skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US government needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Problem is, how do you do that outside of violent revolution? You can't, really. Therefore, there is no answer, and we're all fucked.

This is game theory at work, with the highest possible stakes. So far, the powers that be have stacked the game in their favor. The world moves a lot faster than the legal system can keep up. When they do try to give the appearance of keeping up, they propose garbage bills like these, with these cutesy acronym names that obscure the actual purpose of the bill. It should be illegal to create a bill with an acronymic name. Any acronym a bill's name happens to create should be consonant soup. Even that would not be a full defense against this dirty tactic, because they'd just be like everyone else - they'd make bills with consonant soup titles, but they'd be words without vowels, and everybody would parse the words in the title anyway (how about that PTRT act?).

There is no solution that is feasible to implement, because too many agents are invested in the way things work now, because they personally benefit along the way. Congress should be an hourly job. Pay them well per hour, so they don't need to seek external compensation (and thus provide the possibility that they can be manipulated through that compensation), but only pay them for time when their asses are actually seated, or for time that they can document that they spent working on bills and communicating with constituents. Full transparency for the actions of the members of Congress is paramount, the way I see it.

It's almost like trying to "control" society is a fool's errand, and in the long term it will end up being hugely detrimental to both humans, and the Earth itself. We, as a collective species, have already decided that natural evolution should not apply to humans, we've already decided that humans are "separate" from nature. We fight against our connection to this planet, instead choosing to rape and pillage it. One day our actions will catch up to us collectively, but very few of the ones who were instrumental in making things this way will receive their comeuppance (hell, some of them are already dead now).
None, although I think some (NuScale?) save money by sharing pressurized containment volume among multiple reactors. Just hope you don't see multiple correlated meltdowns.

Containment vessels could also be made smaller if steam filtering were used instead of planning to just contain and condense it. I don't know if any SMRs plan to do this.
This is why fuzzing is so important for every system. It will throw all kind of unpredictable input at your system and check how it behaves. There are so many tools out there, just waiting to be used :)
The true vendor lock-in in this space is embeddings. Once you have generated embeddings for all of your content it will be very difficult to move to another vendor's embedding engine as there will be no way to translate from one to the other.
It only has a score of 6 though, in the typical formulation.
Thanks for taking a look and for your comments.

> If I understand correctly, you need to submit the verifiable identifiers (email address and optional salt) to the party where you need to verify.

The verifiable identifier is the email/telephone number, we do not consider the salt a verifiable identifier. Let's put the salt to one side for a moment, because that complicates matters and introduces a dependence.

> That means you need to trust said party to not abuse this information to verify your domain with other services which use the same verification method.

A service provider having your email address doesn't give them any more opportunity to claim your domain than they already have. They still have to verify control over that email address.

> the proof can't be stolen by someone who doesn't own the domain but received your proof.

The email (or salt) isn't the proof that someone has authority for a domain, verifying control over that email address through usual email confirmation links etc, is the proof.

A domain registrant is already providing service providers with their "verifiable identifier" (email or phone) when they sign up for a service – e.g. Google Ads, Facebook etc and these service providers already verify these identifiers with emails containing confirmation links and SMS codes.

The current process is that they tell Google/Facebook the domain and then Google ask you to create a TXT record
Besides the fact that it probably charges enough to keep operating most of the day, the swappable batteries makes it better than existing micromobility solutions that need to be picked up and recharged. With these a service vehicle can just drop by and replace the battery in 60 seconds. If they partner with gas stations in their cities, people could do it themselves. This design is very exciting
It is not the error messages produced by yacc when you have a bug in your parser. It is the error messages produced by the compiler when the input program does not conform to the language specification. More useful error messages let users more rapidly diagnose the error in their program and fix it.
If you rotate your socks appropriately the other half is probably about to be damaged anyway, so just throw them out. The savings on using each sock until the very end are marginal.
Economic analysis of putting solar on golf buggy carts, which this is fairly similar to, suggests this is a good idea:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15567036.2020.1...
Ancdata, but my mental health is doing great from all these social network changes! First leaving Snapchat for AI nonsense, yesterday I left discord over this hullabaloo. The largest change in my social network inputs is actually cost; I decided to pay for twitter b/c it would piss a ton of people off, and a youtuber got me hooked on Ground news which is essentially an article-shotgun utility. I figure I'm just trading the zero-money-cost but high-bad-actor-cost of one type of company for the several-dollars-cost and reasonably-balanced-actor type of company. Net positive in my book because advertisers lose.
I was studying evolutionary computation back in the 80s. Yes, you did not have the large ANNs you have today, but you also broke down your problem into manageable, computable bits (no pun intended). Working through Koza's book on Genetic Programming in the 90s, or Mark Watson's book on ANNS, chaos theory, and a bunch of other stuff, was very illuminating. I particularly liked the artificial life stuff out of the Santa Fe Institute. I still have a VHS from the 2nd proceedings. I could have rode the ML/DL wave to a high salary job, but I took another path building real-world objects and machines, and I am very happy I did. I remember when WordPerfect was popular and people spoke of careers in wordprocessing. I always saw it as evolution of the cube farm, and of course, it is. Now I have friends who work in industry with ML/DL, and they joke that it's the same but with a lot more things to track and keep running. I like GOFAI for the simple matter that sometimes 90% is good enough, and 125% is a waste of time, water in the blender. When robotics was taking off I saw the two schools of thought: Rodney Brooke's subsumption architecture making it simple to create emergent behavior, and Mark Tilden's analog circuits and discrete components. I found Tilden's work more interesting. It spoke to me about continuous or biological-like processes. I am now into researching neurocomputing and following the developments in designing neurocomputing hardware. I was so happy to have received free tickets to watch Terminator 2 back in the day, but now I feel like I have a front-row seat to it!
You might want to take a second look at IR (heat) absorption spectra:

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo3/sites/www.e-education...
Odd to see this the day after the appearance of what's supposed to be a "leaked" memo from inside Google advocating the opposite course -- claiming that the outsider crowd playing with (mostly) LLaMa derivatives is getting good results, and that the best thing for Google might be to try to engage. It claims, for example, that the open-source crowd, trying to find cheaper training methods using smaller, more targeted data sets -- because they have to -- has found ones that work as well, by some metrics, as anything that the groups with huge compute clusters. And that because they work as well, with less resources, they can subsequently explore alternatives a whole lot quicker than anything involving training new base models from scratch.

The (supposed, unsourced) leak: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-ne...
Ask HN: Webmasters, how do you deal with harmful content?
I would like to create my own forum, but concerned about the possibility of users uploading harmful images. Does anyone have any experience implementing an automated system that detects and blocks harmful content or running a user generated content website in general?
I agree with this over the next 10 years but disagree over the next 30.

When/If the innovation slows down, the open source stuff will be able to out compete commercial options. Something like this timeline played out for databases and operating systems.
I’m struggling to understand how this makes any sense given the creators own argument.

They say the hardest part is that users don’t know how to adjust their DNS, and then the solution proposed is adding a DNS record?

There are already standards (IETF RFC) why is this better than those?
Just wait a few months. You are underestimating thousands of researches and engineers only working on this with enormous compute budgets in several companies.
But nobody is building NEV (neighborhood EV) like this.
I used C++ in the 1990s and thought it felt messy and unpleasant. I've largely avoided it since then, but reading some more recent documentation, I think I would like today's updated C++ more than what I experienced decades ago.
But I like that it reads texts to me while I'm driving. The whole problem is I don't want to turn it off.
Hawking's statement was made after the confirmation of the Higgs, and is still valid. A metastability vacuum event could be a problem (that's putting it lightly, hah) at high enough energies. It might have already happened, elsewhere.

Eliezer and co. should be made fun of. They engage with journalists and lean into statements like this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FKNtgZrGYwgsz3nHT/bankless-p...

They're absolutely hysterical. Convenient for them, and for the companies, the hysteria is to their benefit. More money to fund the MIRI for Yudowsky, and regulatory capture for the companies who believe they're ahead if you can convince some dementia-ridden Sentor to pass the bill regulating some vague notion of "AI safety."

There's some people in these companies who understand that they have no moat, and that you can't make GPUs illegal, as demonstrated by the most recent story about the leaked google post, and that people can outperform their models in an hour with a LoRA on a workstation laptop for a given task, that the cat is out of the bag. But, with the hysteria of the media, where interns straight out of the shithole of liberal arts believe that a post on reddit or twitter where someone was slighted at the dinner table is breaking news, we're now in this situation where we have calls for regulation for something people simply don't understand, no thanks to the useless media.
I find your comment incredibly refreshing to be honest. Especially on HN.

I think a lot of people in the west would strongly, strongly benefit with getting more acquainted with it. I will add a warning though, it's not always a pretty journey.
> And, that being able to compensate someone for their work is such a complex process that it requires either a bunch of unknown middlemen, or an overengineered ponzi scheme.

Being able to compensate someone for their work is a complex process. Most Youtubers and or media publications would not exist if they asked for a fee upfront.
Yes but that’s different.

The billionaire definitely did it on purpose.
I don't think I learned anything of significance from a magazine. Typed in a few listings, but didn't gain anything from it other than frustration that I didn't know why it didn't work (type one thing wrong).

I'd say the majority of my learning came from manuals [1] and books I either read in the library or bought [2][3a][3b][ca][3d].

The rest came from brute-force trial & error - which I don't think should be downplayed. As a child I had time and energy to just try stuff out, that repeated process of failing until succeeding probably gave me more insight than any online writings would today.

It's probably not that far from how I learn new things now. I might learn the basics of something online (a few key pointers) and then go and prototype and try until I'm happy it's sunk into my brain.

I see this as similar to the kind of constraints that music producers have. Whether it's an instrument they play, or the limited kit they have in a home studio. Being forced to learn the thing inside out, because of some arbitrary constraint, often leads to more creative use and a deeper understanding. Modern producers have access to thousands of plugins that replicate the old expensive gear. What happens is they drown in a sea of options, never really learning any one of them in any depth.

Back to the point, if a child wanted to learn programming (without social spaces) - then perhaps some online free-courses, good references sources, combined with the trial & error process I describe above, would be just as effective as the social-network approach? Who knows, it may even be more effective. I see a lot of junior engineers struggle with the basics - basics I taught myself in my teens.

I guess we'll never know, there are so many variables in this equation:

* Are there good non-social-space reference resources?

* Are the free courses good enough - and would they inspire a child to do them?

* Is the current landscape of technology so large that this approach wouldn't work?

I believe inspiration is the key to learning. On the first manual I read [1], after the pages for plugging the computer in:

* Page 10 - drawing lines and triangles on the screen

* Page 11 - making sounds

Before long I'm making a rocket fly up the screen. I'm instantly thinking "I can make a game", and that's it, I'm hooked...

[1] BBC Micro User Guide - https://stardot.org.uk/forums/download/file.php?id=91666

[2] BBC Micro Advanced User Guide - https://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/esse...

[3a] RISC OS Programmers Reference Manual [Volume 1] - https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/docs/RISC%20OS%20Programmer'...

[3b] RISC OS Programmers Reference Manual [Volume 2] - https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/docs/RISC%20OS%20Programmer'...

[3c] RISC OS Programmers Reference Manual [Volume 3] - https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/docs/RISC%20OS%20Programmer'...

[3d] RISC OS Programmers Reference Manual [Volume 4] - https://www.4corn.co.uk/archive/docs/RISC%20OS%20Programmer'...
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Perl. I am an old sysadmin.
If you do austerity you get Europe.

All the people glorifying capitalism don't see that Europe is a bonafide example of diligently following neoclassical economics maxims. The end result? The interest rate drops below zero in the debt brake country (Germany).

Banks are scared of passing the costs onto depositors because they fear their customers withdrawing their money as cash.

Now what? Are you going to eliminate cash? Are you going to introduce an exchange rate vs cash?

What mechanism do you propose for creditors to spend off their savings so that it is mathematically possible for the rest of the economic sectors including the public sector to pay off their debts and shrink the money supply?

What are you going to do about the constantly declining money velocity that, apparently, requires a constant expansion of the money supply?

The problem is that most of these things are defined by mathematical identities and cost benefit structures. Unless you assume some omnipotent market participants with infinite capacity to track everything akin in power to a hypothetical central planner, these problems will stick around and your feelings or sense of justice about what is right or wrong won't matter.

The empirical evidence is that interest rates have been declining for 800 years and that we have basically reached the end of positive real returns.

Go ahead and do more austerity and lower the interest rate even further.
I really like ZenJournal. Any other app has been too stimulating for me to actually get words of the (figurative) paper.
Will an attacker be able to use rainbow tables to uncover emails or phone numbers from the publicly-available TXT record?
For short excursions I don't see a huge problem. We often dress for the climate (coats, hats in winter, t-shirts in summer).

Regardless, removing cars anywhere is a win. Get something going like this and innovations to allow for different climates will follow.

For little electrics like this, the low price may be the sleeper feature. Cars keep going up, up, up in cost. People might look at these as a 2nd car, then find they are increasingly using their 2nd car....
I've seen and read up on how some of the communes have gone, but I haven't seen any that made a serious attempt to run a company that way. By using the existing structures as a buffer, as I am proposing, a group could actually make the commune thing work without giving up any modern conveniences.

It's somewhat similar to what Amish people do, and they do quite well at it in terms of sustainably living as they wish even though no one else around them does. They pull that off by trading the things they do want to make for the things the surrounding society has that they actually want.

It's totally possible to do a socialist version of that where everyone lives in modern houses with modern conveniences, share whatever stuff you all actually want to be building yourselves, but when you have to buy or vote on something, do so through the company and as a block. Mormons have largely gotten away with block voting over the decades, and still do, so we also have existing evidence that that works too.

The details are, of course, up to whoever is trying this out, but the overall thing I'm pointing to, that I don't think anyone has given a real go at, is that using a company as a buffer against capitalism. No one has to live without, but individuals in the community also don't have to go play the capitalist game every day just to get what they want or need.
In fairness they are almost certainly in Norvig's other book...
It's quite a bit more advanced than a golf cart. Unibody aluminum tub and roll cage, wheels for bumpers, built in solar charger, 4 lithium hotswap batteries, compact design.
Cool! How does it work?
Who would actually use these packages? The README files are empty and the packages don't export anything. I don't see anyone using these by accident.

I guess its meant to play a sick joke on some co-workers?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash-simple

https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash_tailwind
Should I had put sarcasm indicators? :)
I wouldn't be against this MFI if it meant we could have cheap, standard conformant cables that aren't bad.

Apple uses MFI as an excuse to overprice compatible cables.

Take a look at USB-C cables. Of course, there will be cheap ones, but even the standard conformant, QC-compatible ones are way cheaper than an Apple-certified cable.
Good luck with the censoring happening in your country! That's quite shitty.
The current CEO, who a friend at google calls “Captain Zonk”, is dispositionaly not the person to make that kind of change.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see a leadership change this year.
I don't think google is ever going to get it's mojo back, Pichai has no vision.
Long term I think google will see massive layoffs, and new products will come via alphabet acquisitions following the YouTube model.
Microsoft Is Helping Finance AMD’s Expansion into AI Chips
The Mac that changed everything.

Until everything changed back into black and grey rectangles again.
TIL; can't remember ever hearing about them before, where are they used?

But it seems like we finally agree on something, simpler approaches to AI that predate neural networks are still potentially useful.

Because you're not going to claim that ML is the only useful kind of AI, are you?
Your questions seem eerily targeted haha

I have issues with attention, such that I easily get distracted when trying to focus on something.

I struggle holding a visual image in my head as it easily deteroitates, it's also very faint. I'm not sure what's normal here but I remember I could do this more easily when using THC, even when the effects start wearing down. It's also easier to do in the morning when I wake up before I start moving.

I feel like I have some song stuck in my head all the time. It's almost always a new song when I wake up from sleep.

I also have somatic tinnitus from what I understand. It's not like the beeping you get in your ear once in a while, it comes more from the center, is very high frequency with many overlapping frequencies and sounds a bit modulated. It also gets louder if I clench my teeth or stretch muscles.
That's a good idea. I tried it in several ways but it always added platitudes and stereotypes about where me, family and friends live or do. When I pressed it to include more real world aspect about those fictional characters, it quickly reverted to the canned response "As an AI model, I cannot... blablabla".
>I find it extremely hard to believe any moons in the distant solar system could support life, water or not.

I cannot get into the article, but maybe gravitational stress on the moons from Uranus is enough to provide heat.
You actually don't understand the level of dependence India has on WhatsApp.
Wireguard support comes with RouterOS 7 (ros7). I'm running ros7 on a MIPS device (mAP) and it works fine. What device(s) are you talking about?
Don’t you see then this accomplishes nothing for the implementer and instead makes them do more work in addition to still requiring the user to add a DNS record?

Why would I want to have to validate someone’s phone or email address (not free), when I could use a standard way simply instructing my user to add a particular TXT record.

This reeks of NIH.
Texas is hardly the only reasonable alternative. Several other states make it much easier to own your own home. Look around and find somewhere you like.

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...
slight aside, but it's refreshingly pleasant to see a cordial discussion between representatives of two competing aproaches. HN is better than some other sites, but there's still a fair bit of polarised "my choice is right and so yours is wrong".

I didn't know about either Pynecone or Anvil, and have a side project for a friend that might be well suited to one/both. So I'm both more enlightened on options, and more predisposed to both given the positive dialogue here. Thanks for both.
It's unfortunate that many of the creators I love have had to resort to sponsored spots. In my experience the companies offering such deals are shady at best, with many engaging in what I would consider outright fraud.
It has not been proven to be neurotoxic, so I'm not so sure over your reference of semantics. I only consume edibles, as the smoke is too harsh for my lungs. This study does not have a definitive answer as to whether cannabis is actually the cause or trigger for schizophrenia.
Interesting concept. I’m interested to see how many people will find a use for microcars like this:

> Max speed 45 km/h (L6) 70 km/h (L7)

To put it in perspective, the L6 homologated version tops out at 28mph. That’s marginally faster than a golf cart. The whole concept feels a lot like a very, very well designed golf cart.

The bigger L7 version can go a little over 40mph. Thinking of my normal shopping and daily routine, I could make that work. Would be interesting to have an option like this available. I don’t think I’d actually feel safe driving it mixed in with normal size cars at 40mph, though.