skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you see wrt/ porn and liberation, including sexual liberation, is a step forward, not the end result. So it's not going to be perfect, it's going to have people abuse it and others through it, but the solution is not to go back, but to incorporate what we learned from it, and move forward. Respectfully, Wilhelm Reich is a pseudoscientist, I can't really take his thought on the matter seriously, especially on matters which evolved quite significantly since his observations.

People really do control other people through not just coercion. We can see a modern way of doing this in governments and corporations, currently being called Public Relations.

Consider that control cannot be exercised completely arbitrarily. Most of the time, people who want to control have to use what they have available, so that other people don't resist as much. This means that whatever is there, it will be used for control, but it doesn't mean that the thing exists for the main purpose of control. This is circling back to liberation of all sorts - these don't happen because they want to control us, liberation is happening as a large-scale social change and people who want to control co-opt it for their own purposes. Since it's happening either way, it's an opportunity for them to further their own goals as well.
This is completely usual for IoT/networking devices. It’s the longstanding reality. They just come at this stuff differently.
Used this library quite a bit. I still have no idea if there is a good reason this API is not packaged within huggingface/transformers.

Probably historic reasons, anyway solid 9/10 API.
What's a fair price for a budget-friendly hosted version? Lower upfront cost, or maybe a revenue share? We've aimed at enterprise deals for the paid edition, keeping the open-source version widely accessible. Keen to hear your thoughts on adjusting our pricing.
You can compute the integer square root in n/2 iterations where n is the number of bits in the source using just shifts and adds. For each step, check if a new bit has to be set in the result n_old by computing

n2_new = (n_old + (1 << bit))^2 = n2_old + (n_old << (bit + 1)) + (1 << (bit*2))

Then compare it with the source operand, and if it's greater or equal: 1) set the bit in the result 2) update n2_old with n2_new

It can be done in n/2 or perhaps n clock cycles with a suitable microcode instruction set and ALU. With some effort it can be optimized to reduce n to the index of the leftmost set bit in the operand.
I already use an HP48 emulator that pulls ROMs off the Internet on iOS. It has been around for a long time.

I suspect that most of the rules were to prevent Sega or Nintendo getting pissy and start suing Apple.
There is nothing of value to gain from such analysis. Even if evidence turns up, it would be even more flimsy than graphology.
Yeah. It’s a pretty old-hat way of thinking. The ‘unified authentication database’ ship sailed long ago, for better or worse.
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying. Are you saying that 60 years of profit on a product that's been churned out in quantity for 70 years is a small fine?
I think you misunderstood the parent comment, unless they used "on fire" in a negative way.
Is there a told-you-so list somewhere that catalogues these ongoing negligences? I'd love to see a comprehensive of the things that are known now, but not well-known yet.
We are all speculating.
We unfortunately see it far too often - corporate crimes that are punished with simple fines that become the cost of doing business. But we all know it's not justice. Justice would be criminal charges against the people within the corporation that actually did the crime.

We're long overdue for some change here.

Are there are any politicians or bills (past or present) that have floated the idea of exposing shareholder skin in the corporate game? If these people were threatened with serious prison time, capital punishment, or even worse - being forced to drive a used Kia the rest of their lives (materialists couldn't bear the shame), we'd see far less harm being done.
Yup. Happens everytime.

Months adding features for something no one will ever use.
Honestly, this doesn’t seem like that high of requirements. There are tens of thousands of companies that are doing more spatial data processing and are using standard cloud databases just fine.
Much earlier than quantum mechanics, they are extremely useful in electrical engineering. And even before that (historically) - their 4D generalization, quaternions, are extremely useful to describe 3D rotations.
Where the comic title usually is, avove the top 'Random' button. It just say 'Machine'.
Like London's later urine deflectors

https://web.archive.org/web/20231001094443/https://londonist...
I think we need a philosophy of the philosophy of mathematics to build an understanding around this...
Microsoft is working on sound recognition AI technologies
Thing is, over here the urbanization rate peaked at 62% in the late 90s and also started declining because people increasingly moved out of cities into the suburbs due to the sheer inability to get a mortgage on any city property.

Despite that prices went up across the board.

The most egregious example this is a city(Łódź, Poland) which between 1995 and 2020 went from 823k inhabitants to 658k at a steady pace, all while prices going into overdrive mid last decade.

There's clearly little demand from people who actually intend to live in the homes they purchased and government statistics confirm that.
More agents is all you need: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39955725

This works because each trip through the LLM with the same question uses a different random seed (temperature).

You're averaging randomness through a statistical model. You're going to end up with a repeatable result. You're not going to end up with an accurate result.
Even if you can hear them, you can't tell where they are unless you can also see them.
There was system part in developer settings which they removed AFTER you bought the phone. Thus clearly removing functionality that was supposed to be there.
Calling something trivial if you have the gdp of a small nation on hand is pretty much the opposite of what trivial means.
IMHO there are different ways to design a version control system:

1. The SCSS/Git way, aka the hacker way: look at what we can do with existing stuff, and use that to build something that can do the job. For example if you're one of the world's expert on filesystem implementations, you can actually produce a fantastic tool like Git.

2. The mathematician's way: start by a model of what collaboration is, and expand from there. If your model is simple enough, you may have to use complex algorithms, but there is a hope that the UI will match the initial intuition even for non-technical users. Darcs did this, using the model that work produces diffs, and conflicts are when diffs can't be reordered. Unfortunately this is slow and not too scalable. Pijul does almost the same, but doesn't restrict itself to just functions, using also points in the computation, which makes it much faster (but way harder to implement and a bit less flexible, no free lunch).

3. The Hooli way: take an arbitrary existing VCS, say Git. Get one of your company's user interviewer, and try to please interviewees by tweaking the command names and arguments.

The tradeoff between 1 and 2 is that 1 is much more likely to produce a new usable and scalable system fast, but may result in leaky abstractions, bad merges and hacks everywhere, while 2 may have robust abstractions if the project goes to completion, but that may take years. OTOH, method 3 is the fastest and safest method, but may not produce anything new.

So, I am the main author of Pijul, and I also don't quite see how to do much better (I'm definitely working on improvements, but not technically radical). But the causal relationship isn't the one you may be thinking: it is because I thought this was the ultimate thing we could have that I started the project, not the other way around.
>To get a true AGI, we would need some kind of architecture that is able to not just learn functions by example, but also grant these functions all the computing power they need to run and thrive.

Computers can’t simulate Turing machines reliably either, and for the same reason.

This is probably true for humans also.
What kind of hardware? For home networking? Ubiquiti is okay. As bugs in these enterprise/SMB networking gear worth a little $$$ so there's at least people looking for low hanging fruits.

The best option however, is to find a recent MediaTek-based (because they are currently the most upstream-friendly WiFi AP SoC vendor) home router with vulnerable firmware (for easier flash lol) and replace the firmware with OpenWRT.

For NAS just build your own, or buy used rack-mount servers off eBay and leave them in basement.
Are you talking about the _responsibility_ that is the justification for paychecks in the millions? It seems to end somewhere before jail sentences for most execs...
Except sinusoids are special in that they are natural solutions to the Helmholtz wave equation. There's other problems too like square waves having infinite energy. This article might make sense to a mathematician or computer scientist but neglects the underlying physics of sound and waves.
XigmaNAS
There is a throve of "X singing Y" (like "Beatles singing Billie Jean") clips on YouTube right now. Most of them are boring, but some are funny and entertaining. RN it requires a lot of manual work to generate, although some models and a lot of datasets are already available on Huggingface.

Suno, or its next clone, will dramatically close that technological gap; no army of lawyers could stop it. I would brace for impact into a short interim period of dead talent revival. Then, newly synthesized, superhuman artists will emerge.
The most concerning detail for me is how to acquire the rights to the ROM.
Can anyone who legally purchased it upload an emulator of a popular game to the App Store?
Cotsen Research Projects: Lothar Meggendorfer's Mechanical Books (2012)
As I said in another comment down below. Currying is great for rapid prototyping because you dont have to define a new function. eg. add1 and add(1) which you then can use for map/reduce or pointfree programming. In production code it often makes more sense to be a bit more detailed and verbose to make it readable for devs who are not familiar with currying. But abstraction in general is not something that is "bad".

high level abstraction can make you very productive, but it can also be rather unreadable. e.g. two code snippets in python (yes this is valid python code with some operator overloading):

# compute pi by drawing random numbers in a circle

1000000 >> ψ( ψ(χ>>op("(x**2+y**2)**0.5<1")@rlµ<<χ)>>Σ*4>> _/_)

or this:

# 10 fibonacci numbers

[x:=[1,1]] + [x := [x[1], sum(x)] for i in range(10)]

I would of course not use that in production code, but for a rapid prototype it is priceless to do something like this in python.

just my 2 ct
LLMs are "close enough" solutions. Which should never be used where "close enough" is not good enough. Like Turing machines. Or most things really.
https://archive.ph/MY5BD
We're diving first into creating an alternative to one of Stripe's key services which is billing. We especially building billing on areas where Stripe struggles, like mixed or usage-based billing models.
That clearly doesn't work. The fines are often less than the profits made. And the individuals and shareholders have already made a fortune by the time the payments come due, and can just move on to the next company and do the same thing there.
If you can walk this way / and this way | then you can do / minus | to get your orthogonal -
Curious about the choice of FAISS. It's a bit older now, and there are many more options for creating and selecting embeddings. Does FAISS still offer some advantages?
> TrueNAS/FreeNAS whatever it’s called these days - a real OS with real vendor and community support keeping the project alive and up to date is just necessary.

and for routers there is OpenWRT. For example Turris is built on that and provides automatic firmware updates, that's a huge security benefit for those devices:

https://www.turris.com/en/
'Reggaeton Be Gone': This homemade machine silences neighbours' music using AI
Have I woken up in some universe where the word “backdoor” doesn’t mean what it used to? I am used to backdoor implying malicious intent on the part of the vendor / author, or something left by an attacker. I’m just not seeing that here. This just looks like utterly unsurprising incompetence on the part of a consumer networking / IoT gear manufacturer.
Yes, I know what a literal ‘back door’ is, and yes, I know that “make it look like incompetence” could be a strategy.
I’d partially blame people being all hot and bothered about xz, but I can see that these files were committed two weeks ago.
Ask HN: Differences between hobbyist emulators and professional ones?
By saying hobbyist emulators I mean the various NES emulators, MAME and similar products -- not necessarily of "lower" quality, but definitely not used in, say, defense industry.

By saying professional emulators I mean the ones used in the defense industry, serious embedded development and such.

Thanks for any input.
10 miles per kWh seems very optimistic even in 100% city driving only in nice weather.
I thought they’re not telling them in the USA because the USA effectively are blocking them from being sold via trade barriers and tariffs [1], meanwhile EU is buying a ton of EVs from China [2] and planning to block them with tariffs as the US did [3].

So it doesn’t sound like it’s a quality issue, sounds like that’s just your outdated opinion of Chinese manufacturing. If the western world wants to make the argument that they can do it better, then they need to do it better.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/chinese-e...

[2] https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/one-in-four-ev...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilwinton/2024/03/08/if-europe...
This is XKCD worthy! Send it to Randall
> $6 a day is probably an unprofitable VC subsidized rate to gain market share

..if it were in *North America.

One of Helixx's goals is to replace the two-stroke tuk-tuk. Completely different market with very different economics. It may be viable, maybe at $8/day and not $6 considering current inflation, but still.
We're diving into creating an alternative to one of Stripe's key services which is billing. Especially focusing on areas where Stripe struggles, like mixed or usage-based billing models. We do offer a great UI/UX ;)
Thanks, this is a very thorough explanation.

Is there really no way to cache the 'cachemount' directories?
Just a nit pick, we got to the moon also on the back of slide rules and 3 significant figures of pencil scribblings by thousands of shirted engineers. The computer and calculator side bit is somewhat over-explained because it was sexier.

Also, my mother was a calculator once. In the UK. For petrochemical company. It was really boring so she went to smoke weed and fix radios instead as it was the 60s by then and that was cooler.
The Bet Bill Gates Made on a Digital Personal Assistant – 10 Years Ago
Although if it’s not classified as a car or van then it doesn’t need to pass crash tests or have a high speed so then maybe it’s just a glorified golf cart and at low speeds 10 miles per kWh might be realistic.
If you spotted it, it means than images have a greater impact than words.
NES emulators in the defense industry?
All on a single host, or is this spread across multiple servers? Curious about how people run it with the latter approach if they do
To be fair when you click the button:

* it throws a.big warning text

* it lists out all the resources you're deleting

* you have to type out the name of the subscription

* click another button

* and then another yes I'm sure button with more warning text

At the end of the day they have to provide a button.
> But the system existed where people were incredibly negligent for years, knew they were hurting people, made boatloads of money, and retired.... It is individuals making these decisions, and they need to be held personally liable.

Maybe people who have more than, say, 20 million dollars should be personally liable. This seems like a very conservative middle ground, because, as you say, these people have sometimes knowingly made decisions they knew would result in deaths. Taking away only some of their money is the least of punishments, and they would still be left rich and very comfortable.

This should apply to almost anyone. I get that regular people deserve some protection from liability for just doing their job, but at some point society is paying you so much money that you owe us a little personal responsibility in return.

Maybe it could be structured such that when a company is sued and loses, the company can then sue past employees who made the wrong decisions. Again, this liability would not be able to reduce an individual's wealth to less than 20 million, so employees don't have to worry about being completely ruined, but people shouldn't be able to control society warping amounts of wealth when the source of that wealth was incorrect and possibly corrupt decisions.

Let's try including some responsibility with the merit.
Hah! Not even close.
I liked the part where we even razed their buildings
Probiotics in kombucha found to mimic fasting and reduce fat in C. elegans model
Another option would be easier corporate death — all shares instantly voided.

The government could decide what to do with the company, fold it, or sell it for scraps.

Yes, there might be motivation for the government to “kill” companies for profits, but there is exactly the same (and proved many times!) issue with putting people in prison, so I don’t see why companies should get a special exception, they are “people” as well, or so I’m told.
Unraveling this and dumping NSS would probably have a measurable increase in security and isolation. A backdoor xz thing in libnss would be catastrophic.
Get https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui running on it as well, it's fun.
These fines should just be paid by shareholders (backdated to whoever profited from their misdeeds)
I'd rather effort was put into providing public toilets and urinals - public urination is the symptom of not enough facilities.
But this would have to be limited to cases where you can prove personal intent or personal gross negligence by the executive.

Otherwise you’re effectively making companies illegal.
What’s the cheapest machine I could
Buy to do this?
If powerful or opportunistic criminals were at risk of being criminally charged by the government, they're then utterly incentivized to influence and control said government.

And that has already happened since forever, which is why you have to ask if there are politicians threatening this. It's all already tied together.
I like the Quantum BogoSort as a proof of this /s
> This just looks like utterly unsurprising incompetence on the part of a consumer networking / IoT gear manufacturer.

Then how about Xiongmai NVRs [1]? Can I say it's just an incompetently implemented debug feature left enabled in production?

[1] https://habr.com/en/articles/486856/
But Amazon uses a custom homegrown usage based billing, not relying on Stripe Billing. This is why Lago exists, to offer a flexible usage-based billing architecture for companies offering usage based or hybrid billing without having to build everything on their own.
this will wipe out a few years of profitability

They've already recognized most of the loss, so most of the impact on profits is in the past. From the Q2 2023 10-Q:

During the first six months of 2023, as a result of ongoing review and recent developments in ongoing environmental matters and litigation (including the proposed PWS Settlement), the Company increased its accrual for PFAS-related other environmental liabilities by $10.3 billion and made related payments of $38 million. As of June 30, 2023, the Company had recorded liabilities of $10.9 billion for “other environmental liabilities.” These amounts are reflected in the consolidated balance sheet within other current liabilities ($0.3 billion) and other liabilities ($10.6 billion). The accruals represent the Company’s estimate of the probable loss in connection with the environmental matters and PFAS-related matters and litigation described above. The Company is not able to estimate a possible loss or range of possible loss in excess of the established accruals at this time.
Ask HN: How did you make your product more popular?
I've created a pretty useful app that has received a very high positive feedback from users. Its landing page[0] currently attracts about 100 visits per day and has a good conversion rate. Most of this traffic comes from word-of-mouth and my occasional posts on Reddit and Twitter.

I am confident that the app could benefit more people if only they knew about it. However, I have no idea how to improve my traffic any further.

In the past, posting on HN and Reddit has helped me bring in new users and customers. However, I know that I cannot always rely on this without risking the perception of spamming. I have also experimented with search ads, but people usually don't search for apps to help them with eye problem and hence it wasn't very successful.

I plan to start a blog soon, though I am aware that it's a long game and it might take me years to see any benefits.

I would be grateful to hear how you have made your product popular. Are there any strategies I am overlooking, or perhaps unconventional methods that could attract more attention to my product?

[0]: https://lookaway.app
Plasma 6 and Me
How does that compare to gpt4all?
Also the amount of non-renewable resources used and emissions goes up 7-15x
Evidently not, as few are willing to pay a large premium for them.
There are legal ROMs from the homebrew community, so it's definitely possible.
The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club (2014)
Awesome. There are some beautiful emulator front ends on macOS that will now come to the iPad.
IronLev has demonstrated the first-ever magnetic levitation test
Perhaps they figure the risk is worth it compared to the increased premiums.
It isn't, because eventually the size of your logic or table becomes larger than the distance a signal can propagate in one clock tick. Before that, it likely presents practical issues (eg, is it worth dedicating that much silicon)
It's more expensive than AWS RDS and Google Cloud SQL, but their service seems more comprehensive, with fast major version upgrade, multi-cloud deployment and built-in PgBouncer integration. For business critical operations, it is probably worth it.
Also Vultr https://www.vultr.com/products/managed-databases/postgresql/
Finally fun games
Which is part of the problem. LLMs don't like doing things step by step.

You can force an LLM to go step by step with an external tool that continually re-prompts with each step, but the challenge requires a single prompt.

When you try to do prompt engineering to make it go step by step before telling you the answer, things go off the rails after a handful of steps.
I am already starting to hear from product managers that they want to replace simple deterministic code with llm solutions. There are certainly domains where it makes sense to use these tools but I am afraid they are good enough to essentially make a shiny sales demo for anything that we are gonna be inundated soon with unreliable services.
Funnily enough, the value of a home in Japan decreases over time to converge to a value of 0 over +/- 20 years.

That doesn't mean that the land it is built on has 0 value, but it vastly changes the financial dynamics of home-owning, and would also remove the nonsense linked to home = wealth.

With the reasonable assumption that the build quality of home in Japan is no worse than in the rest of the "Western world", it really puts the whole real estate financial racket into perspective.
I never thought you could make HN substantially worse designed, but apparently, here we are.