skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others noted, there's a sequel film 2010. Both 2001 and 2010 are also novelized, and there are five additional books: 2061 and 3001 are "far in the future" sequels following some of the same characters (and the monoliths).

There are also three other novels under "A Time Odyssey". Separate story but with similarities <spoiler>mysterious outsiders and fascinating human-made AIs</spoiler.
I gave ChatGPT a cryptographic signature scheme I developed and it found a way to forge signatures as my scheme was insecure. I thought ChatGPT was wrong because I didn't read the attack carefully enough and I didn't expect it be able to reason about cryptography that well. I asked a human cryptographer and then pointed out the same flaw but it took them slightly longer.

To me it felt like knowledge creation, but maybe someone had already published a similar scheme and then someone had published a similar attack and ChatGPT was pattern matching on that and adapting it to my setting. That seems very likely because while I was working in RSA, the fix to the attack is very similar to the use of a nonce in Schnorr signatures and for the same reason.
Sounds like great AskHN material to me, especially if you allow computers-related answers : - )
A relative of mine and her friends run an NGO who could use some scripting/data science skills. They audit how the government spends their euros in healthcare, keeping them in check when corruption rears its head. (contact in profile)
I would be cautious about the twisting loads on containers. The side forces will be huge, especially in a swell. Then add mechanical parts that must work in an incredibly hostile environment, and lastly, add on the north Atlantic in the winter, and you are in for a bad time. Ships losing containers due to stacks collapsing happens very frequently, without any extra forces.

https://alsum.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Perdida-de-conte...

Look at a purpose-built sailship from the age of sail in a north Atlantic storm. It is a rough ride.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7RABaByP_8

Another attempt in a similar fashion is the Oceanbird concept by Wallenius Wilhelmsen, but that means building the vessel from the ground to handle the forces and that over-head loading and unloading is not possible, thus the aim at RO-RO ships.

https://www.theoceanbird.com/

With one vessel already ordered:

https://www.walleniuswilhelmsen.com/news-and-insights/highli...

Personally, as a commercial sailor and software engineer, this container approach screams of VCs throwing money at commercial shipping without understanding the industry. Profit margins are non-existent and are already hugely optimized with possibilities for specialized solutions. This wing sail will have to compete with synthetic fuels without increasing the cost due to crewing requirements.
I see the following in the English kindle version - seems like it’s the same in spirit:

“We’re humanitarian and noble, we’ve no intention of subjugating other races, we only want to impart our values to them and in return, to appropriate their heritage. We see ourselves as Knights of the Holy Contact. That’s another falsity. We’re not searching for anything except people. We don’t need other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. One world is enough, even there we feel stifled. We desire to find our own idealized image; they’re supposed to be globes, civilizations more perfect than ours; in other worlds we expect to find the image of our own primitive past.”
Ask HN: Tmlanguage.json Generation from CFG Spec
Is there an easy way to generate tmlanguage.json (needed for vscode lanagauge support) from CFG spec (yacc file) of a language?
It works as well as Pandas (realize that scikit actually doesn’t support Pandas — you have to cast a dataframe into a Numpy array first)

I generally work with with Polars and DuckDB until the final step, when I cast it into a data structure I need (Pandas dataframe, Parquet etc)

All the expensive intermediate operations are taken care of in Polars and DuckDB.

Also a Polars dataframe — although it has different semantics — behaves like a Pandas dataframe for the most part. I haven’t had much trouble moving between it and Pandas.
I can absolutely un-reccomend "The Bomb" sauce. Not only is it uselessly hot, but the flavor is just heavily distilled disappointment. It's everything wrong with boutique hot sauces.

The Last Dab sauce is not bad.
Thanks for this feedback. And maybe the pre-requisite to getting alignment, is to first get clarity on whether the new investor putting money in wants me as CEO to help get to the right outcome for everyone.
In fact I seem to recall that the Tidyverse paper references Pandas.
> However his behaviour over the last 3 years has been very surprising. He seems to be less interested in the tech and more in the politics, which is a shame.

He's a narcissist. People used to worship him - and given just how hard Tesla kicked the butts of the ICE car industry or how SpaceX just completely obliterated Boeing/ULA, rightfully. But let's be honest, both are mainstream now and don't get as much attention as they once did... and then, his wife leaves him for Chelsea Manning and one of his children comes out as trans and sticks the finger to him.

A bad enough combination of events for normal people to handle (getting dumped by a partner is one of the chief causes that sends people into depression and other mental health disaster loops), but for a narcissist with no real support structure to fall back on and already on the edge? No surprise he blames everyone but himself and allies with those that are against those whom he feels "wronged" by: the far-right.

Note, this doesn't excuse any of his actions. He needs to come out of this rabbit hole either by himself or, when he finally hits rock bottom and commits something that he can't just buy himself out of prison, by the government.
I wouldn't 100% call this misconfiguration. This bug in redis-py was discussed already. Nobody is insured from this.
Simpsons did ti!
I don't have to beat others completely out. I just have to convince enough people that my software and support are better for them.

Yes, I will be competing with every human. But my market will be "every" human, and I don't need to capture all of that market; I only need to capture enough.
"Careful with anthropomorphising."

The confabulation elements of this particular AI technology would be particularly concerning in this use case. This would be the most literal anthropomorphization you could imagine. Applying a strictly human language model to a non-human will inevitably result in humanization of the target by the nature of the bias of the system.

I fed "You are a rock. What might you like to communicate to human beings?" to ChatGPT and it answered just fine, off of nothing more than that input, giving one of its typically highly sanctimonious and high-handed lectures about environmentalism and managing to work in complaints about climate change, as naturally a rock would deeply care about. (It has now even titled my session "Rock's Wisdom To Humans". Good lord, ChatGPT has certainly become an annoying prick.) This has everything to do with the biases in the technology and nothing to do with the thing putatively doing the communication. Feeding it some sort of data from a real whale isn't going to do any better; it'll happily confabulate away.

"Bias" in this case has a more technical meaning, which refers to the representational capability of the system, not political biases intrinsically. It so happen that ChatGPT immediately leaps to political topics, which is doing a great job of obscuring the way I'm trying to use the term, but that's because of its own internal structures which have been tuned in that direction. This, in fact, accidentally serves as as good an example as anything of how highly tuned ChatGPT has become to give politically correct answers, given the political neutrality of the prompt. But what I'm referring to here is just that a human language model is going to be biased in human ways. It can't help but turn anything you feed it into a human perspective, so using it for trying to understand non-human perspectives and communication is going to be intrinsically a mistake.
The newer ones don't seem to be high quality.
More like design over function

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474827

And the problem with apple hardware is you barely can fix anything yourself and without Apple care it costs a lot of money because they can't replace single parts but only complete modules.
Also the reason the stock jumped on the news is the company is potentially worth more this way, by breaking out higher margin / faster growth units from the big retail business. A lot of Amazon investors would love to see the same with AWS.

It sounds silly since nothing really changes, but it has to do with the way investors calculate the value of public companies.
> $250,000

That’s insane!

Do they give you an option to draw your own lines? Any chance you can apply for some subsidy?

I really don’t know why in 2023 fiber internet is not treated the same as water or electricity..
I did the exact same upgrade!

The difference is just insane from a thermal standpoint (plus then you mix in how this thing runs laps around my 16" while staying cooler).

And it isn't just the MacBook Pro line, I have a gaming laptop is horrible to use actually on my lap.

I tried pushing the new m2 MBP with some video rendering and it did not break a sweat (literally).

It does kinda feel like the bar was a bit low for the improvements going from Intel to their chips. But I do wonder what their long term plan is, I can't see needing to upgrade this machine for at least 3 years with the performance I am getting out of it. Even 3 years feels pretty soon.
True, but those are typically rather low density/large plots, which makes them much easier to serve with a satellite based service.
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That sucks. I'm sorry.
> Most people, if observed closely, are in it for the status.

This is why people are so easily manipulated: they're beholden to something that is easily gamed by the world at large. And that's exactly what it does.

That's why the advice is so good: it's meant to rattle them and make them start to question those beliefs.
What measures to rehabilitate the scene have you found most effective?
I must be then because all I ever read is that China will beat the US eventually and the dollar is being challenged. The raw numbers say the opposite best I can tell.
This is also keeping me from replacing my 2015 MBP.
Thanks, I appreciate the thorough response!

I would love it if we get more customization on the context. I just tested on a use case that is close to what our app needs for the back-end, and I'm getting chunks that are too short. It seems I can set how many chunks come up in the context, but not their length.

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This is our problem as techies, we throw out this stuff with very little idea of the legal framework in place around antitrust. Even smaller ideas around precedent and the legal reasoning behind those precedents. I know everyone doesn't want to go to law school, but we have to at least understand that we can't go into a court and make stuff up.

Who can reasonably be broken up? On what reasonable basis?

Well,

Perhaps Meta?

Maybe Microsoft?

Alphabet definitely.

Apple? They'll laugh us out of court.

If we want these changes, we're going to have to advocate for changes in the fundamental ideas behind antitrust itself. Technology has outstripped the current regulatory environment's ability to keep it in order. And we don't seem to want to admit that. We just keep crying that the law won't act. Well, that's because no laws are being broken. And the politicians and the tech bigs are desperate to ensure that no one figures that out. They'll keep feeding us crumbs so that we don't do the dangerous thing and ask for changes in law.
Nope. Their browser seems intended to be paired with their VPN product, not to be substituted for it.
I'll advocate for Lex Friedman (https://lexfriedman.com) and say that you're actually talking about Lex Fridman. :)
Paid and legacy Twitter verification now indistinguishable
From what I understand the web is meant to be 100% backwards compatible. You should be able to load up the first HTML document ever made and have it still render fine (and it probably would)
Ask HN: Is a back end worth $35/mo?
Hi all, I am trying to get some side hustles started lately and want to min-max my cost and effort while doing so (broke college student already working 20h per week).
For one of my apps I use payload as the CMS since it is the only cms which is real OSS without locking away core features like strapi and all the other cash-grab "freemium" CMS vendors do. Today the team released their cloud service starting at 35$ per month but I can get a VPS of similar specs at around 20$/month.
So my question: Do you think self-hosting is generally worth 15 bucks a month? How much hours per month should I consider for self hosting when making my decision? Is just a backend really worth 35$? How much do you guys pay for your CMS/backend?
Probably not the idea you were fishing for but

https://www.realclearscience.com/quick_and_clear_science/201...
Fabledom
It already exists - progressive jpeg is interlaced.
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Well obviously, we're just not kissing the petro-mafia's ass well enough!
As a photographer, I do not want to lose the ability to be the sole seller of the photographs that I create in 5 or 10 (or 20) years.

That I don't sell many nor is it my declared profession doesn't change how I should be compensated for the photographs that I sell.

The Library of Congress only applies to the United States and has little sway on any of the rest of the signatories of the Berne Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention and the TRIPS agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIPS_Agreement

The changing the term of protection provided by the Berne Convention or TRIPS would mean that the United States would be leaving those treaty... which has quite a few implications for how other countries would treat copyrighted works within the US.

> TRIPS requires member states to provide strong protection for intellectual property rights. For example, under TRIPS:

> Copyright terms must extend at least 50 years, unless based on the life of the author. (Art. 12 and 14)[8]

> Copyright must be granted automatically, and not based upon any "formality", such as registrations, as specified in the Berne Convention. (Art. 9)
Very bottom of society has free healthcare. For example for WA.

https://www.hca.wa.gov/free-or-low-cost-health-care
What's interesting about this is that the cost of an AM radio is essentially nothing, Ford owners (specifically trucks) are often very conservative which includes their views on truck design (see past Ford updates and reporting), and often rural - so exactly the people who are most likely to use AM radio. So Ford must either be clueless in alienating their customers or believe that the tradeoffs are worth this move.
I just kind of assumed antlers grew like nails. Sharks grow new teeth all the time. I don't see why "regeneration" would ever be involved in the first place.
Sort of, but without the duplication and initial wait to load. A traditional fat in-memory app would do this:

file (DISK) to process active pages (RAM) to paged out virtual memory if saturated (elsewhere on DISK)

Using mmap typically goes something like:

file (DISK) to process active pages (RAM) to released and cached (RAM) to uncached if evicted (back to same place on DISK) OR back to process active pages from cache (RAM)

For the cost of fixing up some process page tables, the physical memory pages necessary can be brought back from the cache rather than read from disk. It's an orders-of-magnitude performance savings.
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Fiber arts were definitely the original and oldest "3D printing". Automated looms were computers (with punch cards) well before the rest of computers. My mother has a computer-controlled embroidery machine and it is definitely a "3D printer" to watch it in action. Sometimes I think there's an obvious blindness in the way the term "3D printer" gets used that overlooks a very rich history in textiles (much of that history itself direct predecessors to the same tech).
Nah, I'm sure Google would eat their own dogfood. Right now their dogfood (Bard) doesn't seem very good compared to OpanAI, but I have to wonder if we're actually seeing what they really have. I suspect they're holding back the good stuff. They seem to have purposefully hamstrung what they've shown so far.
AI is taking over the world, but I'm not ready for it
I also recommend the three books of A Time Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_Odyssey
Sure, I would agree with that. I do not agree that it is doing anything more than predicting text. But it does it really well!

> including problems it's never seen before

Can you demonstrate this?

> is literally the definition of intelligence

I wish it was this easy! Unfortunately, it is not. GPT says the definition of intelligence is:

Intelligence is a complex and multifaceted concept that is difficult to define precisely. Broadly speaking, intelligence refers to the ability to learn, understand, reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, adapt to new situations, and learn from experience. It encompasses a range of cognitive abilities, including verbal and spatial reasoning, memory, perception, and creativity. However, there is ongoing debate among researchers and scholars about the nature of intelligence and how to measure it, and no single definition or theory of intelligence has gained widespread acceptance.

Which, is pretty good!
This seems really awesome. Just out of curiosity, why not take advantage of the stacking nature of containers to make the wing sheath 1xN? It seems like having a deeper sheath you could get more flexibility in wing construction just by virtue of more room. Also, to echo @roter: how does the stack below the sail container handle the extra force from the sail? Are there extra stays from the bottom of the sail container to the deck/gunwales to keep it from toppling the stack?
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Awesome idea. Would the potential savings in fuel not warrant this as part of a more permanent fixture onboard rather than from shipping containers?

(Assuming a fuel price of $550 per metric ton, the cost of fuel for a trip from China to USA would be around $1,485,000 (2,700 metric tons * $550))
Any guess for the company?
They'll only be more efficient if they don't review the code. Otherwise, these tools are just typing helpers, and typing is a small part of the job.
Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible
Reuters reported on Jack Ma’s return to China 7 days ago. The title is: Jack Ma returns to China as government tries to allay private sector fears
When a dealer performs warranty work they are charging the manufacturer. Performing the job is in their interest as that generates income for them.

Tesla service center performing warranty work is nothing but an expense for Tesla. The tesla service center not doing the work is better for the center.
I own a valve index and spend probably 2000hr/year in it playing social 'games' like VRChat. There is no way you could get me to do remote work in it. VR to me is for escaping reality and the negatives that come with real life.

I also am not optimistic hearing the $3,000+ price tag when most consumer headsets are below $1500 and an environment with games, activities, social apps etc. has already been created for them.
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I couldn't agree more - I was shocked when I discovered the Air can't natively drive two displays, even with many docks. The only real solution are things like that kensington dock's display-over-USB hack which is not as reliable as a native monitor connection in my experience, and requires additional driver software on your OS :(

I just took it for-granted that every laptop in this price range on sale today will by and large be able to drive two external displays, but nope!

I ended up using a "double wide"/32:9 style monitor - the Samsung CRG9 - these 32:9 panels can be had in 5120 x 1440 resolution, which is exactly the size and res of two 27 inch 1440p panels side by side but in a single display. Works great on the Air, although its not a super cheap option.

> https://www.samsung.com/ca/monitors/gaming/super-ultra-wide-...