skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need an open source example to use as a template you might want to take a look at soft serve: https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve
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Of course they've been making good gains. We may very well get there someday. It's just nowhere near the timeline many experts were so confident in.
Are you insinuating that surgeons, doctors, pharma researchers cannot pay rent and university fees without their parents resorting to illegal activity?

There are such well known things as student loans, working whilst studying (some very successful doctors have talked about having to bus tables whilst studying)
Over time I’ve found this site good for getting the basics across.
So... redis?
Neither a superset or subset of a thing is the thing. Only the thing is the thing.

But when you combine units of language the result is not just the sum of the parts. word1 means X and word2 means Y but established phrase "word1 word2" rarely means X + Y. The result relates to X and Y but it has a life of its own that depends on how it's used.

Think of these and how they are more than sum of their parts. Demo scene. Serverless. Skyscraper. Information security. Artificial intelligence. Drawing board.
Hello Morphle, I tried to email you regarding the post you replied to a good while back about an ISP-related post. It got bounced from the ziggo.nl address. Have an updated contact point?

I have updated my contact info if you still want to chat.
I also use HeidiSQL almost daily. Besides MySQL / MariaDB it also can connect to MSSQL and Postgres.

I recently had to import a CSV with some million rows into MariaDB. Neither HeidiSQL nor DBeaver could do it (tried various settings). IntelliJ worked like a charm.
Small side note, standard MCTS is often implemented with heuristic guiding the moves in the playouts and not just random moves, as that gives more interesting information.
The one that jumped out to me was his claiming that computers don’t truly understand language.

At this point I don’t know what that means. I’ll be the first to admit the limitations of statistical language models, but for people like Marcus who have made a name for themselves as skeptics, it’s not in their interests to have falsifiable criticisms.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tidal-gate-across... led me to https://www.spur.org/publications/spur-report/2011-05-02/cli....

That mentions it as an option on page 26, but doesn’t go as far as propose doing it.
I mostly agree, and certainly a list of numbers or maybe a log plot would be better if the goal was communicating the raw data. Certainly the click-about jumpy interface is pretty janky. However there’s one thing I think this does better than a list of numbers would: Most people (me included) have a hard time getting an intuitive feel for things like just how much smaller 1ns is compared to 1ms or truly how much a billion dollars is. SI prefixes or a log scale can give the wrong /feeling/ even when they’re giving the right /information/.

Sometimes, the inconvenience of a linear scale is the point.

Pages that I think use this technique to really good effect:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
Hello DANmode,

I'm trying to touch base from a few months back about a post you replied to about a start-up ISP.

I have updated my contact info if you still want to chat.
Without a doubt, most people I know in this business optimize for networking and communication. The actual coding is done by eastern europeans and indians. Technical knowledge is more commodifiable than relations.
They enable a lot of crazy defence products.
A well known german product for example is the Iris-T from Diehl Defence. Highly accurate and exceptional engineering. But I guess FPGAs are in most defence products nowadays. I think the biggest reason is that you can build/verify your own hardware without having to go through the expensive ASIC manufacturing

Edit: I just realized that these are some literal killer apps. That wasn't even intentional, lol.
10 years?

Where are you?

It can be 3 year Bachelors degree + 4 years M.D. (seven years total) with the opportunity to earn money as a resident or rural practitioner while completing the M.D.

https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/pathways/doctor/

If your grades are good you can be accepted and either pay back fees when earning or ride through on a scholarship if good enough to qualify.
? > "Or something... such as information about files being sent... Or app telemetry etc."

Information about files being sent could be anything from metadata, checksums, to something like (but not likely) CSAM.

Could also be data about your device(s), anything really.
Yeah, while I appreciate the little classic, "Elements of Style", it falls short[1]. As you say, "On Writing" is indeed a better practical guide -- just by reading the first 80 pages, you get a lot of value out of it.

Another book I love is, "Towards Clarity and Grace" by Joseph Williams and Gregory Colomb (there are several expensive editions of it with modified names, but any older version would do). I elaborated more on it here[1] in the past.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24272968
A licensed electrician is not required for this in most places in the United States.
I’m pretty skeptical that switching a car commute to a bike commute increases safety.

Anecdotally I have seen a lot more bad bike accidents than car accidents, despite the number of bikes being much, much lower. This makes sense, since you are much more exposed when on a bicycle and while you are moving slower the cars aren’t.

If the stats do say this (I assume you have indeed read that somewhere), I suspect there is some large selection bias at play. Like, people with a safe bike route available are more likely to bike, which skews the numbers towards safe even though I imagine switching any random car commute to biking on the road would make it more dangerous on average.

Public transit of course makes sense, and I do wish biking in urban areas was safer since I don’t do it now because it’s dangerous and it would be great to be able to do it safely.
These hypothetical Dracula fans sound a lot better than the real-life Tate fans.
Aging comes with a terrible quality of life. By the end, the person is severely debilitated.

Osteoporosis can make it so that a fall can lead to major fractures, which leads to a severe reduction in a person's independence. Macular degeneration can make an elderly person blind.

Neurological deterioration can take the form of conditions like Alzheimer's, where a person loses their memory of everyone they love.

The body, as it ages, becomes much more susceptible to other, terrible, diseases as well, like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, each carrying its own set of debilitating effects that degrade quality of life.
This repository is a mirror by a completely unrelated third party. The original repo was https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3.
You mean,

- customer service: chatbot invents refund policy that costs the company money and reputation
https://www.wired.com/story/air-canada-chatbot-refund-policy...

- sports writing: a private equity group is running Sports Illustrated - which was already in decline - to the ground

- language translation: not much progress, and more risks of hallucinations

- concept art for films: AI is basically doing plagiarism. And so much AI art is flooding the internet that the AI are basically poisoning themselves in the future.
And it still can't get the right number of fingers on hands.
yep, you could spend the time to do that - and if you don't have a cache set up spend the time to set one up.

Or, you could pay 5 bucks.

I won't be using it, but I think there are some people, in some situations where the time savings are actually worth it. Kind of a funny niche
"I haven't run into the wall yet. Sure the wall is there, but I am running full speed and I haven't it it yet"
Isn't this just a fork of the DCMA'ed repository?

The links in the readme still point to https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3
I don't know, I'll use an ESP32, it takes the exact same amount of time to develop for and I get free wifi. I haven't used an Arduino in years.
My apologies. Full of confidence of at the moment so must have misread your comment.
Here's a wild guess: Through SpaceX design experience (rip apart, challenge all assumptions and rebuild better), Elon Musk (Falcon Aviation) will try to build a far more efficient and safe alternative to existing 737s.

Falcon Aviation got hold of various aircraft, which I think they'll just reverse-engineer and throw out what's not working. It's like taking pretrained weights from an established LLM:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-spacex-bought-a-b...

With Trump coming to power, Boeing's tarnished credibility will be a major issue to address. I'm expecting US government will incentivize this process. Boeing will lose good engineers out to this fresh competition.
- ASIC emulation and prototyping

- High-frequency trading (executed in-fabric)

- Niche real-time video devices, etc.

- Cryptocurrency mining

- Real-time motor pulse generation for robotics

- Custom NICs and HPC devices

- RF signals processing (radar, guidance, etc.)
This question is just a simple and straightforward way to get at the agent's viewpoint bias; there are a million other ways that you might think are legitimate questions. Just in general, the goal of understanding the biases of a source of information is clearly a worthwhile one; at least in the human case, a person's bias will color everything they think and say about a topic.
I've used it over a year and haven't had to use the repl. What are examples of problems you've found the repl to be useful for solving?
I'm not sure how to do it "the right way" but you may have a look at Paramiko, it's a python library that helps you implement your own SSH server (easily).

maybe you can build your own wrapper that calls a subprocess.
Probably a bit yeah. But there is an argument that it is hard to store a lot of chemical energy without abundant oxygen in the environment. Oxygen stores a ton of energy, and it's quite difficult to achieve comparable energy density without it. This is the basic reason why gasoline has so much more energy than batteries, and people are developing batteries that use oxygen from the air to increase energy density. I remember reading in a Wikipedia article that Earth's atmosphere before it became oxygenated would likely not have been able to support multicellular life with energy-intensive things like muscles and complex brains.

But without knowing if Europa has any life at all this is probably putting the cart before the horse.
Time-Lock Encryption
Lower-volume specialty chips for interfaces (lots of I/O pins), such as adapters for an odd interface, custom hardware designs for which there isn't an existing chip, etc.

For instance, audio, video or other signal processing can be done by putting the algorithm "directly" into the hardware design; it will run at a constant predictable speed thereafter.
Even when you send a Proton-to-Proton e-mail, Proton’s e-mail client is encrypting that e-mail, so you still have to trust them.
Does MS Word "understand language" because of autocorrect?
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https://dbgate.org/ is also great db client
Because you want to be able do report your taxes documents to the tax office? It's one of those things that sound so simple on paper, but every time someone does that trivial thing and not make documents available to the web browser, usability suffers.

The real answer why the browser can read certain files is much more complex, your web browser is not a singular entity anymore. And the network and protcol speaking parts of it can't access your documents, according to the principle of least authority.

It's far from perfect and gets hacked every time, but do take the time to read how that's done. The hacks are just as complex as the web browser itself. The practical problem with the browser is the enormous complexity of functions, everything from OpenGL to databases to p2p and usb, that keeps growing boundlessly.
>The skeptical folks rolled their eyes at suggestions that we'd have self driving cars everywhere in a few years, but lo and behold, they were right.

What? Where?
golang compiles to eBPF? including the whole golang runtime with garbage collector? that... surprises me

edit: I don't see anything on the web that would show golang compiles to eBPF. I see bpf2go which is the other way around.
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Yeah, oxygen is surely the more exotic part of water. The hydrogen is far more common.
If being crackable during the time period is a concern, why not just use OTP (one-time pad, not his evil twin) and create XORed multiple keys to be shared with peers, and then use all of the distributed keys to reveal the message after some time had passed?
> Why require phone signups in the first place?

To mitigate spam.
My work used to be like this too, except Slack didn't exist yet so people used phones to call you. When I explained the problem to my boss, he told me not to answer the phone and set it to silent. Now most of the company use mail for uninterrupted messaging and everything runs much smoother and less bugs because I could concentrate on the job.
>Until someone can make personal offices as dense as open offices,

They had decades ago: they're called "cubicles". The open office I sit in now is no more dense than the compact cubicle I had to sit in about 20 years ago. It was a lot quieter too.
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If it can be exploited it's a vulnerability. It remains a vulnerability even when Tesla says it's not.
Lots of places, including here on HN. Here's a random link from Googling right now: https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/10/22/175716/driverles...

> But such projections tend to overlook just how challenging it will be to make a driverless car. [...] It could take decades for the technology to come down in cost, and it might take even longer for it to work safely enough that we trust fully automated vehicles to drive us around.
Can autocorrect hold a conversation, write code or poetry, answer or pose riddles, summarize text, write novel stories, diagnose medical issues, comprehend diagrams, etc?
How fast is Claude’s API compared to OpenAI?
This is literally one of the primary points of OSS.
See: that fire in France that took down a whole region

But on the other hand, GCP supports multi-region so that's not nearly as big of a deal as it would be if AWS zones were not sufficiently isolated
What is your relationship with this repository and the group behind it?
If it is a job you really want, then you need a cover letter a email intro and a video intro of yourself, that will increase your chances 10 fold!
>Wouldn't this mean that incremental improvements wouldn't be possible anymore?

One can make a fork of the distro and then make the change you want to incrementally improve it.

>How so specifically?

Reading the documentation and reading information about its internals.
> as for the rest of your rant, the very fact that you have access to electricity, internet and a computing device makes it rather clear that you don't practice what you preach.

I drive a small, fuel efficient car, 10 years old, at a speed mostly below the maximum speed limit to optimise fuel use further.

I haven't flown in an aeroplane for about 20 years.

I live in a passive solar straw-bale house that I built. It doesn't have an air-conditioner in it, the thermal qualities keep it cool in Summer and warm in Winter.

It has solar electricity, and solar hot water, and we collect our own water.

We grow a lot of our own fruit and vegetables, and use little fertiliser imports.

We have planted over 1,000 native trees on our property in a revegetation project.

I'm typing on a 2nd hand laptop.

I use a phone that's 5 years old, and wasn't the latest and greatest when I bought it.

So: yeah, I acknowledge there is a long way to go, but I refute absolutely and vigorously your claim based on only superficial evidence and assumptions that I don't "practice what I preach".

The way you wrote that makes me think that you enjoy your luxury first world existence, and are defensive about any idea of making serious lifestyle changes to reduce your footprint and impact.

We are, after all, "the first species that won't save itself because it's not cost effective".
>“Few fields have been more filled with hype and bravado than artificial intelligence. It has flitted from fad to fad decade by decade, always promising the moon, and only occasionally delivering” Still true.

>“We are still a long way from machines that can genuinely understand human language”. Still true, though some have argued there is some superficial understanding.

>“Elon Musk recently said that the new humanoid robot he was hoping to build, Optimus, would someday be bigger than the vehicle industry”. I expressed skepticism. Still early days, but certainly domestic humanoid robots are not in the near term expected to be a big business for anyone.

>The company’s charismatic CEO Sam Altman wrote a triumphant blog posttrumpeting “Moore’s Law for Everything,” claiming that we were just a few years away from “computers that can think,” “read legal documents,” and (echoing IBM Watson) “give medical advice.”Maybe, but maybe not.” Pending/still true. Two years later we don’t have reliable versions of any of that.

Why does anyone listen to a thing this obvious fraud says?
So you can only decrypt the message if all the same nodes are still up? If anyone goes down you cant decrypt?
why not do straight up ad-hoc wi-fi?
Could someone help me understand the kinds of things you can build with this? Is this like RLHF?
NASA just unveiled the message plate to greet Jupiter's moon Europa
We do have self driving cars.
It's to prevent the user from dumping the DRM keys.
I believe F# is the most well-known, the others are more esoteric ones.
At least where I live, the battery costs were closer to 50% of the install; this convinced me to wait, as it simply makes no sense.
What the person you're replying to is talking about is a Sybil attack. You pick random nodes, yes, but what if the list of nodes to pick randomly from is 99.5% the attacker? This is a real world attack that has been used against Tor, for example.
> If a user really cares about changing the internals he can make his own operating system.

Don't we already have that, and it's called... Linux?
It's unwise to obsess about raw performance because of various reasons.

For example, there might be a library which performs 2x faster than its closest alternative... Yet it might not necessarily be the best option for your project. There are other factors to consider like compatibility. E.g. If the library breaks every time you upgrade your Node.js engine version, it may add some risk to your project and require additional maintenance. Also, maybe the library itself is 2x faster, but once you've added all your application logic on top of it, your product might only end up being 5% faster than if you had used the alternative because, as is often the case, most of the workload is in the business layer.

Also, often, performance is at odds with scalability. You often need to make some performance sacrifices to achieve scalability. For example load balancing with consistent hashing adds overhead on a per-machine basis but you can't scale to multiple machines without them.
aren't ssh and ftp/sftp also good alternatives?
So you are telling me that the lack of guides, architecture docs, engineering notes etc. for the software you are working on is not preventing the software from being successful and generating a high ROI.

In other words, you just proved my point.

The fact that it is a pain in the ass for you working on it has nothing to do with the ROI of the software. Think like a business person not a developer.
This very hn entries is bust contradicting your statement.

Also what about syncthing[1] (for recurrent/permanent sync) and croc[2] (for one time copies) ?

I have used both for a number of years already. Before croc, magic wormhole was available for even longer.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

[2] https://github.com/schollz/croc
seems to be in good taste, now if it was to be a name for malware perhaps the playful Kea would be better.

Upvoted for the name, from Kiwiland myself :)
Adam here, the author of rlimit, great to see some discussion and pointers on what I need to work on when it comes to pitching the project.

rlimit is a distributed counter, keeping counters in sync in several regions, allowing you to have consistent rate limiting, everywhere.

If you run on a single machine, there are low to no benefits for you in using rlimit. If you use multiple machines (or serverless runtime), you will likely need something to sync counters - this can be Redis, or you could just sign up for rlimit, and have the counter replicated globally out of the box.
Did the whole pairdrop repo just vanish
The only relationship between artificial neural networks and biology is the vague principle of an activation threshold. In all other ways, the way biological neural networks are organized are ignored. The majority of ANN characteristics are instead influenced by statistics and mathematical arguments, and simple tinkering.

For some ways in which these differ:

- real neurons are vastly complex cells which seem to perform significant non-trivial computations of their own, including memory, and can't be abstracted as a single activation function

- real neural networks include "broadcast neurons" that affect other neurons based on their geometric organization, not on direct synapse connections

- there are various neurotransmitters in the brain with different effects, not just a single type of "signal"

- several glands affect thought and computation in the brain that are not made of neurons

- real neural networks are not organized in a simple set of layers, they form much more complex graphs

And these are just talking about the structure. The way we actually operate these networks has nothing in common with how real neural networks work. Real neural networks have no separate training and inference phases: at all times, they both learn and produce actionable results. Also, the way in which we train ANNs, backpropagation with stochastic gradient descent, is entirely unrelated from how real neural networks learn (which we don't really understand in any significant amount).

So no, I don't think it makes any sense to say that ANNs are a form of biomimetic computation. They are at best as similar to brains as a nylon coat is to an animal's coat.
VDF/sequential-PoW stops being interesting once you notice that efficient hardware implementations can beat CPU implementations by 6-10 orders of magnitude, depending on the work function.
> Waymo [..] get[s] maybe 50% better each year. That's a good rate of gain.

Remind me what we're measuring?

"A seasoned San Francisco cab driver might have avoided the intersection of Jackson Street and Grant Avenue, in the heart of the city's Chinatown on the first day of Chinese New Year. An autonomous Waymo robotaxi, by contrast, drove toward the cross streets on Saturday evening, when crowds were blocking all sides and revelers were lighting fireworks, according to two witnesses. Minutes later, some in the crowd attacked the car and set it on fire."

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/san-fr...