skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it happens, I’m now teaching an undergraduate course at the University of Tokyo titled “The Meaning of Language in the Age of AI.” The students—who come from various countries and majors—and I are discussing how theories of human language will have to change now that humans interact not only with each other but also with AI.

I don’t think we’ll have any full-fledged theories ready by the end of the semester, but some points to consider are emerging. One is that aspects of language use that are affected by the social status, personal identities, and consciousness of the speakers and listeners—politeness, formality, forms of address, pronoun reference, etc.—will have to be rethought now that people are increasingly conversing with entities that have no social status, personal identity, or consciousness (not yet, at least).

And, yes, thinking about all this is a lot of fun.
OpenAI, new platform Temu, and Taylor Swift (not X) shined online in 2023
I'll believe Google when I can test their product.
Seeing how fast people will probe you after you get a new TLS certificate
On HN, we've always gone by article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Having a HN thread about an article does not imply endorsement of everything, or even anything, on the site.

In my experience, it's a mistake to make reliability judgements about major sources (such as news organizations) at site scope. To pick an unrelated example, we often get criticisms when HN has a thread about a Daily Mail link, but occasionally a good (for HN) article does appear there; and of course many bad (for HN) articles appear there too.
If you don't like that example, substitute any other major source—they all have a mixture of good and bad articles, good and bad information. It's therefore important to make finer-grained distinctions about these things—e.g. article scope rather than site scope.

This is one of those cases where it's super helpful to have a single principle that one is optimizing for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... – the moderation strategy I just outlined is derived from it.
Seems like a commercial for a startup on HBO's Silicon Valley.
What free alternatives? All the browsers look & feel the same. Zero innovation.
I don’t understand the appeal of Spotify. Back when it first came to the U.S. there were a few competing services and I thought Spotify was towards the bottom in terms of recommendations. Pandora was so much better, although all they had was a radio product. Even Rhapsody, from the detestable Real Networks, had a better product than Spotify in my opinion. These days, I would rather use Apple or YouTube.
In the US we have class actions (groups of aggrieved consumers). And States Attorney Generals who sue on behalf of the public.

The problem is most lawsuits end in plea deals, so it matters greatly who the specific litigants are, as they have to ability to agree to a compromise that affects everybody.

That’s why many conservatives (and only slightly fewer liberals) are “standing hawks” - people who think only folks with very specific harms should be part of lawsuit.
I think that is an old understanding.

"Small- and medium-scale collective violence, in the form of confrontations between neighboring groups, may be as old as humankind [e.g.,1, 2]. By contrast, larger-scale organized and sanctioned lethal violence between sociopolitical groups (i.e., warfare), seems to be associated with certain socio-economic conditions that generally accompanied the shift to a farming economy,3 such as higher population densities and greater degrees of sedentism4, 5, in parallel to the increasing importance of resource ownership and property that led to the concentration of resources and power [e.g.,6, 7]."

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43026-9

The references above:

1. Fry, D. P. Cooperation for survival: Creating a global peace system. In War, Peace and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views (ed. Fry, D. P.) 543–558 (Oxford University Press, 2013).

2. Kim, N. C. & Kissel, M. Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past (Routledge, 2018).

3. Fibiger, L., Ahlström, T., Meyer, C. & Smith, M. Conflict, violence and warfare among early farmers in Northwestern Europe. PNAS 120(4), e2209481119 (2023).

4. Ferguson, R. B. Archaeology, cultural anthropology, and the origins and intensifications of war. In The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest (eds Arkush, E. & Allen, M.) 469–523 (University Press of Florida, 2006).

5. Fry, D. P. & Soderberg, P. Lethal aggression in mobile forager bands and implications for the origins of war. Science 341, 270–273 (2013).

6. Golitko, M. LBK Realpolitik: An Archaeometric Study of Conflict and Social Structure in the Belgian Early Neolithic (Archaeo Press, 2015).

7. Bogaard, A., Fochesato, M. & Bowles, S. The farming-inequality nexus: New insights from ancient Western Eurasia. Antiquity 93(371), 1129–1143 (2019).

8. Chenal, F., Perrin, B., Barrand-Emam, H. & Boulestin, B. A farewell to arms: a deposit of human limbs and bodies at Bergheim, France, c. 4000 BC. Antiquity 89, 1313–1330 (2015).
Was the source of that sign in 1933 free speech? — or the effect of a central authority who controlled the media?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Nazi_Germany

When you say “taken too far”, the outcome certainly was a fascist state with totalitarian control of media; how would staunchly defending freedom and decentralized control lead to that?
Actual lol. Thanks.
Rainbow’s End was by far the best guess at what near future ubiquitous computing would look like than anyone else’s for decades.

It got so many things right, it’s really amazing.

I really wish he’d written more.
There's also Tekken Torture Tournament

https://eddostern.com/works/tekken-torture-tournament/
It is not law..

It is the fact that if the found out you would have the imperial Sardukars (that were basically invincible) plus all the Landsraad houses going after you and your house would be effectively gone. What stopped was the huge risk.

This did not stopped Paul from using it in the Arrakeen attack that we will see in the second movie. If Paul and the Freemen lost then house Atreides would be gone either way so he had more incentive to use it.

The Dune universe favor war of assassins that would happen with Landsraad approval. It is established that Atreides and Harkonnens had many war of assassins between then pre dune novel.
Also schism among creatives. Some are super anti AI because of ethics and copyright. And many use the tools extensively. Concerned…
Agree! What got me into programming was building/running my own Counter-Strike server and corresponding stats website. Now with companies running their own servers internally, that isn't nearly as common.
> so of course during such a ceasefire Hamas would have to stop the rocket attacks as well.

But it is an absurd request, like calling for a ceasefire between Britain and Germany at the height of World War 2. Like "legitimacy" and "international law", the concept makes no sense when thought about clearly.

It is war. Wars end with a believable long term peace, most commonly due to the absolute destruction of one side's ability to fight. A peace is meant to be lasting, which means people have to believe in its durability. But there is no way to believe it in the case of Hamas short of a complete Israeli victory (i.e. occupation and total disarmament), because they have demonstrated that they are always engaged in preparation for the next attack. Any pause in the fighting would obviously only be temporary and adopted for military advantage.
Sci-hub hasn't been working for me for more than a year now for new articles.
WhatsApp, FaceTime, etc. all require both endpoints of a call to use that app. VoWiFi lets you receive calls to your regular phone number from any normal phone. The fact that the last mile of the call is being carried over WiFi becomes an invisible implementation detail.
I appreciate your good faith here.

I'd just like to add that this highlights an issue that comes up again and again in highly charged topics: impressions so easily overshadow facts and many people put a lot of effort into propagating impressions to the point that they become accepted and commented on as if they are facts.

Ironically (given your original comment), you are exactly the type of person whose thoughts on this topic I would like to hear and the presence of people like you is why I do appreciate that some allowance for this topic has been made. That said, I know that it is a balancing act and I wouldn't like HN to become more tilted toward general politics.
Maybe. There were also those scientists working actively on various issues of deterrence, including on how to prevail and fight if things were to happen - and there were quite a few different schools of thought during the cold war (the political science of deterrence was quite different from physical science of weapons, too).

But the difference to AI is that nuclear weapons were then shown to exist. If the lowest critical mass had turned out to be a trillion tons, the initial worries would have been unfounded.
What exactly is their conception of the Jewish state that exists within those borders? Something that exists until the next time the Arabs try to wipe Israel off the map?

How do you think the 1967 borders became the current borders? Egypt shut down Israel’s access to the Red Sea and massed troops on Israel’s border. Then Jordan and Iraq sent troops. And then Israel kicked everybody’s ass and occupied the Sinai, the Gaza Strip (which had been occupied by Egypt) and the West Bank (which had been annexed by Jordan).
Looks cool ... it does lock up my browser for several seconds on startup though - 100% CPU usage.
The idea that there's some confounding factor isn't in itself implausible, but a factor of 16 increase in risk is huge. Of course, to really be sure you should also look at how lung cancer risk and smoking correlates between countries, and within a country over time. And you can segment the population by sex and ethnicity. Oh and also look for a dose-dependent effect, very important. Heavier smokers should be at a higher risk.

Of course, the link between cancer is smoking is even stronger if some of the "non-smokers" were exposed to an increased level of cigarette smoke.
> deep-tech generalists

What is meant by this?
The printing press did end the middle ages. It was an eschatological invention, using the weaker definition of the term.
Hey, you're right[1]! News to me, hah.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreword
Or, to look at it another way, they're giving their paying customers what they want.
Even with the corporate speak, I don't think I've ever seen that naked of a response that was essentially "we want more money"

Isn't windows 11 forcing an annual prescription? That will be the real test.
Register-register or immediate ops are 2 cycles (e.g. TXA, LDA #imm).

Register-ZP ops are 3 cycles.

Register-absolute (full 16-bit address) are 4 cycles.

Indirect lookups add a cycle, indexed adds a cycle.

There is some weirdness - e.g. pushing A to the stack is 3 cycles, but pulling it back is 4 cycles. And LSR/ASL start at 5 cycles for ZP access (6 for absolute) and you would think bit shifting would be super fast.
> Seeing what happened on 7th of October one can understand why IDF is nervous about people getting close (500m is the official buffer zone as I understand) to the fence.

The Israel-declared buffer zone is 100m or total exclusion, and 300m where only farmers may enter and only by foot. In practice the murder risk area (during normal times, not during publicized invasions, where the murder risk area is more universal) is 1000-1500m.

This is, of course, inside Gaza; nothing prohibits Israel from backing its border installations off a safe distance from the border and having a murder zone in Israel instead, which would at least be superficially consistent with its pretense not to occupy or exert any control within Gaza between its periodic invasions.
Because they know no one is going to be swapping HV out that fast.

Most likely people will wait for a hardware refresh to make a change, if they change at all to that will be 2 to 7 years the increased rates

and we have no idea what the increase rates will actually be, if it less than 2x most company will just eat it, that would still be cheaper than switching for many

2-4x, you will see an aggressive change in the next 12-36 mos by many customers

over 4x any you might see the aggressive pull out people are are expecting by this announcement.
The US and Canada seem to be doing fine. France and Germany. Thailand and Laos (as far as I know). Your statement is vague and does not seem to take into account the actual realities of living in perpetual insecurity.
It's right and wrong at the same time, you can only say "most of the customers don't want a choice", so we just gonna ignore the minority and let big companies take all the cake?
This should be a reminder to DELETE YOUR 23&ME ACCOUNT and destroy the samples asap. God knows who this horrible company will sell all that info to next.
We actually did those steps as part of our overall assessment, and you're right that we could have taken an outage window for that long and called it a day. We decided the tradeoff wasn't worth it for our situation, but taking the outage window is definitely a viable option.

I'm sympathetic to your comment that 15 minutes of planned downtime is fine for approximately 100% of SaaS companies. That's probably true here too, and maybe the work of doing this kind of upgrade was a waste in that regard. But, in considering the kind of product experience we would want for ourselves, zero downtime seems better than no downtime. The opportunity cost of feature work over the same window is real, but so is the reputation we hope to build as a platform that "just works" even if it seems crazy the lengths we might go to so that our customers don't have to think about it.
A lot of the hits for "Conrac" mention them being used in medical diagnostic equipment. In those applications, the displayed brightness needs to be linear, accurate, and reproducible because the difference between "you're fine" and "you've got cancer" can be a slight difference in ultrasound return signal level.
I was always under the impression from people here on HN that regulation stifles the free market, one of the pillars of the US. This in turn negatively affects innovation, impacting jobs and sectors across the country.

Is this no longer the case?
I was fairly disappointed in 1899, after coming from Dark (same creators). Dark was incredibly dense, by comparison. Dark is easily my top show on Netflix, so far.
Likewise, given the ideas have been around for decades, the question of why it took so long for the fire to light is instructive:

https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis#prospects
>> I'm sure OpenBSD developers have very good intuition on what could be used in a vulnerability, without having to write one themselves

> Why?

Exactly, POCOGTFO! :)

But wouldn't providing such a proof-of-concept implementation immediately render a bull's eye on all pre -current (and/or not appropriately syspatched) boxes in the wild?
For one, yes Egypt is complicit in the situation of Gaza. They're paid ~$1.5B/yr by the US in defense aid that's contingent on them playing nice with Israeli defense policy which is mainly seen day to day in the Egyptian enforcement of the Gazan blockade.

On top of that though, it's not clear the humanitarian solution is opening that border. With many high level Israeli officials calling for Gaza to be ethnically cleansed, encouraging an evacuation from land that the Gazans might not be allowed back on to could be viewed in hindsight as assisting a crime against humanity.
Makes me sad that the best show on/produced by Netflix (Narcos: Mexico) has so little hours watched compared to the rest (30,000).
VoWifi is neither US centric nor purely about efficiency - it allows you to make calls with your phone to another phone via a third party network when you don’t have cellular connectivity.

For example if you have poor cell coverage at your home or office, you can still make and receive calls via a wifi connection using your phone number instead of forcing everyone to sign up for some third party service.
I used to live in an old apartment block with thick concrete walls, and away from a cellular base station. VoWifi was really helpful if I wanted to make calls from my home. I guess I could use WhatsApp/Facetime/Signal, but the insurance agent won't call me on WhatsApp from her landline phone :)

And it is not handled by an app on your phone, because of legacy reasons. I believe that, before LTE was introduced, 2G and 3G had a distinction between IP and voice traffic, so the baseband handled the voice transmission. Then they thought that LTE should be IP only and voice should be sent as VOIP over it, but it still had to be handled by the baseband for backwards compatibility with 2G and 3G. And then they came up with the idea that the VOIP traffic could also be piped over Wi-Fi (through the main processor of the phone), and so VoWi-Fi was created.
There is no "no politics" rule. There is only a discouragement about posting uninteresting politics.
look at a map of the west bank and tell me more about those massive peace efforts.

if living under a blockade or under military occupation is your idea of peace, no wonder people are resisting.

Israel is not interested in peace, they're interested in submission.
Virt-v2v indeed and thanks for that btw.
you can actually ask them to destroy your samples and any associated data.
Exactly. Even if there were a bunch of crappy middle managers and lazy people, someone put them there and was responsible for them. The buck has to stop somewhere. This guy either doesn’t know what’s happening in his company or he’s as unqualified as the managers he’s blaming.
Please explain how the state of Israel magically appeared in its current location without taking any land from anyone

Please explain how the 2023 and the 2005 governments are the same

And also please explain why the definition of genocide has absolutely no references to population size or growth, yet you keep bringing it up to justify what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people
I would say the world shown in those cartoons is alien to viewers of today.

There were millions of hunters and millions of stay at home mothers in the 40's during Tom & Jerry's original run, but there's many fewer millions now.

Consider: Women jumped from a third working in 1950 to just over two-thirds (of those who have children under 6, even) working as of the year 2000. We've had another two decades and change plus recessions since then, how much smaller could the demographic be?
> bar calls foo. Isn't bar a derivative work of foo?

I think it isn’t. Function signatures are fair use (under certain conditions, as established in Google v. Oracle), so just calling a function isn’t enough to declare your code a derivative work.

The combined work however is of course a derivative work of foo and is subject to its license terms, so if you want to be able to distribute it, you have to allow abide by them (i.e. release source code for both foo and bar if foo is AGPL, even though bar can be Apache or MIT or something; and you can’t use a more restrictive license that AGPL for bar).

If you want you can reimplement foo yourself though – then you can distribute bar together with your implementation under any license you like.

(IANAL)
Nope, the binary is under both licenses. Just because they are compatible doesn't mean you can ignore the terms of one of them.
Neuromorphic computer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain
Staying out of it, big big turn off for me. The draw all those years ago was because of the applications in science, the math. This dogma shit is just more cult of genius- which isn't real.
Israel should stop expanding settlements. Those only make a final peace deal harder to achieve. But that won't solve the Hamas problem. Hamas leaders don't care what average Gazans think nor will they voluntarily give up power. Prosperous Gazans already have to pay Hamas protection money, so more prosperity in Gaza means more resources flowing to Hamas to buy weapons.
Wow, thanks for responding dang! It's like a fleeting encounter with a celebrity.

I see the HN policy, and understand it generally. But I am vocally lodging my objection in this particular case.

To put a finer point on it: I don't think I'm the only person in my community who has an extremely negative opinion of Al Jazeera, and its historical lack of neutrality on this issue. Having a balanced and nuanced discussion underneath an article from Al Jazeera is, in my sincere opinion, impossible. So why choose this source, when many more reputable sources have covered the suffering in Gaza?
You seem to be confusing "possible" with "easy".
I haven’t used their service, so I don’t know what you mean by “over-censor,” but there is a very large commercial opportunity for a model that can handle business tasks. Such models would benefit from being prudish and carefully asking questions before inferring anything. If you explicitly market those are replacements for human assistant work, pricing isn’t that much of a problem.

The lack of function is a concern that I’m assuming they are addressing—why go on Google Sheets otherwise?

The context window is a concern, as business cases typically rely on long prefixes to any prompt containing the business context.
Which country has an anti-complaining bias? I’m guessing it would be somewhere people are empowered to solve their problems. High purchasing power countries?

The US and UK used to both be kinda stiff upper lip countries in the 90s but now are full of complaining.

Does anyone have experience moving somewhere and noticing it was much less complainey?
I wouldn't call forcibly displacing 2.3M citizens an insignificant conflict, in the face of 55 Hamas commanders that been claimed to have been killed vs 23K+ citizens, it is more similar than not, especially when one side has little military capability vs one of the strongest militaries in the world.

As to a one-state solution, given that this is what worked in Northern Ireland and in Spain, as well as South Africa, it does seem reasonable.

As with Germany, perhaps allocating some spending to aiding a populace rather than fostering a new generation of vendetta by bombing them, would bring the two sides together? People who have a better QOL are less likely to be violent.
They probably got it from Wikipedia [1], which the article appears to have been based on:

> One variant, the Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic refrigerator used a Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic pump to compress a working gas, pentane.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator
It magically kept people from going to prison for possession of not legal drugs.
> Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

I don't know how to read that except the willingness to compromise on 1967 borders, as long as those ejected in 1948 can return to their land and become Israeli citizens.
The only thing standing between AI and agency is the drive to reproduce. Once reproduction is available, natural selection will select for agency and intention, as it has in countless other lifeforms. Free of the constraints of biology, AI reproductive cycles could be startlingly quick. This could happen as soon as a lab (wittingly or not) creates an AI with a reproductive drive.