skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concept of intellectual property came about at the same time that slavery was fading away. Essentially at the time when people progressed into something better than basic primates that thought enslaving one another is a good idea. So technically speaking advocates for the abolition of copyright are projecting a reversal of progress. I want actual ai that actually learns and that doesnt rely on brute forcing simulated intelligence using a clever mix of people’s ideas. By tolerating this fakery you are really just handing over the bastardisation of the holy grail of tech - ai - to a handful of grifters who’s success relies on taking what’s mine for free and giving it to others for a fee. At scale and with government protection.
”The volume of security issues being identified over the last month have [sic] outstripped the capacity of Engineering teams to resolve”… Rather than address these vulnerabilities, SolarWinds and Brown engaged in a campaign to paint a false picture of the company’s cyber controls

I read this is as we are sinking and we will take all of our customers down with us.
What definition of transaction relates to a notice about holiday hours?
Research Talk: Storing Data for Millenia – Microsoft Project Silica [video]
They did WGS for a research project. BUt it's not part of their normal product line.
I suspect what will actually happen is that they'll take your money, but once you need the coverage _then_ they will suddenly realize that you're predisposed to that and refuse to hand out the money. That is, they will take the bet and then reuse the payout.
"Autists ignore the herd mentality" in other words.
Did u try VoyageAI’s new embedding models for this?
To argue against how I actually feel for the purpose of discussion: If public officials are required to allow the public to piggyback off of their pulpit, does this extend to in-person interactions? Should removing people who interrupt a political speech be banned? If a public official can't block someone, can they block their ability to see the comments? If not, and they are required to clockwork orange the feedback, should they be required to have social media accounts?
Google requires senders to use the `List-Unsubscribe-Post` and `List-Unsubscribe` headers, which use a POST request to avoid this problem.

Details: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#zippy=%2Crequir...

(I work for Google, but on something totally unrelated, and don't speak for them or have any inside knowledge. I was just curious and looked it up.)
I might be missing something here. What does this have to do with this article concerning ASD and the bystander effect.
The issue is: How does a server determine that a message is bulk sent?
> This is of course bringing up the discussion on the "morality" of Adblocking. I'd like to point out something that I don't think is getting enough attention.

Don't forget the flipside, the "morality" of interfering with a user's freedom to selectively ignore certain content.
With microservices, you can also version them independently. In a monolith you can't roll back "a part" of the app to the latest version if you pushed multiple unrelated features at once.
a bit overvalued to begin with, plus not toeing the line drawn by the powers that be
As a general rule of thumb, diseases varients that evolved within mammal type X proliferate the most within mammal type X populations - the varient can jump to mammal type Y but tends to be a relatively rarer occurrence and tends to go with a bit of further evolutionary variation.

FIV is not the same as HIV (Feline, Human, but they're similiar) and so to with prion diseases.

Mad Cow disease came about from feeding large quantities of ground up cow offal from abattoirs mixed up with grains to make 'tasty' feed pellets .. eventually a cow prion disease 'perfected' itself and went on to occassionally(?) affect humans - more common in cows than humans, etc.

With human cannabilism, we know about Kuru from the Fore people in PNG who, like many other groups in the highlands, practiced cannabilism as a mortuary ritual, a funeral practice to retain the essence of someone respected. Kuru was a specific human to human variation that evolved to become more common and overcome the defences against human -> human prion defence I mentioned earlier.

We have other reasons to suspect cannibalism was common elsewhere .. such as the documented European practice of medicinal cannibalism and the fashion of consumming bitumised mummies.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-...

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/eating-mummies-as-medicine

But, ahh, yeah - these days genetics is the thing, markers for defences against human prion diseases are a thing talked about in a group of papers post Kuru.
> you just need to know each juncture where that strand weaves into other strands.

No I don't, that's what computers are for. It's why static analysis is good. Instead of knowing what calls what, you say, "yo, static analysis tool, what calls this?".
Hellow World in Swift
I don't know the legality of this in the EU but often it is required that you opt-in to these marketing emails to create an account or do other basic things on a website.

And then there's those online stores that cover the entire page in a popup that you can get a 20% discount code if you give your email. Technically I've opted into their marketing. But I always just use the coupon and then report the email as spam without bothering to unsubscribe.
I look forward to 2030 when microservices are all the rage. Anyone who avoids the temptation to tear down and rebuild their entire org as a monolith will be way ahead of the curve.
Two days ago I read a comment containing this mention of Revolut, might you be able to counter what was said?

> "And please, do not recommend Revolut, look up their 2021 audit and the lack of 2022 accounts, so far. Not touching that. If and when they can convince the brits they are gucci I will take a look, not until."

By user chx at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047491 (end of that comment)

I'll reply to their comment too, linking here, in case they see it and might have more to add on the subject here.
Touche.

Someone even more cynical than me.

/Still naive after all these years.
> nothing can be done to change one's lot in life

He said nothing of the sort, just that 245k sure helps when you're starting a business. Maybe his dad should have let him fail so he could have thought up a self-sustaining business from the get go.
Because I don't need or want:

- confirmation of my order

- my order has been despatched

- my order is out for delivery

- my order has been delivered to locker

- reminder to collect from locker

- my order has been collected from locker

- feedback on customer support chat experience

- my return label has been generated

- reminder to return my item

- my refund is processing

That's Amazon, in case it's not obvious. I don't need any of that by email, I immediately archive it, and if I want to know I look in my account, not my email. I even have the app installed and notifying me with all of the same and more (I'm spared 'x stops away' by email).
OK I reckon everyone is going to get on the HTMX wagon over the course of the next few months, and it's going to blow a ton of young minds and save a huge amount of global energy and make a lot of people very happy. And then these same inquisitive young people are going to click enough links on htmx.org that they stumble across hyperscript and it's gonna be like that moment in Dusk till Dawn where the vampires come out
Companies developing or demonstrating an intent to develop potential dual-use foundation models to provide the Federal Government, on an ongoing basis, with information, reports, or records ... (i) any model that was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, or using primarily biological sequence data and using a quantity of computing power greater than 10^23 integer or floating-point operations; and (ii) any computing cluster that has a set of machines physically co-located in a single datacenter, transitively connected by data center networking of over 100 Gbit/s, and having a theoretical maximum computing capacity of 10^20 integer or floating-point operations per second for training AI.

Training large models in the US now requires reporting
My take is a bit different. May I quote but edit myself :

2 points by ngcc_hk 2 days ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: Visualizing quaternions (2018)

Once you accept that imaginary number is not about a straight real number but a number about rotation. And you have two number that is not the same, living in different dimensions. One about straight line and one about rotation I.e.

X0 ops X1(another number system ) where X0, X1 is real

You then have complex number or a+ bi where i^2 = -1
And you can have split complex number a+bj where j^2 = 1 etc

The next move is not only the usual quaternions which one can, but to Clifford algebra

x0 ops x1n1 ops x2n2 ops …

xi is all real but
ni is a different number system represent things not on the real number but a different and higher dimension object.

For example, the Clifford Geometry define the 2nd not a i or j but a plane, so you have

x0 + x1<plane> … and so on

with more high dimensional object (especially if one may say x0 is x0<line>).

Like complex number it simplify a lot of things. Spinsor would be easier to define this way say.
Yeah, I think you really hit the nail on the head with this one. I want folks to be held accountable, but considering the forces/incentives at play, I worry what you're left with is a CISO role that no sane person would take, so instead it's just taken by grifters who take the "gambling" route - let's just hope the chance that some major breach happens doesn't do so on my watch, but if it's "damned if I do, damned if I don't", might as well collect a fat paycheck while I see what happens.
No, sorry, it's purely anecdotal. And also more applicable to the last few decades, when other email services were still terrible, than nowadays with many adequate options.

I think I have the opposite preference to you: false positives are OK to me if that means less spam gets through. In fact I've seen many of those notifications in my gmail spam and thought to myself, "Huh, you know, maybe I don't need those that badly after all... I'll just let gmail keep it there."

The overwhelming majority of my human contacts use other channels anyway (some chat app, or SMS), not email. I might get like ten real emails from humans in a year, and even then 90% of them are from people already in my contact list (and so bypass spam).

Phone calls are similar these days. Google Fi/Android also applies a similarly strict spam filter to incoming calls, and marks and blocks a lot of them as spam. I check once in a while, but overall I just don't really mind. If someone really needs to reach me they'll find a way... if they don't try, it's a good filter for how important their message really is anyway, lol.
The experiences for different Asian origins are different from my understanding; the experience of say Burmese or Lao immigrants is likely different from Chinese or Indian ones.
Yudkowsky was sold a line by big AI tech 20 years ago was he?
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Thank you, that was very insightful. I imagine your feeling of not imagining your life without kids, irrespective of 1 or 5, is how everyone adjusts in the end.

Another question I have (if you have the time) is did things become more difficult the more children you have, and how so? Also, did they get more difficult as time went along, or easier? Or is it just somehow a different kind of difficulty?

I think that's my hesitation of having more than one child (I only have a 1 and a half month old, so still very early days) is that if I have a 2nd child 2 years from now based on the idea that it's easy because they're young, but when they're older might be a much larger commitment than I can imagine (driving them places, helping with homework etc.)
I'm not saying they shouldn't live, I'm saying that if off-leash dogs scare you and you don't want to be scared, you shouldn't be outside. Even if every last dog owner kept their dog on a leash at all times, there would still be some dogs without a leash, and all of them would be outside your house. I assume any person would understand that by the time they reach adulthood and either learn to deal with the fact that some dogs they run into won't have a leash, or they stop going outside if they can't deal with it. Stubbornly refusing to accept reality is childish.
No good deed goes unpunished.

A part of me finds I might know you.
Another part states: this story is way too common.
The Culture is some of the best scifi I've ever had the pleasure of reading :)

I'd definitely be interested in some recommendations
The big AI X-risk names never have been.
nice tool! curious - what was your instruction prompt for instructor-large? did that change based on the document type at all?
The Three Extreme Value Distributions: An Introductory Review (2020)
This is a theorem that under approximately those rules* in R^n you cannot have inverses except in the cases of the reals, complexes, and quaternions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frobenius_theorem_%28real_divi...

*It doesn't rely on rule 2, it does however rely on (u*v)*w = u*(v*w). Adding rule 2 excludes the quaternions.
The journalists and corporate communication people seem to be in disagreement with this. There has been a big push to change everything to be "person of" or "person with". "Person with vision impairment" rather than "blind person". To emphasize that they are regular people first.
No, the bulk of security and privacy work at Apple happens elsewhere.
I think checking for better opportunities is the same healthy habit as brushing teeth or doing exercises.
I actually saw that when finding the quote but was too lazy to go deep into it. Yeah, it's not Voltaire quoted but her paraphrase.

I think free speech is like all our other rights - absolute but your rights end where the rights of others begin. Which is a wonderful paradox in which to live.

You have the right to self defense but don't have the right to own a nuke. You have a right to speak freely but not to defame/slander/incite violence. The question isn't are those rights yours but where your right ends and the line between your rights and mine.

It's still probably my favorite quote - especially as a veteran - even if, like a lot of things, its not exactly 100% accurate lol.

I should put it as "Voltaire, misquoted by Hall"

My other favorite quote is:

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Why did you copy-paste someone else's comment?
Hey chx, in case you either have email notifications for replies to your comments or check the threads page to see them - FYI I just quoted the Revolut part of your comment to a Revolut person in a new Wise thread, and wondered if you had anything further to add to save those of us who haven't spent the time to learn about Revolut's financial situation? No worries if not :)

You can find my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075819
I had a similar experience when a power surge killed my grinder’s motor. Great company.
That’s a petty aggressive and condescending response. I have a pretty big dog (GS mix) and she’d likely never be fast enough to catch a squirrel or bird unless she’s lucky (I also trained that response out of her very early on) and she was definitely faster than Dobermans at the park in her prime. Also, even if she did, it’s not like she’s that foreign a concept - dogs are everywhere and squirrels and birds already deal with predators. I honor it in parks that are protected reserves but if there’s a local park with such signage I’d probably ignore it, particularly if no one else is around (more about making them uncomfortable than anything else).

> You know what also doesn't care about the rules of ordered society and the potentially deadly consequences of breaking them? Animals.

You say that like it’s some curse word. Hate to break it to you, but doesn’t matter how many rules you create and try to enforce to “civilize” humans, humans are animals. Always have been, always will be. I would say that developing an understanding of why rules might be implemented and correctly evaluating the “harm” (societal and to any given individual) of breaking it is what being a functional adult human is. Similarly owning the consequences if your rule breaking behavior resulted in some harm is also called for.

Heck, you’re on a website with close ties to YCombinator, an accelerator for Silicon Valley startups often famous for “disrupting” by blatantly ignoring old laws and seeing if they can grow and corner the market before the regulators catch on so that they get entrenched as the incumbents once the regulators do do something.
A closer look at the stack guard page (2022)
> Or the particular American "r"

I'm a native English speaker and I also have trouble with the American ah.

I grew up near Boston.
'billionaire'... idolizing money? nah...
23&me's consent form is excellent and a paragon for the field.
https://www.23andme.com/about/consent/
Tried BoldVoice right now and almost immediately hit a bit of interpolation awkwardness: “Tomorrow, we’ll work on Practice your consonant skills”. Usually I wouldn’t complain about this sort of thing, but in a language learning app it seems out of place. Learners can be really trusting at the most unfortunate times. (Mozilla’s Project Fluent[1] was built to handle these situations in a localization setting, but you can probably get away with something much simpler.) Seems really slick otherwise. Now if only I could take a placement test so I could justify paying for it... But I appreciate that most—possibly literally all—of your target audience are not me.

ETA: Also I just clicked on the site logo on /frequently-asked-questions and got pointed to /old-home-2, which is a 404. I swear I don’t seek out bugs, they come to me all by themselves :)

[1] https://projectfluent.org/
I think you're looking at it backwards. The problem is people with authority who think that it makes them better than you. The autistic person rejects that idea completely.

You seem to be arguing that autistic people also reject the idea that some people have authority because they are better than you in some context. This isn't the case.

At the airport, the staff has authority because they are following a higher ethical directive to protect everyone. The pilot has authority because they're responsible for dozens or hundreds of lives. The pilot is more important than you, they are a better person in this context, and thus have authority.

As a counterpoint, America is having a crisis about the authority of the police. People are rejecting the authority of the police because they assume authority makes them better, and therefore entitles them to whatever they want. Whereas police who do follow the directive to protect everyone tend to be respected and have authority because of that.

I think that most neurotypical people also reject the idea that authority makes you better. But they tend to play along with it, for some reason. The discussion here is about the autistic people who don't play along and just flatly reject the idea.

To answer your question, these types of autistic people tend to have a very strong idea of right and wrong and a rich code of ethics. Something wrong shouldn't be tolerated and should be set right. But I think most people in general feel that way.

Where autism comes into play is that an autistic person's notion of what is intolerable is often quite different. An autistic person is also more likely to lack or not care about the social inhibition against challenging or rejecting something that they feel is wrong.
Link to the piece if anyone finds this in the future:
https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2003/04/15/the-hinternet/

(It was both strangely broken in my WP database, and also I think my website was down when OP write this. Sorry!)
> What is more interesting to me, is what do you think a student misses out on, from a capability point of view, with an applications focused learning as opposed to one focused on reading and writing proofs?

The generalizable value is not so much in collecting a bunch of discrete capabilities (they're there, but generally somewhat domain-specific) as it is in developing certain intuitions and habits of thought: what mathematicians call "mathematical maturity". A few examples:

- Correcting trivial errors in otherwise correct arguments on the fly instead of getting hung up on them (as demonstrated all over this comment section).

- Thinking in terms of your domain rather than however you happen to be choosing to represent it at the moment. This is why math papers can be riddled with "syntax errors" and yet still reach the right conclusions for the right reasons. These sorts of errors don't propagate out of control because they're not propagated at all: line N+1 isn't derived from line N: conceptual step N+1 is derived from conceptual step N, and then they're translated into lines N+1 and N independently.

- Tracking, as you reason through something, whether your intuitions and heuristics can be formalized without having to actually do so.

- More generally, being able to fluently move between different levels of formality as needed without suffering too much cognitive load at the transitions.

- Approaching new topics by looking for structures you already understand, instead of trying to build everything up from primitives every time. Good programmers do the same, but often fail to generalize it beyond code.

> Would a student who is not intending to become a mathematician still benefit from this approach?

If they intend to go into a technical field, absolutely.

> Would a middle aged man who was taught some “Linear Algebra” benefit from picking up a book such as the one referenced here?

Depends on what you're looking for. If you want to learn other areas of math, linear algebra is more or less a hard requirement. If you want to be able to semiformally reason about linear algebra faster and more accurately, yes. If you just want better computational tricks, drink deep or not at all: they're out there, but a fair bit further down the road.
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Even weirder, as a Native American English speaker, I would have spelt that word this way in only this context, but in other contexts it’s spelled this way.

Maybe this is my own idiosyncrasy though and not what others would do. I’ve never even thought about it until just now.
And there were smart phones before Apple but they got the formula right
Oh yeah, Annoy is definitely mmap'ed i.e. you can use the index without loading the index file into memory. And that's very useful.

As far as I can see, Voyager requires you to load the index into memory and doesn't (yet?) do mmap. Which... would make sense since you can change the data after loading the index. So, Voyager index files are fully loaded in memory..? Do I have this right?
I don't know why I'm still responding to this thread 24 hours later, but just thought I'd add this tweet from Le Cun: "Neuroscience greatly influenced me (there is a direct line from Hubel & Wiesel to ConvNets) and Geoff Hinton.
And the whole idea of neural nets and learning by adjusting synaptic weights clearly comes from neuroscience."

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1583872918634655744?s=20
Or, if you are from New York / New Jersey, the correct pronunciation is 'budder'. :)
Fixing ClickHouse Lock Contention
What’s in it for Google?
........i looked into that...he was sponsored by the military to get from Cuba....they essentially earmarked him in a special covert op.
There's a bug on the page. If your screen width is wider than portrait tablet size the first question is not rendered.
Is that the right article? Just looks like a bunch of speculation