skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been ruminating on the postulation of a universal signature for every entity across sensory complexes (per sense organ reality, vision, touch, mind) which translates to the problem of entities represented in binary needing to be related across modalities as in “butterfly” vs a picture of a butterfly vs the audio of butterfly vs the thought pointing to one of those or other.

I was wondering if there was a universal signal that can be used as the identity and then based on that signal one could measure the distance to any other signal based on the principle relation of not(other). That is to say the identity would be precisely not all else for any X. Said another way, every thing is because it is exactly not everything else.

So thinking as first principles as possible I wondered if it were possible to represent everything as some frequency? A Fourier transform analog for every “time slice” of a thing? This is where it gets slightly slippery.

So the idea was trying to build relationship and identity and labeling from a simple rule set of things arising out of relation of not being other things.

In my mind I saw nodes on a graph forming in higher dimensions as half way points for any comparison. Comparisons create new nodes and implicitly have a distance metric to all other things. It made sense in my mind that there was an algorithmic annealing to new nodes in a “low density higher energetic state” allowing them to move faster in this universal emergent ontology/spatial space; eventually getting more dense and slower as it gets cold.

So the system implicitly also has a snapshot of events or interactions based on that where every comparison has a “tick” that encodes a particular density relation for some set of nodes it’s in association with.

The idea that cemented it all together was to treat each node like an address:chord. Similar to chording keys like a-b-c in some ux programs, but also exactly like chords in music too.

The idea being that when multiple “things” are dialed in at same time it becomes its own emergent label by proximity and association of those things being triggered to new information coming in classified as a distance to not(signal).

I didn’t really realize how close this idea was to what encoders/decoders seem to be doing although I do know I’m trying to think myself towards a universal solution that doesn’t require special encoders for every media type. Hence the Fourier transform path.

Know anything like this or am I spitting idiocy?
Well if Trump chooses to give the lead to China, that's certainly an option - the US can't be the leader of the free world, get all the perks, and then choose just the nice parts of it.

I mean, he can try, but I don't think it would work well.
A nitpick, but for your latter point it depends on the question.

In some cases it's the intent that matters, but the law often tries to avoid questions about actual intent because that's too difficult to figure out. Instead the question might hinge on what a reasonable person would have thought, or what the victim actually thought.
Peppermint OS's Single-Site Browsers
> The Stanford graduate students are well aware of the risks. They've written a paper on their technique, which they co-authored along with their professor, Chelsea Finn — but they've held back from making their full model publicly available, precisely because of these concerns, they say.

Bummer.
I don't think ScummVM features an emulator, rather it reimplements game engines.
It's not satire.

> Is this a bad thing? Is there some utopian goal...

Depends on the person. I'm not personally looking for a consent system before being born, merely pointing out the fact you can be born and have no control over anything. Things like illness, defects, abusive parents, etc... so people should have a safe option to leave life too.
Writing is just very ineffective in general. We could have conveyed important ideas using far fewer words than what is considered as standard in academia.
Sorry to be blunt, but the wind people are building wind, the solar people are building solar, the fossil fuels people are supporting that... and what are the nuclear people doing apart from posting on the Internet? AFAICT that's all they're doing.
The high cost of zoning restrictions and parking requirements making it difficult to convert Office Space into Living Space (Condos)
This really underlines how AI can pay a constant amount of reasonably intelligent attention at a stream of data, and thus achieving what humans would need a lot more time to. An interesting sidestep would be, perhaps, to find something more abstract and less distinct from the described passage; does it still find candidates, or does it just go "close enough" at some point?
I always find it hilarious the whole antisemitism thing when a lot of jews in israel aren’t semite (eastern European) while Palestinians are actually semites.. it’s always been weaponized.
I don't completely agree with the parent but it's definitely too long. Life + 70 so in average 110 years coverage is ridiculous. Why is that not good? Because it push studio to milk their cash cow forever (as we see with the big franchises occupying all multimedia space and monopolizing all large investments) and it just limits creativity. If the duration was reduced it would force them to invest on creators to find new successes and that would benefit the general public and the creators.

Fair use is also far too restrictive as we see with LLMs. What do you think about when you read "video game plumber"? So basically it became a foundational concept cognitively for you and me (polite way to say that we've been brainwashed by millions of $ in investment in publicity such that the concept is deeply ingrained in our minds) and on top of occupying a significant amount of space in our brains we should be forbidden to use the concept in our communication and creative work?
These things kind of rub up against the core question: What is the purpose of granting exclusivity to a creator (thru copyright)?

That's an answer we have. To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.

If we have to squint hard to make our justification align with copyright's purpose or have to follow a long logic-chain to get back to it's purpose - that's a strong indicator we have lost our way.
Just a small note that R is not pass-by-value, it’s more copy-on-modify. See some of the details at https://adv-r.hadley.nz/names-values.html
> Hungary has blocked $54B of aid for Ukraine for almost three months now with no end in sight.

Hungary is blocking aid out of the EU budget. It has zero power to block other EU countries from giving aid out of their own budgets. Big member state national budgets are each several times larger than the EU budget.

> Meanwhile, the UK delivers aid how and whenever they like (including many firsts like western battle tanks, cruise missiles, etc.).

Which it could still do in the EU. Many EU member states provide military and other aid to Ukraine outside of the EU framework, and the EU has done nothing to stop them

> The UK would be under a lot of pressure not to act unilaterally,

Not true. EU member states have been giving independent aid to Ukraine - for example Poland - and the EU has not done anything to stop them. In fact, the biggest obstacle to Polish military aid has not been the EU, it has been Germany and the US - Poland buys military equipment from both, and the contracts said they couldn’t re-export it to a third country without permission, and both Germany and the US were dragging their feet in giving Poland that permission. The EU had no real input into that dispute, since it was outside of its competence - its only real role was to provide another forum in which Poland could exert political and diplomatic pressure on Germany (and more indirectly the US), but it had no power to make any of those countries do anything
Yeah, I saw a documentary that included some English idiot living on the Costa del Sol (central Spanish Meditteranean coast) talking about how the UK had to "take back control". Asked if he planned to return to the UK, he pointed to the sun in the sky and said "No way mate, you can't take that back with you".

Sigh.
> The one drawback I find is that a lot of HPC jobs want you do have a masters degree.

Is it possible that pretty much any specialization, outside of the most common ones, engages in a lot of gatekeeping? I remember how difficult it appeared to be after I graduated to break into embedded systems (I never did). I persisted until I realized it doesn't even pay very well, comparatively.
I know, I wasn't trying to accuse you of that but am cautious from experience on this specific issue on here. A lot of other people are reading and this is flamewar magnet for the "rationalist" crowd that is overrepresented both on HN and in supporting euthanasia. It's also something I've been following and involved in for years, but I don't have a concise primer or easy introduction to it. It's hard to know what is relevant or where to start.

Here is an example of the sort of thing we were worried about, and that was dismissed as a slippery slope. This person doesn't want to die per se, the support she needs is understood and achievable, but it will not be provided. Suicide is offered instead.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-...

Here's a blog post written around the time when the "forseeable death" restriction was removed a couple years ago. It touches on and predicts specific cases that have since happened as described.

https://socialwork.ubc.ca/news/social-justices-poor-cousin-d...
Yes to the first bit, but no to the second bit once you have batteries or other long-term storage, but that's not good for your narrative, now is it?

Hate hate hate on all the either/or politics here. We need both (though increasingly less nuclear with time), and we needed it yesterday.
Yes. We should do all we can to make sure goods and labor can flow.

National boundaries make it easier to export your capital than to export your skill set.
> Of note: if a customer orders a copy from Amazon, and a damaged, returned book is shipped to them instead, no new KDP printing orders kick in. This means I don’t get paid at all, because they only pay me when a book is printed.
> exactly as it was in Germany.

Oh you mean the Germany that had to turn to massive amounts of coal to keep up energy production in order to keep their people from starving because clean energy didn't pan out. Sounds like a great example especially when climate change is an existential threat to the entire human race.
> You're just trading doing stuff in the frontend for doing stuff in the frontend + backend. Might make sense in a lot of cases, while not making sense in other cases.

For me I can now do everything in the backend, I don't need to switch context (Twig templating language vs. JavaScript / SPA / etc). It's now easier to just keep up to date with PHP / Symfony, instead of also updating Node, npm / yarn, node_modules, and keeping up to date with everything.

Otherwise the frontend part is messy and not so great code, since my JS skills are limited and it's too stressful for me to keep up to date with in addition to PHP / Symfony (I had worked with AngularJS 1, Angular 2-8, Vue 2, some React, played around with Svelte, managing stuff via bower, gulp, grunt, Webpack, parcel, npm, yarn 1/2/3, Node 10-18, nvm, corepack; and if I kept up, I probably need to look at bun soon).
Where the hell are you finding a $1 "meal"? Like a meal human beings can live on?
They've also begun heavily pivoting hiring for dev roles to India now as well. I have cousins who attended no name universities in India getting SWE roles in Amazon - something that was unimaginable 5 years ago - and expanding Dev offices to lower CoL cities like Hyderabad while slowly pivoting away from Bangalore.

Addendum:

Also, the Indian branches (edit: of companies that aren't Amazon) are fairly remote work friendly. Now you have people earning $20-40k/yr living in their ancestral towns and villages where median incomes might be $3-5k

This is why I warned HN that remote first will make tech more competitive.
i guess you missed the memo but people do it every day including me. i own a ketone meter.
This paper from Microsoft [1] is the coolest thing I've seen in this space. Basically workload (deep learning in this case) level optimization to allow jobs to be resized and preempted.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.07848.pdf
Yeah, ScummVM runs the original game scripts, doesn't it? And the original games aren't bundled with it (they can't be). Kind of surprising they got away with violating that rule.
Nintendo owns both the trademark (even if not specifically registered) and the copyright, but these are distinct things.

As I'm not a lawyer I don't want to embarrass myself by opining whether or not Nintendo has any claim over photographs of cosplays or other fan art, especially given quite how close two of the "video game plumber" images seemed to be to what they do own. The other two images, being a lot more fan-art-like, are examples where I think it would be an interesting question rather than incredibly obviously too close to Nintendo, although even there "interesting" means I wouldn't be surprised by an actual lawyer saying either of "this is obviously fine" or "this is obviously trademark infringement regardless of what it was trained on".

Now I'm wondering if there even are any videogame plumbers besides Marion and Luigi…
How the two biggest crypto billionaire CEOs proved the critics right
A function “call” is a software abstraction. What you’re calling a function call by defining it as stack based is a pure software abstraction. A stack is one way to implement functions, but not the only way.

Capacitors can provide analog immediate access memory. Analog delay lines and feedback circuits can provide conceptually recursive functions, and those are common in analog circuits today.

It’s true that analog has limited precision, though no reason you can’t represent higher precision via multiple analog signals, just like how digital requires more bits. All the rest of it still looks to me like you’re making some incorrect assumptions about what’s possible with analog circuitry.
Learnings from Building and Scaling Ramp's Growth Engine
Vendor Unlocking My Life
X for Doubt. There's almost no details that are useful in this article, and in this case, the authors indicating Google isn't doing anything about it is likely because this isn't actually true.

Of course maybe I'm wrong but short of some more compelling technical details (reply a link if there's a better source), I'm inclined to doubt the characterization of this article.

EDIT: Sibling linked https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-abuse... which is more technical.
They are already expired. That's the problem.
I haven't had any yet, age 52.

I thought I had them when I was young, but I learned they were just a form of phosphenes.
We played a helicopter topology game in school on our MSX in the 80s (The Netherlands).

It was fun and you learned where Dutch cities are located.
Re: dependents, should you not be allowed to kill yourself if someone (let's say a selfish spouse rather than your infant child) depends on you? That might even be the reason you don't want to live anymore...
Yes, therefore it is not required (by this I mean one can be within the EU without being in the Eurozone, whatever the treaty details) – just like Sweden continues to be productively within the union while retaining its own currency.

The customisable membership (and again, certain core principles cannot be customised of course) is a strength of the EU.
Visuals. Music. Challenge.
So is Canada, it’s called MAID

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...
Claudine Gay needs to go. Any student at Harvard who's got so much evidence of wrongdoing would be long gone.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-itself-unearthed-new-c...
This website is written in a very self aggrandizing way. At this point I feel like I am biased against the articles before reading them because every article seems to explicitly state, or attempt to implicitly state, how smart the author is. Meanwhile, I read some blog posts that are posted onto HN that are not like that.
I deliberately keep around an old Android phone in the event disaster strikes there is a teeny chance that logged in device might save me.

If the Google machine decides to cull me, probably nothing I can do, but it costs me nothing to keep it sitting in a drawer.
iSH has compiled the binaries for arm64 so they actually run natively. When they do a syscall to malloc they are actually doing a syscall to malloc.

iDOS is interpreting the bytecode and wrapping the unavailable things with its own implementation. When a DOS application runs malloc, the memory is assigned by iDOS instead.

I’m not saying Apple is consistent, but your example doesn’t show that well.
Maybe it is just circumstance but I had been working with devs in Hyderabad since at least 2016 when I was at Amazon. I’m sure they are expanding the workforce there, though
Decentralized power generation is something we all need. Too bad so many politicians, especially Gavin Newsom FFS, are deep in the bockets of the utility companies who refuse to invest in it.
David Cameron owns this mess on the referendum. Joining the EEC was a supermajority vote in the 1970s. Leaving it should have been similar.
Some people are building analog chip startups today because there are reasons to do analog computation. Among the applications are low-precision high-speed parallel math, neural networks, and image and audio processing.
Thinking About Internet History
There are few differences in performance due between the base pipe and magrittr due to the work we did in 2.0.0: https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2020/11/magrittr-2-0-is-here/.

This release also cleaned up some edge cases so that the semantics are as similar as possible too, making it easy for folks to switch between the two.
I agree that Spain is doing something incredibly stupid but the way you've used "unreliable" is a weasel word. Renewables do the job just fine.
In many houses porcelain fuses are still in use instead of breakers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

This is an issue of 'mechanical intelligence' being hundreds of millions of years old and 'higher intelligence' being pretty new on the evolutionary spectrum.

And the AGI will keep you around as a dexterous 'robot' while supervising your thoughts to make sure you're keeping in line I guess, while day after day cranking out more capable robots in which to replace you with eventually.
I opened an issue to get some more projects added:

https://codeberg.org/fractalf/linuxdaw.org/issues/44
Do we need negative access control rules (in general)?
Using an ad hominem isn't even a fair way to crush a butterfly.

I think it's a sign of maturity as a reader to be able to work around the bad to get to where one can see some of the good. This article is about letting that better nature in.

HN is one site where we really could permit some space & possibility better.
It does "work like that", this is literally my field. Evolution is a random walk where organisms higher up on a fitness landscape are more likely to survive. Over time, the probability of climbing the fitness landscape approaches 1.

To claim that intelligent life would not evolve from simple life, you have to posit fitness barriers, i.e. steep discontinuities in the fitness landscape that prevent organisms from climbing. One of those barriers might be the jump from single-cell to multi-cellular in high heat/high entropy environments.

But you haven't posited any such mechanisms.

Intelligence has evolved multiple times on earth's history (just that the other species are extinct). So there is strong evidence that in earth-like environments there is no such barrier.
Nobody has given Xerox an injunction against researching or building copiers because you can copy books and sell them.
> When the operator doesn't have full Agency of their hardware, can they be held accountable for it's unexpected behavior?

Yes? Because that's what "supervision" means? Again, I'm very much not following your logic.

The whole idea behind supervised autonomy[1] is that the device may not behave correctly. Period. If you aren't capable of supervising your car after an update you clearly weren't doing any supervision before the update.

[1] Or supervised anything! Would you argue against holding parents accountable for childproofing their homes just because their kids got an "update" and learned to walk? Again I really don't think you're thinking this through.
Prosecutors say no second trial for Sam Bankman-Fried on [Bribery] charges
one commenter:

> The merits of the NYT case aside, this is a bad analogy and you should feel bad for posting it

guess I can second that and the same goes for posting this thing here
I was using that for years.

Apple hates their own customers for not having written that themselves, and forcing us to use some half-assed driver included in Bootcamp that made the whole thing seem state-of-the-art circa Windows 98.

That said, my MBPr eventually phased out of Windows support (Intel GPU drivers aged out; more and more apps were losing/removing acceleration features due to (unfixed/unfixable) driver and hw bugs, didn't meet Win11 CPU requirements but ran Win11 fine), it now runs Linux with Waylandized KDE; Linux supports the entire feature set of these trackpads without any work).

But yeah, imbushuo is doing some serious work and deserves recognition.
Yet more money being wasted on a deprecated mode of work.
I don't think the pattern you're describing exists.

I've seen a few people want to abolish copyright, but not many. The vast majority always seemed to want reductions in length. And historically a lot of people have wanted fair use to be easier.

When I look at the arguments against AI, they're not asking for copyright to be longer. They're asking for it to be stricter in a very particular way. And they're making a distinction between human use and transformer use.

There's no "swish and swirl" that I have seen. There's not really a conflict between those opinions on fair use, and there's definitely no conflict with the opinion on duration.
It’s not returning impl trait that is confusing, but the limitations surrounding it. Why shouldn’t there be send by default, why is send so important to the discussion? Why do we need to worry about GATs in this context? Why shouldn’t we expose this to users of our traits yet?

Why isn’t async straightforward? It seems like a fairly fundamental aspect of a language and a key differentiator. I suppose it has something to do with capturing a reference to self, but I don’t think I understood that bit either. And why are static impl traits supported but not dynamic?

At the end of the day this feature is simply inaccessible. I’m not a complete outsider, I understand why it’s useful to return a future of result user record, or the difference between impl trait and dyn trait.

There are fairly technical answers to these questions, and people have attempted to offer them, but I suppose I would need a master class to get me to where I could understand the answers.

That isn’t the case for async in most languages and I’m not really clear why people didn’t put a bit more care into the async API for Rust.

If your language requires an expert to use a fundamental feature, I feel there is a gap in the design principles.
Ask HN: Why isn't HN libre/FOSS?
Is HN libre? I recently got told by F-Droid while installing Glider (an HN client) that HN isn't libre. Is that true, if yes why so?