skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of "now automated driving is only five years away" since 2008...
If there is a downvoting feature (which I consider contraproductive), there should also be an "unflagging" feature.
Building up instead of out preserves nature (and vital farmland).
Stripe or other payment system?
For my SaaS website, I cannot use the Stripe payment system in my country. However, if I don't use Stripe, people won't buy my service because they are used to Stripe. Is this true?
Nature preservation should come top to bottom in the form of regulation

Bottom up doesn't work and doesn't scale.
Always the accusation we are doing something wrong. Industrial espionage, outright "selective" prosecution of corruption cases against national companies while sidelining foreign companies who did the same things, forced assimilation/buyout of our rare startups are always ignored. Suspicious cases where governments are simply "removed" in impeachments due to not having favourable foreign policy to the US or economic policies which are developmentalist and not of the non-interventionist kind not considered in the analysis. This is exactly what our local media says, which gives us two options

1- You are right and reality is simply reproduced in distinct social stratums around the world

2- Something doesn`t adds up.
What are useful applications for this algorithm? The Wikipedia article lists a few, but they seem rather specialized.
eternal-september.org is a good, free option. But the frequency of usenet posting (at least on groups that I still look at) is pretty low...
Funnily enough I just started to re-learn math (linear algebra, calculus and statistics) because I want to learn ML.

While I learn various things I also try to use them in simple Python implementations (to my shame, I never use Python before). It's quite nice how you can rotate vectors, plot functions using mathplotlib. I can draw things by hand but not as nicely.
I suspect that the LLM creators feel the same way, deep down. Otherwise I want to know why Microsoft, for instance, doesn't train Copilot on the Office and Windows codebases.
Highly opinionated: Never get one with the twist knobs for setting the time. They work for a while and eventually just do random things. I also hate the push button to open, I want a handle. My last microwave was a Sharp and worked well for about six years and then the entire inside started to flake off. I now have a Samsung that has ceramics coated interior, keypad everything and a handle. I hope this one will last me a while.
My gut fully agree with this. American junk foods had gone way too far wrt paperclip maximization.
Article is about a car that doesnt exist yet. As stated in one of first comments under current cheapest Equinox sells at Tesla Y price.
You might consider formatting your site for better readability on smaller screens or for use with accessibility options.
I never thought I'd find myself subscribing to games streaming but geforce now really is amazing for someone who is trying to live and travel minimally but still wants to try the occasional big budget game.
'Laptop squatters': Cafes in Europe are fed up with space-hogging digital nomads
> As a Brit I maybe have a different view of eastern and Western Europe but to me the dividing line is probably a vertical line through … Prague?

It shouldn't be a vertical line at all; I assume the typical division between Eastern and Western Europe would be Catholicism vs Eastern Orthodoxy.

They're Eastern Europe and Western Europe because Eastern Europe lies to the east of Western Europe, not because every part of Eastern Europe lies to the east of every part of Western Europe.
Estimates of lynx in the Romanian Carpathians seems to be also around 1500-2000. Seems there are probably around 7,000+ in Europe altogether. As far as I can gather they don't seem to be threatened in this particular location. If you ever see one, count it your lucky day! Bears yes but lynx, highly unlikely.

'Eurasian lynx density and habitat use in one of Europe’s strongholds, the Romanian Carpathians'

https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/103/2/415/6500318
> we may have conscious software, which presumably should be granted human rights

A dog (most likely) has consciousness, but no human rights.
You, like many others, miss the number one danger of AI—making people dumber and less capable of reason.
In an at will eviction, can a landlord just evict anyone when he just feels like it?
I ram MP/M 2 on an Altos and it was an excellent system. I think up to about half a dozen users sharing the system, surprisingly good performance for word processing tasks.
I'm not sure it's true to say that that task requires the exact same reasoning - There are various logically equivalent ways of phrasing the rule such as "No card has a D on one side and a number other than 3 on the other" which make the problem easier.

Since the rule "you can't drink alcohol if you're underage" is one people are familiar with, they aren't being asked to make the same logical deduction they do in the letters and numbers question. I'd go further and speculate that they aren't all reading the question carefully - if you replaced the rule by "if someone is over 21 they are drinking beer", how many people would get it wrong?
Consciousness is an evolved information system requirement in all life forms that are complex enough to be capable of computationally modelling their environment, and importantly, their own place in that environment. You cannot model the world and your place in it without consciousness.

Also, consciousness is not binary (present or not), it is a gradient. I am more conscious than I was this morning when I groggily opened my eyes and hadn't yet fully booted up my model of the world. I am more conscious than my dog, which is more conscious than my goldfish, which is more conscious than a worm, etc. A dragonfly has consciousness, but only enough to model, "I am here. I want to eat that."

The scary bit about consciousness being a gradient is that we kind of consider ourselves the pinnacle of life forms mostly because of the complexity of our conscious experience. If consciousness is simply an emergent property of sufficiently complex information modelling, than assuming continued increases in computational capability, we're probably on the brink of creating consciousness that is "more conscious" than ourselves. And by our own definition of import, this consciousness will exceed our own place in the universe.

Will human life be the most important consideration in the universe if there is an artificial intelligence (actually, there will be nothing artificial about it) that is capable of modelling and empathizing with billions of life forms on an individual level?
So, how does it work when 30k people are simply dead? Are they all Hamas?

Do the leaflets worked at the early start of the "war" when palestinians tried to flee to the south of gaza and were bombed there, or when they try to flee to egypt and are bombed in the border?

What about the widespread destruction where everything is turned into rubble? Was it due to having hamas below all buildings?

I tried to be as concise as i could: All countries seem to me as ignoring how irresponsible the three main perpetrators of widespread violence in the current major conflicts are responsible for. China perpetrates it indirectly in some way.
Fun fact: Uber could have saved investors billions of dollars without existing. I know it sounds crazy but it's true. 6M is like peanuts
The README has:

> It is very important to reinforce that, while Bend does what it was built to (i.e., scale in performance with cores, up to 10000+ concurrent threads), its single-core performance is still extremely sub-par. This is the first version of the system, and we haven't put much effort into a proper compiler yet. You can expect the raw performance to substantially improve on every release, as we work towards a proper codegen (including a constellation of missing optimizations).

which seems to be pretty much exactly that?

It's at the bottom, though, so I can imagine people just skimming for "how do I get started" missing it, and making it more obvious would almost certainly be a Good Thing.

I still feel like reading the whole (not particularly long) README before commenting being angry about it (not you) is something one could reasonably think the HN commentariat would be capable of (if you want to comment -without- reading the fine article, there's slashdot for that ;), but I'm also the sort of person who reads a whole man page when encountering a new command so perhaps I'm typical minding there.
If being able to write lots of convincing text could give you immense power why haven't any of the billions of humans that can already do that done so?
I'm pretty sure people acknowledge the placebo and nocebo effects.
My Barbour jacket was awesome but zipped on the left.
I mean kudos, the UX here is so insanely good it feels like magic, but I don’t trust magic. Where’s the data coming from?
Same. Riven was such a massive step up in difficulty from Myst.

Of all the 4 games (yes 4, I refuse to acknowledge the last entry) it is definitely the most difficult. I had to wait for it to come out on GoG and replay it as an adult to finish it.
Does it? I feel even more confused.

I think many people would benefit from getting something out of the Economist's style guide:

https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/store/S...
>And yet these women seem to have no issues living alone abroad and pursuing a STEM career.

Maybe because they are abroad and not at home?
All stimulants cause this, it is well known.
Something that occurs to me: there's [not much|nothing] special about "dual" axis charts, meaning: in general the graph matches color with the axis, but there's nothing "right" vs. "left" about the graphs. Therefore, there's nothing special about "dual" axis charts being right- and left-axis, and you could just as easily put both axes on the left (at a little loss in clarity). And finally, that means you could just as easily have three, four, or more axes.

Not really -- obviously a chart with six axes on the left and six different color-coordinated graphs would be absurd, but that's my point: there's nothing that makes a two-axis graph less absurd other than scale.

All of which to say: if there's no real correlation that you're trying to illustrate between the data series, then separate charts are the way to go. If there is a correlation, there's (probably) a better way to illustrate it.
A 1080 is 8 years old and wasn't a flagship, an equivalent card costs ~$100 currently... Also: that's 4 generations, not 2.

It'd be a complete disaster if gfn couldn't beat that performance.

I've attempted to use GFN several times too and can only conclude that you've never played at a decent setup if that felt like a local machine.

The input latency is so high that anything with pvp is entirely unplayable (it adds at least 40-80ms).

Maybe the only thing you're paying is Scenematic single player? In that case, sure. It works well enough. Not worth the subscription as you'd get better performance and experience from a steam deck, but to each their own.
This might be a fun project, but it's going to cause extreme misunderstanding for many people. People trust graphs, and users of this site are going to unwittingly spread falsehoods to for example r/dataisbeautiful or even less reliable social media pages.

I'd urge you to take this site down as it will be net negative to the world.
Consciousness might be overrated. It could simply be a short-term memory of the state you were in.
Better super conductors is some top tier democratizing tech. It means cheap fusion reactors for every home, which could give every family nearly unlimited access to electricity. This means people anywhere in the world could have environmental comfort, grow their own food, recycle water, and basically enjoy the highest quality of life that we can imagine today, scaled to a population of trillions.

The labor models dreamed up by philosophers and economists hundreds of years ago don't really apply in this sort of post-scarcity society.
I like Julia and Python, however when I'm playing with doing math, or using paper, I like APL or J.

The above example in J:

3 3 $ i.9

0 1 2

3 4 5

6 7 8

3 3 $ >: i.9

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

J is 0-indexed. ">:" is the increment operator. APL allows you to set a parameter to do 1-indexed vs. 0-indexed.

APL:

3 3 ρ ι9

1 2 3

4 5 6

7 8 9

There is a Calculus text for learning it with J:

https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/calculus.pdf
the risk is that we know that there is a non-zero probability mass associated with "AGI doing whatever leading to premature human extinction"

and the less serious concerns we look at the bigger the chance (of course the severity is less, so calculating the impact is not trivial), but "non-runaway AGI used for antisocial purposes" is pretty likely.
What a game, the main puzzle which tied all the islands you've visited throughout the story is one of the best in terms of game design, hard as nails too!
You can go into Properties > Tools > Optimize, the same button that runs defrag on spinning drives runs TRIM on solid state devices.
Why open a cafe if you don't want people hanging around inside? You could have just started with a drive-through or a walk-up window and saved all this trouble.
MP/M led to Concurrent CP/M-86, which in turn led to three separate families of OSes:

• Multiuser DOS (native 32-bit multiuser multitasking DOS-compatible).

• DR-DOS (DR's comeback, a better DOS than MS-DOS, available at retail, which spurred MS into creating MS-DOS 5, then 6, then Windows 95).

• DR FlexOS: realtime multitasking with a GUI, used widely in the embedded industry for ~40 years and still supported on some IBM point-of-sale terminals in the 4680 and 4690 range.

I wrote about the extended family:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/the_many_derivatives_...
Many (not all, not the most) perceive the notion as a threat because it goes against the belief that it is a fixed quality
>Why not create nature reserves for us and other life, for bioconservation and research? That’s been a feature of human societies going back thousands of years.

Generally only for things we find cute or pretty.

Plenty of "save the whales!", not much "save this strain of this bacteria before it goes extinct!".
In Europe (or at least Italy and Poland which I know a bit) mortgages are mostly instruments to get new clients.

Banks barely make any money at all from mortgages, but they can then upsell you other things.

Mortgages rates depend on lending rates published by the European Central Bank, and on top of that banks apply a small spread (generally below 1%).

But they don't love the instrument at all, it doesn't make much money if any.
Is Marketplace the least evil part of Facebook?
May I ask what benefit do you get from Geforce now when you already have a 4080 at home?
Perhaps consider moving the warning in the NOTE at the bottom of the README.md to a DISCLAIMER section near the top.

I read the whole thing first, then commented, but people often read half of such a document, assume they've got all the important bits, and dive straight in.

(we used to have that problem at $work with new team members and our onboarding doc; I added a section at the bottom that was pure silliness, and then started asking people who claimed to have read it a question that would only make sense if they'd seen the joke ... generally followed by telling them to go back and finish reading and not to try that with me again ;)
If you buy restaurant-grade (and generally I recommend you should) there are more options, especially made in US.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/search/microwave.html
lsb2s – Ludicrous speed binary to source converter
> We may be reading different Wikipedia articles? None of the definitions suggested by Wikipedia includes the Iberian peninsula: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe

Or maybe he's reading that article and you aren't? The only definitions in that article that don't include Spain and Portugal in Western Europe are the ones in which Eastern Europe and Western Europe fail to cover all of Europe.

And those tend to include Turkey in Europe, which is bizarre.
It's different for websites because they are intentionally served up for free. Google had a very hard time getting a license to even index book contents. And there's an ongoing tension with paywalled websites. They do pay for some news sites, in the Google News Showcase.
As an example that even simple queries result in false information, here is one repeated.

https://imgur.com/a/4pm8sFb
Nice one, though I can't scroll the list horizontally thus can't read columns beyond screen bounds (iOS 17 Safari, tried "best ingredients that go with bacon" query and the result was a table view)
The many derivatives of CP/M: 3 entire OS families
Looks about right https://columns.ai/chatgpt/Gajr7yJ9O5x57o
There is also something like this with belts? I wear my trouser belt always in the same direction and remember (being much younger) once someone said it was the female way. Never give it much thought now but seeing this article I remember that again. I should check this around me.
I partly agree, but if people don't want to be milked for everything, what makes you think that they would be willing to pay for things they get for "free" today (e.g. paying for search or social media, as the article is implying)?

My point is that most people are perfectly happy with giving up their privacy in exchange for getting a service without paying. If we want more people to use privacy-focused alternatives, we first need to educate them about the implications of what they're giving up, and even then I suspect that most people would be fine with the transaction.

For example, Netflix's ad-supported tier has been very successful[1]. If anything, services are moving from a subscription-based model to an ad-supported one, because it's both more lucrative and people prefer the experience to paying for a subscription. So I wouldn't be surprised if all subscription services also adopt this same model. If nothing else offering it as an option for people who don't want to "be milked" financially, but are fine with being milked for their data and attention. Even more egregious are cases where you both pay for a subscription, but also get served ads, of which we've seen many examples.

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/netflix-ad-su...
Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas
The government is almost never the right provider of a commodity service. What possible benefit is derived from having the government manage the making of loans, already a competitive market?

Mind that the US is somewhat unique in its subsidy of early-prepay 30y fixed mortgages - they exist nowhere else, because no sensible private lender would offer such a product otherwise (or a huge markup).
Wow, this is fantastic!! Thanks! Currently writing my PhD and this can be really useful

https://columns.ai/chatgpt/3Gk20NKW6D4vTt
So, a Unix running on a Sinclair QL, which is based on 68008 would be possible, theoretically!
Their TOC page [1] is ridiculous.

E.g. for many business entities they demand requesting permission before linking to them:

> Please include your name, your organization name, (...) and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

And they don’t offer that themselves:

> We will consider requests to remove links, but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

[1]: https://www.michelleslist.com/terms-of-service
This is a fascinating article, though I'm not sure I grok the analogy about flow meters.

Given they're so securitized, I wish I could buy back my own mortgage at a discount given how much interest rates have risen. It feels that given the notes about conforming mortgages being fungible, that product/service should exist.
I wonder if it would be useful as cache disks for ZFS or Synology (with further tinkering)?
Not that much
Here is an article about implementation from the author (translate it from russian): google "habr floor796"
Buying a copy of the book would not give you any copyright license. You could only make copies for personal use.
You and many others here are conflating AI and LLMs. They are not the same thing. LLMs are a type of AI model that produce content, and if trained on customer data would gladly replicate them. However, the TOS explictly say that Generative AI models (=LLMs) are taken off the shelf and not retrained on customer data.
Before LLMs exploded a year and a half ago lots of other AI models had been in place for several years in a lot of systems, handling categorization, search results ranking, etc. As they do not generate text or other content, they cannot leak data. The linked FAQ provides several examples of features based on such models, which are not LLMs: for example, they use customer data to determine a good emoji to suggest for reacting to a message based on the sentiment of the message. An emoji suggestion clearly has no potential of leaking customer data.
That is something behind the premise of:

_Make: Calculus: Build models to learn, visualize, and explore_ by Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make

It's a series with matching books for:

Geometry: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make

Trigonometry: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make
This is quite cool,
I hadn't heard of this before
if you sell globally, then you can get max utilization from different sides of the globe as people sleep, so that you can over-subscribe per unit of the GPU. I would expect that people dont play 24/7, but if you charge like they do, then you get to make a profit.
I was literally thinking the same thing. The README here is useless, I'm trying to actually see the effects of this tool.
I doubt there are many pure CISC architectures anymore. Most use micro instructions.
In "An Introduction to Mathematics", by A. N. Whitehead, he makes a wonderful argument for the "usefulness" of pure math. With many fascinating examples like this he describes how when people work to solve purely mathematical problems without any "real-world application," they actually end up having incredibly useful applications in real life situations down the road. But where people are limited only to seemingly useful, "practical" math problems, they don't end up making the progress that brings great practical advances in the end.
How long did this take you to make?
Know plenty of eastern european manufacturers who went bankrupt because they couldn’t compete with cheap chinese workforce. At this point it’s fait accomplished and past tense. But this trend continues to erode local indistries
Now that's a reference I didn't suspect to read on HN
I also have strong opinions on microwaves and while I agree with the 'handle to open' not push button, I am 100% about a knobs for setting the time. Just one knob, twist and push to start.
> technology they’re working on poses the gravest of dangers.

> Or rather, its been actively marketed by Altman as doing so

Both can be true at the same time.
> HVM2 is finally a correct algorithm that scales.

This, I think, is the key thing people are missing.

Maybe your low level performance will never be as good as hoped, but for this sort of task, "the parallelisation part works and produces correct results" might not be sufficient but is absolutely necessary, and any optimisation work done before that has such a high probability of having to be thrown away that under similar circumstances I wouldn't bother in advance either.
I'm not sure you understood my question. I didn't dispute what apparently you thought I had. I was asking for a specific example, which specific culture it was a problem for, as well as how you'd specifically correct it. But it seems your complaint is more ideological than practical and actionable.