skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The context of this thread is travel between major economic hubs. So if you are in say Rome, it does not take 30 min to get to the station. Also, the OPs wording made it sound rare, especially given his claim that it is rare, but the examples I gave are typical, not rare.
Probably not, but light rail will get you around the Puget Sound pretty easy.

https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/maps
I took computer ethics 101 about 20 years ago (that was the only ethics class on my math/cs degree plans). I learned that the ethical thing to do when a system kills unintentionally/accidentally, you stop it and redesign from the ground up from first principles evolved beyond the principles used to design the killing version.

This needs to be applied to nation-states & so much more we're engineering.

I'd love to see a design methodology grounded in accounting for all nondual needs of humans. This idea usually comes with complaints of that being an impossible task, without really understanding the issue.
+1 on partners. Riffing on that: my priors entering are "oh I've been reading an article in the Economist, every 2 months, for 2 years about how scaling green energy requires deep sea bed mining, and it's incredibly non-invasive because they just sit in coalesced lumps down there"

From that perspective, comparing it to subjugating human populations seems like a non-sequitur, though one I respect.
The first post from my blog that made the #1 slot on hackernews was this one:

https://rya.nc/cert-tricks.html

and I actually have had a vanity ssh key generator online for years:

https://rya.nc/ssh-vanity.html

I looked at your code - I was not aware of the rsa_crt_* functions, those are handy!

Your routine for picking nearby primes is interesting - are you aware of any attacks that are possible if that debiasing isn't done?
It absolutely isn't the first line that it's a directive from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It just says "The White House wants..." Again, "The White House" is often a metonym for the US government. [1]

I'm not sure why it didn't bother mentioning the Office of Science and Technology Policy. If I had realized that's where it came from, instead of from NASA, I wouldn't have mentioned it.

1. "Metonymy is a figure of speech where the name for one object or concept is substituted for another, related one (as in the White House for the US Government)" https://www.dictionary.com/compare-words/metonymy-vs-synecdo...
The US military has done research on refresh rates to find out the optimum refresh rate for pilots and their conclusion was the same. Beyond 60fps, there is not a benefit.

There was another research which discussed about a latency in the brain of around 15ms. Even if the visual system could detect a change, not much could be done with that change due to the inherent latency.
All meta properties look affected.
It's a bit difficult to draw reliable conclusions from this critical flicker fusion paper to the entire visual field and to the detection of changes in position or appearance.

My take away from the paper is that there is variation in the CFF across individuals for foveated visual targets that are much brighter than the surround. It remains to be seen the effects of visual targets that are dimmer, lower contrast, colour, and peripherally placed.
You need to be smart about this though, I don't want it to look like a live/interactive form has worked for example - updating derived data on the page - if it's then going to turn out that actually the server had an error or there was network trouble, and it all gets undone (or worse I close the page/navigate away not realising at all).
I'm disturbed by the idea that an AI could be used to make decisions that could proactively kill someone. (Presumably computer already make decisions that passively kill people by, for example, navigating a self-driving car.) Though there was a human sign-off in this case, it seems one step away from people being killed by robots with zero human intervention which is about one step away from the plot of Terminator.

I wonder what the alternative is in a case like this. I know very little about military strategy-- without the AI would Israel have been picking targets less, or more haphazardly? I think there may be some mis-reading of this article where people imagine that if Israel weren't using an AI they wouldn't drop any bombs at all, that's clearly unlikely given that there's a war on. Obviously people, including innocents, are killed in war, which is why we all loathe war and pray for the current one to end as quickly as possible.
The problem is that there are only so many viable paths between cities. Rails is worse than roads in this case because turns can't be as sharp and grades can't be as steep.

When there are potentially tens of thousands of property owners along that path, each property owner can derail the whole thing or add enormous costs, so they have an insanely strong negotiating position. If you were just to attempt to negotiate with each property owner, the cost would make building new rail in a populated area impossible.

There has never been any real length of railroad built through a populated area with many landowners without some kind of government intervention akin to eminent domain.
Rounded to the nearest TB rather than metered.
Why can't they just stay profitable, pay dividends, and not really grow?
Show HN: Multi Modal Starter kit - roast a movie with AI
Hi HN! Recently we made a starter kit for better learnings on how to get started building AI apps with multi modal models. It's been fun to build, but we also discovered there are many things we needed to take care of: caching, long video processing pipelines, model evaluation, etc

I wrote more about the technical details here. Feel free to try it out and open PRs! https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws/status/177558959544044376...
do I read your tone right, and you suggest that would be a reason to celebrate for someone? for whom? you believe the aim of the Israeli military action is territory?
It's a tragedy of the commons situation - you might be able to buy 90% of the land for a "reasonable price" (which is hard to define - depending on the type of land use, the value of the owner's entire plot would change significantly by having a train going by every day, sometimes greater sometimes lesser), but if the remaining 10% don't play ball you can't have the train.

So the government is in a position of "we'll give you X for this, but if you don't agree we'll just take it from you", which is a... non-Texan position for government to be in, to say the least.
OK but was that before or after 2001?
> I wonder how mature Ugreens software is comparatively.

To be fair, it's not like this software is going to be really complicated. At the end of the day it's just a web front-end to more mature tools. I don't think it's going to be too difficult to compete.
They are to an extent. Cirrhosis is permanent. Other conditions such as fatty liver are reversible-ish.

The issue is that the liver is basically fully functional until after you’ve destroyed ~88% of it.

For a tortured analogy it’s a lot like a DB. Most of them time you’re well under your total capacity. Even short spikes in queue length aren’t an issue. But once you hit the tipping point there are cascading failures.
To be fair, I don't think the rationale is really "if they have nothing to hide...". More something having to do with whether privacy is something that should come along with the legal arrangement of, say, an LLC.

> just that the blanket argument "X shouldn't get to be secret because I don't think they have a legitimate reason" doesn't differentiate between these two cases.

Not only these cases -- that argument won't differentiate between any cases ;-).

Better I think to make sure we really understand the arguments being made. Good chance the real argument isn't quite _that_ bad.
The targeting problems in this war seem much more serious than "friendly fire still happens."
Than what? Not the average.
Not to mention that universal, by definition, refers to earth already. Universal does not relate to universe any more than carpet relates to car.
Still a lot of work to be done before that point, but I'll write at least 1000 prompts (some synthetic, some hand-crafted) based on the "arrow notation" I posted here[1]. The fine-tuning itself is actually quite easy[2] as long as the data is properly formatted. After, I'll have to quantize the model (which I've never done before, but doesn't seem too hard).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1be5b4x/finetun...

[2] https://exnrt.com/blog/ai/mistral-7b-fine-tuning/
I think because if you're not growing, you're dying. Or so the saying goes.
> Interestingly, western media did not beat itself into a frenzy over it at the time

Western mainstream media has been very passive when covering the current situation in gaza, especially when you contrast it with how they covered the war in ukraine just 2 yrs ago. Its just that social media has allowed people to break through the canned media narratives.
How the xz backdoor highlights a flaw in Nixpkgs/Hydra
Plus seceding would probably hand control of the House over to Democrats. (Oh how the tables have toppled).
The case you've presented is "China does it, so we should too", which is not all that strong of an argument.
Brief History of Scaling Uber
Don't you lose a lot of the niceties of Elixir when switching to Gleam, just because Gleam is a younger project? LiveView would be the big one I'm thinking of. Do you see that as a worthy trade?
> the Cayman Islands was assumed to be super secret and shady ... it turns out the Delaware was waaay more heavily used and way more secretive

Ugland House in the Caymans. 10,000sq ft, 5 stories. Registered offices of forty-two thousand companies.

Corporation Trust Center at 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, "home" to over 285,000 Delaware corporations.
That last paragraph is different though, it’s using stem cells to make liver cells, not using the patients liver cells directly..

I have no idea why not, but my wife does a lot of work growing different cell types from stem cells, and my understanding is that that’s still like.. they think they are making cell types a, b or c, but it’s a lot of uncertainty. What they really do is convert the stem cells into cells that express m various markers/pass various tests that the “real” cell type also express.. but it’s really hard to know that it’s actually a 1-1 match.

Just yesterday she was lamenting they were making astrocyte cells, and many of the cells in the colony instead became.. something else, unclear what, maybe not even a cell type that exists in humans normally?

Either way: using healthy liver cells from a healthy liver would be a way to ensure you actually really have liver cells, and not something that just sorta duck-types as one
Tangentially, I just found out in a routine test that I have a condition called "gilbert's syndrome" [0]. It's harmless tho. It came from my parents, it seems. My dad died of liver cancer, but I don't know if he was diagnosed with that syndrome and if they were related.

[0]. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gilberts-synd...
> And then you have countries like Germany where you get thrown in jail for being upset at Israel.

Back in 2002 or so, a friend of mine swore blind that an American had been arrested for wearing a "give whirled peas a chance" T-shirt — which is an anecdotal way of saying: are you sure you've got the full story?

I'm learning German by listening to „Langsam Gesprochene Nachrichten“ by Deutsche Welle, and it definitely looks like a lot of people are less than enthusiastic about how Israel's forces are conducting themselves in war despite the constant note that Hamas is (1) a terror organisation that (2) started this particular round by killing 1000 civilians: https://www.dw.com/en/israel-withdraws-from-gazas-devastated...

Germany is also extremely sensitive to every aspect of this due to the events of 80 years ago.

Reports I've seen from the BBC show that there are significant protests in Israel, by those who consider the war to be justified, against their own government, not only for dropping the ball by failing to prevent the initial attack, but also for driving a wedge between them and their closest allies with the conduct of the war: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68722308
That's the mind-cancer speaking.
> Time and time again the people of Oregon (and specifically Portland) try to show goodwill towards their fellow man. Raising taxes on ourselves is a hobby. Time and time again the legislature makes the money disappear, implements XYZ poorly, and creates a failure.

That feels like this policy in an ouroboros-esque nutshell -- doing something for just reasons, but without working through the realpolitik implementation details.
Proof that services written in Erlang CAN go down!

(Though it's probably DNS...)
You've completely ignored what I just said. Competitors can leapfrog each other but it's not happening instantly.

Gathering personnel, performing the necessary research, training, post-training red teaming. Each of these things take months of time and millions of dollars. That competitors are reaching GPT-4 level a year from it's release is perfectly normal and indicates nothing. Google released the paper for Gopher a year and a half after GPT-3 and that was never intended to be a product.

>In all the fast moving/low barrier

GPT-4 level compute is not low barrier. That's literally the main point of this paper.
AI-generated songs are getting longer, not necessarily better
this reads more like content marketing for a private college based in Texas than a substantive academic commentary.

The author has several associations, but his official title on LinkedIn is: Director for Economic Growth at George W. Bush Institute
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cullum-clark-09549159/
The distinction is how much a mistake gets punished. In chess, a tiny oversight might lose you the game ("Oops I didn't saw you could take my queen").

In poker, a huge mistake like "whoops I dropped my cards accidently open on the table" is "let's not bet this round" as if nothing happened.

Let me give you some real life examples so you can spot the difference.

Security always falls into the "don't make any mistakes" category. A small oversight might jeopardise your entire system. Some back door was open and nobody realised it. Whoops!

In startups, like I mentioned, when you solve a critical problem for customers, your UX can be terrible, your production can be inefficient, your product can be full of bugs. If your product solves a critical problem, it's still a big win for your customer, even though all the rest is terrible. This is exploiting an opportunity.

In sports, take basketball for example, the game is much more forgiving with mistakes compared to something like gymnastics. In basketball, a missed shot or a turnover isn't the end of the world; you have multiple opportunities to recover and score points throughout the game. However, in gymnastics, a slight misstep or a fall during a routine can severely impact your overall score, leaving little room for recovery.

You could also look at investments for example. In stock trading, especially day trading, a single mistake can lead to significant financial loss, especially if leverage is involved. It's a game where covering all bases and being cautious of every move is critical. On the other hand, venture capital operates more on the principle of exploiting opportunities. Venture capitalists invest in several startups knowing well that most will fail, but a single successful investment can cover for all losses and bring substantial profits.

In the end, knowing which game you're playing is essential. I see plenty of people trying to cover all bases when in reality it's the opportunity that really matters. If your personality is one more than the other, you can take a profession that leans into your strength.
Caveat emptor.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/02/university-texas-aus...

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/09/texas-legislature-ab...

Said it for years, thinking you're safe because you live in a comparatively liberal community or subculture within a state dominated by right wing zealots is foolish in the extreme.

They "came" for "immigrants," trans kids, gay marriage, women's rights, etc., and they're going for more.

I would never move there, I won't travel there, and my daughters sure as f--k won't apply to colleges there or take jobs there.

Not until Abbot and Paxton and Cruz and their ilk are gone forever.
This is the kind of realm I'm fascinated by: taking an existing chunk of something, respecting the established interfaces (ie. not asking everyone to support yet another format), and seeing if you can squeeze out an objectively better implementation. It's such a delicious kind of performance gain because it's pretty much a "free lunch" with a very comfortable upgrade story.
Not trying to be flippant, I'm genuinely curious. If everyone was as honorable as you and decided to stop working for the military industrial complex - do you think China and Russia would just sit back and say "That's cool - we didn't want Americas land/resources/overseas territories anyway" ?
Maybe it's like Amazon's cashierless stores that turned out to be mostly powered by 1000 humans working behind the scenes.
Name a company that is legal to run that SHOULD have it's owner's identity hidden...

Only those that dwell in darkness fear the light. Exposing who own these LLC's seems like a solid 'pro-truth' move for America.
Seems like a pretty vacuous article if “megaregions” are so poorly defined. Anyone who has ever driven between Spokane and Portland or Seattle knows it could hardly be considered “mega”.
So I think a lot of people say that they’d rather print photos at a drugstore (or some other online service), which totally makes sense. But if you completely ditch printers at home, which kind of makes sense; where do you feel safe printing contracts & medical docs? Kinkos & the library don’t feel like good alternatives … Is there some place that is good / safe to do this??

Also, what if HP is actually intentionally getting all of use to hate printing on paper altogether? Maybe this is the biggest corporate tree-hugger event in the history of mankind. Nah, no way … it’s definitely money grab.
The article doesn't really explain the approach taken, to serialize data at the function call boundary.

Haskell supports a C API/ABI directly, as does Swift. E.g., Swift String can be shared as cstring, i.e., a null-terminated byte array, with no allocations needed. Since both languages support the (per-platform) C API/ABI, that would seem to be the best option, with home-grown serialization a risk (or perhaps a fallback where necessary).

In most cases, Swift simply handles the C-type without needing any special bridging. In some cases of ambiguity, you can add attributes on the C declarations to tell the Swift compiler how to handle the data and call.

Haskell also supports a range of C-ABI annotations, but that's on the Haskell language side, likely invisible to Swift.

A super-helpful contribution would be to see what range of types bridge without annotations and what additional types can be handled with annotations.

But since the author did go to all the effort of marshaling, they must have discovered unavoidable limitations. It would be most helpful to know what those were!

Edit: here's a tutorial for swift calling Haskell from 5 years ago, before the huge changes in Swift 5.9 for C/C++ interoperability:

https://github.com/nanotech/swift-haskell-tutorial/
They have to scale, and they don't see it as a problem.

Like the author says, at a certain point, you've saturated the market. Everyone who wanted M2 Macbook Pro has one, but still, the institutional shareholders come knocking, demanding more money so that retirees can move into that villa on the golf course in Florida and consume until the dementia sets in.

So what do you do to keep the shareholder returns coming? You expand into new markets, or create new markets, or create new products. Thus, you grow in scale.

Again, to them, this is not a problem. Most of the people involved in the actual workings of this system - executives, fund managers, financiers, etc. - are getting more money out of it than they could ever hope to spend in a lifetime. There is no downside the system produces that their wealth cannot overcome. The rest of us... well... we're annuities.
> The use of goto is unambiguously correct and elegant in some contexts.

For C, absolutely. For C++, it's likely a footgun.
The real question is - do the legitimate reasons outweigh the negatives? The stated reasons are pretty flimsy - are they worth not knowing who owns 1/4 of Manhattan?
The OpenTofu developers take tremendous care in ensuring that no code comes from Terraform post-license change.

The claims in this post are just absolutely nonsense and if you look at diffs of the files given, they look a lot different to me. This article is a Gish gallop of public relations.
Show HN: AutoTransform – Self-Healing Data Transformations
I was well on my way to retiring in my 40s. And then I started a company and funded it with my own money. And now I’m broke :)
Luckey founded Anduril, not Palantir.
I wonder if water balance plays a big role. Like, you drink water but it easily gets absorbed by your stomach or small intestine before it gets a chance to work it's way down with the food. Then as the food is passing through, the water dries up. It's as if your body wants the water more than the intestines. Drinking the extra water with the nuts may help because of that? Just spiralling
It would still be nice to see a comparison to JPEG XL.
> B., a senior officer who used Lavender, echoed to +972 and Local Call that in the current war, officers were not required to independently review the AI system’s assessments, in order to save time and enable the mass production of human targets without hindrances.

> “Everything was statistical, everything was neat — it was very dry,” B. said. He noted that this lack of supervision was permitted despite internal checks showing that Lavender’s calculations were considered accurate only 90 percent of the time; in other words, it was known in advance that 10 percent of the human targets slated for assassination were not members of the Hamas military wing at all.```

So, there was no human sign-off. I guess the policy itself was ordered by someone, but all the ongoing targets that were selected for assassination were solely authorized by the AI system's predictions.

This sentence is horrifically dystopian... "in order to save time and enable the mass production of human targets without hindrances"
Not trying to propose anything, but if anyone needs some evening rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
Yeah, got a whole bunch of unread
Fun weekend project but definitely not production-ready (no tests, no error handling, concurrent requests will cause a race condition, etc.). If readers are looking for something production-ready to use, consider https://github.com/go-redis/redis_rate (which implements GCRA/leaky bucket), or https://github.com/ulule/limiter (which uses a much simpler algorithm, but has good middleware).
If I get that right the test is a single blinking led. I think it's much harder than detecting a flickering motion.

I can definitely tell 30 vs 60 vs 120fps when moving a mouse cursor for example.

For flickering LED light bulbs (120/100hz) I usually notice during a rapid head movement that something is off. Or that the light is blindly bright to look at while at the same time what it illuminates doesn't feel as bright as it should be. I learned to assume that it means the light is flickering, because I can easily use my phone to record a slow motion video for confirmation.
Why a monkey has never written a Shakespeare play (but AI might)
Risk any American soldiers? Definitely not. Support with drone strikes, sanctions, intelligence? Already doing that.
Just like BlackBerry and Nokia.
Trump Media's Founders Are Fighting