skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turing's original paper [1] seems to have no such anthropocentric bias. His description is completely mechanical. Out of curiosity, rather than disputativeness, do you remember where you saw that sort of description? Turing's Computing Machinery and Intelligence paper seems to meticulously exclude that sort of language as well.

You have read me backwards. I am firmly of the opinion that the last few decades of research has entirely and completely panned out. The topic is clearly in the mind of theorists in 1950. But I'm pretty sure early computer architects were more interested in creating better calculators than in creating machines that think.

[1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf
It's like too negative. It's like abusive. You when you have something positive and celebratory and happy, and you have all these people come trying to hate on that. That's what I'm seeing there, that's what I don't like. Gratuitous, abusive negativity that is jealous of happiness and ends up even derailing good discussion. Hahaah! :)
I think that they knock stuff over to cause noise, that would send mice that are hiding in corners running, and then they could pounce on them. They are not hunting the stuff that tey are knocking over, they are using it as lure for the hidden mice. The same reason they like to squeeze into tight spaces, that is where the mice are likely to be.
Then why aren't they reducing the maximum number of non-digital holds? (or did they already have that limit?)
The substance of this news release is incredible, but its style is also admirable. The authors managed to convey in seven paragraphs a concise and comprehensible explanation of how the team resolved the technical issue.
An F-150 Lightning, with one pedal driving turned off seems like it'd fit the bill
But it’s clear that there is no penalty or enforcement budget that will prevent a black market in hard drugs. You will have heroine and fent users, there is no way to prevent it.

So, how do you minimize the impact to everyone?
Has your mom heard of Tesla? Would she think of EVs when it’s time to buy a car? These are not fully mainstream consumer markets so the overlap between “aware of Elon” and “potential Tesla buyer” may be greater than you think. Tesla is famous for having low/no marketing spend, relying instead on word of mouth. Elon has always been at the center of the brand.
That comment may be telling the sad future, even if by accident. The technocracy is embracing hardcore materialism, that is: the idea that consciousness is a mechanical process somehow produced by atoms. Once that idea wraps someone's mind completely, it doesn't take long to conclude that a biological organism is a very complex robot, not different in principle from a machine powered by AI. And since AI is the greatest of all machines...
Raspberry Pi Media Center Louder version is here
I've done the DRM ripping in the past, but from what I've understood Calibre or other tools are unable to do that for the latest DRM variants Amazon is using. Is that correct? I would like to back up my entire Kindle collection as it is now.
Funny that the linked blog author whose company produces a very popular investing podcast (compound and friends) like to say only boomers answer surveys. Only just recently (last or previous episode) they found a hilariously large discrepancy between surveys and real world data. Surveys are probably the least reliable and least accurate data sources. You can't trust them to be even directionally correct.
We already do. It’s called LLama 3 70B Instruct.
LOL! So, this used to happen a lot when the kids wanted to play with the grandparents phones. So, I explain nicely to everyone that the devices are out of bounds for everyone and no-one touches the devices any more. That solves that. However, on rare occasions, there are needs to enter the Apple password -- my wife have a few other cousins who helps out. For parents with no access to external help, I suggest printing out on a paper and keeping it safe (use a font-size large of a serif fonts). If your local language is not English, complex password but based off the local language are easier -- (in locale) my dear friend's NAME that died during WWII on this DATE, etc. ;-)

Update: For cultural context and to avoid confusion with others around the world who have separate living spaces, my in-laws lives in a pretty large sprawl of almost a colony on their own with their brothers, sisters, cousins, and the entire families. On Google Maps, I had actually named the central home of that locality (my in-laws) to a specific name based on their family name -- making it easy for deliveries by post (Amazon, Post Office, Air Cargo deliveries, etc). In that part of the world, addresses are not precise and still goes on word of mouth.
I’m not sure I buy that Excel is a declarative language. Sure it looks different from your traditional imperative language, but still Excel doesn’t have much wiggle room to interpret your instructions.
They've been buying AI companies and have nothing to show for it.
Hahah yeah based on your misinterpreted comment thread hahaah! :)
You’ve never been behind a parent and two kids at the automated book return? I have seen kids with 30+ books each. Usually the parent has a bunch too. I’ve also seen people with dozens of videos too. Usually older folks who may not be able to enjoy reading as much anymore or maybe enjoy the background noise in an empty home.
Australia shouldn't have rights over content worldwide simply because it was filmed within Australian borders - what if Russia, or China or Israel used this same reasoning? They would be able to block Westerners from seeing anything happening in Crimea, or Xinjiang or the West Bank that makes them look bad. This is total overreach. If our government wants to block us from seeing something, I'm still against it - but where do they get the right to decide what the entire world can or can't see?
I don't have a language for it... I've been stuck at analysis paralysis for far, far too long on this one. The code I did write, was all figured out by hand.

I'm thinking it'll have to end up being a set of equations, much like the tables that get spewed when you compile VHDL for an FPGA.
Except for the scale on the right. Which suggests that the nematode worm could be simulated reliably in 1998, but here we are in 2024 and still can't do it...
I read the article, not just the headline, that’s how I knew the kid was a philosophy student.
Hahah! :) yeah in the context of the negativity on this thread and the changes in the comments it might seem like that but in a different context it will look right hahaah! :)
> much faster than zsh script completions

I'm curious where did you get that from.

Edit: I read the note in your dotfiles repo. Yes calling `compinit` on each shell invocation is going to be really slow. That's not how you're supposed to do it, you could at least add the `-C` flag to cache the completions. Ideally you'd also use `zcompile` to compile the cache to ZSH word code. This puts my completions initializing time at ~20ms on a lower/mid-end laptop. Additionally you can do the trick `fish` does and defer the initialization of completions until the first hit of Tab key, so the impact on shell startup time is exactly 0.
I operated a small online only car and motorcycle dealership in California in 2008.

My friend owned a 4000 sq ft warehouse that was licensed for automotive repair, but all he did was run a NASCAR team out of it, prepping the car there for races.

Being 2008, he fell on hard times and wanted me to move into his place instead of a popular strip mall location I was in (that had a 20 year old conditional use permit in place for car sales I rented under).

The city would NOT let me operate an online car dealer from his warehouse. They wouldn't sign off for it for the DMV. They said car repair was one thing, but if I wanted to sell cars from there, even online, I needed a conditional use permit process to approve it. It was several thousand dollars, and they could not provide any insight to tell us if it would be approved.

So I didn't move. My friend lost the place. And it sat empty for EIGHT YEARS. Because my local city government wasn't sure they should allow me to sell cars from a place... A place that technically was allowed to have it's entire storage yard full of broken down cars in various states of disrepair if it wanted to.

Great decision on the cities part...
I sincerely hope one day they get off their asses and implement casting that their predecessor, overdrive, had.

speaking of, btw, your library likely has 'partner' libraries where you can borrow stuff too using overdrive/libby. You can often see a list on top right of the overdrive page of your respective library.
It's not disruption to make me wait 5 weeks to read a digital file through my local library's Libby service. It's an outdated business model using artificial scarcity that isn't effective at getting books onto readers devices. Spotify doesn't make me take out a hold on the artist I want to listen to. Netflix doesn't make me queue to watch the latest release.
Yes the power budget is decreasing as the generator output decreases over time.
To me that’s the crazy thing. You give a 4/5 and immediately you’re asked what was wrong.

It’s also why Netflix moved tot the thumbs up/down system. When they moved into new territories their recommendations system had troubles since some territories would rate everything as “bad”, because in that territory 3/5 meant it was fine and they enjoyed the show.
I have now moved the live demo site to this url:

<https://demo-dashboard.this-is-not-a-drill.com>

You can also find it via the home page: <https://this-is-not-a-drill.com>
I don't think they can do that with my calibre, and calibre-web collection lol.
Eelco is founder of DetSys who very likely has a contract with Anduril.

Rather than recuse himself from the sponsorship discussion, he argues in favor of allowing anduril.

Clear conflict of interest.
> accepting a small set of known-safe characters is much safer than accepting any character and hoping it will be properly escaped at every level

It's also how you end up with apps that people can't use because they reject their perfectly valid legal name, address etc.
> As a consumer, when you buy an e-book or e-audiobook, it costs about the same or sometimes even less than the print book version. But for libraries, the e-book or e-audiobook version of a title actually costs up to three times or more than the print version.

> This is because publishers use a licensing model for selling e-books to libraries. Each copy of a digital book title requires a purchase of a license. While there are many types of licenses, the most common license needs to be purchased and then re-purchased every year.

Something went very wrong in negotiations here. That's all I can say. Who allowed this deal to be penned in its exact fashion? The first publisher to set the pattern probably got a huge payday that should have never existed. LTV of the library should be cheaper vs the individual buyer because volume, but >3x!???!!

I love public libraries. I grew up in them as a safe place to hang out after school waiting for my working parents to be able to get me.

It makes the funding pie shift materially from other things like facilities, staffing, etc. If you're unfamiliar with the Seattle area, the Public Library covers a number less privileged neighborhoods where a safe place is very much needed. This actually makes me angry.
It's way past the time for software engs to unionize. We're here defending and attacking this story which is one of many while meanwhile these mega corps run away with billions. Seems painfully obvious to me.
Wasn't this on the front page of hn a day or two ago?
isnt there a logical twist in all this.. The problem is that
there are so many _different_ books. I have a house not exactly filled, but certainly loaded with books. So people certainly buy books. But of each book, I seldomly have more than one or two.
It's a bit like random numbers
filling the interval 0-1.
each number has 0 probability, but they fill out the infinite space 0-1 fully.
But how horrible it would be to only have the 10 best selling books. The bible, anyone..
Libraries are one of the most socially equal institutions we have. They are crucial to lower income families. I’d rather those who don’t want to join the queue simply use their money to buy the material than let them buy their way to the head of the line.
I haven't had much trouble focusing on reading on computers, my only expectation is for the device to be touch screen and a pressure sensitive pen. The touch screen makes moving through pages trivial (for casual reading on say, my kindle, I have the habit of laying back and just tapping with my nose to flip pages lol) and the pen makes it trivial to mark up more serious reading material. With paper books I tend to not be near them right when I need them, and tend to be too wary of just marking them up. With digital stuff, and all the syncing we have between devices these days, I pretty much always have multiple devices at hand where the material is accessible.

I do still prefer physical books for things like art, I find it easier to study it and understand how it's put together that way (maybe because a physical copy forces me to look at the piece as a whole, rather than getting distracted by and overfocusing on minute details that turn out to not matter until I grasp the whole structure). However, even there, once I do understand how to look at the art, I can go with the digital version just fine.
> the idea that consciousness is a mechanical process somehow produced by atoms.

Where do you think consciousness comes from?
My Harlan Ellison anecdote comes from trying to a get a book signed.

My friend, S, had a “signed” Ellison book. My other friend, G, was going to try and get it signed at a local convention.

Finally tracking Harlan down, my friend saw his chance. Harlan was talk to another gentleman, but my friend pushed his way in and talked to Ellison.

“I signed 5000 of these fucking things!”, he cried.

“Well I don’t know if it’s real”, said G.

“Give me that!”

In S’s book Harlan Ellison signed “G - the signature below is real!”

The person G pushed out of the way was Ray Bradbury.
Minutiae – anti-social media app
> I think I can sum up what I’ve learned like this: The Big Five publishing houses spend most of their money on book advances for big celebrities like Brittany Spears and franchise authors like James Patterson and this is the bulk of their business. They also sell a lot of Bibles, repeat best sellers like Lord of the Rings, and children’s books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar. These two market categories (celebrity books and repeat bestsellers from the backlist) make up the entirety of the publishing industry and even fund their vanity project: publishing all the rest of the books we think about when we think about book publishing (which make no money at all and typically sell less than 1,000 copies).

I know this is in some way an irritating thing to say, but this is exactly what I would have guessed before I read the article. It's cool to see numbers put to it but I don't think this was a secret.

I am struck by the coda where the antitrust intervention did nothing to preserve a healthy market. Kind of a common story.
Here is the research on which the article is based:

Wang, R., Yang, S., Wang, M. et al. A sustainable approach to universal metabolic cancer diagnosis. Nature Sustainability (2024)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01323-9
Can't you just run the program inside a VM of some sort and encrypt the whole image that way? I guess during runtime the contents in RAM won't be encrypted, but when the image gets saved back to disk, it should be.

e.g. in Parallels, they have built-in AES-based password VM encryption: https://kb.parallels.com/8832

Or in VirtualBox: https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/virtualbox/6.0/adm...
HN submissions tend to be in the front page when they receive a bit of early votes within (roughly) the first hour, but they disappear rather quickly without further votes. Given that this submission was only 3 hours old when you posted this comment, it is quite expectable. (For the record it's now in the fifth place, suggesting that it has eventually received enough votes to stay in the front page later.)
It is the modern lexicon, it's from the game of thrones.
Did you mean page count? For the novels I read, 200-300 per volume seems common. This seems comparable to the English novels I have, so it feels like less money for roughly same amount of content.

Because many light novels come in series that are spread over several volumes, it's arguable that it costs more money to finish a story because you have to read all these volumes instead of one monolithic tome. I buy the volumes one by one as they are released and don't feel that the individual books are that expensive, but someone catching up on an old series might feel different.

If you mean physical size, the average English books does seem physically larger than the average Japanese book.
If it's done badly, the same code that runs N times also gets cached N times because it's in N different locations in memory rather than one location that gets jumped to. Modern compilers and schedulers will eliminate a lot of that (but probably not for anything much smaller than a page), but in general there's always a tradeoff.
I'm the opposite - I read many times faster than audio, so I have big problems with using e.g. Youtube to get information. It feels agonizingly slow to get the information over. I feel like I could get that in two minutes of reading versus listening for half an hour.
When I read novels I take a few pages - depending on what I read - to get my mind into the story, and from then on what's written isn't text on paper (or e-reader) anymore, it's just a story unfolding in my mind. I don't "see" the text.
Is there? Lots of people read books digitally. I am sure more than 50 musical artists reached more than half a million people.
I think that when people release new interesting software products it's good for hardware companies.
Yes, they do. I believe it starts around 10% based on what I've heard from authors of not-tremendously-high-selling books. My friends who self-publish get much, much more. I believe digital sales/loans are also immune from "returns" or other chargebacks that apply to physical book sales.
Hugging Face Paper Page and Discussion: https://huggingface.co/papers/2404.14219
Ask HN: Is there a tonedet like software for Linux?
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/ToneDet.shtml

tonedet is a wonderful little software that does exactly that.

it stays in the background and detects if a specific tone is heard and just runs an exe.

I am asking if a similar functionality exists in linux world so that i can run some automation based on sound, like from a bell or some alarm in the room or door opening and closing and stuff like that
A More Lenient Theory of Casual Reference
Eurisko (Gr., I discover) is a discovery system written by Douglas Lenat in RLL-1, a representation language itself written in the Lisp programming language. A sequel to Automated Mathematician, it consists of heuristics, i.e. rules of thumb, including heuristics describing how to use and change its own heuristics

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko
Not particularly, no. Nothing specific. The semantics of the language lend themselves well to an implementation in hardware. I had a sketch in VHDL in the time I spent developing this.

This means that the above sample is effectively your "assembly language". There was no gap between your programs and the hardware they ran on.

Modal can be used to write small utilities, games, programming language implementations, type systems.. the list goes on. It's a fully general meta-language that can be used for general purpose programming.
I kind of feel like JEDEC isn't taking the problem seriously.
Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon
It looks similar to Tailwind UI and other free and paid alternatives which components you can also reuse and modify at will.

But it's always good to have other options like this one.
+1 on the __attribute__((cold)). Compilers so aggressively optimize based on their heuristics that you spend more time telling them that an apparent optimization opportunity is not actually an optimization.

When writing ultra-robust code that has to survive every vaguely plausible contingency in a graceful way, the code is littered with code paths that only exist for astronomically improbable situations. The branch predictor can figure this out but the compiler frequently cannot without explicit instructions to not pollute the i-cache.
> you meant 12 tokens/sec

Thanks! The HTML version on archive.is has messed up markup and shows 1212 instead: https://archive.is/Ndox6
Makes sense. I am just curious about the logic behind the algorithm, more than anything else.
I think most cats secretly attend Cat University whenever their humans are away to devise new ways to be as annoying as possible. I suspect a few cats have earned triple doctorates.
Whether it be by demographics, credit collapse, Taiwan invastion, or just authoritarian incompetence, the world and especially the US are moving away from China-centric manufacturing.

The US needs to get its drug war policy in line, but so much is on the line that I think the cartels are going to become a point of "special emphasis" in the coming decade. Mexico is going to become the center of manufacturing for the US in all likelihood.

The cartel/drug civil war will come to an end as part of a broad sweep of investment and interest by the United States. I just don't see the cartels maintaining their political/corruption power when the stakes become so much higher.

The cartels either need to legitimize, or they'll probably get a healthy dose of US military forces attention and be ground to dust.
I feel like literal dictionaries would make good training data; wonder if any of them have done that. LLMs are good at faking so it's hard to tell by asking them.
It's hard to tell because it's satire without a stance. They're at least as confused as the apparent targets of their satire.
Even if it you were correct that it didn't mention the high computing expenses (ie, capital requirements) involved and the resulting inability for anyone but large companies to do much, why would that matter?

What exactly makes it impossible to properly discuss gatekeeping by academic cliques without also discussing the permissibility of economic free enterprise?
To put a concrete number on "tons" - when I was a kid we'd frequently check out 300 books at a time, and the reason the number was 300 was that library cards had a limit of 100 each, and my mom, my dad, and I each had our own library card. Any time I was home sick from school they were all used to check out books for me; and yes, we would go through all 300 of them. Kids' books are pretty short.
It's ridiculous. I'm curious what the way out of this clown show will be - governments aren't typically known for being good at cutting back bureaucracy and red tape.
I deep-dove into the identity of a spammer. They were sending me the crappiest, absolutely lowest-denominator hodge-podge of spam. Fly repellent, ultrasonic dog whistles, knives. It all seemed like legit businesses, so it was just some marketing firm that bought an email list somewhere.

Whenever I get spammed, I check the email headers. Turns out they were using an email with the owner’s initials in the unsubscribe header. From it, I was able to easily guess their actual name. I found them on LinkedIn! I used that, plus the list of all the domains they used for marketing and sending mails, to build a pretty comprehensive map of their operations.

I thought for a while about what I could do with this info… but in the end, reporting them to my country’s consumer rights authority for spam did the trick. No reason to get in trouble myself, as fun as it could be.

So the lesson is: look at email headers! There’s fun stuff in there!
I actually have stopped telling stories thanks to that skit.