skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actual whitepaper is at https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/doc...

Let me start by saying that Google is very likely separately pushing for regulation to make AI less accessible, and much of its public posturing is also very likely designed to drive up public interest in AI -- so to be clear I'm not saying any of the following in order to create the impression that Google is being philanthropic or has good motives; I do think that Google is overall a bad actor in this space.

However, in this very specific example, their poorly named "AI corps" appear to be less about controlling the dissemination of AI and more about retraining workers impacted by AI, investing resources into countries who have less funds to contribute to building their own models, increasing immigration opportunities for researchers, and adopting AI within the government as a tool (which has its own questions, but... different conversation).

Again, I'm not saying Google is a good actor. Google should not be trusted on AI regulation. And (opinion me) Google is over-hyping the space to serve its own interests. However, this very specific individual proposal doesn't seem to have the tone or really any of the problems that are being brought up in these comments. Nothing immediately jumped out to me as a proposal to lock down Open Source models or to form some kind of world government. The title is a little unfortunate and doesn't reflect the contents of the paper.

Here's the only phrase in the whitepaper that directly mentions a "global AI corps".

> Establishing a global AI corps that would include training and support programs to give workers hands-on experience in applying AI to solve new tasks on the job.

Basically "world governments should get together and make a plan to encourage everyone to use AI."

Is it problematic for Google to be asking the government to encourage adoption of its technologies? Potentially, if like me you believe those technologies are somewhat over-hyped right now (which is not the same as saying they're useless). But it's not a request to take over the world or close down competition. Those requests are going to come in separate papers. :)
I was also expecting Gregg Pollack and Code School to be mentioned.
The "Rails for Zombies" course was absolutely fantastic.
Are you under the misapprehension that drugs use is not rampant inside prisons?
ERA5 is free. The API is a bit slow.

I think that only some variables from the HRES are free, but not 100% sure.
That’s why they axed the unprofitable long term bets and are only subsidizing growth in Uber Eats because they’re behind DoorDash, a market worth $37b in market cap. Their forward P/E is still 68, and what they burned last year is part of the $25b investment that still turned out to be a very valuable company.
Please tell me what "mildly unconfortable" solution is there for stage 4 cancer that *metastases* into brain? I only know of chemotherapy!

People try diets (I prefer extended water fasting), because it affects everything! If cancer had spread into entire body, it is the only option, where you may keep your hair, and some sort of normal life!!

It is also for free and does not bancrupt your family!

Edit: I read the extract from study, keto was used AFTER chemotherapy to speedup recovery. Still, post chemo is nothing "mildly unconfortable".

> Three months after the cessation of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a ketogenic diet (KD) was initiated. This approach was an attempt to stabilize the disease progression after chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
It's not the selection lines, up on higher metal layers. It's the actual memory cells themselves being too close together on the substrate.
As software eats the world, it becomes more and more apparent to the non-developers of the world that software engineering is not, and never has been, a real engineering discipline.

Tech Support: "Oh your garage door is bricked after last nights update? Yeah, apparently the [totally uncredentialed] contractor that wrote that update is only 3 weeks out of coding bootcamp and was just copying and pasting from ChatGPT. Lmao"
It's not that narrow - e.g. "was stricken by a sense of foreboding"

You also would say panic-stricken, not panic-struck.

Agree it's not universal though, helpfully, and sometimes is it "struck" in non adjectival past participle.

But not in the OP case, I think (much like striking off a list, striking off a sign). I probably should have mentioned that it wasn't universal for struck though.

I could just have confused things.
>I’ve learned some bad habits from Hacker News. I added Caveats sections to articles to make sure that nobody would take my points too broadly. I edited away asides and comments that were fun but would make articles less focused. I came to expect pedantic, judgmental feedback on everything I wrote, regardless of what it was.

>Writing for the Hacker News audience makes my writing worse.

Yeah, understandable.
To be fair, it sounds like you purchase the best of the best in TVs.
Jail doesn't make anyone whole after fraud, but it would make the next person thing twice, so of course, it's pittance fines, paid with other people's money.

smh.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2023/11/01/astronauts-en...
Corporate firewalls are going to allow QUIC sometime between never and the heat death of the universe.
Compared to what? Do we think throwing everyone in jail and having the cops spend their time chasing around after drug users is a success?

If people are upset at drug users using drugs in public (which seems to be the thing everyone actually has a problem with) give them somewhere to use their drugs that isn’t in public.
If not one issues the traffic tickets and just ignores it now because none of the actual mechanisms mentioned actually exist, then defacto it was made legal no?
Not to mention prominent channels on YouTube that cover police matters like this. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@LackLusterMedia
I don't quite understand SBoM. How does this help with something like the Solarwinds attack or a general CI compromise? Or is there another type of attack this helps mitigate or detect?

Their example entry basically just says (very simplified) "Intel both built and supplied the microcode for your Intel CPU". But it says nothing like "Intel used Jenkins version x.y.z which bundled log4j version a.b.c" so you still can't tell if your binary blob was built by a compromised system or not, even once you learn about the potential attack.
It's not pretty, but in reality, "right of way" is a path to the hospital as a pedestrian. It shouldn't be, but their worst-case is a paint job, while mine is a jumble of broken bones.
Absolutely, where I live pedestrians have right of way at all intersections, which includes some pretty busy wide roads the drivers think they own. When I'm crossing I don't stop at the curb and wait for it to clear, I'll enter the first safe lane, usually the parking lane.

Sometimes I'll do a big exaggerated step showing drivers that I do not intended to stop, unless they choose to kill me. I won't actually step into a lane when a driver might not have seen me so I feel safe doing it, but it breaks drivers expectations that they own the road.
We don't have enough data. There's only one universe, and it's helpful to train on counter-factual events.
Given some of the absurdities I've seen personally on the road in the Midwest US, I personally wish for EU limitations. And yeah, I'm a boring "old" fogie who drives a Prius.

From rolling coal to 2' (.6m) lift kits, to effectively black windows and turn signals, to light bars used offensively against other drivers, reduced diameter dualie road tires with insufficient suspension support for all that torque... and that's just pickups.

Yeah. The roads are perhaps not the place for this kind of weaponized "fun".
> The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code.

I did: https://github.com/lukechampine/slouch

"Find all ten-letter words that contain each of the letters A, B, and C exactly once and that have the ninth letter K"

:load wordlist wordlist.txt
words wordlist | filter -:(len == 10 and .8 == "k")

A more interesting example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_zDbInYOpQ

AoC solutions here: https://github.com/lukechampine/advent/tree/master/2022

(The language has builtin commands for fetching inputs and submitting solutions)
The bit at the end is a bit extreme as a statement. But I would agree that westerners do occasionally have a hard time wrapping their heads around all the nuances and differences between lives lived in various totalitarian and communist regimes. Some things, like resource scarcity, or paranoia, or vigilance - they're just inconceivable. Like explaining air to a fish.

That being said, as someone who has experienced both, I would like to point out that something similar holds true in the opposite direction as well. People who originate from communist or fascist regimes have difficulty understanding all the ways in which the West really is free. Especially when consequences of the freedom don't look so nice. Like when people are allowed to destroy their own lives, or law enforcement is reluctant to intervene in any way. They see conspiracy at work. But most of the time there is none, just plain old indifference, absence of control, petty greed, responsibility and self-reliance.

The real common denominator between both worlds is stupidity. Free markets are stupid and reactive. Totalitarian systems of power are stupid and passive. This is why I would say the bit about "looking at the mirror" is extreme.
Funny, our 2020 MY Jaguar controls car functions from the digital screen in front of the driver, the middle console screens only control AC, entertainment, phone, navigation and other non-car related stuff. No idea how the architecture looks behind all that so. But seriously, even if on the same bus, just don't the media player, radio and connected phone access to the systems actually running the car from engine to brakes. And please, please, finish developing the embedded software running on car before shipping said car. Then it can be air gapped, if not it requires OTA and internet access, raising all kinds of security issues...
All exponentials in this context are actual S-curves. An S-curve matches an exponential historically, until it suddenly doesn’t.
I tried React and it Ruined My Life [video]
The copy/pasta is accurate. Debian is adopting it[1]

[1]: https://blog.slyon.de/2023/07/10/netplan-and-systemd-network...
The US did implement mass incarceration for drug offenses.
It happened mostly between 1980 and 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic_in_the_United_S...
The preface to your quote, from the article, makes the irony that much more palpable.

“There is constant problems all over town—it doesn’t matter where you live—with people strung out on drugs,” said Loew, who described herself as a communist. “I pride myself on being a bit cynical, but obviously I was very naive.”
Is there nonlinearity due to the observer effect in this system?

From how many meters away can a human walking in a forest be detected with such an organic signal network?

FWIU mycorrhizae networks all broadcast on the same channel? Is it full duplex; are they transmitting and receiving simulatenously?
When running / walking downtown, I feel noticeably safer crossing illegally in the center of a one way road than I do at the cross walk when the walk sign is on. Reasoning: at a crosswalk I have to deal with cars coming from 2 or 3 different directions, including behind me. In the middle of the street, cars are only coming in one direction.
Emphasis on the was. No existing content has been ported to MonoGame for over a decade. It's high time to break backward compatibility.
Personally I've done it for that goal so yeah it was worth it but if you are looking to launch a project, I can understand that you might want to skip that step.
tax consumer vehicles based on weight! it's long overdue, put it on an exponential scale and demolish anyone that's buying these monstrosities
Spammers have burned the idea of "self promotion", but there's still ways do it it fairly.

What's your content? Is it something you want to read? Most important, if you can't stand to read it, don't expect others to.

Is it about some subject others are interested in? Do they discuss it elsewhere? If so you should watch that forum and take any opportunity to share links to your posts when they're relevant. Not spamming, just "I have a post about $X" when that's actually being discussed. maybe a include a quote. "$X is best used in combination with $Y, imo, and I go into more detail here at link"

Even if your content isn't that focused you might find legitimate opportunities to share a link. For example, I've got a "daily news links" site:

https://snafuhall.com/

It's not specific enough to be mentioned in many conversations but I manage sometimes.

Regardless, be prepared for the fact that "success" is relative; there's a lot of people out there with no desire to know about anything that wasn't stuffed into their terminal by their familiar sources.

Just having your urls to reference in public yourself is worth some effort. The net is so ephemeral, being able to say "this existed then and i took some note of it" is something.
Wait are you saying that the problem is that you can't throw the high schoolers in prison?
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38171379

Also, nix can do arbitrary building (arbitrary commands). You don’t need a specialized builder. You can write a specialized builder for your language too, if it doesn’t exist.
The Mirai Confessions
As many HN readers know, the flexibility of startups comes from being able to achieve similar outcomes with different mixes of time, money, and staffing to larger entities.

Just as a thought-exercise for hackers (who delight in solving problems which do not exist in the real world, especially when they involve artificial constraints), can you figure out some good ways to leave your country assuming that you have (a) almost no time, (b) almost no money, or (c) almost no chance of expecting help —or even neutrality— from strangers?
"You shanked my jengaship."

"We're playing Connect 4."
In other news: Water is wet, and fire is hot.

Bring back those pop-up headlights, and ban those tall front ends!
This is basically equivalent to NVIDIA's DLSS machine learning running on Tensor Cores to "up-res" or "frame-interpolate" the extremely computationally intensive job the traditional GPU rasterizer does to simulate a world.

You could numerically render a 4k scene at 120FPS at extreme cost, or you could render a 2k scene at 60FPS, then feed that to DLSS to get a close-enough approximation of the former at enormous energy and hardware savings.
Leaving a giant loophole for trucks and very heavy vehicles is why they are causing this, by incentivizing a class of vehicles to get heavier than they otherwise would.
Literally impossible for many people due to height/tinting of people and cars.
Prostrate yourself in front of the tank drivers that they may show you mercy
Friends of ours who lived for a long time in Scandinavia occasionally get Scandinavian visitors. Two out of two times so far when they've dropped by with said visitors in their rental vehicle to borrow the canoe, the rental vehicle has been the absolutely biggest, bad-assest one they could get a hold of. The kind where you'd have to stand on a stool just to really look into the engine compartment. Why? Well, yes, it costs more to rent and more in fuel, but it's just so... something.

Luckily here in Ontario, Canada, small cars are still somewhat normal, with about 1/3 of the road traffic being in the "compact car" class and certainly less than 1/3 in the "gratuitously huge truck/SUV" class. Most inbetween is compact SUVs and minivans.
Marijuana was legalized. But, the government heaped so many punitive taxes, regulations, and licensing restrictions on it that it left the black market a very profitable opportunity.

2 or 3 decades ago Canada decided to heap big taxes on cigarettes. A black market promptly emerged, complete with drive-by shootings. Canada rescinded those taxes and the black market (and its associated crime) evaporated.
What's not understood is 100MB switches are OLLLLDDDDDDDD and outdated, and in some cases, the reason IT can't get your radiology image to transfer between DICOM servers in a reasonable amount of time.

It works, so it doesn't need to be changed is how most infrastructure deteriorates. Ask me how I know this. :)
Using treatment as the option when there is no treatment available (let alone any with signs of real efficacy) is a bit odd though?
No, they are hurting both tangibles- because they steal and attack bystanders, and intangibles- like ruining neighborhoods, driving down prices, making drugs more accessible to young kids etc.
I think we need to define public a bit more. In, say, a baseball stadium you're in public, right? And you can drink alcohol.
The best way is to link to it from other places and tell people about it. If it was linked in your HN bio for example, that would be a start. You can't really rely on google search hits, unless your topics are very niche.

The easiest way to get some 'early readers' is to share it with friends and family. The question is, however, do you WANT your friends and family to read it?
No, we don’t. Let me introduce you to OSHA and their buddy worker’s comp insurance.

I ran an industrial facility that had been in operation since the 40’s, safety used to not even be a concern. If it operated in 2000 the way it did in 1950’s, or even in the early 80’s, they’d be out of business.
Prison is not rehab. Do you want a massive tax increase? We would need one if we were to actually incarcerate drug users for the duration they need to become sober. And we would need to fund those prisons to a level wherein they don't make people more likely to break the law once they get out. And what about re-entry? It would take a lot of money to not dump former addicts back on the exact same street where they first became an addict. Their friends will be waiting!

Besides, most states still jail people for petty drug crimes and they have been for 70 years. It doesn't work.
> I agree. I hate how these interviews always focus so much on algorithmic time at the expense of flexibility of the code.

Especially when the question scenario is generating "business metrics" which tend to see a lot of tweaking and iteration.

Having engineers who make contextually appropriate designs and architectures is at least as important as having engineers who are math-whizzes.
Nvidia's Nemo has some support for speaker recognition and speaker diarization too.

https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/nemo/user-guide/docs/en...
Hey, author here. No foul activity was intended.

I've been building in public on Twitter and LinkedIn over the last few months and pre-announced the launch a few weeks in advance. I think a lot of the comments here were just folks flowing through there.
So, you'll notice that humans had that sort of flattened affect you're looking for in Kubrick's 2001, but he placed it in contrast to HAL, which for most of the film is the only character who communicates with an emotive affect.

You need some emotion, some performance. Kubrick got that and managed to achieve this in 2001 by combining the emotional austerity of spaceflight with an artificial intelligence who, in an inversion of expectation, is the emotive one. Then he exploited this for the climax, the loss of HAL's personality, being.

Lacking a HAL like element, especially in a film that has one actress, you can't make the humans dull, you need some emotional experience to attach to. In the context of Gravity, that means dramatic calls and the sounds of her human presence. People don't go to the cinema to listen to an ATC feed.
Javascript now has Map, Set, and bigint. But no powmod.
The problem is that "illegal" in the context of a corporation means a fine. If the fine is less than the extra revenue generated (and it often is), there's no reason not to engage in the illegal behavior.

From the bread pricing scandal, the amount of coordination that was going on between supposed competitors is crazy. The fact that it took "a decade and a half" to prosecute the case means that much more subtle collusion is probably very common.

> “Retail customers would call threatening to reject a price increase if another retailer was offside in terms of pricing alignment.”

> The coordination was particularly tough between discounters including Walmart, Giant Tiger, Loblaw’s No Frills, Sobeys’ FreshCo and Metro’s Food Basics, the document says.

> “None of them wanted to be the first to implement the price increase …There was always a negotiation process going back and forth between the four retailers where the supplier was trying to coordinate it, because somebody had to be the first to move.”

> According to redacted witnesses cited in the documents, the individual retailers involved were all in favour of taking price increases, and full-price grocers such as Loblaw tended to hike prices first, followed by discounters such as Walmart.
Respectfully, have you ever lived next to an encampment? I have. Is your assertion "Someone using fentanyl on the street isn't actually hurting anyone but themselves" based on past experience, or how you imagine the world ought to be?
You will be quickly reminded by your local police force that throwing rocks at moving vehicles will result in at least a mischief charge.

Your edgy angst is better spent engaging with local levels of government.
Isn't this one of those "if anyone knew, everyone would do it" type of questions?

I think in general, marketing, by proxy, revenue generation is one of those game theory, if it becomes the optimal strategy, everyone will adopt it and it'll be level again type things.
It says in the article that it runs on Google's tensor units. So, go down to your nearest Google data center, dodge security, and grab one. Then escape the cops.
I wouldn't bother with vulkan and just go with wgpu, rewrite it in rust while you're at it ;D
> Brain doesn’t perform computations in any CS accepted sense (neither it is a turing machine nor it has any encoded program to execute any defined algorithm).

That's a big statement. Anything that can be effectively described with math, can be described using Turing machines and algorithms. Any Turing-complete system is equivalent. As far as we know, all of physics can be described by equations, therefore is (theoretically) computable. What makes you think brains are special? Are there any other physical systems that you think are uncomputable?

The only arguments I've found for why the brain can't be described by algorithms go into unconvincing pseudo-scientific arguments about the magic of quantum mechanics, which I find very unconvincing (quantum algorithms are still algorithms, and describable through math after all). Do you have a better one?

> Would you call an ants colony a computer? A tree? A government? But they all obviously processes information and seemingly perform computations, don’t they?

Yes, absolutely. You can use ant colonies or slime molds as biological computers to solve real-world finding problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZUQQmcR5-g&t=1s

Some of your other examples are more complicated, but all of them can be described through the computational lens, and modeled as Turing machines. you will find many scientific papers filled with equations trying to describe the algorithms behind each of them
Maybe this comment is a metaspam but I've build a checklist for whenever I publish: https://pawelurbanek.com/programming-blogpost-promotion.
You make it sound like a successful launch of spaceship is the initial government contract milestone that SpaceX will get paid for, and they get nothing on failure during launch. Is this the case?