skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you -could- generate a network of cells where cells are independent and the communicator doesn't know the cells - broadcast your radicalisation on radio and let the cells organise themselves. At least one cell member knows about the communication method but since it's broadcast, I think that's safe (in this context.)

But practically there's a whole bunch of problems as you say - you've no idea how many - if any - cells exist, they can't coordinate on which one picks up a particular target, the communicator is obviously at risk from being tracked down, how do you tell people where the radio broadcast is, authorities can obviously listen in once they've found the broadcast, etc.
At least for short sequences it works, but I guess the trick is to make it work for long sequences!

Prompt and output from GPT-4:

Write a Python function to compute PARITY incrementally on a list of 0 and 1. For example, the output for [0, 1, 1] should be 0, 1, 0. Print out all the intermediate values.

Here is a Python function to compute the parity incrementally on a list of 0s and 1s. The function will print out all intermediate values as well.

def incremental_parity(lst):
parity = 0
result = []

for num in lst:
if num not in (0, 1):
raise ValueError("The list should contain only 0s and 1s.")

parity ^= num # XOR operation
result.append(parity)
print(f'Current list: {lst[:len(result)]}, Intermediate result: {result}')

return result

# Example usage:
lst = [0, 1, 1]
result = incremental_parity(lst)
print(f'Final result: {result}')

This function computes the parity incrementally by XORing each element of the list. The intermediate and final results are printed as requested.

What is the output for this function on the list [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1]

To find the output of the function on the given list, you can use the provided incremental_parity function. Here's what the output would look like:

lst = [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1]
result = incremental_parity(lst)

Output:

Current list: [0], Intermediate result: [0]
Current list: [0, 1], Intermediate result: [0, 1]
Current list: [0, 1, 1], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0]
Current list: [0, 1, 1, 0], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0, 0]
Current list: [0, 1, 1, 0, 0], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0, 0, 0]
Current list: [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1]
Current list: [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1]
Current list: [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0]
Current list: [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1], Intermediate result: [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1]
Final result: [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1]

The final result for the list [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1] is [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1].
or you're like.. buying a short term bond?
I don't mean to come off as a grumpy Xennial, but the more I interact with people in professional roles (attorneys, doctors, nurses, teachers, managers) the more I'm convince the majority of people are just incompetent. Sometimes I try and reframe this into "you have unreasonably high expectations maybe because of some personality/upbringing weirdness", but, ongoing battle haha.
What contract does Tesla have with the government?
One could say whatever one wants but I think that in this case it’s actually a conjunction and I doubt anybody has ever said “I per se I” (Edited to add: actually that makes sense - for the letter i - but in a different context: spelling and not alphabet recitation. “c, a, r : car”, “i : I”. _letter_ (per se) : _word_)

https://www.englishclub.com/efl/podcasts/interesting-facts/a...

At the end of the alphabet, students would say “X,Y,Z and, per se, & (and)”.
> add an incentive to the thing you actually want and be done with it

Doing both lets those causing the harm to subsidise those providing the solution. Finding everything out of general revenue means taking public-transport riding city folks’ funds to pay for suburbanites’ electric SUVs.
> a feature of most? pre-capitalist societies

My prejudice would be that new money (by trade) is still looked down upon by old money (inherited/landowners/dynasties). By those with low self-esteem.
Yea, I'm not saying it will work, but nuclear isn't going to work either, at this point. This was my ideas for how to do it, and clearly this problem is more complex and harder than just doing it. I figure we'll just continue to drive off the cliff and eventually there will be wars over water and cold climates.
> Which, of course, is true of the vast majority of immigrants to the U.S.

Not necessarily. It's definitely a cultural thing: Latin American immigrants are far more entrepreneurial than Asian immigrants, even after correcting for wealth and education.
Doesn't sound very "open"
We put OOM in FOOM.
> Responding to Ms Baerbock’s expression of concern about the violation of human rights of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in the western region of Xinjiang, he talked about “lies” that were being spread about Xinjiang. He said Ms Baerbock could come to the region at any time to see for herself.

Well well well. She should have said that IF she and her entourage receive guarantees that they are free to drive wherever they want AND free to photograph whatever they see, then she will take him up on his offer.
I never gave up my music files, and never will trust service providers enough to do so.
Is there any reason to believe so?

Maybe it’s you who is missing what’s going on.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-ampersand

& was named ampersand in the context of rattling off the letters of the alphabet in English: “double-you ex wye izzard/zed, and”.

“… And what?”

“And, on its own, and” (and, per se, and).

With “and” named in English, because this was an English rattling off of the alphabet.
Nope, guess thats just another symptom of the homogeneity if it looked that familiar
This actually brings to mind a conversation I've been having with my buddies recently. Has there ever been a case of harm from AI misalignment?

Not some kind of speculative art exhibit, but real harm?
But then it's an LLM augmented with a tool that is solving the problem, and not the LLM itself.
ACT sometimes seems like the only therapeutic method that non-psychologists are interested in. You miss a lot that way. Like IPT or EMDR.
> Is that really a thing, with HNers of all people?

You want it to be hitless. Unfortunately DNS can take days to fully propagate and you may not see mistakes until it's too late to fix them. This can cause horrifying outages.

HNers should be respectful of DNS changes and plan accordingly.
Lack of purpose is inevitable and unfixable. In the world where success is infinitely scalable as we are living in the information age, most people are doomed to uselessness no matter what. Trick is how to help them get over it.

Obesity is a medical problem and will be solved by rather trivial medical means very soon, at least on that front, future is bright.
It's subtle, but I believe they would like it to say "publicly funded" not "government funded" as the latter insinuates they're an arm of the government.
> I read this and if I understand it, someone wants to add some kind of automatic key exchange kind of like what happens with 'https:' ?

SSH already does an automatic key exchange when you start a session (and has for decades); the private/public keys used for authentication aren't the same keys as used for encryption of an established session.
He already has, the last one being "Amsterdam".
Opinion polls prove my theory, at least in Germany: if elections were held today, the current government coalition wouldn't be able to govern anymore - despite widespread general support for the sanctions against Russia, but just a small percentage of malcontents is enough to tip the scale...
Probably related to https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2531 ("On April 6, 2023, between 21:20 UTC and 22:30 UTC, our Common Runtime customers were unable to provision dynos in the US and EU regions. This issue impacted starting/scaling dynos in existing apps, one-off dynos, builds, and release phases.")
You Have a New Memory
Does that include smoke detectors?
So regulations on small cars forced people to buy larger vehicles, and their solution is even more regulations, just this time on larger vehicles? How about just relax regulations on the smallest vehicles, making them more feasible?
Show HN: Niche Datasets – Matching Twitter data professional networks
Happy to announce the launch of our first-ever Niche Dataset, which cross-matches Twitter data with professional networks.

It includes over 17,000 products, over 14,000 founders, and over 7,000 founder emails. Over 70 data points include product category, revenue model, funding, revenue, website, tagline, location, and more. But what makes this dataset truly special is that all founders have given permission to be contacted by fellow founders.

We're launching this dataset as a test for the market, without any expectations. We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
The Stack Overflow Sheriffs: “This town ain’t big enough for the two of us.”
If money comes from government. Question is can the government change the funding structure. By changing law for example. If they can it is clearly government funded.
Oh if we're talking the rest of California… it's less of a service outage and more like a mass evacuation (8,000+ families). Then again I'd say regular leaks, fires, and explosions do not a reliable delivery system make.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-27/so-cal-g...
Just disable the weather indicator (I bet there is a 3-rd party alternative), install the Windows Classic Menu to replace the start menu and you are good to go.
>financing.

...which has interest costs associated with it. A $300k loan at 5% over 30 means you pay an average of ~$9k a year just in interest alone. And thats before all the other things that you have to pay for when you own a house.
This 100%.
What a beautiful carving! I love the Q’s and R’s.
Surely those regulations still serve a purpose?
> I'm new to Discord but it seems like there and Tiktok are where the juicy bits are.

You are making this sound even worse.
I agree, there will be other things to be improved in AI system, but IMHO (tea leaves reading really) it would only lead to incremental improvements in overall systems. Also there is a lot of 'interfacing' work that needs to happen & i suspect that would end up filling the pause, which really is LLM productization loosely speaking.

far as AGI is concerned I dont believe LLMs are really the right architecture for it, AGI likely needs some symbolic logic and a notion of physicality (ie.. physical laws & energy/power).
Russia is a credible invader for parts of the EU, and the people know it. Germany is still facing the economic consequences of what happened to east germany. Leaders had enough citizen support on the ground to take action.

China is not seen as an invader. People agree they might be nasty in some aspects, but not where it hits them.
Some studies/analyses are surely laundered opinions. I have a habit these days of checking if the authors have a product to sell or funding to raise. If so, pinch of salt.
The Roman poet Ovid summed up the same sentiment perfectly: "She will not come to you through the shimmering air, you must venture to meet the one you will love".
So much confusion in this discussion. Let me try to clarify (all of this is very very simplified).

1. NAND in SD cards has page size (minimum writeable piece) something like 4kB or 8KB, or maybe even 64KB. But as per spec SD cards must allow writes at 512 byte granularity. Aligning your file system clusters with these flash pages will allow SIGNIFICANTLY better performance and lower wear. How? Well in the CSD register (accessible using SD commands), the NAND geometry is given, so all it takes is reading that and creating a file system that is properly aligned.

2. Why not just mkfs.vfat? You can, but unless you do some of the above work yourself and some math, you’re unlikely to get the alignment right and will suffer because of it, especially on small or random writes. You CAN do it yourself. Just takes a little work.

3. What about my gopro, my phone, or $DEVICE-X that can format SD cards? Well, most device firmwares DO indeed do this correctly as the SD spec advises to do.

4. Why doesn’t the card just do it in firmware all by itself? Curiously sony memory stick does this. Why not sd? There isn’t a command in the spec for that and adding it now is too late - nobody will use it. Thus we have this tool and ones like it.

5. What is this about the secure area? The tool just says it doesn’t touch it. Almost nobody does. Costs a lot of money to license the SD security stuff. Nobody uses it. It was meant for securing MP3s on cards. Secure area exists on all cards (yes you are paying for flash you cannot use). Luckily it isn’t big. Special commands are used to access it. This tool and basically any device you’ll ever encounter in your everyday life do not use them. Lacking those commands, it is as if the secure area doesn’t exist.

6. Why dont windows/Linux/macOS do it right themselves? My guess? Separation of concerns. The formatting code there only formats a partition. For proper alignment you may need to start the partition on the right block as well. Simple example. Say in your fictional card, we have 4KB pages. That’s 8 512-byte sectors. So we want our first FAT cluster to start at a multiple of 8 (and be a multiple of sectors in size). Say we work out that our various FS Structures need 17 sectors. That means that we need the partition to start at sector 7. Thus we make the MBR do so. Wait! You might say that FAT already has “resevered sectors” value we can use for this. No MBR touching needed. Well, you’d be surprised how many devices/firmwares break with nonstandard values there. Also, what makes you so sure that mkfs.vfat can even find out how many sectors into /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1 starts, to do the math right? For that matter, what makes you think it would even know to check for SD-card-ness of /dev/sdb?
Yes, many cases

I.e. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predicti...
The problem being discussed is not so much the government stealing people's money, it is the government searching your property without any semblance of a warrant or any shred of evidence that could be used to obtain a warrant.

Per this ruling, if the FBI obtained a warrant to confiscate Google's servers using proof that Google is engaging in criminal behavior, they could then claim to start an inventory of every Gmail account in order to give people back access to their accounts. If they do so, they would then be perfectly justified in starting investigations into each and every Gmail user for anything they find in their emails, without any warrant whatsoever, because their inventory of the emails and pictures was not solely motivated by fishing for evidence.

Similarly, they could seize a post office and do the same with un-opened mail, per the same logic.
Actually, I've found the Raku community to be most helpful when it comes to understanding the basic concepts of the language. We'd be interested in hearing your thoughts about how Raku doesn't work. Please stop by #raku on Libera.Chat if you are interested in sharing your thoughts.
Citizen Ana-Digi Temp: The Weird and the Wonderful
We must have seen different versions of New York. The one I remember had a few high rises at Manhattan, a lot of lower buildings at the central areas and suburbs of individual houses that extended tens of kilometers to every direction. The difference to for example Hong Kong is huge.
Do we want to train the model during inference? I would think we want to be very particular about the data used to train - notably after OpenAI's notes on the subject.
Honestly savings account interest rate doesn't matter. If you're keeping a significant amount in there that you don't need to spend in the next 90 days, you're probably doing something wrong and should invest it in I bonds or something like Betterment Safety Net.

If you do have that much in short term savings, then that savings interest is taxed as ordinary income, pretty bad for a high income tech worker.
The problem with that is - until we have "true AGI" about which everybody agree it's "true AGI" - you can always dismiss deaths caused by software as "just a bug, not an AI safety problem".

For example when Tesla autopilot kills someone (which has happened).

https://impakter.com/tesla-autopilot-crashes-with-at-least-a...
I love the time zone choices during installation:

- GMT
- GMT-0
- GMT for a second time
- GMT0
- GMTPLUS0
- GREENWICH
- UCT
- UNIVERSAL
- UTC
- ZULU

and "FACTORY" that likely is either UTC or a semi-random US timezone. Overall this thing has a strong enterprise smell from the eighties and nineties, and not in a good sense.

Edit: on another glance, it's funny how much the linked article, online documentation and UI put emphasis on license management. We're here to make money, son!
So what does the Canada level look like? Do you have to avoid the mooses (meese?)?
A citation in this article can shed some light on how it is for gay people:

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/10/people-wh...

> In LGBTQ circles, placing a high value on friendship has long been common. Carroll, Rivera, and several other people I interviewed for this story, absorbed the idea of “chosen family”—that those besides blood can decide to become kin—from this community. Though he and Rivera never considered dating, Carroll had already learned to be at ease with nonsexual intimate relationships with men. In other words, he had come to appreciate something that was once widely understood—as Godbeer, the historian, puts it, that “we can love without lusting.”

In my own experience as part of one, these relationships can have a sexual character, but usually only as a part of it, not the core. I myself plan to move closer to my friends once the opportunity is available.
They have their uses — I went through a similar process as you did, and these days I take care to realize lazy sequences in most places (for example using `into` or `mapv` instead of map), mostly to get localized exceptions in case they happen. But I am also very happy to have lazy sequences when I need them (transducer pipelines with data that doesn't fit in memory).

When you need them, you need them :-)
This post had more interesting content: the rejection by the SO community and the diverse replies of big contributors.
Natural selection only works if the organism is allowed to die. I think the same is true for institutions and the cultural elite. Part of the stagnation, if you buy it's existence, is a slowing of the rate of death of institutions. I partially buy these arguments but life extension is such a stupid non-goal because it'll only calcify the elite leadership important institutions.

Within a year or two we will have an AI ethics governing body whose members may live to 150. I find that concerning
Please. Can we rather promote people like Dr. Ramani Durvasula with peer-reviewed publications about narcissism, very approachably talking about it?

https://www.youtube.com/@DoctorRamani
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/messaging-app-wire-confirm...
One of the most developed countries on the planet, Switzerland, has direct democracy.
Which is one of the many reasons I’ve moved there.
I don't think this is what the GP was arguing. They were not discussing whether what the court system did was right and justified, nor whether people who know they have done nothing wrong/illegal should be expected not to use privacy technology.

Instead, they were pointing out that it's hard to imagine why the people who knew they were engaging in criminal activity and were hoping to hide it thought it would be a good idea to have specialized equipment/services rather than blending in the crowd with normal phones and apps.
How do you define the difference? It seems it's difficult to draw a line with modern systems.
Asking questions is a huge one. I know because I'm so bad at it that I notice how good it would be, I suspect that there's another stripe of awareness at the other end of the spectrum, with a huge gap in between of people who are sufficiently good at it to not notice, but could do better with some awareness.
Great read, thanks!

I haven't heavily used Celery anymore for the past few years, but I remember trying to setup a HA Celery Beat schedule process with Kubernetes in 2019 and hitting this exact same issue! There was an alternative scheduler[1] storing its state in Redis instead of a local file, after a few fixes it was working pretty well: multiple beat processes running concurrently and not firing twice a scheduled task.

Don't know if that still works though.

[1] https://github.com/mixkorshun/celery-beatx
Personally, in my locale March is usually when the crocuses start peeking out and the robins return... first signs of spring. But just 100 miles east the landscape might still be a winter wonderland well into April.

If I had to hazard a guess, this article was probably written with a British audience in mind, where "spring" loosely corresponds with March through May.
Ask HN: Are there any search engines without AI?
Many search engines are now engaging in using AI to enhance their search, but are there still any general purpose search engines that are not using AI?

I have of course tried to search for this, but if you include the word 'AI' in a search, most search engines believe you are in fact searching for AI.
>most people are doomed to uselessness no matter what

Well, no mater how smart computers get, mothers will be generally useful to their children. So at least one counter example.
Story time. My first job out of college, working on the port of VMS from VAX to Alpha AXP. This was before it was renamed OpenVMS (Posix team in Italy!) and when Alpha was still a codename (possible alternates for final choice of product name included VAX-2000, and MondoVAX (still my favourite)).

I was assigned to port the Bad Block Detector (BADBLK? I don't remember exactly) to the 64 bit architecture. The 'port' turned out to be change the build files to use the correct compiler and flags. I don't remember if the tool was written in PL/1, Bliss or VAX assembler, but we had compilers (yes, even for VAX 32 bit assembler) for all of them. The interesting part was the testing.

A Bad Block Detector is a piece of software that watches for disk blocks going bad, and remaps them to spare capacity (your spinning rust disk is lying about its size - don't know if this is true for SSDs). It might even try to copy data from the failing blocks to the remapped space if there's time. More modern h/w does this in the firmware on the drive. It's transparent to the OS. Testing this behaviour is... challenging.

Recipe: Test the Bad Block Detector

Serves: millions

Time: A couple of hour elapsed

Ingredients:

- a VAXstation - i.e. a biggish desktop machine that can run Alpha emulation well enough for our purposes. All of its disks are connected on a SCSI bus.

- a 3.5inch floppy drive with a SCSI connection (yes, you read that right)

- a box of 3.5 inch disks

- a paperclip

Method:

Boot emulated environment. Set cross compiled Bad Block Detector running. It watches for 'interesting' disk related events.

Insert floppy disk. Note the Bad Block Detector does nothing (because disk has no bad blocks.)

Take paperclip in right hand.

Take fresh disk in left hand. With pinky finger, push back the sliding cover that protects the delicate rusty surface.

Using paperclip, gouge a few hundred kilobytes of damage into rusty surface.

Replace good disk with scratched disk.

Watch console for proof that Bad Block Detector woke up, spotted the badness, and remapped its little heart out.

Serve to delighted and amazed customers.

Loose billions of dollars, arrange purchase by Compaq, rinse, repeat.
Are there any open source sd card firmwares?

Would be an interesting project, I have no idea how you could reprogram them though.
Huh? I've always used dd and the performance seems quite acceptable.
Python is the Mona Lisa of programming languages