skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, humans are free from limitations. When nature doesn't suit us, we have the capacity for transformation, just as bees have. However, we can choose any scale, even planetary. But that freedom is an illusion. There is no transformation of nature which happens without interference from the system around us. If we decided that the planet should be a couple degrees warmer for agricultural output to increase, we would inevitably find ourselves in an ecological collapse and a resulting collapse of agricultural output. It's just not something we can do. Nature itself is the limit, pushing beyond that means inevitable ecological collapse and resulting human collapse – we cannot eat without nature. Not that some chemicals can't be produced synthetically, but not nearly all. The massive expense we would incur over feeding just a couple of people with massive bioreactors to avoid interacting with nature at all would be prohibiting. We are, as are all other species, trapped within nature despite our capacity to transform it. This is because we are nature, not something that transcends it. We are the Lorax, we speak for the trees, we uniquely have both an imagination and the capacity to labour. There is evidence to suggest we will hit a peak - humans simply don't want that many children at some point after the elimination of scarcity. We know this, you can look outside and see it if you live in what they call the "global north" or "imperialist core" or however you want to refer to it. We don't know why, but it happens. Humans and nature are very much compatible, although it is true, that unchecked human activity could kill everything. Not even growth, just activity, and at a fraction of the current population could have already killed everything. It's not inherently human to take and destroy, that's just a necessity places upon us all by our current societal structure. We do it or someone else does it and we starve. But it does not have to be like this. The world is, again, not a neo-Malthusian nightmare which requires genocide to overpower for the sake of plants and animals which could less understand what is happening. We must, as we are limited, live within nature as part of it, transforming it, but our current transformation, necessitated by society as it is, is simply idiotic. There is no evidence to suggest that we are anywhere close to a "carrying capacity" or we will ever suck life out of the system and leave rather than simply glassing it and ourselves or learning to live with it. We cannot leave, this life would not grow anywhere else without immense struggles, it can only exist within complex ecosystems and taking them out of that context will destroy them. We cannot suck it out, for it is our own death as well.
> But if you have a large portion of the population running these dishes, it's game over

It is illegal to bring them into the country, and if you get caught doing so it's jail time. That is true today of drones and any sat communication system in many, many countries.
> displaying some Chinese heritage is a prestige thing

Considering the amount of racism towards Chinese I have encountered in Thailand, I somewhat doubt that.
RC of traktors and anti-mine shield on the traktor.
Very good! This would be very helpful for students on every "intro to networks" course on computer science courses as a way to visualise something that can seem very abstract.
Your brain is also basically an algorithm that produces results based on training data. It's just a much more complicated and flexible one.
I would have guessed that a backwards incompatible change like that is a big release thing. Even if it affects a tiny tiny group
> are they running them on some off-the-shelf Macs like they expect everyone else to do?

No. Last time I poked into Xcode Cloud, it was running on Ice Lake server Xeons, which didn't ship on any Mac.
Try using quotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
One bit per GB of RAM, not per GB of processed source code (most of your RAM is likely empty most of the time, or used for stuff where a bit flip is less likely to be noticed). However, it still seems like a high estimate to me.
>magats prosecuting women and doctors for murder because of a life-threatening abortion

Are you saying that's something that has happened? Do you have a link?
There's ton of other instant messaging apps that can run on anything or even have an API. I use some of them and weirdly spam is not a problem at all.

Also you can run iMessage without mac if you really want to.
Doesn't Youtube Android app has a list of supported links to open? When I click the link it opens the Youtube app directly. But your website will not be in the supported links, so it will open your link in the browser and when you redirect to Youtube won't it also be in the browser?

And what does your website do? does it only redirect? how do you earn?
People also argued that animals are mere automatons, that all their observable behavior is basically scripted, and that humans shouldn't empathize with them on those grounds. That's how vivisection etc used to be justified since at least Descartes.
Or you are using ECC RAM?
Seeing as it is an ongoing phenomenon in only the one country, the fatalism represented by saying it is "the real world" is disappointing.
All you are quoting is a description of how Corellium’s use qualifies as fair use, which is what the person responding to you said.

> The important part here is that it proves Apple does not have the defacto right to claim infringement on iOS. If your emulator is transformative, offers functionality beyond default iOS, doesn't abuse their services and doesn't threaten the iOS market (eg. iPhones) it should be considered lawful.

You are describing fair use. This isn’t establishing the precedent you think it is. Corellium said “hey, what we are doing is fair use” and the court agreed, describing why it was fair use. That’s all. The description of how it counts as fair use is not opening anything new up, that’s just the four factors of fair use that have been there all along.
Randomize it. Every time a digital copy is loaded the authors should appear in a different order. Then if they're cited, hopefully each citation will have a different ordering and the 'weight' will be evenly distributed.
The constitution was written by flawed humans, flawed humans who came after them and learnt better should be able to change it.
Fun fact, there's a 13 point gap between rank 1 and rank 10. So those two also are apparently incomparable.

Why are you comparing rank? They give the index a score for comparisons sake.

If I were working to set up a business in one of the two countries, maybe a thirteen point gap in perceived corruption would be important to me. But for casual conversation they're both very corrupt.
End of the day you're still at the mercy of apple's algorithms and policies. If one day apple decides your app isn't worth it and the purchases and downloads slow to a crawl, you'll be taking note that the tax you're paying isn't worth it anymore. You'll search around but realize all the platforms do the same thing and regret it.

Competition for small business like yours is a good thing and you should be earning more compared to the big platforms because you bring in the customers, end of story.
We can, but the nice thing about neural networks is the ability to do all kinds of computational and mathematical manipulations to them to basically pick them apart and really find out what’s going on. This is important not just for safe deployment but also for research on new methods that could be used to make them better. Plus we need this ability to help avoid neural networks with intentionally hidden features that appear to behave linearly in certain regimes but are designed with a strong nonlinear response when special inputs are applied. You could have all the tests you want for a self driving car based on real world conditions but some bad actor with access to the training system could create a special input that results in dangerous behavior.
The Linux kernel exposes TLS but very few people actually use it. On some hardware it can make TLS significantly faster, but on beefier hardware I doubt you'll notice the improvement much. At the cost of rewriting your entire network stack, I don't think it makes sense for many tools to switch to it.

I'd argue that the Windows crypto system and openssl really aren't all that different, concept wise. In theory you can ship Linux without openssl but in theory you can remove the Windows cryptography library too if you remove all of its dependencies. In both cases you'll be left with a barebones system where only statically compiled tools can talk to the modern web.
India is the big guys though isn't it?
> Having a tenuous grasp of how modern AI/DL networks work and an even more tenuous grasp of neuroscience, can I ask for a ELI5 of the above and a source?

I guess you know more than you let on but the tldr of modern AI is: massive GPGPU datacenters, automatic differentiation libraries, artificial neural architectures that scale by just stacking layers, and tera sized digital corpuses.

Here's a Hinton quote, as transcribed in https://www.computerworld.com/article/3695568/qa-googles-geo... which is presumably from his interview in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sitHS6UDMJc

--

"very recently, I’ve changed my mind a lot about the relationship between the brain and the kind of digital intelligence we’re developing. I used to think that the computer models we were developing weren’t as good as the brain. The aim was to see if you could understand more about the brain by seeing what it takes to improve the computer models.

Over the last few months, I’ve changed my mind completely, and I think probably the computer models are working in a completely different way than the brain. They’re using back propagation and I think the brain’s probably not. And a couple things have led me to that conclusion and one of them is the performance of GPT-4."

--

My understanding of the pre-joke-explaining "normie" interpretation of the tldr of AI was something like: 'the massive GPGPU datacenters are trying to substitute for the hardware of the brain but badly, inefficiently, and expensively. The automatic differentiation libraries and layer-stacking architectures are trying to substitute the amazing learning abilities of the neurons and synapses in the brain. The tera sized digital corpuses are used by AI in a statistically inefficient way compared to how much humans can learn from such little information.'

To me it seems that Hinton is now saying he's changed his mind about some of this interpretation, and that in particular it seems like he thinks the automatic differentiation libraries and layer stacking architectures are fundamentally more effective than what brains are doing with neurons and synapses, in a way that isn't just about clock cycles. This is funny to me because I don't think it's a common opinion on any side of the ai debates.

> Are you saying that Hinton is not a doomer

It depends what you mean by doomer, but I could speculate. I think he could be described as a dignified doomer with a stiff upper lip. He's 75 years old and I doubt he's holding out hope for a lot of life extension for himself. I don't think he expects to personally witness the real consequences of AGI even if AGI appears in his lifetime. I think he's pretty sure that AGI will eventually replace humanity as we know it.

> and believes that AGI is inevitable very soon?

maybe 'inevitable' is too strong but yes.
> the 30% tax

15%. Almost everybody pays 15%, not 30%. The only organisations who pay 30% earn over a million dollars a year from things other than long-term subscriptions. That’s a tiny minority.
Namaria's Law:

"Software expands to occupy all hardware available. If you throw more hardware at the problem, you get bloated software."
I mean, if we're really going to go there, who's to say that a large enough LLM doesn't automatically receive a soul simply because that's one of the fundamental laws of the universe as decreed by the Creator?
> Mastodon also changed their app to use Mastodon.Social as the default server, so this is a non-issue.

They have instead created another issue.

Before, it was a usability issue which normal users looking for an alternative social network got confused on the sign up process and gave up.

If that wasn’t an issue why did the Mastodon devs decide to select a default server in the app after seeing this?

Now, they have traded that off and created a centralization issue going against the point of encouraging federation.

This only shows that centralization wins in the end.
Oh wow, I didn't look at the 14 inch model. 50ppi does sound like a noticeable difference if you're used to it.
I think they're talking about GPG, not SPF/DKIM/DMARC.

Which is a risky thing to do, because most people don't associate GPG with positive feelings about well designed solutions, but they're right in that it works well, solves the problem and is built squarely on top of email.

The reason that it's not generally well received is that there's no good social network for distributing the keys, and no popular clients integrate it transparently.
$140M is not that much cheese compared to the price tag for a military fighter vehicle with low tech or tech done incompetently.
The books in the picture are all management books.
> "Imagine if I had to store the 50k+ tweets I've made on Twitter on my device, and upload ALL of them to a new server whenever a community server went down."

This... doesn't seem too bad at all?

Let's assume an average of 150 bytes of text per tweet, and an additional 50 bytes of actually important metadata. That's only 10 megabytes for the entire archive of 50,000 items. A single HDR photo from a modern smartphone is larger.

IMO this was the original point of Twitter: the extreme limitation on post size (140 characters) made it feasible to build applications that work with large amounts of content. There was a time around 2010 when building a Twitter API client was the standard demo for a new UI framework — the data model was simple enough that a basic client was the next step up from "Hello world" complexity.

This was actually a nice vision for a social network! Lots of simple near-realtime data, a jungle of interesting clients to make sense of it. I wish someone was building a Twitter competitor with this kind of minimalist approach.
Pretty sure from memory AT&T spec’d negative voltage to reduce corrosion.
A single human can survive on their own; there are many historical examples of that. A detached body part, on the other hand, cannot; but it also cannot feel miserable etc. A single ant is more like a body part of the colony in that sense.
Azure does run on Windows. It's HyperV server below the rest of the hardware. It's a custom Windows install that you can't purchase, but it's Windows none the less.
Nintendo expects to sell only 15M Switch consoles over the next year
I don't use my HP 200LX much, but one of the reasons is definitely the constant risk of data loss. Are those backup macros available anywhere?
This is perhaps one of the few legitimate use cases for a distributed blockchain. Then several nodes have to agree for the chain to advance.
Get rid of minimum wage and replace it with UBI. Avoids the market distorting effects of minimum wage without leaving people destitute.
I am not here to dissect the point difference. I am just saying why drag us here and not the other 55?
The more fundamental problem is the sheer size of them, and this is only going to get worse as models grow larger to become more capable. Being able to look at the state of individual neurons during inference is very convenient, but that does not by itself make it possible to really find out what's going on.
Not exactly pay wall
I guess it is milliseconds based on the names and the results later in the article.

- time-to-first-execution (TTFX)

- time-to-load (TTL)
The fact that (baring exploitable bugs) you can only run Apple approved software on an iOS device pretty much makes it "THEIR machine" anyway.
He was complicit in the Gujurat riots ethnic cleansing[0]
Demonetization was a scheme to enrich his billionaire friends and party[0].
There's a lot more, and being the PM he hasn't allowed the media to question him. He only appears in staged interviews singing his praises or speeches.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gujarat_riots
[1] https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/bjp-members-kne...
Yes. When you have "100% orange juice" it means that the juice is squeezed from oranges and that's all (you can have the with or without pulp version, that's all).

You could have grape juice in (obviously) 100% grape juice, or in mixtures where the percentage of each juice (again, squeezed from fruits) is listed on the standard components label.

We di have juices from concentrate, but it is then clearly labelled as such. Or juices that are only part fruit, and it is labelled as such too.

The main thing was to make sure that when the juice says 100% it has to be only this and from squeezed fruit.
That kind of stuff is necessary for binary protocols to evolve in a compatible way. When a TLS 1.4 is defined, we need a window where clients and servers can still negotiate 1.3 until both have been upgraded. And 1.3 had to find ways to be compatible with 1.2, and so forth. Decades of that kind of evolution are guaranteed to leave some marks in the protocol.

But let's keep a sense of proportion. I find it hard to worry about "wasting" maybe 0.01% of the total internet bandwidth for a few extra bytes here or there, when that's necessary to keep the internet working at all, when on the other hand, for no end-user benefit, we don't hesitate to waste maybe 15% (after compression) by insisting on using text-based formats for the payload in all our web standards.

In fact, I'd love to see a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many tons of CO2 would have been saved in total if HTML was a well-engineered binary format. (Including bandwidth, storage, parsing on the client etc.) The number must be insane.
Court Dwarf
Cities can compete against each other to attract businesses - no? If businesses can deal with a patchwork of sales taxes and building codes, they can handle other bylaws just fine. These laws have the hallmark signs of a partisan power-grab as they are limited to a number of on red-meat issues.
TheRasteri has a video on getting VB6 running on a modern system, it's not pretty: https://youtu.be/LVEsNUm04Sc
They're asking:

Suppose the prosecutiin makes shit up and gets a win resulting in a purpotedly innocent person going to prison on false pretenses.

Under his (SBF's lawyer's) argument, this type of lapse would be fair. After all, the prosecution isn't out for monetary gain. Is that fine?

Basically, his lawyers having made the arguments they have, if precedent were granted, it would amount to legitimizing a gross miscarriage of justice.

Any judge should see this for what it is and quash it. Then again, the legal system always amazes me in it's ability to torture itself.
Thanks :) They are all generated with Midjourney. This is the prompt I used for one of the images:

> A big pile of melting clocks. Vector art, flat illustration, wide stroke, dark background, bright neon colors. --v 5 --ar 2:1
I have no knowledge of how the CAs maintain the CT logs.

What is the process for a CA to rebuild the CT log, if one exists? Is it something like what is illustrated below?

Let CA1, CA2, CA3 and CA4 be different certificate authorities. The set enumerated alongside each CA is the set of certificates logged into its CT log.

CA1 : {c1, c2, c3}

CA2 : {c2, c3'}

CA3 : {c1, c2}

CA4 : {c1, c3}

Suppose CA2 is where an issue was detected with certificate c3 (the anomalous cert is denoted by c3') and CA2 trusts CA3 and CA4, then the set {c1, c2, c3} can be constructed after verifying the CT logs of CA3 and CA4 and merging their logs.

Is that kind of how it would work or would CA2 just truncate its log and restart from this point forward?
We may not have had Amazon if other online stores had been allowed a one-click purchase flow? The lack of a second click was a unique innovation critical to their competitive advantage?

That doesn't seem likely to me. And if it were true that Amazon was so vulnerable that checkout flow click parity would wipe them out, I hardly think the law should intercede to save them - that seems like a scenario where they had a bad business model.
But also no local files
I went through the whole cycle of "software is magic" to "All jobs are just babysitting horrible codebases" in about five years. I'm done.

I've said this before elsewhere, but I'm starting anew. I'll be studying the classics and will tend bars/sweep floors to make ends meet if necessary. I'm lucky to be in EU where education is nearly free.
This advice is quite dangerous. For senior tech leaders disclosure of what they are working on often leads to disclosure of what a large part of company is working on. Even if company leaked information on what you are working on adding to it in your blog is not only about NDAs. Even if you own your company or startup and have a right to disclose you can cause damage. Even if your project is 'boring' disclosing information is potentially affecting company future outcomes.

Ofc one can have his own pet projects and only blog about them. But in the world where a cat tiktok account was allegedly used for spying there is no such thing as private tech blogs anymore.
If the mobile application is in the person, it understands it and directs it to him, otherwise it goes to the site by default, but this is valid for android, unfortunately this situation is not supported on ios, but there is almost no iphone without YouTube application, so it works without any problems.

Also, Ytbe.one supports YouTube video and channel links for now.
> masking sentences and paragraphs and training the model to complete them in the book's style?

That would work.
> I was like "I'll just make a simple alternative to the BlueSky server in Elixir". But it CAN'T be a simple implementation like ActivityPub can be, because it is extraordinarily complex and requires you to make guarantees about your storage and how your application works.

You might suspect that OP has a familiarity bias here but actually there is objective evidence that ActivityPub based implementations are (relatively) simple: there are dozens of implementations of both servers and clients, will all sorts of functionality that is not emulating the "twitter/mastodon" experience. Heck, even a Wordpress plugin in the works.

How well all these things will scale etc. is still somewhat of a question mark but this aspect feels important beyond specific details and choices. The simpler, more generic an approach, the more likely it is to find fertile ground and grow as a decentralized architecture. The original decentralized Web was simple and generic and this has been touted as key factor for its explosive adoption.

In a sense this was also its ultimate downfall: it did not provide (out of the box) the tools to build the connectivity / social graph experience that was so enormously desirable (and was not provided e.g., by RSS). ActivityPub is somehow making up for that original gap. There might be other ways to do this. But unless there is a bigger agenda (commercialization, financialization), gratuitous complexity driven by not-invented-here or desire for centralized control is more likely to hinder than help.
> [author] served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America.

And thinks Putin is playing 4D Chess in Ukraine:

> This may go a long way towards explaining why the Russian campaign in Ukraine has been so leisurely. The Russians have no reason to hurry. They know that time is not on the side of the US.