skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complex numbers are vectors with a special kind of product which turns them into a field (an algebraic structure that behaves like a "number"). If you think about it that way, then it doesn't really seem so mysterious. There are all sorts of weird algebraic structures that have similar properties to "numbers". Not all structures have all the properties you want, nor do they all extend the real numbers though.

I don't know much about physics, so I actually have no idea if imaginary quantities are observable, or if they're just a purely formal mathematical device. Or I guess another question is: are there physical relationships we cannot state without the complex numbers? If you can rewrite a statement about a complex number in terms of a vector, you can imagine that a lot of work can just be rewritten to deal entirely with real number pairs instead? That's how I would judge if something is "real".

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11396/can-one-do...

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32422/qm-without...
In the federal government, there are many ranks up to E15. In other industries, you need to move to management to make a decent living.

In large law firms, you’ve got a ~10 year path to partner or you usually move on.

Medicine is more extreme than tech. A few years after you complete your medical training, you’re a doctor with experience and you can just do that for the next 30-40 years.

Jiro dreams of sushi comes to mind.
Hah, my first MP3 took about 2 weeks to download, over ZModem on a 14.4KBps link. I had to work around my parents' Internet-time restrictions - they'd say "times up", I had to disconnect, then I'd pick up again the next time I was allowed on the computer. Then I needed to convince them to buy a ZIP disk to free up enough hard disk space so I could decompress it (my Centris 660AV wasn't fast enough for real-time MP3 playback), then it took another 2 hours to decompress once I'd freed up the requisite 40 MB of hard disk space.

It was 1995 and pretty magical to get CD-quality audio coming out of the computer, though.
We didn't add any hoop, we just designed a honeypot.

Other people in this thread have gotten it right. This is the equivalent of a hidden HTML field which spambots would fill, but humans wouldn't see.

The rationale is not that we don't want any LLM users to be hired (which would be weird for an AI company).

The rationale is that we don't want people who use ChatGPT to do their homework for them, without even reading the result of that.

Especially since ChatGPT will happily lie in a cover letter to make your "experience" match any job posting, which is a form of fraud.

So we "poison" the job ad in a way that normal humans will simply skip over, but LLMs will clearly have a ridiculous "tell" (which you would catch if you did proofread the result).
CEOs Go to War Against Creatives
Not sure about spyware, but Mazda committed to getting rid of touch controls for the actual functions of the car (shifting, A/C, etc.)
Do you realize the CEO salary is literally a rounding error in your calculation? Your answer doesnt have enough digits to express the worker impact of that $20m salary.
New language/engine gamejam with cash prizes
Are Chatbots Dangerous for Teachers?
What can I say...

Anyway, this is how google explains it:

> Search uses personalization to improve results
> Personalization is when you get Search results tailored to you based on your activity.

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/12412910?hl=en
I described the current process for voting. I meant it both a little facetiously, and mostly just matter of factly.
> Per your logic, all countries in the world must dedicate absolutely all that can be spent on building up their militaries.

No, they don't the to "dedicate absolutely all that can be spent", they just need to spend enough to deter potential enemies from attacking them. Or, have allies strong enough to offer that deterrence on their behalf.
I have no idea what's going on but it feels to me like this somewhat recent popular media anti-Boeing campaign isn't strictly organic.
No, it is not.

I'm not blaming the artists whose work was stolen.

A bunch of people took up thievery. Someone said please stop. They laughed, and were complicit in creating a tech dystopia.

If you want to say they were dumb kids who didn't know any better, we can work with that.

So then the question would be how do they help fix the mess they helped create?
You can be "not that rare" and still not worth producing a car for. We've seen the same thing with small phones.
How the 18th-century 'probability revolution' fueled the casino gambling craze
To me my life is worth infinite money

I'm facing just this problem and my life is not worth "infinite money:" http://jakeseliger.com/2024/05/16/the-financial-costs-of-hea...
The cat and mouse game continues... For every, "unbreakable" claim, there's someone capable and determined enough to prove that claim wrong.
Thanks for the warning. I'll get in touch with them. If I have to rephrase the title, I'll go with "Why I'm leaving WordPress", because it is also the stage were I'm at on my (very long) journey with that CMS. I started web development with it.
Steam Bending Questions
So is it mutual acts of genocide between Palestinians/Arabs and Israelis?

Oh, absolutely. If the Nakba falls under the modern definition of genocide (as per the Convention), then the MENA expulsions and of course the Oct 7 pogrom do as well, in my view.

My intent is not to isolate blame on one side for this mess (which I see as ultimately symbiotic, the result of provocations by both sides). But to identify the common fabric between these events -- in the hopes of finding some way to stop if from continuing perpetually, ever forward.

Are Jews living through an ongoing holocaust now? Perhaps, since the term genocide lost all meaning why not.

Neither side is going through a true Holocaust in the sense of what happened to the European Jews (and certain other groups at the time), of course. We are very far from that, and I see your point here about a possible dilution of the term, and of the (nearly but not entirely unique) trauma and anguish related to those events (which I spent a certain phase of my life obsessively studying, BTW).

Again the overall intent is to identify sources of harm done to people, at scale and on the basis of group identity -- intended to diminish their numbers, destroy their spirit, and threaten their long-term survival as a people.

I just want it all to stop.
Bioethics Needs Counterfactuals
If you go to the airline website (or even other booking sites) and click on details you can see the flight, operator, and the aircraft. In fact, some websites (I think kayak) can even filter by including or excluding aircraft specific models. In worst cases, you might need to know the aircraft from the seat map. From my experience they rarely change what’s the aircraft, if they had it written, most likely it is the aircraft that you will fly with.
The likelihood of dying in a car crash is so dramatically higher that even thinking about changing your flight is a classic case of bikeshedding.
I worked at a startup where the CEO wanted each technical contributor to write a blog post per month, every month.

I wrote two internal memos and then quit. Exactly zero got made public. Imagine thinking this is a good use of time for a startup right after closing Series A.

One per IC per month.
Hope they got fined by competent regulators
Claiming extremely realistic deepfake is the all-in-one solution when a compromising photo/video of you is leaked online. Not specifically related to this case, but something similar has already happened at least one before: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/11/s...
Interesting findings but is a sample size of 30 particularly useful? I dont know much about statistics or how studies like this are usually done. Does someone more educated want to chime in on the results particularly in context to the small sample size?
You can do things like drowsiness detection and keep it entirely local and private - in theory.
I think the intention was to convey that 6x4 is more productive than 4x8.
If you choose to start the project with docker compose, you’ll notice how it will immediately bring up a fully functional reverse proxy setup with TLS support on localhost; set the SITE_DOMAIN environment variable to your proper domain instead, and you’ll find that configured as well, along with a proper, ACME-issued certificate. Add a bit more effort, and you’ll also get mTLS for all services automatically.

All of this is more or less doable with nginx, I’ve done it often enough. But read the Caddyfile and tell me this isn’t miles ahead in clarity.
I’ve never heard anyone else mention Boeing as “the sole domestic airplane manufacturer”, given that Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are still around. I follow aviation quite closely, and the trade magazines are always quite clear on this sort of thing.
They are. Static linking may be okay for small and simple libraries, but as a user, i do not want multiple versions of a complex library linked inside applications, each with slightly different behavior. And i do not want to upgrade all applications if there is a bug in, say, libpng or libfreetype.
The bigger issue here is that actual legal practice looks nothing like the bar, so whether or not an llm passes says nothing about how llms will impact the legal field.

Passing the bar should not be understood to mean "can successfully perform legal tasks."
> Over the past few days, we have made other significant improvements to the security of the Spaces infrastructure, including completely removing org tokens (resulting in increased traceability and audit capabilities), implementing key management service (KMS) for Spaces secrets, robustifying and expanding our system’s ability to identify leaked tokens and proactively invalidate them, and more generally improving our security across the board.

That's a serious amount of non-trivial work to be done in "a few days". The kind of work that should trigger more time consuming activities like security audits, pen tests and the like, before going live, right?
The chickens are coming home to roost. Unfortunately those that sent the chickens on their way have made bank and bailed out already.
1) What kind of domain is that? Looks like a domain for a tabloid or something

2) It redirects me to https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/location-not-allowed which says "Your geographic location is not allowed access".

Here is a mirror for others who happen to not live in the US (or whatever country it's restricted to): https://archive.is/AYgwj
> One additional point: autotools are bootstrappable without going all the way up to C++ (CMake, ninja) or Python (meson).

GCC is written in C++.

So on a modern system you are going to have to use C++ anyway.
Politically connected EMNCs in a (de)globalising world: Review, future research
I clicked the link on the email, entered the EU country I live in, something about my GDPR right of privacy and was immediately “approved”. YMMV
Humans are scheduled to flyby the moon in 2025 as part of the Artemis 2 mission.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_2
And Airbus has quite a long backlog…
My taste buds are already supercharged, I thought that was the problem ?
As someone living in Southeast Asia 2m NN and at close to 40deg every day now - a hearty Fuck You.

The same from my friends in Dheli who have 45C/12xF head.

The same for Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia dealing with coastal erosion and drowning in western shit plastics.

Spare the fake bullshit about being concerned about the rest of the world. We have a word for people like you. Fascists.

Apparently we moved from denial to denial of human effect to the “it’s good for you” phase of colonialism again.
Frisker doesn't really have manufacturing issues because they're not a manufacturer. They subcontracted manufacturing to a a partner with ~80 years of experience in car building and design.
A Game to Learn Flexbox
> patents on AC-3 expired 7 years ago

Does that apply to the newer version of the codec? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital_Plus
Good riddance. These days I download a repo and "go build". That's literally it.

I used C/C++ for years, and it was always a nightmare to build something, unless it was completely self contained. When your "packaging" is so bad that everything has to be vendored, that should be a red flag.
What’s the consensus on Ozempic/Wegovy/Semaglutide in the long term?

Is this something you have to take forever otherwise risk rebound due to non-suppression of desire for “sweet, savory, and salty” foods?
I'll pile on with a dose of "people keep overestimating ability of these things". They do a good job at imitating the ramblings of human beings (you are what you eat!) but computer code that needs to do anything more serious than just look plausible in a movie, has to have a depth of understanding behind it that these models utterly lack.
Lockheed Martin made and still supports the C-5 Galaxy, and Northrop Grumman is making the B-21, so both of those manufacturers (at least) are quite capable of manufacturing large aircraft.
Feels pretty organic to me. Things falling off planes and whistleblowers alleging coverup generate organic interest
OT: thanks for introducing me to the term “reverse salient”! That’s a very useful concept.
I think dang has often mentioned that "@dang" doesn't work, but I wouldn't put it past him to have an automated search for that ;)
It's not deliberate by the government. And the situation is getting better. Basically some of the telcos being a bit greedy and only giving 3GB/mo data to the users and spending all their profits on paying people in the hoods $20 a pop to sign people up.

Recently I've started to see some contracts with vastly more data, including some unlimiteds.
Dynamic linking isn't a bad idea for, say, the top 100 libraries on the system. There it can be genuinely quite useful. Beyond that though, the returns diminish quickly.
Africa needs malaria vaccines as soon as possible
This might be a "minor" thing but what the hell is going on with Microsoft's Windows division these days?

Shot in the foot after shot in the foot, it seems to be even more dysfunctional and rudderless than normal.
Thanks. I spent many many years with WordPress, and I loved it for many years. Once I started seriously leveling up with other tools, such as Symfony or Laravel, the standards enforced in WordPress were insufficient.

I know WordPress future is still bright and getting better with every release. I love its community. But my personal decision is to move aside.
Ask HN: CUDA MiniPC?
Any recommendation for a small PC CUDA capable? I don’t want to train or run inference of large models, just do some cuda and PyTorch prototyping.
It's the cops who said that. I assume that's why the phrase is in quotes. Apparently they themselves believed they performed some arrests that weren't "absolutely necessary". They said this as a threat to influence negotiations. You should take this question up with them.
> Economy of scale can lower the price a bit, but not by an order of magnitude

Based on what? Orders of magnitude are the norm in manufacturing. We’re seeing it in batteries right now.
Yes, but a lossy copy.
Designing a PCB for the RP2040 Microcontroller – Microcontroller Tutorials
I grew up in the US in a low-sugar household and when I became an adult I found a lot of restaurant food and pre-packaged meals to be strongly, unpleasantly sweet. I heard the same thing from foreign students when I went to graduate school: American food is too sweet. It's not "indulgent" but actually unpleasant. I presume that it's possible to reset your default sweetness expectation to a higher level, since it's happened on such a large scale, but I never did. If these drugs can perform a palate reset for sweetness, people could remove a lot of empty calories from their meals.
Ironically they pulled the article. Did they also dox the wrong person?
Correct, but now examine the survival rate statistics for each category. A person might experience numerous car accidents in their lifetime, yet it only takes one aircraft accident to be fatal.
It is amusing that you got funded while being clueless about what to do. The B word works, after all.

Why are you using a SQL-based database? Blockchain data is so simple you could use Redis.
You can do this with just about any of the models on HuggingChat and a system prompt instructing the model to allow any type of generated content.
AC motor, steam, diesel, jet engines are european "gifts to the world",

yet it would be cringe to write sentence like "I’m not particularly patriotic, but this kind of thing feels particularly European"
NSA Mobile Device Best Practices [pdf]
it allows javascript on the original site domain, but turns it off for external domains, buts then lets you selectively turn it back on, and remembers what you've selected. Turning off javascript turns off a lot of both addtional downloading and cpu cycles. for impatient people it's tedious, but for minimalists it's heaven.
Because the meme/myth about disposable Japanese housing comes from dense urban environments like Tokyo.

It is largely a result of tax policy and construction methods between 1960-1990 where it made sense to gut apartments after they depreciated for tax purposes.

In Japan, property tax decreases to zero over time, but resets if you upgrade it. There for people gut and remodel before selling their units so they get the benefit of a higher price, but the buyer pays the taxes.
Besides the legal aspects (which prohibit sich cars from existing), such a car needs to be largely developed from scratch, as it obviously can't use any of the existing E/E, so a new one has to de developed, this includes essentially a new platform development with the new E/E. I can only guess the development costs, but they will be somewhere in the billions.

There is no way any car manufacturer is stupid enough for that.
But the utility would have an incentive to lobby for legislation which only allocates funding to heat pump incentive programs, as opposed to programs which couple those incentives with requirements/incentives for deep energy retrofits.

They certainly have skin in the game for shaping the legislative/policy outcomes which will affect their ability to negotiate for rates and how they invest in the grid (which is == higher rates and revenue, which in turn == higher profit given the agreed rate of return).
Gosh this is such a throwback... One of my first experiences with Napster was trying to download Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again and getting a shitty remix. The worst part was that I didn't check the song, so I ended up burning it to a CD only to find out after the fact that the song wasn't what I was looking for. And every song took so long to download because it was dial-up... It's crazy how much things have changed in a mere 20 years.
If you need it to do small standard tasks that normally requires an expert, then these AI can often solve them for you.

If however you need an expert to do a longer term project, then these AI can not solve them for you. It does replace some jobs as you say, but most people don't work on short term project consultation so overall it doesn't matter much.

> and in terms of energy consumption costs.

Did you include the cost of training the model? I'm pretty sure the total investments that goes into AI today way outspend the cost of such small consultation gigs that AI can replace currently. Customer support is the biggest moneymaker so far and even that is hard to do right with customers suing over lies from the AI bots.
At Google my team wrote a post for the Google Cloud blog about our product. This article is painfully true, in particular "Non-engineering approvals suggest changes authors find frustrating".

My coworker wrote an initial draft and the rest of the team left some minor suggestions. Then we waited for weeks to get approvals from multiple people, mostly non-engineers, one of whom was at the company for whole of three weeks. Had to make several changes we didn't like but had no choice.

After addressing all their (at best, non-consequential) feedback we had to wait another few weeks to hear back again. This time one person who initially required we change X to Y was apparently replaced with another review, who insisted we absolutely have to replace Y with X.

In the end it got published, but was so heavily butchered it is a very bland and uninteresting post.

As a silver lining, we ended up writing a technical paper about the product later and that was much better experience, reviews came from internal researchers and domain experts.

(throwaway so I don't add too many bits of identifiable info to main pseudoanonymous account)
There used to be legal precedent against third parties scraping data, but that doesn't apply when the host platform itself is complicit ("data sharing agreements", etc.) [0]

It does feel like a breach of trust in one sense when this happens, but you are handing over your data to another party based on their terms (although this shouldn't excuse players acting in bad faith, for example, using intentionally vague terms of service that give them the opportunity to do this sort of thing in the future).

Zuckerberg's comment is just as relevent today as it was then [1]; I suppose the loss of that innocence is one of the consequences (tragedies?) of the modern web.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_chattels

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
Napster used a centralized server for indexing but downloads were peer-to-peer. This is what made Napster so awesome on college campuses: you could find anything, but if you chose a local peer, the actual download would happen over the college LAN at godly speeds.

Gnutella brought peer-to-peer searches. Basically it used a flood-fill algorithm: your search would be broadcast to all connected peers, which would broadcast it to all peers that hadn't seen it yet, until somebody responded with the file and their IP and you could download directly from them. Interestingly Ethereum uses basically the same algorithm for block distribution, with some optimizations that were first published by RTM, who was one of the founders of YCombinator.

Kazaa's innovation was to split the peer space into "ordinary nodes" and "superpeers", with the observation that not all bandwidth links were equal. It would enlist hosts on high-bandwidth connections to form quasi-centralized indexing nodes to organize the network topology for all the low-bandwidth consumer nodes. It's a similar principle to how the Lightning Network works for Bitcoin, or how L2s on Ethereum operate. This also made it easier to shutdown than Gnutella though, because being a superpeer made you a legal target for the RIAA.
The statistics I reference are not likelihood of accidents but likelihood of death. You are tens of thousands of times more likely to die when you get in a car versus a plane.
Beer https://youtu.be/_jIlzhhesnY?t=553
It's a tangent, but reading this linked article from 2014: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

Am I reading correctly that egress in Europe costs $8 Mbps/month which is $0.0004/GB, while GCP charges you $0.12/GB?!

And this was in 2014, and the article states the price they show is "higher than actual pricing"
“The lack of processes and procedures was kind of mind-blowing,”

sigh
He means that the problem should work itself out.
I can imagine how bad it is.

By the way, Google Maps supports offline maps. If the user can download the map (a few MB for a city), then at least the basic stuff will be fast.