skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think they are learning how the digital world works for the first time? Can you give a specific example please?
Compilation speed matters, among other things, and monomorphization is often costly.
That is a great suggestion, thank you!

I think he wants to tinker, and learn more about how they work. What I neglected to mention is that he's already learned to program (developing Android apps, and he's also learned Python). He is a very bright and curious kid.
Reminds me of Microsoft Access in the 90s. We used that to run our entire repair business and it worked great.
I read the persons comment differently: reading between the lines I see them saying that the Chinese government finds other ways to work around the rules in bad faith.
> Your education was not a lie, but you should still get a refund on your failed education. You clearly did not learn to think critically.

I read both Chinese and English, and I read both the opinions of within GFW and without. If anything, I've critically analyzed every idea from both sides. I can't fathom the hubris of someone who has ever lived on one side yet believes his truth is the ultimate truth and anyone disagreeing must not be thinking critically.
Why nuke the moon? Detonating a series of nukes in high earth or lunar orbit would demonstrate just as much capability with far fewer risks. Hell, you could even detonate them in an elaborate pattern (stars and stripes?) just to show off.
Ugh, in that GDPR notice, collecting data for personalized advertisement and measuring avert performance (tracking behavior for ads) is turned on by default as “legitimate interest” and this data is shared with tens of partners. Legitimate interest is for direct marketing, but this is not.
Anzac Day 2024
It's nice to see a contract go to someone that isn't Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, or Boeing every now and then.
The condition is that it requires non-stop flights.

For those coming from or going to "feeder cities", there are often no direct flights. That's what the issue is for our friends as they are both coming from, and, going to feeder cities in the U.S.

For us, no U.S. airline offers direct flights from the U.S. West coast to Geneva. There are many routes but they are all connections through NY, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, etc. Swiss Air also has no direct flights from the U.S. West to Geneva, but they do have direct flights from an airport over three hours drive from our home to Zurich. Six hours driving round-trip is a hassle but at least possible (sometimes requiring an airport hotel stay for very early or late flights). From Zurich it's an easy one hour flight to Geneva and from there a couple hour train ride to the school. Fortunately, Swiss Air (and a lot of international airlines) have no problem with 13+ year-olds connecting. It's been 13+ for a long time because I did it internationally when I was a kid - and that was the era of carbon triplicate paper tickets and no cell phones :-).

I think Lufthansa changed their policy a few years ago only because they code share so much with United. It's really the U.S. airlines that started changing from 13 to 16 being the minimum for unaccompanied connections. I suspect a U.S. airline had some unaccompanied connecting teen go AWOL and got sued over it, then their lawyers decided the legal exposure just wasn't worth it. Unintended consequence: free-range and outward bound Summer camp and school experiences got a lot more expensive and challenging for U.S. 13 to 15 year-olds. The international boarding school our daughter attends is terrific (and going was her idea). It has students from over 80 countries but they told us there are a lot fewer from the U.S. in the last five years.
Interviewees rightly complain that whiteboard coding exercises are unfair -- some people don't perform under pressure. A take home exercise is the solution for that. Make it time boxed (say 2 hours) and the interviewee can use any resources that they want (which is what happens anyway when working).

In our experience, not everybody gets the code correct (at least according to our test cases). It then turns into an interesting exercise to ask the candidate how they would fix the code to deal with the failing case.

When I was in a startup consulting company, candidates were asked to prepare a talk on a topic of their choice for 20 minutes and allow another 10 minutes for questions. I suspect that many candidates did not realize why they were being asked to do this -- we need to know whether they could get their message across in a limited amount of time, and be able to manage an audience that was throwing them off track. The smarter ones would realize when they were being side tracked and ask the question "Can we deal with these questions later as I'd like to be respectful of your time?"

I think that all candidates should realize that in nearly all cases, they are being asked questions, and to do things, for a reason. It may not be the reason that it appears to be on the surface.
> The thing that I don't understand is why people need studies to tell them they should skip desert, leave the phone on the counter, go outside, and ask your neighbor how they're doing.

I don't want to. I want them to find a different solution.

And eventually they do. The solution isn't skipping dessert, but rather Ozempic.
> Wanting more people to vote is a safe side of history to be on I think.

This is going to be a hilarious statement in 20-50 years.

It's funny because on HN of all places, where all wildly successful companies are ran as absolute monarchies, and all the devices we type on are produced by companies ran as absolute monarchies, there's this undeserved reverence for "democracy" as if it's some sacred church or something.

If the voting population is so easily swayed by a video scrolling app, maybe, just maybe democracy isn't such a good idea? Would you work for a company where the CEO makes important decisions based on the amalgamation of 30 second videos that happen to come across his/her feed? I wouldn't. I don't think I want to participate in a country ran like that either. I'd expect the decisions to appear schizophrenic, which quite frankly describes our current political situation in the US.

Like, we have 100K+ fentanyl overdoses a year in the US, and I don't see any TikToks "informing voters" about that. No one cares. In fact, I don't even expect normal people to care about it---in a healthy society they shouldn't even be aware of it. It would take a special person, who is egoically invested in the health of his population to change that. Someone like a startup CEO, ala Washington, Jobs, etc.

So no, you're not on the "safe side of history" by advocating for something that's politically fashionable at the moment. History is written (and re-written) by the winners, and I wouldn't put my money on "democracy".
I personally prefer less code and more explicit casting
Factorial Energy and LG Chem sign MOU on solid-state battery development
I am objecting to their initial motivation: it being surprising that "small" DNA changes lead us to be vastly superior to Apes.

They suggest in the disappearing ink thought experiment that this is because the genetic change is sufficient for us to pass some critical threshold (allowing cultural transferences of ideas).

That is a completely different from my complaint. I complain that they subtly mischaracterize how we should think about DNA changes. The number of DNA base substitutions is a pretty meaningless metric in the context they are attempting to use it.

I dont disagree with their argument that there can threshhold changes and that cultural accumilation might be one of them.
Both can be true at the same time, though. With one reinforcing the other.
Here you go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

Enjoy the data.
Technically it's the investors who lost the value :-)
Small claims court is slow and laborious for all parties. Airlines have realized it’s better for their bottom line to just settle immediately out of court once they receive a small claims summons.
At that point I'd just use a class constructor.
If I remember correctly, they refunded it to the card I purchased the flight on.

This was through British Airways.
And to a new-ish company like Anduril, too! Palmer Lucky and Co founded it in 2017 which is baby years for a lead defense contractor on a major project like this.

IIUC this is the Wingman program for the F22 and F35 so these aren't "slow" drones like predators, these are going to be high performance jets. This is a serious contract!
Never free and periodically crashing by OOM killer is rarely used but can be useful in limited circumstances. There are some shops that arbitrarily kill any worker over X hours old under the hypothesis that a memory leak is present or probably present.
Or just validate the binary you download then none of this even matters—for this or any other sort of potential vulnerability, your updater will never end up running untrusted software with escalated privileges.

HTTPS is providing confidentiality, and authentication.

The confidentiality doesn’t really matter here. You’re distributing a software installer. There’s a good chance you’ll give a copy to anyone that visits your website and wants to use your software. And you’re not hiding what you’re downloading in any meaningful way.

The authentication is important. That prevents someone from, say, sending the user a completely different binary and having your software run it.

The authentication could just as easily be solved by signing the files you distribute and validating the signature of the downloaded update before running it.

(Hell, if you’re signing your installers (likely) it could be as simple as deferring to Windows’ WinVerifyTrust method and a check that the certificate used is actually your own.)

Debian still distributes packages primarily over HTTP (https://www.debian.org/mirror/list) without issue.
Yes, pressure is not the same as coercion. The 5th circuit is a notorious conservative circus show, I’ll wait for the Supreme Court’s decision.
Hmmm interesting. I have an anecdote to share:

I've been suffering from presbyopia for some years (I'm 41 now, and it seemed to start getting pretty bad around 38 or so). My eyes also often feel dry, itchy, and half-closed. I have floaters in my left eye. If I open both of my eyes very wide, and cover only my left eye with my hand, the problem becomes much less severe.

When I went to an eye doctor, they used a drug, placed in eye drops, to force my pupils to dilate, which I gather is typical.

Not only did these drops provide fast-acting relief from the feelings of dryness and itchiness, but my vision also improved markedly for about a day and a half afterward.

I reported this to the doctor via a phone call, but they either didn't seem to believe me, or didn't seem to care.

I haven't found a solution yet, but I do wish that those drops were commercially available for me to use for experimentation.
I think this is missing the point and not seeing where the technology is going. For generative art, right now it's basically prompt in -> image out, with no iterative process. But I can tell you that in coding, which is a creative endeavor, it is not like that at all. It is highly iterative. You go back and forth shaping the implementation, exploring ideas, veering off into tangents about some obscure encoding question, or this or that. The point is, coding with a GPT is an iterative, creative process, where you as the operator bring all of the human elements like vision, purpose, ingenuity (the truth is: the solution usually has to come from you when working with a GPT, but the GPT is invaluable in the exploratory / prototyping / sounboarding process).

There is a famous video of Picasso painting a fish on a backlit screen. If you imagine what is happening in his process, it is iterative: he envisions a shape, and then his brain communicates to his hands to produces the shape; then he looks at the shape and his brain envisions another shape to build upon the existing shape. This happens over and over. You can see the process at work in the video. It is iterative, there is a feedback loop, there is the human element -- that is creativity.

Now imagine there is someone who has a vibrant mind like Picasso's, but he has a bodily injury such that he cannot use his limbs. Imagine he gets a Neuralink implant that enables him to interface his mind with a generative AI that is able to represent on a screen what he envisions in his mind? This takes the place of Picasso's brain communicating to his own hands to put things on the screen. Instead this translation of vision to reality is happening THROUGH a generative AI.

If you think about what current generative AI is doing, it is already a crude form of that: a human envisions something -> this becomes a prompt -> the generative AI puts something on the screen in response to that prompt. Now fast forward ten or twenty years to when the process is fluid and iterative, and we all have neuralinks, and we can iteratively think representations into being via generative AI, tweaking every aspect of the final representation, with the totality of prior visual representation available to us like tools and palettes in Photoshop.

You just need to think ahead to where these technologies can go. I think the people who are belittling generative AI are simply not thinking far enough ahead. Like if you saw Steve Wozniak's first breadboard and couldn't envision an iPhone with a retina display in your pocket.
You would've probably sold it when it doubled. Or 4x. If you still hadn't sold it at 17x, you'd probably never sell it, so it's not liquid anyway.
Within the past week China told Apple to take several social media apps off their App Store. It’s an official ban.
How about being called out for targeting the brutal murder of Jamāl Aḥmad Khāshqujī?

They play ball with all sorts of shitty regimes (including the united states) McKinsey has way more crimes than the opioid epidemic.
First we need to define it.

I suspect that the failure to define consciousness or explain what our mind does is rooted in the unproven fact that some ideas cannot be reasoned about, cannot be expressed in thoughts, they can only be understood from within, and that understanding can be transferred directly from one to another in a conversation, that would light up the understanding in the listener. The words alone in that conversation aren't sufficient, they simply make the listener more receptive. Using a metaphor, I cannot give you fire over a chat, no matter how well I describe that fire, but I can give it in a face to face interaction, and words can facilitate that.

Even though we cannot see the entire elephant, we can discuss its ears, tail and other features. I believe that consciousness has something to do with reflection, internal or external, that it's a property of some process, and thus cannot be represented in a discrete state or expressed as a discrete step-by-step algorithm. It doesn't mean AI can't simulate a fake consciousness, something that looks fake only upon close examination.

Mind is a separate thing from consciousness, but it can be conscious or not. And consciousness isn't the same as life.
It's based on understanding the (theorized) disease process and trying to prevent it. If the problem is that you're looking at nearby stuff too much (e.g. phone screens held less than a foot away from the eyes), then that means your eye muscles are contracting too much. Atropine paralyzed the eye muscles and forces them to look further away because nearby stuff would be blurry.
> Further, from the testing I did, there is no noticeable impact on my C application which reads from argv- the C runtime seems to handle this transparently.

I disagree with your assessment here.

First, the C runtime doesn't have the "part of the system" feel that it does in the Unix world. There is a CRT in the OS, but most programs link to the CRT that ships with visual studio, so it could theoretically change version to version, compiler to compiler.

Apart from that a Win32 application could choose to bypass the CRT's entry point and use WinMain(). Many do. Even if it does use CRT main there is GetCommandLine() to reach the raw command line underneath. Shell32 even has a function CommandLineToArgvW which behaves differently from CRT. Those two are different from parsing done by cmd.exe. There is a lot of ambiguity is my point.
Sounds about right. The "Progressively worsening" part is worrying as I feel like it started affected me relatively young.
This isn't about whether or not algorithmic slop is unhealthy. It's quite obviously awful for the people it's exploiting. It's about who's controlling it. This is without a doubt the proper handling of this from a foreign policy standpoint. The company went out of their way to prove exactly how a foreign government could use the service as a tool to affect policy.

That aside, people do use shit like TikTok, Facebook, Google, and other social media and adtech bad actors' services because they don't fully understand what they're signing up for. To a certain extent, people do use them under duress -- completely checking out from them is going to have a pretty measurable impact on how people interact with you. You will be an afterthought to a lot of people in your life. People will think you not consuming those products is strange. Interacting with many institutions you have to deal with will be harder. Many (maybe even most) people can't handle that.
it's dead Jim
EndMyopia is an opinionated DIY/biohacking discussion of vision therapy. There's an open fork at https://reducedlens.org.

Slow and often expensive vision therapy for myopia helps some people, but not everyone, possibly due to genetic and neuroplasticity differences, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Nevertheless, many VT principles can help children whose eyes and brains are still developing. COVD, the professional association has existed for 40 years, https://www.covd.org/page/About_Us

The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) is a non-profit, international membership association of eye care professionals including optometrists, optometry students, and vision therapists. Established in 1970, COVD provides board certification for optometrists and vision therapists who are prepared to offer state-of-the-art services in Behavioral and developmental vision care, Vision therapy, Neuro-optometric rehabilitation.

With the advent of affordable prescription glasses being sold online by the same lens manufacturers that sell to expensive retail optometrists, it's now possible to DIY your own regime for under-correction of myopia. But it takes time, patience and care with constant re-measurements to track progress and adjust the lens strength. Even then, it doesn't work for everyone. When it works, it borders on the miraculous.
This^ Unless you're a hybrid/multiple cloud environment, there's no much point in using Vault.
It's the same social network on a different .com
Well, there you have it.
Yeah, the bit that gets me is the assumption that an artist just _yields_ to the AI's choices.

The author says in the article "my own hand, the single most valuable asset I possess", but I'd say that much greater is the artist's eye——the artist doesn't just accept every line that flows out of their pencil, but knows what to throw out, what to redraw.

The infamous stereotype of AI art, the hand with too many fingers, is the outcome of a lot of people being given an artificially skilled hand without the skilled eye to go with it...

The AI artist who doesn't just cede to the AI, though, is bringing their own hand and eye to the work, not accepting the mere output of a prompt, but actively remaking it as an expression of their own craft and vision.
The US hasn’t fought a war since 1945. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 made war illegal. This pact was the basis for the war crimes tribunals after WWII, because Germany and Japan were signatories they were deemed to have violated the treaty by waging war. Likewise Congress has the sole authority to declare war, and this authority hasn’t been used since December 1945.

International law is weird.
Main character syndrome
I think the issue there is that these new grads parachute into companies to advise top level executives, while have no real world experience on how business or people actually are in the real world. A lot of things sound great on paper when learning in the classroom, but don’t play out well in real life.

A consultant position should be one a person earns after spending 20 years in the industry, it is not something anyone should start out as.
Biden better cancel some debt forgiveness in order to pay for the lawsuit
Some of the more leftwing NixOS contributors hate that Anduril is using their technology and are trying to keep them from contributing/sponsoring/etc. via code of conduct changes.
Same teachings we had…and it is definitely proven useful over time.
You need to let some head space for the inevitable bargaining, let's act as sensible cartel members and not undercut ourselves in a race to the bottom, capisce?
China hasnt taken over Taiwan largely due to their financial stand and least interest in Taiwan. Yes, they want Taiwan but not at the cost of war. They would happily poach in every possible way to get Taiwan unique proposition. They never went to war with India (its only cold war) and there is no US to be feared of.
What do the kids have to look forward to?

The reality is that homeownership and other pieces of the American dream are far out of reach for many of them and will be for the foreseeable future.

Couple that with the constant stream of climate doomerism they've been fed for the past decade and we shouldn't be surprised the kids aren't alright.
The suspicions of the working man's least favorite firm appear to in the process of confirmation. Now the naked ambition of capitalism's worst impulses must fester elsewhere.
Someone pointed out to me fairly recently that Argentina used to have a massive amount of sea-trade passing by, as ships went south through the Magellan straight.

Then in 1914 the Panama canal opened. And these once busy sea ports that anchored these countries to the world order faded.

I'm not saying there weren't decades of mismanagement nor oligarchic control or whatever (I have no clue). But the canal changed the geo-political lay-up severely, & with enormous suddenness; it's impossible for me to see how these countries were going to maintain position/status/wealth after a physical shortcut was built cutting them off from global traffic.
'intellection' has a more playful connotation, especially as the author interviewed used it, because it's needlessly academic and sounds made up
Anduril was supposed to be a sponsor for a Nix conference; it was then dropped after community reacted negatively to having a weapons manufacturer being a sponsor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418351
OP was talking about testing purposes.

But RHEL is free for limited production purposes also, to a maximum of 16 systems.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-introduces-free-rhel-f...
There is almost certainly so much network virtualization going on your head would spin.
Yeah, the White House doesn't pretend it's not about influencing public opinion. So it's a natural question, what opinion are they worried about. Maybe there's no particular one, but idk.
Zuckerberg says it will take Meta years to make money from generative AI
In my mid-30s and I can’t imagine not being interested in new music.
The US airforce is one hell of a deterrence - I'd argue that it's a more effective deterrence than the nuclear threat. The nuclear option is just too nuclear.
I'm hoping one of the knock-on effects of NYC's congestion tax will be more desireable biking on city streets, especially on those currently without bike lanes

which may snowball into those bikers demanding more bike lanes, and so on. the current bike lanes are alright, but somehow i always find myself needing to cut across two lanes of traffic to make a left or something at some point