skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Doesn’t it make sense that the next step is to discover there are multiple universes?"

That depends. Multiple universes don't explain causation. For example if you assert that all things present in the material world you live in (right now) at some point transcended existence in thought only to a material form (the planet didn't build concrete, we did) - how does this fit through entropy in a multiverse? To assert that in a multiverse the causation is defined by tuning, the existence of a universe in contrast to that which we are currently experiencing brings no causation from one to another. To me, this implies that a 'multiverse' is likely not the case; rather - dimensionality within the universe we experience is much more likely the case for a unified cosmos, given the fine tuning.

As Tesla would say, to understand the world you have to understand frequency and vibration. Such as, matter is able to exist in multiple form with the same building blocks, thus extra dimensions would posit why this is possible across relativistic time by the observer. We're bound by our dimension and other dimensions are not.

You and I experience in 3D - but what about other organisms, perhaps they have attained an experience of our cosmos in other dimensions.
Relatedly, what about integers like 9007199254740995. Is that a legal integer since it rounds to 9007199254740996?

It does seem unclear what it means to exceed precision (given rounding is such an expected part of the way we use these numbers). Magnitude feels easier as at least you definitely run out of bits in the exponent.
If there is equal evidence for two hypotheses, but one resonates with your personal experience and causes you to live a better life, what could possibly possess you to take the disempowering view?
It has turned into a system that keeps developers in a constant state of crunch time. It simultaneously pushes all responsibility for delivery on to devs under the guise of “the team self organises” whilst stripping them of any real autonomy to actually feel a sense of satisfaction in completing tasks and delivering projects.

When something goes well the anonymity that “the team” creates to the wider business means that praise goes to the project managers and product owners who, realistically, probably did very little beyond the kick off to deliver.

Agile is a system that creates misery for devs.
After decades of having to make do with tv/vhs downloads they did finally release a DVD box set :-)
can't really be that entitled and ask them to cut their tree (or even if you do it by youself)
I mean one person can use sock puppet accounts to write emails.
> When you make a clone and kill the original, the clone is the original, exactly.

But what if the original lives on? What if you ship-of-theseus-like swap half of the clone's and the original's brain?

> Your consciousness is not unique, it's only a physical phenomena,

We have zero evidence for that – but then again, there's also zero evidence for people other than yourself being conscious in the first place, although there are compelling arguments.
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It's disempowering and does not resonate with our conscious experience, and given there is no more evidence for it than the opposite view, I find the idea that someone would choose a world view that tends to cause depression and fatalism to be absurd.
I don’t buy into security via obfuscation at all, but that meme comes from the context of hoping your infra is too confusing for an attacker to figure out once they find it.

For the context of digging into your sec stack on open-access platforms, ya def obfuscate haha, public review is step 0 in pentests for a reason.
That’s irrelevant for the matter. The person I replied to obviously did not have seeded responses in mind.
I may have just picked this comment to express overall frustration so for that I apologize.

But I don't know - writing is something that comes in a flow. This wasn't some deliberate clickbaity thing by the author, they just wrote it in a way that that made sense to them.

It also seems that the author themselves did not consider the setup at first, which happens, as sometimes we have tunnel vision.

You may criticize his abilities I guess, although overall it just felt like an account of things as they happened to the author, not considering how someone might be trying to guess things once they publish it.

So yeah, I don't know, I just feel like there's too much negativity sometimes. But maybe I overreacted.
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Why charge $5 for paper towels when clearly people can afford to spend $6? Repeat ad nauseum for just about everything a consumer might purchase until we go from the 1950s where an unskilled manufacturing job can pay for a home and two cars and a nonworking spouse and kids in college, to where you need to be a physician to afford the same today. Sure people aren't all impoverished and starving, but there's plenty of sources out there that highlight how wages have stagnated despite productivity gains and cost of living increases.
> in this case we're talking about hundred+ yards/meters instead of just a couple.

Sure but didn't you say you were using directional antennas?
This person assumes AI is going to stay in its current form: a technology that requires an expert operator to help accomplish tasks.

Most people are afraid of “next-level” AI, where no operator is required. If trucks can be moved without anyone at the wheel, truck driving is a job that won’t exist anymore. As simple as that.

Whether trucks can be 100% autonomous remains to see.
Probably Stuxnet.
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GitLab already addressed this https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2024/03/30/important-informati...
I suspect the US has the usual complement of solitary as well as social bees. A quick search brings up plenty of results.
Hey love what Kagi is doing!

I'm based out of India, can I apply?
> The problem with the concept of a middle class job (one where you can comfortably afford living, fun, saving, etc I think is most people's interpretations), is that it represents an unstable equilibrium state. Incentives of most businesses are the opposite of someone in the middle class.

Ok, and I claim that the problem with the current model of capitalism, as opposed to the post-WWII model, is that it's oppositional to a middle class - the incentives are opposed.

Now the question is about the societal outcomes we expect from the systems people create. Why should we prefer greater inequity and an even more complete loss of the middle class? These things are all being imposed by human-manufactured systems - we can control them.

We don't even need to throw AI or human desperation or planned economies on this bonfire of ideas to recognize that, as initially posed, the problem is itself incorrect.
Not if but when. 100% autonomous ability is well within reach.
Believing he is ignorant, rather than being purposefully wrong, is no longer reasonable. They lost the benefit of the doubt a long time ago.
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I'm still not sold on recall at such large context window sizes. It's easy for an LLM to find a needle in a haystack, but in most RAG use-cases it's like finding a needle in a stack of needles, and the benchmarks don't really reflect that. There's also the speed and cost implications of dumping millions of tokens into a prompt - it's prohibitively slow and expensive right now.
Yes, that is what I'm saying so I already agree with you.

My point is Google takes content from Column A and puts in in Column B and collects money in their little toll booth. Google pretends to care about spam only when they can't make any money from it, otherwise they don't give a shit unless its a PR issue. Google ads have long been a malware vector - but they don't care because they make tons of cash from it.

I'm not taking the side of either the business or the user here, but this is a forum for start-ups who often have to send out legitimate business emails - which are not necessarily spam.
Can we not please. Bad enough other drugs are so criminalized.
While this might be a marketing tactic in such situations, in this case it's a press release, which is a format where it's common to speak about "yourself" in 3rd person. Look at their other press releases.
The only thing more shocking than these regular leaks, is how many banks assume that if you produce SSN and DOB of Person X then you're X! And if you're not X then that's X's problem — His identity got stolen!
There's been various iterations of jet injectors. Some are better than others. I distantly recall having a jet injector used on me, but the only thing I remember vividly is the peanut butter shot. That had nothing to do with the device though.
Brotli's baked-in dictionary always irked me because it's forever fixed and can't be updated (not that I'm implementing new hypermedias on a weekly basis but still). I'd much rather see broad adoption of plain 'Content-Type: zstd` implemented with no dictionary, and later go through a standards process to add named content-specific dictionaries like `Content-Type: zstd-web` or `zstd-cn` or whatever.

Edit: Actually this is already considered in RFC-8878 [0]. The RFC reserves zstd frame dictionary ids in the ranges: <= 32767 and >= (1 << 31) for a public IANA dictionary registry, but there are no such dictionaries published for public use yet.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8878#iana_dict
Bob Maxwell (Ghislaine's father) sold backdoored software to corporations and governments all around the world, including US targets, on behalf of Israel's Mossad.

"The Maxwell-Mossad team steals spy software PROMIS from the United States, Mossad puts an undetectable trap door in it so Mossad can track the activities of anyone using it, then Maxwell sells it around the world (including back to the U.S. -- with the trap door)."

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> And when Tennessee bans GMO foods

Is that what you think is happening here?
> That peaked around 3000 people.

The number directly from the Pentium team was 3000.0000000001 people at the highest point.
There is more genetic diversity within the "black" race than outside it. Skin color and hair type are I'm sure useful categories for dermatology, but probably not much else
Related, maybe:

Is the Sun Conscious? (2021) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39858941
Practically leading my life as if I had free will and being convinced I actually do have free will – despite zero evidence either way other than my senses and my reasoning, both of which regularly fail/deceive me in all kinds of situations – are two very different things.

There's of course also a variant of Pascal's wager in here, except that this one is logically sound, in my view: If there is free will, why not make use of it? And if there isn't, my beliefs aren't my choice anyway.

And just like from Pascal's wager, we can't derive any actual information about the nature of the universe and our conscious existence in it from that line of reasoning.
How a doctor discovered Irukandji jellyfish by stinging himself and his son
CIA didn't put anyone new into gitmo for years.

The 30 remaining gitmo prisoners are all W Bush holdovers that all subsequent administrations forgot.
I’m not a 100% sure i follow but i’ll try to explain.
The tiles can only be powers of two. Matching 3 tiles will make the matching tile the next power of two. So 2-2-2 will make 4, 4-4-4 will make 8, 8-8-8 will make 16, etc.
If you match more tiles, it will go to higher powers of two. 2-2-2-2 will make 8, 2-2-2-2-2 will make 16.
Only one tile per match will be turned into the higher tile. When swapping a tile this will be the swapped tile. When part of a combo, it will be the tile with most matches. If multiple tiles have the same amount of matches it will be the left/top most tile. The other tiles do indeed “evaporate”.
I hope this makes some sense, wrote it from my phone.
Simonw's blog has some examples I'd consider show off its usefulness and limitations,
eg

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/23/building-c-extensions-...

(linked previously above)
I really hate to say it, but experience shows rich people play in a different legal system. I’m guessing this estimate is correct. He’ll appeal, play nice and get out in less than half the sentence time.
You should assume that every application on your phone is sending out PII until proven otherwise.
> Out of curiosity, was this comment generated by an LLM (at least partially)?

Same author as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876247
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Tech layoffs in 2024 touch 50k: IBM, Dell, Ericsson, Vodafone and others
> Because of AI’s capacity to weave information and rules with acquired experience to support decision-making, it can be applied to enable a larger set of workers possessing complementary knowledge to perform some of the higher-stakes decision-making tasks that are currently arrogated to elite experts, e.g., medical care to doctors, document production to lawyers, software coding to computer engineers, and undergraduate education to professors.

Note that in this analysis, if you are a software engineer, you are not the "middle class" as most signs point to. Rather you are a member of an elite that the middle class must wrest power from.

The identity of the middle class is another question. You might assume that it's made of the people you know, but more likely it's underpaid workers from developing countries.
Because when you can hear the toy going when you are several rooms away, you know the kid is still there and still playing with it. So you can be in the kitchen doing housework or whatever and hear it over clattering dishes etc.

When the noise stops, you know they're up to something they shouldn't :) Nothing more worrying as a parent of young kids than silence!
There will eventually be a deep dive. The 6600 is a thing to behold.

I'd love if the software was easier to find online and unencumbered.
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If race is biological, then "black" isn't one. There is approximately the same amount of genetic diversity within the "black" race as there is within the entire human population.

If you define "race" to mean a population with a similar genetic diversity as Caucasians, then there are 4 to 5 black races within Africa alone.
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Not at all. The anthropic principle is sort of going in the opposite direction in fact, as it presupposes all these conditions on consciousness then waves a magic wand over all of it because we happen to be able to observe and reason, so of course those conditions were met, end of story, yawn.

Panpsychism says that it doesn't matter how life evolved, because the universe is aware as a matter of fact, so the particulars are unimportant, just the ability to encode, store and transmit information so complexity can develop over time.
I asked Ariadne Conill from the Alpine project about this. She says they don't static link.

Here's a copy/paste of her response from LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7180667...)

> Alpine is dynamically linked, we just do not link SSH against libsystemd. In general, I think systemd needs to split up the various components in libsystemd into separate libraries, as there is no reason sd_notify() would ever require liblzma.

> Anyone who is claiming that Alpine is secure because it's staticly linked have clearly never actually looked at a running Alpine system. I blame the initial Rust PR for musl support for starting this whole "musl = static linking" meme.
Same here. A rich family sold a lot of land where our homes are now, but kept a little private pond with a house in the back. The only folks I ever see back there are either landscapers cutting the grass or if the owners come out for a big party; no one lives there. Curious if their agriculture exemption for bees is actually legitimate.