skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how is protecting your walls like killing you?
qntm's short stories "Lena" and "Driver" cover this ground and it's indeed horribly dystopian (but highly recommended reading).

https://qntm.org/vhitaos
It's certainly non-trivial to put a hidden CPU in a FPGA that has full read/write access. The wire configuration inside the FPGA will be different for every design loaded into, hell even for the same design the place and router will do different things. So to what will you connect your hidden CPU?
Granted, this is hardly accurate/scientific - try out a solid hour walk on a treadmill.

A lot of steps for a pittance of calories [based on whatever hand-wavy math it's doing, admittedly]. We're frustratingly efficient. I forget exactly, it was something dumb like half a candy bar.

I've heard people say "you won't outrun your mouth", in this context... and others.

It's true. I've managed to drop my body weight ~half, it happened by controlling what I ate; not how I exercised. When I stopped skateboarding due to an injury, I ballooned. I stopped eating like that over a decade later, I shrunk.

In that time I also got older, moved, and went to college. It's worth considering what's easier/more likely/realistic to maintain
A hack of psychotherapy records revealed a nation's secrets
My brisk pace would be about 120 steps a minute, with 80 cm step (I have long legs), that is about the speed I can sustain for longer time without any sweating.
> Are there intelligent beings with a drive to limitlessly expand their population?

Since the development of contraceptives we are now selecting hard for any and all traits associated with intentional reproduction or the desire for children.

A few thousand years of this and the only thing left will be people who really want kids, or who are prone to adopt beliefs or attitudes that lead them to want kids.

Maybe this is how you get a Dyson swarm.

I’m not even including potential AI “life” in this picture.
That consciously using the wrong term could allow weaseling out: we never clawed back vested equity. We only clawed back profit sharing units.
Lots of discussion 4 days ago [0](108 points, 388 comments), yesterday (104 points, 77 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40367160
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391412
It's true that the L1 Lagrange point is unstable so would need some station-keeping. It's an issue but it's a solvable issue. For one thying you have a bunch of energy to spend. For another, the solar wind itself can be used to provide momentum going out if what you have there is sufficiently light.

But there's another option: statites [1]. Statites are solar power collectors that have an incredibly thin sail to the point that they don't need to orbit the Sun at all. This means you have a bunch more options for positioning. Clearly the Earth will continue to revolve around the Sun but a sufficient swarm of statites on the EArth's orbital plane could have the same net effect as, say, driving beneath a bunch of stationary umbrellas.

Or statites can themselves do station-keeping at L1. They can angle themselves to provide momentum in a bunch of directions. Or they can orbit the L1 point similar to how JWST orbits L2. Their ability to use the solar wind for directional momentum could satisfy station keeping needs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statite
Are you implying that people who eat less sugar still gain weight?
Yes, well, that is one of the many reasons I hedged with "My personal opinion is..."
It is history, maybe read about USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia and Romania refusing to participate and condemning the fact that USSR is tring to force their will on other communist states. It was not enough that USSR forced communism in eastern Europe, they really wanted Moscow to control everything, no different communist approaches were allowed since Moscowites know better what other countries should do.

So Romania built infrastructure to handle an invasion, build roads over the mountains to be able to quickly move the armies, and is a very known fact in Romania that everything was prepared for an USSR invasion like in Czechoslovakia, so first read about the USSR invasions and meddling in communist countries.

Then if you really want to know more , I mean really want to learn and not spread Ruz propaganda I might find for you english documentation of all douzens times Ruzzians invaded Romania lands.

So Romania has very good reasons to enter NATO, all political parties were in agreement, even our president who was a communist and who studied in Moscow was for NATO. Super hard for Ruzzians to admit that all those country that entered NATO had a good reason, and some "special" people in Africa, Asia and West might fall for the ton of propaganda that claims that NATO brainwashed everyone to join them, it is pure Ruzzian projection.
That would you mean you connect your hidden CPU to essentially every wire inside the FPGA. Trivial to detect, and extremely expensive, and probably even impossible considering timing model.
Brought memories of RARS first then TORCS, that allowed writing software racing car simulations for a while, so I guess if driverless cars and tracks used in real races models could be fed to the above software, they could be used as simulators.

https://rars.sourceforge.net/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/torcs/
Let's build GPT: from scratch, in code, spelled out [video]
While not a Matlab nor Julia user, I think you may be neglecting the nearly 40 years of code, toolboxes, and countless examples of common engineering problems solved in Matlab. Engineers tend to be more of a practical sort than developers, and just want to apply a known solution to a problem than mess around with newish software languages.
There's nothing free about FPGAs...
Must be a hell of a hotel room, I should visit.
Store owners have made the calculations and it's cheaper to let some people steal than hire staff to control theft. That's why they're investing so much in self checkout world wide. Honest shoppers pay for the stolen goods of the thieves. Of course the store owners haven't put into their calculations that honest shoppers will avoid unsafe stores with rampant theft and that thieves will hit these stores much harder, until the ratio flips. But you can't expect the owners to understand this. After all it's not their job, their job is to own the stores.
It's actually both, specifically because of that incident. (Pretty much any time a commercial jetliner crashes, a rule changes, and it's been that way for decades.) There's an hour number and a cycle number for many maintenances, and whichever comes first triggers the maintenance. Hulls, however are rated for a max number of cycles due to fatigue caused by the pressurization/depressurization and that's the part of the plane that cannot be replaced. So the plane usually gets junked or shipped to a developing world airline due to cycles.
> because of the carbon-fiber construction

yes

> so metal oxidation isn’t an issue

no. It's not rust, but that higher pressure air can hold more water at the same relative humidity. The higher pressure air is achievable because carbon fiber has higher tensile strength per weight.
The noise is my stove top fan :) Its the absolute worst.
Just buy the super homogenized peanut butter with the additional ingredients with hard to pronounce names.
I'm certainly glad to have grown up when I did. Lots of fun memories of fugitive when we weren't cooking up fireworks or something from the Anarchist Cookbook.
Most of we thought was fun would probably be in jail time these days.

There was a lot of risky Behavior, but it was all non-violent so if anyone got hurt, it was us, or sometimes our parents property. I don't know how kids these days are supposed to learn you need to cook up white phosphorus Outdoors and not in your friend's kitchen
He's just predicting the next token based on its likelihood of generating more profit.
This man is my hero
I wish they’d sell it in a wider jar. It’s always so hard to get the past third out. Maybe a butter tub type design?
> And sampled music requires permission.

Almost nobody ask for permission.

I'd also like to point out that you said

> Fair use laws, if the country has them, don’t include profit.

And now you start to add a lot of conditions depending of that.
Oracle vs Google isn't a "false equivalency" it's litteraly a fair use case, where the one who copied the original work did it for a commercial product.
6502 assemblers are amazingly fast on more recent hardware. Something like 60-70ms to run a script to assemble and link an a version of msbasic (AppleSoft) on my old laptop.

https://github.com/mist64/msbasic
> ISC now competes with numerous viable alternatives easily accessible from a smartphone.

Is there any technical reason why ISC never became easily accessible from a smartphone? Have there been attempts?
> The higher your margins, the more attractive your market becomes to would-be competitors.

Only in very simplistic theory. :(

In practical terms, businesses with high margins seem able to afford government protection (aka "buy some politicians").

So they lock out competition, and with their market captured, price gouging (or close to it) is the order of the day.

No real sure why anyone thinks the playbook would be any different just because "AI" is used on the production side. It's still the same people making the calls, just with extra tools available to them.
macOS does have quicklook generators, and the system seems very eager to register things with launchServices even before the app has been opened once. Perhaps this has been tightened on recent macOS versions, but otherwise it seems theoretically possible to get code running in a "0-click" fashion, simply by mounting a DMG which contains an app with a qlgenerator and another file with matching file type.
> Are there intelligent beings with a drive to limitlessly expand their population?

Let's assume a few things. They're biological (for what passes as biology on their planet, anyway), and evolved from what were originally single-celled organisms. They didn't blink into existence as Boltzman Brains or something like that. Also, they are a group of individual beings, and it wasn't some sort of global hivemind with a singular being surrounding the entire planet like some coral or whatever.

If these assumptions are valid, then yes, they'll have a drive to limitlessly expand their population, because those species that didn't have this drive became extinct in their prehistory. They'll be puzzled by it, might go through a phase where it causes them the equivalent of shame, then they'll grow past that and not care once again. And they'll expand. Because not expanding risks extinction, just like it does with us. We either expand to multiple locations outside of our planet, or we risk extinction.

> Are there plausible social arrangements stable enough to last the duration of such a project?

Maybe not. Who cares. If in the 20th century we became aware of a human Dyson spehere half-built in our solar system, a million years old and unfinished, you think we wouldn't turn around and start finishing it? Social arrangements may be unstable and cause minor disruptions, but so too are minor disruptions unstable and humanity might return to the norm on timescales relevant to the construction of a Dyson sphere.

> Is there enough time in the lifetime of a star to build and use those structures?

This is a good question. I don't know the answer to it. We've got, what, another billion years or two in ours? If the construction only takes a couple million years, seems like it might be worth it. Though the thought of the cost overruns and so forth should make even the mightiest bureaucrat shrink in terror.

> A lot of the ideas behind hypothesizing swarms of space structures, each orders of magnitude more massive than Earth, feels very 1970s population/energy-crisis inspired.

I find this hilarious in ways that I can't put into the words to share with you just how funny it is.
Do they still require a prescription?
Office 97
> as if malware authors couldn't afford to pay it.

I think it's the identity verification bit that's dissuades malware authors, not the cost. Having your malware linked to your name and address isn't something most malware distributors want.

Nonprofit orgs and schools can get free dev accounts (at least for Apple), so for some open source projects distributed by one of the open source nonprofits, it is free.
(it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain)
Peer reviewers and editors are often also non-native speakers. And because they are almost always volunteers, they may not care that much about language, as they have better things to do. It's enough that they (as experts in the field) can understand the paper.

Most academic journals also don't have actual editors. Their editors are basically managers who facilitate the review process and make decisions on acceptance. Outside prestige journals such as Nature, authors are usually responsible for the final text.
I’ve always wanted a coding project like this, that has a lot of breadth rather than depth.

By that I mean it would take a day or two to set up the basics and then I could keep adding to it, an hour here or there, for years.

The problem is that when I tried this a few times with various games, the breadth ended up having nothing to do with coding. Perhaps there just isn’t a kind of coding task/problem/toy/gadget that works this way.
I don’t see how there wouldn’t be a relationship with the exit doc , if part of the NDA is that you lose your equity for insulting the company. He knew about this. There’s no way he only knew about the good bits.
Isn't that determined by seat pitch, which in turn is arbitrarily configurable by the airline? What does the model have to do with it?
If this was not in the employment contract, then it's even more problematic. I'm pretty sure this is very likely violation of multiple laws. If some random lawyer added this lifetime clause for their own sake without escalating to the board, then they should be immediately fired. It's possible that Sam was not aware of its illegality and now wanted to minimize his liability though.
>numpy has similar syntax to MATLAB and Julia

Numpy has absolutely awful syntax compared to Julia or MATLAB. It is fundamentally limited by pythons syntax, which was never meant to support the rich operations you can do in Julia.

I have done quite a bit in both languages and it is extremely clear which language was designed for numerical analysis and which wasn't .

>Python's type system is pretty rich and allows overloading all operators

The language barely has support for type annotations. Duck typing is actually a very bad thing for doing numerical analysis, since you actually care a lot about the data types you are operating on.

Pythons type system is so utterly inadequate that you need an external library to have things like proper float types.
We sometimes use one of these with dairy butter though I'm not sure how well it would work with peanut butter.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_butter_dish
It's like I explained above. It's safe to assume they don't care that much about free speech, because Null has banned people for dissent.

An example: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/JcaLQ

I don't think a free speech absolutist would secretly ban people for criticizing him.
I'm not flying on Boeing. I make sure I fly only on Airbus.
What? No I am point out the fact that reducing sugar consumption has not reduced obesity rates in the US, so blaming sugar makes no sense.
> You don't have a way how to transfer power from Dyson swarm without absurdly staggering losses.

Why do you need to transfer power? The point of an orbital is primarily for people to live on. A single orbital could potentially support a million or more people.

Are you referring to the issue of providing power to Earth? That's... a separate issue, with different solutions. The idea of power satellites [1] has had a lot of thought. An alternative approach is to build an orbital ring [2] and hang solar power collectors off of it. You could this power directly to the ground with transmission lines.

> Dyson swarm satellite would be heated up by incoming heat from Sun on one side

An orbital would be heated on the side facing the Sun and radiate away heat away when not facing the Sun in the exact same way that the Moon is scorching hot when facing the Sun and 200 below zero when not.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBCbdThIJNE

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E
The algorithm accuracy scales with the ratio of memory to set size so you don't actually know if it is "close enough" without an estimate of of the set size.

I think the headline is clickbaity and the article makes no effort to justify it's misuse of the wors 'counting'. The subheadline is far more accurate and doesn't use that many more words.
I don’t know the science of it but for me at least walking suppresses my appetite. My hunch is that by not walking the body goes into “must be sick, should probably eat some more” mode.
The USA also has a relatively high suicide rate for a developed country, though. The USA is closing the gap and recent data puts the USA at a higher rate than Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
But they are.

And they know it:

"The Condé Nast-owned publication confirmed this week that the web version of the article had been blocked in the UK “to comply with a court order restricting press coverage of Lucy Letby’s ongoing trial”."

https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/new-yorker-lucy-letby-r...
I have fond memories of the old dA and was a frequent visitor but I haven’t been there in probably 15 years now.
You can either build a great online community that shares cool stuff or you can try to make a $$$ of money, not both, because the latter destroys the former.
Flickr is another example (another of my fondly remembered sites), Tumblr too. Once they sold, their new corporate masters were interested in $$$ and it was the beginning of the end.
Actually, I’m a licensed attorney having some fun exploring tongue-in-cheek legal arguments on the internet.

But, I could also be a dog.
OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI – then let it wither
It’s Sydney mate.
Well ain't that just cute.
Groupthink and heavy pro-establishment bias
I'm sure some people think your country is full of lazy, smelly thieves, too.
Have you looked at Futhark?
Thanks for that insight. I’m going to have to stop assuming that poorly written articles are not worth the read!
We need this for cars
It depends on your product, and what you expect your customer to do with the results.

* What does the product actually do?
* What do they get for a "use"?
* If the usage-based pricing is an add-on, what value does the product provide without it?

I suspect you're better off with subscription-based pricing in an emerging product category of AI-native solutions. But it really depends on the product.
The issue is that narrow tires have a very, very inefficient suspension behavior, and road surface and rider movement causes it to be constantly exercised. That does not mean that you gain anything from going nuts - there are diminishing returns just like there is for slimming the tire for aerodynamics.

What tire is best depends on the surface, the rider and the speed. On a perfectly paved road at high speed and with a light, stable rider, 25 might be right. On regular roads, 35 might be faster. On a bumpy mess, "smooth fat bike" tires would indeed be faster still - assuming you can stay upright without the tread. There's a reason you don't take a road bike with 25mm tires to do downhill mountain racing.
The sizes are different -- in America, it is pretty hard to even get a small cup of coffee -- but carbohydrates are carbohydrates: the caloric density is the same.
Templates. I mean come on. Most people use templates. They don't hand craft exit documents. When starting a company you are focused on building.
> It sounds like this person is part of a tech bubble, and can't see the forest for the trees.

I think the original article is correct, but not for the reasons they think. You are quite correct that the average folk doesn't give a damn about the tech bubble peculiarities and absolutely don't care about trading their piracy ("like I have anything to hide lol" is quite an oft sentiment I heard). I agree with you there.

But... the average folk don't have infinite patience, or money for that matter. They don't know tech, sure, but at the same time they are getting sick of being milked for subscriptions for literally anything and everything -- all the video streaming services, ChatGPT, cable still exists, internet at home, mobile internet... delivery services for gods' sakes!!! They want you to pay a subscription and the first 10 deliveries for the month are free. There are other examples, many of them.

You don't have to be a tech guru to at point exclaim "I am sick of all that streaming crap. They think they can get away with everything! I'll pirate movies! You know any good sites?" -- and I have in fact witnessed non-tech-savvy people exclaiming exactly that.

Of course all of that is very different compared to an actual useful AI -- if we ever get that. I am quite sure that people would gladly shell out for that. But the general point still stands; the current desperate spasms of the internet darling companies -- that FINALLY realized they have to start monetizing or investor money will dry out -- will end only with their deaths (or at least severe restructurings).

Again, people don't want to be milked for every little thing. You don't have to have an university degree for that.
But what are they doing that's requiring going through settings/xattr, when every other direct download app I've used has worked fine with the right click -> Open to suppress the default error about signing?
I did something similar in 2022, also with LiteX, but not self-hosting because it used a Kintex-7 FPGA which at least at the time required Vivado for the actual place-and-route. It did result in a open gateware laptop running Linux and Xorg, though (thanks to Linux-on-LiteX-VexRiscV): https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-09-29-rkx7-showcase.h...
Requiring non disparagement is now in violation of labor law per the NLRB as of February 2023. If someone is putting one in front of you, contact the NLRB and an employment attorney to pursue recourse.

https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-rules-th... (“Board Rules that Employers May Not Offer Severance Agreements Requiring Employees to Broadly Waive Labor Law Rights”)

https://www.axios.com/2023/03/27/labor-board-says-non-dispar... (“Labor Board says non-disparagement clauses are unlawful — here’s what that means”)
Modular Hardware Design with Timeline Types
"In 2023, it cost $12,182 a year, or $1,015 a month, to own and operate a new car, according to AAA.[5]" [1]

Seems plausible for 1k a month to be the tipping point.

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/car-ownership-s...
Hard to blame someone for unknown unknowns.
Imagine living happy, fulfilling endless life.
TikTok Attempts to Rein in Weight Loss Posts
Oh wow, that was literally what I was thinking of when I linked to it!
https://archive.ph/n91vE
I really hate leaf blowers. They are the main generator of noise in our neighborhood and they don’t conserve that much energy in most cases than a rake (and in some cases are less efficient). I’d be happy if they were banned in residential neighborhoods. Edit: not the mention the pollution from the gas powered ones which most are.
"Our conscious minds often take center stage in problem solving, but the vast potential of the subconscious mind is a treasure trove waiting to be discovered."
Here's an idea some of us have found rewarding... https://theinquis.substack.com/p/unlocking-your-subconscious...
Wait until we have our first planet-wide crop failure.
Much of what GPT 3.5 could do was already there with GPT 3. The biggest change was actually the public awareness.
If Googlers successfully unionized, they would be paid a lot more fairly.