skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm Latin American and very, very happy we have China as an alternative to America's tyrannical Monroe Doctrine.

It sounds like you don't understand your own history.

Latin America has excelled at destroying itself from the inside while blaming everything on anyone else --a national sport in most countries. Of course, the US is a favorite punching bag in LATAM.

Before you explode into "you don't know what you are talking about", my family had business in the US, Argentina, Peru and Ecuador throughout my entire young life. I lived there for years at a time. Went to school there. Was there during military rule. Etc. I know the history very well. Probably better than most natives because I was not in the grips of the intense reality-distortion-field (indoctrination) pushed onto the masses.

In fact, I call LATAM a time machine for the US.

Everything that has happened in the US over the last couple of decades was, in many forms, tried and tested in various LATAM countries before the shit ideologies arrived here. The problem here is that US students are so ignorant about the history of other part of the world that they actually believe shit like various socialist utopia stories. In a sane society people like Bernie and AOC would be laughed off the stage...because, at the very least, the shit they push has destroyed LATAM over the years.

If you want to get a dose of LATAM historial perspective and reality, take a break from ideology and watch a few presentations from Gloria Alvarez. Here's a video to get your started. This is a quick history of LATAM history starting with the "gifts" from Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WylR8EvhnE

It's interesting to observe that pretty much every nation conquered by Spain ends-up, well, a mess. If one is to be honest, there's something to learn there.

Regarding China and LATAM: They are going to absolutely destroy every nation they touch. They are there to own all natural resources, extract as much juice as possible from every corner of LATAM. They will destroy all industrial capacity. The next logical outcome is LATAM economically enslaved to China. You shouldn't be happy about China's involvement in LATAM, you should be horrified.

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/china-regional-snapshot-sou...
The worst time to require increased reserves is during a liquidity crisis, as reserves suck up liquidity.
Singapore is a republic with a large population of the Chinese diaspora. However, the control of government under its system has not changed parties since its independence from the UK (whether you agree or not, some have called it de facto single party state). Chinese culture is weaved extensively into its culture, including Chinese character names in identification cards for those that identify as Chinese ethnicity.

I have many Singaporean friends of Chinese ethnicity, and most would see themselves distinct from China—not Chinese but of Chinese heritage.
What an incredible guy. Him, Dennis, the rest of Bell Labs, and all the other less known influential computing pioneers are such treasures. We're a fortunate field to have the kind of people that we do.
So you're saying if the wind is strong enough the right airplane can take off with 0 or negative speed?

Has this ever been done? Excluding VTOL aircrafts of course.
> Turning history off when you are under a retention order is likely to be equivalent to destroying records, in the eyes of a judge.

> "routinely opted to move from history-on rooms to history-off Chats to hold sensitive conversations, even though they knew they were subject to legal holds"

Nah, I think that's too far. There are simply too many legitimate reasons for Google to turn history off. What if they are switching to a topic irrelevant to the case and, therefore, not covered by discovery? You can only prove they had a sensitive conversation they wanted no record of, but you can't prove that that sensitive conversation is under the "legal hold" they were in. Even if all the context of the on-record chat seem to imply a crucial bit is coming up, you can't really prove the crucial bit did come up. It's all based on speculation.

> If they wanted to be truly off the record, they should have met in person or made a phone call.

So... `spichai: let's take this to an ephemeral chat` will be viewed negatively but `spichai: let's discuss this in person` is completely normal? I'm not buying it.
Isn't this advantageous as it pertains to climate change though? The less people, the less pollution there will be, especially if the lethality is applied earlier in life before the person has the chance to release a lot of carbon.
Reading between the lines - decoders aren’t included, which would seem to suggest that you will still need Qualcomm patents for that. Maybe I’m misreading?
See also: The catapult and tailhook. Famous for use in launch and recovery off aircraft carriers, this sort of tech is becoming increasing common for smallish unmanned aircraft. Eliminates the requirement of a runway (or otherwise prepared/large launch/recovery area), without needing the weight and complexity of VTOL equipment.
With the rise of AI copyrighted image infringements will belong to the past since you can simply generate every single image and nobody will know for sure where it comes from. Getty like sites will vanish.
Why doesn't hardware cryptographically attests manufacturer authenticity?
Analog Devices had an article about it from 2014 I just posted
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225102
Not the commenter, but I've used it to create a search engine that filters results containing ads and SEO junk while giving summaries instead of click-bait descriptions

I published it on aisearch.vip (only 1 search is free because I don't want to go bankrupt)
Google goes out its way to move conversations to chat, and reduces retention periods of chat, even nuking chats with history enabled. Email and calendar is dumped after 18 months. Internal training strongly recommends face to face and video meetings for anything that might arouse suspicions of illegality. The best thing for Google, shareholders and the employees were if it were split up.

Sundar is not a leader, he is a substitute teacher. Clown show fueled by too much money.
Corporations and ultra wealthy clearly have an over sized impact and influence on the world, but — when it comes to a topic like this, it’s 8 billion people saying, yummie, yummie, F the world; or the people not saying “yummie, yummie” refusing to enforce not impacting wildlife on those who clearly don’t care.
They’re making it easier to swap debt for cash (temporarily), so no one panics because they can’t get a loan fast enough in USD.

The ability to do so is key for a great many financial operations.
Simplest thing GPT4 can’t do?
I’ve found it quite bad at unscrambling letters. Asking a seven letter word from “solution” I got , outlins (not a word), loutins( a long explanation about how this relates to hawks which was also made up, this is not a word) and after lots of prodding I managed to get it to say lotions
Is it put into RAM? That really is the creation of a record.
Why are you presupposing that the entire financial system is owned by one entity?

Seems like a rather ridiculous assumption.
Section IV says: The idea of biological or cultural evolution causing a mass population explosion is a philosophical toy at best.

I think it likely that biological and cultural evolution get tangled together. Ponder the Darwinian pressures on the memetic immune system. It gets really complicated when things get Darwinian on two levels. People need a memetic immune system, to protect them against memes such as the Skoptsy[0] or Shakers[1]

Memes themselves need to fit in the obvious sense of telling people to spread them. But in addition to this single level fitness, there is a cross-level concept: a meme is fertile if it encourages its hosts in their biological reproduction. The "be fruitful and multiply" meme has an edge, separate from its own reproductive success, in an increasing number of hosts. A meme is barren if it discourages its hosts in their biological reproduction.

This complicates the Darwinian pressures on the memetic immune system. Assuming that the mechanisms in play are subtle enough to distinguish between fertile memes and barren memes, evolution shapes our memetic immune systems to block barren memes while leaving us vulnerable to fertile memes.

Suppose that being smart correlates with having a subtle memetic immune system. Then we expect differences between smart and stupid people. We ponder barren memes and notice smart people being more resistant than stupid people. That seems natural; memes are basically selfish, being more resistant is good, right? Then we ponder fertile memes, and smart people are more vulnerable than stupid people. Wait! How are smart people getting infected by these memes, aren't they supposed to be smart? Whoops! Gaps in the memetic immune system to let the fertile memes through are favoured by natural selection.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaker_communities
It's really hard to separate plutonium from ores, because there isn't any.
It'd be more like if Amazon hosted customer support tickets in a heavily customized S3 bucket, but didn't lock that S3 bucket down.
But how can you say the conversation that happened off-record does pertain to the matter at hand? How can you preserve something that was not created in the first place?
"Formal adoption also remains outstanding, with numerous conservationists and environmental groups vowing to watch closely."
Here is the paper they are talking about https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259011332...
I have very little experience riding in small aircraft, but I remember taking a tourist flight from Finow (Germany) in an Antonov An-2 during the CCC camp.

Strikingly, the pilot didn't really bother to line up with the runway at all prior to his landing. He just kind of flew toward the airport and then made an almost automobile-style turn in the air at the last minute from his approach vector onto the runway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2

> As such, pilots of the An-2 have stated that they are capable of flying the aircraft in full control at 48 km/h (30 mph)
https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963
with this capability it makes already a very decent tutor for beginners and i am expecting more from GPT-X (X>=5).
Great news for the chess community. I hear the alarm bells ringing at chess.com...
It has smaller persistently arid regions than people think, and the corollary is that there are huge intermittently arid regions which spring into visble productive green life.

It also has a giant water system which runs almost the length of the eastern side, far inland from Queensland Channel country to the mouth of the Murray in South Australia, with many tributary rivers feeding in and being fed. It has a giant aquifer.

The thing is that we're looking a 50,000 years of fire driven deforestation and arguing to restore some belief in past verdency ignores what might be the lived reality of these landscapes which are feast and famine and have been for thousands of years.

Modern ag is much less kind, and has caused some massive destruction and topsoil loss and biodiversity loss. But, the goal in Australia wouldn't necessarily be a permanently verdent inland, it would be (I think) to work with what we've got.

Getting rid of millions of feral camels would break some people's hearts, judging by how they romanticise the feral brumbies in the victorian and nsw high country, despite the damage they're doing.

Getting rid of the dingo fence would be a good start: there's more growth outside it than inside.
Kurzweil: Humans on Track to Achieve Immortality in 7 Years
Yes, I had 16 cores and I gave up on the this version after several minutes. I don't remember the disk throughput difference but it was significant
> But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI.

Which one?
US federal historical government spending is an exponential growth graph. As are unfunded liabilities that politicians at some point promised to pay people. EU seems pretty much the same. More gov spending, more social spending. Repeat ad infinitum. Of course, all of this wealth has to come from some place. Not the rich, because they have enough influence and connections to avoid it.
I've used this to find similarity between terms in a specification document and identifiers in a program. The index is computed on the bag of bigrams from the two strings.

If one has a set of pairs that are similar, one can look for common bag differences in the matches. These can correspond to extra characters inserted in the identifier names for that particular program (for example, prefixes or suffixes related to module name or variable types.) Once these are found they can be used to tweak the similarity score.
Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week
I'm not talking about physical verification but the idea that having a public ledger of each countries gold would add transparency. Whenever gold is moved it would be reflected on the ledger for all other central banks to see.

The problem with the gold standard era was countries, particularly the USA, claiming it had a lot more gold than it did and you just had to take them at their word. It wasn't until Charles de Gaulle called them out and demanded the physical transfer.
I heard a researcher speaking on how litigation against playground owners in the 1970s in the USA over injuries and in one case a child fatality drove the more stringent playground regulations. However, the unintended consequence was an increase in children's long bone injuries, and her research suggested that this is due to kids not learning to navigate risk on the "safer" playgrounds and eventually getting injured elsewhere where the ground isn't forgiving like all the artificial playground surfaces.

Take you kids to play in the woods!
> There is no free lunch.

Exactly, the lost production due to lockdowns and massive government stimulus wasn't free. We're paying for it now.
The best part of all this LLM stuff has got to be the whole new class of attacks it has created.
To be fair, this basically already happens. Almost the entirety of information, or platforms on which people receive information, is controlled by billionaires. There are endless examples of platforms censoring and presenting information with bias, and corporate media is of course some of the most biased information on the planet. If you spend any time reading news online or watching it on TV you're virtually only ever seeing information that someone wants you to.
Software itself doesn't rot, but the world changes around it. Most of us aren't running Amiga software.
This is better answered in stack overflow but x is an array. I think a better written string is e ^ (x_i - max(x)) / sum_i(e^(x_i - max(x))"
x_i is a specific element in the array x. Basically an array of real values is converted to an array of 0 to 1, with one corresponding to the largest element in x
Fair use likely applies to LLMs. Its loosely equivalent to an artist drawing inspiration while watching a movie.
Actually this AI should be called « synthesized work of human intelligence ». Because that’s all that it is. It’s created by us, feed by our intelligence and knowledge and is « usable » by our specie only and has no meaning by itself.
So it’s just like any other powerful tool, if should be regulated asap.
Do they have the intent (legal or not) to stay permanently?

An immigrant has an intent to settle, an expat doesn't. In America, one could theoretically lose work authorization should he refer or present himself as an immigrant (if he or she is on a legal status that doesn't allow for immigrant intent).

Same thing in Europe. Thousands of EU citizens live and work anywhere in the EU outside their home country but have no intent on permanently staying there. Often for decades. They are very much expats.
Ask HN: What are the “cool” SWE jobs?
I took my first job after graduating with a CS degree in 2021. Now, I am sick of 80% of my problems at work being related to pub/sub or limitations of old systems. What kinds of companies should I look into to to get a SWE role where I can solve real (or even cool) problems?
How accepted you are has nothing to do with you being an immigrant or not. You immigrated. It's the act of living permanently in a foreign country.
You ask for the counterparty to send it.

Historically, the dollar was the ledger and redeemable in gold. Which the USA printed a lot more than it said it did. A ledger would stop this kind of abuse.
A list of the first 50 apps/organizations powered by OpenAI's GPT-4.

More: https://lifearchitect.ai/gpt-4/
that software is absolute garbage crapware

the disk "migrator" doesn't even bother with the difficulties of migrating in-use files

it either just skips them or corrupts them
The official documentation seems to be remarkably unhelpful. My guess is that libreboot now considers ME and microcode acceptable but not FSP. So this brings things up to Haswell. Previously, they were stuck on Nehalem.
I have no opinion other than it is obviously a downgrade attack.

As a fair to middling organic language model, I cannot tell you how to keep your keys safe; I myself am blessed with a good memory and 160wpm typing speed so I use that.
What else would be the catalyst event for such a system related to Putin?
I've played text adventures before. A gui with a nicely categorized list of available options is much easier to use.
If you’re trying to build a bootleg nuke in order to actually use it, I’d imagine you might be willing to compromise on workers safety a little.
> the platform doesn’t matter, its the people.

Neither mattered in that case. It was just a conundrum. Something a lot of people wanted to boycott had a AAA game built for it.

I assume you're coming on the side of Nathan, but can't you see why people were going to have a strong reaction about posts about the game surfacing in the feed? It was a wedge issue. I'm not on either side, except I am against those who actually threw those insults at Nathan, which I'm pretty sure were a tiny % of the people who disagreed with him. I think if they had merely expressed frustration about the situation but not gone off the handle the same thing could have happened, albeit more slowly.
The key detection is not great. Fun idea though
UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for more than $2B,Financial Times reports
The fact that it eventually got "lotions" is pretty surprising and impressive, honestly. Can you share how you "prodded" it?
Why does it matter how fast it is growing ?
"Zero toxicity and probably several magnitudes more meaningful conversations with people from all around the world. This apparently comes from the kinds of people I could find and connect with."

So long as you lean to progressive worldviews and see insult slinging at those that don't see your way not as being toxic, but rather just expressions of righteous indignation... sure, I could buy that line. A quick perusal on the front page of mastodon.social had only of either relatively neutral topics or various progressive tropes on the news of the day. No contrary views were there at all. Perhaps this is what you mean: it's your bubble, so it's cozy and non-toxic. A safe-space of sorts for all right minded people.

I do agree with you: Twitter is a digital hellscape. Of course, I deleted my account half a decade or so ago for this reason and to be fair, it's not changed. It might now have a different flavor with Musk, but still as toxic a place as it was before him. I can't see Mastodon as being much different and with that I'll do us both a favor a stay away from there as well.
No this is making sure distribution is in place for when the printer goes brrrr…

basically they are phoning the clubs and making sure bottles, Apple bottom jeans and the boots with the furs are there so when it’s time to make it rain the club is prepped and the money can be spent.
Yeah thats exactly it. The rules are easy enough to put into the form of matching strings. I gave an explicit example further down in the thread. At no point is it required to even convert the game history into a board state data structure. The game history in standard notation itself is sufficient as a game state. To know where a piece is, simply iterate back from the end until finding the last mention of it then iterate forward to make sure it wasn't captured.
There are bound to be companies working on software in a domain you think is interesting. What do you think is interesting?
That's not the point. You can contribute to an invention in a completely unimportant/replaceable way, and still be a contributing inventor.
The sad reality is that the open-source nature of this project adds less information to the world than the reference design documentation by Texas Instruments that you can download from their website.
Pentagon study reveals higher cancer rates for military pilots, ground crews
Changing the reserve requirement won't fix this. Banks no longer have the deposits, they used those customer deposits to purchase debt (t-bills, corporate bonds, mortgages, etc.).

The debt they own has decreased significantly in value since because who wants to own a mortgage at 3% when new mortgages are at 6-7%? The sooner banks are forced to sell this debt, the more they lose.

Thus increasing the reserve requirement would force early sales of debt and make the bank go further into the red.
> But the thing is, I just hate the Mastodon UI. It's so clunky.

I hope this situation improves once we finish hiring a product designer. Personally I don't think the web client is as bad as some people make it sound, but I know it can be improved. In the interim you can try the 3rd party web client Elk [1], some people seem to really like it.

[1]: https://elk.zone
How about Canada? At one point I'm pretty sure they could have done it quickly, but have they lost capability?
You've convinced me. Where do I purchase a wife? If she speaks English, that would be a plus.
I found it incredibly hard to turn when I wanted to. Not sure if it is key detection or if I needed to have more precise timing.
My favorite example of a classic super dangerous and fun park: Dennis the Menace park in Monterey, CA:

https://playgroundology.wordpress.com/category/dennis-the-me...

There was a full size real steam locomotive that kids could climb inside, under, and through, and strange spinning things made of steel that were far off the ground that you could old get on by jumping off a concrete wall onto it.
It's not that amazing, it's just that American investors wanted to cut labor costs in the late 1990s and China was offering dollar-a-day workers. The claim that opening up trade with China would have a 'liberalizing influence on the country' was one of the key selling points back in 2000-2001, pushed by both Clinton and GW Bush:

https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/18/china....

See Clinton's Mar 2000 speech:

> "By joining the W.T.O., China is not simply agreeing to import more of our products; it is agreeing to import one of democracy's most cherished values: economic freedom. The more China liberalizes its economy, the more fully it will liberate the potential of its people — their initiative, their imagination, their remarkable spirit of enterprise. And when individuals have the power, not just to dream but to realize their dreams, they will demand a greater say."

Of course it was all nonsense, Clinton and Bush were just listening to Wall Street interests who saw massive profits in moving US manufacturing overseas to cheap labor zones. (Importing cheap labor to do jobs that couldn't be outsourced, in agriculture, construction, etc. was the other side of that coin).