skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commented this on another thread:

Okay so take the triangle made by taking the diagonal of the unit square. This has side lengths 1, 1, and c and has area 1/2.

Now, take four of these and arrange them in a square with the side length being c. It would be easier to draw this... basically you stick the right angles in the center. If this isn't clear I can draw a diagram.

Anyway, you just made a square with side length c but since its made of four of those original triangles we know that the area of it is 4 * (1/2) = c^2 so c^2 = 2.

EDIT: made an excalidraw to explain this construction - maybe helpful https://excalidraw.com/#room=2298a8fd232d5f58e8ca,HmUwSqOt6J...
>The executive branch can blame the congress, like you just did.

Yes, because Congress is at fault. Dissent is fine, but it is at best unproductive and more probably counterproductive if it is misdirected. If the laws are bad, it is unequivocally the legislature's fault.
At the time, comic books were not really considered art. Comic book illustrations were generally work-for-hire and the artists not credited even in the in original comic books (even today this is a sore point).

Lichtenstein was considered at the level of Duchamp who took various everyday objects (most famously an urinal) and exhibited it as art, thereby turning it into art through context. Nobody at the time protested that he was plagiarizing the actual creators of the urinal.

In my opinion Duchamp did make art, or at least a significant artistic statement which changed the perception of art forever. But Lichtenstein is really just an also-ran. And given the comic community long have been very conscious about the artistic merit of the genre, Lichtenstein's ("look what I found") just seem rather silly.

But given the comic industry's continuing reluctance to credit (never mind paying) the original comic creators, I don't think Lichtenstein is a significant sinner in comparison.
The lines in front of my house were shorted by a tree, melted and fell, blocking my driveway. In about 20 hours the power was back, 2 trucks came and fixed the lines. I live in the countryside, so YMMV
Directly Responsible Individual (DRI)
Canada as well:

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-police-probe-a...
I felt the same way and I am on mobile.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/06/election-officials-facing-ar...
Can confirm: this is an excellent recipe. Highly recommended.

For whatever reason, we've had a lot more luck making kimchi than sauerkraut. The kraut keeps molding on us :-(
That your country has a great education system doesn't mean the US doesn't.
You can read texts dating back to 2,400 years ago (and beyond). I strongly recommend them in fact. And suffice to say, no there was no "communal view" on most things, let alone everything. For one interesting example, Socrates chose not to write anything down. Most of everything we know from him came from his student, Plato. The reason is that he felt that words would end up distorted and, unable to defend themselves, may be used to misrepresent the views or values of the speaker. Obviously Plato disagreed.

Or another fun one. One of the first acts of the newly formed Athenian Democracy would be to charge Socrates with "corrupting the minds of the youth" and "impiety." And they ultimately decided to kill him over this, on a split [democratic] vote. Needless to say, views varied - to an absolutely extreme degree. To imagine there communal views on almost everything is just such an absolutely bizarre a notion to me. What led you to state/believe this?
Yes it can. Especially tabloids like The Guardian. Fairly easy to come up with the soft of stuff they wrote. Including this hyperbole.
> Do you have any proof?

You only see a single and very specific brand name being pushed, and pushed relentlessly.

I repeat, this is blatant marketing even if it's a single person effort working pro bono. There is no way around it.
While I am aware that it is possible to use software to clone someone's voice, I am uncertain if it is currently feasible to utilize the cloned voice in real-time situations.

I am curious if these scammers are pre-recording conversations and playing them back in real-time or if they are actually able to speak using the cloned voice technology.
Honestly this should be the main link. That process is really interesting.

We’re now living in a time where you can generate entire videos without leaving the browser.
Russian militias with Russian military hardware shot down a plane which had 192 Netherlands people on board and there was no response from Netherlands, besides a 8 year long "legal action" which issued arrest warrants.

At minimum they should have sent a squad for the commander who ordered the firing and who is a big social media star today on Russian Telegram.
wouldnt downvote this because it makes sense in some cases.

while programming and math overlaps in so many places, i think mathemathicians are quite a separate species and KISS is often not on the menu.

a fun, non math heavy book with a window into this i enjoyed is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Petros_and_Goldbach%27s_...
Lots of ways to make it fail. Not to be rude but you're late to the party. Transit questions is my favorite. Ask it what stations lines 1 and 2 have in common (city of your choice). Nearly 100% of the time there's at least one wrong answer on the list. Ask it what trains go to that station, it likely wont list lines 1 and 2. Point out the contradiction, it will make a new list with new mistakes.

Another good one. Ask for random numbers. They usually aren't much random at all. Ask it what distribution it picked from, it will say it used pythons rng. You and I both know it can't invoke the python interpreter. It can't honestly tell you the non random pattern named randomness it has learned to recall.

Anything to do with nested narrative scope. Ask it to make a story about a conversation with another user who prompted X. It will often conflate the role of each person in the story. It once gave me a narrative about a user who was uncomfortable with a prompt chatGPT had given to it...funny role reversal there. Any attempt to make it produce a transcript of conversation which itself contains some transcript of another conversation as an object of discussion goes over its head. It can't nest.

That's all I got for now.
There are a lot of different standards out there and the security differs widely between them, in some cases a name, number, and expiry are all you need to make a purchase.

When testing with my own cards, I was able to read card number, expiry, and currency which is enough in many countries for it to be considered a card skimmer.
While I think there's merit to some of the arguments people are making in favor of essentially fair use, it's hard not to look back at his career and not think "He sure didn't go out of his way to credit his sources."
There’s something weird about hourly wages to me. I had a grading job in 1983 that paid $12/hour. Which definitely felt good then, especially because I could grade papers while watching football games on Sunday. I know the math would make that number much higher, ~$36 in “current dollars.” What’s weird is that it didn’t feel that way back then or now. It’s just how I process it in my head I guess. The tuition at the school then I think was $17K/year and now it’s over $80K.
The US is also not an empire.
Also it's illegal in at least one major national jurisdiction to fuck with people's mail (US). Which means that ironically if you're going to break the law, using the mail isn't a terrible idea.
In the article they (you?) say
T480 and explicitly not T470. I own a T470 and have been using it only with Linux since new and would still highly recommend it. Some of the upgrades they did I had ordered from Lenovo upon order (screen, battery, RAM). Mine has a i7-7600U however, which is maybe where the differential they're referring to lies. The newer i5 has double the cores/threads to 4/8 vs 2/4 in the i7 of the T470.

Regardless, the T470 is still my daily driver as my personal laptop and everything works as good as the day I bought it. It's still jarring typing on my M1 MBP 16 after spending any time on the T470. Apple still has garbage for keyboards. Have they gotten better? Sure. They're still horrible though.
True. The ellipse of the jet engine is "well" drawn. This is to exagerate the comic-like look one could say. Almost early Disney looking.
I tried Meccano twice, and in both cases I had the same problem: independently of how tight I put them, the nuts and bolts would become loose, even before finishing assembling the set. Sad to see this business go, but not surprising.
near real time is possible, there's lots of "v-tubers" doing it
What was stopping the original artists from producing copies of their work, or even copies of Lichtenstein's? That would have been the rebuttal I would have tried.
Experience in dutch cities:
1: students buy cheap bikes
2: druggies steal cheap bikes
3: students buy cheap bike from druggies
I have use +12 langs professionally. And personally picked always some language that was not the "mainstream". I from Colombia, so not even mainstream worldwide, but probably unheard among here, much less to ship real code with paying customers.

Plus, I already test a lot stuff (not just langs, but frameworks, etc). Learn from many langs that never use for more than their more basics tutorials (like kdb+) just to see what was the deal.

Is like a hobby to me! But mainly, because as solo-dev anything that give me an extra advantage AND is suitable for a the challenges of a solo-dev I wanna know.

So, learning not means "fully committing and betting my work on it". Is pretty certain you will learn very good stuff with Rust that will be valuable to know in general. Could be the same for Zig.
I guess this is an asymmetrical kind of warfare, not simply two AIs duking it out. It's one AI targeting a human with a proposed transaction that results in an absolute loss for the human, and one AI trying to protect against that loss by verifying the plausibility of the transaction in context.

Most scams are fairly transparent and rely on wetware failures, right? The anti-scam AI doesn't have to overcome the scam AI, it has to compensate for the emotional responses or unpreparedness of the target. I think that's less of an ask than generating bulletproof scams. I could be completely wrong.
If this is plagiarism, then what do we call DallE output?
Would someone be able to explain how this and langchain differ?
The engineering isn't in the factory, it happens behind the scenes. Often in different cities from the factory .

One factory i supported has gone from 2000 workers in 1950 to 200 today, while producing somewhat more than before. The same quality of people are in the factory, but there are a lot less because of automation.
Original post on Hacker News two weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311765
> while not necessarily being faster

It may not be a good enough reason to switch, but Rust is nearly always faster than Go. Most of the time orders of magnitude faster.
It'd be so cosmically funny to end up having to go do banking in actual banks because silicon valley innovated us into a dead end with AI.
I agree, and at the low and medium price points in Ikea, the quality is much better than a similar priced item from Amazon or Wal-Mart. And if you want solid wood, it will be hard to beat Ikea there as well.

I’ve moved twice internationally in the last several years and I tried to get kind of medium quality stuff and the only thing that could compete on price quality ratio with Ikea was used higher end furniture. But it requires a lot of effort and patience to collect.
I remember getting a small NiCd electric screwdriver for Mecanno when I was maybe 8. Complete game changer! Still not as easy to disassemble as Lego, but sometimes that was a feature (e.g. when making things that could move it was nice that they didn’t RUD if they fell off the table)
Afghanistan has brought numerous superpowers to their knees (Britain, Soviet Union, American), it will be interesting to see if the same thing occurs to the Chinese.
No such implication intended.
So you don't believe in Chinese economic coercion?
If it's not now, it will be soon.
Paul Graham - 08/04:

> Elon has asked me to "please tell people on Twitter that you are an investor in the company trying to kill Twitter," so for anyone who didn't already know, Substack is a YC company.

Follow up tweet:

> It's not because I'm an investor that I think it's a mistake to penalize links to Substack though. It's just the wrong way to run a forum. You can't put your interests before users' like that. I would tell Substack the same thing.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1644635086715858944?t=-9FYL...

Ps. I'm happy to link to Twitter from HN, which is part of YC :).

Will try out substack notes. Elon ruined ( my still active Twitter) experience for me.

Twitter should have stayed with finding topics I care about, instead of trying to push dogecoin and Elon's interests in my face ( eg. Republican -> "Twitter Files").
Unfortunately, books aren't abandonware. Legally, sitting on the rights to something is allowed. The odds of such a thing being allowed are low, particularly in this age of reboots, adaptations, etc. One of my favorite book series is basically book abandonware and the rights have always been retained so that things like graphic novels, shitty TV shows, etc. are a possibility.

Allowing out of print, difficult to get books to be lent or shared freely means that you can't reprint them to turn the money machine back on, or try to modernize them. It's the age of books as "IP" instead of books.
“the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email”

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Why doesn't it happen with propane?
Gates are possible, though you are technically annihilating the original and transferring identity through entanglement. If not annihilated, two copies would exist.

The gate must have traveled to the destination first, and might require a gas giant (or slow crawl nebula) to obtain the base potentials for regenerating the traveler’s matter.

Sub light isn’t so bad, except that We ARE CUT OFF, we’re in the back woods of space. 35,000 lyrs from the core.

In the night sky we can only see stars 1,500 lyrs away.

Only ~50 are within 10 lyrs and none of those suitable for habitation.

Friends, let not our pursuit be to “go somewhere”; let it be to habitate comfortably no matter where we are (and perpetually “in between”.)
For stable, always day position, maybe the planet could be in L1 point between two suns?
The majority of those "bases" are like a gym and a barrack
>The distorted/incorrect perspective for example is a feature, not a shortcoming.

IMO it can only be considered a feature if Roy Lichtenstein ever demonstrated that he actually could draw correct perspective if he wanted to.
Huberman usually does not interact with people who don't at least lean right.

I think I could look around and list 100 people on the left and right. Various small or big time streamer sort of people. The overlap is minimal.

Bill Maher for example appears on leaning right stuff nowadays not left leaning things since politics and socialism have become clearer and more mainstream since Bill Maher was incorrectly seen as a Huberman type character. Some one in the middle. Not leaning right.

Tldr: People who don't believe in the virtues of capitalism are not interacting much with Huberman and vice versa. Same with the leaning right people listed.
AND they’re massively expensive to maintain as well!
> But this type of Lichtenstein work never sat well with me. The transformation is extremely minimal - minor changes to the scene, a new cropping, and conversion from ink to painting. If I handed something like that in in school I’d get eviscerated in reviews (or worse!).

If Lichtenstein applied the exact same approach to the Nike logo and plastered it on tshirts, he would be sued to bankruptcy and beyond.

To me it's obvious it's blatant, shameless stealing.
Nothing to do with visual art, you can steal from poor artists as much as you want, they wont put lawyers on your neck.

Steal Leechtenstein work you'll see what happens.
> feasible to utilize the cloned voice in real-time situations

Yes, it has been so for years. The attack to the Dubai Bank in Hong Kong was effected in January 2020.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711876
Adversarial take: if your company says it does Elm, then hires people (who took Elm as part of the decision of joining) and then decides to stop using Elm, why should we push the guilt of leaving to the employee? I mean, it looks a bit like bait-and-switch, and "We the company altered the deal, pray we don't alter it any further".

How is that employees should be loyal to any decision upper management does? What's the limit? What if the company decides to go into JBoss/JQuery? What if the company decides to stop doing software altogether? What if the company becomes a mercenary army a-la-Wagner? Where do we place the line between employee is guilty for not continuing/company is guilty for changing everything that matters?
I've never had carbonated dill pickles. You might get a little fizz from the juice on the outside, but I've never found the inside to be fizzing. Maybe it's possible with the right temperature, but I'm unsure. It takes longer for the brine to penetrate the cucumber, so you'd have to start it at 70F to get it started for a day or two, then refrigerate to about 45F for a week to let it penetrate, then raise it back to 70F for the rapid carbonation to take place. Maybe.
> Right....and all the people not working would get paid how exactly ?

There's no money in this system.

> Or does this system just assume they're all homeless and jobless?

If people want "homes" then they democratically vote that they do and, if the vote passes, then people volunteer to build those homes. If there aren't enough volunteers to build the homes, then people are conscripted. This is not unlike the military where if there aren't enough soldiers you draft more.

Everything we have today is because someone built it. What is stopping people from continuing to build in the absence of money? It seems money is more or less a "hack" to circumvent the shortcomings of human nature. There needs to be a culture shift towards a labor-first mindset and better role models (i.e. don't glorify the wealthy, glorify those who build amazing things and share them for free). People should build and innovate because they want to, because it means a better life. In the system I've described the standard of living people have is directly tied to what they and their neighbors are willing to work for. If folks don't want to work, then we'll go back to living in caves, but if we continue pressing forward then we'll eventually enter a Star Trekien techno-utopia.
The video's shown on YouTube have a number of "plausible" common responses pre-created, that can be played back by pushing a button.

In operation in the video's it seems to work pretty well. :(
Are you sure? Everything I see in the announcement article and documentation is about collectible posts.

https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/instagram-dig...
Mail clients would need to learn to handle the markdown MIME type, and realize it could be plain text, or run through a converter to show as rich text.

But sadly too many folks use mail clients that render and compose HTML, or worse, and there would be no real incentive to switch. It might be a function of the sending client to send the prerendered HTML along with the plain text markdown part.
It's the techbro variant of toxic positivity to believe this ends without significant suffering.

>I’m wondering if it will get so wild we don’t see it as a good thing to keep investing in, like at some point the dangers really aren’t just theoretical, people start getting hurt, economically and socially, and as a species we just stop the billions of dollars of funding for it.

I think this is more likely than that crowd things. They love gloating "adapt or die", but they overlook that any adaptation, including their own, will take place at biological speed, which they also love gloating is slower and inferior to silicon. But they're not going to be enhanced by Neuralink - they're just going to hit their limits of what they can accept, even if they hit their limits after everyone else. Of course, who knows how much there will be to salvage by that point.
Big discussion about 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822281

(197 points | 51 days ago | 299 comments)
It seems to me like these long context lengths are going to make a huge difference in the capabilities of things people are able to produce. Agents can use LLMs to subdivide a large corpus into manageable chunks. More context just makes them much much better at that.

Regardless, for most programming tasks, I doubt my equivalent human context length is any better than 32k tokens.
> Imagine the long term health implications scaled up to the whole population.

Compared to what?
You can use a device like www.czur.com to scan a book pretty fast and have a perfect pdf/epub version in under 30 minutes.
This is not new: https://www.bookcrossing.com/
Same.

Even if some aspect of Rust safety can't cover the complications of the low-level stuff, is easier to do that on Rust than with C/c++.
> Why didn't author reference any of the previous work?

Doesn't seem like a serious article about math so much as a feel-good story.

I mean, Wikipedia shows a better proof in [this section titled "proof using similar triangles"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#Proof_usin...), which kinda starts the same way, but it's a lot shorter and doesn't require the Law-of-Sines nor infinite-series.

If anyone wants to design further "trigonometric" proofs, they can just start from what's on Wikipedia and add in steps that rely on trigonometry.
Citing a few Athenians is basically the exception that proves the rules. Socrates in particular was executed for straying too far from community dogma. And this is one single city star during its golden age of philosophy. The whole history of humanity is a lot bigger that Greece in the 4th century bc.
Don't know if you are wasting your time, but learning rust really gave me an appreciation for well designed type systems
Many people buy games, books, even music and movies with the “I’m interested and will get to it someday”.

It’s more rare for someone to explicitly buy something with the firm intention never to play it (and usually that is a second copy they want to keep pristine).

Most of my unplayed steam games are that - oh, $5? I’ve heard of that and want to play it someday, I’ll grab it now.
In Japan it was the only place I found with good reasonably priced furniture, especially for larger sofas and beds. Nitori was good quality but a bit more expensive and everything was low and small. Besides that, there seemed to be absolute junk for low prices and high end handmade stuff for very high prices. I simply wasn’t anywhere else with stuff in the midrange.

Now I love close to France and Ikea is definitely the best value for midrange. Some of the German chains are pretty good too (but still 30% more comparing similar quality).
That makes sense. Thanks. I thought yours was a valid comment that gave a diff perspective without assuming anything.

I try to see politics from an economic perspective first. That usually isn’t appreciated on HN.

I didn’t realize we are talking US politics. I try to be understanding and talk about things from an international perspective. I see the world unfairly revolves around the US and I’m American myself.