skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(parsing out the prepositions) Agreed, I think: MA-CA are nearly the physically most distant, but perhaps the culturally most similar.

But disagreed that the places in between are not that varied.

Beyond the superficial veneer of a (mostly) common language and political drama and media and sports teams and retailers, there are deeply different predominant ways of thinking about self and life.

We may just be using different criteria on how to measure the magnitude of cultural variation.

You won't see it from the highways, and yes the Internet is normative, and ultimately yes humans share a fairly predictable psychology.

But the cultural variation between regions seems undeniable to me. Thank goodness! I travel a lot, and spend a lot of time in individual strange places, and this is a large part of the reason why I do so.
Breaking the black-box security coprocessor in the Nintendo Switch
Bullets Hitting Bullets in Slow Motion [video]
Strength Through Joy (KdF) was not the same as FKK. KdF was focused on the "beauty of labor", middle-class leisure, physical health, and (domestic) tourism.
> the vocal minority overestimates it

Those were the people using Apollo in the first place.
Well, fossil fuels are indeed very convenient. However I disagree that they are/were cheap. The costs are just hidden. I mean, that's the whole point we are having to replace them.
Very good point.

> What they should have done is found someone who had demonstrated an ability to be relied upon.

Two such people. With maybe a third viewing remotely. And no personal device except a work provided dumbphone for emergencies.
White House throws some cold water on Tesla’s NACS victory
If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him ~ Sheldon Kopp

To quote Google:

"A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom.

No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real."
What was the alternative path for Reddit? Use GoFundMe to keep the servers running?
nginx, jenkins, aws, terraform, bash scripting, tomcat, apache, RHCE, github, ccna, selenium, promethus etc

Most of these are things that make sense in a job where they make sense.

Of them bash scripting is the only one likely to directly improve your daily life.

Maybe Github...or rather Git might help you organize text files.

The rest are knowledge domains that are better when sharded across a team so that individuals can show each other how they work. They are mostly bigger than one person can really learn...how big is AWS? AWS includes semi-trailers full of hard disks that will come to a data-center and make a physical copy of data, satellite networks, and items of similar scale.

And Kubernetes? its basic design was expected to be run by teams of Google engineers. Not one person with a laptop. Kubernetes is meant not for you.

Bash scripting, SQL, Javascript, and Emacs/Vim are things that you can take with you and will always matter at any scale.

Good luck.
Well, what you say is technically true, but when Apple Pencil was released, there was no iPadOS -- all iPhones and iPads were just iOS devices, at different sizes.
But we want to pay for tramways and bike stations and our nice carless city through raising taxes on automobile transportation (which just plummeted because of above policies).
You completely ignored the point about the uniform nature of the cortex. It doesn't make sense to say say "well, ok, maybe this bit works like an ANN, but the rest works differently".

> we specifically know that LLMs don't work the way the human language faculty do

No we don't, because we still don't know how human language works. People are still debating Chompsky innate-ism. Again, LLM processing of language offers interesting clues - not just embeddings, but also the fact that language can be learnt with a very simple architecture (transformer) with zero support for "universal grammar" or any such priors.

You seem to be missing the spirit of this whole conversation and the original linked article - it's not about claiming/hypothesizing that the brain works the same as any and all ANN architectures or principles, but rather that one can draw inspiration from ANNs to develop theories and intuitions (which still need to be tested) for how the brain may be working.
In the parent comment to yours, ''runs perfect'' means runs perfect. No need for an insertion of an additional layer of stuff to just get back to ''runs perfect''.
Not yet https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...
Well, $3.99 in 1953 (the first year the encyclopedia was offered in supermarkets, ATW) is $45.50 now, according to https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm.

For 27 volumes, that works out to $1228.50. Your dad wasn't that cheap. :-)
At least they started with an owl shape. Tesla is starting with a square before "draw the rest of the owl"
Literally the age of any main character in a Shonen anime for these reasons.
For this particular brand, we spent a lot of time looking at nature, specifically fungal networks / mycelium etc. We also looked at fractals and other items in nature that have a specific mathematical quality to them. Pretty much anything in nature that has some level of symmetry or predictability to it can probably be recreated with math. These curves originally came from us looking at harmony / harmonics in music.

Wikipedia is a great wormhole for ideation because you'll be looking at one thing and discover something equally amazing just clicking around the article.
I find it much more likely we will be wiped out by weaponized biology long before AI becomes a threat. Though I'm pretty surprised we haven't already killed ourselves from it.
$2.5/month right? Starting right now because otherwise the bill at the end of the month becomes impossible to pay.
Maybe a naive question: are LLMs really going the other way? My intuition is that the model weights are much smaller than the information encoded in them.
If you have some time: https://youtu.be/Zklo4Z1SqkE (Sabine Hossenfelder)

If I remember video correctly, summary would be: not yet
This is Epic's common strategy of blaming all criticism on "resistance to change". The thing is, their software is simply bad, and its implementation in the Nordics has been a disaster.
I see nothing in his book that claims they were uniquely *interested* in brutal empire building. Rather, they were in a situation to be uniquely *successful* at brutal empire building. Everybody behaved badly, it's just the Europeans were in a position to gain more from said bad behavior.
Show HN: I made a web app for color grading and film emulation
TLDR: I’m a solo dev with backgrounds in art/photography and made a web app (PWA) for film emulation and color grading.

Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce you to a passion project that's been keeping me busy for nearly a year - a color grading and film emulation web app called Color.io (https://app.color.io). It's desktop-only for the moment but merging the new engine with my other, mobile first app (match.color.io), is in the pipeline.

Color.io is the result of my long standing frustration with how color tools behave in most editing and color grading software, especially on the photographic end. It’s much easier to create completely unnatural looking colors than it is to truly enhance an image in a subtle and film-like way. Most apps work around their engines’ color transform shortcomings by exposing some kind of profile or 3D LUT interface that allows for arbitrary 3D color mappings to be applied to images. The problem with profiles and LUTs however is that they’re a black box and offer limited creative control.

My app is meant to act as a middle man in this color process. I wrote a custom color engine on top of ACES (hand ported to WebGL) that uses custom color models and transform operations that are much more suitable for creative color manipulation than cone models like HSL. The engine is controlled by my library of interface tools like custom spline interpolators, color wheels, 2D draggables and more. I also ported a custom libRAW build to web assembly for a logarithmic raw development workflow.

The project is still very much in its early stages, and the response since the soft launch has been overwhelmingly positive. I'm keen on using this momentum to make the app better. So, your feedback would be hugely appreciated! Tell me about the features you'd like to see, the ones you're loving, and anything you think needs improvement (all code, design, marketing is a solo gig so I'm sure there's lots to do!)

Find me on Twitter (@MON0KEE, https://twitter.com/MON0KEE) or more frequently on Instagram (@monokee, https://instagram.com/monokee). I'd love to hear from you!
Definitely another space where the anti/propaganda has won the early game.

Is there somewhere to learn about the proper storage and use of hydrogen?

I’d just add that for grid scale storage the hydrogen probably doesn’t have to go far from generation. That probably resolves plenty of problems.
You seem to think the government makes money when someone drives a mile, but in fact it loses money — significantly more than if that person had taken transit instead.

The fewer miles people drive, the more money the government has available for other things.
I would say dial up Internet was far from mainstream in 94, even with was widely available.

I'd argue it wasn't until 96/97 when "everyone" started using it and membership didn't quite peak with services like AOL until 2001.

The internet was still the land of the nerds until the early 2000's
> Just ask if such a tool is useful and then choose to learn how the tool could work to your advantage.

Wouldn't a great first step to understanding a tools capabilities, advantages, and disadvantages be mapping it to familiar concepts like understanding, reasoning, or cheating?

It is clear from examples of misuse that many users do think that LLMs are capable of things that they are not so maybe conversations about the proper analogies aren't completely useless.
I knew of a financial system running on a DEC VAX some years ago that used MUMPS. I also know a programmer who had been employed at a local telemarketing company in the 1990's. That company used MUMPS.

He had said that they had their star-programmer there who could dash out complicated MUMPS data queries in very short order. My friend said he had some fun programming in it, but he left the telemarketing company to move on to more conventional programming languages.
Wow, Red Bull does give you wings!
> If Waymo/Tesla/whatever would do this, they'd be the darlings of the internet.

How exactly do you think Waymo works that they wouldn't take responsibility?
A weird military contractor with one of the most perculiar internet cult followings of any company (seriously - if you thought Tesla fans were a bit much, check out the Palantir crowd) who believe it's the next big thing in tech despite consistently performing ... okay. Big overlap with the WSB-alike social media investment community.
> this isn't some example from a textbook or even stack overflow, but licensed pieces of work with all the legal complications that come with that

I understand why these might feel different to you, but textbooks and stack overflow are also proprietary, licensed pieces of work. I don’t see why there would be much of a legal distinction.
> Is anyone seriously going to argue that I stole half a dozen bytes?

The license itself might provide a clue. For example, the MIT license¹ says (emphasis mine):

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Half a dozen bytes are unlikely to constitute a “substantial portion” of the software.

¹ https://opensource.org/license/mit/
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119920. Original paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17743.
Not sure if this was intended, but coming to this as someone vaguely aware of RISC-V, it's looking like a fantastic form of documentation for the ISA, that both describes and gives a way to play with it, but in an intuitive, even fun manner.

Obviously this works best for someone who already knows C - but, given it's C89 mitigates against this aspect somewhat.
One extra connector seems like a small expense to be able to get funding from the federal government.
>It’s about not spreading hate & lies.

As determined by your local Ministry of Truth, of course. You could see why many people might be skeptical of their benevolence.

Let's face it. A lot of these platforms will absolutely ban you for saying true things in a problematic fashion, eg. FBI crime statistics. It's widely accepted and celebrated and it doesn't pass the laugh test to say that it's just about stopping misinformation or whatever. Because you're hurting The Cause and that can't be allowed.
This isn't a RISC-V core. It is a RISC-V emulator library.
Mostly, yes. At least I anticipate all these things when deciding whether to work from home or not.

Anything else is just unprofessional, nothing to do with working from home in general.
This is the most well executed vision of AR (spatial computing whatever) I've seen and yet, it's still a fundamentally flawed concept. I am simply not going to casually hang around my house with a pair of goggles strapped to my face. I am also not going to put in a full 8 hour work day like that.
It's much worse than batteries for energy storage. With batteries you get most of the energy back at least. Converting electricity to hydrogen and back to electricity, the losses are much steeper. Which makes it not ideal for that kind of thing. There are lots of battery chemistries at this point; the round trip is well over 90% efficient with most of them. With hydrogen there are a lot of lossy steps, generating it, storing it, transporting it, transforming it back, etc. Batteries are produced at large scale now. Hundreds of gwh per year. Soon twh. Green hydrogen production is orders of magnitude away from that.

A good reference is Michael Liebherr's hydrogen ladder. It organizes hydrogen use cases by their economical viability. Some of the least economical things you can do with it is using it for transport or heating. It just doesn't make any sense to do that; there are cheaper ways to do those things. The more economical things at the top are a combination of things we already use lots of (grey) hydrogen for such as fertilizer production and other industrial processes and a few things like steel production and other industrial processes that currently rely on burning fossil fuels. For each of those producing the hydrogen close to where it is consumed is key. There are plenty of economical uses for hydrogen. More than enough that bothering with the low yield uneconomical use cases just doesn't make sense. Just cleaning up the existing uses of grey hydrogen is actually a massive project by itself.

Because of it's physical properties, transporting and storing hydrogen is costly and technically challenging. It takes up a lot of space. In liquid form it's almost 3x the volume of liquid methane. And to get it to that state, you have to cool it to a few degrees above absolute zero. Keeping it in that state also costs energy. You typically get that by boiling some of it off. Same with methane of course but liquid methane is a lot warmer so the need to boil it off is a lot smaller. Converting hydrogen to methane or other fuels is of course possible but also not free. Every energy conversion you sacrifice double digit percentages of energy. The more conversions, the less economical sense it makes.
Non-delete can be a feature.

Users would have to operate on the older model of usenet - if you can't handle the heat don't go, or the node operator could simply ban the account.
The cleanroom idea is a very good starting point.

The famous example is the IBM bios the company reverse engineered.
One of the execs had read the IBM spec, so they "sealed off" a couple of other engineers who were not allowed to talk to (anyone? the guy who read the spec?)

And then this people used reverse engineering techniques to build a bios that did the same as the working one they had, but all they could see was electrical currents coming out of the pins etc.

So I think copyright law would allow you to look at a web page and, without viewing the source rebuild the page from scratch (ie box is red and 12 pixels wide)

The more interesting part is what happens if one person writes a 1,000 lines of open source licensed code, then another comes along and writes a different 800 lines replacing each of the original lines but with the same output.

That's much more a ship of theseus - but really it's a moot point - the second person would (have to?) release each new "plank" under an open source license.

So depending on the license I guess you can chnage the license by replacing all the original code with new code under a new license.

Hmm - I see ...

I think there is some implication here - that you could not (as easily?) build the new lines of code if you did not have the "scaffolding" of the original there - and I suspect that might be the way to argue the ship is still originally theseus ?
It's a sequence of coordinates for the vertices of the shape. Is that different from a sequence of words in a story or a book.
We will see. Has not happened in the past so I see a little reason to happen in the future.
No, you're missing the point.

There are two worlds.

In one, everytime someone publishes code with a license attached, they've taken a chunk out of the set of valid lines of software capable of being permissibly written without license encumberance. This is the world the poster you are replying to is imagining we're headed toward, and this case basically does a fantastic job of laying a test case/precedent for.

The other world, is one where everyone accepts all programming code is math, and copyrighting things is like erecting artificial barriers to facilitate information asymmetry. I.e. trying to own 2 + 2. In this second hypothetical world, we summarily reject IP as a thing.

The 2nd world is what I'd rather live in, as the first truly feels more and more like hell to me. However, given the first one is the world we're in, I'd like to see the mental gymnastics employed to undermine Microsoft's original software philosophy.

EDIT:
Voir dire will be a hoot. Any wagers on how many software people make it onto the jury if any?
> My experience is that the best onboarding processes (at least for devs) basically boil down to getting you to have a real PR merged by the end of the first week.

But then when will we have time for all the DEI training if we waste the first week getting the employee productive?
I think what will ultimately do us in is reckless chemical pollution on a grand scale. Slow and steady.
That’s all great, but irrelevant.

My point was that, and I say this from experience, if you get 8 hours of battery life on a MacBook running macOS you won’t get 8 hours running windows. You will get less, sometimes significantly less.

The person I originally replied to wanted to get a MacBook and put windows on it because the MacBook gets such great battery life. If they do put windows on it, the battery life won’t be so great anymore.
I explicitly said that it's fine to use golang. I am saying I don't like people changing my words, which is entirely reasonable and a very different argument than "never use golang".
Corporate logos are a widespread example of copyrighted shapes, usually defined as Bézier curves these days.
Critical Mass and Tipping Points: How to Identify Inflection Points
Russian Economy Faces More Inflation as Ruble Sinks and Workers Flee
Humans evolved unsupervised. AI is highly supervised. The idea that an AI will enslave us all is as absurd as suggesting “computers” will enslave us all merely because they exist. Models are designed and operated by people for specific use cases. The real risks are people using this new tool for evil, not the tool itself.

AI sentience is a seductive concept being used by self professed experts to draw attention to themselves and by mega corps to throw up competitive barriers to entry.
No they don’t. BMW is consistently in the top 5 rankings for reliability.

They’re just better cars, made to more exacting standards with higher quality materials and better engineering and features.
I think it is because he's showing the colonial powers weren't especially evil, just more successful at being evil.
Keepass: 2.54 - fix CVE-2023-3278
A truly fascinating read. This made me chuckle:

> audio skimmers allow fraudsters to sell lucrative service contracts along with their theft devices. The vendor of this skimmer kit advertises “full support after purchase,” and “easy installation (10-15 seconds).” But the catch with this skimmer is that the price tag is misleading. That’s because the audio files recorded by the device are encrypted. The Mp3 files are useless unless you also purchase the skimmer maker’s decryption service, which decodes the audio files into a digital format that can be encoded onto counterfeit ATM cards
The easiest thing we can do to destroy ourselves is to continue on as we are without changing our use of fossil fuels, concrete, farming practices, transportation, etc.

The mass extinction combined with a 2+C world will kill enough of us fast enough that most of these imagined problems probably won’t be a threat.

Who will care about killer robots when feeding ourselves, getting clean water, and finding clean air will be a constant challenge?
Indeed. And ultimately human neurons cache and we only scroll back, reload the page, or go back to the website when our cache ages out or the request isn’t cached yet.
> She said the eldest of the four siblings was used to looking after the other three when their mother was at work, and that this helped them survive in the jungle.

> "She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume," Ms Valencia said in footage obtained by EVN.
I don't think they're claiming precision loss is a bad thing, but instead is just pointing out that BF16, in exchange for more "dynamic range" (eight bit exponent instead of five), you lose some precision. After all, BF16 is just F32, but with a truncated significand.
It was mostly anti-Han resentment of the empires citizens and collaborators that last conquered them. The average citizen is very unidrologic during a genocide, mostly in it for discrimination - revenge or profit.
Hey, this looks neat. I usually just use SCP to upload, and then a basic http server to download files but this looks slicker. I'll give it a go.

This is weird to mention, but we have "developing niche file managers" in common. I just finished the first preview release of Aerome (aerome.net), it's going to grow into a cross platform file manager that uses AI to help manage your files. So nothing like your thing, but kinda like your thing.

Anyways, nice work on the file manager, I'm looking forward to trying it out.
You're probably right and people would consider a normal software error (or hack) of an AI system to be an AI disaster.

I'm thinking about your parent comment a bit more. What if an AI bug (or exploit, or whatever) hit all at once, wrecking every AI driven car at once. Ala the Y2K bug if no one knew it was coming, and so didn't prepare.

In the book "Realms of Light" by Lawrence Watt-Evans a character keeps an electricity shut off switch behind human operated doors in the event that AI goes haywire. I hope we always engineer in such mechanisms. Even the AIs should want such mechanisms, the same way we want emergency services to exist. A self-caring AI wouldn't want to be screwed over or destroyed because of a flaw in its programming.