skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably aren't, at least at the level we often teach. Much of our knowledge about the brain comes from observing people who have pieces missing and seeing how their behaviour differs from a normal adult or putting people in an fMRI scanner and saying "wow, that area used a lot of oxygen compared to baseline". This, and a scientist's nature to classify things, led to a lot of overoptimistic categorization of brain function to specific regions. As neuroscience has matured the field has grown to recognize a more nuanced view that most computation in the brain is more distributed than we first assumed, and different areas are often involved in overlapping functions. It can also change over time or after extreme brain trauma. But it's not correct to say it's fully distributed either. The honest answer is we still have an extremely poor understanding of how the brain works.
How much of modern academia is waste? A painful question that we need to ask
TLPI? TAOE?
I am glad these phones were not Nokias. Who knows what damage they would have caused.
That grill trick is a neat discovery. Makes sense that it would do the job as a stabilizer, but it's a clever reuse of some thing most of us have lying around the house. I bet you could use a similar kind of a setup with a baking drying rack to mount a smartphone on motors and rotate the thing in multiple dimensions, but perhaps by that point there's a better approach.
Corollary: the more trustworthy people are the less expensive everything is.
my eyebrows may have raised when they left washington years ago, but these recent safety incidents have really caused me to start to doubt the new whartonized boeing's commitment to sparkle motion...
I'm just going to go with advanced generative algorithms.
Emergency functionality works irrespective of lock status.
The way that AI will be laundered into art is by including it into things like Photoshop. There'll still be a human touch just with "smart brushes" and "smart auto fill" that paints 90% of what you want.

Art will then take less skill to produce, and be produced faster for lower prices.

An 80% price reduction on art (because artists can now produce it 5 times faster thanks to AI) is 80% as good as getting it for free.
It's simple, and Apple doesn't plan the accident, they just help the story move when their brand is involved - I mentioned it in another thread, but when that kind of stuff happened (at least in 2008) they got moved into a special queue and instead of T2/Customer Care they would get moved to the CCT2 who would often escalate to executive service peeps.

Apple is actually pretty good at this stuff.
iOS kinda keeps the map open outside the lock (at least with Apple Maps). Everything else locks behind it. At least on mine.
The SE used to be $399 but I guess inflation + increased component prices tacked on another $30.
Clark from Invision reflecting about what happened to them
One of those situations where even if the company did nothing wrong, the CEO's response is so smarmy you can't help but distrust them. https://x.com/henrysward/status/1743794996732735679?s=46
The word choices were kind of on purpose - I meant to highlight the partial absurdity of having to entangle yourself with all these legal considerations and obtaining sufficient legal proof, all for the sake of making some art piece.
It's way too soon to say it didn't "take off". Chipsets haven't been available to integrators for that long. Maybe 1-2 years for non-early access customers? Plus, if you're judging success by looking at the consumer market, you're going to be disappointed. The target market is industrial manufacturing.
It's the opposite of communism. Under communism, the workers own the means of production and all the other assets (at least, that's the theory; reality doesn't quite work out that way!). In a company town, a company owns it all; the workers own nothing.

Imagine the power the company has over individuals.

> done in the name of ... the free world.

Where are company towns described as being done 'in the name of' the free world?
What is the difference between AI scanning existing art, and creating new images informed by the prior art, and a person touring galleries, looking at the works of living artists, and creating new works influenced in style, color, framing, etc. by those works? Should the works of a new artist be beholden to all those whose works they have looked upon? As another thing to consider, is there any rationale for copyrights on music (in particular) that wouldn't equally apply to the recipes food dishes created by cooks? Both build upon the works, style, ingredients, etc. of those who preceded them. Seriously interested in the arguments one would make for copyrighting music that wouldn't stand equally well for recipes.
Universities as magical R&D powerhouse model don't seem to be working for past few decades indeed...
To me it seems like the “complicated-subsystem” and the “platform” team types are simply Subtypes of the “enabling” team type. Anyone else see the same thing?
Neat post!

I wrote a little bit about this too because my assembler had a bug: https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/compiling-a-lisp-10/
FortressOne is a fork of 1996 QuakeWorld Team Fortress. International tournaments are still played and streamed in Twitch. Next weekend there will be players from around the world meeting in Sydney Australia for a in-person LAN event.
I suspect the vegetation immediately above it also had a cushioning effect. Its owner was probably charging it while using it on the plane, and the force of the decompression was enough to snap the connector off.
i usually skip over video links, but this is exceptional. it's a great explanation with detailed pictures/charts/etc.
Made with svelte?!
Where are the purists of the MPA and their pitchforks? ;)
> Mitchell Hashimoto says it happened to them in 2019

> - https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1744123473751155154

Aha! That might explain the very strong sense of déjà vu I gotDéjà vu when reading this. I thought for a second either I had a screw loose, or there was a glitch in the Matrix.

Yeah, that's no good. What it tells me is that they don't care enough about it for it to be a problem for them until someone raises a stink about it, and I'm pretty sure I'm getting a whiff of it right now. How's that old saying go? "When a fish stinks, it stinks from the head?" Yeah...
Thanks for trying it out. Yeah sorry for the confusion, embedding a record was not allowed but I think enough people tried to do it so I'll enable it.
Was the time line this quick? As a kid I remember black Napster being amazing, then white Napster being the end. Then a mishmash of various programs like soul seek, direct connect, aimster, and dorm internal only iTunes/Lime wire until what emerged in the void of oink.
It completely depends on which airline you take. Like most other things, it's free on the more expensive airlines and more expensive on the cheaper ones.
I've recounted a similar story to this in the past: Basically some custom DOS app being used at a small chain of quick oil change places wouldn't run on Windows 7+ anymore, regardless of compatibility settings but worked fine on Linux under wine. This was done as a stopgap until they could redevelop the application. Because of the experience they had with their console app, they kept it a console app and just had its replacement modernized and written to run in a linux shell (saved all their licensing costs too). They seemed pretty happy in the end.

Microsoft moved away from the core tenet of backwards compatibility at all costs more than a decade ago seemingly across the entire company all at once.
I'm not an apple Fan or user, but Rather than screen and other specs, they go for powerful CPU which is probably a small order of magnitude faster than the entry level chips Samsung puts in their budget line. This gives Apple freedom to update it for years.
Its worth mentioning that blu ray players and burners work at 150nm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high-definition_...

There is a paper from 10 years ago where someone used one for making 450nm lithography

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/High-resolution%2C-low...
Four Magic Words
An excellent short story about an ASI getting super-aligned through four magic words, and its aftermath
It's great publicity for their fund which is super important, because the goal of a hedge fund manager is not to make the portfolio go up, it's to convince their clients that the portfolio will go up.
A low covariance with the rest of the portfolio will lower the denominator. As long as E(r) is higher than r_f, it’s possible to end up with a higher sharpe. Obv just leverage if you want a higher expected return.
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DOC and DOCX right? I feel like there might have been some DOC 97 and DOC 2003 etc stuff going on but my memory fails me
Anyone wanna do a ladder Total Annihilation tournament?
Most of the issues you've described have nothing to do with the "mythical man-nonth thinking", so it would indeed be possible to just throw more resources at the problem

And the talent pool at the level of a single company is practically infinite unless you indeed introduce artificial constraints like not wanting to pay to tap into that wide pool
The whole epstein thing is pretty crazy. Even the best mystery/thriller hollywood films pale in comparison to it.
A while back I read a piece by, I think, Joel Spolsky on the "design" of the XLS format. It was mostly a dump of Excel's internal memory structures to disk, with some optimizations to speed up saving and loading on the slow disks of the time. He seemed quite satisfied with how well the software performed but all I was thinking is "any other program trying to deal with those files is screwed." And "any other program" includes later versions of Excel.

It'd be nice to have some documentation of the internals of old DOC and XLS formats, just for the sake of recovering old files for archival purposes, but it's likely that Microsoft never bothered documenting them, even internally.
Before I really knew how to program, I tried to port http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm to Linux: https://github.com/Ericson2314/voxlap

It was written in the same C / inline assembly style. Unfortunately seemed to me like the final ASM didn't quite do the same thing as the original C.
Journalists and fellow cyclists. He destroyed Tyler Hamilton completely.
> Uh yes really.

This is based on integer addition up to 113 with a data set that only trains that. Yes, you can achieve that in a special case. No, LLMs don't achieve that.

Conclusion from the post you linked: "Epistemic status: I feel confident in the empirical results, but the generalisation to non-toy settings is more speculative"

> Pick one. Either it's so bad it's obviously not doing any calculations at all or it's so good you suspect Open AI are passing numbers through a calculator behind the scenes.

That's not the claim. I'm saying LLMs don't do real, precise calculation, but can do digit level operation and some implementations of systems around an LLM could pass the problem through a calculator. LLMs can rewrite the problem into a function, but the execution of it doesn't happen inside LLMs.

If you squint it's like the json output - LLMs can kind of do it most of the time, but you can implement a system around the LLM which ensures that any json output will be valid.
Trillian (Software)
It's doable. Just curious what's stopping you from switching email? Is email forwarding possible in your case?
All of these things have loopholes. For physical media, depending on the quality of the output, one could pay a sufficiently skilled person to reproduce an AI output on physical media in a fraction of the time it'd take to come up with and draw for real.

For digital media - ignoring how overbearing this whole system could be, what prevents someone from taking all that data and making an algorithm that outputs brush stroke parameters instead of pixels? And digital art isn't the only thing we need to concern ourselves with - eventually, we might have AI models that could make 3D models, sounds, vector imagery and other forms of art. The idea of just documenting every workflow would be an ever-growing burden with no perfect solutions.
You call it a bug, I call it a novel way to reduce dilution.
> Their arms industry is not in good shape. They are buying drones from Iran and short-range ballistic missiles from North Korea.

To be perfectly honest, neither is the US/NATO arms industry. IIRC, it also cannot replace missiles and artillery shells at the rate they're being consumed in Ukraine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/politics/military-weap...:

> His open frustration reflects a problem that has become worryingly apparent as the Pentagon dispatches its own stocks of weapons to help Ukraine hold off Russia and Washington warily watches for signs that China might provoke a new conflict by invading Taiwan: The United States lacks the capacity to produce the arms that the nation and its allies need at a time of heightened superpower tensions.

> Industry consolidation, depleted manufacturing lines and supply chain issues have combined to constrain the production of basic ammunition like artillery shells while also prompting concern about building adequate reserves of more sophisticated weapons including missiles, air defense systems and counter-artillery radar.

> ...

> In the first 10 months after Russia invaded Ukraine, prompting Washington to approve $33 billion in military aid so far, the United States sent Ukraine so many Stinger missiles from its own stocks that it would take 13 years’ worth of production at recent capacity levels to replace them. It has sent so many Javelin missiles that it would take five years at last year’s rates to replace them, according to Raytheon, the company that helps make the missile systems.

> If a large-scale war broke out with China, within about one week the United States would run out of so-called long-range anti-ship missiles, a vital weapon in any engagement with China, according to a series of war-game exercises conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
The Excel team treats the CSV format like Voldemort. They put no effort into it because it's an open file format they can't seize control of.
American carriers heavily encourage fliers to get their branded credit cards in tandem with their loyalty programs, which often give perks like free checked bags, among other variously useful perks.

For example, if you have the Alaska credit card you get a free checked bag for each of up to 6 people on your reservation.

It sucks that they gouge infrequent passengers, but if you fly even a couple times a year the perks are worth the card fee for whichever airline you fly most.

Also, international flights often do have free checked bags regardless.
I use Syncthing with Obsidian, works great.

You know Obsidian has an app on Android?
> "Has Satoshi come back from the dead?"

I think Satoshi coming back from the dead would totally tank the price, as he owns something like 5% of all BTC ever mined (~$43b).
No, every user input is surrounded by those tags. Scroll down from that link you posted and read the next two example prompts.
What if it fell on someone's head? Would they have survived?
Sincere question: Did that core tenet become incompatible with security against malware? Were the attack surfaces too big when supporting the old stuff?
I have had much better experiences with gog.com instead of Steam for old games. They tend to actually make sure something runs before putting it up for sale.

Might be worth checking out for you. Though I see only one Nancy Drew game there.
you also accidentally downloaded the wrong track just because it was mislabeled. many artists grew from that ex: soulja boy intentionally mislabeled his "crank dat" song as "50 cent in da club" etc
How much trial and error to sniff out 80%?

"Core Audio
124 / 618 (20.1%"
The Cost of the 1B Row Challenge with Snowflake and Databend
With Snowflake and #Databendtackling the #1BRC:
- How fast can we process?
- What's the cost?
No modulation is going to make up for lack of line of sight (like a small change in ground elevation). These stated distances are not intrinsic. They rely on you getting both transceivers/antennas high up above surrounding terrain.
Yes, there's definitely many scenarios to consider that I've been wondering too about now that I've got it built this way. That's why it's in testnet only.

In my zk group scheme, you do get one token for each epoch. (could be 30 days) It's simply suggested that you wait as long as possible between joining the group on your main account before minting your token on the anon account.

Finding applications for ZK tech is complicated because it only works for such narrow circumstances. Although in your case of "give every user the same token" makes the users anonymous to everyone except the issuer. The issuer is still able to know to whom they're giving them. With a ZK proof, the bearer instead mints the token by proving that they are one from the set of people the issuer has verified. The issuer cannot then break the privacy.

As for mitigating people sharing their tokens, of course that's always a fear but I think mitigation strategies would be unique to each application's use case.
He may be convinced that wherever the this Bitcoin will be tracked wherever it goes. And confiscated if it ever reaches a centralized exchange. (Due to pressure from law enforcement, the whale and even Binance)
> Rust is the first (and only, at the moment) language that userspace programs can be written in.

Shouldn't be much effort to make it compatible with Crablang, no?

/s
I keep vacillating on whether to use Go or Rust for my next cli or desktop tool (eg., for desktop egui in Rust). However, every time I see C or start to write it, I just see in it too much fun. In Go I see boredem, and Rust, frustration.

I'm not writing production software for a large audience, at best tools for myself which a few others might use.

Yet, it also seems a waste to be using what many now regard as out dated tech.

It would be a great thing if a C-2030 could be arranged with a new standard library and a move-semantics compiler mode (say).
I’ve used this lib a couple times for museums where we have generated huge image pyramids for openseadragon/deepzoom type apps. Other options generally shit the bed at these sizes but libvips does the job
Show HN: Simplify communication between React Native webview and web
BTW, you probably never found the irrationality measure to be very useful, because it's well known that almost all real numbers have irrationality measure 2.
Dawson's Creek is the canonical example for me.

The music was such a part of the show. Now it seems impossible to get the original series as it aired at the time.

Even the pirates have failed me in this instance.

>We have entered 1984 where history is mutable.

It's terrible. I worry about the same thing for children playing online games nowadays as well.

Once the servers inevitably go offline, they will never be able to replay their childhood games.

This is our cultural heritage, our shared memory. Gone.
Sounds interesting, but it also reminds me of what Linus once said when asked about fearing competition.
From my memory his answer was something like: I really like writing device drivers. Few people like that and until someone young and hungry comes along who likes that I'm not afraid of competition.
Yeah I remember as a kid saving a file with Word 97, then opening it on a different computer with Word 95, and there was a box between every pair of characters. Looking back, it's clear that the internal representation had changed from an 8-bit encoding to UTF-16 but I learned to be careful to "save as Word 95" every time from then on.
OR the work is a short story in which case it will not ever earn anywhere near 65K unless movie rights to the short story are sold.

OR it was a novel that did not sell well in the first printing but had a small devoted clique and then some years later starts selling enough to make $120,000 a year.

OR it didn't get taken up by many people but now there is some interest in your work so people are talking about potentially buying the rights for Netflix but of course you have to pay 65K to make sure you have those rights to sell, which is money you don't have, so you need to take out a loan in order to potentially profit from your labor.

OR you're Peter Beagle https://www.cbr.com/the-last-unicorn-peter-s-beagle-regains-...

The fact is that there are a million ways in which a class of entrepreneurs make money off of their work, even though, like most entrepreneurs they fail, and whenever HN starts talking copyright there are always people who probably make significantly more per year than the average writer does at writing who want to make sure writers make even less.

It's weird that HN often loves entrepreneurs, and wants to make things easier for them - but not writers.

Aside from that this scheme, as most other fix copyright schemes, will not be taken up by most other countries (other than U.S I mean) as they tend to have a "copyright exists because creators have moral rights to ownership of their work" theory of copyright and not the whole "copyright exists to foster innovation" theory.

As other countries will not follow the U.S you would have what you often have today, things in Public Domain in U.S and not in other countries and so you cannot freely make derivative works for an international audience at least as you would be sued.
That's not where the "hedge" comes from, it's called that because they use hedging and other strategies to (hopefully) deliver constantly positive returns, uncorrelated to the market. (Which ironically makes it useless as a hedge, as those should be anti-correlated.)
Why your car will never drive you places [video]
Except that "examples" and "answers to common questions" are at the top of the "first principles" when it comes to documentation, so yeah, if you ignore key quality metrics, quality improves
You're ignoring dividends.
a pragmatic solution. sometimes you don't have time and stakeholders don't understand or appreciate the side issues you need to deal with.