skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a chicken and egg problem, of course we only value and optimize for what we can do and deem anything that we can't do as unnecessary. There are things that we human simply cannot think of therefore it must not be important or does not exist.

We cannot think of anything beyond 4 dimension, so therefore there must be nothing beyond that or that things that exist in those dimension doesn't matter that much. Or more precisely, we simply cannot appreciate those things.

If we are simply trying to mimic human intelligence...well, you are going to end up with a human brain.

Suppose we have a concept X that humans simply cannot comprehend, appreciate or solve, well, why bother create an intelligence to solve that?

From this hypothesis, I personally think that any intelligence that we create will simply be an augmentation of what human desire.
That is, there will always be a human part in the cog because human is the only thing can appreciate what is being created so any and all output must cater to the human involved.
This will inevitably happen because we want whatever it is the human brain is doing, without doing whatever it is that the human brain is doing.

That is until we unleash a different intelligence system with agency.
I’m tired of seeing articles full of examples of .PHONY targets. Make works with the file system!
ISAs are complex things so you can't say one is technically superior to the other.

I would say you're right though in that RISCV enjoys the success it's seeing due to the open specification and licensing model. People generally aren't drawn to RISCV because of technical innovation.
It's easy to be confused when you keep changing your definitions when they're not consistent!

"is that "white" isn't an ethnic group with an actual cultural or racial lineage".

"The reason this group is unique as an ethnicity w.r.t. recategorization is because the structure and violence of slavery isolated them from historic ethnicities and forcefully regrouped them under a new one."

Conflicting statements.

According to you white people don't have historic ethnicities but black people also don't because of slavery and that is why they deserve capitalization?
Dependency management, definitely. Loads of scripts don't work until X has been done, and X, Y, Z, and sometimes QWERTY have to be done first, and they take minutes and a ton of bandwidth so you don't want to do them unless you have to...

... and if your scripts do all that, they've basically rebuilt make, but it's undocumented and worse.

(I say this as someone with LOTS of experience with make, and am not really a fan because I know too much and it's horrifying. But I dislike custom crippled versions even more.)
We report the spontaneous formation of an anomalously stable thin film of oil between droplets of water for polymeric oil. When there is weak adsorption of the oil on the water interface, the oil molecules at the interface become less compatible with the bulk oil, resulting in a weak attractive interaction between the two water droplets which induces a dramatic change in the dynamics of the oil molecules within the thin film.
Loneliness has almost nothing to do with work hours or pay. People in literally all of human history worked and yet we've only had ubiquitous loneliness for like 30 years.
PC OEM earn more from those bloatware installation than from selling the hardware. They have effectively sold PC as a loss leader.

Don't know if that is still true today.
HN uses rel="nofollow" for links in comments, for this exact reason.
I've long thought that the use of residential proxies for things like scraping and operating large-scale bot networks is a necessity, but I've never really dabbled in using them, so I've never confirmed my suspicions about how residential proxies are used at a scale like this. Do you know if insecure IoT devices and malware-infected consumer hardware as common as one might think for this? I can't imagine it would either be profitable or even possible to work with an ISP to acquire residential IPs, which kinda leaves me thinking that the only option for a residential proxy service would be pretty clandestine.
To be fair, the axis of the earth shifting wasn't a high priority in the list of fears if "MAD happens"
To be fair, people blame "socialism", and "communism" for similar reasons.
Well... there's also "chronic lyme disease", which is most likely pseudo-scientific bullshit. If you "saw lyme in action", chances are your mom took you to a quack doctor.
If you like absurd questions like this with real scientific responses, you might enjoy the “What If?” books [1] by Randall Munroe (creator of xkcd).

They are full of questions like this, often with a humorous spin. Entertaining and educational.

Some sample questions from the Amazon description:

- What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light?

- How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?

- If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book)
If the tracking and 3rd party cookies disappear, it makes sense that complaints about tracking and 3rd party cookies would also disappear.
However, the same thing happened to me when I switched from my pixel 3a to an iPhone. I wasn't able to text from my iPhone for a week. I ended up contacting Verizon and they actually had their network engineers investigating. What they ended up discovering, and sent me a contact number for it, was that some how Google's RCS was still holding a lock on my number or something.

So this isn't an exclusive Apple problem.
Yep. I absolutely refuse to support anything that wants to dictate what I do with my identity.

Such things do have purposes, in high-stakes environments. They prevent accidents. The vast majority of uses on the public web are not even remotely in that realm. It'd be better off being a separate spec that only a handful of internal-only systems use, ideally requiring MDM to set up conveniently (to strongly discourage normal and even high-stakes-normal website usage).

My banking website has absolutely no business knowing and being able to approve or deny what brand my authenticator is.
I thought you were being hyperbolic and that this was maybe related to quantum neural networks or ML in at least some way, but no - you seem to be totally correct that this is about as 'AI' as snake oil health products are 'quantum.'
> Envy is one hell of an evil disease, individually and especially socially.

I agree that envy is toxic, and free markets are pretty good technology.

But housing is a protected class of assets, just like clean water and radio bands. Taxes on non-primary residences are high, as they should be. Perhaps they should be higher.
We are working on this type of problem. Very interested in seeing an open source solution
That's the point of this paper: investigating whether 'chain of thought' promoting kinda-works because it actually induces reasoning, or whether it's just that more verbose answers give the model more tokens to work with, and this more state in which to hide interesting computations. This work introduced a way to give the model more tokens - and thus compute and state - to work with, independent of the prompt, which makes it easier to separate the computational impacts of verbosity from prompting.
What do you mean? That all Australians are pro-content takedowns?
Colloquially a lot of people understand “zero dependencies” to mean “you don’t have to deal with pip/virtualenv/npm/yarn” BS. So, a static binary.
It's amazing that Bloomberg presents falling housing prices are presented as bad, rather than as an opportunity!

There are a million morons online who claim that increasing the supply of housing somehow never moderates or lowers prices. Then it clearly happens.
We may be talking about different logic puzzles? The only model I've seen that didn't need some rather extreme adjustments to eventually solve it was Mistral large.
Related submissions:

Open letter to the NixOS foundation (50 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107370

The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture (76 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912

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Additionally, these r/NixOS submissions may be of interest:

Jon Ringer: "In case I'm unable to return, wish you all the best" (348 comments)
https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1cd5fod/in_case_im_u...

Transparency about jonringer’s suspension (153 comments)
https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ceeg8h/transparency...

Thoughts on Jon Ringer's temporary suspension (71 comments)
https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/1ceiz36/thoughts_on_...

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Finally, the RFC to improve the situation:

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/175
A tomato clock: https://github.com/harry75369/ESP8266_Tomato
I've filed my taxes myself for several years. A couple of times the IRS sent me letters after the fact saying I messed something up. Then it's another several hours combing through all their paperwork trying to correct whatever they said I did wrong. One time they directed me to "explain why you won't make this mistake again in the future." Which is a particularly asinine thing to ask. "Well, Mr. Tax Man Sir, I probably won't make that particular mistake again because now I know not to make that particular mistake again."

This year things got complicated enough that after spending an entire Saturday staring at forms, instructions, and spreadsheets trying to figure out what I was supposed to do, I finally gave up and hired a CPA that specializes in tax returns do my 1040.

The whole thing ended up being 27 pages long. I guess I needed forms 1040-ES, 2210, 8949, 8995-A, 8960; Schedules 2, B, D, and 8812; and several worksheets. I consider myself fairly capable and experienced in filing my own taxes having done it 20-something times, but I don't think I would have ever figured out that I'd need all those forms and schedules this time around.

It's particularly frustrating that they are somehow able to tell me that it's wrong after the fact and harass me to correct it. If they can do that, why not just tell me what they think it's supposed to be in the first place, and then give me the option of correcting what they send me if I spot something that doesn't make sense to me?
Oh no, no anti-heroes here!
Whenever a WebGL game is released, there's tons of browser issues across many different types of devices. It seemed to work for me (iOS) but just read the comments. It would really make me think twice about developing a web game.
That's not what the phrase means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Been hearing about this for 35 years. Same old same old
Genuine question: is there a golden child example for unbridled capitalism free of regulation, taxes and central planning that we can point to?
Only going to get worse as CO2 levels rise.
The last project I was working on at a major telcom before jumping ship was a project to migrate off of VMware onto KVM systems managed by Cloud Stack, they already have a major Open Stack environment but that's only for SDN stuff now.

We're talking over 10,000 ESXi hosts in the current footprint and at least 50% of them will be off VMware by the end of 2026.

If they were smart, the people they would be focusing on squeezing are the mid-sized shops that don't have the in-house skills or top level cost focus to force a migration. The small shops can't afford to stay on vmware, the very large shops will have the in-house skills or contract to the right people to get moved, it's the mid-sized people that are most stuck.
Heat can polymerize some oils pretty quickly. Thinking flax oil is a very easily to polymerize one (it's fast but kind of fragile to season cast iron with it). Ever have a bottle of cooking oil go bad and it forms that sticky residue on outside? As I understand this is the oil polymerizing.

Wondering if having oils polymerize makes it so the outside of the linked molecule links in some way that water is prevented from being repelled as well (or it busts it into much smaller droplets they couldn't see). The abnormally stable part throws me off though.

If someone could liberate this paper that'd be great.
Since they are doing buzzwords salad, they could go for Google Quantum Blockchain AI VR
Frankly, it sounds like a dream job for me too, to be responsible for a particular technology and make sure that it works for all your internal (and external) users.
Actual landfills are, at least where I live, heavily regulated and use quite a lot of technology and engineering to minimize their impact. And landfilling itself is actually being abandoned here, AFAIK you can’t start a new landfill anymore and the costs of landfilling will be artificially jacked up in order to soften the final ban in ~6 years.
How are you so sure what people want? I think many people want both stability and freedom to move.
A lot of millennials and gen Z's are choosing to not have kids. No real reason for those without kids to give a fuck, and those with kids have a larger carbon footprint than those without children.
> That's what I really think about it. The instant ads disappear, whatever replaces it, people are just going to hate it the same if not even more, specially when it comes to free stuff on the internet.

I'd guess that'd be true so long as what replaces ads is also annoying/distracting/intrusive, misleading, a security/privacy risk, gets in people's way, and/or prevents them getting to what they requested/came for. Hopefully, something intended to replace ads wouldn't be any of those things.

Ideally the ads wouldn't be replaced with anything at all. It seems unlikely that we'll go back to how things were when people published content online because they just wanted to share something cool or useful with anyone who was interested, but maybe it'll get to the point where it's easy and affordable enough that publishing a table of data, or a recipe, or a simple calculator doesn't cost a person enough to justify worrying about ads or whatever replaces them.

Here we all are on this website after all, typing up comments without demanding payment from anyone and everyone who reads what we have to say or putting flashing ad banners on them. It doesn't cost us much to do it, so we do, without any profit motive.
I walked by an HM that had trash bags filled with new condition shoes. I started looking through them before I realized they had stamp cut holes through the soles so people couldn’t use it.
The controls are indeed clunky, but also the reason why this game became an instant hit with my six year old! Simple to explain, simple to operate!
Taxes existed before prohibition, right?
Applying millions of nuclear bombs to either slow down or speed up the Moon by the same amount will change its orbit by a similar magnitude in terms of the sheer change in energy.

The energy required to achieve a specific Δv is the same whether you are accelerating or decelerating. This is because energy change associated with velocity (ΔE) in a conservative system is dependent on the square of the velocity change (Δv^2), regardless of direction.
Another issue I take with the RISC-V spec is it relies on a common understanding of technical terms without actually defining them precisely anywhere.

To take one example it never defines what an interrupt is and more broadly never defines terminology around exceptions. Contrast to the arm ISA which precisely describes what it means by asynchronous Vs synchronous, precise Vs imprecise etc (see section D3-1 in https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest/).

The original authors may see this as a virtue, the small size of the RISC-V ISA manuals Vs Arm was portrayed as a great benefit but in part that size is because it's missing lots of stuff like this that I view as highly important for a specification.
that's the point of my original message
I still had close to a thousand photos up. The income was minimal but inertia is a thing. Until now there was never a reason to delete.

No way to delete all the photos at once, and I'm about a third of the way through.

They seem to be adding deliberate delay to the process after selecting delete, and the website is set up that for each image the delete button if offscreen and you have to scroll down to it, no matter the zoom selected.
I think that if you had 5 advertising networks, they'd all operate the same.

I think Google (probably rightly) sees no value in this site from an advertising point of view. I think if there were 5 advertising aggregators they'd say the same.

You're suggesting Google is leaving money on the table, not just for this site, but a lot of others like it. I'm suggesting that if this category of site had value to an advertising aggregator, someone would be leveraging it (and that someone eould likely be Google.)
Have you ever tried?

I think most C++ people will (after using it for a while) begrudgingly admit that it is a very nice language, at least in some regards.
Um, whataboutism isn't a valid defense with the DOJ. Go read the many counts the DOJ is suing Apple for. It's extensive and points to a systemic problem at Apple stifling competition in many ways. Microsoft lost their antitrust case and they weren't doing 1/2 the shady stuff Apple is doing.
I've seen many posts in the forums sharing similar experiences. People are given the car with no instruction and have no idea where to go to charge them or how to charge them.
It can help abstract the differences you may have across projects. If you're on a team with many projects/repositories, having conventions across them all helps improve onboarding, cross-teamwork and promotes better dev ux. A really simple way to do this is make. It lets you have the common targets and convert them to the relevant target. This can become more useful as you write automation for CI and deployments for all your projects.
Some good prompt-reply interactions are probably fed back in to subsequent training runs, so they're still stateful/have memory in a way, there's just a long delay.
Fun thought experiment. If you haven't read Seveneves[1], the book details what happens when the moon inexplicably explodes (spoiler alert, it's not pretty). It's a crazy Neal Stephenson novel, and I highly recommend it. Allegedly they'll make it into a movie, but I don't see how. It's too out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
The first site "cookieandkate" might look like blogspam but it wasn't.

After going through some random archived posts from 2011 & 2016 , I think it probably fell into the same trap the article mentioned and kind of proves how needless seo spam ruins websites.

[1] is a link to a recipe on the same site from back in 2011. It has some content at the top giving personal context and plenty of normal pictures of actual recipe, not those fancy artistic photos. It has that personal touch with no hidden agenda type feel.

[2] is a link to another recipe from 2016. The content and format is more or less same as 2011 with a bit more long form content.

Compare that with current posts on the site. The content looks similar but there is a lot of needless use of bold/emphasised content probably for seo. Every paragraph is worded like it has some call to action or has an agenda.

[1]. https://web.archive.org/web/20120109080425/http://cookieandk...

[2]. https://web.archive.org/web/20160108100019/http://cookieandk...
I completely agree as a general statement.

Do you think it applies in this case? Do you think the incentive (a few $ at most) drove the author into a corner?
I honestly think the very readable specification has been a boon for RISC-V and possibly part of the reason why people continue to find it easy to pick up. If you are unsure about something in the spec, there's also a multitude of RISC-V emulators out there, probably several in your favorite language already.
> No document that I could find has ever tried to specify an instruction set independent of an actual implementation.

What do you mean by this? I'd say most ISA specifications do this (e.g. the Arm spec doesn't refer to Arm's CPU implementations and has well defined ways to discuss things that can be implementation dependent).
Yep... if we lived in a world where we knew that hotels would have chargers, it would be easy. Easier than gas in a lot of cases!

But reality right now is a bit different. We can't even know if the Teslas will have the J1772 adapters.
There's XWayland rootfull mode, it will probably work just fine.
This is sad. Google just keeps getting worse from people perspective. And keeps getting better for shareholders.
Why? It's just another perspective?
It's not Signal's or encryptions fault (although many politicians will frame it like that), but it's JBs and employees fault to use it, and to set it up to remove messages in a given timeframe. Which, in this case, is probably "destroying evidence in a given timeframe".
> What they're doing doesn't really match any definition of "understanding."

What is the mechanistic definition of "understanding"?
While the A:B problem technically was solved, look at the solutions, they are several hundreds lines of prompts, rephrasing the problem to the point that a human doesn't understand it any more. Even with a thorough review, nobody can guarantee if the prompts are going to work or not, most of them didn't, 90% pass was considered good enough. The idea of AI is to reduce work, not create more, otherwise what's the point.

In the meantime, it took me about 2 minutes and 0 guesswork to write a straightforward and readable solution in 15 lines of Python. This i know for sure will work 100% of the time and not cost $1 per inference.

Reminds me about some early attempts to have executable requirements specifications or model-based engineering. Turns out, expressing the problem is half the problem, resulting in requirements often longer and more convoluted than the code that implements them, code being a very efficient language to express solutions and all their edge cases, free from ambiguity.

Don't get me wrong here, LLMs are super useful for certain class of questions. The boundaries of what it can not do need to be understood better, to keep the AI-for-everything hype at bay.
The remote possibilities here are staggering. If we could send beeps in the human vocal range over phone lines to control things, it could revolutionize telephony!
Flagged: this trips my internal GPT detector (patent pending) at 83% certainty and seems to be a lengthy meandering response to an article describing Google preventing ad blockers. The article is about Google asking for more content on the site before approving ads.
> Error correction is the fundamental requirement for creating a truly useful quantum computer. It enables the scale required to perform complex calculations.

A hover tip on "quantum computing". Scale, useful, complex, fundamental, quantum

what did i miss ?

oh , computer !
> We know definitively that this is not how brains learn.

So you have mechanistic, formal model of how the brain functions? That's news to me.
The guy I know is in the US, but he deals with a lot of Canadians also. His business is gray (think something like marijuana but not that) where it’s sort of legal in some places but mostly not. One time we were at a bar and his friend came who was wearing a patched biker jacket, I did not recognize the gang. But the guy was totally nice.

I have had a few weird situations with organized crime and my hunch is they are way, way bigger than society understands. Like the American Mafia was way too public, the FBI nailed them, and now the smart criminals just don’t exist in any form in the public consciousness. I think OC now exists as legitimate business but it’s just a few layers removed. So they might operate a doctors clinic, but the real point of it is to milk Medicare for scams, and things like this. But on paper it seems correct