skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some great quotes here.

> When people try to set up similar events, say, in Europe, they make them put a tracker on everybody because the government wants to protect you from yourself. But we’ve always done it. They’ll say, “Well, the tracker wouldn’t make a difference because it doesn’t tell the runner where they are.” But it tells the runner someone knows where they are.

> I’m transitioning it over to a guy named Carl Laniak because I won’t be around forever. We just had to get rid of the nonproductive qualities. He had empathy [laughs] and other things that serve no purpose in a race of this nature.
Just a bystander shooting from the hip, but does the fact that brain nerve cells aren't recycled and rebuilt but live as long as the person does mean they are more prone to accumulating bad proteins?

Other tissue like skin or muscle that regularly break down and regrow would offer a lot more opportunity for the body to filter out the prions, but once in the brain cells, there's nothing for them to do but accumulate.
It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but the US healthcare system has long viewed dentistry and optometry as some sort of secondary thing that’s not part of the primary medical and healthcare profession. It’s silly IMHO. It should all just be part of an overall healthcare plan instead of separate insurance.
Welllll, there seems to at least be some mathematical cheating in that this is representing a non-well-founded set. (Declare each pixel to be the set of subpixels at the next level down defining it, this forms an infinite descending chain).
Where are these kids getting herpes from? And how do you misdiagnose something that has symptoms local to an area with all-other chicken pox?
> QM predicts that QCs will work.

Although that is true, QC isn't ruled in or out by other current observations, despite the extreme accuracy with which quantum physics theories match a very wide range of observations. If QCs can't work, QM will need to be amended but very subtly.

It's even possible that useful QC can't work for such a subtle reason that there's no way to be sure.

According to current physics and computability theories, it is thought you need a useful QC to calculate the behaviour of any physical system that has the properties required by a useful QC. Where "useful" means large enough to be out of reach of classical computers, and "calculate" means to sufficient accuracy to test if calculated behaviours match observation.

This means, the universe might deviate from the appealing math of quantum physics just enough to prevent a highly-entangled QC from ever working, at the same time as agreeing with everything we can calculate from what we have observed so far.

Examples of things we can measure but not calculate accurately: Chemical behaviours, material properties and phase transitions (at least some of them) depend on highly-entangled quantum effects, even higher than any QC is aiming for.

You might think, if we know the basic physics, and we can accurately measure temperature, energy, reaction rates and other properties, those measurements surely gives us a good idea if quantum physics theory matches the universe.

But where there is high entanglement, we can't do the calculations accurately enough to say for sure. They are limited by computational complexity on conventional computers. We have good approximations that are very useful, but they aren't precise enough to rule QC feasibility one way or the other.
I’m talking about it, you might talking about novels and literature. “College Kids” is what the post mentions and judging the other comments underneath, on the balance ‘we’, perhaps not including you, are talking about textbooks to some noticeable extent.
Reminds me of https://liartownusa.com/
HackMatrix, a programmer RPG / 3D X11 window manager
I also don't, but here conciousness is often seen as a side effect of statistical analysis
Universities Lost the Internet
Even Courtney wins a stacked ultra outright. 200 milers are just a hobby thing. So at any event there might not be a single world class athlete. Courtney will beat most men on pretty much any distance and most professional runners on anything starting from a 100 miles. She runs into the UTMB top 10 which is insanely strong. To ever win it the drop out rate for the top ten men would need to be 100% since at least 10 men run the race at a pace exceeding hers. Just takes one coming through
Hahah that's just the human scenario played out before us, let's be a bit more creative!
Imagine if methods on your C++ classes had to be called like method(object) instead of object.method(). While it's a meaningless syntactic difference, the latter makes autocomplete in an IDE possible.
Hey fellow enthusiast.

- Piping is really easy and it will get added to Pack. It is matter of time, until these features get added as they will be added based on popularity and piping is not that popular for most people. But I get you and I will add it for you.

- Metadata is not stored in Pack. I don’t want the metadata of my machine attached to a file. It’s a never-ending nightmare to match source and destination OS metadata. There will always be something missing, and Pack tends to get everything perfect or nothing. Storing metadata adds extra weight that most users don’t care about and complicates the ability to store other types of data alongside files. It may get added as an option in the future if many people need it.

- Pack uses Zstandard under the hood. Great compression speed and ratio. In my opinion, it is the leading algorithm in the field and makes it a proper choice to use instead of DEFLATE, used in ZIP or GZIP.

- At this point you are telling tar features. tar is not random access, Pack is. As an example, if I want to extract just a .c file from the whole codebase of Linux, it can be done (on my machine) in 30 ms, compared to near 500 ms for WinRAR or 2500 ms for tar.gz. And it will just worsen when you count encryption. For now, Pack encryption is not public, but when it is, you can access a file in a locked Pack file in a matter of milliseconds rather than seconds.
I just wish a higher percentage of dental procedures were actually covered by dental insurance.
I'd say in half the amount of time it took for us to go from the first internal combustion engine to the Model T? Or if you think that's a bad comparison: The Model T to the honda civic?
Luxury Clothing Brands: How would you do it?
With brands like Loro Piana and Brunello Cucinelli taking in insane profits annually, I have had a lot of thought recently into how I would build a luxury clothing empire if I had the years left in my life. I'm curious - Has anybody shopped at these stores? The quality is seemingly "unmatched", but I am not the most educated on the brands myself. Is anybody a ride-or-die with these brands and if so, why?
This is actually a nice feature, why would I need to opt in to it?
Only because Adobe forced them to by murdering Freehand in front of their eyes.
25 Years Later, We're All Trapped in 'The Matrix'
Surprised to see negative reactions to this. Generated search results that distill actual content are definitely better than blogspam that has only a few useful tidbits in thousands of words and dozens of huge ad blocks.
If You Don't Change the UI, Nobody Notices (2009)
I don't think it matters because hacspec on this case is just the language which is a subset of rust. He still just uses cargo so treat it as rust code.

The point is that you can check the binary against some sort of formal definition to make sure the implementation you have at hand has not been tampered with. But it seems the idea is to check during dev not usage which for me is a missed opportunity. Why can't it check if it's correct every time it's loaded?

Keep in mind that Bertie is written in hacspec -- a more "restrictive" version of Rust that lends itself to formal verification. Working on Bertie feels a lot like working on a typical Rust crate but all code needs to be valid according to hacspec. Thus, you may also find that some code is "unusual" compared to vanilla Rust.
It's not a spectrum, instead a duality. An engine is an asset, yet it needs maintenance. Because software is soft, existing assets become yet more stuff to understand, more stuff to fix and keep in sync.

Compare for example a building made of stacked stone, brick, concrete, or modular carbon sheets on rebar

Another example, 100 hotel rooms, rearrange the layout and it's 101 things to do.

The analogies still fail, software updates are more akin to welding an airplane on to a car attached to a subway train. It's less, oh, we need to rework these weldzhere, it's often trying to make the software do something that is radically different. Like inserting a romance chapter into a mystery novel that starts as a chemistry how-to
"It has been found that only 10% of dental care is based on validated research."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6375114/
It's quite interesting what a search engine can be in 2024 when the product isn't the one using it, but the search results themselves.

Kagi with a wayy smaller budget than Google have really managed to make something pretty cool. Still does not replace google for 100% of my searches, but for the ones it does it is remarkably good, and so much less mentally taxing when working on a coding problem. I don't have to on top of everything manually filter search results, I can just click the top link.
I suppose it's just the temporarily embarrassed millionaire mentality.
The political stronghold in China appears well fortified. With every year that passes, the optimization gradient from government to people re-enforces the complicity. The differences in written and oral language make clandestine operations difficult. How many of the 2600 Politburo members are intelligence assets? Likely few to none.

The situation is clearly suboptimal from a human perspective: oppressive power is categorically bad, we take this truth to be self-evident.

In terms of catalytic change, what are some out of the box ideas that would rise to the challenge?

1. New forms of biotechnology minorly resemblant of targeted mind control. For example, any nanotechnology-based vector sufficiently power to trigger behaviors like a voluntary mass resignation of party members. Alternatively, a controlled pandemic that somehow interfaces with compromised electronics to temporarily modulate behavior. But this ask is too high, and such technology would surely be deployed towards even geopolitical goals first.

2. Incredibly high velocity targeted counterpropaganda that is also historically truthful. Some of the earliest StarCraft bots that defeated humans were simply very good at controlling mass mutalisk swarm. A rapid and unexpected infiltration with truth bombs, ideally physical or written rather than electronic to make censorship challenges, could cause a (probably uncontrolled chain reaction).

3. Inducement of a Taiwan takeover, and subsequent loss. Very high collateral damage and seems widely destructive rather than more “peaceful.”

4. Weird deus ex machinas. In the Three Body Problem, theoretical physicist start hallucinating a countdown timer. A covert leap in physics or technologies to induce “mystic breaks” in relevant sub populations, particularly those in power, could lead to mostly voluntary abdications of power.

5. Something more insidious or pernicious related to improved clandestine operation.

6. Straightforward domination, such as through a deployment of a sovereign but appropriately aligned or controlled AI fleet that maintains the balance of a covert takeover / disassembly of the power structure but phase transitions organically to redistribute power to the wider populace before halting or terminating itself.

A lot of these require sci fi, non-existence technology, or risk of armageddon. Are there alternatives (that don’t require classified information or a SCIF) that don’t rely on these or is the task complexity simply at that scale?
ISIS doing it is the only thing that makes sense.

It's not a Russian false flag because it makes Putin look incompetent.

It's not a Ukrainian op because the US wouldn't give advanced warning, instead they'd tell Ukraine to cut it out.

What we are seeing is a run of the mill ISIS attack followed by misdirection by Putin to shift blame from himself.
Some people don't trust current quality of AI
I'm fairly sure it's all an illusion.
America's Climate Boomtowns Are Waiting: Rising Temps and Migration
Maybe ad blockers will allow to hide this stuff
None of that makes any sense. There's nothing special about 35C or 0C. The whole point of the article is that it's visually misleading to have lines at arbitrary points.

For your first example a line at average body temperature would make sense though.
I would recommend https://github.com/searxng/searxng

One of my biggest gripes with Google search these days are it's bad UI. Started using searxng a few years ago when Google made everything above the fold useless videos, excessive whitespace, and dynamically poping content to accedently click.
Well, the way I see it, you shouldn't really trust any information that's out there on the internet. It's your own responsibility to put search results into perspective, whether it's someone's blog or AI generated content.
If it happens, it'll have to happen dozens of miles out to sea.

This video is outdated (and a surface ferry like shown would be too slow... probably would have to be some sort of aircraft, or the time on the ferry would make the rocket trip not worth it), but this shows the idea: https://youtu.be/zqE-ultsWt0
The dutch healthcare system also doesn’t consider dental health to be primary. Not sure why exactly. It can be purchased as an add-on. I personally never pay the premium but instead pay for the cleaning and check up sessions separately. It’s slightly cheaper than the premium if there are no complications.
> Shor's algorithm is a polynomial-time solution to the discrete logarithm problem

Yes, exactly, and the discrete logarithm problem is but a narrow sliver of a much larger class of trapdoor functions, most of which don't have the equivalent of Shor's algorithm to be attacked with.

That's precisely the point I was trying to make.
I could care less about a few commentators showing nationalistic fervor (based on writing from a book from china). This is CNN digging for site traffic, not news.
Co-founder DeleteMe here. Been building and delivering privacy tools and chatting on HN for 15 years. Happy to answer questions but please easy on unfounded accusations :)
You just got to bribe a few key AI researchers to completely control the future of humanity, lol.
Install a newer version
Love it. Rest is essential. Making time to just STOP the constant Doing, to just Be.
The hows-it-done article describes the meta-pixel pattern concept then gives you the "clock-ratio" of the periodicity:

> In addition, the pattern has a period of 35328, so advancing 35328 generations will cause the generation at the meta level to advance by 1.

I would even say this time dilation is necessary because the pattern's self-similarity is across time, and if the two levels operate at different clocks, you need to slow down the next level as it comes up to the self-similar animated view of the prior level.

In other words, the structure at level n requires 35328 iterations of the self-similar structure at level n+1, so if you're bringing n+1 up to the self-similar view of n, you need to slow down n+1 as it's coming up to also hit the time-based self-similarity.

I wonder then if there's something like a time-invariant constant, maybe along the lines of the "computational complexity" of any view remains constant across all levels of zoom.
you? probably no. I'm pretty confident that comment was only for the other crypto bros.
I'm fairly sure this is why there's a rush to get AI related capabilities into processors for consumer devices, to offload that computing so they don't bear the ongoing cost and it'll probably be more responsive to the user.
Jan 20- this was already reported some time ago and is not news.
Cisco or Okta
At least google will still walk back on things when they truly suck. Recent example is where they replaced the default Shopping, Images, Videos tabs when you search for something with autogenerated suggestions. It was awful. But, even though it took them a few months, that entire change seems to be reverted.
What specific needs are met by daily status updates? Professionals outside of software don't do that. The best software projects don't do that. It's very popular in CRUD projects led by non-technical middle management with trust issues.
6 months ago, I expressed my doubt about the viability of Stability business model on HN News. Mostaque answered the questions with a resounding yes and claimed the business of Stability.AI is better than ever.

Today he resigned.
This is fun and has a great symmetry but my brain breaks at the idea of the infinitely fast and large computer that would be required to run it all :)
Then we agree that price controls can be implemented that don’t cause shortages.

A price control that sets a price where a sufficient number of people are willing to perform a service or make a good do not cause shortages. Such a control in such a circumstance prevents companies from having too much pricing power over essential services. Thus they do accomplish something in such a case.
Yes. Each query needs to generate enough revenue to pay for the cost of running the query, a proportional cost of the cost to train the original model, overhead, SG&A, etc. just to break even. Few have shown a plan to do that or explained in a defensible way how they’re going to get there.

A challenge at the moment is a lot of the AI movement is led by folks that are brilliant technologists but have little to no experience running viable businesses or building a viable business plan. That was clearly part of why OpenAI has its turmoil in that some where trying to be tech purists where others knew the whole AI space will implode if it’s not a viable business. To some degree that seems to behind a lot of the recent chaos inside these larger AI companies.
And when somebody figures out how to metricize "well written" then that will turn to fecal matter. Re: Goodhart's Law [1] (admittedly meant to be economic, yet applies to most metrics).

Also related to Enshittification (see fecal matter), the platform shifts, no longer prioritizes quality, and instead shifts to whatever "well written" is defined as.

LLM's and especially online song choice algorithms have a heavy dose of this. "Make whatever pop music says is 'well written'" You have included all the keywords necessary to SEO your billboard submission.
An important aspect/variant of this is that it's better to do nothing than fill your time with low quality distractions.

By scrolling low signal/noise content we block ourselves from this fenomena.
None of that is related to providing identities to the government, which was his tin foil hat conspiracy theory for why 2FA is used.

I'd buy the spam reduction angle - it's a bit easier to get an email address than a phone number. But I have never seen a service require 2FA (except things like NPM and PyPI; but that's clearly for security) so I don't think it's that either.

I think it's pretty clear that the reason really is security. There's no conspiracy.
Yes, and I hope that is a good surprise.
As you can see, you can create fast and readable codes with it.
Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me
Not sure what the issue is with Tailscale, especially since you can self-host Headscale server locally to get the same effect.
Yes, they are. This launched 2 weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-ZlFPQrYM4
HackMatrix is written in C++ w/ XLib & OpenGL. The dialog / menu is rendered in Kitty term and was made using Python's Rich library. All the IDE windows can be interacted with via mouse and keyboard. The 3d world can be navigated with WASD + mouse. The game world is scriptable via a ZMQ api.
It sure must have looked like an easy way to combat blogspam to some manager.

However, seems to me that distilled blogspam is still a blogspam.
I pay for Kagi, I'm only vaguely aware that they have AI features and I have no interest in using them. What I like is that it doesn't annoy me about that stuff or anything, it just lets me use it (kagi search) as I want. Completely different from aggressive big tech "you're the product" companies that use modal "got it?" popups to try and push features you don't want. I hope that doesn't change for Kagi more than anything else.

Also, I rarely use search to answer questions and anyway would never just trust an answer. I even read SO before pasting in the code and decide if it fits with what I'm doing and what modifications the answer may need, I guess I'm old. But more importantly, I use "search" mostly to get to pages I know exist or expect to exist. And getting to the right page faster is what I care about, not any answer.
I've downloaded saharan's repo and poked around the Life Universe project in Chrome and FF— it seems that the pixels representing the compressed animation are retrieved through a Context2D::drawImage call, and are different in Firefox and other browsers.

It makes sense that ETP would mess with the pixels output from a drawImage call, to fight fingerprinting.

Maybe the ImageLoader can be replaced with a more direct PNG decoder stapled to a fetch(). If I can make that work tonight, I'll create a pull request; this is how I meet the coolest people.
so search is no longer a result of links to a page where information is found. search is now just an answer to a question. I don't really have a problem as that's what people really want. what I do have an issue with is that the people that put time/energy/effort into providing the information that Google has taken to train their data service get no credit or any attempt at being rewarded for their effort. sure, they might still provide links to SEO crap sites to make it "feel" like web search. this is just the latest of steps to remove the ability to actually finding a website.

to me, this should be a totally separate product. the Googs Answer All 5000(TM) will just give the answer to whatever is being asked with no method of inspecting the validity of the answer.
It's not a game, you know, so there are no levels at all.
Curious, what do you mean by “autocompletion of tags”?
In a free market, shouldn’t the customer know which merchants have policies that aren’t consistent with their interests? It’s funny how these sacred principles of business are one-way streets to many.

There’s no category of rent seeker less worthy of benefit of the doubt than a NYC landlord.
A person from rdrama managed to find the FBI victim's anon reddit profile (public information), and apparently it was IRS evasion? https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/255754/google-ordered-...
AMD Vega used HBM next to the GPU die, but most GPU manufacturers are now back to discrete chips on the GPU circuit board.