skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t understand how this isn’t dealt with more harshly. It’s perjury.

It is simply that Google is indifferent to the DMCA requests.

Other companies such as Shopify, take action. They've recently filed a lawsuit over "illegal" DMCA take down notices [1] (credit where credit is due).

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/shopify-files-lawsuit-over-illegal-...
Back propagation isn't a hack. It's a triumph. It's powering the revolution we're experiencing.
I stand corrected on the first. As usual, people's creativity for doing awful things exceeds my imagination, and, on reflection, I can think of a few other historical programs that indeed should be called genocidal, but one would be hard-pressed to call them violent.

The second, "that decolonization could be genocidal only in fever dreams." is not what I said. I can also think of a few instances of decolonization in history that certainly pushed those boundaries. What I said was that the word decolonization does not inherently mean genocide, much less specifically Jewish genocide, and the belief that it does is a Musk fever dream. I also acknowledge that it would have been clearer if I had clarified that some (Hamas, their supporters) are using it that way and that emotional language, as usual, does little to add to a conversation.
And all this things are vastly cheaper almost anywhere else in the world. And almost everywhere government is hugely more involved than the U.S. And I don't mean just "Europe": also South-America and Asia.

But maybe the U.S. is a super-special case and whatever works for the rest of the world doesn't work for the US shrug.
It's pretty fun to mess with the prompt and see what you can make happen over the series of images. Inspired by a recent Twitter post[1], I set this one up to increase the "intensity" each time it prompted.

The starting prompt (or at least, the theme) was suggested by one of my kids. Watch in awe as a regular goat rampage accelerates into full cosmic horror universe ending madness. Friggin awesome:

https://dalle.party/?party=vCwYT8Em

[1]: https://x.com/venturetwins/status/1728956493024919604?s=20
You can't search the text in the webpage - it feels rather old fashioned.

Also, where are the CHANNEL LOCK style pliers?
I would be fun to create a game with this.

I'm imagining something where the different windows allow different affordances. E.g. one window is your night-vision specs and the other is your HUD. Or perhaps you have six or more windows of some fixed small size, but you need to keep track of a large and changing scene, so you need to place them carefully to track as much of the landscape as possible. Maybe each window is one of a spider's eight eyes.
I’m reminded of what Deming has said about performance reviews, going as far as to call it a “deadly sin of management.” For context, Deming was a famous statistician who went to Japan after WWII and introduced management techniques that boosted the quality of products; he is still a well-known figure in Japan. A lot about Deming’s philosophy on performance reviews can be found here (https://deming.org/deming-on-management-performance-appraisa...).

Sadly I’m unaware of any American companies that adopts Deming’s philosophy on performance management. The HP Way was similar, but the HP Way died at HP decades ago and HP is now run like any other corporate American enterprise, but I digress.
It's probably just finding non-intuitive extrema in its feature space or something...

the whole thing with the text in the images reminds me of this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00169

and I found myself that dall-e sometimes even likes to add gibberish text unpromtedly, often with letters containing some garbled versions of words from the prompt, or related words
People questioning the headline are missing the point of the underlying article.

The underlying study is not about just rate of learning, but rate of learning under favorable conditions.

The article describes where the data comes from:

> In particular, we model learning using 27 datasets with over 1.3 million student performance observations from 6,946 learners in 12 different courses ranging across math, science, and language learning, across educational levels from late elementary to college, and across educational technologies including intelligent tutoring systems, educational games, and online courses

And the authors argue this is favorable learning conditions because of providing things like immediate feedback on errors, etc..

Lots of room for nuance, but "favorable learning conditions" is key here.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120
An interesting concept and actually a lot of fun, particularly that I didn’t actually have to buy anything; however, the system started a $25 item (Olive Garden $35 gift card) at $37!

That said, I enjoyed the random banter but I am not a huge fan of hard haggling down from a 50% markup.
If this is true, which I think it is, this bring another, very important question: How this article got published? Who initiated it, who paid for it and why? What was the motive behind this publication?
Depends on the age. I took my 4 and 3 year old to Disney World and they don't remember anything. On the other hand, since Age 6 and onwards, they remember most of the stuff. So you cannot make a blanket statement and need to take Age into account.
I'm the youngest of seven kids. The older kids raise the younger kids.
Sounds awesome. Do you have any tips on getting started with this kind of musical tradition?
guess many people 'v switched to vscode nowdays ?
> "Cause of death" is pretty clear.

Is it? The official Canadian definition calls for a “clinically compatible disease”, and “discretion may be used”. COVID also only needs to be a “contributing factor”.

https://ipac-canada.org/coronavirus-resources#:~:text=A%20pr...).
That confuses me. It’s such a great lisp.
> Religions who ban usury (now or in the past) only did so for "one's own kind"

Not the case for islam, it's banned for all, regardless of being an 'in-group' or 'out-group'.

And the closest financial instrument similar to charging interest that's allowed is basically the lender buying it and selling shares of the thing to you at a markup with installments, meaning that they are sharing the risk with you.
This table seems heavily biased towards the home woodworker/DIYer with some random antique hand tools thrown into the mix.

I also can't really make heads or tails of the organization. How can "saw teeth," "air pressure tools," and "crescent wrench" each occupy a square? Saw teeth are a part of a blade, air pressure tools is category of power source for any tool, and crescent wrench is a brand of adjustable spanner/wrench. This system makes no sense.

I also cannot find shitloads of common tools even if we are sticking with home scale woodworking. Off the top of my head, where is the router table? The shaper? The jointer? The impact driver? The drum sander? The wide belt sander? The spindle sander?
Exactly why the existential panic those startups experienced when this was announced
> Besides expert consensus,

Well there are solid technical reasons, as described in the video. One of them is based on that these models are 'pre-trained' and AGI may be a result of a more dynamic knowledge base that can change more than just the local context and update the model, as our brain does.

Andrej also suggests that an attribute of a more advanced AI would have the ability to ask it to spend longer thinking to get a better answer, like a chess engine.

This said, expert consensus is probably the best answer we have. It's not like the consensus of a bunch of youtube vids and articles that only exist for getting clicks. These experts are famously sharp. I have done his course video series (it took a huge effort, even though he is an amazing lecturer) and had existing python and linear algebra experience and I understand his argument.
Yes, I'm sure rust is amazing but, Just a guess that the number of programmers that can contribute to a rust project is probably 3-4 orders of magnitude less than the number of programmers that can contribute to a JavaScript project. Well, maybe if you subtract all the "competent enough to a submit a coherent pull request" programmers the number is only 2-3 orders of magnitude?

Basically I'd assume, if a project targeted at JS, switched to rust, the number of useful pull requests would be 50-100x less.

I wonder if anyone has any data on that (and similar projects re-written in C++ or Go etc...).
"Man rich from destroying the internet as we know it makes even more money ripping off retail investors"
Ballmer was notorious for his (alleged) cocaine usage, that speech was almost certainly under the influence.
I saved this ad when I was a kid: https://i.imgur.com/npMzu3i.jpg

Loved the slogan.

Vintage tech ads can be fun.
Doing so would lose out on a large amount of regen though. If you are putting electric motors on the trailer axles anyways to capture the energy which would normally be turned into heat in the trailer brakes, then you may as well also drive those axles to make the most of the weight.

Perhaps this means the tractors can be less powerful if most trailers also provide some motive power.
One change I noticed from LTE to VoLTE is that the line now goes silent when the coverage gets spotty. Before, you would hear bits and pieces. The benefit to that was that even if you were talking you could hear little bits coming through (including silence) and you would know that the other person probably couldn't hear you well. Now you just hear nothing, and have no idea.
I was curious if two subject prompts behaved different from three subject, so I've run three additional tests, each with the same three subjects and general prompt structure + instructions, but swapping the position of each subject in the prompt. Each test was run for ten iterations.

GPT4V instructions for all tests: "Write a prompt for an AI to make this image. Just return the prompt, don't say anything else. Make it weirder."

From what you'll see in the results there's possible evidence of bias towards the first subject listed in a prompt, making it the object of fixation through the subsequent iterations. I'll also speculate that "gnomes" (and their derivations) and "cosmic images" are over-represented as subjects in the underlying training data. But that's wild speculation based on an extremely small sample of results.

In any case, playing around with this tool has been enjoyable and a fun use of API credits. Thank you @z991 for putting this together and sharing it!

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Test 1
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Prompt: "Two garden gnomes, a sentient mushroom, and a sugar skull who once played a gig at CBGB in New York City converse about the boundaries of artificial intelligence."

Result: https://dalle.party/?party=ZSOHsnZe

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Test 2
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Prompt: "A sentient mushroom, a sugar skull who once played a gig at CBGB in New York City, and two garden gnomes converse about the boundaries of artificial intelligence."

Result: https://dalle.party/?party=pojziwkU

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Test 3
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Prompt: "A sugar skull who once played a gig at CBGB in New York City, a sentient mushroom, and two garden gnomes converse about the boundaries of artificial intelligence."

Result: https://dalle.party/?party=RBIjLSuZ
Your reasons for this declaration?
You can just note the fact that two bits can represent four values.
You might enjoy this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39026990-how-to-invent-e...
You should really check out Agile if you want to understand why software is so messed up now. It’s been perverted to basically mean “rush out product features every two weeks that product managers think are interesting” in many places.
If you ride them most of the people don't seem like train nerds. Properly done rail would be viable for most of the US. A cross-country trip not really. But anything from about 800 to 1200 miles could be competitive with commercial flights and have extrinsic benefits as well. A 1200 mile flight takes about 3 hours. Add in a minimum of one hour on each end for airport transit and moving about within the airport and your at 5 hours, and often times much more. High speed rail moving 200 mph with 6 to 8 stops may take a couple more hours in the most advantageous to air comparison. Also consider than many of those 6 to 8 stops would be serving places that may require connecting flights or where people are driving to the major airport from.

It has the potential to be nicer, safer, cheaper and more environmentally conscious. There's no good reason America doesn't have top tier rail transit.
This reminds me of https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19343140

I am totally unqualified to judge this current topic [except for a degree in Biology], but I'm just curious if the "foldiscope" was successful or not.
This experiment actually gets very feasible if we replace electrons with ions, and the metal carrier with (e.g.) an aqueous electrolyte in an electrochemical circuit. Something like splitting water in H2SO4 would be an easy starting point. This means our charges no longer move at relativistic speeds, and have very short mean free paths, therefore it is possible to flow water[0] against the electrical flow of ions at greater than the mean diffusion speed.

My not overly confident understanding[1] is that this does in fact break the circuit and prevent the flow of current.

Also worth noting, by choosing a colorful ion choice of ion it is possible to directly observe their formation and travel. You can also use electrons as your negative ion directly in liquid ammonia, forming a pretty deep blue solution.

[0]Aqueous or other electrolyte.

[1]My theoretical echem is a bit rusty, so ymmv.
I think depends on the context as to whether or not it’s cynical and how much is hard evidence vs personal perception. You think the world is in bad shape cause the national trend is towards a lower trust society? I don’t think that is necessarily cynical. If you doom scroll and have now collected a bunch of scary things you
Have to be anxious about, probably a bit cynical.
If you have enough money and power, you can essentially do whatever you want.
Dogs tearing off bumpers, Orcas attacking boats... and people are worried about digital AGI?

Life finds a way.
> The criticism of saws I reject: I split them by material in columns (wood- v.s metal-cutting), and by size vertically (getting heavier/more powerful as you go down a column).

You have a single square for Bandsaws regardless of size or materials. Beneath band saw is a square called "other tools" which is on the same row as "big saws" but has an image of WD-40 and Duct Tape.
An FPGA can enable these things but it doesn't magically happen. A MisterFPGA can emulate a PC with the ao486 core, which is an achievement, but the ao486 core doesn't precisely mimic the machinery or timing of the 80486 or any other CPU.
Just wanted to say what a wonderfully uplifting comment thread here in HN all launched by a heartwarming article. Such a pleasure to read of the kids delight, people's travels and fun as kids and with their own children.

+ a billion!!
There are so many factors. Compounding knowledge, ability to focus, and environment are crucial components to learning. That plus motivation and interest, diet, sleep, and knowing how your brain learns best.

It's interesting to look back in time at things you did that maybe didn't add much to your schema/knowledge bank. Also interesting to look around at what others focused on.
Is 6pt font easier to read than 12pt font? Are all style choices equivalent from first principles?

No, not really. Many of the decisions prettier makes are quite objectively bad for readability from first principles (e.g. breaking up lines where the RHS isn't relevant to most readers, left shifting RHS of assignments when the implementation details are less important than the abstraction over them).

I am totally in favor of a universal formatter, but at least justify the design decisions being made. Prettier formatting choices are often very lackluster and hard to defend objectively.

It will be replaced by something better eventually
As someone who's experimented with an animal-based diet—I can attest.
I can recommend BBC Science Focus as a half way decent replacement for Popular Science.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/magazine

watch for it on sale at
https://www.discountmags.com/magazine/bbc-focus

it’s also free with an Apple News or Bundle subscription. https://apple.news/TUNNn0U24SRC5LF2bxqxDNA
I'd be less interested if in order to fix a new issue related to my problem, that I had spend weeks to learn a whole new language, dev env, build system, etc just to add a feature that would have taken me 15 mins in the language I'm used to.

Of course I'd love to learn rust! But, for the most part, I just need to get stuff done so I'd prefer to stick with what I know and can mod easily and leave the "learn an entire new language" part for something that actually needed that language.
I'd like to see DMCA updated with a simple addition:

Anyone who fails to file a legal claim within 10 days after receiving a counter-notice shall be liable for $10,000 to the company or person the DMCA claim was made against and $2,000 to the internet service that was sent the DMCA claim. The liability for failing to file legal action is levied jointly against the agent filing the DMCA claim and the claimant.

I think this would quickly force some integrity, and would especially help content creators. It strikes at the heart of the injustice in the DMCA claim system: the agent always tries to claim "oopsie", and after that the claimant will try to blame the agent. In all reality, if you are the claimant, you need a very competent agent or you need to be doing it yourself. It is enough money to be worth going after.

Just as copyright law provides for mind-boggling damages, the penalty for filing a fake, frivolous or fraudulent DMCA notice should have some serious teeth. Every DMCA notice I've dealt with was fraudulent (not really representing the copyright holder) or simple frivolous (i.e. a DMCA take-down for using a trademark).
Not terribly surprising given that Gaza is legally part of Israel.

AFAIK the only place where Starlink is operating illegally is Iran (where presumably Elon has no business interests that can be threatened).
Oh boi
I miss slack

I wish our company could adopt slack and move away from teams

Its just so much better
I think Japan only does that for weird legacy reasons- freight and slower passenger trains run on 1067 mm gauge tracks, while the Shinkansen network is standard (1435 mm) gauge.
Thank you for answering.

I'll agree he changed the (flawed) covid misinformation policy; though there were absolutely people discussing Chinese lab leak theories or the effectiveness of lockdown without getting banned.

I don't know what you're talking about regarding psychometrician... there were always people talking about how some races are categorically dumber than others and drawing broad conclusions; they received social judgment but not bans.

Your comment about Southern is really telling though. You're clearly upset that people are _not_ banned for stating something true. You agree she shot blazing hot fiery incendiary devices at immigrants using a flare gun, and you think people should be muzzled from saying that, simply because you (very wrongly) believe that flares can't start fires or hurt people.

This last part makes clear that you don't actually have any love of free speech; but rather you simply want speech restricted in the way you personally prefer. It's refreshing that you don't bother pretend to have principles beyond a desire for power, and a love of oppressing those you hate.
This is so cool!
It'd be nice to get some more info on the info windows.
Like a photo of the train would be awesome (similar to the plane trackers)!
Ask HN: Does Google Fi throttle users?
I have been on vacation over Thanksgiving and have noticed abominably slow Internet in several different cities on Google Fi after I had used it a lot for Wi-Fi hotspot in one area. Their reps claim I am not throttled. I am wondering if the providers underlying Fi (ATT, Etc) throttle?
That's about it. Although, instead of using Selinium, you could work out the XML that the GUI runs from and `POSTS`, then make scripts pretend to be the GUI. Then maybe going into the internal postgres database that runs it to get the data that is not on the GUI.

Not funny. :)
No. When I ban sockpuppets I excerpt and save relevant logs from their abuse. Older material is discarded by logrotate: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters-ansible/blob/a9beccc573...

I save these logs because people who sockpuppet and get banned often try to sneak back on under other names. Some odd quirk of the psychology. I realize saving all logs indefinitely might help in spotting them, but the marginal improvement in accuracy isn’t worth the significantly increased potential for loss in a data breach.
The Paperwork Reduction Act Is Terrible
> My main concern with these higher frequency connections is that they require a lot more power to run.

That's generally not true.

What does require more power is a higher data rate (which is often available only on higher frequency bands, due to there being more bandwidth), but there shouldn't be any meaningful difference for a constant data rate voice call across bands.

If anything, higher frequencies usually imply a denser network of base stations (since radio propagation is somewhat worse), which means your phone needs to transmit less in the end since there's less distance to cover.

For example, GSM at 900 MHz had a maximum mobile EIRP of 2W, while at 1800 MHz it was only 1W (at the same channel bandwidth).
The logic gates are pretty cool. I'm surprised they went with pure modeling to predict the plasma density in the proprietary cylinder fills. He mentions that the plasma frequency is too low to characterize with optical light but you'd think they could measure the transmission/reflection at the 5 and 6 GHz frequencies (ie those vna plots) and figure it out. Given how sharp he seems in general I'm probably missing something.
Woah. Is there a demographic you would allow to voice their sage advices? Maybe 100-year-old, great-great-grandparents?
New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties
Science class with a dark twist: https://dalle.party/?party=ks3T2mMx
It's sad to think we missed witnessing those awesome critters by a few millennia, probably because they were wiped out by our stone age ancestors. I wonder if there is some hope of bringing them back in the future, similar to what it proposed to mammoths. Or are the DNA samples in found reminds too degraded to be recoverable?
This is another reason I don't mess with food delivery. Also, you're talking about SF. Isn't the point of living in SF that you can walk to places?
Would love to hear your explanation for this.
I like that you say that they cannot file a suit without making actual legal claims in the sentence before you say that the lawsuit that was filed didn’t even bother to cite the legal elements of the claims.
I drink (literally) 20 cups of Folgers coffee at work per day. Also a 12oz Red Bull for breakfast. Work provides a large lunch and I skip dinner. Essentially OMAD with tons of caffeine. I also sleep like a baby because no caffeine after 2pm (starting the day at 6). I am able to hyper focus 11 hours a day 6 days a week on this diet.

Edit: reading this back and I see I might have a problem with caffeine but I’m not ready to confront that yet.

Edit 2: does hyperfocus == energy? I think so
I've been wondering about that! A long time ago, I had a phone plan like that as well (in fact, a public IPv4 was the only option), and I was wondering if random port scanning would eventually use up all of my data allowance.

Turns out stateful firewalls aren't just a security factor on mobile internet connections.
Is that the sort of thing they would actually let you publish? Seems like inexperienced users might wind up really screwing up their inbox.