skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes a ton of infrastructure to maintain a sustained misinformation campaign.

Yet cloud providers happily sell resources and APIs to unethical companies. They rightfully don’t insert themselves into most legal business matters, with exceptions.
I'm running into so many multipurpose acronyms lately I'm wondering if we shouldn't start nesting them or something.

As an aside, why do you ” and not " ? App thing?
Huh, I thought osquery was a Facebook open source project. Surprised to see it under the Linux Foundation now. I wonder if Facebook still uses osquery in its current form or if they re-forked their own project to evolve separately in-house.
> I don't know why any country would ever sell land under any circumstances

Me neither, but that's not what happened here. They're "selling" the development of the area, not the land itself. At least as far as I understand the article.
You cannot approximate NP-complete functions. If you could approximate them with a practically useful limited error and at most P effort you would have solved P=NP. (disclaimer my computer science classes have been a long time ago)
Which NBC reporters were “finding allies” at CPAC?

Which NBC reporters shared supposed contrary beliefs in dialog without “any perceptible resistance”?
Incentivizing quality over quantity always leads to more fraud. It happens in academia, and it happens in sales (e.g. Bank of America scandal). If I need more of X to get promoted or to get my bonus, then it's easiest to just create fake X.
> rest of the world

Who is that in this context?

I ask because I've met Europeans who were convinced that all of their beef was grass-fed, while I've personally seen cattle being grain-finished (and/or fed a variety of supplemental non-pasture-grass feeds like sugar beets) in places like Ireland and Germany. Marketing != reality.
One thing that surprises me is that there isn't more competition in this space. Alternate domain name systems by the Post COMINTERN bloc or something
I am reminded of Feynman's story about teaching physics in one Brazil university, one semester, a few decades ago:

http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

The students learned to repeat the text of the books, without "understanding" what the books were describing. I'm sure this says something about one side or the other of this conundrum, but I'm not sure which. :-)
Why? We do the same thing with file path for example, with / being both the root and the separator. In both cases you can think of the character as the separator if you prefer it to have a single role, and then the root is just the empty string.
Starting Point for a Cample.js Application
> their function is to produce text output which forms a plausible seeming response to the question posed

Answering "I don't know" or "I can't answer that" is a perfectly plausible response to a difficult logical problem/question. And it would not be a hallucination.
I always assumed the sudden leaps forward were a combination of having government funding (no need build hype to sell to VCs), corporate espionage, and an unconcerned attitude towards international intellectual property law.

Not say no hard work was put into it, but from my perspective that have certain advantages to leverage while doing the work.
Westerners will say they care about these things but I don't think a million people dying in a heatwave in Bangladesh or India will do anything to curb their behavior or drive them to action.
Maybe it's not just the wage cap.

There is plenty of semiconductor industry in the US but it's differently specialized and they compete for the same pool of engineers. Nvidia, AMD or Broadcom don't have fabs, but they hire engineers from the same pipeline as fab companies.

It's few years since I was hiring EE majors in the US, but it felt that skilled people with EE master's are harder and harder to find every year. I think USC and CMU are the only ones that produce quantity and quality. MIT, Stanford, and Berkley produce quality but not quantity.
I think there are two axes: reason about and intuit. I "understand" ballistic flight when I can calculate a solution that puts an artillery round on target. I also "understand" ballistic flight when I make a free throw with a basketball.

On writing that, I have an instinct to revise it to move the locus of understanding in the first example to the people who calculated the ballistic tables, based on physics first-principles. That would be more accurate, but my mistake highlights something interesting: an artillery officer / spotter simultaneously uses both. Is theirs a "deeper" / "truer" understanding? I don't think it is. I don't know what I think that means, for humans or AI.
>Mall stores aren't selling high-end timepieces

Depends on the mall. I've certainly seen 5K and 10K timepieces in mall stores. In some places abroad even seen 100K timepieces next to high end clothing stores in malls.

>If the clocks are running, they will visibly disagree

Well, going the "low-end timepieces" case, the ones working with GPS or NTP time sync, like Apple watches and sports stuff will be on time...
It's worth considering that stock market valuations are supposed to be driven by revenue and profit, not by population (valuations have gotten completely out of whack since the financial system effectively broke in 2008). There are multiple ways to do this - one is certainly to increase the population, but another is to increase productivity per person in conjunction with expenditure per person. i.e. The same number of people doing more with less and living more lavish lifestyles as a result.
But it wasn't the institute who started breeding. This sounds more like "paying your programmers by the line" who then flatten their for loops.
it doesn't save work, sifting requires the same labor inputs for any fraction, a more dilute trash stream doesn't help.
>I bet this delta between US and Japanese workers wouldn’t have existed in 1960.

There was a larger delta then because US workers were much more skilled than Japanese ones in 1960
The SGI 1600SW Flat-Panel Display Saga
When I used it, I was managing mostly Macs - and I never used it pre-vmware. This probably encouraged my flippancy!

Is there even an established, reliable alternative to intune for Windows? I don’t know.
Yes, I did not read closely enough. You referred to new medicare for all plans, while I responded recalling similar false accusations against Obamacare. Some of these new proposals do not allow duplicate plans. Nevertheless, I don't think this particular objection makes them DOA. I believe this is an objection that could be overcome with discussion.
Americans capable of being productive at TSMC cost too much for TSMC to afford. They can get better paying jobs with better work life balance, easily. Japan has a similarly terrible work culture and is much poorer than the US, like Taiwan, so TSMC has much less cultural mismatch to deal with.
Yes, it's similar to someone buying land in California. You still "own" the land, but it's still in United States. Ras el-Hekma is still in Egypt. It just happens to be owned by UAE.
Is there any country on Earth who, if they launched a lunar mission, you would not consider it a distraction from real problems?
Unfortunately you keep making it a "you" thing with your argument and are ignorant of the situation. These are robots I use for work that I keep in my house.

Good luck
Mail Merge in Gmail by Google
There are tons of businesses providing mail marge services in Gmail, this is going to put a serious strain on those businesses.
LMG(M)TFY: Ra's al Ḩikmah
https://maps.app.goo.gl/MroKuinLGRRr9ybF9?g_st=ic
>The pivotal idea there was the inverse of a function

I was curious about this piece of unexplained cryptic code, so I did a little investigation to see what's going on. Unfortunately there aren't any revolutionary concepts here, just esoteric notation. I'll explain:

To do that "dismal addition" thing, you need to split a number into digits and build a new number using the largest digit at each position. dismal(123, 321) = 323.

APL gives you an operator to make a number out of a sequence of digits: that inverted T you see in OP's code. The left operand is the base. `inverted_T(10, [1, 2, 3]) = 123`.

It gives you another operator to split a quantity into a hierarchy of units. That's the Tee you see in their second snippet. The left operand is a sequence of radixes. An inch is 2.54 cm, a foot is 12 inches, a yard is 3 feet. To transform 130 cm into ft/yd/in, you'd do: `Tee([3, 12, 2.54], 130) = [1, 1, 3.18]`.

So, OP wanted to use this Tee operator to split a number into digits. The problem is, they don't know beforehand how many digits the number has! If it's 2 digits, they must do `Tee([10, 10], number)`. If it's 3, they must do `Tee([10, 10, 10], number)`. (Because `Tee([10, 10], 123) = [12, 3]`). So in the second snippet they tried to do some juggling to get the number of digits and use it in the Tee function (I guess).

What OP really needs is the inverse function of inverted_T. And wouldn't you know it, APL can give you the inverse of a built-in function or a sufficiently simple user function. How? Maybe an operator? No...

See that operator that looks like a puckered face? That operator applies the function to its left, as many times as the operand to its right, to whatever is to the right of the sideways T. BUT, if the right operand is negative, it applies the inverse of the left operand. Basically, the all-powerful "invert function" operation is hidden as a special case of another operator...

In sum, here's my interpretation of OP's code in pseudocode:

Using:

encode(base, seq) = <base> inverted_T <seq>
max(a, b) = a gamma b
reduce(fn, seq) = <fn> slash <seq>
superapply(fn, times, seq) = <fn> puckered <times> sideways_T <seq>

let dismal =
encode(10, reduce(max, superapply(encode(10), -1)))

So,

dismal([123, 321, 111])

applies the inverse of `encode(10)` one time to each sequence item, giving:

[[1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 1], [1, 1, 1]]

Reduces using max

max(max([1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 1]), [1, 1, 1])

giving

[3, 2, 3]

and encodes it in base 10, giving 323.

So that's it. Nice standard library, awful syntax.

I think that OP's "epiphany" was finding a quirk in this esoteric language to counteract another quirk.

Anyway, having satisfied my curiosity, I'm going to promptly forget everything about this :)
> This type of thing already exists but I’d rather have an open source one

Is it possible to make an open-source X-ray machine to do this kind of CT scan?

It really seems like it ought to be, but I don't know enough about the source and the CCD detectors to think about how to assemble it.
No, it's based on rumours about some local old ladies' begging syndicate.

My point was about efficiency though.
Why does ClickHouse client return multiple tables?
This article illustrates where the term "urine" came from, but to avoid the appearance of clickbait I removed the word from the title.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/ev-battery-recycling-...

It would have been more accurate to say "using ingredients commonly found in urine", but that is more words that can be used in an HN title even though that is the entire point of the post.
Design is really NOT a big deal. It has been overhyped over the last decade.
It is NOT a competitive advantage and if anything it hinders innovation. Please STOP putting such a high importance on design.

Much more important aspects of products that have been widely neglected over the past decade:

- data portability
- privacy
- reliability
- extensibility
Agreed!

Hit me up on twitter DM
That must've been hard -- sorry to hear that.

I hear "lack of empathy" both applied to people with autistic-spectrum traits and sociopathic traits.

I tend to categorize this difference as "inability to understand" vs. "inability to care". Is there a difference?
Nicely spotted.

They've much refined the design and their product line. Also now avail in the US. Yay!
Agree. Nitpicking just one important things. A small % of US workers can compete. That's why we see best-in-class companies born in US.

But mass workers... NO. So you are correct.
Lol. Save the planet? The planet is going to be fine. We need to save ourselves! How should we do this? Less people of course /s
Acknowledging that they have not yet shown signs of "true intelligence" is a vastly more moderate claim than the person above ascribed to him.
Caltech?
Oh no. People renowned for going against the grain go against the grain.
I think the best response is to steal the joke and repeat it without comment.

"Eleven meters per second."

Full stop. It's humorous, and any reasonable interlocutor understands not
to take it seriously.

Of course, there are more serious questions that demand more serious answers. LLMs will eventually need to be able to understand the current context and assess the appropriate level of confidence required in any answer.
I wouldn’t mind starting the whole process over if that was the cost of calling them back vs. Risking a scam on top of the 6000 transaction.

That said banks can be pretty bad at avoiding scam-like messaging and promoting bad habbits.
"recorded history".. glacial maximums and minimums..

Also would be very helpful to look at the worst case predictions and what that would entail hundred years down the line.

Its not cool but it really not that bad. Definitely not apocalyptic.

Its also worth it to consider whats the alternative because every version of an alternative is exponentially worse (communism and/or luddite primitive feudalism).
Is not created by, but certainly is promoted by.

I don’t like being singled out for my appearance.

Another one: I was at a standup performance and the woman on stage directly engaged with me to ask if I’m into buttlicking.

You can do whatever you want with consent. Not okay to proposition your kinks without getting a yes first.

I want the women I’m with to enjoy themselves and will work with that. Going down is no problem.

Some people just like love and sex without the extreme porn kinks.
> It is going to require a collective effort by the human population to reverse the already apparent effects of climate warming. All we can really do is each do our best on an individual level to reduce our carbon footprint. Eat less meat, utilise public transport, walk or ride your bike instead of driving, recycle and try to cut down on your use of products that negatively impact the environment (this includes plastics as well as products that stem from the monoculture plantations that are responsible for a huge proportion of deforestation – palm oil, mass produced fruit etc.).

The idea of a collective effort reversing the effects of climate change is very much an unachievable fantasy. The cost benefit calculus just doesn't go the direction you would want for the vast majority of people.

The actual optimal thing from a climate perspective is to take an AR15 and go to an American shopping mall. The second best would be to poison water sources with something that makes people infertile. We don't do these things because preventing climate change isn't actually our ultimate value, the thing we most care about.

We care about many other things more than we care about sloths, in particular our quality of life. Whether that means raising 2.5 happy children who we take on vacation to an African Safari or being able to not worry about where the kids reusable cups are because you know McDonalds will have disposable ones or being able to eat what you want rather than some specific food in your fridge that will go bad tomorrow. Peace of mind, safety and quality time are things society has collectively decided are important.

Of course, this isn't to say that the shift towards renewables won't gradually continue, just that the climate will get worse before it gets better.

(Also, what's with the hate on plastics? They don't really have anything to do with the sloths plight)
Have you seen the air in "easter-style societies"? I'm thinking of India and China as the two largest non-western populations in the world totaling a bit less than half. To take a Socratic turn: Do you think that air pollution comes from solar or renewable use? How has the increase in low cost labor and manufacturing affected consumption? Was this driven by governments or individuals and what is "non-western" about them or is everything western society now?

I'm all for making democracy better, but arguing for authoritarian solutions seems a path to war, destruction, and far greater ecological toll than all but the most extreme (lets bring on the end times) parties in western politics.
PayPal files patent for new method to detect stolen cookies
What threat model does fail2ban prevent, that couldn’t just be solved by using secure credentials?
Norway, Switzerland, there are many others, most countries in fact.
It sounds like you’re perfectly fine with secularism being removed from Bangladesh then.
Actually the root is a null (empty) label rather than "."; dots are delimiters of labels, there is an empty label after "." in FQDNs. See RFC 1034 Section 3.1.
It is done much more quietly than before.

For instance, after the many "sanctions" imposed by USA China has stopped submitting benchmark results from their top supercomputers, to make more uncertain their true capabilities.

Also Huawei has no longer published detailed descriptions of their new smartphone chipsets, like they were doing when they could still manufacture them at TSMC.

The so-called "sanctions" used by USA are not real sanctions. Real sanctions are conditioned by political demands, like requesting guarantees from China that they will not attempt to expand outside their current territory, or that they will treat fairly their minorities.

The USA "sanctions" are just anti-competitive measures designed to sabotage the competitors of US companies like Qualcomm and Micron and they have been introduced precisely when those companies were in serious danger to be overtaken in the market by their Chinese competitors.

The principal effect of the USA "sanctions" has been to ensure higher prices all over the world for certain consumer products, mainly for smartphones and SSDs. Their military effects are negligible.
The future of phones depends on the future of apps
Sure, but the point is it will have to adapt it to your code, if only in naming. So it has to make up things, i.e. hallucinate. It can't just reproduce the best match in memory.
It's not about "you". Look at the big picture, bud.
Cute idea. I like that you can click on the creeps to invert their value.

However, I found that the path logic inscrutable and frustrating. The creeps take a random path when they reach some intersections (I think? There was no explanation and no obvious pattern). Success in stage 8 seems to depend entirely on luck. I would expect a game themed around computer logic to be more deterministic.
The free availability of online pornography has distorted sexual behaviors, with some women feeling pressured to indulge in activities they see on screens to "compete". If AI porn can "learn" and create increasingly tailored experiences, it could be even more damaging / addictive, making it that much harder for men and women to relate. A brave new world indeed.
> you have not explained how to handle progress reporting in gnu parallel.

`parallel --eta` provides progress reporting over all tasks based upon observed completions.

> in tfa the workers are an implementation detail of a wider program.

TFA could write the workers as standalone processes then subprocess out to GNU Parallel.

At that point, one might not even want the Python outer process in this article. I often write little shell wrappers that establish non-trivial GNU Parallel or Make invocations under the hood. Generally, leaning on common workhorses for multiprocessing seems more sensible than rolling my own one-off.
Over the past 10 years the us dollar has gained in strength a lot compared to other countries. Perhaps if we want to bring this stuff back into the country the currency needs to be devalued. I assume it will be naturally devalued over time, even compared to other countries, considering the national debt.
A friend of mine is a phd post-doc in the EU doing some fancy research I don't comprehend with lasers that has applications in the semi industry. He's paid about 40k Euros. His peers form the US he meets at conferences working in the same field make upwards of six figures, over 3 times as much, for the same work. So yes, I'd say my math was about right on the money.

If you wanna hire skilled workers in the US it'll cost you 2-3x more than in EU, taxes and all included.
You probably know that there are several such organizations and scientists, many associated with conservative groups, but by including "professional" and "relevant" your question is biased towards what you consider professional (probably everything that considers global warming 100% man-made).

As Richard Feynman said, science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When there is a medially and politically forced consensus, it leads to "intellectual tyranny in the name of science".

One single scientist who disagrees with the notion that humans are primarily responsible for climate change would already show that there is no consensus, strictly speaking (Science is about questioning the majority belief). And there are hundreds of very reputable scientists who have disagreed with this over the years, and there is a lifely discussion around this, but those who control the political narratives make it appear there is none. Belief in the majority is not scientific, it's political.
They are correct twice daily. Frozen at 10:08!
> even humans hallucinate massively

Simpler example: Dreams.
Is it really at an all-time high? Adjusted for inflation?
You claim that logical and reasonable responses "require understanding" therefore LLMs must understand. But I see LLMs as evidence that understanding is not required to produce logical and reasonable responses.

Thinking back to when I used to help tutor some of my peers in 101-level math classes there were many times someone was able to produce a logical and reasonable response to a problem (by rote use of an algorithm) but upon deeper interrogation it became clear that they lacked true understanding.
> Answering "I don't know" or "I can't answer that" is a perfectly plausible response to a difficult logical problem/question.

Sure, and you can train LLMs to produce answers like that more often, but then users will say your model is lazy and doesn't even try, whereas if you train it to be more likely to produce something that looks like a solution more often, people will think “wow, the AI solved this problem I couldn't solve”. And that’s why LLMs behave the way they do.
Oh man, I’ve been tricked so many times by the names of packages and frameworks… and here I did it to others. Sorry!
Why does this not apply to software?
Scientists Built a Time Crystal That Lasted for 40 Minutes
Have wondered for years whether Akamai's Query system (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa10/tech/full_papers..., sadly never open sourced) had any influence on the creation of osquery. They are quite different architecturally but functionally similar.
good lord! i just looked and it's still there (2024).

what level of narcissism is this? it'd be like a glibc function that rendered any print containing "Linux" as "GNU/Linux" to "fix" it.

and what happens when you want to write an article explaining why "Wordpress" is wrong and "WordPress" isn't?

what a bunch of scunthorpes.
Recognizing that there are lots of Snowdens out there, I was referring to a different one and half expected that to be lost on some HN members and on everyone who hasn't read the story.

It's another case of IYKYK. Like an almost secret handshake between those who have something in common but have never met. Or a shared recollection that manifests as a hearty chuckle as the memories come back into focus.
Do you have a full time job? Do you have young kids?

I am guessing one of these is a "no", probably the later.

If I am wrong, please tell me the secret