skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I served many moons ago and only watch from afar these days but here’s my two cents. And if anyone has a more direct take than I feel free to correct me here…

But it seems that the military these days is enamored by the attention that the silicon valley tech world has gotten over the last couple decades. And its true that the military can be ridiculously inefficient and could use more ‘lean startup’ in its procurement process. But I don’t think they’ve seen enough hype cycles to be able to filter useful tech from hype/hysteria.

For example, I recently saw a senior Army officer talk about the need to incorporate AI decision making tools for senior leaders. Which seems to me to be the absolute last thing you’d want. A technology that needs large training data sets is diametrically opposed to the military profession where the classic mistake is to be ‘fighting the last war’ instead of the current situation. Not only are there differences from conflict to conflict and situation to situation, but you’re going up against a human opponent whose lives literally depend on doing the opposite of what you expect and is continually evolving.

Another example I think would be the Army building out its Cyber Command while being caught completely flat footed with electronic warfare (jamming, spoofing, etc.) Having an adversary hack into your network is a huge concern for a corporation or against foreign espionage. But ignores the fact that TCP/IP ports and zero days matter a lot less when someone switches on a 10kW jammer, cuts a fiber optic cable, or takes out the power staion and generator you were relying on. Put another way, the upper layers of the ol’ network stack aren’t worth a lot if you can yank the physical layer away.

So regarding AI, I’m sure there are useful applications but I’m doubting much of the use of the term in a military context. Drones and drone warfare? Sure. But that may or may not require anything that should really be called AI.
What is your view of humans?

How much are you impacted by the sounds from our boats?

Which areas do you no longer visit due to the absence of plankton?

Tell us about the harms that we do to the oceans - we may know some, but we'd like to know if there are any more.

How are you impacted by our plastic pollution?

Teach us to speak to Orcas and Dolphins
It’s a pain even in small orgs. There are some things only the account owner can do. You can make someone else an admin with every possible authorization, and if the person who set up the account is tied up or out of office, a whole dev team and testing can be stopped.
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I'm not a fan of the corp using self-checkout to increase their profits through cutting the headcount, but I always prefer shop workers to do the actual inventory and other floor tasks than sitting at the cash register.
This would work for trains as well right? Overground trains i mean
Can someone give me the TLDR of this questions answer..

If I have a web based saas currently where I charge customers $300 a month.. if I were to make an iOS app for them to use, would apple want a % of that?
For your information, binary64 has been indeed mapped exhaustively for several functions [1], so it is known that at most triple-double representation is enough for correct rounding.

[1] https://inria.hal.science/inria-00072594/document

> There was a paper last year on binary64 pow (https://inria.hal.science/hal-04159652/document) which suggests that they have a correctly-rounded pow implementation, but I don't have enough technical knowledge to assess the validity of the claim.

Thank you for the pointer. These were written by usual folks you'd expect from such papers (e.g. Paul Zimmermann) so I believe they did achieve significant improvement. Unfortunately it is still not complete, the paper notes that the third and final phase may still fail but is unknown whether it indeed occurs or not. So we will have to wait...
That's a good example, but much more inline with my expectations (not on the order of 125%)
"The fallout 'moved east and then north-east towards the Queensland coast, missing the rain areas in New South Wales and Victoria as predicted'."

I remember that as a young kid. I was at my grandmother's house on holidays and both my grandmother and mother stopped us kids playing cricket in the backyard and made us come inside when it looked like it would sprinkle rain.

There was considerable fear about the fallout even though we were about 1,500 miles from the blast.

Incidentally, at the time the prime minister Robert Menzies who led the liberal party was
exceptionally pro British. This warmongering bastard later introduced conscription that sent young guys of my age off to Vietnam—a war that we should never have been involved in.
> No legal precedent supports

Gotcha. Unrelated to my point though.

My point was that someone saying "well it's their platform, they can do what they want!" Is making a bad argument.

If someone wants to make a good argument, instead of a bad one, then you would have to start talking about what a monopoly is.

But whoever built the platform is simply an argument that is unrelated.

> is not really a useful statement.

It absolutely is useful, because it focuses on the question that matters.

No matter if you think that Apple is a monopoly or not, of which there are reasonable arguments to be made on all sides, the fact that Apple built it just doesn't matter.

Talk about the things that matter, not unrelated points.

> a final verdict against that proposition which is now binding in CA9.

If you meant to imply that this is a final verdict on if Apple is a monopoly or not, then I would recommend that you re-read the original ruling of the California judge.

The California judge was very clear that the verdict only shows that Epic failed in their arguments, not that Apple is decidedly not a monopoly.
It's the implication of virtue signalling that it's a facade?

If Steve the megarapist is writing articles about the latest popular injustice, does that make Steve virtuous?
> It's a fairy tale

That’s what I expected. The annual food stamp benefit appears to be less than the employer covered plans for health care at companies commonly employing people on this site.
But I’m open to reading GP’s articles.
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wise.com offers a multi currency service which presents inside each economy as a valid bank sort code and account number within that economy and is 100 points legal: you provide passport and other information. I use this to pay taxes in the UK from Australia, and to transact in euros without being domiciled in the EU region.

I have previously held bank accounts as a non-dom and it is very very expensive: you are exposed to up front witholding taxes, and charges. ABN Amro (for instance) was charging me EUR10 a month at one point and positively encouraged me to close the account. Banks really don't like non-dom for over-the-counter customer accounting, its a nightmare for them.

Wise is low fee, like everyone else they make vig on the exchange rate, but they do venmo-class instant payments where they can. I have sent thousands this way, with instant arrival.

The downside? It's not a bank, and your funds are not guaranteed. But, you get a valid card, with paywave, and phone embedded valid card, and it works in a very large number of economies.

TL;DR use wise. I'm just a customer. I am not seeking a referral fee for this info. As Abraham Lincoln said: "never trust random strangers on the internet"
> Also, recently I have been thinking how come the US is pioneering so many tech but fail to implement any

> Estonia

>>

Population
• 2024 estimate
1,373,101[2]
• 2021 census
1,331,824[3]

You can do most of projects in Estonia in a week or two, just because their popcount is low.
Glad to be of help. I think the only one I have (yes, I kept all my SBS books) is Miss Pickerell Goes To Mars.
Amazon sells its Kindle books outside the Apple App Store. Once purchased, the book is available to view in your Kindle app. My guess is that Amazon doesn't pay Apple any $ for books sold there.

How is this current practice of Amazon consistent with the (new?) rules in which all sales taking place even outside the store will attract commision from Apple ?

It is because Kindle does not offer ANY sales at all through its own Apple app ? Some other reason ?
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Maybe I’ll get thinner than 1.75 lenses some day for my crazy high prescription.
Surprisingly, some bikes can be launched down on an inclined plane and kinda steer itself
if that were true then

1. they wouldn't have to fight so hard to keep their not-monopoly

2. the app store would be operating at-cost, with no margin

i think everyone agrees they have a margin, the question is how much. right now i think apple could make a profit with a 10% of revenue, and most likely at 5%. now they've done the hard work of creating an entire market, and invested huge sums to get there, so maybe they deserve a markup on that

but that's the beauty of startups and capitalism. a new product can skip steps, learn from your mistakes, work without your tech debt and bloated organisational dysfunctions, and disrupt your industry. it happens in every industry, and no company is immune. apple will fight to keep things as-is with everything they've got, but capitalism will win.
I think the percentage charged is very relevant though.

And the fact the developer is to hide the fee and not list it on the receipt (subscription: $10, Apple tax: $3)

And the fact you cannot charge less for the same service if you sold it outside the platform (as you'd like to do as you didn't need to collect the Apple tax).
Agreed.

(autocorrect style typo above: etymology)
Startups in 20s and 30s as owner if you can hack it or at least with stock options. Either retire by early 40s or switch into larger more stable companies where your job will survive downturns. Max out the 401K and Roth IRA dollar cost averaging into stock funds. Don't try to time the market. Own real estate and when moving into a bigger home, refinance the old one for the downpayment and rent it out if its in the same town.
The same holds for most surviving hunter-gatherer groups across the world.

Survivorship bias in the extreme. The only survivors are ones in fringe habitats away from the best productive land. We have no view into the larger, richer, more complex cultures that were the norm back then.
Suite A is fairly specialised. Nobody can publicly comment on specific use cases of course, but it's fairly well known that Suite B is used for most national security information, including TS/SCI. But yes, technically non-public algorithms exist and are in use, it's just not even nearly automatically applied to everything.
Netanyahu has historically low approval, and most observers expect him to get booted as soon as the Gaza war winds down (sooner, if he can't wind it down expeditiously). When that happens, there's a nonzero chance he's going to end up in prison. It is not at all reasonable to suggest that his opponents are an "extreme minority".
> The military thinks they can predict the outcome of battles using tech.

Ugh. Do they really? Ok, I’m more concerned now.

I’m curious where I can find more about the sim-gaming you mentioned. I know there are all kinds of simulators for training as well as wargaming but wasn’t aware of stuff used for modelling outcomes. Then again, I don’t have any involvement with that stuff professionally.
To me it reads that you can place a link in-app to the out-of-app purchase, and purchases made through that route are subject to the fee.
For the best kind of informed speculation, see “The Dawn of Everything” by Graeber and Wengrow.
Couple issues with the linked article, the rust compiler has matured a lot since it was written I didn’t look at the benchmark or the code, but many bounce checks are elided if you use iterators instead of array access and lastly, I would want to see ZSTD benchmark written in normative rust.

I don’t doubt that all of those things in the article were true back then, but that was eight years ago. Wow.
This is cool and interesting work but unfortunately extremely over-hyped. Their whole system is a low cost bimanual system which is interesting. However, beyond that there isn't any algorithmic improvements in here that would make robotics really work.

Basically, no real breakthrough has happened in robotics and everyone is hoping to be able to replicate LLMs/vision path for robotics (i.e. data). But no one really knows how to even collect so much high quality data and no one is even remotely close to executing it. The best we seem to have done is: https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io/

Overall, just too much hype.
The numbers switch was slow, though. My parents started school after the change was officially made in the 50's and would have learned the new forms in school, but still used the old form enough in the late 70's and 80's that I picked up a preference for it from them, and you still find people of my generation (I'm born in '75) using the old forms pretty often, if less now than when I was younger.

(If anyone here wonders if this is the same "Samnorsk" as in Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep": It is. For people who know Norwegian, Vinge's books have several Norwegian-inspired terms. E.g. "Nyjora" is "new earth".)
> So how much carbon does biochar release? What is the climate impact of it?

Biochar is carbon negative, it sequesters carbon.

Approximately ~ tree falls down, rots and it all gets turned back to methane -> CO2.

Instead you pyrolysis (burn in low oxygen) the tree, I use the cone dug in ground method. This releases part of the CO2 and also stores a lot of the carbon, as you partly can see when they study 10,000 year old campfires.

Then in theory you save on fertilizer and water as it averages it out and microbes process it better, which also reduces CO2. It also lowers compaction which makes for better plant root systems.

Our local government sewerage (which we are not on) gets turned to biochar and put in fields.

Biochar is a culture, it's beginnings are from the Amazon Dark Earth, I'm more into the science. People always have to talk about peeing on their biochar, sigh.... and they send their biochar off to be tested on how many football fields surface area per cubic inch ie one gram of biochar can have over 12,00 square feet of surface area. I'm not so sure on this, I think it's over maximization. Testing in the garden is good though, so I shouldn't complain.
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Could you actually describe this? How would that be a better analogy?
Thanks! I wrote about it on HN a while back and answered a few questions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35569380
Big shocker, but oil was useless before technology for use and extraction was developed.
But, can it make me a sandwich?
More equanimity than intelligence, and probably more epistemic humility than 'intellectual humility'

> It is not important to know where the voices are coming from. It had just been demonstrated to me that prior to turning around I did not know their origin, and yet I was comfortable having taken on the “mere belief,” and as it turned out the false belief, that nobody was there. [...] And after I was forced to change my belief, it was still fine.
Agree on the agreeing, and thanks for the Sam/John note - that's great :)

No chance LLM's will get us there, I'm referring mostly to the general drive to reach AGI. I spend some of my mental cycles trying to think about what we're missing with the current tech (continuous learning, access to much wider resources than one web page of context at a time, can we use compression, graphs etc). It's a great problem to think about, but we may just totally hose ourselves when we get it right. What do I tell my kid - sorry honey, it was such fun, but now we need to hide under this rock. Model totally said it was nice and kind and trustworthy, but we showed it some human history and it went postal in self-defence.

Alignment only works up until it starts really thinking for itself. It absolutely might not be as stupid as humans are, no caveman tribal instincts. But we'd be relying on hope at that point, because control will not work. If anything it'd probably be counterproductive.
I see what you did there and I like it but inquiring minds must know: will it come with a launcher and preferably a rootki... I mean anti-cheat/drm?
There's a corresponding (FOSS) repository that implements the test [0].

[0] https://github.com/fchollet/ARC
I paid a lower price until I did not.

2023 New years day I signed up for an offer 6 bucks a month. I knew it was only for a year, but then I forgot. On new years day 2024, I got charged 50 bucks. Maybe I could have fought it, maybe I could have spent some time challenging it, but it was not worth my time, so I canceled my subscription. But what cost me 12 X 6 = 72 for a year now cost me 50 bucks for a month.

This is the difference Apple's payment system can make. You visit the store regularly (hopefully), so you know when the renewal is up, and at what price. Even if you do not visit regularly, I presume you can set up alerts to notify you of expiry, and IIRC they allow small adjustments to the price without notification, but 6=>50 would be notified. Pretty sure.

Of course this does not work for some companies who thrive on people slacking off on canceling re-priced subscriptions.
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They didn’t want to wait.
Because Youtube 'sells' the viewcount as a substitute for the impressions. 'Hey, look! This video had 55M views! Imagine how many buyers you could have!'
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This resonates deeply with me. Though I don't have schizophrenia, I had social anxiety and general anxiety for many years.

One example of how this mindset worked for me is probably best demonstrated by my experience with sleep paralysis. My anxiety kept me tossing and turning in bed, and I would eventually fall unconscious due to exhaustion - triggering sleep paralysis. I of course developed fear of sleep paralysis and thus going to bed made me anxious... cue vicious cycle.

How did I break the cycle? I had to develop a joy for sleep paralysis. A genuine interest and joy for that experience. Once I started to look forward to it, the vicious cycle was broken and I no longer got sleep paralysis. It was the ultimate reframe. I psyched myself out.

I eventually started to apply that same principal to other anxieties and insecurities and things just started to melt away.

A vicious cycle of sleep paralysis is pit of hell though. I don't recommend it.
That's not true. Some machines are faster for some workloads when virtualizing. This has been known for decades. I recall first reading about it around 20 years ago, but I can't find the reference I'm thinking of. Nevertheless you'll find plenty of hits for faster in virtualization if you search.
Unsurprising, ghouls...
Yes. We knew it as silicium in the school and it took me some time to realise that silicon is the same thing.

For a long time I assumed that Silicon is the "unofficial", American word for it, while silicium is the scientific name.
I've seen you make this claim twice in this comment section. Fortnite is not on iOS.
Your logo should be:
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Because it's not really something that matters for the vast majority of consumer photography equipment.

https://istarscopeclub.proboards.com/thread/247/twisting-fac...

^Some 2012 forum post claiming the material cost $2000/kg, although their wording is ambiguous on whether this was the price for the raw material or the finished lens. But based on the manufacturing process described in the source link of this post, it would appear to be a much more cumbersome and complex process than manufacturing regular glass lenses. Fluorite lens are also more fragile which may impact yield %.
Wouldn’t this be fixed by doing a proper, representative survey?