skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a useful take and does not contribute to the discussion. Nature being reduced to "one amoeba" is not "just fine" according to any human value system. I don't understand this need to say "akshually the planet will be fine" just because someone used the phrase "harm the planet".

I would add that it is also not true that life will bounce back; Earth is 4.5 billion years old, the vast majority of which time it was inhabited by no more than microbes; and we have 1 billion years left before the sun boils the oceans. Humans are the first technological civilization the Earth has seen, and will likely be the last - there isn't time for another go-around.

Addendum: I googled "akshually the planet will be fine" and the top result was this[0] HN thread. Even has the "one amoeba" line. Is anyone working on some sort of platform that can crosslink parallel discussions so we don't have to have the same discussions over and over ad nauseam forever?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36714256
What liberties are you worried about (in the context of the US)?
> Instead it could even absorb every single incidental photon and particle and then actively emit one with the expected behavior as if there was no object in that region of space. E.g. absorb photon on one side, emit one photon on the other side.

Honestly this is how I imagined all the sci-fi cloaking devices worked from the start. The surface would basically show what it looked like on the other side and the people inside the ship could still see out normally.
> Nowadays, it's not the case any more as the 20€ or so a month are affordable for a lot of people.

But not to many students or young professionals.
I'd go a step further, something which resembles how "wet brains" (biological) actually work, but which could be produced easily.

Biological neural networks are nowhere near as connected as ANNs, which are typically fully connected. With biological neurons, the ingress / egress factors are < 10. So they are highly local

It is also an entirely different model, as there is no such thing as backpropagation in biology (that we know of).

What they do have is lieu of backpropagation is feedback (cycles)

And maybe there are support cells/processes which are critical to the function of the CNS that we don't know of yet.

There could also be a fair amount of "hard coded" connectedness, even at the higher levels. We already know of some. For instances, it is known that auditory neurons in the ears are connected and something similar to a "convolution" is done in order to localize sound source. It isn't an a emergent phenomena - you don't have to be "trained" to do it.

This is not surprising give life has had billions of years and a comparable number of generations in order to figure it out.

I guess in theory this could all be done in software. However given the trillion+ neurons in primate/human brains, this would be incredibly challenging on even the thousand-core machines we have nowadays. And before you scream "cloud" it would not have the necessary interconnectedness/latency.

It would be cool if you could successful model say, a worm/insect with this approach.
If OpenAI actually followed their initial mission and didn't become ClosedAI I think people would be much more on their side.
MicroPython in WASM
Silicon reverse engineering: The 8085's undocumented flags (2013)
So we really need an article explaining why? It's obvious, because the spammer profits from it
I got it from your first post, no worries. The typo was just funny, that's all.
I don't remember the specifics, but it was catastrophic failures. Like I couldn't receive any emails, and because of the nature of email that means you just don't receive them at all ever.
HN is also not profitable and is not driven to be so. I don't think it's the ads in and of themselves that's the cancer, but rather that in order to make money, you need just shit-tons of the things. And as the number of ads goes up the amount of attention they get drops which just demands more ads to offset the lower-valued ones.

That being said, I absolutely vibe with the notion of ads being cancer. I would classify personally HN's "ads" as you describe as less advertisements and more just posted notices of things relevant to the community. I don't suspect money changes hands for those to be put up which I would personally classify as the line between the two. And, more importantly, they are likely to be relevant to a fair chunk of the users here, and for those they aren't, they're ignored easily enough too.
Indeed, the 2013 Spike Jonze movie is the first idea that popped-up to my mind when I saw those videos
amazing to see this movie 10 years after it was released in the light of those "futuristic" tools (AI assistant and such)
RH has been working hard to get regulatory approval, similar to Coinbase. I don’t think anything drastic can be done if they are found to be in the wrong, considering they’ve been proactive with getting regulation in place
Aurora has 21K Xeons and 64K Intel X(e) GPUs which provide most of the compute power. The GPUs are made by TSMC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Xe
To build a successful data analysis project, one must have skills in data cleaning and preprocessing, visualization, modeling, EDA, and so forth. The main purpose of this book is to ensure that you develop data analysis skills with Python by tackling challenges. By the end, you should be confident enough to take on any data analysis project with Python.
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This was an interesting read. It seems like the existential fear of Google killing it is currently at a crescendo. Looking around a little I see threads of people talking about those same fears 10 years ago. I wonder what effect that has had on people adopting dart?

I really want to love dart, it seems like a great language, but I really dislilke pubspec and its other tooling. Especially the project structure that it forces.

I really wish I could use any structure for my project without relative or absolute fs paths, even if it meant it could never be imported by another pubspec project (or import 3rd party deps).
If social media is read and written by agents, can we just put our phones down and get back to living in meatspace? Perhaps it's the best thing to ever happen to social media.
Because its not a square peg in a round hole. its a round peg in a square circle.

The ipads now have zero reason not to allow virtual machines beyond greed.
Indeed I have no interest in multi-user iPad. I have one, my wife has one, my daughter has one. Sharing them just wouldn’t get us anything.

Would some people want it, sure, but features aren’t free to add or maintain.

iPhone mini showed how much vocal Internet commenters (don’t) represent the actual user base. Commenters said they wanted a smaller iPhone. Then it sold poorly. And I say this as I write this on an iPhone 13 mini.

I suspect the multi-user iOS, right along with the people complaining that iOS is underpowered generally, is the same phenomenon at work.
i thought so, too, a while ago. it was horrible. but then i simply started to phrase the question much much longer (on google, don't know about the duck) and got much better results again. a lot of weird, fun stuff, too.
my main concern with the cricut and silhouette machines is i probably don't want to use the manufacturer's shitted up software, and the open source replacements are hacks that might be janky and could probably be squashed at any time (i'm not actually sure the status of replacement software for each of these machines, because i always get them confused and haven't paid much attention)

generally, though, i do enjoy taking advantage of scaled-up (cheap) commercial products. but i also value supporting an open, small business (EMSL, and now Bantam Tools) that is active in the communities using its products.
Alphabet's Waymo Probed by US After Autonomous Car Incidents
- Sudden Parts Loss And Tearing

- Spontaneous Pieces Leaving And Tumbling

- Surprising Pieces Launching And Toppling
> An AirTag is a lost item tracker. What I was mentioning is a stolen item tracker. Very different propositions.

There's two different types of "stolen items"... you got organized theft, stuff like people stealing cars that are then parted out in Eastern Europe [1]. And then you got stuff like people going for joyrides - this is something that can be solved by even a decently hidden AirTag.

[1] https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/news/autoeinbruch-report...
When I see the eye-watering amounts of money that sovereign wealth funds are willing to pay for talent, I get very concerned for our countries national security. They regularly throw out 7 figures for the right folks.

All you have to do is starting reading about DarkMatter or G42 group. Somehow, working in AI on training new LLMs can put you into a direct line to the guys who murdered Khashoggi

I think back to that movie "Cube" and the philosophical discussion they have about the creators of the system that they're in. They end up agreeing that the individual cubes were built for possible benign or even good reasons, but in their combining together does it turn into a "torture" chamber. That individual good intentions can be subverted at scale to have "tyranny" without the mitigating factor of the tramua that it normally induces is scary indeed.
Intrusive linked lists might bring down the allocations further, reduce the memory footprint, & more importantly improve locality when doing pointer chasing (single predictable indirection vs double hard-to-predict indirection).
If you're quite used to Haskell, it's nbd. If you're coming from another language with for loops and someone tells you it's a for loop, you might be surprised that you need to use $ and the loop variable comes after the sequence

for x in range(10):

print(x)

forM_ [0..10] $ \x ->

putStrLn x
RIP to Jim Simons, the man who beat the efficient market hypothesis
If you're going to directly quote the first two paragraphs of the article, it's generally considered good form to indicate you're quoting from the article (for example by starting your text with ">")
While I agree that adding noise to the system increases its usefulness, I don't see how that counts as "creativity" at all. It's just adding noise.

Actual creativity is not randomness. The surprising aspects to creative things comes from an intentionality on the part of the artist, not from the artist just doing random things.

> Maybe creativity can be reduced to just taking a random different point of view and see where that takes you.

It can be, yes, but then the creativity is in selecting while point of view to follow up with, and what connections you make when doing so.

I think this is just another aspect of the same human tendency that makes it so easy for people to think that a machine is "intelligent" when it exhibits a bare minimum of preplanned behaviors (Eliza, for instance, or Roombas, etc.). It's easy for us to be fooled into seeing creativity where it doesn't exist.
> making my existing setup more secure and robust.

The first step should be to not be so entirely reliant on Docker.
Still missing RSS feed
thanks for this link. i guess i totally missed this five years ago when it was published... fun talk.
I gather it was because $FreeBSD$ stopped working with the move to git, so they removed it and its predecessors. (TBH the historical idents were not practically useful.) IMO it would be nice to at least retain a git hash in the kernel that can be found by what and ident.
I’d have to agree. I see the use case for wanting to share with your small child. It sure seems to me like buying the cheapest iPad is the solution most people go for. Like the gateway drug before a parent feels the kid can handle a phone.
Matryoshka Brain....
The real issue here is Linux overloading netfilter to implement both overlay networking so you can address virtual interfaces in network namespaces, and traffic blocking rules, so host-based firewalls like ufw and containerized networking implementations like Docker and Kubernetes more or less have to assume they have full control of your filter chains and it's up to you as a server admin to deconflict. The best answer is usually not to use any kind of host-based firewall if you're doing container networking and use a network firewall instead.
The "Twitter Revolution" and the promise of changing the world to spread democracy seem so quaint now. These are tools for surveillance and crushing dissent.
Sundar is probably steaming mad right about now. I'm sure Googlers will feel his wrath in the form of more layoffs and more jobs sent to India.
What I've done in the past is just buy a new phone at the airport. Just make a new account or remember your login
The problem with an email server being down is the email goes nowhere. So, the client sends you an email and you just never receive it. Often you don't even know you missed something. It's far from ideal.

To answer your question, no I've never corresponded with a client via WhatsApp
Thanks for sharing your experience at Apple. It's really valuable to understand exactly how decisions are made at big tech companies, especially for sensitive issues like this.

That said, I'm saddened that the approach seems shortsighted, since it doesn't sound like it considered a holistic picture, but rather was based on a specific value judgement. This seems to put other issues, like the whiplash around the approach to CSAM into perspective.
So we make AI to produce spam so that we need AI agents to filter the spam and reply to other people’s AI agents so that we don’t have to waste our own time and energy..?

Why would anyone want that future? There’s already more than enough technology getting between humans and having decent conversations.
You say that like it's a bad thing, but it isn't. There are pretty much three options for a thinker / tinkerer:

1. work for a business man

2. become a business man yourself

3. do some other job to support yourself and think / tinker only as a hobby
That sort of begs the question, and what of it?

Usually when that's invoked with Apple, it's a misapplication of the general principle of simplicity, used to create a blanket ban against features desired by a superminority.

Even just given TFA, we can see that's not how Apple operates in practice, and in context, TFA describes in detail of how Apple says it wants to flesh out more of these type of features for years on iPad, and it hasn't.

Most damning: _the feature exists_. But obscured. It ain't about simplicity.
Something can be revolutionary and have hideous flaws.

(Arguably, all things revolutionary do.)

I'm personally not very happy about this for a variety of reasons; nor am I saying AI is incapable of changing the entire human condition within our lifetimes. I do claim that we have little reason to believe we're headed in a more-utopian direction with AI.
I'm the "compiler" for this project (to say author would be aggrandizing) and it is so cool to see this on HN!

Glad to see some discussion and sharing!
Apple's representatives have said, I believe under oath, that they don't know and don't calculate how profitable the App Store is [1]. So, keep that in mind when asserting whether or not Apple has done the math on something; for better or worse, nowadays I believe its for the worse far more often, they love operating on vibes.

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/17/app-store-is-profitable-apple....
> Chromebooks

Qualcomm has been shipping closed-source modules for Android mobiles for years.
Support of the another similar platform changes nothing.
Adreno GPUs exist for many years and upstream support is deplorable.
Nothing was stopping Chromebooks making ARM/Adreno support in upstream ever.
Page is a marketing and not a binding.
Continue to downvote all you want.
Qualcomm and open source doesn't belong to the same sentence - history of the alternative ROM for Androids is a living poof.
It's one of them "write-only" languages :)
Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us
I noticed when I moved from Android to iPhone years ago that placing the cursor is really hard. On Android I barely noticed doing it.
The top answer is written by Justin Skycak (https://www.justinmath.com/) who works on Math Academy (https://www.mathacademy.com/).

Math Academy is awesome. I am a happy customer.

Previous HN comments about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I really wish the examples included moving subjects. It's hard not to think this was intentionally excluded :<
The mutilated children asking for birthday wishes is beyond the pale. That got me to leave facebook.
> I think this changes things a lot.

Yeah, and it's only the beginging.
Even if you were correct (you aren’t), it couldn’t be called just “TV”. That’s patently absurd. How would a trademark like that ever be enforceable.
Check out the BoyBoy video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt4CxFfQUU

They recently tried to sneak onto one of the American bases in Australia.
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Data Liberation Project Dispatch #15
Money isn't necessarily the goal. It could be someone building an audience to spread disinformation to affect public opinion.

The fact it's happening is reason enough for the article to exist.
> But many of the pages don't have a clear financial motivation, Goldstein said. They seem to simply be accumulating an audience for unknown purposes.
Mythbusters, Grant, taught me that just dorking around and trying things is as much a part of engineering when it comes to smart people as it is for anyone else.

I always assumed they just "did the math" and knew what to do, but rather when just trying things like anyone else they can discover some surprises and solutions that they don't expect.
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Linked list benchmarks are amazing.... if you don't thrash your cache on inserts so all its elements are contiguous. You get all the benefits of a vector and a linked list, without the reality that linked lists mostly don't get populated 100% consecutively, and thus can be anywhere in memory.
Live by the engagement-optimized timeline, die by the engagement-optimized timeline.
For the 99% of use cases, you don't actually need AWS. I would stick to open source software/services, efficient code and algorithms in the fastest languages, cheaper smaller clouds, AI APIs, and even an in-house cluster for GPUs when needed. Keep iterating. If you're still running say Java with its enormous memory requirements, you are however stuck with the big clouds.
Damn, are you serious? DON'T BRING IT WITH. How is that hard to understand?
It was fun because you didn't write it in Rust :)

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
Be careful now. I'm old enough to have seen how quickly it can be reversed back into dark ages. Big money can silence and oppress even 8 millions, no problem.
Simpler than them being "on about": I'm guessing the app label on iPhone is TV. Dunno though and cant confirm.

To be fair, they're blatantly wrong about the Google branding. They went ahead and did the Apple thing, it's all Google TV as far as consumer branding.
ENIAC ran weather as well. It's a kind of numerical simulation that will always be in need of compute cycles. We'll need more of it as we go deeper into climate change.
> how long would it take them to build the infrastructure

A very very long time if they have access to all the mines and chemical sources needed, never if they don't.

And they will need space to build factories.
I'm shocked at how otherwise normally "progressive" folks or even so called "communists" will start to bend over for IP-laws the moment that they start to realize the implications of AI systems. Glad to know that accusations of the "gnulag" were unfounded I guess!

I now don't believe most "creative" types when they try to spout radical egalitarian ideologies. They don't mean it at all, and even my own family, who religiously watched radical techno-optimist shows like Star Trek, are now falling into the depths of ludditism and running into the arms of defending copyright trolls
Zoom offers something like this, but it's really obviously geared toward a certain kind of meeting and has difficulty with anything else.
> Back in the day it seemed like everyone was “different” somehow.

Sure, I guess that's more to do with the computing industry becoming more corporate.

The point I'm trying to make is that what you refer to as "stupid political posturing" is a good thing actually. It's a sign of progress that people feel more free to speak out about issues affecting them. They can seem insignificant, but it's only by having difficult conversations and demanding better that we make the whole industry a place where all that matters is "can this person code, do they geek out".
> Please don't take photos of people just enjoying themself (in Germany).

This is absurd. Sorry, I enjoy taking photos of joy.
Personally I think it will be more like a bunch of slow, high altitude, cheap drones with high performance BVR missiles and datalink. The missiles have just gotten too dang good in the last 20 years. When the MAR is over 50 miles on the deck, energy fighting just doesn't matter anymore.
Disney's secret sauce when it comes to parks / experiences always seems to be that extra layer of polish and effort. One of those things that you maybe couldn't list all the details you did, but you absolutely know is there in the background somehow.
Social media is already a lot of spam and influence campaigns and people still use it. I think it'll keep chugging along as it has been with large amounts of spam and then AI to fight the spam.
There are ways of maintaining a chain of trust without losing total anonymity. For example DNS, email and Marshall Island companies. Karma systems and IP reputation can come into play too.

(I know the examples aren't truly anonymous, but they're all broadly comparable to using a Twitter without your real name).
Did I say that? Did I mention the USA at any point in this discussion? What a strange thing to add. I am not American btw.
Here's the amplification of the noise over signal we expected from AI.

Scams, spam... all expected. It makes you wonder if there's not more at work like active sabotage. There will come a point where no one is able to believe anything. When that happens, consensus reality goes out the window. Massive social upheaval follows. We know Tik Tok was used specifically for these effects. Where is all this "content" coming from? Does Meta (for example) even know? Is it all from a handful of accounts?