skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's face it, though: these models are not more dangerous than Wikipedia or the Internet. These models are not custodians of ancient knowledge on how to cook Meth. This information is public knowledge.

I don't think this is the right frame of reference for the threat model. An organized group of moderately intelligent and dedicated people can certainly access public information to figure out how to produce methamphetamine. An AI might make it easy for a disorganized or insane person to procure the chemicals and follow simple instructions to make meth.

But the threat here isn't meth, or the AI saying something impolite or racist. The danger is that it could provide simple effective instructions on how to shoot down a passenger airplane, or poison a town's water supply, or (the paradigmatic example) how to build a virus to kill all the humans. Organized groups of people that purposefully cause mass casualty events are rare, but history shows they can be effective. The danger is that unaligned/uncensored intelligent AI could be placing those capabilities into the hands of deranged homicidal individuals, and these are far more common.

I don't know that gatekeeping or handicapping AI is the best long term solution. It may be that the best protection from AI in the hands of malevolent actors is to make AI available to everyone. I do think that AI is developing at such a pace that something truly dangerous is far closer than most people realize. It's something to take seriously.
Yes, of course. We all know these numbers. I teach a space engineering class where students chirp out in recitation "400km to LEO, 40,000 km to GEO, 400,000 km to the moon". The degree of "well acktually" trying to be pedantic here is unnecessary.

If a swarm of bees goes a couple of miles away, they don't spread out over a couple of mile distance. They are a relatively tight pack that then goes to the new place and then converges to be quite small. That's the same as what this mission is.

100,000 km is quite small as far as interstellar distances are concerned, but quite big as far as an aperture for distributed imaging or beamforming (and for avoiding hazards that are hard to see beforehand). The latter, of course, is what actually matters.
> Bacteria wasn’t known about thousand of years ago. Nor were nutrients (in the sense that we know it now).

And yet, processed like nixtamalization (the processed used to make the nutrients in maize available to humans) were discovered over 3000 years ago.

If ancient humans figured that complex process out, they certainly would have been able to figure out that boiling water made it safer to drink, even if they didn't know why. They'd probably just claim it killed the evil spirits or pleased the water god and have been happy with that explanation.

If someone is going to go through the process of boiling water, they might as well throw some stuff in there and turn it into soup/tea/broth/stew/whatever so that it tastes nice and makes you less hungry.
> The ratio of writes to reads for your pricing needs to be 100:1 or more for it to make sense for me

Correct. I bet Uber’s use case here is something like 1000:1. I’ve worked on systems that were over 1000000:1. That’s where HaystackDB makes sense.

> but I'm more like 10-20:1.

Then RDS is hard to beat.
Get ready to steal another banana
QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Core Database Engineer
OK but let's not forget that YouTube was originally an independent offering and Google's own competitor never got off the ground, leading to them just acquiring it.
If it is only feasible to accelerate low mass objects to the speed of light, no matter the level of technological advancement, then it might be the case that highly intelligent and technically advanced beings have reduced the mass of their own bodies to explore galaxies. Maybe the most advanced and intelligent beings are mere grams in mass. It would make for an interesting sci-fi at the very least ;-)
That leaves me stuck at "type".

EDIT: #2 gives

"The AST type represents the syntax of the language, each of which is a representation of an individual program in the language."

But "each of which" what? There's no collection for it.
Hmm... so it's really a half-mission to Mars with the Moon as stand-in?

That makes a lot more sense. It's still sub-optimal but not as bad as it looks at first glance.
Don’t know anything about arm or pi cooling
But on my ryzen 9, a big ass air cooler beats liquid cooling by miles.
Counter take:

This hot take is unnecessarily defeatist and smacks of the rote defense for maintaining the current power structure, namely "the world is too complicated maybe we shouldn't try".

I'd like to mention that we had significantly higher corporate, inheritance and income taxes in the 40s to 70s and it absolutely did moderate growth of billionaire wealth.

If such a thing is implemented in some form by all, or even most, major global national entities it could have a very positive impact on future global development. It won't be perfect but we only need to work to improve. And currently having billionaires control trillions leaves much to improve upon.
I would assume the bandage wrapping would produce a similar environment to the duct tape cure, just a bit more enforced and extreme.
That's what I immediately understood the title to mean... Is this not what the title is saying? I'm confused as to why people are having trouble understanding it.
Moderation seems like another big issue although the solution afaict seems to mostly involve shipping this work off to the Philippines or wherever and making people look at the most horrifying content imaginable for 40 hours a week at very low wages.
> If I left my passport, driving license, pin, password, phone (unlocked of course) and 5 years of bank statements by the side of the road a stranger could pick those up and pretend to be me with very little effort, and the bank would be very hard pushed to distinguish the stranger from the real person.

Until you report those items as stolen, after which they should be not useful at all. Especially the 5 years of bank statements should have no power of authenticating you.
Gyms are also a big problem too, on that front.

Usually though, the issue is the bodies immune system being unable to ‘see’ the specific viral strain causing the wart, and hence clear it. Stress can contribute.

HPV (the group of viruses at the root of warts) is really adept at hiding, once it gets a toehold somewhere.

So either physically killing/removing the tissue it’s hiding in, or triggering an inflammatory response enough that the body finally recognizes the invader and attacks it seems like the plausible method of action for these cures.

Once they’re gone, they almost always stay gone entirely for the rest of your life - unless there is a severe immune compromise + re exposure.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300425#38322311

> Uber is famous for NIH syndrome
Can Satya Nadella keep Microsoft ahead in the AI age?
People are de-facto forced to hold stock in states that have no defined retirement benefit that can be lived off. The 401k in the USA is a good example.

I don’t think punishing stock holders makes any more sense than punishing all of Germany after WW1 did. You need to cut the head off the snake, not nibble at the tail. A hypothetical corporate death penalty should start at the top, then cascade down some amount of “tiers” down the executive chain. Executives tend to be the ones with the biggest stock rewards and the ones lining up unethical incentives in the first place.
Organ transplantation personality changes are not about happy one day and sad another day.

> The one thing you cannot swap out and still remain you is your brain.

Wrong. You can also not swap out your body and remain yourself.

> You can have shifts in your personality and still be you.

When do you stop being yourself? What makes you yourself? Think about it—it is not an easy question to answer.
I've had probably the worst wart experience you can imagine, and the only thing that eventually "worked" was stopping the medication I was taking to suppress my immune system. I tried every treatment, even experimental but 3 weeks after I stopped my meds (a JAK inhibitor biologic): POOF gone.
We all three of us understood this differently.

I heard the old "Thinking fast and slow" dichotomy all over: You have snap impulses, and you have the ability to override them if you recognize them. Also "elephant and rider" from Haidt's books.

A fireman spends time training his "elephant" (impulses) to be helpful in fire situations, first by overcoming his impulse for fear in the face of fire.

This takes time.

A person who is predisposed to contemplation might appear smarter on tests or be smarter in actuality (see TFA), but that doesn't have much to do with someone who has faced and conquered their fearful impulses enough that they are dampened.
What? No. That's not how Parsec works at all. Are you talking about the same app?

Parsec displays computers to connect to. If a hole can be punched, it will use a P2P connection. If not, it automatically falls back to their STUN servers or the Parsec Relay server if you're on the Teams plan. There is no "server" to choose from. There aren't multiple entries for a single computer with different connection options. I don't know where you hallucinated all of these things but that's just not how Parsec works.

This article makes it quite clear that P2P is the default with a fallback to STUN: https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/4440911373325-P...
How would a sociopath empathize at all? That's the primary skill they lack.
None. I find HN to be good enough that I don't have anything I'd feel the need to bother trying to "fix".
Yes. Maybe it's theoretically possible to add something to a modifiable part of the eeprom, but that's beyond what I can do in my spare time.
My mother read in one of her urban legend "housewife tale" books that potato skins (white side on the skin, under a bandage) would remove all manner of skin issues. This definitely worked for warts, but I'm not sure if by the same mechanism as duct tape. N=1, but this also worked for some sort of embolism that I had on my wrist.
Given mention of Salicylic Acid in other comments, using aspirin makes sense as they have the same active compound.

Salicylates have been derived from the willow tree bark. The Sumerians were noted to have used remedies derived from the willow tree for pain management as far back as 4000 years ago. . . . It was not until 1899 when a modified version named acetylsalicylic acid was registered and marketed by Bayer under the trade name aspirin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519032/
I'm semi confident "banana peel" was also on the list of wart treatments I had years ago, so I'm guessing the pertinent part was likely rubbing the peel on the warts.
The premise is here creating a popular (i.e. for everyone, used broadly) language, not how to spend the boring Saturday evenings.
1 is an integer, a rational number, a positive integer, an odd integer, a power of 2, etc.
The judge has previously issued an asset freeze against Wright specifically so he can't evade paying costs, which will be massive in this case. Not only did COPA hire very good lawyers (their office is right next to the court) but the sheer volume of forged evidence required them to do large amounts of work. I got lunch with them after my testimony at their offices and Wright introduced a new pile of forgeries during the lunch itself, so in the end I didn't get to ask many questions as they had to go right back to work whilst eating.

As for perjury, I asked around and nobody seemed to know if that would happen. How CPS allocates its resources is something of a black box. At least, it's not automatic, although theoretically there's the possibility in the UK of a privately mounted criminal prosecution (it's not only the government that can initiate criminal cases).
Cold take: If I was super rich, I wouldn't be in any better position to spend it on behalf of other people than the government. Who the fuck am I?
I’m likely biased since I’ve been writing Swift for about twice as long as I’ve been writing Kotlin, but between the two I prefer Swift by a good margin. In comparison it feels less idiosyncratic/fussy and more flexible/ergonomic, and it’s nice not having to contend with the likes of Gradle and Proguard.
> That's not true. Nothing prevents you from defining a serialization format for lambdas. That is in fact what all modern Lisps do.

If you have a list defined "al la lambda calculus" as a lambda term, you can't really write it down fully because to do that you'd need to write a lambda and a lambda is written in terms of lists and lists are written in terms of lambda. As an example:

(a b) ;; is a shorthand for
(a . (b . nil)) ;; and with lists that's where it ends

;; but with lambdas
(a . b) ;; is a shorthand for
(lambda (f g) (f a b)) ;; is a shorthand for
(cons lambda (cons (cons f (cons g nil)) (cons (cons f (cons a (cons b nil)))))) ;; which expands to
(lambda (f g) (f 'lambda (lambda (lambda (f g) (f 'f (lambda (f g) (f 'g nil)))) (f (f g) (lambda (f g) (f (lambda (f g) (f 'f (lambda (f g) (f 'a (lambda (f g) (f 'b nil))))))))))))
;; which is a shorthand for ...

You never reach the end of it.

> Lisp is the foundation of all modern programming languages

Not really. People like to say that lisp had a much greater influence than it actually did. If I called Smalltalk the "foundation of all modern programming languages", you'd instantly see that it isn't true. Lisp was one step taken by some people along one particular path, not the first or the last and hardly the foundation.

> it also denigrates the work of hundreds of people over decades

No it doesn't. If you think it does then name them. To my knowledge the people researching programming don't use list-based methods of computation because they are too complex and the people implementing programming languages don't use list-based methods of computation because that's not how hardware works.

> Maybe you are simply ignorant

Maybe you are simply rude.
From the rules for Show HN:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with
Surprising that someone can get in this deep and not know about subpixel rendering.
SON, YOU KNOW THOSE MIDI FILES AREN'T SORTED!

Was glad to see this already here. Never before - or since - has the Tulley Toggle found a more appropriate use.
There are many examples of successful coops to choose from [0]. Seems a bit early to try and pin down all the details. I'm not an expert.

What I know for certain is that the current system can't continue.

Try playing the tape that's currently in the player to the end. It's not very pretty: Ask any climate scientist. Ask any historian, any ecologist.

Even (or especially) the billionaires know the current trajectory is not great; they're building apocalypse bunkers at a record pace.

Seems a lot of people expect someone to come along and offer a perfect solution out of the box, and somehow not get taken out by the people who like things just as they are. I don't think that's reasonable. There needs to be a critical mass of people pushing for radical change, or we're pretty much fucked.

0 - https://ica.coop/en/media/news/new-ranking-worlds-300-larges...
But that's kind of the thing with JPEG XL. It's designed specifically so you can store everything as JXL and "downcast" to older formats for little to no cost.

JXL downscaling is practically a free operation that allows you to very effectively deliver multiple image sizes from a single copy.

JXL -> JPEG re-encode is very cheap and results in nicer looking, better compressed JPEGs than using traditional JPEG encoders.

And for formats like PNG, JXL should be able to hold that same data in roughly the same size (or less) without any visible data loss (or none at all for a slightly larger filesize). So converting down to PNGs at different sizes just becomes it's own pipeline if you still need that (over JPEGs or JXLs).

It's the first thing close to a universal image format which is part of the reason some people push so heavily for it.
I also almost never have it but I would never presume my experience to be iniversal.
I think that it's far too soon to be able to predict this with any confidence.
Iterative (repeating) and incremental (additive). We sometimes forget that last part in software development, too.
Turn a can of computer spray upside down and it becomes DIY cryotherapy. Cover the healthy skin with aluminum foil or ducktape, or you will burn yourself. Obviously, do not breathe the propellant.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/10454/what-cause...
I don't think this is right at all, a lot of intellectual forms of 'flow' necessarily involve incessant reflection, often through writing and re-writing, but also through conversation with self and others. Keep in mind that Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, who pioneered the concept of flow, thought of the manipulation of symbols - including in science, philosophy, conversation - as one of its principal domains.
Ya there are concepts in programming and math that are mostly self-teachable from first principles, but then there's what looks like gibberish because it's too new to have been distilled down into something tractable yet. I would say that arrays and matrices are straightforward to understand, while tensors are not. So I'm disappointed that so much literature currently revolves around tensors. Same for saying embedding instead of just vector representation, etc.

It helps me to think in terms of levels of abstraction rather than complexity. My education stopped at a 4 year degree, but AI is mostly postgraduate still. So I have to translate to what I know because I haven't internalized the lingo.

Here's the most approachable teaching of neural nets (NNs) and large language models (LLMs) that I've seen so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40213292 (Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderland)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.17625 (pdf)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40215592 (tensor and NN layer breadcrumbs)

II A strange land 105
7 Convolutional layers 107
..
7.1.3 Translational equivariant layers 112
..
9 Scaling up the models 143
..
9.3 Dropout and normalization 151
9.3.1 Regularization via dropout 152
9.3.2 Batch (and layer) normalization 156

III Down the rabbit-hole 167
10 Transformer models 169
10.1 Introduction 169
10.1.1 Handling long-range and sparse dependencies 170
10.1.2 The attention layer 172
10.1.3 Multi-head attention 174
10.2 Positional embeddings 177
10.2.1 Permutation equivariance of the MHA layer 177
10.2.2 Absolute positional embeddings 179
10.2.3 Relative positional embeddings 182
10.3 Building the transformer model 182
10.3.1 The transformer block and model 182
10.3.2 Class tokens and register tokens 184
11 Transformers in practice 187
11.1 Encoder-decoder transformers 187
11.1.1 Causal multi-head attention 188
11.1.2 Cross-attention 189
11.1.3 The complete encoder-decoder transformer 190
11.2 Computational considerations 191
11.2.1 Time complexity and linear-time transformers 191
11.2.2 Memory complexity and the online softmax 192
11.2.3 The KV cache 194
11.2.4 Transformers for images and audio 194
11.3 Variants of the transformer block 197
As one strategy, replace the original text with text "nice try", and pixelate that ;-)
Feature request: please put the original text in the alt string of the black bar.
Funny. I had a plantar wart on my foot for years and nothing could touch it. I found an old book that mentioned to put a slice of eggplant on it every night before you go to bed and it would be gone within two weeks. Sure as shit, after two weeks, it had shrank, then went away.

Those old wives tales have some truth to them. (or having grown up in the deep south, we just blindly believed them)
I think there is some reckoning of cloud service providers coming(assuming logical actors...). I was doing some contract work for a small place that had a GCP Bigtable that was costing $11k+ per month for some reports that were based on data from a 375MB !!! mysql db into big-table for the reports to run.

They hired some out of school data scientist to do reports and they were doing crazy ineffective things with the tiny dataset. Wanted me to fix it for pennies tomorrow and I declined.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700256
Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban
https://archive.ph/DMBii
I think that's training, which is the opposite of reflection - you train behaviors exactly so you don't dwell on them at the moment.
No, we should use pixelation when redacting text, like this:

1. Fill the selected area with a solid color (perhaps an average color of the pixels right outside of the selected area).

2. Write "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" over that and pixelate the area.
> I'm not sure what you mean by "the shareholders are the incentive.

E.g. if a shareholder says "you need to make more profit or I will close the company", they are a direct incentive to cut corners.
Also the only way to load and save protocols in old microtunneling machines’ control containers.
Bible has tons of messaging about literally obeying authorities unless special circumstances. It does not promotes annoyance toward those in power nor treats it as a virtue.
It may also look a bit boilerplate heavy but with the VS Code add in and code snippets it’s actually quite ergonomic to write. Just don’t attempt to type it all out by hand.

If you decide to give it a try there are some packages I’d recommend:

- Follow the official getting started: https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install

- State management: https://riverpod.dev/ is easy enough and quite powerful. The official docs still recommend Provider, but that’s basically deprecated. Riverpod is an improved Provider by the same maintainer

- Go router https://pub.dev/packages/go_router is the standard for routing

- I used sqflite for persisting local state: https://pub.dev/packages/sqflite

The setup may of your dev environment may take a bit (the mobile SDKs are quite big to download) but after that it’s quite smooth.

Flutter is “inspired” by react so you should feel familiar with the widget lifecycle. Unlike modern react though it uses class based components and when using stateful widgets (components) it’s split into two separate widgets.
No type of physical removal or topical treatment worked for me. What eventually got rid of them was when I was prescribed terbinafine to treat toenail fungus. I couldn't take it for more than 2 weeks due to side effects which wasn't enough to get rid of the fungus but at least I don't have any more warts.

I don't think this "treatment" has actually been tested so take this as anecdotal.
How is Tailscale not P2P? Just because there's a central server for discovery and key exchange does not somehow make it not peer-to-peer.

If the actual communications between two clients is P2P then, by definition, the VPN is P2P. Because that's the actual part people are talking about when they talk about VPNs.
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'test-driven development'