skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans/life don't need data. Life survives off of experience and evolutionary pressures. Data is a watered-down/digitized form of experience meant as a replication of that experience, the same way you can hear/analyze music on your computer. It's just usually close enough that most people can't tell the difference. All of that was fed by human "data", which means AI as ultimately a copy of evolutionary pressures that it never went through.

Typewriter/printing presses are for faster propagation or execution. AI in the cultural sense is about replication, hence the Artificial Intelligence tag. Typewriters aren't attempting to replicate or substitute, they are tools like a hammer. They are designed to be operated by humans since they are analog in nature, like your keyboard. AI doesn't need a keyboard, it's operating off our end contributions directly. It cares about the final, digitized form of the novels we feed it, no how we made it or came up with it.

That is the key difference here. It is the same thing when someone creates something based on their own direct experiences versus someone who is simply copying something. It is why AI art for example is increasingly looking bizarre in my opinion: it's completely recycled/fake.
> who actually like that sort of thing.

The idea of living in a society (a democracy, even!) in which most people kind of dislike their neighbor is horrifying.
> labor has to organize our own capital

But then labour becomes the business owner – exactly what they don't want to be. Labour chooses to become employees because they don't want the headaches of owning and operating a business. They just want a steady paycheque and let someone else take the risk.
I have NEVER had a customer service interaction that actually worked involving an AI or autoresponder.
Markets are very good at pricing by integrating past and current data on a very large scale, but they have almost non-existent predictive power.

Markets are incapable of strategy and thus can't be trusted with all decisions.
Strongly disagree.

I have traveled all over the US several times over as part of my job for the last 8 years. I've stayed in, worked from, and explored way too many American cities.

Most American cities have a small walkable core, that is unaffordable for most, surrounded by affordable, but completely car-dependent, suburbs.

Public transportation in most of these walkable cores is a complete joke. Most rely on buses that don't go where you need to be and don't come often or reliably enough to build a routine around.

To wit: the only cities that I travel to that I can safely avoiding renting a car in are NYC, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Traveling to LITERALLY EVERY OTHER CITY requires calculating and pre-planning how long it will take to go places by bus or light rail (if they have it!), juxtaposing that against the customer I'll be visiting and destinations that look interesting, and ultimately concluding "yeah, a rental car's easier." Mind you, I LOVE walking and can walk miles and miles per day when given the option!

The suburbs that run rampant throughout the US don't have sidewalks, cluster everything you need into shopping centers (with comical parking lot sizes that, you guessed it, is completely unsafe to walk through because of cars driving all over it) and have road plans that encourage high-speed traffic feeds into large highways/freeways at the cost of making walking completely infeasible.

(Oh, right, and flying 15+ mph past these already bonkers high speed limits is so completely normal, that driving the actual speed limit becomes dangerous! Imagine riding your bike on a two-lane 45mph road with no sidewalks or shoulder where the drivers behind you would travel 60mph on if given the chance. Aggression central. That was my life for two years. Worst two years of my life in that aspect.)

But, hey, you can get a huge (2400+ sq. ft.) house "for the kids", a yard for the dogs and kids to "safely" run around it, and a two-car garage to store an ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE amount of pure crap with your mandatory cars parked in front of it for less than $350,000!

This becomes increasingly true the more Southern the city is.

I don't have data to back this, but I strongly believe that the modern suburb is THE driving force behind the increased divisiveness our country is experiencing (or the maxim of the divisiveness that has always existed within this country). The suburbs are designed from their core to separate and isolate, a feature only exacerbated by the infinite stream of entertainment that today's Internet provides. Community only happens naturally when people are close to each other, and that just doesn't happen within suburbs.
This is obviously a tough call, but I think without fixing the population growth issue, Japan would have to fix this eventually. Otherwise the economy will start shrinking blowing the issue up.
Please tone down the hyperbolic rhetoric and FUD. Consider how strongly you can make your point without them.

To the point: Nobody in Europe is "dictating terms to the world", or "issuing diktats", meaning passing citizen-supported legislation I guess, or affecting your business, unless you're trying to deal with their citizens' data.

> The diktats I mentioned include a ruling that Google Fonts are illegal now. So if I’m using those, or I’m using Google Analytics, and a European happens across my site, I’m now a criminal?

No, because website operators have at least 4 more options:

1. Don't process EU citizen data (block them).

2. Don't track users, period (host the font on the site instead).

3. Don't track users until they log in (convert them).

4. Get users' informed consent (let them know that they'll be tracked on the site due to the choice of google fonts instead of hosting a font).

Wow, that wasn't scary at all! The general attitude I'm getting from some folks, though, is that they want to do anything they want to users without consequence and never change. This attitude is going lead to a lot of anguish. Others have rights, too, and they override our right to do whatever we want to them, in many cases.
Broadening the View of Live Programmers
The rise and fall of a Halifax man's illegal TV streaming empire
It asked me to "Click all objects I might need on a hot summer day." Along with some pictures of refreshing drinks, it included several pictures of dogs in sunglasses.

I would definitely need a cool dog in sunglasses on a hot summer day, so I clicked on them.

It then repeated the prompt, and somehow doubled the number of dogs in sunglasses (honestly they were more than half of the total images). I figured it was testing my commitment so I clicked them all, but no dice.
Have any corporations previously tried to deny they were breached?

I'm wondering what AT&T thinks they'll achieve? If they're lying, that is.
Thanks for the blog post, it's always nice to see performance improvements in Postgres! I'm curious: how much time is spent for LLVM on some real queries and how is LLVM configured (i.e., which passes, which back-end optimization, etc.)? In our experience [1], LLVM can be reasonably fast when optimized for compile time without optimizations and the -O0 back-end pipeline, but obviously still 10-20x slower compared to other approaches.

Also, in our experience, copy-and-patch-generated code tends to be quite slow and hard to optimize (we tried some things [2; Sec. 5], but there's still quite a gap (see Fig. 3 for a database evaluation)). Do you have some numbers on the run-time slowdown compared to LLVM? Any future plans for implementing multi-tiering, so dynamically switching from the quickly compiled code to LLVM-optimized code?

[1]: https://home.in.tum.de/~engelke/pubs/2403-cgo.pdf
[2]: https://home.in.tum.de/~engelke/pubs/2403-cc.pdf
Nice idea and clean implementation.
I guess this something that can be implemented with discord/community channel new user verification (bot checkers) among other uses.
https://archive.is/sMAqp (Bloomberg)

Also, from The Verge:

> In an amended SEC filing ahead of its IPO, Reddit warned potential investors that "...on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24105658/nokia-tells-redd...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised since they were picked partially for health, but seven with the youngest being 88 is a great lifespan for them.
Seven Days of New Things Day 2: Linear Algebra, Tulips
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Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39737281
DNS, BGP, or branch prediction. Pick three.
The district of columbia is mostly urban with some old-fashioned suburbs (not the modern ones I criticized), so I don't know what relevance this is supposed to have.
Here’s a question I’ve been asking myself with the latest ML advancements: what is the difference between understanding and pretending to understand really, really well?
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Yeah, but is a protective (technically a precrusor). So you are protecting the cells from destruction so that you don't need to regenerate them.

I've actually never seen NAC at bars. Is there a place this is common? I think the FDA is proposing a crackdown on NAC too, but I'm not sure where that stands.
> Doesn't explain why there's no -fshadow-stack-only option to pass in.

I thought you were asking about the design of the hardware: it's designed that way because compatibility means that the vast majority of people want something backwards compatible.

Very little is fully "compiled from scratch" when you consider for example that libc is in the set of things that must be recompiled.
The two best things it ever made for me:

A Warrior's Dream: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sxe3ig5zynrd3pcs3oy8a/a-warri...

Ollie, the Orange Tabby: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/amfudnsccpvl15arjurz3/Ollie-t...

the first one I made by describing an experience I had in an online text-based game that is now offline, long live Clok. Cogg is a good successor though. Anyway, GPT-4-turbo did pretty good making them into lyrics, besides the "profoundly floored" part; that was rather cheesy. I still like it though.

The second was for my cat that I used to have. I then tried out an AI Remaster tool. I kinda liked it better unmastered now, but ah well. It still reminds me of him and makes me happy when I hear it.

These tools, I think, should really be used for simple things like this, to give voice to personal experiences like this, for people who clearly have no musical talent like me, or to help those who do to jumpstart the creative process if that's what they need. People selling these songs... Well, I can't even fault them since it's hard to make any kind of money these days.
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Some more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753740
Voight Campf.
I mean you can replace "reddit" with anyone and it's still true.

Nokia has sued Apple, Amazon, Google, HP, ...

It has certainly threatened many more.

It's probably easier at this point to list the companies they aren't doing this to.
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More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753740
FYI, it's quite easy to change "roles" that LLMs take (via the system prompt) so that they'll appear much more like a human in text. That's how people roleplay with models such as GPT-3.5/4 and Claude 2/3.
Not that's density, measured in dpi (dots per inch).

You wouldn't say that Super Mario is unplayable because it's too tiny at 256x224. You would just have you 4k TV show big pixels and get on with the game.
Here's a vram requirements table for fine-tuning an LLM: https://github.com/hiyouga/LLaMA-Factory?tab=readme-ov-file#...

No matter how much vram you have, there's something that doesn't fit :)
I don't know why they wouldn't just run Redis on Linux.
You might like this YT video about the refilling of the Med...

The MEGAFLOOD that brutally filled the Mediterranean in months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RSPgIcnRN0

The Med was created by long-term tectonic forces,
which closed the sea at Gibraltar, about 7 million years ago. The whole thing dried out, leaving salt deposits on the lowest dusty plains (like Great Salt Lake, Dead Sea, Aral Sea today). Enough dust, dirt and seasonal river inflow, covered the salt in sedimentary layers.....

About 6 million years ago, Gibraltar was breached by rising sea levels, and flooded the Balearic (W. Med) basin, up to the line Italy-Sicily-Tunisia.

Very shortly afterwards (months < 2 years) the water breached the high ground immediately south of Sicily, creating the subsea Noto Canyon, and filling the eastern Med.

P.S. Interesting final comment - the Black Sea was probably not filled by a similar dramatic flood through the Bosphorus. Alluvial structures and fans in the Black Sea floor, show that it silted up from the north, and almost certainly overflowed the Bosphorus from the north, which is why the Bosphorus is relatively narrow - not the whole Med carving wide straits, but a freshwater trickle out from the silted Black Sea.

P.P.S. Also note this contradicts some imagined historical basis for the Gilgamesh and Biblical floods being in the Black Sea (in the direction of what is now called Mt. Ararat). Those tales are much more likely to refer to Mesopotamian floods of the Tigris or Euphrates, perhaps triggered by breaching of earthquake-induced rockslides that temporarily blocked one of the rivers. We can now date and locate a specific episode like this in ancient China 4,000 years ago:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/china-yel...
You may be genuine, but an ad in the middle of a heartfelt confession seems like emotional manipulation. It's not the best look for your product which now seems like it can't stand on its own. Also, this type of post is extremely common as a "sacred ritual" to get paying customers attention.

If this isn't spam be honest about what you are trying to sell. At the very least tailor your ad to the website you're on.
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More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753740
I mean, as a shareholder, I think you'd be more concerned with the long term value of the company rather than short term results.

As an example, if the CEO has an earnings per share target which is only met using all spare capital for buybacks then that may be rational for the CEO, but I think that a lot of investors would prefer less buybacks if it supports longer (10+ years growth). But most CEO's will be gone by then, and their comp methods predispose them to take the short-term bump rather than invest for longer term gains.

Like, I agree that this is a difficult problem to solve, but we are definitely not near a local or global maximum so its probably worth trying radically different approaches.
Hey, I'm the original author of the repo -- I noticed a bunch of stars coming in and figured it was coming from Hacker News, heh.

I should probably go and make it clearer in the README, but you're right, by no means is it a full Enigma implementation. It mostly started as a translation of code described in [this post](http://practicalcryptography.com/ciphers/mechanical-era/enig...) from C to Rust (since I was a naïve undergrad interested in Rust).

At some point it would be cool to add the full Enigma functionality. Do you have any guidance for test cases and/or reference implementations?
YOLO Crowd Bets Nvidia Could More Than Double in Value by Friday
https://archive.ph/bjTOn
Some more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753740
Correct, but you suggest to bury them just same. Given that other components of electronics like plastics are also toxic to water sources, you need to bury them with care in any case and I don't see why separate them in advance.
IMHO, not even a /j.

Under the current guidelines, doesn't all music performances that make use of some sort of pitch correction assist are technically "digitally altered"?
SpaceX raised $750M at a valuation of $137B in January 2023.

A private investment at this scale should have a lot more transparency and due diligence than disclosures from a SEC disclosures. If I were investing $750M, I'd have engineers under NDA review SpaceX technologies, financial auditors, legal auditors, etc.

Secondary sales place it a little bit higher (but those typically have all the issues you describe).
I think Slint is quite interesting, but it's licensing model is very similar to Qt, albeit somewhat more restrictive: The open source option is GPL v3 (not LGPL), and then there's commercial licenses, which yes, are cheaper - for now, for a start-up toolkit.

Pricing can change. Yes, there's a perpetual "Buyout" license for $5k, but they can probably just rename the product and claim it's a new one (or add a second product and add commercially relevant eggs to that basket; Qt has tried with things like "Qt for Device Creation" and "Qt for Automotive").

The open source option is not backed by a poison-pill protection like the Free Qt Foundation agreement either.

I know the people behind Slint, and I have a lot of trust toward them. But ownership can change, too.
Mortality burden associated with short-term exposure to fine particulate matter
Nokia has so many patents from the early 2000s, maybe they own the patent for shitposting-but-on-mobile and just found it in the archives.

”Method and Mechanism for Asynchronously Pushing People’s Buttons on a Packet-Switched Mobile Network”
But we don't have a clue what "understanding" truly means when it comes to animals, including humans, which is the more relevant problem for this particular thread[1]. There is an intuitive sense of "understanding" but we don't have a good formalism around it, and this intuitive sense is easily tricked. But since we don't know how to formalize understanding, we are not yet capable of building AI which truly understands concepts (abstract and concrete) in the same way that birds and mammals do.

As a specific example, I suspect we are several decades away from AI being able to safely perform the duties of guide dogs for the blind, even assuming the robotics challenges are solved. The fundamental issue is that dogs seem to intuitively understand that blind people cannot see, and dogs can therefore react proactively to a wide variety of situations they would have never been trained on, and they can insist on disagreeing with blind people (intelligent disobedience) rather than being gaslit into thinking a dangerous crosswalk is actually safe. The approach of "it works well most of the time, but you gotta check its work" might fly for an LLM but humans need to trust seeing-eye dogs to make good decisions without human oversight.

In particular, being a seeing-eye AI seems much more difficult than fully autonomous driving, even considering that the time constraints are relaxed. Buildings are far more chaotic and unpredictable than streets.

[1] Note these concerns are not at all relevant for the research described in the article, where "learn" means "machine learning" and does not imply (or require) "understanding."
PS-Httpd – The PostScript Web Server
There was an article a short while back explaining how older people in Hapan who died weren’t being reported, because younger family members were collecting their social security, and that these deaths weren’t being accounted for and inflating the reported life expectancy number.
Maybe we need a financial system where an unchangeable nine digit number is the passcode to unlimited credit. Maybe “instant credit” isn’t something we actually need as a society so we can have some more checks and balances. Maybe people shouldn’t be on the hook when banks idiotically loan to anyone with the magic number.
Maybe not implement React, but Qt would benefit from using something like Facebook’s Flux architecture, where state flows down from parent objects to children.

With Qt Widgets, it is annoying to create models (QAbstractItemModel), they are more difficult to implement than what it should and prone to errors. I haven’t done much QML beyond simple sample apps, but it seemed you still have to create Qt models for a lot of use cases.
I have the impression that a lot of what is happening in Japan, is also what will happen elsewhere, about two decades later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop

"An oscillator generates a 12-volt, 200-kilohertz (kHz) pulsed electrical signal, which is applied to a small plate on one side of the blade. The signal is transferred to the blade by capacitive coupling. A plate on the other side of the blade picks up the signal and sends it to a threshold detector. If a human contacts the blade, the signal will fall below the threshold. After signal loss for 25 micro seconds (µs), the detector will fire. A tooth on a 10-inch circular blade rotating at 4000 RPM will stay in contact with the approximate width of a fingertip for 100 µs. The 200-kHz signal will have up to 10 pulses during that time, and should be able to detect contact with just one tooth.[4] When the brake activates, a spring pushes an aluminum block into the blade. The block is normally held away from the blade by a wire, but during braking an electric current instantly melts the wire, similar to a fuse blowing."
I think that they realise that they can shift the burden of proof onto the accusers and call it a day. Unless the people behind the breach actually claim responsibility and allege it was AT&T that was breached, it's near impossible for anyone to prove them wrong.
constantly iterating until you die
Gamify Open Source Contributions
Plan on 100s or buy an annuity