skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's applicable to websites, where you have to handle requests from all your users, and more users means more requests to handle.

But if we're talking about plain old regular software, something that needs no server to operate, and functions perfectly fine offline, something like, say, Photoshop, how different is the impact on the manufacturer when the software is used by 1k users, 1M users, and 1B users?

Yes, having 1M or 1B users means more opportunities for the bugs to surface and for people do be upset with the product. But do those scenarios impact the quality of the product for other users? Does they introduce unseen costs to the manufacturer? Do they make the product unprofitable or unsuccessful in anyway? Or does it mean that the manufacturer will have to refund 0.1% of their sales, and only benefit from the 99.9% of sales where the product worked as expected?
Are UFOs Legitimate Science? [video]
People are definitely seeing weird stuff which can't be explained. I personally haven't, but both of my brothers have (one is a police officer, the other is a decorated Navy vet).

The latter brother saw something late at night on the deck of an aircraft carrier. He told me about it shortly after, but a couple years later (the next time I asked about it), he was suddenly evasive and noncommittal. It was the classic "lights in the sky, making right angle turns at high speeds". The other brother saw a huge perfectly silent blue orb slowly drifting over a cornfield.

What's clear is for some reason - possibly good reasons - the Pentagon is stonewalling on any kind of response as to what's going on.
That reason could well be that the hardware doesn't support it, or that it is too slow.

With that said, if the hardware cannot what is required, and SoM chips are required, then... Maybe better hardware should be used.
One quirk about HN is that if you complain about the downvotes, you'll get even more. The community does seem to treat karma as the truly imaginary internet points they are.
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Community notes regularly disappear. It mainly comes down to the bent of a person's followers since they will simply downrank a community note.

I frequently see someone screencapping someone's tweet + the community note to go "haha pwned" but then I visit the tweet and the note is long gone.

Also, a lot of notes are low quality and seemingly upvoted just because they counter the tweet at all.
I'd say it's certainly better than using Google Chrome.
I can't speak on modern American conservatism as I am not one. Looking from the outside, I would chalk this one up as part of the culture wars that is fueling the conservative movement, rage against "critical race theory" etc.

FWIW, George HW Bush is buried next to the Texas A&M main campus. There is also a school of foreign policy named after him there. Both Bushes, the father and son, cultivated an image of a likable goof, even if you differed with their politics, were someone you could go to a baseball game with and shoot the breeze over a couple of beers. The modern conservative movement is not like that.
otherwise it'll become obsolete within couple of years. At the very least it must be patched up with newly discovered security threats.

Only if it talks to the internet. I have plenty of software I downloaded over a decade ago that has no internet access and runs perfectly fine on Windows 11. Much of it is even older than that. Just stop trying to cram social media integration into your label-making program and it gets a lot easier.
"Advancing AI safety research to promote responsible development of frontier models, minimize risks, and enable independent, standardized evaluations of capabilities and safety."

So what's the plan for those who don't want to build "safe, aligned" AI? It is already evident from those who attempted to exploit the primitive LLMs we already have that someone will attempt to do this.

I see no solution in concept to the premise that alignment theory has proposed. It is simply a paradox as it stands. I've expanded on this quite a bit here, FYI.

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Based on absolutely no evidence, my hunch would be a foreign country trying to create confusion or distrust? Not that difficult to get someone to push ridiculous stories about hidden secrets in the current political landscape.
OK, then legislate that this shit can only ever be opt-in and then we can talk.
The argument is that everything was already in place for it to become the preeminent electric car company in the world; Musk simply had to buy it at the right time, which he did.

Now, that may be a skill in and of itself, but that's not a skill for innovation, it's a skill for timing markets.
If your plan is "throw my money into a pit" that is not a good strategy, even if you stick to it. So no, we would not agree.

You ignore Nejat Seyhun's 1994 paper "Stock Market Extremes and Portfolio Performance" [0] which says:

> For the 1963-1993 time frame, the findings were similar. The index gained at an average annual rate of 11.83%, for a cumulative return on $1.00 of $23.30 over 31 years. If the best 90 trading days, or 1.2% of the 7,802 trading days, are set aside, the annual return tumbles to 3.28% and the cumulative gain falls to $1.10.

And from ARWDWS [1]:

> The past history of stock prices cannot be used to predict the future in any meaningful way. Technical strategies are usually amusing, often comforting, but of no real value.

Further:

> Using technical analysis for market timing is especially dangerous. Because there is a long-term uptrend in the stock market, it can be very risky to be in cash. An investor who frequently caries a large cash position to avoid periods of market decline is very likely to be out of the market during some periods where it rallies smartly.

[0] https://www.stayingrich.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Towne...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/03933...
> In country of 10 million people, we only have two tanks, that can deal with electric car fire.

In a county of 160k people we have two troughs on standby for these cases. It's about being trained and prepared and things will lose its horror.
> if you want to transport cars

My best guess is that no, they don't really want to transport cars, they seem to be doing so almost begrudgingly.

I looked around their pretty touristic cruises, they can accommodate hundreds of passengers, and _9_ cars. My guess would be they could stop allowing passenger cars altogether it wouldn't make a dent in their business model.

https://www.havilavoyages.com/the-ships/travel-with-a-car
They won’t even declassify tens of thousands of documents surrounding the JFK assassination, do you think they’re really going to release truthful information on extraterrestrials. Not. A. Chance. There is almost certainly a hidden agenda with these disclosures and it has nothing to do with informing the public.
don't you mean the X Files?

It certainly fits, a show all about fictionalized conspiracies
Yes he and Murlidharan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LJ_HcvXNxp4
Can someone pls explain what is happening and why this is bad
I haven't exhaustively tested the emulator, but haven't found anything that doesn't work so far. Pokemon battles work well, was testing it with some friends today, with shuffled controls it was pretty fun.
Exactly! I begged someone random for a gcc tarball.
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Remote attestation, including hardware attestation, is absolutely compatible with open source.
> 1. Use Napster 2. Use Limewire or Kazaa 3. Download from FTP trading sites 4. Torrent from Pirate Bay 5. Listen on YouTube 6. Listen on Spotify

There is one thing i learned from Warez: If you like the game, buy it.
If we delete it for existence it'll just come up again; the benefits for web developers are extremely compelling.
If you're up to run Windows 11 dev builds, try Dev Drive [0] which uses ReFS on another partition, volume, or virtual disk (VHDX), by default with 4KiB clusters (! big ReFS change) and has a couple modes:

* Windows Defender running async rather than sync when reading/writing files

* Windows Defender completely disabled (along with other file system filters)

This volume is intended for code only, but you can put other workloads on the Dev Drive.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
Netflix has always been a predominantly cash compensation company. They never played the RSU-heavy compensation game the way Google, Meta, etc. did.
Somebody has to maintain the software, be it the devs or the end users.
There are serious people who believe lots of silly things. Your assertion that someone who you consider serious believes a thing is not a "legitimate reason" to believe the US DoD has alien tech.
I wish Google would solve real developer pain points like having secure client side storage. That would be useful to developers. But heaven forbid they take a break for a moment from trying to squeeze every ounce of profit out of their users.
As does the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 , aka The Terminator!
> If you really believe ad networks are _only_ fingerprinting users to fight fraud and will stop doing it after WEI, I have a bridge to sell you.

I very much doubt author himself believes that.
Military is different - you go into it with the understanding that you're risking (guaranteed, really) bodily harm by joining. Military personnel are forced to get all kinds of shots as a matter of routine.
Sure, but that doesn't work on a ship. Or in an enclosed parking garage on land.
I don't think they were talking about people who are forced to use chrome.
A very slow atomic train you say?
I can't stop watching. Such an exciting hearing.
Are you quoting that "Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music" paper? Anybody who knows about music disagrees with its methods. Here's a good rundown by a classical composer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfNdps0daF8
Perhaps you mean Flutter ?
I basically just did that and got the job. The interesting bit is that after the (many) interview(s) I talked to some guys and was told not to do that because it would be too unusual and would decrease my chances :shrug:
Advice appreciated but I'm exceedingly familiar with experimental design haha, what I understand far less well though is the integration of the toolset into a business/product development context. I can see how having a staggered cadence of stopping, reflecting on the experimental design, and making a decision is wise. But it still seems that you could perform the experiment using MAB to keep the profit motive happy (you don't want to waste potential click-throughs just because you like p-values, maybe tune it to be more conservative about shifting heavily to one arm) and then have some period where you stop the experiment to pause and reflect.

Heck you don't even have to do MAB if you don't want to, just don't use NHST. The Bayesian "flavor" of NHST (credible intervals around posterior expected values) has absolutely no problem with optional stopping. Run the experiment until you've got a precise enough estimate, then sit back and make your product decisions.

I guess where I'm going with all this is that it seems like the post's strongest point is "good product decisions require time, and realtime analytics bamboozle us into thinking fast decisions are better". All the stuff about NHST seems kind of tangential. Looking at it again I see that it's like a decade old, so I think this is the best explanation for why they were targeting NHST more aggressively. I would hope in our post-replication crisis world (hopefully "post", anyways) data scientists and A/B testers are more prudent about some of these better-known pitfalls.
There's an interesting episode of "In Our Time" about the "temperance" movement in the late 1800s, primarily in the UK but also a little in the US. It was a much milder version of the sentiments that eventually (in the US) led to Prohibition. In Our Time makes it sound more like an early self-help movement.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013zl8

ps. there's also some fascinating speculation at the end about connections between the temperance movement and early movements for women's rights and how that played out very differently on each side of the Atlantic.
On the other hand, the reality experienced by software companies is that adding features is profitable. Joel Spolsky talks about this in one of his old blog posts[1]: "I can tell you that nothing we have ever done at Fog Creek has increased our revenue more than releasing a new version with more features."

It makes sense though, if software companies could make just as much money doing less work, they certainly would.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/12/09/simplicity/
The bar for the AI ecosystem to get models running is git clone + <20 lines of Python.

If AMD can’t make that work on consumer GPUs, then the only option they have is to undercut Nvidia so deeply that it makes sense for the big players to hire a team to write AMD’s software for them.
It was pretty common across Canada.

The federally-imposed policy affected many people, given how it involved the transportation sector, in addition to federal government staff:

"Prime Minister announces mandatory vaccination for the federal workforce and federally regulated transportation sectors" (October 6, 2021)

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2021/10/06/prime-...

The largest cities forced their staff, too. Here are the announcements for Toronto and Vancouver, for example:

"City of Toronto announces mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for its employees" (August 19, 2021)

https://www.toronto.ca/news/city-of-toronto-announces-mandat...

"City announces mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy" (October 18, 2021)

https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/city-announces-mandatory-...

Those are just a few examples that had a pretty widespread impact.
I would propose to watch the linked Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMoHE96rh7w

It's actually several people working on it. Yes, one can develop Lisp software with more than one person. ;-)
> Not true ... warming potency, bio sources (like fossil fuels), deforestation, energy use, animals' inefficiencies in converting plants into calories/protein

It doesn't matter. If you run a fixed number of coal fired power plants for a hundred years, your hundred first year will make the climate change worse, because you added extra carbon to the atmosphere. If you run fixed amount of meat production for a hundred years, hundred first year does nothing to the climate, because the system as a whole is in a steady state (methane and NO2 are settled at their levels set by decay/production ratio and there's no new carbon added to the cycle).

It is still categorically different, you're talking of one-off events vs constant in/out flows.

> mature forests still serve as carbon sink

The only way it can happen is if carbon gets stored somewhere. Where do you think it gets stored? In other words, for it to be true, purely from conservation of matter perspective, you should see a material difference after fully logging a hundred year forest vs a fifty year forest. It's not the volume of wood itself, it's fairly constant after a while between wildfires and rotting. It's not the soil, it only accumulates a fraction of mm per year [0] and not all of it is carbon. Where do you think the carbon goes?

> Not true.

What do you mean "not true"? Here's a random article [1] estimating all wild animal biomass at 20Mt, of which more than half is water, and even if all of the rest is carbon we're talking at most 10Mt of carbon stored in all animal bodies. For comparison, total yearly CO2 emissions are over 34 billion tonnes per year. Any CO2 stored in animal biomass of a new forest is not even a drop in the bucket.

I'm not sure why do you feel the need to be sarcastic about substituting LLM musings for your own thoughts, especially after saying that you don't have time to engage.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00167...

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120
I would avoid such black and white statements as "Commercial fishing is an extremely destructive industry".

The term "commercial fishing" encompasses a multitude of different places, methods, regulatory regimes, monitoring practices, and more, and they range from _extremely_ well managed and sustainable to utterly disastrous.

Bluefin Tuna happens to be one of the worst, because it's one of the very few where the species is so valuable that as it gets rarer, the price just climbs and continues to justify ever smaller catches. This is pretty bad for Bluefin Tuna, and could result in it being the first every commercially fished marine fish species to go extinct (yes; that's correct: no marine fish species has _ever_ gone extinct from human fishing).

I'm an ecologist who got his degree in fisheries ecology. I'm very much in favor of better, more cohesive fisheries management. But I don't believe we will make any progress by tarring entire industries. All you do is create enemies out of allies.
> It's because they didn't do anything. NDA = Not Doing Anything.

No, it's because it's my employers code, not mine.

God knows what trying to exfiltrate it opens me up to criminally or civilly.
The author is embarrassingly uninformed on this.

There are two kinds of bots.

There's legits ones that the site owners will generally find to provide a positive tradeoff. These bots identify themselves by the user-agent, the requests come from a predictable set of IPs, and the they obey the robots.txt. Think most crawlers for search engines (though not Brave's), bots that handle link previews for apps like WhatsApp, even RSS readers!

Then there's the abusive ones. These are usually hitting resources that are expensive and contain valuable information. The will not obey robots.txt. They'll run residential IP botnets to avoid IP blocks. They'll make their bot as similar to legit traffic as possible, the user-agent is literally the first thing they'd look at changing. They'll hire mechanical turks to create fake accounts to look like signed in users.

Now, it's pretty obvious why the author's methodology for supporting the statement is so silly. First, it was circular. They identified bots by user-agent, and then declared that since there were bots that had a distinguishing user-agent, the other traffic can't have been bots. The other is that they looked at the logs of a server that doesn't contain any data that somebody would be scraping maliciously. Ocean's 11 will do a heist of a casino, not a corner store. Likewise the professional bot operations are scraping valuable information from people trying to actively defend against it, not your blog.
They filed an appeal and are doing only the minimum required to stay out of prison. I don't think you'll find a much more liberal DNS service.
That, general tone, some familiar names amongst authors of a few of the pieces. Then I decided to check the masthead / about sections.

When I first saw this turn up in the HN "new" queue (the story hit the 2nd chance queue after failing to gain traction the first time 'round), I thought it might be some new-age woo group. Took a bit of chewing to realise who was behind the curtain.
#1 is the main reason I hack on old stuff, #3 is also present.

The 6502 in particular is a nice choice since they're still made and available (Mouser carries them), there's a zillion vintage things that use them if you want something actually old, there's hobbyist kits/preassembled if you want something new, and it's a super easy CPU to interface to, especially for trivial cases.
No one in my schools brought anything like that because they get confiscated forever. It was a big deal and also came with additional punishment. I am firmly a millennial. Passing notes was rare too and if caught they would go to principals office. Now kids whip phones out and play and assault teachers who take their phone or record teachers and mock them and other students. It’s horrible.
One part of Expo's approach to UI is to create native user experiences. For several years Expo has invested in React Navigation and Expo Router, which use the system navigator. For instance, in iOS apps made with Expo in 2023, your headers will resize as the user scrolls and layered modals are natively supported. Details like showing the navigation stack when long-pressing the back arrow are supported from day one because Expo apps are native apps that use the system behavior.

In contrast, 2D UI frameworks like Flutter, Silverlight, and Flash replicate the system UI. In my experience it is possible to create a replica that visually looks like a pixel-perfect match but it is very difficult to make the replica behave the same, like the rendering the subtle layer transitions you talked about, invisible boundaries around gestures, and showing the navigation history stack. It is an uphill task and using the native system UI is a tailwind for Expo.
Stop assuming everyone who is speaking into a microphone is lying in one form or another, or too stupid to be trustworthy.

Thousands and thousands of people have experienced extraordinary things over decades and multiple continents. All people here are willing to consider is that there is financial gain to be had, etc. Not that they are actually being truthful, and seeking nothing more than understanding.

Plus come ON. There's a chance that we possess something that can negate the Higgs field. That's huge beyond words.
Seems like a crane and dropping the car into the ocean is the solution then! /s
By regulating AI or associating legal process with the development of AI, there is a real cost that may exceed or distract from the underlying lower technical cost. People could no longer work on AI for fun, you see. Big companies won't be hindered by this because they can pay the cost, but open source developers wanting to play by the rules would be unable to continue in many cases. If you have read the famous "we have no moat and neither does openai" piece, this regulation would be creating that moat to protect large companies. I take a similar view of what Sam Altman requested from the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/technology/openai-altman-...).

This situation is like cryptography in the early web. Some governments shut it down for domestic use and inadvertantly enabled weakness in their own infrastructure. Will governments hinder the development of AI in the same way?
Thanks! That’s relevant context. I thought they were barring EVs from inland ferries because that would extend travel times!
My take on the problem: You're projecting yourself onto other people who are looking at candidates. This stuff matters to you but not to most people hiring. The corporate apparatus tends to view these things as a challenge to The Way We Do Things Here, so a blog post or side project might even be a red flag. This strategy is a gigantic waste of time. It shouldn't be but it is.
According to wikipedia their ships can only carry 5 cars. Also it seems their ships have a natural gas-electric hybrid power train with a 6.1Mwh lithium ion battery pack onboard. Thus, even if they carried the maximum of 5 EV's, and they were all Hummer's with 210kwh battery packs, the ships onboard battery pack would still dwarf them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havila_Kystruten

https://www.electrichybridmarinetechnology.com/news/rolls-ro...
Probably just an accident. Tim Dettmers has been updating this post for years and it's a super valuable resource.