skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caching, reputation and promises make the world go 'round.

Exhibit A) SWIFT famously states it doesn't actually move money.

Exhibit B) Hawallah

ie. It's good enough to promise to deliver in due course most of the time. That's equivalent to a transfer, most of the time. The evidence is that it is the basis of many existing settlement networks (SWIFT/hawallah), but also the stock market / individual broker ledger system, the dominant off-chain transfer model of many exchanges for digital assets, crime ("you have X days to deliver Y or Z happens"), etc.

Where it's not good enough, you attempt to store enough to cover eventualities with forward prediction to maintain settlement volumes, offset with promises, utilise third party risk mitigators (insurance/liquidity providers) and/or leverage reputation.

Speaking hypothetically, because the original comment was made predominantly in jest, but in the knowledge that it was actually potentially applicable enough to yield startups, let me humor you. Specifically, in my mind where blockchain might add value is if you wanted to obtain local liquidity at short notice. I understand micro-lending markets are now well developed on Ethereum, but haven't bothered to dig in to the implementation myself. The point is, it would be theoretically possible to build such a system to translate real world promises to on-chain contracts and thus have the ongoing support of globally distributed capital behind providing stability to local micro imbalances of liquidity as a service. This is an existing business model seen in many aspects of the financial system.

Start looking at the world this way, and notice similarities between capitalism, crime, crypto, cold steel and cojones. It's all the same game. Physical or digital, settled or promised, it's about risk and reward, reputation, and "the availability of effective recourse" (ie. trust). The same band-aids are used everywhere.
Considering how much Google search has shaped my life, I am somewhat* surprised by the amount of people in this thread, who apparently have zero tolerance for continued innovation in this area and the rough edges it brings.

*Oh well, it's hn, after all
The original google query has way more params that you might not want to overwrite:

{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:iOSSearchLanguage}{google:prefetchSource}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}
It's always the same response on this website isn't it? No, GP specifically mentioned GPT-4
Look-arounds can be implemented in quadratic time for unbounded expressions (i.e: containing +, *), and linear time for bounded expressions quite easily. And I suspect they can be implemented in (super)linear time in general by matching them in parallel to the NFA.
This is true, but there are less ads than on Bing proper and they are less intrusive. Also no cookies popups or constant rewards notification or flashing icon.
An LLM has no explicit goals.

But simply by approximating human communication which often models goal oriented behavior, an LLM can have implicit goals. Which likely vary widely according to conversation context.

Implicit goals can be very effective. Nowhere in DNA is there any explicit goal to survive. However combinations of genes and markers selected for survivability create creatures with implicit goals to survive as tenacious as any explicit goals might be.
https://archive.ph/2024.05.21-175700/https://www.theatlantic...
Not trying to defend this kind of practices, it just reminds me of something I watched recently about the working conditions in the Victorian era in a UK cotton mill… Atrocious and exploitative by all current standards, and yet people chose this over more traditional agricultural occupations because it paid better, weekly, and there was no uncertainty that you’ll lose an entire season of wages because the harvest was bad. And yet they were working 72h a week, had indentured child labour, average life expectancy was something like 40 years old, injuries and loss of fingers or limbs were regularly occurring.
MWL makes amazing books. I think he may be my favorite technical writer out there.
There are different types of nova.
This type happens when one of a close binary pair is a is a compact stellar remnant,
it already spent its fuel and is a *dense* inert planet sized mass of neutrons.
The other star in the binary pair is "not dead yet" but getting there.
Late stage stars swell up as the core loses its grip on the outer layers.
In this case the binary pair is close enough that the outer shell the red giant is loosing
can be captured by the white dwarf. It is snowing star dust!

This material landing on the white dwarf is the ordinary (light-ish) matter
found in the outer layers of stars.
The ball of neutrons that the star-snow is falling on, does not care.
When the star-snow lands it settles into a (nigh) perfect sphere.
So no mountains, moguls nor mole hills on neutron stars everything will be perfectly smooth.
This keeps up until the star-snow is coating the entire planet sized ball of neutrons
to a depth of maybe six feet at which point the pressure of its own weight
causes it to spontaneously undergo fusion.

Rapid fusion of the top layer of mass over an entire planet sized ball does goes brrrr.
And again, the ball of neutrons does not care that its entire surface just became
an atomic explosion.

This process gets used because we can calculate allot of things.

We can bound about how big the ball of neutrons could be,
smaller it would not form and bigger it would be a black hole.

We can bound how much matter could pile up before it has to go boom.

We can calculate what an atomic explosion with X amount of matter should look like.

So these explosions become sign posts, first because we can see them in other galaxies
and the compare what is seen/measured with predictions which gives things like
how far away it would have to be to seem X bright,
or what must be in the way for this part of the spectrum to be wonky.

This particular one is predictable because it is close enough we can have a pretty good estimate to how fast the star-snow is accumulating,
and how deep it can get before it pops off, again.

Disclamer: no formal ed in this stuff.
Most people in Guantanamo were imprisoned on false pretenses. They and their descendants deserve reparations for what was done to them.
When I visited the 37c3 my iPhone was always showing my location being in Leipzig instead of Hamburg (probably because the SSIDs weren't changed when the APs were moved from Leipzig to Hamburg).

:)
Is there a way to prevent this data from being used? Can I somehow not broadcast certain data over wifi or otherwise keep google and apple from using my wifi metadata without my consent?
I am in awe at the lack of self-awareness that lead to adding this as a feature.
nice let's go
It will correct itself soon. Like it will be better at in 5 years because it will. Trust them and learn wrong things.
All very good ideas, but I think plastic pollution has become inescapable. The plastic is not just in the products we may use, but it's in the water we drink, the food we eat and, according to this study, in the air we breathe. It's like radiation...
I couldn't be talking from a more realistic standpoint. I've lived in places where incumbent ISPs don't invest in infrastructure, places where a private organization built out a cable network without any subsidies, places where a municipal provider was subsidized by federal grant money, and places where there was no public or private build outs and so I built my own ISP servicing my rural neighbors.

I'm not saying that municipal broadband is a net loss, but there are no silver bullets. Subsidies are one way that a municipality can "pick a winner", and in so doing, it can assure all of the competition loses. Sometimes that's a net win, sometimes it isn't, your claims to the contrary notwithstanding.
> On the settler/colonial issue: What I find most interesting about this is how vehement many people are in my country (US) on Israel being a settler/colonial state, when, almost without exceptions, they are the ones living on Native land, using Native resources,

The US is undeniably a settler culture. I am outraged at the actions of my ancestors [1] who played a part in that culture. Just because I'm descended from reprehensible people doesn't mean I'm precluded from complaining about reprehensible people today.

> and participate in a conspiracy to eradicate Native culture (this is anyone in the US who is not a Native American), and are therefor themselves settler/colonists

Not saying that the US in the past hasn't been genocidal, but many of the people complaining about Israeli settler culture today are also broadly supportive of current Native American rights issues, which is the opposite of participating in a conspiracy to eradicate their culture.

> while it is the Jews who are native to the middle east, whether the 50% who are Mizrahi or the other 50% who are returning to the land their ancestors were kicked out of.

And here comes the special pleading. What Israel is doing in the West Bank is seizing land from extant landowners, transferring it to a favored landowners, and turning the former landowners into second-class citizens. This is exactly the kind of policy that people complain about in settler colonies. Claims of it's-our-ancestors'-land-from-centuries-ago don't fly in international law (see also Russia's diplomatic failure to assert this vis-a-vis its invasion of Ukraine), and it certainly doesn't justify forcible expropriation of land from current landowners.

[1] Indeed, my great-x-I-don't-remember-how-many grandfather participated in the Cherokee Strip land rush, so this is literally personal ancestry in play here, rather than vague reference to historical US ancestry.
Exactly. HN as a community is generally pretty good about not commenting unless the comment is substantial and adds discussion value.
> … because why not.

You answered your own question — because you'd "give [yourself] a headache of 4000 photos with dozens of near identical shots to sift through".

It isn't the dollar-cost; it is the attention-cost.

When I shoot digital I might take forty shots of the same subject because there's movement and fractional differences in subject distance will visibly miss focus, so 10 fps.

When I shoot digital I might take one shot because exposure correct for highlights can be post-processed, so frame and focus.
you have to follow up the claim that it's a strawman with a counterpoint, otherwise it doesn't count. you can't just say strawman and walk away, if you actually want curious conversation, which is what this site seeks
> When I walk in a city I don't spend my time constantly scanning the sky and every building around me for a potential falling object. Or research the structural history of every bridge I drive over then spend hours avoiding certain ones.

Of course not, because all of those scenarios are extremely high effort for low reward.

Wearing a seatbelt on an airplane is very low effort and takes a few seconds at most.

Your examples are in no way comparable to putting on a seatbelt.

This is the type of fallacious thinking that gets people in trouble: Instead of discussing the issue at hand, they try to substitute a ridiculous, exaggerated alternative scenario and argue against that instead.

You don't have to look very deep to see why your example scenarios, which take enormous amounts of time and effort, are pure strawman arguments in the context of a simple discussion about seatbelts.

There's a second fallacy wherein people try to argue an "all or nothing" perspective: They list out exaggerated things that they can't/won't do (like looking in the sky all the time) and then try to make the claim that because they can't do all of those exaggerated things, they shouldn't be expected to do any safety-related thing. It's another fallacious argument tactic.
This type of vertical integration must have Amazon a little worried.

For example, if Microsoft took a chapter from Apples (anticompetitive) playbook with Spotify, They could always make Azure Extensions N features ahead of equivalent AWS Extensions.

The productivity gains vscode devs would have by using Azure would always be more than AWS, and the cycle of user lock in would march forward.
Do you think anyone at Google even feels guilty or responsible about shipping this garbage or will they still receive a big fat bonus for shipping something? I understand that Google is probably under pressure due to all the AI-hype, but surely there must be someone on the inside that could call out this trash for what it is? Has the organization become so fully captured by psychopaths such that common sense is no longer able to prevail?
This is great, thanks for sharing. It gives very strong GIMP vibes, I wonder if it was inspired by Deluxe Paint.
Swap the ı and I key on your keyboard for faster modal editing
It wasn't just the 1920s. Take a look at the 1810s-1820s and the 1870s.
Heh, a lot of snark to end up being wrong yourself.

White dwarfs are stellar remnants. They are not performing fusion in their cores like active stars.
AI bubble? I wouldn't expect it but would be interesting to see if your prediction holds true.
Their second largest trading partner is the second largest munitions supplier in the world. Further: the Arab world is not in fact aligned against Israel. They are much more concerned about Iran than they are about Palestine.

None of this is going to happen, because everybody involved is aware that Israel would be sustainable after a realignment away from the west. Everything gets worse for everybody (except China) after that occurs, so it won't be allowed to occur.

(It's further mooted by the fact that opposition to Israel is largely an Internet phenomenon; Israel enjoys broad, bipartisan popular support in the US, Gaza is at the very bottom of polled issues in order of importance to the electorate, and a very significant chunk (possibly more than half) of people rating Gaza as important support Israel.)
I've just browsed some old safety videos on YouTube, and in the U.S. this recommendation seems to have appeared in the early 90s (e.g. Northwest 1993 https://youtu.be/rUQtG0a_7d0?t=127), while being absent in the late 80s (e.g. Pan Am 1988 https://youtu.be/m3zj-oUm7vc?t=33).
> People lie all the time, plus they don't want to create friction by saying that a specific game is, well, shit

The places I frequent say that about games all the time. For instance, though the game I mentioned gets highly praised there, almost everyone trashed the author’s previous RTS game. Some places might give every game universal acclaim, but plenty of places have people who will openly call a game garbage.
I sponsored this very early on because MWL is one of my absolute favourite authors. His work is fantastic and I'm stoked to eventually get the book!
I definitely wonder what he proposes to do about Google etc. treating everyone else's email as spam.
The interior damage appears extreme. Can any mech-aero engs or pilots confirm?

EDIT: It's suggested on aviation forums that unbelted passengers hitting the interior broke the plastic retaining clips holding interior panels, leading to dangling debris.
I did, but you wouldn't believe me anyways.
This is what they look like: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/WAB0FP/japan-honshu-tokyo-yurakach...

The numbers in the boxes are the fare (in Yen) required to get to the indicated station from where you are (this map is from the Yurakucho station).

A number of companies run trains in Tokyo. This map is for the JR company lines. Other maps can show the places the different lines meet up.
Yes, LLMs don't have regression and that is a significant limitation - although they do have something close, by decoding one token they get to then have a thought loop. They just can't loop without outputting.
Surely any senior sys admin or devops type will have accumulated such a breadth of knowledge across so many topics that they cannot keep everything in their head to be retrieved at any moment - if you are one of those, congrats.

This seems unnecessarily luddite though, AI can definitely speed up some of this (such as writing boilerplate configs or debugging dumb issues like mis-indented yaml)
This is an odd statement to make, in most contexts deflation is good for the economy. It is mostly when deflation is coupled with an asset bubble and large underlying debt that it's an issue and leads to a financial crisis. Why do you think deflation is bad?
>but it does imply that "the algorithm" can only use data that is either publicly exposed or is my own inputs.

That seems pretty restricting given that even the most basic recommendation would try to cluster users based on interests and use that to recommend stuff (eg. Amazon's "customers who viewed this item also bought..." from decades ago).
For newer Macs (10.15+) Beardie is a fork that’s been kept current.

https://github.com/Stillness-2/beardie
Missed opportunity to use hacker news as an example
I agree that the scenario is quite unlikely but I brought it up to dispute an argument you made: That, as the US has to negotiate with Israel, they have to go against the ICC.

My point is that the US could "assent to the validity of the ICC charges". The "fantasy" is several unlikely escalations away after that, and even that scenario is something that the US could deal with.

So ruling out that they go against the ICC because they have to, we can conclude that they go against the ICC because they want to.
cycles are natural. instead of fighting it and treating the system as a fragile too big to fail egg, maybe we embrace the pendulum and think more about antifragility? Taleb's antifragility concept, if it's an obscure matter.
> Is it strange or bad if a human is born dumber than average?

And by definition, 50% of babies are.
Some kind of a map would help me visualize this.
> What's the source of this rot?

Google: Promotions as a Service
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414236
React was created because we wanted to have more complex web apps. That brings more complexity in development. Empirically, clearly we now see everywhere that most companies don't want to pay for the best version of their websites they can have.
business cycles are natural and periodic like a pendulum swing.
It was actually one of the best Telco CS experiences I've ever had, and I think its because the gist of the call was "here are the numbers from my modem, so that you can authorize it to talk to your network, do you see it? Yes? Ok, we're done now".

The main reason bad customer service happens is because the customer has a problem that the CS rep is not empowered to fix or escalate the problem. Its not a question of "caring", its a question of results. Its really hard to care about your job when faced with unrealistic expectations from the customer, and insufficient resources from the employer. A lot of folks with customer service departments could save a bundle on labor and earn a lot of goodwill if they would recognize that.
> The UN numbers come from Hamas, there is no independent verification of those numbers and Hamas is a side to the conflict.

There are no other numbers for Palestinian casulaties. The Israeli state and military have continuously and vehemently refused to provide any numbers of their own (recently in a very embarrassing way on Piers Morgan's show, of all people). In contrast, the Gaza Ministry of Health numbers are considered very high quality by the UN and by all humanitarian organizations working in the region, and have been consistently confirmed for years. Sure, the ministry of health is run by Hamas, but that is only because they are the official ruling party in Gaza. Its not like trusting numbers reported by Al Quaida or ISIS.

Not to mention, those numbers represent a significant undercount of casulaties, since they only count confirmed deaths of people whom the health ministry could specifically identify. People lost in the rubble, small communities that were killed or starved and were not reported, etc are all not counted in these numbers. You can go and check the name and address of each and every one of those 7,797 children, and confirm that they are indeed dead.

Edit: If the IDF or Israel want to refute those numbers, it is extremely easy to do so: they can provide their own numbers, their own methodology, and allow independent experts to study them, like the ministry of health has. "Mysteriously", they have entirely failed to do so, just like they have failed to price that the hospitals they were bombing were Hamas control centers, and many other bogus claims they are making.
Can you share the prompts you used to generate these results? I'm having a hard time replicating just by guessing what they were (full disclosure I work for Google but not on this)
Interesting, thanks for the detailed response. I'll have a look at the benchmark; I'm doing some work on algorithm benchmarking right now by coincidence.

I'd say a long pattern is more like 64 bytes (the benchmarking suite I use defines short patterns as 32 or under).

Edit: will also check out the frequency approach used in ripgrep, sounds fascinating.
https://archive.is/S9frg
So I should start panicking when I see them back out and strap in?

Because that's what happened on my last flight. I didn't panic, I just felt sick.
This WSJ article has lots of examples.

https://archive.is/20220817223004/https://www.wsj.com/articl...
The actual, real, not hype benefit you get from these once the hype quiets down is so little compared to the harm it does to everything.
Lesson from a rural bus for web developers
If I already know the answer to something, why would I be looking it up? These answers from AI should assume the person on the other end doesn’t know anything and isn’t going to fact check. If they were going to fact check, they’d just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with AI.

To me, a real sign of intelligence and maturity is being able to say, “I don’t know.” I always lose a lot of respect for people when I catch them making up answers to questions they can’t answer. It means I can’t trust anything they say. If I’m not willing to accept this behavior from a person in my life, why would I accept it from a machine?
Right click folder, select "Properties", check "When getting new messages for this account, always check this folder."
Why is that important to you?

(And do you change the MAC addresses of your bluetooth devices, too? Some of us do gather up bluetooth location information, as well.)
For Solvespace I was looking at using curve offsetting to determine where the fillet touches the surface. This would not produce a "rolling ball" fillet in more complex cases, but should be fine for simpler extrusions. It turns out
generating an offset curve is another somewhat hard problem in itself.
> 3D CAD apps are among the most complex UIs that exist.

I agree.

> If you want to make a good one and you only have a small team, the framework had better do a lot of heavy lifting!

I am skeptical that general-purpose UI frameworks can be a good long-term solution for 3D CAD. At times, a nice UX will need to think about many of the following at once:

- the parametric 3D model
- its mesh approximation
- its hidden-surface projection into lines and patches
- the pixels in the frame buffer
- UI widgets.

The frameworks make too many assumptions about information being easily partitioned and limited in size.

Maybe the frameworks will help for prototyping, but if the project grows, I expect at some point they will end up ditching frameworks for the core 3D viewport interactions, and have mostly their own code in between OpenGL (or similar) and mouse/keyboard events.

Frameworks for buttons, lists, etc. will probably be fine, but even those tend to be much more dynamic in 3D CAD than in average apps.