skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given its graphic nature I would vectorize it. You can compress it more if you clean it up in PS first.

https://vectorizer.ai/images/1695712791489-52152002c3989318-...
I know. I said exactly what I meant to say.
Yes, they likely will not hold till I am old, but till then they are working and it was less invasive, than an implant. So one day I likely will have implants, or if I am lucky, I might skip that and just regrow a tooth, if this tech will advance. In any case, the tech will be better in the future (unless worse stuff happens).
Those who step up get to set the course of humanity. There is a lack of high quality political leadership and Moloch is the primary deity in the temples of capitalism.

You could argue something similar happened with cars, which continue to shape American culture and development.

I think AI tools have the chance to help make the world a much better place, but it all depends on how it's handled and implemented.

Personally, I don't trust any single group or person with the full power of AI, so I'm hoping open source models regulate any potential power imbalances.
Does Google or other search engines block sites that have instructions on how to make a dirty bomb?
The mathematical model of the universe is part of mathematics.
About time. PDF has been a superior ad better supported alternative for over two decades. That some people still rely on this flawed thirty year old software is puzzling to me.
While the thrust of your argument is correct, you're missing an important point. There are infinite number of rational numbers between any rational a and b as well, and the rational number don't have the concept of the 'next' number either. Yet the rationals are Countable.

The argument as to why the irrational numbers are uncountable and the rationals are countable is more involved than what you've made out. But very simply you can think of it as you need an infinite string of digits to describe each irrational number, but each rational number can be written as two finite strings of digits (in the form A/B, where A and B are integers). So to write our the irrationals you have an infinite number of strings, where each string is also infinitely long, while with the rationals you have an infinite number of strings, but each string is finite.
Minimum usage example: https://github.com/byronka/minum_usage_example_smaller
> My experience completely laughs in the face of this, probably because I've never used Instagram or TikTok, and deleted my Facebook account a decade ago. But the friendships I've had online have been far closer and more engaging than anything that I could have ever had with a "Real Human".

Sometimes you live in an area where people hold different values than you, or have hobbies that are pretty far detached from what you'd prefer to do. Maybe they have political leanings that don't make you comfortable, or kind of expect you to participate in those activities that you don't care for, to fulfill your "role" in society.

In those cases, finding interest groups and communities online that aren't limited to incidentally being in your proximity feels like a good thing! Same for various support groups, or even being able to find information online easily nowadays by content creators!

Nothing wrong with any of that at all. In addition, it's also easier to handle people that you don't want to engage with (blocking) vs IRL. Just watch out for parasocial aspects and takes by terminally online people or influencers.
>ZERO have ever been tested

Wait what? There were specific nuclear EMP tests. And sure, in any realistic nuclear war scenario EMP is just an unpredictable byproduct like your link says, but that doesn't make it fantasy I believe?
Hmmm, maybe manufacturing of generic drugs (in a non-dodgy way) would be an option?

Doing it properly though would probably take some decent up-front investment.

... unless it's insulin or other "cheap and easy to manufacture" type of generic.

No idea how expensive the needed quality control / testing / etc would be to set up though.
thanks a lot for your work!

flow-queuing for the mainstream is a godsend in the information age.
> When I looked at jq source code in 2013, I noticed it used flex and possibly yacc/bison. No idea if it still does.

It has bison and flex files in the source code currently.

> jq uses flex in the creation of a language interpreter intended^1 to process any JSON. I use flex not to create a language interpeter but to process only JSON from a single source. The blog author uses shell script to process JSON from a single source.^2 I think of the use I make of flex as like a compiled shell script. It's faster.

Like, you have a flex template and you fill in with ad-hoc C code? Nice, would find it more readable than a jq script, although a basic jq script is just a mix of bash and javascript and when I grok it for the 123th time (because it's innatural, odd, inside a shell) it gets better.
Really annoying when these websites/services do not state clearly that they are operating only in US. Am I just suppose to guess it by the fact that phone number validation is US one?
Why is that particularly pernicious?
He's done a lot of stupid things with twitter, but having a significant reduction in headcount doesn't seem to have been one of them. (The way he did it was awful, but that's a different matter.)
hehe same https://github.com/paprikka/dotfile-paella
> I think the time has come when android and ios should make a special versions of their online shops for children and teenagers and simply ban those types of games from those shops.

IMHO this shouldn't [have to] be any of Apple or Google's business. It's a parent's responsibility to parent their child, not some conglomerate's.
> Each base station can only handle 8 simultaneous phone calls

Perhaps you are confusing that each GSM transceiver (TRX) provides 8 time-division channels with call capacity, but most cells and specifically the BTS in GSM parlance, especially any in a well populated area have/had way more than one transceiver. 30-40 was not unheard of in later equipment, though 10 or so was more typical. Late in GSM's life there was another technique to squeeze more channels, OSC.

Furthermore those 8 TDMA slots could be split in 1/2 or 1/4 with lower rate codecs, so it was more than 8 per TRX as well.

anything bigger than a picocell would carry way more than 8 simultaneous calls.

> Some large conferences have had base stations with their range measured in single digit meters (<30 ft)

Femtocells are still a thing today. Not so much to do with frequency capacity.
> With quadlets, the only thing required is to drop a `.container` file in the right place and you end up with a container properly supervised by `systemd`.

Is it? He defines a .network file in that butane config without it won't work. Not really obvious. I'm sure this has a use-case and it's nice to have but personally I'm not convinced. You can switch on user-namespaces in docker-daemon or even run docker itself rootless - I guess if you are in Redhat land and use podman anyway it's an alternative but for instance where is this thing logging into? journalctl --user? Can I use a logshipper like loki with this? Is there something like docker compose config that shows the fully rendered configuration? I personally don't see the point and it feels like overly complicated.
I would love to see this analysis applied to mainstream dating apps, which I'm convinced are rigged exactly like casino games. You win often enough to feel lucky, but infrequently enough to keep you paying and pushing buttons hoping to win more.
>I wasn’t around for the 90s edition of windows phone

I was ... and worked on mobile apps and windows CE.
I proposed an app like Tinder back then, but management decided there was no market for it.

I guess execution is everything.
Suit yourself. I'm not going to make your case for you.
Most owners buy one then realize:
- they can't legally use them wherever they want them and there are finally very little areas you can really use them
- they can't use them in FPV mode or without seeing the drone.

Then decide if they want to break or follow the law. Most people not wanting to break the law will let the drone collect dust after a handful of use, those that break the law will eventually lost it at some point or get bored.

I think the only people who really keep using them are travel vloggers and they have sometimes issues at border control and usually need to ask permissions and pay taxes to be able to fly and record stuff near a particular place. Usually they only get permission because they are well known and would boost tourism.
I can understand applying some basic consistent styling to application windows (such as the title bar, scroll bars, etc), but unilaterally changing icons within the applications seems crazy.
>He, like many engineers, think intelligence is a kind of engineering; so you just need to build something that works.

Intelligence is what intelligence is. You don't know what it is even if you dearly believe you do. Nobody really does. We construct ways to probe it, at least to probe the aspects of it we find useful.

>That latter impulse resigns the whole field to cheap mimicry.

"Mimicry" is an assertion that is essentially meaningless. You mean to tell me the plane is fake flying ? Lol Okay. The bee might just as well accuse a bird of mimicry. This is a very rubbish line of argument an astonishing number of people seem to have trapped themselves in. The idea that internal processes matter anything more than a means to an end.
Most people aren't sysadmins. The registry is inaccessible to them.
I am currently staying at a Steigenberger hotel in Luxor, Egypt. Their account on booking.com is hacked so badly that right at the moment booking is made they send you a message to not reply to any messages coming from them asking to pay on the website outside booking.com. Several months later they messaged me asking to pay on the dodgy website completely copying the UI of booking.com.
> -- with full knowledge of what they were doing -- engaged in self-enrichment schemes that they knew would leave investors holding a worthless bag

Honestly, kinda based.
Ok, I think the average american farmer has way bigger field, but here in germany, there are often small patches of fields, so it might be expensive, but not soo expensive that quite some farmers would care to not spray on a windy day, as long as they can cover their fields (and their organic neibhor then cannot sell his products as organic).
No, it's quite surprising once you train yourself to notice any passing reference.
I mean the best part about open source and Linux is that you have choice. Do you want to run an OS devoid of SystemD? Fine. Will you be going against the tide and leaving a large part of the ecosystem behind? Yup.

I’ve chosen to embrace systemd and learn it as it is the defacto standard it seems rather than fight what I think is a futile war against it. That being said. I won’t force you to use it if you don’t. But I do not see quadlets using systemd as a failing.
An article [1] from Redhat has this excerpt:

> The original Quadlet repository describes Quadlet this way:

>> What do you get if you squash a Kubernetes kubelet? A quadlet

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
naturally the question was not targeting natural languages
I am pretty sure you broke some laws in the process.
The trouble, perhaps, is that the only ways of measuring performance tend to be financial.

Perhaps a poll of the employees, or an association of customers, ought to figure somewhere.
That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
I have an old iPhone SE (2016) in the drawer at home, with a backup Google Authenticator and passwords backup by iCloud. It doesn't need a separate phone plan, or even any other network connection to function as a backup 2FA/password manager. Network (wifi) access is useful to keep the password data synced (which I scheduled for myself to check manually once a month).
We all have the same 24 hours in a day, yet some people seem to accomplish so much more than others. The difference often lies in how time is managed. In this article, we'll explore 20 common time-wasting habits that can disrupt your day and provide insights on how to avoid them.
Rocky and Alma are the bad actors who caused this.
I assume they mean because a service like this is tied to specific time of day rather than an activity.

e.g. you might take some pills right after you wake up and some pills right before you go to bed.

If you wake up every day at 7am and go to sleep at 11pm then that's easy, but if your schedule is constantly fluctuating (go to bed at 8am and waking up at 3pm) I can imagine how it might become confusing.
This is a common misconception of the meaning of model performance. AI safety effectively means adjusting the objective function to penalize some undesirable outcomes. Since the objective function is no longer absolute task performance model performance doesn't go down - it is simply being evaluated differently. The user may be unhappy - they can't build their dirty bomb - but the model creator isn't using user happiness as the only consideration. They are trying to maximise user happiness without straying outside whatever safety bounds they have set up.

In that sense it is mathematically equivalent to (say) applying an L2 regularization penalty to reduce the occurrance of higher-order terms when fitting a polynomial. Strictly it will produce a worse fit on your training data, however it is done because out of sample performance is important.
> if you want that, use 'the north of England'

The rest of us do, but it’s mostly English posting here so you’ll just see “the north” so it’s unclear if they are really talking about the UK or not. I came across some beer from “the north” in Stirling recently and it was from Leeds.
Tesla Optimus can now sort objects autonomously
Interested about your logic, what did you like about pre-LLM AGI? The "maximize utility function at any cost" feature? The single-minded focus on beating people in games?

It's quite terrifying how, as we've chosen an apparently very easy path to bake our preferences and quirks into intelligent systems, people became very "responsible" and concerned for survival of human race, parroting alarmist rhetoric that precedes not only LLMs, but even RL successes of early Deepmind and just cites vague shower thoughts of Bostrom and such non-technical ilk. Say what you want about LLMs but there's zero credible reason to perceive them as a more risky approach!
You'd think, but as the old saying goes: clogs to clogs in three generations.

(Meaning: the first generation starts off poor, is self made, hands over to the second generation which is less dynamic, which hands over to the third who wreck it and end up poor clog wearers again)
> I think John Carmack genuinely cares about users.

What makes you think that?

He worked at one of the most user-hostile companies on the planet for a decade, and only left because he wasn't happy with its operating efficiency.

Someone with that mentality might make technological progress on their own, but I'm not confident that they value morals and human safety over technology. His dismissive comments about AGI safety are certainly a concern.
ASCIIpOrtal: A Portal Game You Can Play in Your Terminal (2019)
Maybe actually selling genuine parts for repair would be better brand protection.
I don't see the connection. Can you elaborate?
I don't see how anyone could provide what you are asking for. I can go through my chat history and find a prompt that got a better answer 3 months ago than I get now, but you can always just say it's nondeterminism.

Without access to the old model, I can't collect samples with n > 1
> “We have successfully [compromised] all of [Sony’s] systems,” Ransomed.vc proclaimed. “We won’t ransom them! We will sell the data. Due to Sony not wanting to pay. DATA IS FOR SALE. WE ARE SELLING IT.”

The key detail. If Sonys not willing to pay these 6000 files are not important.
But how many grenades can it carry?
Wow.. what a step backwards. Id never put anything on SF intentionally.
This describes my frustration using Tinder. Every mobile app, regardless of its purpose or theme, has become like this.

> I hope some random King employee looked at my cancelled account with so many puzzles solved and yet so few lollipop hammers used and felt a little pang of defeat.

Nope, the low paid employee in scam-center somewhere in Balkans, Eastern Europe, or South Asia doesn't care. This is not a tournament against some super mind, it's addictive money drain run by lowlifes.
The 8 looks seriously amazing.

I'm almost tempted to try to wait another year till the next generation (Hopefully with swappable batteries and UWB in the base model), but the battery on my current phone is a bit worn.
I don't know if it's yaml or jinja, but variations of https://mastodon.communick.com/@raphael/111059057995356737 keeps me wishing that we dropped all these formats and just adopted some type of lisp that could be embedded in all languages.
Do you mean the seatbelts in the car I drove to the airport at? Or the elevator inspections on the elevator I took from the 4th floor of the parking garage? Maybe the lack of smoking in the airport, or on the airplane? The regular aircraft inspections? Or the regulations on pilot hours? Laws on alcohol consumption for them? How about the emergency exits? Or the oxygen masks. Are these examples that I came up with off the top of my head quite the opposite of unimpeachable good?
Any idea or motivation where all these hacks the last week are coming from?
I googled that exact phrase (and put on the kettle for the visit I'll soon get). The first page was all government related resources on how to deal with terrorist attacks.

If not outright blocked, instructions do seem to be weighted down.
You could remove LEGO completely and it wouldn’t take us any closer to solving real problems. It’s just a waste of time.
You can have all the best and lovely EV tech. ever, but until and unless electricity prices come down, and "filling up" an EV with stored energy is cheaper than filling up an ICE or hybrid vehicle, AND you get the same range in an EV that you can with an ICE vehicle, then EV's - currently - aren't a rational and wise choice for the average consumer.

Electricity prices are going through the roof here in the UK, which is one of the reasons why second-hand EV prices are plummeting here; because your average Joe in the UK simply doesn't want one and the cost of recharging one is pretty bad.

And let's talk about having to inevitably replace an EV battery after a few years - the prices of replacement EV batteries are ridiculous.

And let's talk about going on a long trip in an EV and having to stop for a long time, relatively frequently compared to stopping for a short time less frequently to refuel an ICE vehicle.

I also cannot wait for the inevitable day when - after we all go fully electric - we get one of those lovely Carrington Events and oh dear, power grids have gone down for weeks and we don't have ICE backups to keep us running (that's a bigger problem not just related to EV's though).

EDIT: Thanks for the lovely downvotes and even the insulting accusation that I'm some sort of shill for Shell, or something. (I'm not; if only I could have a nice cheque from the oil companies, eh? But if it made the person who accused me feel better about themselves...). I've obviously triggered the EV zealots who are utterly convinced that EVs are the way to go - yet don't take into account that not everyone lives in a "15 minutes city" (shudder) and that for a lot of people in the UK, EVs are currently both unaffordable AND impractical."

Sure - disagree with my opinion. But downvoting it into HN oblivion? Nasty. Accusing me of being an oil shill? Nastier still.

I'll stick to my Prius hybrid that just keeps on running - and the new Prius we're getting delivered soon, thank you very much.

p.s. CO2 does not control the weather or the many thousands of climates around the plane; it's a completely ridiculous premise that a trace gas at 0.04% of the atmosphere (Of which humans contribute 3% - what's 3% of 0.04%?) in any way justifies all the Net Zero insanity everywhere. There. That oughta give you valid conniptions.
Not at all. It's just that they have reached high visibility in some markets - mobile, concretely. It's a combination of marketing engineering and tacit complicity on the part of Apple/Google.
TIL SIP blocks chroot. I wonder why?
For what it's worth I have fond memories of Daikatana.

Sure it was buggy as hell (at lest the build I had and how it behaved on my specific machine) and had a ton of flaws, and I could not complete the game due to a particular bug, but I could not help but feel something happening deep down inside this game. Frustratingly I can't exactly put my finger on it, but if I tried it'd be like I was reading between the lines^Wissues and in a way experienced that instead of the thing you directly interacted with.

And that wasn't because of the hype as it was handed over to me among a pile of other discs before I even heard of it (which is what happens when you live in some random remote area).
I setup an old phone just for that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37655746). It acts more as a backup key than as a backup smartphone. Just like with house/car/bike keys, having a spare in case of loss/theft can save you a lot of hassle.
I thought it was half a K8s.
Yes, in addition to traditional casino tactics, they also employ false community/social manipulation/ group psychology (aka guilds/clans), bullying/targeting, abuser/savior bait and switch, resource devaluation treadmills, and others
> I am complaining about the misapplication of science toward predicting the future, not that the article is on the home page.

Right. The sentence about the front page is just a comparison, because the complaints are similar. Sorry if it was not clear.

There are 4 points just above at least partly addressing your misapplication of science point.
I think no one has actually made a nutrition facts label here, but when you are making it, it is sooo easy to manipulate it to get what you want and in practice, most of the customers, like 85-90% of them don’t look at the serving size, they just look at how much and get deceived. I think most food companies know this deep down and use it.
Can't do without : Science progresses one funeral at a time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
Since when making math operations on a bunch of text is dangerous????
I know for a fact that there's at least one company (that I can't name) that offers what I would call "Addiction as a Service".

Their system allows to create n-dimensional currency systems (coins, diamonds, etc), currency conversion rules, collectible management, in-game stores with their schedules, crafting/merging logic, probability distributions (including "dark distributions" like OP's link) and even prices (for profitability hints/warnings). Basically everything a fleecing game needs. They even offer templates inspired in famous games to get you started and tune as you go.

They charge quite a bit, but the "foundational app" upfront cost is much lower: it's limited to UI and a relatively thin business logic that targets their API endpoint (mostly mapping API ids to in-game assets and use or server-side logic).
I am complaining because in today's world where rationality is under siege, articles that cite "science" as a way to turn divination into fact don't do service to true scientific method.
It will log to wherever you configure. By default, the journal. And [0]:

> Currently, Promtail can tail logs from two sources: local log files and the systemd journal (on AMD64 machines only).

Whether it supports user services, I don't know.

[0] https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/
Or create more problems.
> these models can only interpolate between points included in its training set, can only mix what has already been done

You've just described Art. All art is in response to previous art, usually a variation of the same, but with a new twist (that tries to stand defiant/transcendent of the past).