skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our current method for making AI is largely a dataset creation problem.

An AI can’t just make meaningful data out of nowhere. It needs to have seen that data before.

As it stands, it can’t improve itself since it’s ability is restricted to what data it has seen.
I always read those “X automated their job, finishes it 15 minutes and then does whatever” and wonder how true are they? How could it be that nobody notices or cares?
The spectucular fall of Weltmeister is a case of taking market share without making $$$.
Apologies, this article comes up on HN every year or so, and I assumed someone whose been here so long and was so steadfast in their opinions of the topic would have already come across it.
France, France, France, France, France. I need nuclear proponents to read about France.

A nation made a bet on "let's do all nuclear". It basically worked, but there was no magical cost decrease. They have an immense amount of institutional knowledge, huge educational system, massive amounts of resources. Their nukes are big and expensive and not really on time. There is no magic at the end of the tunnel if Greenpeace disappears.

The world isn't Sim City, power plants need water access and have location concerns, and it's not a question of just dropping a bunch of truck-sized plants across the world and magically solving everything.

Having said that, France is a success story of course. It's cool that it's all set up. But even after building it up, running these plants are expensive, there's often load issues meaning they are not fully utilized... "nuclear is free easy energy" is science fiction. That's fine, though! It's normal that we have to do stuff to power society.

EDIT: to be clear, I'm cool with nuclear, but I am not picky about where my watts come from.
They profited from selling mortgages that customers couldn't repay; they profit from selling student loans that can't realistically be repaid. Private equity leverages businesses with debt that can't be repaid. Wall Street used saddle governments (not the federal government, but state, local and foreign governments) with debt deals that they couldn't repay, and maybe they still do (they did as of the 2008 financial crisis).

Business and the market are supposed to, ultimately, serve society, benefit real people somehow. Otherwise, what's the point? Sucking the life out of everyone else obviously isn't a workable plan for society.
Thanks for letting us know. I plan to read the article when I get home from work.
Things work like that just fine: buy an old car and call it a day.

The less software in my car the better.
> If you need to speak to your spouse, there are tools to speak to them privately!

Apart from amateur radio, what tool exist, that does not require the assistance of private corporations, ISPs, service fees, patents etc? I go camping way outside of cell phone tower ranges and it would be should be legal to communicate with my group privately.

Radio is the only form of totally citizen controlled real time distance communication we have, if we do not count smoke signals. Snail mail encryption is already allowed. Encryption must be allowed on radio as well.
The verb seems to be "a".

Does he regularly a scheme? Or did he do it in the past? Both!
I would love it if there was just a web site instead of the app.

They could place a QR code nearby referencing it.

Lucky that self-order at (other) sit-down restaurants mostly use systems where you scan a QR code and order on a web page, not apps.
I assume it goes it again in 2025?
The fact that it could explode was known and classified.
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This is quite nice. The generalization of this to full formulas is much more difficult. In most languages, letters are designed to be distinct, and in case of confusion, many times a secondary pass with a dictionary [1] helps quite a lot.

But mathematics symbols are often quite close, as evidenced by this app. There are multiple suggestions for each input, and they are often quite close that without larger context it is difficult to tell which one the user meant. My handwritten mathematical x, greek chi, and the times symbol look very similar. Alpha and "proportional to". Etc etc. At minimum, the ai would likely need some understanding of the structure of mathematical statements and equations to do this better.

[1] Or even a third pass with a grammar checker.
> Even when allowed to surf the web, ChatGPT gets it wrong:

> Who was the eighth Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? - Gerhard Schröder

Its probably counting Walter Scheel, who was Acting Chancellor in 1974, and you are probably not.

When I asked ChatGPT to list the chancellors in order and identify the eighth, it listed eight ending in Schröder, with Scheel and his ten day Acting Chancellor tenure in May 74 as number 5. (Scheel’s tenure is in the timeline on the Wikipedia page you cite, though not in the numbered list in that page, which is why there is a dicontinuity in thr dates on the numbered list.)
> I think you're confusing Go's simplicity and explicitness with verbosity

I think those are quite innately related, yes. But I believe you also mix verbosity up in your very next sentence, for what it’s worth — readable, maintainable code is not as close a concept. In fact, certain type of verbosity helps readability, e.g. I argue that Go’s identifier capitalization harms readability, and marking it at a single place by public/private is much better, at a tiny price of more verbosity.

“Clever” code is another topic, there is definitely overly clever code, which is a net negative, but in this particular comparison, is a hand-written, 3-times nested for loop with any number of side effecting statements more clear to read than the “smart” stream/linq expression? I would argue the latter is much more readable and maintainable. For another, even better example there is that math proof, which can be done an order of magnitude faster by choosing a clever notation, but I can’t look up its name yet.

Re error handling, no, go doesn’t force you to handle the errors. It forces you to do some stupid meaningless if err ritual, that won’t result in correct handling of the error case, and will in fact often swallow errors. Java’s checked exception does force you to correctly handle it, though, but even runtime exceptions at least bubble up, making the default action (doing nothing) correct.
But average quality was a bit higher because nobody thought 'oh, we'll fix that next week in the OTA update'.
Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the US. That is not the case in other wealthy countries. According to this article

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-a...
Regulatory pressure may well get you to do stuff you wouldn't want to do.
Agreed - I can't remember what was used at my last job but you submitted a package to be mirrored and then each night it pulled in any new releases.
Is this so different than us? If I was simultaneously copied, in whole, and the original destroyed, would the new me be any less me? Not to them, or anyone else.

Who’s to say the the me of yesterday _is_ the same as the me of today? I don’t even remember what that guy had for breakfast. I’m in a very different state today. My training data has been updated too.
We are doing that more efficiently with higher levels of CO2
It's definitely versatile but it does need access to a lot of water, and a lot of trained staff to run it. PV and wind also have staff constraints, of course, but plenty of smaller scale PV setups are fairly hands-off.
German here, everyone I know uses Whatsapp, Signal or Telegram.
From what I've heard, being a cashier is only a part of the job, and usually the less pleasant one. People are still needed to unload groceries, monitor the self-checkouts, etc.
BMW in particular is an interesting case, a (late) friend of mine drove just about every model the day after it came out (BMW fan) and they spent more time in the shop for software issues than they did driving. To the point that he'd get attached to some of the loaners, it really was that bad.
Another awful fascist. Disgusting betrayal of democratic values. The government is not entitled to monitoring everything we say everywhere, and it's not entitled to conscript service providers into having to serve that function either.

What a revolting & authoritarian disgraceful thing to say. Running on FUD is a terrible look, but alas it seems to work for a sizable segment.
Patents are already limited to 15-20 years.
'Some' appears to be almost any Intel x86 CPU made in the last 6 years.
Greta is not pro-nukes. Most of the environment activists are not.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally
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Anyway, it's a teenager who's taking his first steps into the world of computing. Obviously he has some irrelevant hard opinions :)
Reminder that the issue with snake oil was that most of it was counterfeit, not from the kind of snake that produced the oil with actual benefits.
> There's at least a meta-message of "you're not working on this enough", even without otherwise being hostile/rude.

There's many implied messages in everything we say and do.

The action of not working on something sends a clear message and communicates a lot of information: you're doing something else with your time. The "you're not working on this" message will be received and understood by others because the repository is public and anyone can see the activity. It's just a statement of fact. The "not working on this enough" message is definitely insulting because it implies obligation but I didn't receive that message in this case. Maybe it's just me.

What that action doesn't communicate though is intent. Perhaps the developer intends to work on it but hasn't been able to because life happens. Perhaps they're just sick of the project and want out which is also absolutely fine. I think the questions were just attempting to clarify the intent.

Another message that I felt was overlooked and led to my comment: "I care enough about this project to ask about its future". People ignore things they don't care about, it's like it doesn't even exist. Even hate could be preferable to oblivion.

> I think it'd be better if people didn't have to walk on eggshells when making interactions

I agree. People are extremely hard.
> Customers failed to pay back one quarter of the money they borrowed, compared with the 42% default rate originally expected. It was a bonanza for Santander.

I was going to say that Wall Street isn't the bogey man here and it's the car dealerships and the many Americans desire to own a flashy car they can't afford that is the problem, but making a product that you expect 42% to default on (with all the misery that that entails) is truly awful.
RBMK is not considered a PWR because it is graphite-moderated. Most reactors are classified first by their moderator. PWRs and BWRs are both LWRs, moderated by light water, as opposed to HWRs moderated by heavy water, or graphite-moderated reactors like RBMK, or fast reactors which have no moderator at all.

Any reactor can fail and any can be operated safely. The reactivity coefficients of RBMK made it harder to control, perhaps, than a PWR. Modifications made after the Chernobyl accident have improved this.

The main issue with Chernobyl 4 was its lack of a containment building. Even so, the response was an over-reaction that made the situation worse.
Out of curiosity - which values are those?
Auto Repair Manuals for makes and models from 1982 through 2013
Whatsapp and Signal can only use phone numbers, though? And Telegram requires a phone number (though you can also have a username).
This isn't correct.
ModR/M and SIB are not prefixes. They are suffixes and essentially part of the core instruction encoding for certain memory and register access instruction. they are the primary means of encoding the myriad addressing modes of the x86. And their existence is not elided in any meaningful way, their value is explicitly derived from the instruction operands (SIB is scale, index, base), so when you see an instruction like:

mov BYTE PTR [rdi+rbx*4],0x4

SIB is determined by the register indices of rdi, rbx, and 4, all right there in the instruction. Likewise, Mod R/M encodes the addressing mode, which is clear from the operands in the assembler listing. Though x86 is such as mess that there are cases where you can encode the same instruction in either a Mod R/M form or a shorter form, eg PUSH/POP.

REX is a prefix, but it is a bit special as it must be the last one, and repeats are undefined. It is not elided because of commonality but because its presence and value is usually implied from the operands, it is therefore redundant to list it.

For instance, PUSH R12 must use a REX prefix (REX.B with the one byte encoding).
according to the wiki numbers, wind + solar make up 17% (with hydro being another 17%). Nothing to sneeze at! Though coal is extremely present.
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> The deals are overbroad and too generous to the chemical companies—absolving them of liability for future contamination and personal injury claims, the objectors said. The settlements also aren’t enough to cover the municipalities’ cleanup and legal costs, they said.

I really lost hope when this settled that we’d ever see meaningful climate action. Or much other similar societal improvements. A huge issue in modern society is the lack of pricing-in of corporations’ externalities.

Why should anything less than 100% of the equity generated from PFAS business go to fixing PFAS contamination? This is a perfect example of a corporation benefiting from doing something wrong and expecting society to fix it for them. I don’t necessarily think that 3M/DuPont should be liquidated and torn apart to fund cleanup, but maybe their profits certainly should be hijacked for the efforts. If an average citizen caused public damage they can’t afford to fix, their wages would be garnished to fund it. Why not corporations?
The article linked within the article, "Your Organization Probably Doesn't Want To Improve Things," is interesting because I know *exactly* what the author's problem is.

The problem is they're an intelligent person falling short of their potential.

As understandable as it is, raging against people around you for their shortcomings isn't going to help you or them. You've got to do the hard and scary work of grinding your way up to get to where you belong.
It feels contradictory to talk about these super locked down environments when "lock down Excel macros" in my view comes first if you're trying to secure an environment. I deal with before dealing with local administrator access such is the prevalence of it being exploited.
This is completely self-hosted (beside GitHub) and does not require an external signalling server to establish the WebRTC p2p connection.

Signalling is done manually on GitHub issue comments, guided by a comment bot.

All transmission of data is done P2P over WebRTC, there is no web service / HTTP server involved. The only HTTP service involved is GitHub - which is used to host the static client chat page and facilitate the manual signalling over issue comments.

The additional signalling latency of manual signalling normally causes problems but we use a modified SimplePeer library to provide more time for ICE to reconnect, and we also call restartIce^0

Even then, you can't guarantee WebRTC is foolproof. But as deployed here, it works in a variety of networking and client configurations that I tested.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RTCPeerConn...
Yeah really, all the other games in the casino are far worse than "zero sum".
It's a bit disappointing how the solar/wind folks neglect to consider the fact that such a storage system does not exist. Before one goes to the "but muh batteries" rebuttal, it's a useful exercise to see how much Lithium would need to be mined to provide reliable baseload power.

Simon Michaux has already done this. It's worth a read through his reports [0].

Also, it's quite possible to reprocess spent fuel. France has been doing it for decades. [1] The price has not been enough to justify it, but eventually it will (or if other costs are imposed, like a tax on the mineral rights that would favor reprocessing fuel).

[0] https://www.simonmichaux.com/gtk-reports
[1] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...
My understanding is he basically gets paid to put data into easily automated categories, and the company is soulless and has no ambition for automating anything.
Actually, most studies show that eating ice cream actually is good for you.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...
Well, yeah because the reversal is just completely wrong most of the time.

Only if you have additional context clues like definite articles or some outside knowledge that a role or property is unique, then you can maybe, sometimes conclude the reverse. Not a bug, working as intended.
Mind sharing your sass business, or the category? Always inspiring to hear about those.
Perspectives on the Evolution of Licensing in the AI Era. Your Thoughts?
Summary: Future AI technologies necessitate adapted open-source licenses to ensure alignment with ethical values, enforce transparency, limit autonomy, mandate collaborative development, prepare for potential government regulations, and balance innovation with societal safety.

The decentralised brand model promotes collaborative identity and operation, leveraging blockchain and AI for transparent governance. Proposed decentralised brand licensing bridges commercial and open-source models, emphasizing brand integrity, community engagement, and ethical constraints.
Baltic Sea sabotage: A defender's dilemma
What seems clear is that traditional strategies, such as deterrence, do not work in this gray-zone. Cyber already showed that early on.
That's my favourite non alcoholic drink also - it's really worth waiting for.
Lots of open source projects distribute prebuilt binaries too.
My goal is to be able to privately communicate with other people at a distance without relying on cell phone carriers, ISPs, or other brittle corporate infrastructure.

Privacy is a human right, and that applies over radio.

If I need to register my public keys like a license plate, fine, but the content is only the business of the recipient.
This thing runs for 2 days not total scan though. It does not scale to a total scan due to an O(n) memory requirements of storing every hit.

You didn't ask the question you were supposed to ask. :)
Obviously not. You have to hand over your plaintext credentials to a third party to explicitly copy over each and every text.
> The company is on track to produce 20 kilograms of HALEU by the end of the year, and then expects to produce 900 kg in 2024

> 3 tablespoons of HALEU can supply a lifetime’s worth of power for the average U.S. consumer

So if I did my math right[1], 20 kg is enough for 1867 U.S. consumers for one year, and 900 kg is enough for 84,000 U.S. consumers? It's a start, I guess.

1. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=20+kg+%2F+%28%283+table...
Everyone has made some good points about webrings and other methods of getting personal websites noticed.

Webrings should have a place - they were great for bringing similarly themed sites together and were a way of finding smaller, personal sites. The latter is probably more important nowadays than ever.

The webring revival isn't doing so well. I write the list at https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm and I recently visited evey link in every webring listed. For whatever reason, the ringmasters or the site owners, only 20% of them are fully navigable. For most, clicking the next link will eventually lead to a 404 page.

These new webrings have other problems, one of which is the member subject range is much wider than that of the orginal webrings so you never know what you'll be looking at next.

I list webrings that have at least a back and forward link, to help everyone they really should have both a member list page and a random link. That would go a little way to stop some of the dead ends.

Links here, Reddit, Facebook or whatever are not the answer. They are ephemeral while webrings were supposed to be more or less permanent, at least until they were removed from the ring.

Clique listings and directory pages aren't that great either. The rate of link rot is phenomenal. Even after just a couple of months the links on my own pages start breaking. Links on pages more than a couple of years old are barely worth clicking on.

Personally, I'd like to see webrings make a comeback, but unless they get a grip the new ones are going to wither away because they aren't navigable.
People think AI faces look more human than humans
Its good for all including environment
Can we just do it like oxide does it and make all code that executes to make an appliance function -- including firmware -- all open source? This should be the minimum bar to even start the sbom conversation.
Uprobes has—I believe—DTrace USDT-like functionality. This seems interesting and different: sending the tracing facility into the traced/victim process. Whereas DTrace and ePBF typically trap into the kernel to execute and event, this approach allows for potentially much less overhead.

How important is enabled probe effect? Of that I’m less sure.
Couple of years ago someone I know in manufacturing asked me to add a "cell hiding" encryption function to an Excel spreadsheet (because they still use excel spreadsheets for showing redacted price information to clients), that they could unhide when they wished to view the data themselves.

Quite a clever solution they use, I thought.

I implemented a simple XOR based encryption in VBA and it worked.

So, I imagine that's just one of many real world business use cases.

I quite enjoyed the bizarre deep dive into VBA and Excel tho
also, i refuse to call it "closure", i pronounce the j

Wow so edgy