skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No particular battle, more von Seydlitz' general attitude (and aptitude) regarding timing: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (note especially the unusual connection to Whitehead!)

Von Seydlitz' MO was apparently to smoke a pipe until the propitious moment, at which point he would fling it up into the air to signal the attack. In this picture the trumpeter transduces his visual signal to an audible one, but in principle the limited speed of sound means that a visual signal is likely to produce (assuming the squadrons are paying attention? maybe there's an audible/gossiped "ready" signal?) a cleaner initial charge even for fronts as small as 300m.
> ...the idea here is that every entity gets their own guid designating you, so the same guid is not known by more than one entity

Ok, now you're sending a list of guids that _can_ be emailed to, per negotiation? Otherwise, how are they sending to that specific guid? A guid is not a hash of an object but an identifier object (a 16-byte array, if I recall correctly) - it has to map to the recipient _somehow_.

In other words, in each SMTP exchange, that information would have to be stored in some form of look-up table, _somewhere_, on both the sending and receiving servers.

How do you enforce the senders destroying that table, so that many versions of it don't expose your half of the signature? Do you generate a new key per session? If so, where are you storing that key, in memory? How would you prevent the heap from exposing those keys in a process crash (say, where a dump is automatically generated - like in Windows)? How do you prevent a nefarious actor using A, B, or C from generating a flood of SMTP sessions and creating a tonne (yes, the metric kind) of these look-up tables in memory? What happens when back-pressure is hit? Do you force everything else to paging but keep the tables in memory?
Wales Metaverse
I've lived and worked a lot and in Netherlands and I wouldn't portray it as some exceptionally walkable country.

In my opinion, the Netherlands is definitely a car country.
EU Joint Debt Is a Slippery Slope, Nobel Economist Sargent Says
https://archive.ph/P89iG
indeed

I don't see industrial scale privacy laundering is any different to the current industrial scale copyright laundering by the parasitic tech companies
Yup. There's a reason you can't enter into (many/most kinds of) contracts as a minor.

While the lady from the story wasn't a minor, she was a recently divorced nurse practitioner with kids trying to find housing on short notice.

That's already predatory, but when you start astroturfing paid articles saying how 'financially savy' it is to take advantage of these loans, and then minimize or outright ignore the risks of such, imo you transition from "highly unethical" to straight up "criminal conspiracy depending on the current makeup of the judicial system" behavior.

(Not a lawyer, just someone who hates freeloading leaches like this Gordon dude, and someone who wishes for a stable yet competitive and innovative economy)
>Clearly AI is unstoppable as it is math.

I don't understand this argument. It takes years to become competent at the math needed for AI. If stopping AI is important enough, society will make teaching, learning and disseminating writings about that math illegal. After that, almost no one is going to invest the years needed to master the math because it no longer helps anyone advance in their careers, and the vast majority of the effect of math on society is caused by people who learned the math because they expected it to advance their career.
AlphaFold is special-purpose AI. GPT-4o is general-purpose AI. Seems clear to me.

“AGI” is a specific term of art that is a subset of general-purpose AI.

AGI would have the capability to learn and reason at the same level as the most capable humans, and therefore perform any intellectual task that a human can.
I mean, we have an entire biosphere, us included, for samples of entities of varying intelligence.
I don't think that mod works on a normal Doom engine.
I have seen people call corporations AIs. This is not obviously wrong.
There is nothing about that that allows you to come to a good faith conclusion of “doesn’t take breaking changes seriously” when they literally do all of the work for you.
Oh, fascinating! OK, yeah, I fully misunderstood your intent, then - I thought you were suggesting the LLMs should be summarizing the content in response to queries from students ("How do I find the determinant of a matrix?" // "Well, first you..."), which I think we both agree that they're not ready for (and, while hallucination remains a problem, never will be).

So if I'm understanding it right, your proposal is for the LLM instead to be a "control layer" over the simulation object, so that a student could say something like "what happens if I increase the scale factor by 2?" and the LLM interprets that natural-language request and outputs the simulation-control-variables that correspond with the student's request (and then either feeds them into the simulation directly, or outputs them for the student to read, understand, and input)? Makes sense to me!
The system already has been a superorganism/AI for a long time:

http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
tl;dr: HR is never gonna use GitHub.

Project management tools are just a necessary skill even for non-devs, which leaves any large enough project with only two options:

1. Have the devs and non-devs use completely different systems.

2. Have both use the exact same tool, even if that absolutely sucks for the devs.

The second one is bad, the first one is worse. It by definition creates an unnecessary complication in the flow of information, requiring serious effort to overcome. That's why most of us have horror stories about Jira, Asana, and the likes. The hatred of that one particular tool we happen to be using right now unites us all. Whichever tool you're currently using is always the worst one, right until the moment you're forced into using a different one.

So, you as an individual might want to put up with one of these horrible options you're already familiar with, or you might use something you actually enjoy. But beware: if you go down the more enjoyable path, you are perpetually gonna be reminded it's not the "real deal". GitHub can't do everything a proper tool can, and you're gonna miss having those "advanced" options at some point, even if you hate to admit that to yourself.

Then again, I might just be projecting.
David Sedaris: Small Talk
I can't speak. If I speak I will be in trouble.
Based on photos of the fairing, the Chinese spaceplane is believed to be more or less a duplicate of the American X-37B.

https://universemagazine.com/en/space-debris-told-about-the-...
dont call this a network routing solution.
Honestly, the industrial revolution series of books taught me more about economics than my undergraduate econ class did.
Yep that’s another one that’s frequently missing. Basically any scrollable displays of data that aren’t a simple single column list or a grid are entirely absent in newer UI toolkits.
I just checked, and it doesn't say anything about how many Content-Type headers there can or cannot be.
Saying the other suggested there were 2.
There are so many differences here vs organisms shaped by evolution and involved in a food web with each other. This is much closer to space aliens or beings from another dimension.

If there are huge risks here they are probably not the ones we are worried about.

Personally one of my biggest worries with both sentient AI and aliens is how humans might react and what we might do to each other or ourselves out of fear and paranoia.
Some cop noticed the beer, most likely - and they were one of the good guys.

Another one might have taken this opportunity to start an in-depth "investigation" (read "bullying spree") to figure out who sold the beer and who bought it and passed it on (if anyone in that bunch might plausibly have been underage.)
A few resubmissions of something that doesn't get traction are perfectly fine, meta comments harping about them mostly aren't.
> people (of Germany) revolted

Austria.
It is very simple: powerful governments tried to stop cryptography, we know what happened. Also governments tried to prohibit alcohol, etc. it does not work. You can get them even in places such as Saudi Arabia. Are they expensive? For sure, but when it is about science that you can run in your own computers nothing can stop it. Will they put a Clipper chip?
The combination of plants that creates ayahuasca appeared in a dream. Shamans have identified cancers and illnesses in people. If science can’t cope with these realities, that’s a science problem.
After spending more time researching than I really should have done I found the quote. https://x.com/pmddomingos/status/1728628326968021100

He was expressing doubt that there is an AI winter near. He's more of the:

>Geoffrey Hinton, dubbed the 'Godfather of AI,' warns technology will be smarter than humans in five years"

school of thought.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12610845/geo...
If it sounds too good to be true, probably is.

> They were called 80/20 loans, and that second mortgage meant a homebuyer didn't need to come up with a down payment.
> "It was the easiest thing I've ever applied for," McDonough said. "I just filled out paperwork and submitted it and I was approved."

That’s the investment risk these people took and now the fine details are coming to bite them back. Don’t make huge purchases with loans unless you fully understand all the terms.

> her mortgage company told her a second mortgage she had on the house was forgiven as part of the modification. And she said that seemed to be true — she stopped getting any statements for more than 10 years.

“Told her” how? “_Seemed_ to be true” ?! Cancellation of a huge interest-accruing loan is probably where you don’t want the word “seemed” to appear. Have to do your due diligence and make sure you have everything in writing with notarized documents.
I think you see the response:

1. Tariffs

2.Strategic Government Funding (e.g. Chips Act)

3. Leverage Alliances to Deny Key Components (e.g. ASML EUV lithograph)

Chinese Chip Manufacturers are going to have to spend more money to try to keep up with competing chips and even then will largely be uncompetitive in the short to mid term.
CUDA is a bit of a well-trodden ground, you aren’t going to do much better there (if at all) than cuBLAS and cuDNN. But I get what you’re saying, gotta pick one’s battles.
This would've been 2014, I played in a 100 v 100 paintball game in Western Massachusetts. It was February, so the snow was pretty deep. At one point I stepped through some ice up to my knee.

Rather than run straight up elimination, teams accrued points by holding positions at certain times. You've got the bunker at noon? That's a point. 12:05? Nothing. This led to us desperately defending objectives against 6-to-1 odds waiting for the ref to announce that we'd scored the point.
There's at least one other anecdote of one of his captivities, so presumably he capitulated when his position was untenable, and otherwise attempted to solely occupy tenable ones.

Just barely precryptographic: my work was still single-system, but cryptography was later brought in for the distributed case, and at the time Ralph Merkle was already talking about publishing root blocks via the New York Times' classified section, in order to be hardcopy or microfilm archived in many, many libraries.
xkcd's yearly april fools had automatic 3d comic conversion done back in 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110813115522/http://chatter.re...
Would yogh be expected in any earlier form of "chase" or "chastise"? Does it represent /tʃ/ anywhere?
> society will make teaching, learning and publishing about that math illegal

If there were ever a candidate for Poe's Law comment of the year, this comment on HN would be it.

So much literature depicts just such a dystopia where the technology unleashes humanity's worst and they decide to prevent education in order to avoid the fate of the previously fallen empire.
Now write the formula in terms of expm1 for numerical stability, and express the constant in terms of “half life” measured in seconds to make it intuitive instead of magical.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-co...

Note that that diagram is now a little out of date - Microsoft now has an actual (albeit non-voting) board seat, not just effective control.
I edited the title, and thanks for the feedback!
I think a giant gap in this is that the list of rules doesn't account for non-players in the game area. This planned over a large public park which presumably other people use. Do you play around people? Do you avoid them with a minimum radius out of respect, or do you weave by them if it helps prevent someone from getting your flag? Participants loved the game, but how did non-participants in the park at the same time feel about it? Did they feel uncomfortable using the park with the game on all sides?

If you and your friends play soccer in an open area of the park, probably all agree that other people should avoid setting up their picnic in the area of play. Parents and dog-owners should keep their kids and pets from entering. If you and your friends declare the whole park to be the area of play, including the playground, children's garden, bathroom, splash pad and parking lot as shown in the finished map, I think this ceases to be a reasonable expectation, but what the norms should be is ambiguous.
Does US government subsidize any of its industries or is that “different” somehow, and we “don’t understand”?
Well, for starters, whose bright idea was it to start building from Bakersfield to Merced. Approximately nobody needs to travel between these two cities. Until you connect it to either SF or LA, it just becomes an expensive money pit. What a great way to persuade Californians that this project is worth the money.

A high-speed rail from downtown SF to San Jose would have been more useful than that, and then it would become more and more useful as you expand southward. Likewise starting from LA.
general purpose AI != AGI

They just means 'not trained for exactly one tasks', i.e LLMs and such and not AlhpaFold.
Well, yes, the whole sub-prime lending issue was an accusation towards the education system.
Days since it was DNS
Once the lender stops sending statements, the loan should be frozen at that amount. By not sending statements, they hide the problem and shouldn't be allowed to benefit by later springing the problem onto someone who had no idea there was a problem.
There's the reading comprehension. Again, nobody is saying solar panels are free, and I'm not sure where you got the idea.

I'm saying that when states and corporations do their energy reporting, there's no need to report the non-absorbed ('waste') energy from PV. Sunlight striking the ground (and whether it's utilized in a way we appreciate, versus 'just' powering the weather and the water cycle) is not something we include in those numbers.

Heck, maybe we should make a home for your PV 'waste' energy, a new energy statistic that does account for all sunlight striking the Earth. So if you cut down vegetation to make a parking lot, it makes your country's energy numbers get worse. Neat! Maybe that would be useful as an additional metric, but it's far from what we're trying to measure with our existing energy reporting policies. Our existing policies emphasize the (much larger) problems of greenhouse gas emissions and local pollution impacts.

Anyway I think the point has been adequately made, cheers.
So Intel is introducing a new generation of bad USBs?

Who thought this was a good idea?!?
I agree with your main point, but I can't resist pointing out some huge exceptions since there are some mammoth fully open projects like:

- The linux kernel

- Languages (Rust, Python)

- Airflow

- Libre Office

Either way, I think the important thing is knowing why you want something to be open source (do you want to self host? Own your data? Fix bugs? Do you have doubts that the developing company will last long?) Some of those will work great with an open core model, others won't. I think if Linux was "open core" it wouldn't get used at all, that's a lot less true of something like libre office.
You're right. I should've said they have no qualms about introducing breaking changes.
Compatibilists often argue that determinism and free will (and moral responsibility) are compatible since their view is that what constitutes freedom is not affected by whether or not determinism holds. Hence, in this case, the debate is not about the consequences of determinism, but rather what freedom is.

In my mind, that the known laws of nature do not permit "free will" in the way incompatibilists define it is trivial. (regardless of whether the universe is truly deterministic or also has some randomness sprinkled on top)
I got to present at M3AAWG several years back and it was a cool experience...but that is not a conference you get to just show up to. The only reason I was there is because I was invited and memberships are pricey.
Sorry, I thought we were talking about the GDPR context. Don't know about other jurisdictions.
Ways to mitigate the environmental toxicity of ubiquitous silver nanoparticles
To my understanding this is why title insurance exists (and, indeed, is why it's required in many cases). The lien will still exist but nominally you can make a claim against your title insurer to recoup your loss.

That said, insurance isn't always the easiest to get a disbursement from, especially if you don't have the money for a good lawyer, or if ownership of your most valuable assest is the thing in question.
> The commenter tried to assert that only someone without "any other responsibilities" gets to spend a week learning something.

That's what I mean -- you didn't read the parents carefully. The commenter (me) made that reply to this:

> Carmack did it an a week by locking himself in an hotel room

Everyone can and should spend time learning, but the little point being made was that locking yourself in a hotel room is not something most people can do due to responsibilities. Somehow you changed this into your more general statement "spending a week learning something."
My old marketing department would beg to differ. Plain text is easy, graphics and layout is hard. Further, all our emails were written in plain text first, then styled once we were 100% on the copy (so they could be sent off for translations in 20-odd languages).
There are many variants played by scouts all over the world.
The different versions:
1) all players get a wool thread around their arm. If the thread is pulled loose from the arm, you are "dead" and need to go back to a "spawn point". This is quite a physical version with some nice wrestling and wolfpack elements. I prefer this version because its visceral.
2) A version where every member gets a certain "rank" from a spawn point. When a player tags another, the ranks must be revealed. This can be a rock paper scissors system or with some wildcards like "mines" that arent allowed to tag, but are deadly for all players except the sapper. You need a card system for this. Many card systems work.
3) a version with paintballs or laser tag. Also fun but you need a lot of gear to do it with a lot of people.

Overall these games are best on long stretches of terrain. There is an optimal terrain width for a nice game. It is biased towards a narrow and long playing field with a lot of good cover interspaced with larger open areas that dont expose the whole width of the field.

Chokepoints can be nice but can also make the game a bit boring. So there is definitely a strong dropoff on the narrower fields.
It sounds cool and horrible at the same time ...

I think some sort of AI use is virtually unavoidable in UX/UI testing ...

AI-based-DOM sounds like an oxymoron ...

... perhaps only my bias, which considers everything AI to be unstructured, which is clearly wrong.-
Watched this when it came out. Didn't feel like two hours.

A surprising amount of history to that record.
This is not really true. It is true that this particular 3D environment has some limitations, but it is 3D. A video here discussing this exact topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYGJQqhMN1U
Railroads should absolutely use GPS. They also should supplement it with local transmitters, like aviation does.

They should have lots and lots of local transmitters.
I feel like a lot of the arguments listed in “4.1.2 Disinformation and manipulation of public opinion” apply in a non AI world. In social media, sites like Hacker News are rare. In most places you’ll see comments that are (purposely) sharing a subset of the whole truth in order to push a certain opinion. From my perspective disinformation and manipulation of public opinion already happens “at scale”. Most social media users belong to one political side or the other, and there are lots of them, and almost all of them are either factually incorrect or lack nuance or an understanding of their opponents’ view.
You can use it for the 95% of other types of projects that are not software related, I'm guessing.
The SpaceMouse Wireless
Maybe Italy could but how many countries in the belt and road initiative can do that right now?

In fact they are not even incentivized to do so as Chinese money is providing them the chance to build up modern infrastructure.
I find this kind of hilarious because I had just been commenting that, "at the moment all the engineers at OpenAI, including gdb, who currently have their credibility in tact are nerd-washing Altman's tarnished reputation by staying there."

And lo and behold, Altman chooses gdb's twitter account to make the first joint statement instead of his own, creepily signing off "Sam and Greg" instead of "Greg and Sam" on gdb's own personal twitter account.

EDIT: The only reason to go to these weird lengths is if he is feeling especially vulnerable right now and feels the need to broadcast a "Greg is with me, I swear" message to signal he is not alone.
> Fact of the matter is most of us hate using VORs anyway

This is partly UX and doesn't have to be like this. Cockpit systems could make this a lot easier to select VORs and radials without having to manually keep track of frequencies.

After all a successful GPS fix is impossible to accomplish by a human given the raw receive data, which is why it's all automated inside the receiver. We can optimize the hell out of VORs as well. And only people flying ancient aircraft still have to do the thing.

In fact it probably would be great to add some optional authentication signal to it, as even a VOR can be prone to jamming or spoofing.
I was referring to the Webassembly one. Looks like the design was largely inspired by the Material Design created by Google. Material Design is a massive failure and nobody should use it these days.

The cryptocurrency app looks good.

The gotraceui and sointu are actually decent. They are niche tools and look fine to me.
You cannot create wormholes instantly, their creation is still bound by the speed of light.

Also, the energy requirements for wormholes are well above of what one measly star can provide, not to speak of a host of other issues.
Responding with personal attacks is not a good look, especially when you're using slurs (as 'special' is, when used in this context).

It doesn't matter how bad or inapplicable the criticism is. If you do this, they've brought you down to their level, and regardless of who wins the resulting argument, you've lost.
We just told the cops we would be out there on certain nights and they were cool with it.
> Well, for starters, whose bright idea was it to start building from Bakersfield to Merced. Approximately nobody needs to travel between these two cities. Until you connect it to either SF or LA, it just becomes an expensive money pit.

It's slightly worse: Until you connect it to both SF and LA, it's a money pit, because not enough people need to travel from LA to Merced, either.