skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I'm on a company video call, the people I'm meeting with are logged into their company accounts, through the fancy company authentication system. Large warnings are displayed if there are any external participants, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's possible to disable the ability to even have guests. Third-party video conference software is banned and blocked from installation on work computers.

I am not in the finance department, but in software engineering and operations, two-party controls are everywhere. I can't check in code without reviews. I can't access production systems or make changes without approval from another team member. I would think that similar processes could be put into place for transferring tens of millions of dollars.

In other words, there are ways to deal with this that don't come down to "mistrust all technology and revert to face-to-face meetings and handing cash to each other".
> the only way to make a computer image perfectly deterministically is to set RGB to each single pixel manually.

You don’t need to do it manually. A quick and dirty example is to have each pixel’s colour depend on its position on the canvas. Instant gradient, perfectly deterministic, yet you can still be surprised by the colours.

P5.js example (run interactively at https://editor.p5js.org):

function setup() {
createCanvas(256, 256);
noLoop()
noStroke()
}

function draw() {
for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
for (j = 0; j < 256; j++) {
fill(i, j, i)
rect(i, j, 1, 1)
}
}
}

Play with the fill. Make it, e.g. `fill(i, j, 180)` or `fill(i, j, sin(j) * 200)`. Perfectly deterministic and automatic, yet the result can still be unexpected.
There's always 'reports' of people being able to do these magical things that cannot be explained through modern science. And yet challenges such as these https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_for_evidence_... never seem to have winners. It seems that these abilities inherently come with the luck of never having financial problems that could me resolved with a generous cash prize.
What's wrong with making an infinite number? You just need to check it against one public key.
It will at least also show up in a serial console, which can be buffered by the remote terminal.
Would you care to tell us what your backup and restore policy would be for 1.7 PB of data?
I suspect it's a matter of context: one or both agents forget that they're supposed to be delegating. ChatGPT's "memory" system for example is a workaround, but even then it loses track of details in long chats.
> Yes, people drank water. But (especially in urban settings) they drank A LOT of low abv drinks.

The vast majority of people in the medieval period did NOT live in cities.

Furthermore the cities that did exists where way less densely populated and would more look like bigger villages to the modern eye.

It is the modern world with it's industrialization and high population density that has the problem of getting safe fresh water. People have images of Victorian London in their head not realizing that is way, way past the medieval era and way into our modern era.

The vast majority of people in the medieval period had access to safe drinking water. They also probably met most of their hydration needs from directly consuming safe water sources. While it was common to brew your own beer and people did so a lot, I think the economics required for everyone to be able to consume multiple liters of beer every day would have been a bit too much.

As for did medieval people prefer drinking beer when given the choice? Many people today would rather drink soft-drinks or a beer even when having access to perfectly safe tab water. So I agree that might be more plausible.
Monitors are too new. Punch cards have 80 columns. I think this even pre-dates the use of teletypes with electronic computers.
The temperature inversion effect is more pronounced at 16nm (Pi 5) than older nodes. This results in high VT cells performing better when warmer, the opposite of what we are used to. At the "normal" operating conditions (temp and frequency), this shouldn't be noticeable but when your at the absolute frequency limit it's not ideal for your critical path (where you normally use HVT cells) to get any slower. Perhaps it's related to this.
I would have seriously considered Clojure if:

* It had reader macros (I know, they're usually not a good idea, but I like the power).

* Didn't use its vector notation for anything else than vectors (e.g. in bindings). Petty, but this hurts my eyes.

* Had CL-like gradual typing, TCO and something more similar to CLOS.
Yep, I know.

There's another interesting tidbit: John von Neumann lived in Berlin 1926-1929 and was a lecturer at Zuse's university. Contact has not been reported, and Zuse was at highschool for most of that time, but they may have crossed paths, or at least there may have been indirect intellectual influence via the surroundings Zuse studied in subsequently.

It's stunning (and sad) sometimes just how much of the modern world was about to reveal itself in the academic communities of Berlin of the 20s and 30s before facism tore it asunder.
1. Good point, thanks.

2. True. One reason I haven’t priced it ridiculously cheap is to avoid this judgement, and fate. With this pricing I won’t necessarily have a smaller profit margin than competitors. The cost advantage comes from a smarter architecture. Any ideas on how I can communicate that would be greatly appreciated.

3. I used to work for one that needed it. I’ve also interviewed at one that had the same problem. A bit hesitant to reach out to potential customers though before I have a solid product I can deliver. But perhaps I shouldn’t be?
Not to underlying 3rd party apps, but for their ad structure it is a total possibility. It might not be now, but down the road this feature will be used for that and you must be certain that Apple already discussed and planned it.
This is really awesome. Mad props for Chris for working on weval, and to Max for the great overview with the blogpost.

I found the video in Vimeo quite useful to understand how it works: https://vimeo.com/940568191
If I am not mistaken, it is the same connector as the one used by the Sega Megadrive 1, although with a different pinout. In principle, you should be able to get a Megadrive cable, cut it, and reorder the pins.
I remember a lot of chatter around Google buying up fiber after many companies had aggressively built out networks in the "broadband" scramble, which then lay unused. So-called "dark fiber". 2005 article:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/google-wants-dark-fi...

Google bought Youtube the next year, 2006. This must have been massively useful for moving video around at lower cost rather than the public networks, which were probably built more for normal web traffic. Then peer with local companies who have the clients that are watching videos.
There was an era around 2015, when all the cool tech companies like netflix, spotify, soundcloud, uber and others were building alot of infrastructure and database tools. Nowadays, engineers often talk in AWS/Cloud terminologies.

It is breathe of fresh air to see that orgs are still building tools like that.
There has to be some point of diminishing or indeed imperceptible returns.
Where is your error handing logic in the top example? At the very least you’d need an if statement. This is comparing apples to oranges.
Thankfully, the blog’s comments section was still open so that you could pollute it with your smug pedantry.
The Elements of Good Craft
I'm glad to discuss it, but that's all the evidence you're ever going to get, if you personally have not experienced... it. Through meditation, psychedelia, or religious practice. First-hand witness accounts and historical records are your evidence. How long you ignore it all is up to you.

Once upon a time I was locked in a mind prison of material logic. I considered myself transhuman, dreamed of cybernetics and the singularity. Thought that all religious peoples are idiots stuck in ancient fairy tales. Then I experienced a sequence of odd coincidences and inexplicable situations where spiritual entities guided me, causing a complete deconstruction of my entire worldview.

Now it's obvious to me the truth I had been so vehemently running away from my whole life, and the propaganda, indoctrination, and brainwashing are laid bare before me to see. The modern "we don't need no God" ideology is literally terminally ill. Everyone who blindly follows science and government are being consumed by them. Fertility is falling off a cliff. They're all mentally ill and medicated. Mandatory medical genetic experiments and engineered bioweapon plagues are murdering its followers and the fact that this ongoing debacle is being actively suppressed in media and politics tells me clear as day, the devil himself has taken root and hold of this world.

Meanwhile, in the churches I frequent, I see happy families practically building paradise on Earth, the kind I got to see as a child, and I know most people are headed to the same hell I climbed out of, like zombies. No amount of talking with these self-destructive delusionists will convince them to even try praying once in their lives, even as a joke.

I have all the evidence I need; My life has made a miraculous turnaround from spiritual guidance. If you'd like, I can ask the spirits to guide you through me.

The main thing to know about the spirit world is this: Good spirits require your explicit permission to come aboard and help you. The bad ones invite themselves in and destroy you from within. That's why humans are fundamentally religious creatures, and you ignore the spirit world at your own peril.

It's like the microbiome in your body. You gotta let good/neutral bacteria make a home of you, lest the bad ones take residence and literally kill you from within. And it's not "you fall dead the moment you stop believing", it's "these hostile bacteria literally control your mind to cause unhealthy behavior for their benefit", like overeating sugar (obesity very prevalent), being selfish, greedy, etc.

A prayer a day keeps the evil spirits away. This is not a matter of faith for me, it's the truth I've experienced for myself, and the evidence for which I see written in our very civilizational DNA. You just choose to ignore the evidence because you think yourself bigger than God. It's an indefensible position the ramifications of which you'll regret when it's too late, or when you hit your personal rock bottom, as I did.
This article, and your story reminds me of a University of Guelph professors info regarding bee stings.

https://hbrc.ca/bee-stings/

Those most at risk of developing anaphylaxis from bee stings are not those that get some as rarely as the typical population, or as often as experienced and busy beekeepers wearing mediocre protection, it was the hobbyists wearing complete protection that only got stung once or twice a year.

Made me start wearing a little less protection for fear of developing a stronger allergy.
If your business is easily (commonly?) going to wire $25M across 15 transactions you should have a process in place. This is pretty much the whole point of multi-factor; although I'd argue you want the multi to really represent two people. The requester attests that "yes I want $25M" and the sender attests that "yes I am this person".

The wild west ways of the banking sector is finally catching up to them.
I know it's a meme and all, but doesn't blockchain solve this? Ok, Mr. Guy who looks like my boss on Video Call, I can send those funds, just sign the transaction with your private key and it'll all be done.
It's only 4 times more than the 240Hz gaming monitors sold by basically every brand.

You are getting into diminishing returns. 30->60 and 60->120 are big steps up, both in terms of smoother motion and enabling better human performance. For example various experiments seem to show that tracking enemies in first person shooters is easier with 120Hz. 240Hz is already in the realm where it's better, but not much better. 1000Hz is probably a pretty marginal improvement. But people pay big bucks for marginal improvements all the time. The audio space does much crazier things for much less tangible improvements
Nonlocality of exceptions is a feature to me. I don’t want error handling logic all throughout my applications, I want it only in the contexts I care about failure.
The idea is that it should be about a tenth of the cost compared to S3 or DynamoDB. Is that not how you read the pricing? Or do you just think that’s still too expensive?

EDIT: Or maybe it’s because reads are expensive? That’s a consequence of the write optimization. The idea is that potential customers will be doing 90%+ writes.
I do this in backup testing:

sqlite3 /path/to/db
sqlite> PRAGMA integrity_check;

See SQLite3 documentation: https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_integrity_check
I am a generative artist, but I write my tools in Swift, and the algorithms and math differ from those of other generative artists. In addition to the generative elements, I also include manual image manipulation and digital painting. I wrote an article on my art blog, https://artasartist.com/what-is-generative-art/, that has a different focus than this article and includes what I do.
No paywall and more information on Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops. [0]

Previously on HN (1076 points, 5 months ago, 360 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530885
"Super fancy autocomplete" may not be that different to us, or at least some substantial part of us. Do you think when you speak colloquially with a friend or a colleague, you are engaging in a deep reasoning exercise? When you speak, the next set of words you utter feels like a 'fancy autocomplete' because you don't think through every word, or even the underlying idea or question that was presented - you just know how to respond and with what set of words and sentences.
Don't torment the hobbits! Send the eagles right away!
The refresh rate is 1000Hz.

But let me guess. When you open the sources menu on the monitor, then select one source, you still have to wait 5-10 seconds before it shows anything :/
Right, that this can happen should be obvious from the transformer architecture.

The fact that these things work at all is amazing, and the fact that they can be RLHF'ed and prompt-engineered to current state of the art is even more amazing. But we will probably need more sophisticated systems to be able to build agents that resemble thinking creatures.

In particular, humans seem to have a much wider variety of "memory bank" than the current generation of LLM, which only has "learned parameters" and "context window".
Weak type system made it incompatible with function types in practice, and poor compositional tools made it hard to deal with.

In Rust, you have entire libraries around the ergonomics and management of errors to match different applications. In Java, you are stuck using an error management strategy dictated by the error type itself.
OK - I am glad you are happy.

Does not change my point, considering I "genuinely agree" with his comment.

Sounds like you just want to shout across the room as if I insulted you or something.
That's a long article!

Here's a couple of graphs:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?tab=chart&facet=...

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?tab=chart&facet=...

I don't think I can get them on the same chart so you'll need to manually compensate for the different axis scales.

But basically these show that wind and solar are achieving the goals that nuclear aims at in China, but faster and cheaper, and are accelerating.
Are there C++ libs that use floating points for timestamps? I was under the impression that most stacks have accepted int64 epoch microseconds as the most reasonable format.
"Confidentiality" is entirely normal; since many deals such as takeovers rely on your competitors not knowing until it's happened, it's not unusual for this information to be restricted within the company on some sort of need-to-know basis.

Authenticating transactions is going to be an increasing problem in the presence of deepfakes, though.
In generative art, randomness plays a crucial role, as it ensures that each piece of art is unique. The art is typically produced by algorithms that incorporate elements of randomness and autonomous systems. This can include anything from computer code to natural processes, mathematics, or even physical systems.
Yeah, but real worms are also a lot simpler than humans, and yet do all kinds of surprising and sophisticated and complicated things that humans can't do. A tool built for a specific purpose can accomplish its task with orders of magnitude less effort and complexity than a tool built to be a general-purpose human-like agent.

I could pick out all kinds of useful software that are significantly simpler than GPT-4, but accomplish very sophisticated tasks that GPT-4 could never accomplish.
Show HN: I Made a Local-First, Privacy-First Note Taking and Productivity App
That's just regular Crypto stuff not Cryptocurrency
Not even click a search ad and fill in a contact form? When I’m on the other side of the table I do that. But perhaps I’m unique in that aspect?

(I understand there won’t be any significant business without enterprise sales. But that’s not what I’m looking for at this stage.)
I'm replying to the question of how one would replicate SQLite 3 in production for redundancy. I myself consider 10GB would be the limit for using SQLite 3 in read/write in production and switch to PostgreSQL.
The gaming market is huge. And gamers are typically willing to spend top money on hardware (thanks to nVidia raising the bar every time). That's why the market is flooded with expensive 1440p models featuring ridiculous refresh rates and RGB lightning.

This is the same reason why you can get a 65" 8K OLED TV from Samsung for "just" €2500, but you still pay €4000 for a Dell 32" 8k monitor. The market for 8k TVs is just so much bigger than 8k computer monitors.
In China there is tolerance for stealing as long as the job gets done. In the USA there is tolerance for the job not getting done, but not for stealing. I used to think our system was better, but it seems like China gets more done when they accept that there will be some losses to stealing.
You're probably right. I wasn't alive nor in the US during that period, so can only infer from what I've seen and read, but I would wager that even the staunchest opponents of the US space program back then couldn't have helped but feel pride of what their country accomplished in such a short time.

And even if the majority opposed it, I still think that overall the amount of supporters then would've been greater than the amount of people who support it today. We're living in a time of ignorance and public disinterest in science that Carl Sagan predicted in the '90s[1], which didn't exist in the '60s. That spirit of optimism was partly what enabled such grand scientific projects, and I think most Americans were deeply moved by the words of JFK in that historic 1962 speech[2].

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyRbnpGyzQ
You don’t need to be stupid to play golf, but it helps.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it is the “real” engineering target, but it is a foundational capability that underpins the ability for humans to explore beyond the earth-moon system, and it is fraught with difficulty and uncertainty.

Fuel transfer and storage in orbit is problematic in many respects.
Yes. The two mass markets for good screens are business and gaming. Business pushes for color accuracy and good stands at reasonable prices, gaming for high refresh rates.

Of course gamers also like 4k, but given a limited budget for monitor and GPU a high refresh rate has the better payoff
Azure has broken bioconda CI for 10 days running
Azure kindly provides free CI infrastructure for the bioconda project (conda-forge for bioinformatics packages).

Unfortunately every year it breaks because some bit expires required for "hosted parallelism". This year the bit hasn't been reset even 10 days after support said status completed.
Hi, I'm Filip! For those interested, here's a backstory of my journey building this app:

Two years ago, I started searching for an app where I can keep all my tasks and notes in one place, easily accessible from anywhere. Notion was the closest thing I could find, but it felt slow and overly complicated. So, I decided to create my own app.

I focused a lot on UX - simplicity, having your notes load ASAP and be able to use all features offline. So I built it using local-first principles, where all your data is ONLY stored on your device. This also gave me peace of mind knowing anyone can store anything on it (including passwords, secret keys, etc.) without the risk of data leaks. These features provided such a unique value proposition that I couldn't find in other apps.

The app is also completely free to use, without any limitations! I also built the cheapest subscription tier for users who'd want their data to automatically sync between devices, using end-to-end encryption so that their data remains private.

Let me know what you think! Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
> I can't tell how well the abilities would generalize to real world projects.

The secret is that it doesn’t ;)

I doubt our current statistics based AI methods ever will.

Programming requires precision. Code is an exact specification for how a machine should operate.

I don’t see how we can get perfectly precise responses from a nondeterministic process.
What will be the cost to engrave in stone covered in resin?
Assange Can Appeal U.S. Extradition, English Court Rules
Can you point to any other software where this is true? Why do you think this will be different?
For 8KB, you’re better off just using paper and storing it properly.
The big difference is that CERN or Manhattan projects where done by local contractors with often more than decent wages, which isn't the case when you pay people from Madagascar a couple dollar a day.
> went to VCs and angels and they were perfectly winning to fund a porn company, but not what I'd planned: an ethical rollout of a sensitive and very powerful technology with many legs

Well, yes, that's kind of what the rest of us have come to expect from the industry. Ethical rollout is always going to take a back seat to raking in as much money as possible. I'm slightly surprised they were willing to touch porn though, not for "ethical" concerns but because it's treated as radioactive by payment services.
That's why it is a research project, it is hard to do.
Have they thought of exploding nukes to propel the Craft with radiation
It's using rust's ? operator. This operator evaluates to the value if the Result it's called represents success, and propagates the error if it represents failure. This assumes the calling function also returns a Result with an error that's convertible from the error the called function operated on.

In many cases that's enough to handle an error. It's still not a great comparison, since implicitly letting the exception propagate is the closest correspondence in a language that uses exceptions for expected errors.
It's a bit surprising that Aldi (and other supermarket chains) generally don't invest in residential real estate.
You're assuming that the team only works on this product. It is possible they are owners of a lot more than just 1 db.
indeed - and because it's a special character you need to do something like this to replicate the ?? shortcut.

alias \?\?="gh copilot suggest"
No, people know how it looks here. Usually it was full walls of the stuff.
Half my colleagues are in a different office on the other side of the world. There is no one single "office".
Oh I see, I had assumed that they'd want a much slower speed, but they actually show 30 different input images per second in the 30 fps video.
resin covered stone has terrible write cycles
This is why incentives favor the heavy bloated enterprise approach: if it looks expensive, people feel like they got something good for their money.