skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, try going to this florida school library and check out an encyclopedia or Anne Frank's diary. You can't because they were banned by a government law.

You may counter with, this isn't a book ban because you can still buy it on amazon and that the government is supposed to moderate content in schools. But when 'moderation' becomes this absurdly broad, its a ban.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/11/florida-scho...
The 46-Year-Old Millionaire Who Claims to Have the Body of a Teenager
Yes, we sign sub-BAAs with our customers.
This resonates. I had to learn to take the chill period, and now it works.
Based on other comments, it seems the people that refuse to accept the answer that it's better to switch and not 50/50 are nitpicking how the game is described.

The idea is supposed to be that Monty always reveals a goat. He does not pick a door at random to reveal before offering the choice to switch. If you pick door A, and the car is in door B, he will reveal door C and ask if you want to switch. If you pick A, the car is in C, then he will open door B and ask if you want to switch.

Expanding it to 100 doors with Monty opening 98 of them and then offering you the opportunity to switch should make it very intuitive. Let's say you pick door 7, and Monty then opens every door except your door and say, door 48, all revealing goats, then it should make you think "Wow...very odd that he didn't reveal door 48...there must be a reason he skipped that specific door".

Make it 1,000,000 doors. You choose door 1. Monty opens every door except number 423,901, and all the doors he opened had goats. You're tired and hungry because all you've done for 4 days is watch Monty open doors to goats, but you should certainly be thinking it's odd that he skipped that one specific door. You should probably switch, though maybe take a nap before claiming your car.
Great news for the whole Baltic sea region
Have you seen an actual A100?

They are massive, I can imagine them being comparable to a 3090 at all.
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If you want the result where there is a lower conditional probability of your originally selected door having the prize versus the remaining unopened door, then it completely does matter to have the setup be "Monty always opens a door with a goat" instead of "Monty opens a door at random, and in this particular case, it happened to have a goat behind it".
Similarly, I've been anti-confrontational all my life, until I got in a car wreck where we were rear-ended on the highway and thanks to the airbag I really just had the wind knocked out of me, but ever since then I've figured getting punched in the face is probably not worse and can handle more stressful situations now. Still haven't been punched in the face tho.
The technology in Gattaca is already among us. Parents screen their DNA to find out if they have any hereditary diseases.

It's estimated that there won't be anyone with Down syndrome in a few decades.
I totally agree that it's important (to all of us) that prisoners be able to maintain their most intimate connections.

> I do think there should very much be tiering of prisons. There are some irredeemably fucked up individuals, who have burned through multiple chances

I both know what you mean and think it's important to consider the current unacceptable state of prisons (which isn't exactly new) when thinking about people using up "multiple" chances. I don't have easy answers at all but part of this is how easy it is to write people off based on an incomplete understanding of their situation.
What I’m curious about is how this relates to other findings that ADHD individuals tend to be better in crises than non ADHD. That is a scenario where honing in and focusing on doing the necessary thing is paramount, and where many just flounder and do nothing.
> This is just a smart move by Satya Nadella

Diversifying their AI bets definitely makes total sense. If this wasn't their strategy originally, it almost certainly became so the moment the OpenAI board fired Sam Altman.

It's easy to make simplistic judgements from the outside, but with the limited information we have, it does seem like Satya Nadella came out of this OpenAI debacle looking pretty competent.

It's hard to reconcile the fact that the Microsoft that handled the unexpected OpenAI issue so well is the same Microsoft that seems intent on literally setting fire to their flagship product! (Windows)
There was COM/Corba like this. It was hanging/freezing. So somebody will have to refactor it back to normal.
GitHub silently rolled out secrets push protection for user accounts
Tax laws were written for cash businesses where the cash in the register never 100% matches the sum of receipts. What matters in my experience is that your books are balanced, but there is no such thing as "perfect accounting." In the real world inventory goes missing for reasons unknown (broken, stolen, never delivered properly) and as long as you've got an entry in the books that plugs the hole it's fine in practice. Accountants and auditors don't do forensic investigations, not even for publicly listed businesses.

I have never met an accountant who cared even slightly even about very significant tax compliance issues. Businesses don't want to change their sloppy ways either. They want to make money first and let the accountants clean up the mess later (impossible).
Curious fact about Japan, it was united under, if memory serves well, Ibunaga using the, by some accoints, best firearms rquipped army equiped with the best muskets of the time. Only to have forearms basically outlawed once Japan was united under a new Shogun.

Edit: Good article so, goes over all the important aspects, including logistics (bonus points for that!), and shows that forearms didn render armor or cavalery obsolete over night.
Super serious question: What the fuck do you think purpose and life meaning is supposed to look like?

Seriously, because it isn't like a movie where the clouds open up. God isn't talking to you from a flaming bush. You're not going to achieve buddhist enlightenment or something like that. What are your expectations of what purpose/meaning/etc in life is supposed to be that you're disappointed?
I don’t think that in Germany or Italy that’s even possible. Either travel times are longer, or you just don’t have any airport option. Spain is big though, and has a lot of smaller airports. Wonder how many flights this would affect, and what the actual potential impact in CO2 reduction is.
Ha, I did the same thing after first reading about the problem. I understood the probabilities from her explanation, but it felt more indisputable after seeing the results play out after a thousand tries. Guess you could call it a "Monty" Carlo simulation.
Much of the time the size of your army was determined by the number of able bodied men that lived on your lands, and they were armed with whatever weapons and gear they brought with them. Feeding and housing them wasn't that much of an expense, either, since armies would often confiscate whatever food they needed from farms and towns along the way (leading to the 3rd amendment of the US Bill of Rights.)

It wasn't until standing armies with standardized weapons and gear became more of the norm that a smaller, better equipped army was really even an option, and by that point firearms technology (and artillery) had progressed enough that armor wasn't very useful. Even then, soldiers wearing a cuirass into battle were still a thing up until WWI, so it's not like the practice died overnight.
Will the Big C lobby stand up against this government tyranny?

I for one am very happy to see that this government has the ability to focus on such important and impactful technical details.
you can run nix in a container

It's tricky because said program probably needs to access the original $HOME
Common Mistakes in Modularisation
I’ve used Pydantic with FastAPI, but can’t really get a solid feel for what this is doing. Can someone explain this to me like I’m 5?
I have a few desktops of various vintage in my stable, and one with an Nvidia GPU is effectively totally unstable. Driver updates often break things (one display at 1024x768), the machine often fails to wake from sleep; sometimes it'll wake with one display no longer working (requiring reboot), and various other issues.

I lack the patience to try and troubleshoot it most of the time and primarily use another machine. Usefulness is limited when I can't count on "simple" things like waking from sleep in working state, IME.
The asymmetry is that if you pick the one with the car first (only 1/3rd chance) then Monty Hall can show you either of the other doors. If you pick one without a car first (2/3rd chance) then Monty Hall must show you the door that doesn't have a car and the remaining door always has the car.

So 2/3rd of the time you have a 100% chance of a car if you switch, 1/3rd of the time you have 0% chance of a car if you switch. So switching is a 66.7% probability of a win and is the 'inverse' of if you picked the car right on the first guess or not.

The choice of which door Monty Hall shows you is constrained and isn't an independently random event since he never shows you the car when he opens a door.

You can also laboriously go through every event and "bifurcate the world" and then add up the probabilities, but you need to be careful about how you do it:

1. assign the car to a door (there are three possibilities)
2. have the contestant pick a door (there are now nine possibilities)
3. handle which door Monty Hall shows (this is tricky because for the three permutations in #2 where the contestant picked the car, then the door Monty Hall picks is unconstrained and so the world splits, but you are slicing a 11.1% chance in half for ~5.6%, while for the six permutations where the contestant didn't pick the car, Monty Hall is constrained so those remain 11.1% chances (at every level the probabilities have to add up to the probabilities before them and you can't violate 100% when you sum across all of them).
4. then have the contestant either switch or not switch and cut all your probabilities in half again.
5. now color everything according to winning or not and sum it all up.

I call that the "Quantum Many Worlds Interpretation Solution to the Monty Hall Problem" and if you do step #3 correctly you should get vos Savant's answer.
> wouldn't China simply create their own bespoke hardware accelerators? So what's stopping them?

Fabrication.

SMEE is supposedly able to mass produce 28nm lithography machines, but most modern (2016/Pascal onwards) GPUs are fabricated using 16nm lithography or lower (eg. Ampere uses a 7nm process, and there are multiple newer architectures in the pipeline that leverage 3nm fabrication processes at Samsung, TSMC, and Intel).

Chinese companies like SMEE are trying, but it will take 3-5 years to reach 16nm lithography at scale.

Also, GPUs are being limited for simulation (aka Nuclear weapons testing) reasons - not "AI" - as just about every country except North Korea honors the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, forcing countries to test using HPC (edit: also used for Jet Turbine simulation a la Autodesk Federal).

A 28nm process is more than enough to make EWS, Avionics, and Precision weapons, which is what Russia uses to manufacture the Elbus-8s chipset domestically.

This is partially related to why companies like Nvidia has begun moving fabrication to Samsung fabs over TSMC in the short term, as SK has a formal defense agreement unlike Taiwan.
Is it an axiom of civilization that destruction always costs less than construction?
That's an interesting theory, but what means of cultural promotion were newly democratized in the 60s?
>Which animal has more legs, a chicken or a horse?

>>A horse has more legs than a chicken.

>Which animal has more legs, a horse or a centipede?

>>A centipede has significantly more legs than a horse.

Yes they can.
A new phase of matter: Physicists show non-Abelian anyons in quantum processor
I wouldn't even be excited about google email at this point,
and there's no way I'm getting mail from an unreliable source
Yes! HIPAA was initially rolled out for the portability and continuity of health insurance coverage.

But over the years, with the enactment of the Privacy Rule, Security Rule, HITECH Act, Omnibus Rule, etc., HIPAA's implications have been shaped quite a bit.
Nano-particles are like a dirty water, but without water.
Another thing they do is not a public/private build out. China owns the companies building the roads. It gets to set the price, design, wages, etc.

The reason things are expensive in the US is privatization. It should be super obvious why. The contractors we hire are super incentivized to drag things out and bloat costs. They make more money by doing less. And since the gov is footing the bill, no harm no foul.

It gets even worse when you take corruption into account. Because now the mayor can get nice kickbacks for awarding contracts to their drinking buddies who also are mysteriously campaign donors. Not saying corruption doesn't happen in china, it does, but not generally for infrastructure things. Instead, it's the drinking buddies being put in charge of the projects.

One of the dumbest parts of Reaganomics was removing the public ability to maintain public infrastructure.
I'd argue that the pains of building a billing system are not the right approach to the topic. If building your own billing system is a path so much sought after, well, let that be.

Billing systems are of high complexity; I recognise that. However, if Chargebee, Solvimon, Stripe, Recurly, Orb, Metronome, Lago, Togai or anyone else has that body of knowledge, we could instead collect that knowledge in one place.

Indeed, there's no better approach than the one that serves you. If you're a subscription-based SaaS, you have specific solutions for your business. If you're a usage-based API, you have specific solutions to the billing.

But we could have all that knowledge, approaches, paradigms, programming patterns, better and best practices in one place, instead of discouraging the practice. There are also edge cases where a company is not U.S.-based or European, and a billing solution like Stripe wouldn't work, e.g. your company is based in Venezuela, and you can't have a Stripe account. What do you do in that case? You must forcefully build your own billing solution and connect it to the local payment gateways with their arcane SOAP-XML APIs.

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On a separate note, "building your own billing system" reminds me of the topic of "rolling your own SIEM" with the typical Elastic + Grafana setup.

I don't recommend it, but I understand why it's such a hot path for an IT Security department to do it.
> I recently recompiled good old Uplink game for fun.

Cool. Cool game. I didn't know the source code was available.
I assume you have pdfs. How do you split them up?
Microcode? I don't think that's how modern μarch works. You can definitely make modern compute accelerators more like a plain CPU and less bespoke, and this is what folks like Tenstorrent and Esperanto Technology are working on (building on RISC-V, an outstanding example of "simple" yet effective tech) but a lot of the distinctive featuresets of existing CPUs, GPUs, FPUs, NPUs etc. are directly wired into the hardware, in a way that can't really be changed.
Source, please
I mostly fly from Vienna, Prague and Budapest and none of them have fast rail connection.

I think this is a hard problem, since the rail lines naturally converge in the city, at the airport you'll get one rail line at best and quite likely need to change in the city again.
Helios Capital's Samir Arora says CEO Sundar Pichai should be fired
Ah that's an interesting spreadsheet thanks for sharing!!
Interesting to see some of the ideas in there and how things have turned out :)
As a Massachusetts resident, I'm strongly supportive of taxing the shit out of these freeloaders - it's beyond time we punish these people for what they've done to the rest of us.

Unfortunately, it's true that there's a big emotional reaction to attacking these big institutions - similar to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" phenomeon a lot of people seem to think they or their descendents are "temporarily embarrassed HYPSM+ admits"
I agree with you, but it just doesn't matter "how far you are from literally perfect", you will just get backlash no matter what. Personally I would never use an LLM to try to make my mind regarding any issue that should be viewed from some moral or ethical lens. Sure, I can ask it to help with some coding stuff, write template emails and etc., but asking a question based on morality is just waste of time.

Sure, let's say they aligned the question regarding pedophilia one way or another, but what do you do about questions about religion? Questions about ongoing wars that are full of emotional attachment? All the Twitter takes about freedom of press doesn't even make sense once you get out of US-centric view either, and then there are questions about enemy-state owned press. You can carve out so many these-type of questions that any company that are under public's eye will be scrutinized to hell for whatever answer the model produces.

What I'm getting into, big corps would probably be better off if all the models were limited for some sort of specific use cases (e.g. programming) rather than aiming for "catch-all-do-all". And if they want, they should've gone Microsoft way and invest big time into a company that's dealing with it so they can use the "it's not reaaaally us producing results that are bad for PR!".
Maybe we should put not just one, but several limits, denominated in joules (or kilotons), splitting the competition into "weight classes" in terms of maximum energy transfer. So e.g. flyweight class could end up being a competition between smart subsonic bullets, while the middleweight class may see a nuclear bomb facing off against pumped x-ray laser.

I'd definitely watch the heck out of it.
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>I understand saying “we put it out early, sorry there are a few bugs and it looks rough”. But there has to be a line somewhere. And to me harm is on the other side of that line.

Very true, I'm definitely unenthused about the rush to market with all these hype-y AI products. At a minimum it seems fair to criticize Google for releasing something this half-baked, instead of taking the time to get it right and trusting that the product's value will make up for missing the feeding frenzy. I just feel like this is the consequence of bad product thinking, rather than the larger cultural agenda (seemingly) imputed by the OP's author. If it does lead to unambiguous downstream harm I certainly won't defend that, I just feel that the product space is innocuous enough (at least relative to the ex. AV space) that I feel like this is more of a cultural war issue than an actual technology concern.
I think, frankly, the whole philosophical discussion about the purpose of the criminal justice system is a pointless abstraction and waste of time, because the US jail & prison system is a complete failure and as it currently exists, cannot achieve any just goal, whichever one you prefer.

Even if you believe 100% that the criminal justice system should be punitive, and the conditions should be unpleasant, the system still has to protect the physical safety of inmates from violence/harm that's outside the scope of the official punishment.

But it's manifestly unable to do that -- there's constant violence in jails and prisons, and medical care is often incompetent or denied even when badly needed.

Many other cases like this for whatever purported goal is supposed to be achieved. There's no way to rationalize the way the US system currently works, it just kind of shambles on.

I'm not a prison abolitionist in a philosophical sense either, I think there should be a state and that sometimes a state may have to incarcerate people. But as unreasonable and unrealistic as the prison abolitionist movement can be, their emotional orientation towards the US criminal justice system actually seems closer to reality.
An effect that was wonderfully illustrated in his book State of Fear, where he intended to undermine climate science.
One more -- and this comes up a lot -- anything where latency or a delay matters. An analog circuit can have response times in the tens or hundreds of picoseconds. A digital PID on something like an FPGA in the nanoseconds. One on a basic microcontroller (the kind without an OS -- PIC, AVR, ESP32, etc.), in the microseconds.

An RL algorithm running on a general-purpose computer, you'll be lucky to hit tens of milliseconds.

That makes a big difference.

For those unfamiliar with control systems, delay matters a lot. Something like an audio amplifier (where you can't hear anything <20kHz) will generally have a bandwidth in the tens of megahertz, and more is better. A rule-of-thumb is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain%E2%80%93bandwidth_product

In other words, if you'd like to bring down error by a factor of 10,000, your loop will generally like to be around 10,000x faster than whatever it's controlling. If something has a time constant of 1 second, you still might want to be able to react at the speed of microseconds. That's not a hard-and-fast rule per se (I can give all sorts of ways to work around it), but what is true is the more general principle that minimizing delays can be very, very helpful (even for things which otherwise seem pretty slow).
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They absolutely should, states are in competition with other states and they should be reminded about why the symbioses with those tax exempt entities exists.

Massachusetts has identified a problem, its too bad that they also have to be tasked with identifying a solution. They really shouldn't be the same people but our social structure doesn't really accommodate that.

And to top it off, the classic “fair share” quip when nobody can reach consensus on a definition. Massachusetts is swinging far harder than its relevancy.
It's about backing people into a corner who don't have the means to choose an alternative situation. No one is forcing you to have cell service? Sure they are! Good luck participating in society without it.

As for infrastructure costs, that's the entire service. How much does it really cost to provide 300kbit/s? Surely less than it costs to serve ads! Sure, you can turn a profit from the ad revenue, but that means your profit is the end user's attention.

My overall point is that we should not call ads "free". Watching ads is labor, and labor ain't free.
That's not precisely accurate. The cascadian subductions zone uas produced magnitude 9 quakes in the past.

The results I've seen (from a decade and a half ago) pegged the probability of a magnitude > 9 in the next 50 years at 1/10 and a magnitude > 8 at 1/3.

The 500 years average is if you look at the last 7 events. 7 is a horribly low sample size and if you extend the timescale, that average drops by half and indicates we are past the 250 year average.
Harvard is not the state, they're a fundamentally exclusionary institution. We should tax and contain them, not go out of our way to avoid taxing them.
You’re a mammal. You’re 99% a monkey. What else to say?
What astonishes me is not that people interpret the scenario differently, but that they are so quick to conclude that others are doing the math wrong and feel superior or even angry, rather than thinking about whether you might be talking at cross purposes about different scenarios.

So I see the second order problem a bit differently: it's not "was the statement unambiguous", it's about what you do with the (possibility of) ambiguity: do you assume you can't be wrong and therefore others must be, or do you try to figure out whether you were solving different problems?