skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"... I’m sure I remember a much younger Eliezer Yudkowsky cautioning that Doug Lenat should have perceived a non-zero chance of hard takeoff at the moment of its birth."

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rJLviHqJMTy8WQkow/recursion-...
The speed of light and great distances are indeed a limiter, but the universe has been around for billions of years. Even with the great distances, an interstellar civilization that's been around for millions of years would have had plenty of time to find us by now.
When you read some source code to learn how to do anything, do you attribute it? It’s the same thing, attribution doesn’t apply to training material.

You want to explicitly forbid AI training, not require attribution.
Indeed, this can be way further optimized.
For example, you can probably do a wasm-strip and wasm-opt passes that would leave the wasm file being ~5-10Mb. Still very big, but a bit more reasonable.

The good thing is that thanks to Nuitka you could actually do some tree shaking and only include the imported files and not everything in between (although this might break other behavior such as eval and so).
You also can try https://github.com/gistart/prometheus-push-client as well as a https://github.com/paksu/pytelegraf
In C++ virtual functions are polymorphic and indirected, with the target not known to the compiler. Devirtualization gives the compiler this information (in this case a final method cannot be overridden and branch to something else).
Read usernames when replying. You are not replying to the op.
Why? I find it awesome.
It's text size 14px + a relative thin font + font with "serifs" + #404040; instead of black. Which is a gray which looks black but is 25% white.

I.e. thin small text of a font type which is well known to yield less good results on screens with unnecessary low contrast == bad UX.

Sadly way to many people today assume in their choices (sometimes without realizing it) everyone has mac book level HiRes OLED display and good eye sight where this should still looks quite fine (the contrast is better due to the screen, the font might lock wider due not using traditional sub pixel anti-aliasing, and the serifs aspect is less "bad" on high resolution displays).

But if you display it on a 1080p ISP display (assuming it's a decent 1080p ISP display) it will not be a very pleasant experience in a very subtle way due to lower contrast potentially thinner text and serifs in generally leading to decreased readability on non HiRes screens (hence why for years the general recommendation was not to use them for digital content).
Ask HN: Is this normal ask from a VC?
To set the right context, this is specifically in India. I know someone currently raising about 100k USD seed round. It's a D2C product that's doing well and just needs cash to expand. I thought he wound't have any issues raising but he keeps running into what I feel are predatory VCs.

A lot of them seem to want advisory shares *on top* of their investment. This makes no sense to me. Aren't the shares provided for the money given enough? To me it seems like they want to get a "discount" by being given more shares. They seem to love using this as a negotiating tactic.

There are also some "syndicate" leads that seem to want advisory shares for just helping raise. Is this normal?

I only have experience in the bay area, and I've never heard of any thing like this. i.e. trying to double dip into advisory shares, and asking for shares just to connect to people. Has the market changed? Is this the new norm?
There is this rather recent development of growing wine under searing sun in almost desert, some pictures here:

https://www.orvignac.com.na/our-story

More general info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibian_wine
Oh easy, there’s not appropriate license yet. Some organizations need to step up and create a license that forbids AI training. But it will probably not happen because of "but is it libre open source" useless debates.
Fine on android firefox.
Worst visualization ever for a study about obvious correlations (that are misrepresented as a result of the poor display of data).
The adversarial relationship was basically the publishers' choice.

Remember that Amazon was willing to basically treat eBooks like normal books - negotiate the price they pay with the publishers and then sell the books at whatever price they want. The publishers are the ones who forced the agency model where retailers are forced to sell at a set price.
>This "law" is only for point (or spherical) sources, i.e. those emitting evenly in all direction

We're not talking about lasers and directional antenna here, we're talking about humans using radio communications to talk to each other on Earth over the last 100 years, and whether that's detectable from great distances.
I agree, but I hope we can solve this before their loved ones become collateral.
Yes, you can do it. They are the “list of articles”. You add up to 5 links and they are summarised and read.
PicoGK – a compact and robust open-source geometry kernel for Computational Eng
Training on your code and using your code are very different things. As a human, if your code is open, I can read it, learn how it works and reuse my knowledge to create proprietary source code without infringing on your license.
They would have a much better idea what to do with VR goggles though, because serious research into that area had already been happening since the 60s (and then had it's first massive consumer hype in the mid-90s).

Also Star Trek NG had both communicators and handheld tablet devices with touch screens. Not a great leap from there to modern smartphones.
I’d recommend setting up the laptop to accept RDP connections so you don’t have the added friction of physically opening a laptop nor the burden of having the laptop occupy space somewhere within reach when you are required to do the windows specific work.
Antarctica, perhaps

Powered by what?

Solar panels in a place where the sun doesn't even rise for months at a time? That big beefy transmission grid that the Antarctic continent is so famous for? The jillions of oil wells already drilled into the Antarctic?

Oh wait, I know: penguin guano.

Pass the crack pipe, you've had enough my friend.
More analysis at https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/ghost-implements-activitypu....
Generative music using cellular automata
NASA's Voyager 1 resumes sending engineering updates to Earth
In general USB chargers work with Apple devices. You just need another cable. Cables are small, fragile (so do not last anyway) and have minimal impact on transport or waste production.

While legislation can be changed, it takes time and influence to do so. What manufacturer would introduce a new charger unless they are sure the EU would allow it? It essentially means it will only change if a big manufacturer lobbies for it BEFORE launching products, or if a standard gets established in the rest of the world before the products are launched in the EU. Not exactly encouraging innovation.
You might get more useful responses with a more descriptive title that includes "India" and summarizes the problem.
$300 board (I'm including shipping and customs) is not low end. Low end FPGA boards are ~30$ these days.
Try recording yourself playing video games. You will quickly snap out of the illusion and realize that you're passing through life staring at a screen.
Every time I want to try a book I open up Libby and then get angry about this stupidity.

So I just go to the better library - genesis, which is free and unlimited.
Attribution doesn’t apply on training. We’d all be screwed otherwise, it would mean you’d have to attribute everything you learned while reading open source codes to every codebase you read every time you write code.
I'm currently writing a book about the What? How? & Why? of Bitcoin.

For me, the gain and street cred I will receive from having completed a book is invaluable to me personally.

I'm writing this book in Dutch, so I really don't expect any sales. Okay, maybe a few if there was another bull-run and frenzy, but that's not why I am writing this book.
> They wanted to hold opensource devs legally liable before

No, the legislators hadn't considered open source software at the early stages. Once that gap was realised, there were negotiations and exceptions were carved out.

> It just hurts EU innovators while benefiting everyone else

Believe it or not, but the EU's higher priority is EU people and consumers, not startups. It will be possible to run a startup under CRA, just as it is now possible under GDPR.
So where is that "Street cred" going to come from when no one knows you have a book because no one bought it?
I'll try to build my own corne keyboard so I recently dived into custom mechanical keyboard rabbit hole, which seems to be more of a black hole from which nothing comes out, not even light.
(Plot twist: I have no experience in soldering, so that's gonna be fun...)

Otherwise, ThePrimagen pisses me off always talking about Neovim and Vim motions, so I am right now in the painstaking process of learning Vim motions and I want my life to end because of the learning curve.
He had to breathe in a breathalyzer - a standard procedure in Europe during most traffic stops, no cause needed at all. The police charged him and he defended himself.
TSMC's debacle in the desert: Missed deadlines and tension among coworkers
> ChatGPT because of GDPR concerns.

In which direction? being worried to use other's data or worried about your own users data leaking out?
Four quick thoughts:

- We haven't solved this already? Who hasn't tried to read some code and couldn't tell O from 0 or l from 1, etc.?

- Aside from ambiguous characters you have to be aware of spelling and leet spelling. e.g., 53X, S3X, 5EX, etc.

- FFS stop with the 10+ character strings without spaces or hyphens. There's no reason for that.

- Not everyone has perfect vision. Ambiguous characters *and* less than perfect vision (often with not spaces / hyphens) is a mortal UX sin.

We've all been on the wrong end of these, and yet they are common enough - in 2024??!!? - that they need to be mentioned here.
Unblur image with advanced AI face enhancement
Yes and no, a communist system (so, not the USSR) doesn't need protests because people take part in the decisions. See the way Chiapas was run, or the Commune de Paris. Unfortunately as soon as such a system is brought up it is crushed by the alliance of capitalist forces uniting against their common enemy.
My guess is this has nothing to do with short term profits, but rather it's hard to make search robust to SEO. If you're right, Bing search should be better for recipes since they don't benefit from Google ads on these websites. Is it the case?

Even if Bing is better, that might be simply due to the small player's advantage: Google's market share is so large, they have essentially the whole economy of the web investing in SEO against their search quality, adapting quickly whenever Google tunes the algorithm. Meanwhile Bing can tune their algorithm and nobody cares.
And these new experts will be human... or AI?
The paper was written by Dijkstra, and even he doesn't like how it's become some kind of mindless mantra, instead of a warning against spaghetti code which it was. He never meant that you should never, ever use GOTO.
Good list, thanks. I have a couple of years professional experience as a software dev and worked in the embedded space too. Nowadays I am in security and that is definitely an area of interest.
I'm saddened by the responses here. It's not older users' fault. Design teams at leading tech companies have gotten a free pass for designing mcmansions in software without realizing that kids weren't the only generation being damaged when we designed this mess. My only hope now is that a Jonathan Haidt and Tristan Harris arise from the ashes to protect the elderly without blaming them for software design mistakes arising over the last 3 decades that could have been avoided. Finance paved the way for abuse of the elderly. Sadly, big tech has picked up that torch and run with it.
Again, iCloud is super-opaque, so it's hard to know exactly what's going on.

As far as I can tell, when you add a file to an iCloud folder, it indexes it locally, uploads it, and the index sticks around even after the file is evicted from local storage.

So for example, right now I searched for an address I haven't used in 10+ years. On my computer, Spotlight immediately found a PDF file that wasn't stored locally. However, I added that file from my computer, so it's in the index (presumably). If I do the same search from my phone, nothing is found, though searching the filename itself still works.

It would be nice if the index data itself were transmitted between devices, but, you take what you can get and it's pretty impressive as it is.
Bug, misunderstanding, weird edge case…
The two reviews with Twitter profiles [0][1] are very obviously generated by an AI-powered astroturfing service. Their only replies are repeated shilling of this and other products.

The page says you're 'trusted by 1600+ customers'. Were none of them willing to give a testimonial?

[0] https://twitter.com/KylieGaffn76609/with_replies

[1] https://twitter.com/lizpelly881/with_replies
> You do not understand GDPR. It is a burden even for businesses or non-profits that keep a minimal amount of data and do not trade it. As with all Eu regulation it is designed around big business. It actually helps the like of FB because they are more able to push people into agreeing to let them use their data.

It's not a burden to have to do common sense things. Is it a burden not to leave medical or private or financial data publicly readable stored on a share everyone can access? Yes, it is, but when you have such data you also have a responsibility to protect it. Since private entities were incapable of that, GDPR tells them how they should do that. Reminder that Americans that do not have access to protections such as GDPR, have their private information leaked frequently, and abuse is rampant (any random company you interact with selling whatever they can - be it telecoms, services, up to Grindr selling HIV status).

> I disagree. It stops new connectors being introduced (because you will still have to provide USB-C). There is little gain: essentially slightly lower sales of charger cables.

There's an explicit mechanism for the connector to be refreshed periodically, so no, it doesn't.
According to that article, it beats Yandex among desktop users.
Also, in 2009 someone suggested re-implementing Eurisko[1], and Yudkowsky cautioned against it:

> This is a road that does not lead to Friendly AI, only to AGI. I doubt this has anything to do with Lenat's motives - but I'm glad the source code isn't published and I don't think you'd be doing a service to the human species by trying to reimplement it.

To my mind -- and maybe this is just the benefit of hindsight -- this seems way too overcautious on Yudkowsky's part.

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t47TeAbBYxYgqDGQT/let-s-reim...
Writers Festival program: basically you have a 100+ authors, a handful of venues, and 3 or 4 days to run the festival. The nature of writers festivals is interesting because there are a lot of panel sessions (multiple authors on the one session). The formulated problem is to produce a valid schedule such that the number of required accommodation nights is minimised - ultimately to reduce operating costs.
I have been running HA for four years. I wish them luck but it's hard for me to imagine they will succeed at going beyond the tinkerer demographics and becoming a consumer brand. A few reasons:

- It has improved a lot over the years but it is still not polished enough for end users who want the thing to just work. Every integration works in a different way. The recommended way of managing z-wave devices changed three times since I started using it.

- Similar hubs already exist commercially and all of them failed to reach a wide audience. The Apple approach of bundling the hub with the Apple TV is a great move in my opinion, consumers are excited to get the latest shinning Apple product, none of them would care about a home hub.
> Is EURISKO famous in US only?

It was featured in a BBC radio series on AI made by Colin Blakemore [1] around 1980, the papers on AM and EURISKO were in the library of the UK university that I attended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Blakemore#Public_engagem...
Turn of the woke tide will leave many stranded
I would recommend you to upload everything using Netlify since it's free and you just have to click 2 buttons.
In this way, you may have a demo online, which is the overwhelming top advantage of the web compared to anything else around programming.
For a moment there I thought it was talking about this high school project,
https://www.eurisko.us/
Thank you!

If you haven't played Noita it's basically a "falling sand" or powder physics game where every pixel is simulated. You need a special cellular automata that is not your typical game physics engine, so I don't think Babylon.js would be a good choice but I may be wrong.

I've modeled my architecture after this fantastic GDC talk by the Noita devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXuyMCgbTc ("Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita")
Great example. Similar design patterns result in similar user experiences irrespective of platform. Who would have thunk?
Covid-19 vaccines and adverse events of special interest
Ah yes, just last week me and my fellow billionaires at our secret biannual conference in Geneva were discussing how we can prevent people from reading books at the library. See, people reading is a threat to our power, one which we take very seriously. It is not going to be easy, especially seeing how many of us have donated millions of dollars to libraries and a few even have wings of libraries named after us, but the threat is too severe now, drastic measures must be taken.

Now seeing how people are on to our plot, the urgency is clear. I am proposing that over the next few decades we work secretly behind the scenes to gradually reduce funding for various local libraries which have seen visitors decline since the rise of the Internet.
Or we could agree that that's ridiculous and not allow companies to own such things.

Free speech is a right. Interopability should be a right. Any infringement of those rights better gave a damned good reason. It's profitable isn't a good reason.
And that shader that makes everything glows... most of us aren't checking gaming releases on Steam so it just broke a barrier maybe.
Windows file explorer parses files in the folder you are looking at.

It does things like read jpg files to get the date that that a photograph was taken from the EXIF data, read eml files to get the date that a saved email was received and read mp4 files to get "DateReleased" or "DateEncoded".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230921-00/?p=10...
For me it’s the image thumbnail cache, my 4090 can run crysis but somehow the images in file explorer are all placeholders (cpu is busily thumbnailing images which exist offscreen)
The last days of my type checker for JavaScript
I am working on a desktop TOTP manager app, because it's super hard to switch to phone everytime I want to login somewhere.

https://github.com/Sparkenstein/tautp

you can guess what it's written in, don't use it yet, although it works but I store data in plaintext for now, looking for cross-platform solutions to encrypt it but so far no luck. will be adding lots of features soon.

plus there's https://github.com/fosslife/devtools-x too
Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty
I made this 10 level Game. Excited for people to try it. :) Stay Balanced :)
Never seen a "download DRM-free ePub" option for any Amazon book url but if they have that, the Internet seems to not know about it on a cursory search.

If you mean it downloads the book exclusively to the Kindle app in a proprietary format only that app can read, then it is just a different form of DRM a user has to hack around.
Well, you could change your user agent string.
> 1981 IBM PC costs $5240 in inflation-adjusted 2023 dollars ($1565 in 1981 dollars)

I bought a clone in '83 for $350. I think it was overclocked to a blazing 8 Mhz. Here's hoping VR follows that slope.
I did, you can find the Ghidra extension there: https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

The problem is properly identifying the relocations spots and their targets inside a Ghidra database, which is based on references. On x86 it's fairly easy because there's usually a 4-byte absolute or relative immediate operand within the instruction that carries the reference. On MIPS it's very hard because of split MIPS_HI16/MIPS_LO16 relocations and the actual reference can be hundreds of instructions away.

So you need both instruction flow analysis strong enough to handle large functions and code built with optimizations, as well as pattern matching for the various possible instruction sequences, some of them overlapping and others looking like regular expressions in the case of accessing multi-dimensional arrays. All of that while trying to avoid algorithms with bad worst cases because it'll take too long to run on large functions (each ADDU instruction generates two paths to analyze because of the two source registers).

Besides that, you're working on top of a Ghidra database mostly filled by Ghidra's analyzers, which aren't perfect. Incorrect data within that database, like constants mistaken for addresses, off-by-n references or missing references will lead to very exotic undefined behaviors by the delinked code unless cleaned up by hand. I have some diagnostics to help identify some of these cases, but it's very tricky.

On top of that, the delinked object file doesn't have debugging symbols, so it's a challenge to figure out what's going wrong with a debugger when there's a failure in a program that uses it. It could be an immediate segmentation fault, or the program can work without crashing but with its execution flow incorrect or generating incorrect data as output. I've thought about generating DWARF or STABS debugging data from Ghidra's database, but it sounds like yet another rabbit hole.

I'm on my fifth or sixth iteration of the MIPS analyzer, each one better than the previous one, but it's still choking on kilobytes-long functions.

Also, I've only covered 32-bit x86 and MIPS on ELF for C code. The matrix of ISAs and object file formats (ELF, Mach-O, COFF, a.out, OMF...) is rather large. C++ or Fortran would require special considerations for COMMON sections (vtables, typeinfos, inline functions, default constructors/destructors, implicit template instantiations...). Also, you need to mend potentially incompatible ABIs together when you mix-and-match different platforms. This is why I think there's a thesis or two to be done here, the rabbit hole is really that deep once you start digging.

Sorry for the walls of text, but without literature on this I'm forced to build up my explanations from basic principles just so that people have a chance of following along.
Deepfreeze was a staple of cybercafés in the 90s and 00s
> An American colleague left Denmark so his children could grow up in the USA, but after about 3 months came back because the children missed their personal freedom. (Freedom to walk/cycle home from school, see friends without needing parents to drive them, etc.)

I saw some videos recommending the Netherlands as the safest and one of the family friendliest places to bring up your children. It was about safe bicycle lanes and safe ways to and from school and all that. Cannot recommend Germany in that regard, because education system here sucks and bicycle lanes are not cleared quickly and early in winter, or not at all. Also many car drivers here feel too much entitlement to speed in the city.
https://godotengine.org/ and export to web .
Well reality should know that someone can obtain any of your property via drugs and torture.

But through multi-sig, time-locked contracts, multiple wallets, bitcoin is more difficult than most.