skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is that again? Falling in does not seem to imply accellerating towards the speed of light. Accellerating surely, but speed of light? Why would it?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/02/asia/japan-south-korea-naval-...
I'd like to add another point worth mentioning. When I read the other poster's post, I was thinking about the semantics of OOP, specifically encapsulated objects and messages. I may have misinterpreted the other poster, but I hope it at least makes my other messages a bit clearer. (I think it's a little unwieldy to use Matrices that encapsulate its state for Linear Algebra, for example.)
Yeah I agree we actually agree! Another complicating factor is that there’s a significant subjective component to it - I have an acquaintance that works at Cyan (after growing up with Myst and Riven) and is extremely happy working on their newer games.

Ultimately they’re getting money from players (not investors), so the test of “is there a reason to remake the old games” is ultimately if people are buying them (and I wonder how many of them haven’t played the originals? Considering they came out almost 30 years ago).
I think it’s because we destroy ourselves and other animals, we’re afraid of ourselves.

If we made something like ourselves burn more capable we’d be terrified and in trouble.
But you did learn how to speak to each other, and you're stronger together now than you ever were apart.
It absolutely does not. Easiest example in the world. Was the trojan horse two things or was it one thing?
Oh dear you're going to trigger the pro EU crowd who don't like being told EU law doesn't apply in the US
The incentive is having some power over the landlord: treat me badly, you get a bad review. No idea why someone would write a good review, though. But bad reviews are more important. Landlords already have the benefit of the doubt.
I think my biggest issue with the corporate bureaucracy is that they have a lot of self inflicted issues that they keep saying they want to fix (e.g. we want to be fast and agile like a startup), only to keep repeating the same damn mistakes all over again (e.g. lets write a 300 page spec document before we begin, and start this project with a 30man team, even though there’s work for only 3 at the moment).
I encourage you to read the essay "Are we good enough?" By Peter Kropotkin. It was written in 1888, and provides a useful starting point in exploring this concept.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-are-w...

A few choice opening lines: "One of the commonest objections to Communism is that men are not good enough to live under a Communist state of things." and "Men are not good enough for Communism, but are they good enough for Capitalism?"

If you prefer audio there is a reading of the text:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Al-ivn074

or discussion of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPzAn5fo60k
Americans don't think too much about those "commies" in Eastern Europe when doing comparisons. For them Europe is only where they go on vacation: Paris, Rome, Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon, etc.

Same how for us America is mostly New York, Los Angeles, Texas, etc
It is lol. Meanwhile we mainland Europeans have to grow up at least bilingual
42 is not too old to become an engineer or computer programmer or whatever.

Don't let ageism be the next barrier after sexism and religion and the expectations of others.

No-one can stop you doing what you want to do. Many careers require others to give you the chance to practice your chosen career - not computing - start learning and doing it.

Start now, do it.
It's not just you. Bethesda's Fallouts are like cargo cult versions of the classics. Oblivion set in a retrofuturistic postapocalyptic world just isn't the same thing.
There's a spectrum from a ban on all innovation on one end, to your car collecting data about your sex life and selling it to insurers without your consent or an option to opt out on the other end (the sex life bit was in Kia's privacy policy, along with things like trade union membership).

Personally, I think the EU is a lot closer to a sweet spot than the vision of the FAANG. Apple is an odd case as they're actually ok on user privacy as far as I can tell, they just want to milk their closed ecosystem as much as they can. The EU has some ideas I personally disagree with like the whole EIDAS article 45 thing, but if I had to pick between the EU and Meta's vision for the future, I'm much closer to the EU's one.
But Cyan does release new games with no connection to the Myst IP. And Nintendo has re-released the original Super Mario Bros on different platforms over the years.
Can it initiate legislation? Any examples of legislation that were drafted by meps?
> It's as pity that the format died around the game.

It never died. It just got buried under the rubble of “AAA” games.
I have a question about this. Why is wuffs considered to be safe? In this thread I saw a code example from cpp using wuffs, which seems to the a C library accessed from cpp in that example. Why should I trust that C library to be safe or safer than other libs?
The US generally had (has) smaller banks than Europe in relation to the economy (from regulation), so keeping mortgages on balance sheet wasn't an great option. Securitization was one way to make a financial markets product out of mortgages.
The problem is not just the app store, it's the lack of sideloading, the fact that as a developer, you HAVE to go through the app store to have an iOS app at all. The fact that Apple forcibly inserts itself between you and your users and acts as if they had a role in you earning this relationship.

While in real life, app stores themselves hardly earn apps any users. Most of the time, people install an app thanks to the app developer's own marketing efforts.

If you want a real-world example of an app store on a platform where there are alternative methods of app distribution, just look at macOS. Same idea, same rules, but there is sideloading as an alternative. It turns out neither users nor developers are having any of it.
I got into CoQ only recently but I've been enjoying it immensely. What a fantastic game!
Evaluation of the genetic viability of metapopulation scenarios for the Iberian lynx (2023): https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Artificial consciousness is a better term for what's often called AI in science fiction.
> The human race is not going to go hungry because a farmer gave 50 sheep to the cats.

How about you give sheep to the cats?

> create a seperate fenced off area for unwanted farm stock.

All farm stock is wanted/used at some level.
Well that's what slippery slopes are for :-)
Case Study: Large-Scale Pure OO at the Irish Government (2011)
Ask HN: Open-Source Alternative to Bland.ai
I want to experiment with building my own phone agent. Currently experimented with bland.ai but it gets expensive. Any open source alternative that I can run on my own?
MSX: https://nazo.main.jp/prog/retropc/gcmsx.html
Is Google back in China then?
slides: https://qconlondon.com/london-2011/qconlondon.com/dl/qcon-lo...
This lines up well with the idea that few carb were eaten during winters in northern climates. I wonder if this is actually an evolutionary gene.

Personally when lossing weight I've mainly done 2-3 month stints of keto followed by calorie counting. Its worked well when ive stuck to it.
Russia asked for discussions on a new security infrastructure for Europe. The West refused out of hand because it expected Russia to collapse in the (then) coming war.

Russia did not collapse. It got stronger.

All this talk of the danger of Russia is self-fulfilling prophecy.
Reading about cars on HN is a real Gell-Mann Amnesia moment for me. So many people unaware of the state of the car market, and what's out there.

I wonder if the consensus on HN is still that Tesla is going to bankrupt the entire car industry?
It's legal. They used to cover pretty much all of it then published came at them one after another to want a "deal". The moment they gain any kind of popularity, they're going to hit the same legal wall.

As for using it for your own needs 1:1, I wish steam would expand it's steam to steam self streaming to cover usage out of local lan.
What happens if you connect Windows XP to the Internet in 2024?
Yes, the beauty of nature is, there is no magic. Everything is governed by laws, when we uncover it, we can replicate it.
Running cables over a long distance in the sky between balloons and planes sounds a lot more challenging than cooling cables on earth. Also High voltage DC is already quite good.
Proton pumping in cells via Electron transport chain
Not true, member state's contributions are the largest "money maker": https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/financing-the-eu...
> A thought I've had regularly is that any financial product so widely required ought to be provided at cost (base rate of interest) through central banks. Why bother with middlemen?

In the US at least, govt has problems running "retail." (It also has problems running wholesale, as evidenced by the give-aways to BlackRock, but ...)
Safety, the way you use it has nothing to do with the work being done by the alignment team. Aligned, in this context, simply means that a models output are aligned with our expectations... It follows instructions... does what it's told. A super intelligent model that refuses your instructions is no more useful than a dumb model that cannot understand them. The alignment team where part of the race to make more powerful models. Read openai's last paper if you want to understand it better from a technical perspective. https://openai.com/index/weak-to-strong-generalization/

Naturally you can frame this as a general safety thing, if you convince people that llms have embodied agency and might start breaking out of the system like a computer virus. But llms are text generators. They can do nothing physically, unless you allow them to and plug them in to something.

The real risk is that people don't understand this, and lots of people probably are willing to plug these models in to dangerous situations, with only the assurance from openai that they are safe. If you do not have access to the training data used, then you cannot possibly know what behaviour has been trained in to it, and how a model might behave. With the training data, you can have a much better understanding, and the only remaining uncertainty being the non-deterministic nature of the implementation. But at least that's an explainable stochastic process.
How to Use Free Satellite Imagery to Monitor Expansion of West Bank Settlements
Superconductors all have limits on current and voltage. So really thin wires cannot transmit huge amounts of power.
I bought a brand new Mazda CX-5 last year for 29K - and not the most basic model. Very reliable and safe. Given our safety requirements nowadays (cameras, crash resistance, air bags), and technology expectations (CarPlay/Android Auto, Bluetooth, USB chargers), it will be hard to make a car for a lot less than that while remaining appealing for the average buyer.

Some people would be fine with a tiny barebones car, but that's a minority. I used to have one of these when living abroad and let tell you... It SUCKED. Uncomfortable and was not safe when compared even with a small sedan like the Jetta.
That's a very simplistic view.
I really do hope ASI gets us to gradual replacement-based uploading. Having something as glorious as sapience trapped in a delicate and temporary bag of flesh kinda sucks.
Chris Espinosa
This was about the basic income aspects of UBI, which are orthogonal to the decision who is entitled to the benefits.

What you are suggesting is already done, and it's exactly what's wrong with the current system. When there are multiple separate low-income benefits, it's easy to accidentally create incentives against working. You try to work harder, but you lose 80% or 110% of the additional income to taxes and lost benefits. The latter because you cross one or more thresholds for the benefits.

Basic income avoids this with better coordination. There are no income thresholds for "low-income" benefits and no lower tax brackets for low to medium incomes. Everyone receives benefits in some technical sense, but most people pay them back through higher nominal taxes. In practice, most people would not receive basic income and would not pay any higher taxes. They would just do their tax calculations in a different way.
No contemporary analysis. Except maybe

https://www.nature.com/articles/189739a0.pdf

Or perhaps

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/477/3/3791/4964763?lo...

Or maybe you mean

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02702326

Ok sure but there's definitely nothing like

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11963-008-1005-7

or

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/127965/pdf

or

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-09994-8_43

or ...

There are hundreds of contemporary analyses of that star. Just search for HD 101065 and you'll find tons and tons of them.
So you'd say it has to be foisted on the common woman from up high?
Correcting any error that woman makes is mansplaining nowadays?
Anything is in the realm of possibilities.
Apple could shut down all of their business tomorrow - just because it’s possible it’s still extremely unlikely.
Apple will 100% never turn its back on the EU and I’m willing to take any bet on that.
Or 2018 Super realMyst: Masterpiece Deluxe Premium++ Edition.
> The whole database is around 11 MB, basically nothing. I don’t even bother with proper storage, I just serialize the whole thing to a single JSON file every time it updates.

> But how do I search?
> Well, Ctrl+F, of course. We are too humble, too lazy, and too smart to try to compete with in-browser implementation.

> Wait, what about page size?
> It’s totally fine. I mean, for Berlin, for example, we serve 1.4 MB of HTML. 3 MB with posters. It’s fine.

Besides whatever technicalities, we need more engineers with this sober mentality.
FFS - when a smart person designs something clever it "begins to approach AGI-level cunning"? AGI doesn't exist, at the moment it's purely mythical
How to change the SSH server port on Ubuntu?
In my view Europe as a political project vs Europe as neoliberal project is the main source of internal conflict.
Follow up with the real board: https://www.bigmessowires.com/68-katy/
Quite a few Americans vacation in Eastern Europe these days, eg Prague. But you’re right that wasn’t historically the case. I didn’t really until my last job because we had a facility and associated events in Brno in cz.
Especially as eg the big cloud providers seem to keep a lid on security incidents unless the cat is out of the bag some other way.
What are the effects of this stuff on the environment ?

I’m not saying this is a negative , just that plastic pollution is a huge issue , I can’t see this stuff making the situation much better.
If brain is just a transceiver, then it's unprovable.
For me it's kinda scary - somewhat dystopian world where human interaction is very limited... and in the end the AI (spoiler)
The article appears on "A feminist space for women and gender minorities across the Mormon spectrum". In which context, mentioning the Mormon factor would seem redundant. In the context of HN, it would be a more useful piece of information, but IIUC the policy is to favour the original headline.
I never played myst or riven. I loved The Witness and the Talos Principle. What concessions were made to the internet age?
> And I never played the game!

I keep seeing comments like this on this thread: people who like the game or what it produced (it whatever) without even playing. It’s like me liking all things Alice in Wonderland without ever reading the books. Even though I have them in hot pink hardcover.
Thanks, I missed the edit window to fix that to read: no contemporary observations,[0] though thanks to you I now realize even that might be not correct.

Given your research on these papers, do you think that this is still an object worthy of closer observation with even more modern tools?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400059
If you're referring to the study at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40386571 ,

then it wasn't a canonical Turing test. The preprint accurately describes and analyzes their (indefensibly bad) experiment, but the popular press has mischaracterized it.

The canonical test gives the interrogator two witnesses, one human and one machine, and asks them to judge which witness is human. The interrogator knows that exactly one witness is human. In that test, a 50% chance of a right answer means the machine is indistinguishable from human. (Turing actually proposed a lower pass threshold, perhaps for statistical convenience.)

But that study gave the interrogator one witness, and asked them to judge whether it was human. The interrogator wasn't told anything about the prior probability that their witness was human. The probabilities that a real human is judged human and that GPT-4 is judged human sum to >100%, since nothing stops that since it's not a binary comparison. So 50% has no particular meaning. The result is effectively impossible to interpret, since it's a function both of the witness's performance and of whatever assumption the interrogator makes about the unspecified prior.
this is true, but it will provide US auto manufacturers protection from external competition, so increase the chances they will finally address the mainstream domestic market with lower cost - and lower margin - offerings. Tariff walls are standard practice to nurture currently weak domestic industries
Text continuation defines a task.

It does not limit the sophistication of the solution.

The difference between problems and solutions seems to trip up a lot of people.

—-

It gets even more nuanced. At its basic level all types of digital AI are “just” arithmetic, or “just” Boolean logic. But arithmetic’s and Boolean logic’s simplicity don’t limit what systems can be built with them, as they are Turing Complete.

Likewise, the training algorithm for deep learning models is “just” gradient descent (or a variation), it’s “just” a dumb optimizer.

But again, gradient descent places no limits on what a system with enough resources can learn.

The whole point of learning systems is the basic resources of the model are provided, and within those resource limits (parameters, computational speed and time) the “dumb” learning algorithm learns the patterns in the data. The data patterns define the complexity of the solution.

And the amount of information in a large collection of human correspondence includes patterns, meta patterns and abstractions for things like science, philosophy, psychology, law, art, on and on, that incidentally have a real bearing on sentence completion in that context. So a model will actually have to learn those things to perform its task well.

New Law of Algorithm Level Confusion:

Whenever someone says some learning system is “just” doing some simple task, they are confusing a simple task definition with a simple solution, or a simple learning algorithm with simple learned relationships.

In both cases, the simplicity of the former places no limits on the sophistication of the latter.
Transforming a QLC SSD into an SLC SSD
The EU fines are typically fairly small. Every time one is given, you can see someone on HN commenting it's spare change for the company. Those fines in practice are set to "pay this symbolic amount and fix things, or the next fine will be huge". I don't think anyone refused to implement the required fixes yet.
> UK politicians also mislead the public about that.

It's worth noting that they didn't just do that in 2016. They were doing it for the entire history of Britain's membership of the EU. During the referendum campaign I talked to quite a few older people (my mother included) who remembered the original Brexit referendum in the 1970s, one that most people outside the UK aren't aware ever existed. It happened just a couple of years after entering the EU, which was done unilaterally by the Labour government of the time and never subjected to a referendum. Many people of that generation say they voted Remain the first time because they were explicitly promised that the EU (or EEC as it was then known) was merely a free trade zone with no ambitions to be more. In that era, without the internet, it was much harder to fact check these sorts of claims and although there were campaigners telling the truth, the public mostly believed the government.

Later it turned out that not only was it untrue but it had never been true, that Labour knew it wasn't true and that the plan right from day one had always been to abolish European governments by merging them together into one superstate. This is often claimed to be a federalist project, but there is no specific philosophy in the EU project as to what rights should remain delegated to the individual states like in the USA. In fact the opening of the EU "constitution" equivalent says that the goal is ever closer union - without limits.

This feeling of betrayal and deception was a big driver of why the older generation went so conclusively for Leave. Most common feedback I got on talking to these people: I haven't changed my opinion from the 70s, but now I know the truth.
"Therefore I'd argue their commitment to sustainability is shown by their disclsoure of the increase."

Alternatively, one could argue the increase shows their commitment to profit at the expense of the environment and the voluntary disclosure shows a commitment to greenwashing.
SOUTHERN? Sweden? We have the worst electric prices within Sweden. (Malmö at least), the connections to the north where there is a lot of power generation is really weak and they shut down nearly all the power plants in the region, so we are stuck importing expensive energy.

My building has solar on the roof and a collective agreement with e.on precisely to try to control the insane costs.
Show HN: Optigraph – optimum graph network generator
I've created a tool that helps plan graph networks for the best possible connections between nodes. The idea is for it to be used as a kind of underground system planner. I am still working on improving the algorithms it uses, but please consider checking it out for new ideas/bug catching.
Another theory I’ve heard (but have no source for except for a number of unreliable swedish blogs) is that women sat on the left side in the church and men to the right, and the buttons on the side to having the shirts appropriately closed to the other sex.
the ones that actually looked at it and

... noticed that it doesn't even define "indigenous"
only if you happened to live in that geographical area (and seismo was a close routing) - I still have business cards with a ucbvax relative address, never used seismo