skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Renault was collaborating during ww2, and built trucks for nazis. Female workers got their head shaved at the liberation (male workers got out OK though, funny how things works), and Renault got nationalized, and was under state control for the 4cv, 4l and r5/r6/r8/r11/r19/r21 models, as well as the 'moteur F', still used in the 2010s.

Its director was assassinated by a far right commando also (I think the killers got out early 2000s, the story is quite interesting).
Eastern Orthodox Christmas is not on Dec 25 so the argument for EE is not as air tight as the author thinks it is
That this exists as a pedagogical exercise does not disprove the original point in any way.

Source: I spent a lot of time in the library copying sketches of the renaissance masters as a kid.

AI is the pencil, not the artist. As cool and capable as large models are they are not even remotely close to replacing self directed human intent. If you do not understand this you do not understand art.

I don't believe there's some magical quality to human intelligence, just that the things we are making today with AI are still orders of magnitude short of the real thing, and that there are still very difficult open questions in that gap.
Yes, WV is in the top ten. But Utah is near the bottom. Again, you're way oversimplifying.

And what's more interesting is that states with conservative sex education approaches is quite a bit different than overall voting patterns. Many abstinence-stressed states tend to be liberal in other respects. And many abstinence-stressed states have low teen birth rates. https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/04/29/17/12868888-6972237-...

(Also, WV's teen birth rate is lower than NY's was in 2005. Is WV more liberal than NY was in 2005?)
Because you don't paid real cost of inkjet printer directly, they sold much cheaper than cost, but you pay difference when buying ink.

This is same business model as with game consoles, PS5 is also sold much cheaper than cost it's hardware on free market, but people than buying games and paying for subscriptions and Sony earn money from fees.

Unfortunately, game console hardware is not cheap to produce and the same with inkjet printer hardware - they are really complicated.
I thought they proved they dont exist by looking for them in their backyard?
I make a good living but I can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten at a $100/person restaurant. I can't even fathom that being just a "reasonable, not super fancy" meal.
we only send 0.5-5% of traffic to gpt4, thanks to smaller faster cheaper models. So not all of our traffic is hit with 50s latencies :-/
Irritated by the UX and business model of web-based tax return preparation, I've looked into open source alternatives in the past. I hadn't come across the Open Tax Solver package mentioned in this article which looks interesting. It seems like they all rely on printing and mailing the completed returns. Is there any hope of ever being able to e-file them? I don't understand why it couldn't be possible for Free Fillable Forms to support some sort of import format.
I am very sorry about your friend.

I think the real problem is that people are really poor at assessing risk. And I think we can make some headway there, educationally, and it might actually affect how people reason around drunk driving (or their friends, assuming they still have their faculties).

Let's take the example of driving home drunk without hurting anyone or having an accident. Suppose that (being optimistic) there's a 1% chance of an accident and a 0.1% chance of causing a fatality (including to self). Seems like an easy risk to take, right? But observe what happens if you drive home drunk 40 times:

99% chance of causing no accident each time, to the 40th power = 0.99^40 is roughly 67% chance that none of those 40 times results in an accident. 80 times? 45% chance of no accident. Now you're talking about flipping a coin to determine whether you cause an accident (potentially a fatal one, we'll get to that) at all over 80 attempts. (I feel like that is optimistic.)

If I have a 99.9% chance of not killing someone when drunk-driving one time, after 80 times I have a 92% chance of not killing someone (that is, an 8% chance of killing someone). Again, this seems optimistic.

Try tweaking the numbers to a 2% chance of an accident and a 1.2% chance of causing a fatality.

Anyway, my point is that people are really terrible at evaluating the whole "re-rolling the dice multiple times" angle, since a single hit is a HUGE, potentially life-changing loss.

(People are just as bad at evaluating success risk, as well, for similar reasons- a single large success is a potentially life-changing event)
Materialious – A Modern Interface for Invidious
I don't know about holidays but Israel uses the same daylight savings as the mentioned Eastern Europe countries, ie switching from UTC+0200 to +0300 at around the same time - only difference is that they start daylight savings on Friday instead of Sunday the same week.
Related peeve (unrelated to this project):

So many tutorials for various jvm libraries will give nice code snippets to demo usage BUT not include any of the import statements.

Don’t just tell me how to use the thing without also telling me where it lives!
> or Swype (that MSFT eventually purchased).

I think you mean SwiftKey.
>Just looking at some of the subreddits around living in Japan, the desperation is obvious as gaijins also feel the inflationary pressure.

Please take anything you see on the Japan-related subreddits with a container ship full of salt. The people who hang out on there are even worse than the Americans you'll see on NextDoor. Half of them seem to absolutely hate their life in Japan and are obviously bitter about their life choices, and most of the rest are just plain crazy. /r/japanlife is the absolute worst; I recommend staying far away from there.

>10 years ago you it would've been impossible to find rude staff but now it becomes routine as the average Japanese workers patience has been pushed to teh brink. Its not as bad as Canada but definitely a shock to see how crappy tourist experience has gotten in Japan.

Maybe you're only visiting restaurants in the tourist-filled parts of town, but I live in Tokyo and I haven't had any problems with rude staff (yet). Honestly, I still feel like I'm living in some kind of bubble, because the stuff I read on the news about happenings in the US and other western countries, even in daily life (like restaurant staff), and what I hear from my family in the US, is SO incongruent with my life in Tokyo. It's true that prices have gone up for many things, but other than that, life here is peaceful and good.
Asbestos fibers damage cells using the exact same nano mechanical concept these silicon needles do. So I would be more concerned with minute fragments of the material breaking off and being ingested than with skin damage but either way extensive safety validation is in order before this stuff is integrated into products.
Personally it helps me understand it more because it requires more concentration. I've always needed to be doing something while listening or watching things, but the problem is that I can distract myself doing that and not actually pay attention to the actual thing at all. Turning the speed up forces me to concentrate more and it's harder to get distracted
"There isn’t context for this license yet, so some things won’t make sense: for example the license is administered by an entity called the “POST-OPEN ADMINISTRATION” and I haven’t figured out how to structure that organization so that people can trust it."

What is Bruce Perens planning with the 'Post-Open Administration'?

He stated that he wants to overcome the shortcomings of The GPL and OSI licenses (https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_ope...), but it is not clear yet what he is planning?

Could this be some kind of legal consortium that would give the Post-Open License(s) teeth? For example, suing or demanding license enforcement far beyond what current licenses do?
Part of it is that shipping has somewhat of a “flat fee” + per pound.

So it is better to combine purchases, but that’s not the case if you have Prime (Amazon tries to bribe you to do so).
You're right, I read the comment as:

> Imagine a future where state actors have hundreds of AI agents fixing bugs, gaining reputation while they slowly introduce backdoors. I really hope open source () succeed.

I guess we can only hope verifiable and open source models can counteract the state actors.
Interesting concept, but plenty of red flags.

The idea is to have achieve fission criticality in a projectile of uranium fired inside a gun of uranium. The system is designed so that the gun is always subcritical, while the projectile is supercritical, because there's some moderator inside the projectile. The authors claim they simulated the neutron economy of the system using the MCNS6 software, a soft created by the Los Alamos National Lab [1].

The idea is certainly cool, and I wish so much for it to be feasible. But the paper has so many red flags.

The main red flag is this: according to the paper, the projectile completely vaporizes when it is 11 centimeters inside the gun. The effective multiplicative factor K_eff (the ratio of the number of neutrons in a new generation vs the old) is calculated to be about 1.1. Anything above 1 is super-critical, meaning the number of fission events increases exponentially with each generation. The paper mentions that they used the software MCNP to estimate this factor, but it does not mention how they treated the change of phase. When the projectile reaches the temperature they describe (11600 K), the mean velocity of the hydrogen ions is about 16 times higher than the mean velocity of the uranium atoms, so basically all the hydrogen is gone. The amount of moderator just went from a certain number to zero. What exactly happened to K_eff? It must go down, but how much? More precisely, the K_eff must be a function of how much the vaporized projectile has expanded, and how little of the original hydrogen is still around. Nothing like this is hinted.

My point is that the computation is highly complex, but the way the paper presents it reads like a high school science project.

Another big red flag is this: there's no discussion of the neutron economy inside the barrel. We are just told the barrel is subcritical, but even so, it is subject to a huge bombardment of neutrons from the supercritical projectile. Those neutrons will trigger fission events in the barrel. If you shoot 1 projectile per second, this is bound to have quite a bit of an effect, quite soon. Fission is enormously energetic.

And yet another red flag: why was this paper published in Acta Astronautica, and not in a nuclear physics of nuclear engineering journal? The application is indeed to rockets, but the meat of the paper is the nuclear fission. One would be much more comfortable to hear the paper was peer-reviewed by nuclear scientists. As a point of reference, the latest issue of this journal [2] has 49 articles, and only one is nuclear related. That one has the title "Direct fusion drive based on centrifugal mirror confinement". In other words, "pie in the astronautical sky".

Unfortunately, this pulsed plasma rocket sounds about as feasible as the direct fusion drive rocket.

[1] https://mcnp.lanl.gov/

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-astronautica/vol/...
The likely approach would probably be less technical and more covert ops, tricking the target country into issuing a (technically) genuine passport. No need to break encryption/signing this way.
> Randomly generating a more complex program does not make the complex program reducible to a random string generator.

The complex program probably does something other than generate random strings.

But the complex program is not actually more complex than the generator plus a smidge.

Because anywhere you're using the complex(z), you can replace it with generator()(z).
Yes, unironically, that, being a huge leak, really convinces me that we all have multiple RCEs on each of our systems. I mean, we already kinda knew that, of course, but even now that I'm typing this it's a bit hard for me to actually believe it. But realistically I think it's pretty much a proven fact. This level of sophistication… what did I even expect? Of course well-payed teams of high-level professionals are working in this area for a very long time by now. This is basically like professional football players competing against office workers in their late thirties who like to kick a ball on weekends. I am comforting myself by thinking that something a bit more high-level, written in python or even golang, or, oh hell, maybe even rust would be more a bit more transparent for other contributors… but even this is probably a lie. And if it wouldn't be, surely tons of super-popular low-level packages written in C/C++ are as good as incomprehensible for somebody who isn't specifically security-auditing this.
Or one of those "I'm rapidly searching my mental database" scenes in modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. (The BBC version preferred!)
incredibly well said.
I think $() makes much more sense than ()$ in terms of parsing, when you see $ you're looking for a single word token, and $( you're parsing up to the matching )

Maybe it's not much extra workload, but ()$ requires you to pattern-match all bracketed content in a string as a possible capture, and the parser can't determine whether it's a capture or not until the $ or a matching close bracket. Consider parsing "((x)$)" would require parsing the entire string to determine the first bracket wasn't a capture, then we can treat just the first character as a literal, then we have to re-parse the rest of the string again, and can't be sure it's a capture until the $, and then we can evaluate it as a real expression and then continue with the final $.

Other interesting cases would be "(x+(x)$)" or even "((x+(x)$)$)". I'm not sure I could easily predict the parsing of latter, but prefix and permitted unbracketed single word variable names "(x+$x)" is clearer and the second would either be "(x+$(x)$)" or "($(x+$(x)))" both of which are explicit using the prefix form and could simplify to "(x+$x$)" and "($(x+$x))" where the intent seems clearer.

There's the precedent that many languages already use the prefix form which would help newcomers with familiarity, and in fact many of these languages wouldn't even need the brackets and $var would be sufficient, and I can't really see why the spec requires the brackets in the ()$ syntax in string literals but not for expressions in code.
Seemed fine to me, didn't get racist vibes from anyone, most of the Japanese I meet here in Canada seem to be enjoying it, but cost of living is definitely a concern in both places
> It's a more specialized accelerator tailored to machine learning workloads.

Hard to imagine anyone using a cloud GPU for anything else.
It does. The US banking system is still predicated on paper checks, however, and efforts to change that face considerable inertia. There have been posts on HN explaining how (insanely) it all works.
There was this thing called DHTML. It was no Ajax, but you could hide and show elements, change its contents, respond to events, etc. Cross browser was a nightmare. And the server side handled most of the work.

Today I build all sorts of things with lots of interactive elements on the frontend, but trying to avoid using React if I can.
It makes sense if you don't expect the median housing price to be determined by the immediate 4x income loan without any savings. If you think housing price should be income * borrow rate, then you're entirely discounting any amount of time saving up, like a 22 year old graduate that rents for 13 years and then after saving up for that time decides to dump 300k into property and take out a loan of 350k (4 * 87.5k/yr).

Also a huge factor, housing price is determined at the margins. If 70% of people already own homes, it doesn't matter what their incomes are. Only the 30% that are competing and trying to outbid each other, which of course is going to skew high income.

I.e in the extreme, you could have all of Ireland own their 300k homes and make 30k euro, but if you suddenly get 1% new population that needs to buy a home, and no one wants to sell, then the new 1% can outbid each other to the tune of offering 800k for homes, and it wouldn't matter that the people making 30k euro couldn't afford 800k homes, they already have them.
Boomers complained how Gen X rotted their brain by channel flipping.
Canada has 21% immigrants[1] - it is not an outlier compared to AU/NZ. Canada needs 1/2 again as many immigrants to match Australia which has 30% already. I'm in New Zealand with 27% foreign born.

Net migration per 1,000 people (2023) figures[2] are: Australia 6.4, Canada 5.4, New Zealand 4.8

So Australia's immigrant population is also growing 20% faster than Canadas. (albeit emmigrant numbers included so perhaps I'm oversimplifying - I'm not familiar with Oz - but New Zealand has significant outflows).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...
Free shipping isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Free shipping isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee
And if you don't throw in your buck o' five
Who will?
Onavo users signed up, consented to their traffic data to be used for market research and were actually compensated for it. What's the complaint here ?
Most assuredly. The thing is the they're always coming until one day they're actually here. Some sort of paradox/axiom
If some nation state actor dis this, I imagine they couldve easily modified times of their commits, takin into consideration holidaya and such. Also, nation state actors have tons of resources. They could have people waiting to make commits or schedule it with something like cron.
Would be really neat to extend this to have Doom on an LLM. Much of AI has been enabled by gaming, and this could be the crowning synergy.
> Anyone working on getting us out of the Nvidia monopoly on commerical AI should be praised. We need lots of competition in this space.

Disclosure: I'm working on exactly that, so thank you so much for this!

I'm doing it on the high end of the spectrum, with MI300x, and a lot less drama.
For me, Japan’s secret tourism weapon is ubiquitous restroom access. In most EU and US cities, I waste tons of time trying to find a place to pee and it severely eats into my availability to shop or choose a well rated restaurant. Sorry, I walked past your cool looking shop at high speed because I was about to piss my pants. I end up with such a sour view of those cities probably because I am dehydrated and going through caffeine withdrawal. On my last trip to Japan, I averaged 20km of walking each day.

If your city can’t accommodate basic human needs, it doesn’t deserve my tourist $.
I’m pretty convinced there is a spectrum just on my own experience - apart from having an internal monologue (which I think is just the ability to imagine speech) I can also imagine sounds, different accents and music almost to the same level of perception as hearing them, to the point where even though I love music, I don’t usually listen to it most of the time (in the car, while working etc.) unless there’s something I really want to listen to, because I am just imagining stuff in my head. Yet I usually can’t imagine imagery very well. I can do it (I wouldn’t say it’s to the point of aphantasia), but it feels more abstract and illusory than my auditory imaging.

My experience with auditory imagination is definitely different to most people I have talked to about it, and on the other hand many people seem to be able to visualise images far more vividly than I can.

If it were all basically the same, why would one be so massively different to me?
That probably had less to do with CUDA and more to do with the fact that Nvidia dominates the high end of the market.
I was not aware of trkl. Well done! I wrote rmemo (Reactive Memo) which solves the same problems & is a similar size. Different semantics though.

https://github.com/ctx-core/rmemo

Nanostores is also small https://github.com/nanostores/nanostores.

And if you only need reactivity in the browser (not server side), VanJS is small & includes reactive primitives. https://vanjs.org/
What, exactly, constitutes “an unusual level of excitement and happiness” to someone who has lived for many years in a depressed state?

I’m going to take a gander and say that happiness and hypomania are far from “easily distinguishable” in this case, which was my entire point. If you’ve spent your life depressed, then any amount of happiness is going to look a whole lot like hypomania.
Postal mail has non-zero metadata, e.g. origin can be traced at least to departure postal code.
Oh, so the self-driving car of the late 19th century
Show HN: A python poetry plugin for establishing chain of trust
What impact do you expect laxer child labor laws to have on a restaurant like that?
As usual in any email thread about email deliverability, the amount of FUD in these comments is absolutely mind-boggling to me. I’m not unusually smart or intelligent or capable. I wouldn’t consider myself a deliverability expert. It’s only a small small part of my job. I’ve never worked for any organisation that sells email delivery services to third parties. Why the hell can I understand this stuff, and get it to work, while there are so many people here that very clearly indicate (via what they’re saying in their comments) that they DON’T get it yet have a serious axe to grind?

I’m left feeling like homegrown email delivery is some sort of lightning rod for stuck-in-the-past faux-sysadmin types that can’t get past the fact that it’s not 2003 anymore and lazily / maliciously comply with SPF / DKIM.

IT’S NOT THAT HARD.
I'm mongolian and thanks for reminding me I don't know anything about mongolia.
We're approximately the same age, and the first time I held job at which I had the option for direct deposit was 2003. I remember it particularly because I thought it was cool, and evangelized it to co-workers, many of whom did not trust it and opted to continue receiving paper checks.
This is more human like, and people will complain that it doesn’t have photographic memory. That is, it’s not superhuman in that regard. But there are many tasks where superhuman recall is not required. We know this because those tasks are currently performed by humans.
I haven't kept touch with the mainframe industry, but yes, you captured it succinctly, last I knew, a lot of IBM mainframe stuff was running on emulators. Albeit on highly available hardware.
After seeing the xz backdoor I thought we needed better visibility into our dependency trees.
Are you hiring for it? I don't know COBOL, but do know python and Java to some extent, and enjoy esoteric legacy problems
> If I give consent to participate in collection of my internet data, it doesn't give you authorization to like, have someone live in my house and follow me around 24/7 so they can see what i do on the internet.

TV ratings used to be collected from panelists using a wearable device that literally had an always-on microphone recording you 24/7 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter

How is the situation of Onavo/Meta panelists worse ?
Just look for promotional items marked as "final sale" and you'll get things cheaper without returns.