skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"oops the records are gone. Can't rule based on absence of evidence."

Individual rights are not applicable to gov entities. Gov entities can levy fines and apply criminal charges. You're comparing apples to oranges. Every time gov moves power away from the people they're doing it for the benefit of those in power. Not for you. Even if it works now it will be abused the second the current governance is replaced.

NY, like most big cities, is already incredibly corrupt. If you believe adding more power on top is proper then you're playing football with people's lives.
I just always assumed it was ~1/4 of the normal 325 mg dose.
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Have they said what protocol will be used? P.25 or something else?
I'll give it a stab.

There are those that don't know, and don't know that they don't know. They evaluate themselves the highest.

There are those that know, and don't know that they don't know. They evaluate themselves a bit better than those before.

There are those that know, and know that they don't know. They evaluate themselves worst than those before them. This is the d-k valley, imposter syndrome, confidence issues.

There are those that know, and know that they know. They are much better at evaluating themselves than those before them. They have experience to know what they know, and what they dont know, and they still continue to underrate themselves vs the first bunch, but they are more accurate and closer to the truth.

Anyway thats how I always understood d-k.
Can I ask how much something like this is? Ive been considering getting something similar, partially for work, and partially for going to concerts without having to worry about damaging my ears.
Yeah, that's a load of bollocks. 90% of that sub is just people quoting applicable insults from that TV show at each other, most of which probably won't make sense if you haven't seen the show. This isn't something that's easy to mindlessly spam LLM-spam at. Actually, many probably won't pass ChatGPT's profanity filter; ChatGPT says:

> The insults in the show are often colorful and inventive, but they can be quite explicit. Due to their explicit nature, I won't provide a verbatim quote here

You can ask it to not filter profanity, but it seems I need to do it every other message. In general ChatGPT is about as useful as a marzipan dildo here.

I'm willing to bet that exactly 0% of the content of that sub is LLM generated, and the same for most of those smaller subs. Who even cares about these tiny subs? Certainly not Reddit.
More popular, yes. Usability is subjective. The lack of tiling window management or decent package management on either of the most popular two desktop operating systems renders them unusable to me, so I'm quite thankful that the ecosystem is fragmented enough to cater to my apparently niche tastes.
> thats got to be an unhealthy amount of running

Citation needed lol. I think it’s around 30 miles of running a week which many many many many recreational runners have little trouble maintaining.

Yeah I mean if it hurts take a break.
We caught it about 2 million into a 15 million print run. I had to go through the control files and change the offending value or identify the pallet and bundle of mail it was in so we could remove and readdress the catalog. It was about 10 years ago and anyone who complained got a coupon.

The mailing house that did the work was fired though.
It’s slightly more than the annual budget of the New York Public Library system, which is being forced to open fewer days and close branches thanks to Adams’s budget cuts.

It’s slightly less than the amount by which the NYC schools budget is being cut this year (the same year federal stimulus funding goes away), forcing schools to cut things like pre-k programs.
Families with "women in the workplace" are not brainwashed, they are wielding hard earned rights and freedoms against violently indifferent economic structures.

Under capitalism, we are not free unless we draw a wage, and women have learned there are no wages for housework.
> LLMs produce their answers with a fixed amount of computation per token

I'm not that confident that humans don't do this. Neurons are slow enough that we can't really have a very large number of sequential steps behind a given thought. Longer complex considerations are difficult (for me at least) without at least thinking out loud to cache my thoughts in audible memory, or having a piece of paper to store and review my reasoning steps. I'm not sure this is very different than a LLM prompted to reason step by step.

The main difference I can think of is that humans can learn, while LLMs have fixed weights after training. For example, once I've thought carefully and convinced myself through step-by-step reasoning, I'll remember that conclusion and fit it into my knowledge framework, potentially re-evaluating other beliefs. That's something today's LLMs don't do, but mainly for practical reasons, rather than theoretical ones.

I believe the extent of world modelling done by LLMs still remains an open question.
It was specifically asked for a dangerous recipe - no 'probably' about it.
I would say it's the exact opposite, after all planes replaced ships and that NY to London leg is significantly more comfortable on a ship. Heck if I could cut my NY-London time in half, I'd take it, even if I had to give up lie-flat seats.
Can you get the same benefits from brisk walking (4+ MPH)?
I am not that optimistic.

HTTP have lots of embedded usage.
> This is why they [non-CS PRNGs] are sometimes called DRBGs

CSPRNGs are also sometimes called DRBGs. Classically, "Dual_EC_DRBG" but also NIST SP 800-90A "(AES_)CTR_DRBG," which is what the Windows 10 kernel random device uses.
As long as you called no platform specific APIs. The same is true of Rust and many (even most) languages. Go isn't magic here.
I hunted for WW 1 artifacts with my father all through the 1980s in France. We found a lot and I still have a lot. Since this was way before 9/11, we were able to smuggle old, old artillery shells, potato mashers (no wooden handle), and other types of grenades in our checked luggage (plane belly). One interesting piece is a rusted helmet with bullet hole. The metal is flayed inward where the wearer’s skull rests. No idea if anyone was wearing it when it was shot.
Oh, that's just one of many such cases. There's also the history of how it took years of requests, and pressure from Valve, for Wayland devs to consider letting the user disable VSync. Or the disaster around the UI scale, which until recently would be rounded up to the nearest integer, passed to the client, and the client's rendered bitmap would then be downscaled by the compositor to match the actual scale set by the user. Because who needs performance, accurate display of images, or subpixel antialiasing of fonts? Fortunately, they have relented on this too and a fractional scaling protocol got merged. Unfortunately, it basically obsoletes a core protocol field.

It's a whole repeating pattern: Wayland starts out with a weird and inflexible design -> Wayland devs try to make the whole Linux ecosystem conform -> they start backtracking after years of pressure, but now they have to add cruft/workarounds to the protocol. Happened to forced VSync, integer-only UI scaling, the compositor-driven render loop with no visibility hints, client-side decorations only... At this rate, Wayland will be full of obsolete cruft before it even overtakes X11 in popularity.
>The Mote in God's Eye is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, which explores the concept of the "moties," an alien species that has a unique method of starship construction. The moties build their ships in a modular way, with many different components that can be added or removed as needed. This makes their ships highly adaptable and able to respond to changing situations, but also somewhat unpredictable and complex.

>John Nagle's comment, "Late binding is programming for moties," suggests that he is drawing a parallel between the adaptable but complex nature of the moties' starship construction and the approach to programming that relies on late binding. He is likely implying that late-bound programming, like the construction of motie ships, can lead to systems that are highly flexible and capable of responding to a wide range of inputs, but at the same time, these systems can be more complex and harder to predict, maintain, or debug.

--Yi-34B-Chat
> one of the tables known to Harvard

This has the cadence of a reference, but Google didn't help me. Am I missing something?
Unfortunately the fragmentation can be felt quite strong. A thousand different Linux "flavours", none of them work even remotely as well as MacOS or Windows does. Most Linux distros have never heard of decent user experience design, or consistency in design, and with everybody and their mom making a new linux distro every week it just seems more like a toy than something to use professionally (other than as a server, I guess).
The universe simulator in question would deprive you of your memories and life experience. For all you know while you're in it you're a teenage girl with all the trappings and insecurities of being raised as such, you always have been and this is your whole and only world and future you're watching fall apart.

Like yeah I'm not at all shocked the HN everyman mid 30s white dude wouldn't really care about his nudes being spread around. The point of the simulator comment was I wish you could truly experience how different life is for women.
Yes because it's in the Bible. And Quran. And Torah.

Have to convert the radicals.

One argument is when the plane lands why doesn't it curve. Another is why can we see over 1500km with a telescope.
I knew it'd be related to a unit conversion after the first paragraph. When regulations require units to be metric, but the actual quantity remains unchanged, this is the result.

Similarly, in the electronics industry, there are connectors whose pitch (distance between pins) is specified as 2.54mm. Not 2.5, but 2.54, which turns out to be exactly 0.1 inches, or "100 thou" in machinist's parlance. Just to add to the confusion, there are also "pure metric" parts originating in the East with exactly 2.5mm pitch, which seems to fit the imperial ones, but only when the pin count is low enough that the difference is within tolerance.

It's worth noting that most if not all of these odd values seem to be metrications of customary units; I can't seem to think of any examples of the opposite.
While I dont agreed that all software used by the government needs to be open source and it strikes me that certain software needs to be more than proprietary even top secret. I do agree with the notion that software used to incriminate or identify or charge or sentence people must even should be open source.
I didn't see that text either. I just did a quick "let's verify this data" check because it just doesn't match my experience.

> If I had noticed that, I still would've needed one of the very clever people here to explain the significance.

I don't know if that's sarcastic or serious or if that's some dig at me? What an odd comment.
Looks like you've fallen right into the corollary.

It's absurd to expect self-awareness in some system just because its parts are similar to the parts of other self-aware systems you're familiar with.
You don't want to now, but they did. I remember taking aspirin as a child. Johnsons Baby Aspirin - it dissolved in your mouth and had a slight orange flavor.
In the example of the RA being automated by an LLM workflow by agents, I agree it’s very possible and it requires defining a set of specific agents, using prompts and allow function calling for tools, and then defining a full workflow between the agents. The workflow can likely be modeled by breaking down the individual steps the RA takes when doing their work.

The agents are likely very narrow and specific, they do one very very specific task. Then the workflow is a DAG chaining their work together.
That is a goal of the government. EO 14028 makes the biden administration the first to take cybersecurity seriously. The problems are two fold:

- An attacker only has to get lucky once. You have to do the right thing everytime.

and

- It's not clear you didn't do the right thing until it's too late.

It's possible to a much better job of cybersec than we're doing today, but everything today is such a hodgepodge of "It works, it barely works, onto the next thing" that it's hard to do so. Developers can barely be expected to write documentation, getting people to routinely do static and dynamic analysis on their code is going to be a high bar to get over.
Yes but the UK has been one of only 2 countries in the world with that peculiar legal stipulation (not being allowed to listen to unencrypted signals)

But yeah in Holland the police radios have been encrypted for 20 years as well.. Their pagers are not and there's many sites publishing this info. I believe in the UK publishing info that was received is also not allowed.

On the one hand I understand, even before it was encrypted they'd often have to call the officers on a cell phone to protect personal information.

However on the other hand it makes the police service even more opaque again. The public radios made for great accountability.
Ask HN: Product and feature design educational material for a developer
I'm a full-stack developer trying to get better at planning features and product design.

What are some of your favorite blog posts, books, videos, tools, methodologies, and courses for product design or related subjects like UX/UI, research, prototyping, etc?
So many problems related to physical health, mental health, social and community health, as well as environmental and economic health are exasperated by one thing: cars.

Meanwhile Fewer kids are walking or biking to school than ever before, setting them up for a lifetime of sedentarism and it's consequences. The obesity rate will continue it's steady march upwards and to the right.
These communications also contain personal and sometimes sensitive information of citizens.
> this design makes the common case much simpler at the expense of making the rare case harder

In the age of emoji (and uhhhh, everyone who doesn't use English as their main language), I don't think your "rare case" is really that rare.
You should be very careful when doing that. It may be rare in practice, but it's surprisingly easy to trigger ABA issues with only a 16-bit sequence number.
That is not completely true. There are RNNs with transformer/LLM-like performance. See e.g. https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM.

They are less popular, and less explored. But an interesting route ahead.
Feel free to substitute "low quality comments" with "comments that I don't find valuable" or simply "comments that I don't like". That's not really the point that I was trying to make.
For me it wasn’t usually the balls, but the rollers that got all gunky. I kept a dental pick around to quickly clean them.
Of course the order of operations here was to break everything first and then start addressing the issues they feel like addressing when and if they get around to it.

Kind of a real FU way of trying to move things forward...
They did this, tho. Many subs did suddenly allow nsfw content. It was very effective. Reddit Corp needed to remove the mods of those subs and replace same with ones that would implement ad friendly rules again. It really showed that the mods are not free in how they run their subs.
It definitely seems like an overengineered solution, but cool nonetheless.

I think hearing devices, mostly hearing aids, are due for some major innovation in the next <5 years. There is so much software related stuff for audio currently happening that can massively benefit hearing aid users. Its one of the markets Im most excited to see change, as my dad has profound hearing loss and relies on hearing aids.

If I ever have funding/support, its absolutely what I would love to work on
For the MTA, not much. Their yearly budget is more than $19 billion per year: https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics.
Of course there are, but I don't see a world where AGI doesn't become a thing. So then it's a question of what to do with that.
In most arts the constraints yield the technique, where AI is removing constraints faster than most people can even begin to apprehend them. A lot of our meaning came from the constraints we accepted, where we were shaped by the forces we opposed and produced things that were expressions of that experience.

If AI removes these, the effect (without competence) is that there's less to shape us. I see it as a kind of Great Decohering. Maybe we need to build an essential civilizational Arc or time capsule that could survive and be discovered in some future era when some variation of our species develops the technology again so they know there is a there here. Thinking the first major humanoid robot application should be to build moon pyramids.
You talk about a paid thing like it's normal. That sounds like an ad.
Have you had Crabby Jack's on Jefferson Highway?
Police radio being public hasn’t been a problem for like 100 years and it’s still not a problem today.

Just another way public money is stolen and given to the police industry. Call it civil forfeiture I guess!
Very old Macs used this trick to squeeze their ROM routines down a bit, operating with 24 bit addressing and using the top bits for flags and whatnot. Of course they ran into trouble when machines with 16MB of memory started appearing. If you do this you might be making more work for yourself in the future when you buy a new machine with 256EB of main memory.
I got that but I was interested that climbing steps trained it better than wind sprints? Or better than rowing? So was wondering if there was something specific about step climbing that was triggering the heart conditioning.
It has nothing to do with Windows. fish doesn't support Windows. Their use of wchar_t is the glibc wchar_t (wchar_t is not Microsoft-specific) which is a 32-bit type and stores UTF-32-encoded codepoints. The Rust type they're using is also the same ( https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/doc_int... ).
What are they getting over the radio that can't be recorded in person?

The people most likely to benefit from the recordings are the ones in contact. The recordings are a terrible small piece of information and are generally self-censored. Better of recording everything in person.
I seem to remember that NYPD, NYFD, and Port Authority had problems on 9/11 because of incompatible radio systems. Are we going back to that mishmash?
Any idea how this impacts things like the Citizen app? It's helpful to see if there is violence or similar risks nearby, particularly in major metros. Would be a shame if they were cut off from being able to provide that info to the public to help protect themselves.
I love this paean, and I am delighted to assimilate this gleeful happy memetics into my own. But I think the hate sucks & can get lost. Maybe it's not hate, but I'm just so done, so fed up with intolerance and/or nattering against Lennart Poettering, and it all comes off as ridiculous to me. Whatever the qualms: Pulseaudio and systemd have been such vast giant leaps over where we were before. Most of the voices are just against. That is, they don't saying what else we ought have done, they dont speculate constructively. They're winges (thank you Ben Collins for re-introducing me to that word). It would be such a bleaker worse world without pulseaudio and without systemd. (I'm sorry to hear your product ran into such difficulty though!)

I absolutely am happy to hand a massive trophy to Wim Taymans for building a truly elegant API architecture. But I repeat again: the core of PipeWire would not have been possible without the better Linux we have today. PipeWire competes with JACK because of https://docs.pipewire.org/page_dma_buf.html . That's basically a fact.
"AI is flooding the zone with shit"

"It's excellent writing, and critical thinking from people who clearly know what they're talking about. AI doesn't investigate, nor does it ruminate or have an original thought. It's a probability engine recycling what it's previously been fed. Eventually, AI will end up eating its own shit, but that's a story for another day."
This may be a very person-specific quality because my Etymotics are very comfortable and have saved my ears through a lot of concerts. I just have the cheap ER20 version.

https://a.co/d/8hM7eqx
I would say that the popularity indicates the higher usability. People find Windows and MacOS easier to use, with less random problems. I also don't understand what you mean by lack of package management? Homebrew on MacOS is very decent, on Windows you have Scoop/WinGet which work very well. Either way both are much less fragmented than the Linux flatpak/snap/.deb/AppImage/.tar.gz nightmare which a regular user will never be able to figure out. I swear it's like Linux advocates have never even talked to a normal person, and are somehow under the illusion that Linux is a easy-to-use, user-friendly OS, which .. it's not. Any OS that requires you to know CLI basics to install regular apps is not a user-friendly OS (Chrome gives a .deb, but on some recent distros it cannot be installed by clicking on it! IntelliJ gives .tar.gz, which, well, good luck figuring that out, and others give AppImage, which needs chmod+x!).
> based on how often they play the best moves according to engines in online and live matches

One thing that Magnus mentioned about a year ago (I think in relation to his oblique insinuation that Hans Niemann cheated) is that you don't have to cheat throughout the game.

He posited that if he checked an engine only once per game (at some critical juncture), he would be unbeatable (by any other non-cheating super GM).

If you cheat like that, it would be considerably more difficult to detect.

Caruana recently suggested that ~50% of players had cheated in cash online tournaments. He wasn't particularly clear about what he meant by "50%" but I suspect he thinks that many lesser GMs have done what Magnus suggested: they occasionally "dip their toe" into the cheating realm by checking at some critical point against a more formidable opponent.

They don't even need to do this every game. And, human nature being what it is, I bet they can convince themselves that it's not really cheating (e.g., "I was just double checking my favorite move....")
agreed. 90% of the time someone uses a "me..thee" phrasing, it is associated with a superficial and juvenile take.

Different standards apply in different situations. The devil is always in the details with drawing the line. Simply noticing a difference and making it rhyme is not a criticism. "sirens for me, speed limits for thee" isn't a clever point.
The alpha only accessed 8-byte aligned mem addresses (originally anyway). The bottom 3 bits were ignored (masked out) on lookups, per the spec, to allow users to stuff juicy extra info into these.
Working with strings is one of the most common complaints about rust though. Unless your only talking about the implemtation of it?
Airport-security aside, didn't you have reservations about carrying around unexploded ordnance, especially on a plane?
In the 80s there would possibly be a smoking lounge in the bigger offices. Heck, my high school had one for teachers until probably 1986 or so.

By the mid 90’s they were all gone, smoking moved outside.
> Someone at the factory wrote and programmed that song, so he probably would consider it art.

That's clearly not the argument I was making.

> What if I use an AI chord generator and decide which chords to use in my song based on what the AI generates?

"Write me a pop song" == not you. "Create a chord progression in the key of E major" plus you yourself write the actual song and lyrics == you.