skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was locked out of my car last weekend so I used the app to summon AAA. Super smooth process.

The tow driver called me to confirm he was on way and location. I saw that he had arrived in a normal pickup truck so I told my buddy that I was going to mess with him.

I walked up to him and said "how are you going to tow my car with that thing?!?!!" And he paused and then said... "I thought it was a lockout?" with a confused look

I said "ahhhhhhhh got ya! I'm just messing with ya" and we both shared a good laugh. We chatted a little while he used his airbag and tool to unlock it which took about 30 seconds. I told him thanks and and gave him a $10 tip which he appreciated.

My great uncle once told me - "never let a day go by without messing with someone". I try to remember that and do it when I can as it breaks up my day and often others to just laugh.

The art of the bullshit and messing with people and just laughing died a long time ago. People got used to not engaging with strangers and it's not really scary. You don't have to have a long exchange. Or an awkward one. You can mess with people, thank them for what they are doing or share a laugh or compliment.

I'd consider myself a hybrid introvert/extrovert. I find that if I don't engage regularly with new business calls or with strangers I'm off my game when I do and I'm less likely to do it. And I find that if I do engage it's rewarding.
The use of something like this is that they require essentially no maintenance compared to something like a turbine, and should be significantly easier to manufacture as well. This could in theory make it useful for something like an off grid power generator, but the real kicker would be something like a moon base. It allows using thermal storage to store energy rather than batteries, which is significantly cheaper and can be built on site with local materials which massively saves on launch mass.

As stated there is also a military application. Since they run so quietly they are suitable to make power (to run systems, not thrust) on submarines, especially nuclear subs, which want to be as quiet as possible. I think subs already actually use stirling generators but this design is potentially quieter and more reliable.
Or Apple would develop a search engine instead, which is exactly what they did with Maps.
In Matthew 5:48, Jesus tells us to "be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect". I'm just holding him to his own moral standard :)

Moral authority is only as powerful as the believers not finding out you don't ACTUALLY believe what you are telling them to. People easily write off the Catholic Church because of the disgusting abuses Catholic authority figures have perpetrated throughout the ages. Pick and choose works with bare philosophies but Jesus isn't asking us to believe right, he's asking us to live right. You can't pick and choose living right, either you are or you aren't. If you only sometimes rob the bus station you aren't living right.
https://htmx.org/webring
Potentially around 5Kbps in good conditions. I think it makes applications like e-mail over HF a lot more workable.
Yeah, I remember it both ways. Sometimes you'd click on a link at the bottom of one page to hit a dead end, but you could also go to the homepage of the webring itself and you could navigate through the sites in an iframe where you'd still run into a bunch of 404s, but you'd at least still have a "next" button in a separate frame so you could roll the dice again.

Webrings require maintenance to be useful and worth using, just like search engines do. The better maintained and curated they are, the more useful they will be.
OG iPhone SMS had green bubbles and no one gave a crap. Hell, iChat had bubble colours that you could set any colour you wanted.

Bring back the old days, please.
I’ve only encountered that meaning of “christian,” in books and movies, and maybe the occasional ironic use.

(US born, middle aged native English speaker)
The author is a shark-diving science journalist who's been paid a lot of money by OpenAI, not a researcher, and the article is neither a "peer review" or an expert "refutation". It's a meandering and sometimes thought-provoking exploration of how LLM's can be coaxed to deliver on statements sort of like (but not actually equivalent to) the ones that failed in the paper.

If you want to defer your own understanding to the author (and overstate their own claims!), that's fine, but a lot of people here are actually more informed about many of the topics and modes of discourse covered in the article and may have something to share with you if you give them credit. And if you're not going to give other commenter's due credit, then you're not really following the spirit of HN. While you can't always know the background of any individual commenter, we have an unusually accomplished and informed community in general and thrive by treating all commenters with the respect we might give the most accomplished and informed -- at least by default. That's why a blanket "RTFA" isn't usually appropriate here.
Like many other communities, programming has historically had its share of gatekeeping, and it's often easy to forget that "programming" spans a wide range of abilities and skill levels.

So, while GP might be technically correct in some narrow sense, I would be less quick to judge the OP article author. Some years hence, anyone who is not actively building (as opposed to using) one of these LLMs might be dismissed as "not a real programmer" (because by then, that will be the only form of programming in existence).
I suspect that if there were a significant return to webrings we'd run into very similar problems. Shitty companies would pay to insert their garbage into popular webrings run by other people, and/or they'd start their own webrings and fill them with spam.
it (the insulator) seems very small. I think, a lot of chips have multiple temperature sensors across the whole chip to decide when to clock down.

If I have 4 cores, and 1 is going flat out, I could see insulating the unused (or lesser used) cores. The idea being give the hot part the full cooling capacity.

That seems like the obvious idea. But maybe I'm misunderstanding or forgetting something fundamental.
> A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage […]

How much was knowledge, for its own sake, valued in the world view(s) in the Ancient Mediterranean societies? Certainly there were philosophers in Ancient Greece, which partly came over to Ancient Rome, but how mainstream was that compared to the pagan practices and outlooks? How much was knowledge about rituals to keep Ceres happy for grains (cereals) to grow versus a more mechanistic understanding? When and why did humans (in that part of the world) start thinking about the cosmos in a more 'logical' fashion?

How much was kindliness part of the world view(s) in the Ancient Mediterranean societies? Julius Caesar was celebrated for killing one million Gauls and taking a million more as slaves (exaggerated numbers, but the principle is the same). When and why did humans (at least in that part of the world) start thinking that being kind to each other would be a good thing?

IMHO, Russell owes much of his worldview and values to the Christianity that he rejects. These worldviews and values were by no means universal when Christian was young, or in Russell's time, or even now.
I work at AWS on these systems. We do fund research on Graviton. But our main approach to "Confidential Computing" has always been very different and based on the Nitro system. We run our virtualization on dedicated Nitro cards, with their own CPUs and memory, that are separate from the hardware running customer's EC2 instances. The Nitro system is hermetic and doesn't grant us access to a customer's memory or operations, and the simple design and interface is there to minimize the surface area for any potential issues. (We also put all this in our terms of service).

All customers on Nitro get that enhanced confidentiality between their instance and us as a cloud provider, but for customers who want to run workloads that are confidential from themselves, we do also offer AMD SEV based instances as well as our own Nitro Enclaves product.
Probably because they insisted on not using any CGI and doing everything with practical effects instead. I think this is an absolutist take and I would have preferred they used a bit of CGI were it's warranted. Like that nuclear detonation for instance. I couldn't explain why, but compared to the archive footage of nuclear explosion, it just felt wrong.
Yeah same here in Spain and I have a lot of Dutch friends. Nobody has sent me an SMS in years and I don't have iMessage. Some of my friends have iPhones but they just use WhatsApp or telegram like everyone else (for Dutch friends WhatsApp is the main thing, here in Spain it's more telegram but also because its group chats are infinitely better and I'm involved in a lot of groups)
You can access the WinAPI, network etc. etc. (also you have the platform abstraction level) using modules that are not documented, but are available in source in the Free Oberon directory. See Data/bin/OfrontPlus/Mod/Lib. Please let me know what module you need and I can add it into the documentation.
Like a lot of religious people, you seem to assume that anyone who doesn't believe in God, as you understand God, has some void in their life they are desperate to fill. The truth is, there are such people both within Christianity and without, and religion can be as much an addiction as heroin, and relationships with God, for those who believe, can be as parasocial as with any celebrity.

Nevertheless, many irreligious people are nonetheless perfectly happy, self-actualized and fulfilled without any religion whatsoever.
Ease of interaction.

Higher resolution photos, location sharing, in-line replies and emotes, etc etc

Group threads with a single Android user get annoying.
The debris orbits from an initial collision don't have to be stable to allow a chain reaction that produces debris in more stable orbits. Debris from even a single low altitude collision/disintegration could collide/disintegrate later at a higher altitude, producing debris with a higher periapsis than any of the original bodies.

There are many factors in whether this matters practically, so I'm not passing judgement on that. None of this is specific to Starlink.
Godot hasn't been standing still on that: https://fund.godotengine.org/

So if you want to boost Godot and you haven't the skills or time, there's always donating.
The reference counts are used to prevent dropping a value that still has references to it, but it doesn't dictate _when_ that drop takes place. Instead, an owned value is dropped as soon as it goes out of scope, just like Rust.

So no, Inko isn't garbage collected :)
He really probably should go back to the imaginary car tunnels.
Cool library!

I’m not imagining something that specifies policies at all. Capability based security systems shouldn’t need them. Instead, the main application can create capabilities programmatically - for example by opening a file for reading. The file handle is a capability. Libraries you call don’t get access to the OS, or anything outside their module scope that hasn’t been passed in as an explicit parameter. A 3rd party library can access the file handle you pass it as a function argument, but it can’t ask the OS to open any other files on your computer. Or open a network socket.

OS APIs aren’t in a scope that any of the libraries you use have access to.

There are a few things capabilities need to be able to do. They need to be able to be tightened. (So for example, if you have a file with RW flags, you can make a copy of the file handle that’s read only). And they need to be unforgeable (file handles can’t be created from an integer file descriptor). We’d also need a handful more “file handle” like objects - and this is where granularity matters. Like we need an equivalent for directories that gives you access to everything recursively in that directory and nothing outside of it.

If the library I call delegates some work to another library, it’s pretty simple. It just passes its file handle through to the other library as a function argument. There’s no policy to maintain or update. Nothing even changes from the point of view of the original caller.

The tricky part is stuff like debug output, environment variables (NODE_ENV=production) or stdout. Do libraries implicitly get access to stdout or not? Maybe they get stderr but not stdout, and they can open new temp files? You would also need to restrict JavaScript code from arbitrarily messing with the global scope or global libraries like String.

But honestly, any answer to these problems would be a massive improvement over what we have now. Being able to know your binary search library can’t make network requests, and that your database can’t interact with files outside its database directory would do so much for supply chain security it’s not funny. A good capability system should just change the APIs that your software can use a bit. Generally in good ways that make dependencies more explicit. Done right, there shouldn’t be any new syntax to learn or deno style flags to pass at the command line or anything like that.
> You can't pick and choose living right, either you are or you aren't. If you only sometimes rob the bus station you aren't living right.

I don't really believe that. I think it's more of a continuum. And that everybody does both good and evil deeds.
The issue with the Sherman Act is that it is broad and sweeping and leaves discretion up to the government.

So the answer to your question is: monopolization is illegal according to the the Sherman Act, and the power to regulate markets is well within the (extremely broad) scope of existing laws (including the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Act).

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
The Prologue to Bertrand Russell's Autobiography

What I Have Lived For

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38261982
Links could have the webring in the query string so that the pages can put a sticky navbar at the top of the viewport.(edit: could put #webring behind the link, give the navbar id="webring" then style it to stick to the top with #webring:target{})

you could link to:

webring.com?site=my-page.com&nav=next

then visitors end up at

yourpage.com?webring=my-page.com

or

yourpage.com#webring

If you want it to work without a domain you could also have many next and previous buttons.

<<<<<<<< webring >>>>>>>
Please let me also know about the results. I don't have access to MacOS, but would love to make Free Oberon available there too.

My students with MacOS are learning using Free Oberon in an emulator.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38270265
I think the consensus is that there is no particular reason to doubt the historicity of Jesus. He was a minor troublemaker in a distant province 2000 years ago, and his legacy only became important long after his death. Given the circumstances, the existence of Jesus is documented as well as one could reasonably expect. When a simple explanation suffices, there is no need for more complicated theories.
A weak form of AGI that while not skynet does a passible job at most tasks.
In Free Oberon, you can also make C-bindings very easily. In fact, there is Allegro5.Mod in the source files as a good example.
Ideally, the LLM would be able to tell the is of identity from the is of predication. I found the article a little too defensive. It felt like "of course it doesn't work, there's not enough data!" and okay, sure, but that is a flaw, no?
Another similar bug/feature of the brain is how we can immediately know if we like a movie or a book, but if asked what movies or books we like, we often blank or name like 3 pieces. Some information is only designed to be retrieved in certain ways in our brain. The fact that neural networks have similar but different limitations isn't that concerning, just something to keep in mind.

Another funny limitation: when a word is "on the tip of your tongue", what often happened is you thought of it, but your brain rejected it, so now it's on "cooldown" before it appears in your mind again. Usually this mechanism helps but a bug in your brain causes it to be harmful. If you start thinking of something else it "refreshes the cache" and the word comes to you.. we're really not that much less buggy than the machine.

disclaimer: there's other theories about why the phenomenon happens
> Internet gateway traffic most likely.

Or use of existing internet protocols, yes.

Here's an example: I was in an amateur rocketry group. One of our primary telemetry connections was wifi; 802.11b channel 1 is in an amateur band. We used directional antennas on the ground, cylindrical patch antennas on the rocket, and 1W of power (which is why we needed amateur licenses, to exceed the standard 100mW for wifi) and we could reliably communicate via standard IP while the rocket was a long distance away and breaking the sound barrier. The ESSID was one of our callsigns.

Our standard telemetry protocol was unencrypted packets, because ham radio. But a common need while debugging the rocket on the launchpad was to SSH in (it ran Linux). So our options were:

- Use something obsolete with much worse UX, like telnet.

- Use SSH and try to convince it to run without encryption, an option which is a bad idea for every other use case and which modern SSH rightfully refuses to contemplate.

- Use SSH with published keys, and hope that suffices to meet the spirit of the regulation.

- Add some complexity to the system to reduce power level while on the pad so that we weren't actually using a ham license.

- Safe the engines, go out to the pad a mile away, and hook up to the wired umbilical for debugging.

Removing the encryption restriction would allow using standard SSH and similar systems.
As the other poster noted, the vast majority of DVDs are 480p, not 720p. DVDs don't have enough capacity for higher resolutions for full-length movies.

On the high seas, you can easily get 720p, 1080p, and frequently 2160p versions of everything, with extremely high-quality multi-channel audio, usually in either h.264 or x.265 codecs, and at a variety of bitrates (in case that 50GB 4k BD rip is too much for you).
Except when you are ordering great food. It's all about whether there is added value or not with tech or humans.
I think a lot of people unwittingly think of the training process as "smart".

Similar criticisms are "well there are many descriptions of game x it would have read so why doesn't it play x well". But gradient descent is a dumb optimizer. Training itself is not actually like someone reading a text anymore than evolution is like someone thinking about the best way to augment an organism.

a "smart" optimizer would look at a reversal applicable sentence and know exactly what bunch of weights to change to store it in such a way as to be recalled reversibly in the future.

Inference may be smart (GPT-4 can reverse in context just fine, potentially play games from only a description) but the training is not.
>If you start a query with “Mary Lee Pfeiffer”, you’re not going to get very far because neural networks aren’t equidistant grids of points (besides the fact that she may not appear very often under that version of her name.) They’re networks of nodes, some with many connections, some with few. One of the ways you optimize large models is by pruning off weakly connected regions. This may come at the expense of destroying B is A relationships for weakly represented entities.

Am I missing something here? This paragraph reads like complete gibberish to me.

Also, I don't buy the experiment at the end. If you fine-tune the model with exclusively Tom Cruise data, I want to see proof that it doesn't just answer "Tom Cruise" all the time. I want to see that it says Tom Cruise wrote Aces in the Stream, but doesn't say Tom Cruise wrote Kings in the River.
My original comment was kinda ridiculous and was not worthy of a serious response ;) But, to respond to this more seriously, the people I personally know who drive gigantic trucks would most likely be proud of their reduced gas mileage. They already deliberately drive a 15mpg vehicle primarily for grocery pickup.