skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like these are major problems for software whose whole purpose appears to make parallelizable programs go faster... Maybe I just don't understand the point then. To me it appears like a cool tech demo that fails to achieve the actual goal of delivering performance increases (by better utilizing the hardware), but it sounds like from your reply that being a cool tech demo that is probably not actually practical for truly leveraging your hardware... is the goal? So this is more of a research project than an actual worthwhile tool?

Based on how you've made a nice marketing page and README that sounds like you want people to actually use this tool in practice, within that context correctness is a minimum requirement/table stakes for a language to be usable at all, but that alone doesn't make it "production ready" if it fails to practically achieve anything you'd realistically want to do with it better than old-school languages that people already know how to use.

I am not a Python dev, but it seems that CPython's goal is not to be as fast as C, but just that it is a default runtime for Python [1] and the fact that C is in its name is just an implementation detail. Very different.

So the criticism leveled at the project appears to be valid.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/17130986
Indeed. Here in Germany EVs are taking a beating and it seems that the political right wants to spin that as a wholesale rejection of the whole concept.

Whereas the reality is that the country’s proud megabrand (VW) has launched a ridiculous line of overpriced glitchfest EVs with unwanted faux-apple styling, then had a public meltdown about how no one wants to buy EVs.

Give me a reasonably priced and reasonably featured EV Caddy workhorse and I will buy one along with half this country.
> If you and I had been introduced, you would have a guid@naasking-domain.com designating me in your address book, and I would have a guid@felsokning-domain.com for your address in my address book.

The description, here, is no different than S/MIME encryption exchange - in that the guid exchange has to be done before it could be used.

You still have the issue of [A]Guid and [C]Guid correlating between themselves _and_ it being "unique" per SMTP session (after all, you said before that each guid has to be unique per session). This is where my earlier reference to generated guids being exchanged during the SMTP session comes into play. However, leaving that aside...

A single-use guid is no different than an SMTP address, if we're going based on the single guid inferred from that line -- and that guid has to be stored elsewhere in your system for it to be resolved to a recipient. So, you need something like a guid history array on the object for the forest to be able to resolve that guid (on recipient resolve) to a mail object inside your forest.

You have no mechanism (from your description) for B sending to [A]Guid or [C]Guid junk mail (assuming they've been able to discover the guids) using those guids. You say you would invalidate [A]Guid or [C]Guid -- but this doesn't resolve the issue of [A] and [C] now having to re-exchange Guids, for something that B has done.

So, now, all valid email between [A]Guid and [C]Guid is invalidated (per your description) and they're calling into your helpdesk, trying to understand why valid email isn't being delivered.

Do you tell them to re-exchange guids? How do they re-exchange guids when the mail system is dependent (directly) on those guids already being established on both sides? How do they "re-introduce" themselves, in other words, in that scenario?
A democratic institution making laws is very different than an undemocratic institution making laws.

Are you suggesting Ukraine wasn't democratic when that law was made?

And like stated somewhere else, UK did the same thing during WW2. So it's not that uncommon.
For (2) registration being weight per year seems good enough to me, it should just be a lot more, especially if a vehicle is oversized for its axels or license class.

I don't like parked trash and I believe the disposal/recycling process will have environmental impacts proportional to weight in terms of energy, etc.
US subsidizes like 10x more than China does
> The Defending Democracy Taskforce, chaired by Tom Tugendhat, the security minister,

Wasn't he one of the Tories called out by another ex Tory MP for extremist support of Israel?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/alan-duncan-lord-pollack-lord-pic...

> And if you pick up Wikipedia, and you read the entry for Tom Tugendhat, who is our security minister, it says and I’ll read it out: ‘He condemned the United Nations Security Council for its official criticism of Israel’s building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.’
The EU proposals are not THAT unreasonable as to completely kill competition. There are plenty of ways to compete outside of exploiting customers privacy and monopolistic platforms.
Brit here. I bought a jacket in the US once and the zip was opposite to what I would normally expect.
China already is, although it's Chinese manufactured goods (including iPhones) moreso than Chinese developed electronics.

The US based companies don't care about people's privacy that much either, which is why we have privacy protecting laws in place. Also, there's yet to be evidence that China is doing mass surveillance through electronics or tiktok or whatever; a lot of it sounds like unsubstantiated fearmongering. Don't get me wrong, I don't trust them either, but I don't trust the US either, and there's evidence of their mass surveillance thanks to whistleblowers like Snowden.

Or in other words, the US cannot claim the moral high ground when it comes to privacy and surveillance; most privacy-focused EU laws like the GDPR can be traced directly back to US companies taking liberties.
> And though I'm not an ecologist, it seems likely to me that predator populations will eventually collapse from a lack of diversity as they're artificially kept at a bare minimum for extended periods of time.

It's a complicated topic of conservation, because the reproductive strategy, genetic makeup, and history all influence the species' minimum viable population, and thus its reaction and trajectory following new genetic bottlenecks. Some species can somewhat recover from very extremely little e.g. the black robin went as low as five individuals, including only one fertile female, today there are 300; or the mauritius kestrel which was down to 5~6 known birds of which a single fertile female, for mammals the northern elephant seal went down to ~30.

One of the massive risks for species surviving a genetic bottleneck is that the low genetic diversity will let diseases spread like wildfire, especially for the more social species.
> map tool lets users “nominate targets of interest” for “the target nomination process”. She meant it helps people choose which places get bombed.

So... people are choosing who to kill?

I'm reasonably sure there are historical precedents for this.
To be fair, that's the same when Europeans talk about Americans.
In the Netherlands there's a scout event called Hike and Seek, where there's a 100 checkpoints in a 8 km radius around the start. Some 70 teams try to get as many of those as possible without being spotted over the course of Friday evening until Saturday night.

Seekers can be any car, horse or bicycle or even also walking essentially, so it's a tense game. And hard to find an empty enough place in NL to do this. Great fun though.
Perhaps similar to a European’s view of the USA
They actually have to put effort into competing in Europe, lol.
Thanks for the list.

Interesting to see that the book by the late David MacKay made it to the list, it is available to download in several formats from the book's website.

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms:

https://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/

The lectures based on the book by David MacKay himself:

https://youtu.be/BCiZc0n6COY

Probably it's not a surprise that the father of information theory Claude Shannon is the earliest one to propose stochastic LLM based on Markov chain.
No chargebacks = I’m happy to sell you now, knowing you can’t defraud me by walking away with my stuff and my money too.
If you say this sarcastically I believe you think there are legitimate reasons to worry when seeing people running around in a park. Can you elaborate why that is?
Could you maybe provide a single clear example of how Google earth doesn’t feel native?
"Schumann declaration", 1950:

"By pooling basic production and by instituting a new High Authority, whose decisions will bind France, Germany and other member countries, this proposal will lead to the realization of the first concrete foundation of a European federation indispensable to the preservation of peace."

The European Federation was the goal.
Agree with this.

And generally "AI Safety" researchers aren't concerned with these risks and instead are looking at existential risk.

The boring but real risks you outline (to which I'd add reinforcement of unknown biases) generally fall into what people call "AI Ethics" or sometimes "Data Ethics".
This has been an email grabbing scheme since November:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38140252
Technology and automation tends to create more jobs.
As operational costs decrease, your end service or product becomes cheaper, so all your b2b or b2c customers can afford more of it which leads to more opportunities, doing things which were cost prohibitive before.

Some of those things may too require manual labor.
Rarely, maybe for 5% of my searches. Moved to DDG over a decade ago.
Well, AFAIK you're allowed to, but that doesn't mean Sony needs to make it possible for you.

That said, if Sony falls under the DMA, they may need to allow sideloading apps or 3rd party stores.
There's a case to be made there if you assume one of government's responsibilities is to keep the financial industry from blowing up the planet.
He’s wrong! He made the prop but he was not there when they filmed the scene. It was never used in the game.
Ads on the internet are worth a lot less these days if they don’t come with measurement of whether they are causing conversions (aka tracking). Apparently this measurement is a human rights violation when Google or Meta sell the ads but not when Apple or the NYT do.
Is this right?

> the famous Stuxnet operation, where apparently the West was able to disable the ultracentrifuges used to create highly enriched uranium.

> And not only did they disable it, like the factory is down now, it tore itself to shreds physically.

Vs eg Wikipedia talks about the facility losing 10% of centrifuges slowing down the schedule of enrichments. (In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Natanz_nuclear_facilit...)
Show HN: Interactive Graph by LLM (GPT-4o)
Yeah, I know about that but I thought it was turned off and it wasn't.
So, I turned it back off, maybe it was re-enabled after a major update.

I hope it's going to improve things, it should, but I don't think it's going to solve the driving issue. I've looked to make an automation but as far as I can tell there is no way to change lock settings via automation (even just the duration of auto-locking).

Which is a general trend with Apple software nowadays. Too much focus on security at the cost of user freedom and ultimately functionality. They have made this automation software but so far, I have not found any use for it because there is always some limitation that makes it almost useless.
Shortcuts are also a major pain to "develop", Automator and AppleScript were painful but somehow, it's even worse.
Not easy to give a concise answer here, but let me try:

The problem mainly occurs in networks with recurrent connections or very deep architectures. In recurrent architectures this was solved via LSTMs with the signal gates. In very deep networks, e.g. ResNet, this was solved via residual connections, i.e. skip connections over layers. There were also other advances, such as replacing sigmoid activations with the simpler ReLU.

Transformers, which are the main architecture of modern LLMs, are highly parallel without any recurrence, i.e. at any layer you still have access to all the input tokens, whereas in an RNN you process one token at a time. To solve the potential problem due to "deepness" they also utilize skip connections.
"total". As in total consumption of these planes.
GOOG perhaps for 10% of my previous volume, and some of that is just muscle memory. The new Google "AI results" seem cluttered and confusing.

ChatGPT is vastly more helpful, and perplexity may be even better, although I haven't made that a habit as yet.
Klana reduced it's workforce by 700 (out of 3000) people after implementing an AI-powered chatbot:

> We made the announcement to say the consequence of us launching the technology is we need the equivalent of 700 fewer full-time agents than what we usually use on an average basis. On average, we need 3,000 agents, now we need a little more than 2,000.

> It's on par with humans in terms of satisfaction and it resulted in a 25% reduction in repeat inquiries from customers

> We've stopped hiring in the last six months. We're shrinking as a company, not by layoffs, but by natural attrition. Klarna tries to apply AI across all products and services and work we do. It's having implications on how many people we need as a company. This is one time that a single product improvement led to a massive reduction in need for customer service agents.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/klarna-ceo-ai-chatbot-replacing...
I have put it up in a VR browser full size and close up so its amose all field of view and its amazing would love to see this get nerfed/gaussian splatted or otherwise add depth parallelex or one day get the full immersive walk through treatment.
Eastern Europe, Northern Europe etc are not "continental"? That's weirdly reductive.
I haven't really thought about the effectiveness of blame given the scope of the issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

It is an interesting backdrop of power that politics play out upon though. =3
The USA is much, much more homogeneous than Europe.
do i have to remember the sequence and order of animals? That's 7 gd animals. maybe make a web extension like bitwarden that us dummies can use w/o having to think.
Properties like the binding energies of molecules and nuclei are a direct and well-understood consequence of the laws of physics. Materials in the real world aren't like Star Trek, where dilithium and the omega molecule can be treated as an infinite energy source because the name sounds cool. In order for a material to be an energy source, that energy has to come from somewhere.

You can only put so much strain on a chemical bond before the electrons decide to stop sticking together anymore. You can only get as much energy out as the mass change from splitting an atom. You can only store as much energy in a heavy nucleus as was originally put into it by the supernova that created it. Anything else would violate basic laws of physics, to such a degree that everything in our universe would presumably immediately cease to exist.

> No, we do not. Google "island of stability".

I already addressed the hypothetical island of stability in the sentence immediately after the one you quoted. The term is relative. They are expected to have longer halflives than the instantly decaying superheavies like ununoctium, but even the longer predictions of their decay properties have them disappearing far too quickly to be mined as minerals.

I'll add now that there's also no reason to believe that island of stability substances, if they even exist, will have any more particularly useful or powerful properties than any other heavy metal. When was the last time you needed to use Mendelevium for something?

> Yes, but that has nothing to do with the argument we're having. It doesn't disprove that there might have been some rare resource (or maybe it's still here, we just didn't get to it).

It disproves the idea that there might be some useful resource which you would want to go conquering for. The resources available in any star system are already more than any conceivable civilization could ever use.

The other side of this is the difficulty of interstellar travel. Reaching relativistic speeds implies turning a significant fraction of your vehicle's mass into energy. With the ability to create and manipulate such power densities, you're better off just synthesizing whatever you need.

> No, it doesn't. You don't know what you don't know.

> But maybe there was, that's the argument.

> Again, you're talking about known science. Not everything. You don't know what you don't know.

If the argument for suggesting a complete break from the known laws of physics can be summarized as "You don't know what you don't know", then you may as well argue that the universe is secretly controlled by a giant space cat which will reward us with salmon if we all shine laser pointers in our retinas every third Thursday.

"Maybe there was" is not actually an argument, in the sense that there is neither anything specifically substantiating it which can be examined, nor any falsifiable conditions which may disprove it.
Consoles aren't generally seen by people as general-purpose computers, neither are they marketed as such by their manufacturers. They're seen by most people as appliances for playing video games.
I've thought for a while that the US-Vietnam rapprochement versus China would result in the US Navy returning to Cam Ranh Bay. Does that seem less likely now?
>So I am really looking forward the robot revolution, that will (hopefully) free us from the need to produce cheap, so we can focus on producing beautiful again.

I envy your optimism.
That has nothing to do with why turing proposed it; nor does it have anything to do with general intelligence. This is just pseudoscience.

There's no scientific account of the capacities of a system with intelligence, no account of how these combine, no account of how communicative practices arise, etc. None. Any such attempt would immediately expose the "test" as ridiculous.

General intelligence arises as skillful adaptive control over one's environment, through sensory-motor concept aquistion, and so on.

It has absolutely nothing to do with whether you can emit text tokens in the right order to fool a user about whether the machine is a man or a woman (turing's actual test). Nor does it have anything to do with whether you can fool a person at all.

No machine whose goal is to fool a user about the machine's intelligence has thereby any capacities. Kinda, obviously.

Turing's test not only displays a gross lack of concern to produce any capacities of intelligence in a system; as a research goal, it's actively hostile to the production of any such capacities. Since it is trivial to fool people; this requires no intelligence at all.
The EU makes a reasonable number of tech companies (though these days, is there really a distinction between tech and non-tech?), they just keep getting bought out.
As far as I can see it's not even mentioned on the Wikipedia page of EDS.
I was reprimanded for calling Saigon Ho Chi Minh City and later for calling Ho Chi Minh City Saigon. I don't want to be involved with politics. Nonetheless, what I saw in Vietnam which suffers from severe air pollution especially from vehicle exhaust -- the worst being in Hanoi -- is the adoption of electric vehicles manufactured by VinFast.
I mean, do whatever the hell you want. I'll call you out as a hack for doing it, but if someone out there enjoys it then more power to them.

Personally I think that if Nintendo eschewed new games, and kept releasing the original Super Mario Brothers (a beloved game from almost four decades ago) bit-for-bit on other devices, maybe with better graphics, they'd be irrelevant idiots today. Sure, there's SOME market for that, but what's much cooler is making new stuff that holds up in the current year. Nostalgia is a powerful tool, but porting code from 30 years ago to my smart fridge with upgraded graphics is a poor use of it (this is barely hyperbole for the franchise, which says a lot).

That all being said, I know the Cyan offices haven't collapsed into rubble so they're still doing OK (though their workforce is TINY now, compared to 'back when'). And if that's what floats their boat, great. I'd rather suck start my shotgun than release the same software for 30 years (same as in verbatim, no less, someone else is porting it to modern stacks) but to each their own...
Here is an amusing related phenomenon: if you look at dynamical system induced by multiplication by 3/2 on the binary digits of a seed and cut a fixed window, you get the following graph family: https://ykonstant1.github.io/images/trans_limit.png

More generally, exponential maps on finite structures produce these reflection-like envelopes.
I don't think downvoting this is very useful. You may agree or disagree with the statement, but raising the point provides an opportunity to investigate and discuss it.

I don't think Apple can and will exit the EU since it would upset the shareholders. Also, if Apple does, it just creates a vacuum that will be filled by other tech companies. Tech companies that can then come after Apple in the markets where they are still present.

It is also likely that other countries and trading blocks will make similar demands, at which point Apple will either have to comply or shrink further.
There are some terrific point & click games on iOS (preferably iPadOS). The Room series, The House of Da Vinci series (superb Room knockoff), and The Eyes of Ara (personal fav) just to name a few.
> The LLM has no mechanism to be sensitive to what causes this distribution shift, which can be radical for any given topic, and happen over minutes.

This sounds so logical and authoritative. And yet:

me> What event would cause a change in what all people said about Ukraine/Russia pre/post a few hours of 2022

GPT4O> A significant event that caused a drastic change in global discussions about Ukraine and Russia in 2022 was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022. This military escalation led to widespread condemnation from the international community, significant geopolitical shifts, and a surge in media coverage. Before this invasion, discussions were likely more focused on diplomatic tensions, historical conflicts, and regional stability. After the invasion, the discourse shifted to topics such as warfare, humanitarian crises, sanctions against Russia, global security, and support for Ukraine.
The EU parliament can absolutely make decisions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Powers_and... This is middle school level knowledge...
@asjo over at koldfront.dk is still using NNTP for all sorts of things (RSS aggregator, blog engine, ActivityPub server): https://koldfront.dk/just_call_me_mr_nntp_1871

Indeed, it was a lost opportunity. The protocol os easy to understand, and it plays well with decentralization as you say, and with self hosting.

With Python 3.12 out, its nntplib module is scheduled for deletion/removal in v3.13. What a pity.

The NNTP protocol surely deserves a revival.
You are simply confirming the parent's counter-take that the US starting as a colony was such a big influence that despite hundreds of years and 2 revolutions the US still lacks progressive democracy.
This sounds like a bad idea for diversification unless you're extremely wealthy and have tens of hundreds of thousands in other things.
Rivan was an insta-buy for me and at that point I hadn't even played Myst. The scenes, the music, the environment, the feeling of exploration were amazing. and there were no walkthrough videos to help back then.
That was not mandated by the GDPR but implemented by companies trying to punish users in the hope of a backlash and cancellation of the law

All the GDPR is asking is: "if you want to use some PII, you have (1) to ask consent (2) to accept user decision"

Others implementations may have included: respecting "Do Not Track" signal implemented in browser or just... not using PII at first to sell personal datas to advertiser to make more money than selling untargeted ads (so no popup needed)!