined company to rebrand to Ma Bell. It would only be right.
Thx, I guess idk whether plasma is a gas or a plasma. Assumed it should be called a plasma bubble then.
This article is such a mess. If you are alleging something, then say it clearly.

Judging by my participation in lesswrong and others, there are both feminists and sexist people, just like all other online forums. People are more free to be sexist online and every close knit online community has fair share of sexists.
It felt more natural after I renamed it the "inept" or "a*hole" caterer's sequence.

I wonder how much of this is due to a cultural sense of fairness and what proper pie cutting looks like.

A friend mentioned being at a party once where the guest of honor cut the first slice for themself and they chose to make a glancing slice that maximized their surface frosting to volume ratio.
Many channels had official logs
as much as people like to make fun of Spirit, it is absolutely ridiculously affordable and probably the closest the US has to a true low-coster. I love having that option. JetBlue on the other hand is a typical US cheap-service, no-food, not-cheap tickets posing as a "lowcoster" which it really isn't. It already ate and digested Virgin America, would hate for it to keep destroying more affordable, and quite frankly, much better options.
Yeah I guess this isn't a question of either or there's no reason I can't do both if I implement it correctly
> The parent comment originally advocated putting hardcore porn into all content, but was edited.

That's a mischaracterization if I've ever seen one. My comment was originally written as this:

> Twitter and Reddit have shown that the population doesn't care if porn is mixed in with everything else. [Including hardcore porn.] It's fine, it's fun, and it's harmless.

I originally stated that Twitter and Reddit include hardcore porn as well. My intention was to demonstrate that nobody gives a fuck that that these websites depict humans having sex (because they don't). Reddit nor Twitter makes any attempt to scrub sexual content because that would be suicide. Tumblr is an excellent example of how prudishness sucks the life out of the things it latches onto.

These are major platforms people use at work and school and include as a normal part of day to day conversation. Journalists and academics use these platforms. Brands use them. Nobody gives a damn that they feature nudity or porn, or even (gasp) nude bodies moving in pleasurable ways.

HBO and Netflix already show boobs, penises, and vaginas. Recently, Netflix's "Sex/Life" showed a CG enhanced 10-inch prosthetic penis that blew up on social media [1]. Again, nobody cares. (Actually, they do care -- they love it, and they love to talk about it. My wife and all of her friends were talking about it all week.) It's a natural and normal part of human interest and entertainment.

The point of my comment was to show only a small percentage of the country gets wound up about this. People were thrilled that Game of Thrones was edgy and racy and sexy. That it wasn't just more violence.

It's time for those of us that aren't offended by basic human anatomy to move on from the prudishness and push our art forward. We're limited and held back when we can't invoke that dimension of humanity.

In any case, I edited my comment after I saw yours. You latched onto a three word sentence ("Including hardcore porn") and spun a wholly different argument. I didn't want the thread to get derailed further, and this simple observation didn't contribute at all to the substance of my argument.

"Hardcore", for the uninformed, does not equal "fetish". It's just intercourse.

Let me make my argument simple: it's okay for social media and films to show boobs, penises, and vaginas. Very few people care, and it's not going to kill anybody.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sex-life-shower-scene-going-...
There is no freedom of speech in 18 European countries and thus there is no democracy in Europe. Skepticism of authority is warranted including undo surveillance because European governments are deeply authoritarian.
This is the dictionary definition of an unfunded mandate.

I'll just say that I'm not seeking a glorped together description of the games in question, but a semantic listing of the contents of original articles, ads, discussions and mentions related to the titles. LLMs do not do this, and if you're training the LLMs (at cost) to do this, you're already having to do the very same searching out of materials within the corpus related to what you want. It'd be like gathering every TV guide in a stack to then ask it to describe things that are like All in the Family, instead of just going through them as you gather them to indicate what each issue has information about.
Nobody ever said that the description of a thing implies any morality. Are you actually engaging in honest conversation here?

The GP clearly wrote how a student's union can affect the members actions, outside of the union's purpose, through using the bully pulpit. That is literally what they wrote. By the same logic as what they wrote in their comment, the bully pulpit can be used to push different beliefs. I've answered your question about that twice now. Please don't try to engage me in red herring arguments.
I have fought so much with Brother (multi purpose machines) back in the early 2000s that I can still get reminded about it by ex-colleagues or users I helped back then, so this is certainly a huge change, but I have seen the recommendations for Brother so many times now I am seriously considering it.
Bit of context might be nice.
Supply chain attacks matter anytime you need to trust the code being run. Which is usually always.

Most libraries have network access, but even if they didn't, supply chain attacks could be relavent (but probably less generic)
After this demo, I am sure we are at least 3-5 years away from robots doing anything human like, the Bot was achieving the objective while not considering anything else.
> Just once, I would like to see an AMA by someone who was directly involved in creating a user-hostile feature

I worked for a large Telco and wrote and maintained the software and system(s) that calculated internet usage, and charged overages monthly. (The home internet plans sold by this telco that service a massive landmass all had hard usage caps. There is no competition).

I saw many, many monthly internet overage bills that were $5k+. Hundreds a month that were $1k+. That system alone made many millions in profit per year.

Why did I do it? It was my job, I needed to pay rent and buy food.

Longer term, I decided to "stay on the inside" because I genuinely thought I could improve things. Over the years I had meetings with basically all the VPs and even the CEO, and sent many a passionate email on behalf of customers that many told me were "Career Limiting Moves".

I'm not there anymore, and it's many years later, but that Telco does now offer unlimited internet plans (introduced very recently). I was the first at the company to run the numbers on what it would look like and start to push for it at all levels, so I like to think I did actually make things better.

FWIW, there was one guy in my department who refused to work on/with that usage system, and made it clear that from a moral standpoint he would quit if they forced him to.
i have. in the end, go is worth it for lambda imo.

jvm vs go is a close call.

reagent vs js is not.
Fucking floating pins, man. They're the worst, because they work during bringup and development, and only fuck you over when scaling to mass production
That's not unusual for a CISC instruction set; even x86 has rudimentary decimal (BCD and ASCII) arithmetic support.

Modern z/Architecture (64-bit 360/370/390 successor) has instructions to convert numbers between EBCDIC, ASCII, Unicode, packed decimal, zoned decimal, and binary, and to convert Unicode character strings between UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32.

In addition to conversion instructions, z/Architecture has full arithmetic support for binary and decimal integer operations and binary, decimal, and hexadecimal floating-point.

POWER6 and later instruction sets also include full support for decimal floating-point.
Wouldn't the smallest boring number be interesting, and therefore not a boring number? And then the logical conclusion would be that there are no boring numbers.
> There has to be a reason it costs governments (including government contracts) several times as much to do things compared to the private sector and non-profits.

I've dealt with both commercial contracts and government contracts.

Commercial contracts are more lucrative with overhead rates that are truly illegal on govt contracts.