skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally find the censorship implications (and the business models they allow) far more worrying than the surveillance implications.

It will soon be possible to create a dating app where chatting is free, but figuring out a place to meet or exchanging contact details requires you to pay up, in a way that 99% of people won't know how to bypass, especially if repeated bypassing attempts result in a ban. Same goes for apps like Airbnb or eBay, which will be able to prevent people from using them as listing sites and conducting their transactions off-platform to avoid fees.

The social media implications are even more worrying, it will be possible to check every post, comment, message, photo or video and immediately delist it if it promotes certain views (like the lab leak theory), no matter how indirect these mentions are. Parental control software will have a field day with this, basically redefining helicopter parenting.
Has anyone done any comparisons between competitors? Currently looking at zoom vs daily for a client
> the fiery core of the Earth that's moving those plates around is an approximately 45 terawatt engine; human civilization is currently around 19 terawatts

Oh wow that is mind blowing! I would have thought we were at a smaller proportion, to be honest.
Anecdotally I think you also see:

1. An increase is Ask HN posts that a short time ago wouldve only been on Stack Overflow

2. An increase in low quality meme comments that a short time ago wouldve only been on Reddit

That leads me to believe that HN is one of the last the safe harbours for tech minded folks as SO and Reddit continue to decline in quality.
Since they've been on waitlist-mode for several years, it's not currently easy to try out in any case.
Oh you want brakes with that? Sorry you forgot to renew your license.
> Governements abuse people more than an economic system ever has

This is true on one level, as economic systems are not actors, but abstractions for aggregates of actions; its false on a more concrete level because governments are also not real concrete actors but abstractions for aggregates of real actors.

Both governments and economic systems (and corporations, which you seem to drop in as ig they were the same as economic systems) are abstractions through which real actors act, including to oppress, and very often actions by thr same actors involves all thrre abstractions (even a single action might). Corporations, after all. are themselves creatures of gogernment through law, and economic systems exist only as ideals without being made manifest through legal systems.

> A corporation has never marched people to camps,

You probably don't want to think about most of the best known early joint-stock conpanies (any of the variously East India companies, but especially the British, the Royal African Company, etc.)

> If I don’t want to deal with a corporation, I have the right not to — unless government forces me to.

Corporations—like any individuals—can and do apply coercive force on their own with only after-the-fact review by governments (and, in many cases historically, with obvjecting governments having limited power to apply sanctions), so, no, this isn't correct.
I disagree. I think Musk is right up there in the group of entities that absolutely should not have that power.
If this interests you, then take a look at sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project from 2006 that uses similar classifying techniques.

https://youtu.be/eRlhKaxcKpA
Plenty of people use their personal computers for work, even if I strongly advise against it lol
> however given it was designed to promote nuclear technology to school children

... and that was not a problem for you ethically?
Lean4 has been a pleasure to learn so far! Starting with the natural numbers game was great for me: https://adam.math.hhu.de/
Firefox's market share loss started years before Eich left.
I read that as, "Person who made bad decisions concludes that there was no alternative but the bad decisions made."

The former keeper should have been given a chance to try. Sign a waiver, the keeper knows the risks.

If the chimps leave the zoo, then shoot them. But not when they are in the ape enclosure. And for Pete's sake. Don't put people who want to run rollercoasters in charge of animal welfare.
Sounds like fun, but I can't afford Widevine, and nobody will use my browser if they can only get standard def on Netflix and Youtube.
Yeah, the author also wrote about some of the motivations behind Lena. I was surprised LLMs / GPTs weren't a direct inspiration (at least not explicitly mentioned). https://qntm.org/uploading
It's not dumb. It's a feeling that I share. However even if the technological hurdles are overcome I'm not sure I'd remain viable after learning that my loved ones (and especially children) are long gone if they couldn't be preserved.

When I was a teen and before making a family Immortality seemed like a dream. Now it seems like it could actually be a nightmare if not implemented properly.

EDIT: To add further. Just being with my child, holding their hand, listening to their little stories about toys etc now feels much more important than any future time as an immortal instance freely exploring the wonders of the universe. If you want to chase immortality don't have kids. It will seriously change how to perceive things.
This is really obvious. All two digits composite numbers must have a factor less than or equal to their square root. Square root of 100 is 10. Thus all composite numbers under 100 must have a factor under 10. There are only four primes less than 10: 2, 3, 5 and 7.

Once you exclude all numbers divisible by 2, 3 and 5 these are the composite numbers left: 49, 77, 91.
I sadly agree with everything you said, except would add that Google Maps has already died for many users outside of urban areas. Satellite view has always been great for scouting outdoor areas but the app falls apart if you actually go anywhere with poor service and try to use it.

One of the most basic features, saving a pin on a map, broke years ago and despite many complaints on their support forum it hasn't been fixed. Directions can be terrible in less traveled areas, and dangerous if followed blindly since they will happily lead you down roads that require 4x4 or are totally impassible. Not to mention saved offline maps are unreliable and the UI clutter has gotten drasticaly worse over the years.

Maps still works fine for the typical things a Google emplyee cares about like getting directions in a well traveled city or finding places to shop, but it's only a matter of time before those usecases get crushed under the ever-building pressures of short term monetization, enshittification, and Google's general apathy and lack of care for users.
I threw some 16 bit files at it, all of them puked in one way or another.

One was a CP/M-86 "small model" executable, the other an object file (16 bit intel OMF object file) - i.e. compiler output.

Boomerang looked like it'd have most chance of getting somewhere since it mentioned having a DOS .EXE analyser.

I'm surprised that "Hex Rays" (i.e. IDA-Pro) got nowhere...
I don't see much difference between brain uploading and having children.
And I thought the USA was already criticized for "big government". The UK and EU seem to be in a competition with each other.
As someone who's now been running a data viz meetup for almost 5 years now, I can confirm that this article is full of good advice. It boils down to:

1. Consistently put on actually good events!

2. Be consistent about marketing the events to make it easy for people to find them!
I’m not sure who “they” are, but I’m pretty sure they’re already doing that, and don’t need me to get the idea. I think it’s important to talk about what LLMs mean for privacy. Profiling every HN user might be a useful tool to are people more aware of the problems. But I totally get your unease, which is also why I haven’t done that myself.

The cat is out of the bag, can’t get it back in by ignoring the fact.
Have you done any comparisons between other competitors?
> This.

"This" what? What point is the parent commenter trying to make? Appeal to authority? (I genuinely don't understand how their comment is meant to be interpreted. Appeal to authority is the best I can come up with. I asked directly, in another comment, but neither they nor anyone else responded. So what is it supposed to mean?)
The longest running fine tuning job took about 8 hours, so ~$5.

I think if you add up all of the learning and testing I did, probably closer to ~$50 total
Buried in the comments are links to longer write-ups with additional details:

Polish:

https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/o-trzech-takich-co-zhak...

https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/awarie-pociagow-newagu-haker...

English:

https://zaufanatrzeciastrona-pl.translate.goog/post/o-trzech...

https://wiadomosci-onet-pl.translate.goog/kraj/awarie-pociag...

For context: Poland is split into 16 voivodships, and after a reform from early 2000s, pretty much each of them has its own local railway company (which cooperate).

Basically "everyone knew" for over a year something was fishy with Newag trains, after a series of faults in trains owned by different companies which used a 3rd-party service company instead of servicing with Newag, so the service company hired the hacker guys, it took a while for the folks to reverse engineer things and understand what's precisely going on.
I’m skeptical we create a level of power near 50% of the entire heat of the inner planet.
Maybe some acknowledgement that machine learning theory and techniques exist for some reason other than making crude simulacra of human cognition. The hype train has plowed through everything including common sense, apparently.
You're not engaging seriously with the argument confronting you.
I don't normally use that term, but someone else in reply to me did, and it captures what I wanted to say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_interval
>The work has already been done. Try to capitalize on it, instead of dismissing it.

Except it hasn't at all. This is the attitude of people who send pull requests to open-source projects and complain that they aren't accepted.

The work is integrating that code with the rest of the system, ensuring it's compatible with future plans, ensuring that it's scalable and secure, and ensuring that the whole team can understand and maintain it.

Successful projects don't just take any code that compiles and passes the tests, they are built in a thoughtful manner with high standards.
What essential apps does it not have according to you?
Somewhere in Svealand, Sweden.

Pros: not much crime, pretty calm, a lot of wilderness that I can access thanks to "allemansrätten", not very far from Norway, not super densely populated, good working conditions, property is not very expensive compared to elsewhere

Cons: not a great government, expensive electricity, not many "tech" jobs, somewhat boring, high taxes, education system isn't that great
Brisbane seems to be decent.
This was the smart approach when Shazam launched in 2008. I would have done exactly the same thing - gone straight to developing a method to turn every song into a hash as computationally efficiently as possible. If you launched this today the default R&D approach would be to train a model which may turn out to be far less efficient and more expensive to host. It feels like the kind of thing a model might be good at, but given that there are a finite number of songs, taking a hash-based approach is probably way more performant.
If you have an Apple account, why are you even using Beeper? I guess it might have some advantages for convenience (multiplexing chat apps), but is that the main selling point right now? I'd imagine the target market is Android users who want to talk to people on Apple Messages. So they can just create a new Apple account, right? (Isn't that kinda hard anyway, though? You need to tie it to billing, etc.) And if that gets banned, who cares? It's not like they were using it for anything else anyway.
Time for some reverse reverse engineering.
You included only the second part of the quote. The full quote is:

"If you want to understand how nature works, you have to understand it on the mineral and grain scale, and this is also the way forward for us to find solutions for this climatic catastrophe. If you study these natural processes, there's a good chance you will stumble on something that will be actually useful."

I don't see anything wrong with including Jagoutz's thoughts on this. Maybe you disagree, but including it in the article gives us an idea of the authors' thinking.
> OP is describing using CAS to bubblesort an array while it is concurrently read by another thread rendering something based on its contents?

No. I'm not OP, but 99% certain this is not the case.
The former keeper left the zoo over frustration that the zoo prioritized rollercoasters over the animals. That speaks louder about the CEO's thinking than anything that the CEO might say about it.
> He wanted to pacify

I'm not sure pacify is the right word.

> but also for very legitimate self-defense reasons

Not really. By that point the Celts weren't as much of a threat as they were 50-100+ years ago. If his goals were primarily 'pacification' and 'self-defense' a much more limited and cheaper campaign would've been more than sufficient. In any case the Roman senate didn't really consider the war to be necessary in that sense.

> Caesar, and the later Romans, did a lot to reduce this internecine warfare.
> commit something much closer to actual genocide

That's a massive a stretch. Even the Romans themselves understood that e.g. the "They Make a Desert and Call it Peace" quote Tacitus put into into the mouth leaders of one of the tribes subjugated by the Romans. The Roman empire was almost entirely built on slave labor and exhortation of the territories they subjugated.

It might have turned into something else in the later periods (by the 1st and 1nd centuries AD). But the Romans certainly did not really improve the lives of the people the conquered during the Republican period.

> The reality of these kinds of events is a lot more nuanced than a simple label like "genocide" will allow.

Well however you put it it was still an extremely violate imperialist war of conquest. Of course yes, technically it wasn't a genocide in the direct sense subjugating, enslaving and stealing their stuff rather than extermination were their primary goals.
Has there been a single instance of a self replicating ai? The article seems to think so, but try as I might none of the image generators, chess engines, llms, or linear regression models I’ve used or seen has even once copied itself to another location let alone run itself.

The idea of ai as a novel self replicator is cool and appears in movies and books, but doesn’t seem to exist outside of fiction. The other article referenced seems to dream of a future 2030 AI with all the capabilities one can imagine isn’t supported by any reasonable projections for AI technology. It might as well be a warning about all the dangerously weaponizable portable fusion reactors that could exist if ITER development is super successful. In this respect, AI seems like an unlikely driver of catastrophe as defined in the near term.

Putting even a 5-10% increase in rates of calamity due to this technology, which has no evidence to support it, while discounting all other technologies including nuclear weapons claiming there’s too little data is not reasonable. The reality is, we don’t know what risk value to assign. We won’t know for some time.

Just leave out the AI bit from the otherwise reasonable looking statistical analysis, and you’ll be left with a more intellectually rigorous and useful work.
> Even if this stops working, this was a fantastic exercise to learn and practice reverse engineering.

I agree in principle, but I’d try to avoid running afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against one of the most deep-pocketed legal teams in the history of capitalism.

Extremely impressive work, but whether it’s worth the potential risk is another story, personally speaking.
Exactly. There are a plethora of browsers out there, and no one can be expected to test against all of them. As long as we go for a "government conforming to industry" mentality, then the cutoff has to be somewhere, and if Firefox doesn't make that cutoff, then that's all there is to it.

No browser deserves special treatment here. And this is as true for Firefox as it is for Lynx.
>All that aside, I'm not rich. I chose to stay in Europe where I earn less because both US doctors and patients are so toxic. You are a prime example of this.

I'm not gonna deny this. A lot of people in the US hate doctors. Part of it is the ineffectiveness of the health care and the other part is the price. We aren't getting what we pay for and we also don't trust the doctors. So there's both a lack of trust and a lack of respect. I enter any doctors office the same way I enter into a hardcore business deal which is I anticipate that the doctor is not in it to care for me, he's in it to get the most money out of me possible without breaking the law.
Ra, is one of my favourite stories.
> I don't follow how the proof text is generated from lean? Or is it not, they are doing the verification in lean and the proof text is completely separate.

My understanding was that the Blueprint tool that he linked is what's responsible for the human-readable math sections shown in the screenshots. I'm not saying it's easy, but it should definitely be doable, basically a spreadsheet like that one on steroids.
Non-Apple devices could just lie
That's pretty interesting. I was around back then and hadn't recalled that there was such a lynchpin issue, but that makes a lot of sense as to why it suddenly hit such a hard stop. Were you able to support WhatsApp with KaiOS, or did the feature-phone target make it moot?
In my experience for computer science (systems field) it’s usually the same, first author=most work and last author=advisor.
> Meta is doing it out of the kindness of their heart?

Meta is a company, deosn't have a heart nor understand the concept of kindness.
As someone who really enjoys their job and also typically works 10-12+ hrs a day full time, I can tell you that the lack of sleep and lack of work/life balance really adds up. It’s just not very sustainable long term and requires entire weekends to recover from and inevitably leads to burnout.

Because even with loving your job, there are still only 24 hrs in a day, and spending most of those working leaves very little time to take care of anything outside of your work life. So even if I may not be stressed out over my job, trying to get everything else in my life done in between work can cause huge amounts of stress.
I'm more interested in the multiplexing aspect, yes I'm iOS/macOS so I don't care about the iMessage aspect alone though I'd love to pull all my chats into 1 extendable app.
In the UK we had Dial-A-Disc run by the Post Office: https://atlasrecords.co.uk/blogs/all-about-vinyl/do-you-reme...
> Oracle DB, one of the most used databases.

Is it still? Maybe 20 years ago but it's been a long time that I met an It guy who talked about himself having worked with an Oracle DB recently.

It's all PostgreSQL, MS SQL and MySQL/MariaDB where I work.
10,000 monkeys with typewriters!
I've been a software engineer for 17 years and even I can't wrap my head around the UX of this. It's totally dead in the water until something changes.
I'd like to give a shout-out to Common Voice Android: https://github.com/Sav22999/common-voice-android

It's a handy app for those interested in contributing to the project. You can record voices for the languages you speak and validate other user contributions. I used to be a frequent contributor about two years ago, and this app had a much more user-friendly design compared to the official website version.

Additionally, check out the official Common Voice Matrix channel: https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#common-voice:mozilla.org
Neural networks memorise personal information from one sample
Describing how it works and using it to troubleshoot real problems and drawing the correct conclusions are very different things. If you believe it is simple then you have a shallow understanding of traceroute, which is why it's a good interview question as you can go really deep on your answer.

Even seasoned network engineers get it wrong.

https://youtu.be/WL0ZTcfSvB4?si=dtihJG1pGJwiyj1u
I explained another way to interpret what OP said. Your way is boring and uninteresting: this is a forum for discussion, so I picked the more interesting way :)
That makes sense. Manufacturers keep proving to us they don't value making maintainable products so it seems obvious they need to be forced to do that one way or another.
Yeah sorry for those not familiar it probably sounds like I was saying that. I just meant to point out it has some of the same UX tradeoffs.
Thanks, this finally clarifies for me what the article was actually doing!

And it's very different from what I expected, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I guess if statisticians already believe your model, then they want to see the error bars on the model. But I would expect if someone gives me a forecast with "error bars", those would relate to how accurate they think the forecast would be.
It's part of the web apis, it's not just firefox. Chrome and Safari have supported it since 2013/2014.
Related. Others?

How Shazam Works (2003 Paper) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33299853 - Oct 2022 (1 comment)

Creating Shazam in Java (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530056 - Aug 2022 (36 comments)

Shazam turns 20 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32520593 - Aug 2022 (227 comments)

How Shazam Works (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23806142 - July 2020 (7 comments)

Designing an audio adblocker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18855029 - Jan 2019 (186 comments)

Show HN: A radio/podcast adblocker featuring ML and Shazam-like fingerprinting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18459058 - Nov 2018 (2 comments)

Show HN: Shazam-like acoustic fingerprinting of continuous audio streams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15809291 - Nov 2017 (76 comments)

How Shazam Works (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15350729 - Sept 2017 (13 comments)

Tell HN: Shazam picks up song from my kitchen light - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593305 - April 2016 (2 comments)

How Shazam works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870408 - July 2015 (48 comments)

Patent infringement claim re: “Creating Shazam in Java” blogpost (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9594480 - May 2015 (18 comments)

The Shazam Effect (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593429 - May 2015 (37 comments)

The Shazam Effect - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8634357 - Nov 2014 (34 comments)

Ask HN: Is there an audio search technology that finds exact and similar audio? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420141 - Oct 2014 (3 comments)

Source code example of the Shazam algorithm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5724442 - May 2013 (16 comments)

Creating Shazam in Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723863 - May 2013 (43 comments)

An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm (Shazam) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621103 - June 2011 (4 comments)

Shazam's Search for Songs Creates New Music Jobs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215295 - Feb 2011 (1 comment)

How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2214992 - Feb 2011 (2 comments)

Implementing Shazam with Java in a weekend - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1702975 - Sept 2010 (23 comments)

Shazam: not magic after all - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=909263 - Oct 2009 (28 comments)

How does the music-identifying app Shazam work its magic? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893353 - Oct 2009 (16 comments)