skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read that document and, I'm sorry but there's no way it's written in good faith. You support open weights, as long as they pass impossible tests that no open weights models could pass. I hope you are unsuccessful in stopping open weights from proliferating.
That which animates a living organism. We know the external appearance only. What internal mechanisms may be are yet unknown or undefined.

Some say that an organism is an antenna for a kind of interference pattern in a universal field of consciousness.

We also hear tales of individual souls spanning multiple lifetimes.

I consider this a blackbox.
Are you sure you're not mixing up Montessori and Steiner schooling?

The latter is more focused on self-expression and seems kinda "artsy".
Gotta hand it to The Browser Company for doing so much for Swift lang.

Though I haven't used Swift in production I have enjoyed its ergonomics in my tinkerings with it. So I'd be so glad if Swift is able to break out of its niche into broader usage.
Guide to NumPy Indexing
I’d say around ~10 am EST.
I use the "right-to-left" style myself. To me, the qualifier (in this case, const), applies to the item to the right. This could be confusing:

const char *const ptr;

The first const applies to the char, but the second one to the pointer itself. Being consistent:

char const *const ptr;

The first const applies to the item to its left---char. The second const applies to the item to its left---the pointer. To recap:

char *ptr1; // modifiable pointer to modifiable data
char const *ptr2; // modifiable pointer to const data
char *const ptr3; // const pointer to modifiable data
char const *const ptr4; // const pointer to const data
We need smarter automation for Star Trek communism utopia to be feasible.

Having biases or making subtle mistakes is not really desirable, it's just that we haven't figured out how to have something that can reason without those things.
Glad to help! Just wanted to note that my immunotherapy for pollen/cat/mold allergy is not oral, but subcutaneous. That is, allergy shots. Oral (probably sublingual) immunotherapy can be done also, but for these allergens I believe subcutaneous is more common. I am not sure of the reasons but they may be related to efficacy, safety (eosinophilic esophagitis does not occur with shots), or convenience (while shots are not exactly convenient they are only once a month vs. daily oral therapy).

If you have frequent reactions, I'd say you should really consider immunotherapy. Even if they haven't been bad enough to kill you yet, the next one can always be worse. And if you have borderline anaphylaxis, waiting to administer the epi-pen can be fatal, as it can be less effective if you wait too long. Antihistamines will not save you from anaphylaxis, as while they reduce/mask some symptoms they do not treat the specific symptoms that kill you (hypotension, and/or airway swelling leading to suffocation). Only epinephrine does that.
I kinda agree with this, even if the author could clarify the real difference between a 1200$ and a 4000$ windows laptop nowadays.
Microsoft Windows does not seem to care anymore about building a trusty product for professionals, but as a indie game developer I could say this is the only real OS we really have for now, especially if you really want to target the main audience...

Sad.
the term itself "identity theft" is part of the propaganda - instead of calling it "bank fraud" suddenly it's my problem because my identity has been stolen? no it hasn't, I'm still me. it's not my problem a bank got scammed by someone pretending to be me
If its still running after 20 years, its great code.
This is an area where the governments are short-sighted and it's very hard to blame individual renters. Many of these states have no option to pay cash tolls anymore. Further, not everyone in a rental (often in a strange place) knows they will use a toll road, so you really can't blame people for failing to register ahead of time (either the plates or via E-Z Pass) -- plus the fact that you don't know the plates until you're physically at the car, it's not like you can pre-register a week in advance, even if you wanted to. You'd think by now some of these transportation authorities would set up some payment system with Google & Apple Pay as a cashless alternative for people without an EZ Pass.
Bitcoin Developers Are Touting 'Programmability' as Catalyst for the Next Rally
I think that's reversing cause and effect though. NASA didn't "figure out" anything, they had to be forced kicking and screaming to do it. They may be embracing it now, but they did not cause it.
I’m seeing Starship discussed in terms that suggest I’ve missed something. When did it accomplish even the most base level demonstration of its required capabilities? How could anyone have any certainty in Starship at this stage, and how could anyone possibly compare it with anything?
It may be the wise man's search, but it's possibly a fool's errand as well :)
Ask HN: Reading list for young founders, after the initial stage?
Hello HN,

Joining a promising startup, tasked with building the business in a new country. Most of the HN universe blogs/books are particularly focused on very early stage struggles (building an MVP, securing founding, etc.). Luckily enough, these dilemmas are solved already or not applicable for my case.

I turn to you in an attempt to consume any material (advice, anecdotes, failure stories, success stories) pertaining to the less discussed problems that immediately follow the very early stage, such as:

- What does a comp package incentivizing retention and growth look like? For instance, what would be wrong with (my naive opinion) packages that grow every 3/6 months?

- How should a small team that incentivizes retention operate? (Actual culture, not FAANG TGIT and no meeting Fridays)

- When do you pick which office space (i.e. open space offices with other startups vs. renting an apartment vs. actual office rental)?

- When do you hire? When do you stop hiring?

- When do you get an inhouse lawyer vs. renting by the hour?

I'm happy to read discussions, blogs, books, or whatever format; I lack wisdom on such topics. I would also love to hear conflicting points or anecdotes; clearly there's no one size to fit all, so I'm moreso interested in forming an intuition than copy pasting others' solutions.
It's hard not to see this as paid to fail.
Sometimes people do things for a certain reason but it can also have other positive effects. In a way, it doesn’t matter why a trait or behaviour spreads, as long as it’s beneficial.
This article claims Assange is a likely organiser of Cicada 3301, this is not a theory I have heard before - does anyone have any resources that expand on this ?
I live in London so heat is not really that much of a concern. It can get hot in the summer (30+c is not uncommon) but so far it has not caused any problems, but then I only have medium-range CPU and GPU (i5 something and 1060 or 1070 GPU IIRC - can't remember as I use it so infrequently, most of my time is with a X1 carbon laptop and streaming from GFN so barely use the desktop in the loft and it is sitting idling almost all the time)
> And if I lose my private key, I still can get the money out in chunks of $X per week

So the 5% of people every year who are going to lose their private key can no longer buy a house or car for the rest of their life?
I would like the voice of HAL: soft and calm.
Not sure what you're saying. The F-1 engine is easily beaten by many engines that exist today. It was not a very high efficiency engine at all.
I find it odd that computer "science" is in a rush to prove a religious ideology while acting impatient with actual scientific study of consciousness and our extremely limited understanding of it.

There is a palpable rush to bypass actual neuroscience and continue iteration of tech based upon discredited models of neuronal activity, or based upon what the current tech can deliver.

"I am looking for my lost object under the streetlight, not because i lost it under the streetlight, but because its the only place with light, at the moment" comes to mind
Stuff like this makes me wonder if we could apply what we've learned from llm/ml and apply it to a less leak-y abstraction like a node or graph based interface. Fewer chances for hallucinations and a more manageable, finite dataset.
Yeah, I think you're right. Where I lived, in Stevenage, the original A1 was renamed B197, although I wouldn't have known that at the time - only that while I'd been a passenger in the car, I'd seen both the A1 and A1(M) and signs to them fairly frequently.

I guess my teacher was right and my youthful smugness was unfounded and misplaced. :D

EDIT: I just googled a bit more and discovered that at least one map (the one inch map from 1963) labelled the old road as A1 and the new road as A1(M) as distinct roads on the same map. I doubt I'd have actually seen that though, as it was from well over a decade before I was born, although my dad had lived in Stevenage around that period so maybe he still referred to it by its old name and I'd just picked up on that. Or more likely, I was just wrong!
Bought a windows "gaming" (i hate this category, makes no sense at all...) recently and I agree with the statement of weird and non-sense design in it.

What is the purpose of putting inside some powerful components if you can't even enjoy the max speed when unplugged?

Are "gaming" laptops the new desktops?
Oh what a bad faith response trying to have some moral high ground. The Dyson swarm as defined are satellites close the the Sun collecting energy, where it is dense and relaying it further nothing else. Trying to compose there something else is moving goal post and then is not a Dyson swarm.

With this goal post moving we can start claiming that Oort cloud is a Dyson swarm. Or are all stars in this galaxy a Dyson swarm moving around central black hole? Maybe if we will move goal posts further they will!
Ask HN: Searching for Bounties
Hello HN,
I am searching for bounties that will pay for submitting patches for vulnerabilities or adding some feature in a program. Please share any information you have. I would be nice if someone mention index related to it.
No rule is absolute. So you may have some line longer. Anyway I’m VERY skeptic that hardcoding URLs is a good idea at all.
Interesting take. This reminds me of Blade Runner, which, I read, takes place in 2019.
Thing is, there's no evidence that "something is going on at a quantum level". Thus there's no particular reason to postulate this (unnecessarily complicated) hypothesis, unless one believes that deterministic mechanicism is philosophically unacceptable when it comes to consciousness.
2025 or 2026 for Starship.
This is really neat, thanks for sharing, I look forward to exploring it further.
avis does the same thing: they ask you if you want the ez pass to be activated and if you say yes, they put abbreviations in the fine print that indicate you agreed to their ridiculously priced "unlimited tolls" package, even though there are other cheaper ez pass related services, and because you sign the rental agreement in order to get the keys, you don't have a leg to stand on if you dispute it later. because the charge is abbreviated, it took 20 minutes between the invoice and their website to even decipher what the charges were for. if hertz and enterprise are doing it, must be an industry-wide scam.
> We believe that AI voices should not deliberately mimic a celebrity's distinctive voice—Sky’s voice is not an imitation of Scarlett Johansson but belongs to a different professional actress using her own natural speaking voice. To protect their privacy, we cannot share the names of our voice talents.

I love how they have to go out of their way to explain that, rather than train a model on Scarlett Johansson's voice, they came about her voice honestly, by just finding someone who's natural voice sounded the most like Scarlett Johansson... as, clearly, no one is questioning that this voice was chosen to mimic Scarlett Johansson.
No there's still no new production of those, as mentioned in the comments. It's kind of a shame. You can adapt a DB-25M to fit a DB-19F by cutting some of the hood to size and removing the extra pins. It's not pretty but it works. That's not really possible to do with the female connector though.
I'm not sure Raspberry Pi are to blame. Broadcom insist on closed source binary blobs, and their chip has e-fuses built in.
Why using grunt on a new project ?
This should be the first comment on any "identity theft" story to change the onus of proof narrative amongst the populous.
Went to take a look; There’s beauty in it. Thank you!

Here, for others’ convenience: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Twelve_Years_in_a_Monastery
The Winter War occurred in ...

I know, and I'm pretty sure you know that I know. The context was M-R, so that's the time frame I was referring to. Your bringing Finland into this just didn't make sense any sense otherwise, so if I misread you there, that was why.

The war began with ...

Look - I see why you're saying what you're saying. But you're misstating the details, and the overall narrative you're presenting just doesn't add up, given the full context of surrounding events. I'd dissect the matter further, but I just don't think you're engaging in good faith here (either with me, or with the other commenter who jumped in at the same point in the thread). Which is a pity because you're obviously quite knowledgeable about lots of things. But you're also reading things into what people say that just aren't there, and your responses seem to attempt shift the topic rather than address what they're saying.

It's just weird, and not format I can work with.
Full-Body Haptics via Non-Invasive Body Stimulation [pdf]
> This 80 character limit stems from a time where terminals could only display comparatively few characters in a line, a limit we haven't had in decades as screen resolutions grew.

The 80 char rule has little to do with old monitors. Has to do with ergonomics, and is why any good edited and typeset book will have between 60 and 80 characters per line.
AI Is the Reckoning": Generative versus AI
AI is "The reckoning" for artists. It is the push that stagnant
post-modernity has been waiting for and will push real art to never
imagined new horizons in a bid to escape AI... at least according to
this Cybershow episode.
It will be called “In Conclusion Day”.
Agree completely. Unfortunately it seems to be impossible to build large organisations without creating the sort of incentives that feeds this kind of thinking.
Alexandria3k – Local Relational Query Access to Crossref, PubMed and More
I mostly code in C, C++, Python, Emacs, Almquist, GNU Make, and VanillaJS. I have been for more than two decades. My website looks like danluu.com and bellard.org. Why do I need to change?
What do you define as "most base level"? It's a development project. When something is in development you still have lots of bugs to be ironed out. However it was quite successful, even given that. It reached orbital velocities the last launch, which is all that a regular rocket is expected to do. It did fail to do a in-space relight of its engines, which eliminates some usages, but if it was just launching a regular payload it could've done that. And the next launch is happening sometime next month.
Making people pay for bail is an almost exclusively USA thing. Doesn't seem to be causing many problems in the rest of the world to assess bail on criteria other than "is able to afford it".
It's a fair point, but the only way at all to land on a body that has no atmosphere is to use rocket engines that point down. The Apollo Lunar Module landed on its "tail", though it did at least have a separate ascent stage with its own engine, so might have had some chance of taking off again if the landing was damagingly hard.
>Because assigning genders to computers makes as much sense as giving your toaster a name, it’s 2024, so why not keep the gender out of it?

The goal of a tool is to be used by someone, and if the interface is the voice that the user can interact with it makes sense that it should ultimately be up to the user's preferences how the voice will sound like.

I see the fact that they're aiming for gender-neutral voice as yet another ludicrous attempt to advertise their advocation for inclusiveness which, while I'm in favor, I think has manifestations that go well past benefiting the original intention. Examples: Main over Master branch on git repositories, Latinx, removing "blind playthrough" on Twitch.tv because it indicates ableism, and so on.

I don't mind having some voice selections out of the box, but if they're gonna restrict my options and ability to change them to fit my preferences then I do mind. Our primal brain (lizard/monkey, or whatever tag you feel like assigning) will always perceive voice interaction as "talking to someone else", so why not just let the user choose who they talk to? It's a tool, for the user's needs. There's no need with appropriate ascribing of a gender to a tool, because it's not a human or anything living.
I guess "universal healthcare" works in your country. But generally "universal healthcare" has treated my grandmother for sleep problems, but later when she died they figured out that the reason was intestine cancer. No doctor gave a sh*t that day. With money and private healthcare this could be avoided.

My mother when visiting a "universal healthcare" doctor (queues are several months long) for digestion problems AND having a genetic history of cancer was given Xanax for depression. She fortunately tossed out the receipt for it after leaving the doctor office, because she's not stupid, certainly not depressed.

So I think mentioning a mythical "universal healthcare" in my direction doesn't have the outcome you'd like it to have. Even more, it kind of proves my point, that you don't need money if everything goes well. You need it when things go to sh*t.
I've been wondering the same! From what I've seen, weekdays, especially Tues-Thurs, are the best. Early morning EST seems to catch the most eyes. Avoid weekends and late nights if you can. Good luck with your project, looking forward to seeing it!
We are not able (at least to my current knowledge) to go entirely from inorganic matter to a simple organic cell.

So, to make this so strange to say: while we can procreate organic agents, we cannot yet build them with our hands.

Thus I think we are a bit far away from creating consciousness. Whatever that is.
Sure, users with some understanding of the tech can get a weak form of privacy (or at least plausible deniability) if they're careful about shuffling funds around different wallets.

Why should that be the limit? Are you against stronger forms of privacy? Sounds a bit like laws prohibiting the export of encryption software with >40 bits of security.

It does avoid KYC, but so does handing someone cash, and we haven't made that illegal yet.
Some are questioning why they chose not to mimic Stephen Fry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY or Attenborough.
Yes, a tool that they charge me money to use.
Love de Mesquita's The Logic of Political Survival and selectorate theory in general as well. What a meaty concept, with a lot of counterintuitive explanations.
Could you encrypt the data you send to the RAM?
Best of luck with your future endeavors!
>Yes, there will be a need for more research in safety, for sure, but this is not something any company can do in isolation and in the shadows.

Looking through Antrhopic's publication history, their work on alignment & safety has been pretty out in the open, and collaborative with the other major AI labs.

I'm not certain your view is especially contrarian here, as it mostly aligns with research Anthropic are already doing, openly talking about, and publishing. Some of the points you've made are addressed in detail in the post you've replied to.
That was my way of thinking as I was junior programming.
Great question! YouTube's scale definitely plays a big role. With the massive user base, ad revenue can cover the costs. Plus, Google’s infrastructure helps reduce expenses. For a new platform, the economies of scale and established ad networks make a huge difference.
You can simulate the Golden Gate Bridge on a sufficiently powerful computer, though, such that the simulation will behave exactly like the real thing.

Chinese room is a good example of begging the question, since the postulate that "understanding" is somehow distinct from observable behavior of the system implies the outcome. But from a materialist perspective, Chinese room, considered as a whole, does understand what it does. The fact that the man inside of it does not is simply irrelevant to the question.
This is fixating on where the ball was, not where the ball could be going.

Design shifted away from maneuverability in the 90s because upper bound of manned maneuverbility was reached. Answer was to increase capability gap was pivot to stealth, sensors fusion, ew, bvr etc. When unmanned performance envelope opens up due to beyond man tier AI piloting, there's chance design will circle back to exploiting new kinematic options in conjunction with other 5G/6G advancements. It can be both, not either or. The energy math for defeating modern missiles is to outmaneuver them from afar thanks to sensors so they never reach no escape/terminal engagement range, which will lead to increase in missile complexity, which is fine, since it raises technical floor/expense of engaging next gen+ hardware and reduce less pool of capable adversaries. For me, this is possible direction for _POST_ NGAD projects. Keep in mind NGAD is mid 10s "legacy" thinking, along with associated visions of CCA/MUM-T. It wasn't concieved based on AI capabilities we now have. The point of NGAD is manned penetrating counter-air ... there's no reason to believe after NGAD won't be unmanned penetrating counter-air, and if that's the future, good reason to dump points in kinematics.

Hence I would not be surprised if future penetrating unmanned platforms = more performant airframes because they can cut down in other components, i.e. disposable, high performance, attritable shooters supported by sensors in the back meshed by flexible datalink. Especially considering wear/maintenance curve will be different for unmanned platforms that doesn't need regular flying hours. No need to support expensive engines and airframes with 8000 hour lifespan when you can cheap out on 500 because you don't expect platforms to survive more than a few sorties against peer adversaries. There's places to cut costs when designing for high performance attrition, i.e. simply having moderately sized airframes go on one way missions solves a lot of tanking problems in IndoPac.
The sets { USA } and ¬ { China } aren't equivalent, of course.

I think the extra challenges 'in the west' (UK has a spectacularly famous on-going example, but Europe's experience is closer to the USA's than China's) are a function of safety regulations, and you're obviously not going to suffer the same challenge(s) in a locale that lacks those.

Where you believe your nation's regulations around build & operations sits along the spectrum from sensible to pesky will presumably correlate with how strongly you believe that fission power plants are the (misunderstood / underappreciated) answer.

(I'm in AU and a few minutes after wrapping a decade of federal administration where they never thought or mentioned the idea - the now opposition (conservative) political party started suggesting fission nuclear power was A Great Idea. We're in a unique position here in AU, but this was clearly a political, not a pragmatic, advocacy.)
Unfortunate, but realistically this will always happen unless we just kill criminals immediately, or do away with bail. I’d be in favor of either.
That's awesome! FFmpeg is super powerful. I've been using it for video edits too. It’s amazing how such a simple command can handle complex tasks. Thanks for sharing this tip!
This should be impossible because creating the checkout session needs authentication.
Because banks are as thick than thieves.