skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is clever application of existing ideas, not the sort of new idea which is needed. No one can really imagine what sort of machinery will need to be built to prove the RH. A proof is completely outside the realm of speculation at this point.
> He probably should have gone the responsible disclosure route with the modem too

I think he was probably keen to get back on the Internet to be fair.
Don’t the plants exhale oxygen? So they won’t be getting 1kg heavier, closer to 300g, but I don’t know the actual chemistry.
A state government issued REAL ID card is exactly that. The majority of US persons either already have one, or will the next time they renew at the DMV.

https://www.dhs.gov/real-id
My simple theory on why we stopped building beautiful buildings
The ecosystem for V2 plugins will die when Chrome no longer supports them.

Stagnation is the plan, not fullfrontal assault. Programmers tend to want people using their products more than they want anything else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq1QZB5baNw

yea, you're way late to the game.
Most of the images of moons in this post resemble false-color imagery, and don’t reflect how these moons would actually appear to human eyes. Just fyi.
I’ve mostly seen chips treated as a unit-less or self referential unit: white is 1, red is 5, etc. 1 or 5 <whats> is irrelevant if you’re playing tournament style play. At the end the top x% of players get a scaling percentage of the actual monetary pool. Now if you’re playing where you can cash in and out at face value at any point then using chips in a 1:1 mapping to currency would make sense, but it should still probably be fixed rather than each chip being able to change value based on number of players or the size of the pool.
My observation is that back then we used the number as an anchor for where "the good life" starts, and we still seem to be doing that, even though it's an amount that's getting you closer to "just scraping by".
It’s not even a good demo. Even if someone is dumb enough to do this, they could do it offline on a recorded video feed.
Speed Is My Enemy
Apples and Oranges?

Doctors deal with sick people. Yes, perfectly rational to take one action while not blindly recommending it to the public at large.

I don't know what you are trying to argue with this statistic, but it surely does not invalidate my original point.
> AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years.

No it's not. GPT-4 is not a "smart high-schooler". This is so hype-y, it's ridiculous.

> Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters.

Talk amongst the memesters. This is a meme.

I work in AI, and I'm building an AI animation company. But let's be realistic -- claims like these are not grounded and are going to result in distrust from stakeholders: investors, policy makers, and the general public.
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What readers of your comment need is two HN thread references :)

What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece (2002) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38665334 - Dec 2023 (272 comments)

What This Country Needs Is an 18¢ Piece [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579635 - June 2017 (45 comments)
What are they going to do to harm us, and how are they going to do it? I'm seriously asking.
Another interesting variant of "annotations are the star" is "But What of Earth?" by Piers Anthony. It's an old school sort of sci fi story, but the publisher rewrote it in the publishing process. Eventually Anthony got the rights back and published the first draft with the editor's changes and his commentary on it. I think it was intended to be commentary on the publishing business, but as a way of knowing an author, you come away feeling like you know the guy in a way you don't get from carefully crafted stories.

It's one of those old paperbacks I know I wouldn't have tossed, but darned if I can find my copy to reread. Maybe I loaned it and it found a new home. Maybe you have it.

(Do remember, he is a 55 year old man writing this in the '80s. Some of his world view is… archaic?… in the greater society today.)

You want the Tor version from 1989, not the Laser version from 1976.
Thank you.

If you get a chance to play around, would love to hear your thoughts on it :)
Median income is not an accurate measure of affordability. That includes every person who isn't working - stay at home moms, retirees, etc.

The federal reserve's calculation of household income is probably more useful at $74k:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

And I have never paid more than $5k for a car personally, but the average new car in America is ~$47k so $40k is not actually out of alignment with what most people are buying.
My work saw a 5x speedup (~2min to ~20s) with a cold cache and like 200-500x (~20s to <0.1s) with a hot cache in our CI pipelines when we switched to uv.
Island of Sark
growing submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40576324
This reminds me of Steven Pressfield's works. The professional does what they need to do to complete the work. Once the work is done, they being to allocate for the next one.
Heat seeking missile or a nuclear bomb have to be launched by a human today. Not for much longer though.
I appreciated the joke
I straight up block *.zip domains at the firewall because of their use and abuse.
Cody for VS Code v1.20: New chat UX plus automatic context retrieval
GPT-4o for windows, macOS and Ubuntu
Propaganda is a crucial part of the military; there are even divisions in modern militaries whose sole job is create propaganda/misinformation. This material is clearly deemed of some quality or grade that would deem it possible effective against a target. Given that it is the job of these departments to influence the information and human psychological "playing fields", then I would give that context a label of "military grade" -- in that it is as powerful as information warfare techniques used by entities whose sole job it is to engage effectively in information warfare.
China/US Super Intelligence Race, 2027 AGI, & the Return of History
Releasing my CLI AWS cost saving tools and TF microservice components as ONCE
I'm a solopreneur doing AWS cost optimization tools and services, much like a Pieter Levels in the niche of Corey Quinn.

For many years I've been building self-hosted serverless headless AWS cost optimization tools:

- AutoSpotting.io - for adopting Spot instances in ASGs without configuration changes, no vendor lock-in, and with automated diversification and failover to on-demand - started as OSS alternative to the Spot.io Elastic Group product, still available as OSS at https://github.com/LeanerCloud/AutoSpotting.

- EBS Optimizer for GP3 converting EBS volumes to GP3, also available as OSS at https://github.com/LeanerCloud/EBS-Optimizer.

(I'm currently working on a few more, for example a NAT Gateway alternative and a tool to automate Savings plans purchases.)

Over the last year I started to offer cost optimization as a service, mainly in order to get more ideas for such tools.

Over multiple customer engagements I built almost a dozen CLI tools that can be used to optimize many of the AWS services at my customers. Using these tools I was able to deliver some 70% cost optimizations in average at my services customers over the supported resources, and sometimes as high as 60% of their entire AWS bill.

I also did a few DevOps engagements, out of which I developed a bunch of Terraform building blocks that can be used to create ECS Fargate or Lambda microservices with persistence on RDS Aurora Serverless v2, with automated CI/CD and other goodies included out of the box.

My main FinOps CLI tool named Optimizer was evolved out of EBS Optimizer over multiple customer engagements, and now does automated conversion to GP3 for EC2 and RDS storage volumes, as well as rightsizing and conversion to Graviton for RDS, ElastiCache and OpenSearch, among other things.

I recently started to offer Optimizer under the ONCE Source-Available license used by 37signals for Campfire, and I will gradually release all my CLI FinOps tools and Terraform building blocks under a large bundle of tools and building blocks.

(The Terraform building blocks scheduled to be released in a couple of days)

If you're looking to optimize cloud costs and/or build serverless microservices on AWS, you may want to check this out.
Show HN: Traindle, a short math puzzle – Make four numbers equal 10 in order
We really need to work on this definition of "expect". It's expected from them to have such training but we know that in practice that is not what happens. So we "expect" they to be trained, but what we "expect" will happen in practice is very different.
Yes. Subnormals start at <1.0 * 2^(-126). Between [1.0 * 2^(-126), 0.5] there are 125x more distinct float values than there are in the range [0.5, 1].
I'm searching for a Freelancer for small fixed price (to be agreed) work.

You should have experience in swift and swiftui, and preferably have worked on MacOS applications.

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May 14-15 incident postmortem: high IO latency on some instances
Using the terminal for day to day things is different than having to use it one time during the setup process.
Yeah it was sort of a joke, but having houseplants will make some difference. Not that they would be practical to absorb all the CO2 in the air. On the downside, keeping indoor plants healthy does take some ongoing time and effort and isn't everyone's cup of tea.
China's Queqiao-2 relay satellite ready to support lunar far side sample mission
i love SQL but it was really hard to get started for two reasons:

- it's hard to start tinkering unless you have a database to write queries against. most tutorials never really get past the most rudimentary hello-world-esque stuff because they're limited by the size and complexity of the example data.

- imperative programming teaches you to be very precise and explicit about what exactly should happen, so it feels very weird to start working with something declarative where you can just trust the computer to figure it out and do things well automatically.
They are saying what will offer the best hype and a good reason to be leaving.

The reality is that they have shown the world some pretty big, powerful offerings they are working on. That value is already priced into their stock.

If they fail to deliver on the hype, which they will, it will tank their value hard. If they meet the hype expectations (no one ever lives up to the hype, ever), there will be no jobs and no employees and no businesses and thus their stock will tank.

I believe that, more realistically the easy, low hanging fruit has already been plucked and they are leaving now before everyone realises the emperor has no clothes on.
That's funny, I always thought military grade meant overpriced and underbuilt.
Yes. But. The Shire’s prosperity was established in text to have been supported (in secret) by the efforts of the Rangers. Recall that Bilbo ran into evil, “cannibal” trolls barely outside of the borders of the Shire. This kind of threat would simply never appear in, say, Hobbiton.

The Shire itself is set in the ruins of a collapsed kingdom destroyed long ago by the Witch King. The last vestiges of the old order, the Rangers, patrol the land to try to push back the monsters. They collect no taxes. They pass no laws. The people of the Shire are largely unaware of them at all.

This is a clear statement of Tolkien’s politics, that an idyllic society like the Shire is the result of the hard work of good people shielded from the evils of the world. The role of the King then is to protect the people from these threats while otherwise not involving himself in the day-to-day lives of the citizens.
Location: South Africa

Remote: Yes (GMT +2)

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I guess…but in terms of what you see on screen most of what you see is going to be dominated by closer things, is what I’m getting at. The world is very big but right now most of what I see is relatively speaking close to me. I don’t care much about the precise positions of stuff in China right now, but as for the stuff in my apartment in Canada it’s very important for my sense of reality that the positioning is quite exact - even though there’s a lot more stuff in China.
Sounds like an education problem. Traditional Chinese, which is the defacto language used in Taiwan doesn't even have any comparable phonetic alphabet (beyond a phonetic pronunciation alphabet in the form of bopomofo) such as hiragana and katakana.

It's effectively "all kanji" as it were, and yet Taiwan has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, and I never met any Taiwanese when I lived there (for years) that complained that Chinese was too difficult.
All these feelings and emotions of great anxiety and fear of getting replaced by the "inferior" other, its so primitive. Just like these ideas of the "strong" dominating over "us" because we became "weak". It's such a primitive way of looking at the world.

How do you think people felt that opposed social progress in the past? They felt exactly like you are feeling, but you don't agree with them now do you? Everything you say is derived from those base emotions, but it's all just in your head. You don't have to fear people who are different from you, they are all just people, we are all the same, we are all the same species, race, gender, sexuality, religion, language; it's all unimportant, we all just want to live happy lives in peace. Anyway
OpenAI vs. Scarlett Johansson?
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Résumé/CV: https://dimas.codes/CV.pdf
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Read Solzhenitsyn or Bulgakov (earlier works like Heart of a Dog, not MM)
Crows can deliberately plan how many calls to make, study shows
Important context, this appears to be a brief intro+table of contents for a 165-page pdf/html book.[0]

It’ll probably be easy for HN to take potshots at snippets of the intro, but the writing intrigued me enough that I want to at least skim over the whole thing.

[0] pdf link for reference, but the html navigation seems pretty clean in the OP link as well. https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/...
Show HN: A static site generator for press kits
I recently needed to create a press kit for a game we are developing. I found out about `presskit.html`, a fairly straightforward JS tool that created static press kits using XML data. Sadly, the project had been abandoned for a few years.

So I decided to fork the project and modernize it a bit. Now, not only does it work with NodeJS 20+, but it also uses YAML instead of XML, a more modern CSS, and support for Open Graph tags.

If you're curious about the result, check out the press kit for our game, Dice'n Goblins: https://tsukumogami.software/press/dicengoblins/

You can also find a short write-up about this project on my blog: https://alicegg.tech/2024/06/03/milou
Under today's conditions, there are no incentives for such a person to emerge or to be rewarded. You might as well ask what happened to Bell Labs.
FYI, koi-koi is not a poker style game. Koi-koi is like a melding or fishing game, while Poker is a hand-comparison game.
What if an airliner or a spacecraft or a self- driving car or a surgical robot breaks?
OpenAI insiders blast lack of AI transparency
Great response, entirely agree.
this ignores "system balance" and assumes "closed system" no? In other words, no one says that plants alone will compensate.. but instead they tip a system in a more favorable direction.. Plus some people really respond to house plants in lots of complimentary positive ways.
Hi! This is Dave. I am in fact perhaps a top 10 fan of James C. Scott. For some evidence of this, please see: https://x.com/search?q=allafarce%20%22seeing%20like%20a%22&s...

This is a really cool idea, and I'll consider it.

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The tactics of accusing the other party of something then practicing same said thing themselves is a characteristic of a certain party, which incidentally also generally frowns upon vaccines or anything with a "social" angle. Just my impression.
It's an order of magnitude worse than that, plants are mostly water, not carbon. They'll gain tens of kilos per day.

If you can feed off your house plants alone, then you have a chance of closing the carbon loop. This was tried (e.g. biosphere2) and it's extremely hard even at the industrial scale.
Yeah, that looks like the scene. Thanks! It was a long time ago that I saw it.

The problem is the existence of the magical car was not previously mentioned.
The default buy-in for the site is about $10, which is perfectly reasonable for a game between friends. I've almost never played a game where the pot exceeded $100 (we had 6 people in a $20 buy in once, I think) and most of my friends have never played a game where having a $100 denomination would be any use at all.

This is something that most amateurs want, it's OK if pros don't want it.
> The DMTx participants all reported... that these were beings of a higher intelligence and felt that they were external.

This is not true. I know multiple DMTx participants and many report that the beings are conjurations of their own subconscious, i.e. very much "internal."
How does the "compensation for atmospheric turbulence" work? It honestly sounds impossible, like those tv shows where the detective "enhances" a blurry photo.
IKEA is hiring workers for its online Roblox store for £13.15 per hour
And "home.com" is owned by someone, and registered through GoDaddy:

Domain Name: HOME.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1668509_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.brandsight.com
Registrar URL: http://gcd.com
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Creation Date: 1993-12-16T05:00:00Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2031-12-15T05:00:00Z
Registrar: GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 3786
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@gcd.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.5189669187
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: NS2-02.AZURE-DNS.NET
Name Server: NS3-02.AZURE-DNS.ORG
Name Server: NS4-02.AZURE-DNS.INFO
DNSSEC: unsigned
That's just dry mass and plants are mostly water.
Couple of things come to mind. This is a community of people that:

- are 'in the room' when evidence of new capabilities emerge

- are 'in the room' when discussion of new use cases and applications are held

- have an intuition about the raw rate of advancement and how it changes over time

Imagine you're 'in the room' during the Manhattan project when someone says 'hey, there's a nonzero chance that a test will ignite the Earth's atmosphere'. Vanishingly small maybe, but of incalculable impact. These folks may be the sort that say something rather than not.
The illustrations on Wikipedia show some marked cards, hopefully they wouldn't have been marked cards at the time when they were new.
AI and culture is moving extremely fast. TikTok has seen multiple iterations of lyrics and music generated by AI. The latest micro-fad being "caveman country": https://www.tiktok.com/@cavemancountry/video/737530034739436... . By virtue of AI being so advanced (or country music being so basic), it is nearly indistinguishable from anything on the Billboard Hot Country list.
I set up a separate VLAN on my home network to isolate all Windows machines from the rest of the LAN and strictly lock down their access to the outside world, too. Maybe that is an option for OP's home network?

Windows machines can safely coexist on your network, but you need to treat them as attackers in your threat model.
In general you should be very skeptical of these types of videos. Most of them end up being misleadingly edited or almost outright faked. There's 3-4 cuts just in this 2 minute video alone.
You’re right, except I’d say that Cox gave some thought so security, but not enough. Which is in some ways even more dangerous than ignoring security entirely.
NASA: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars'
More like Indy avoided drowning in the boat race scene (which I recall happening very early in the movie)
ChromeOS might be a good option.
Not trusting the modems we're given is a damn good reason to use a VPN, as opposed to the market bulsshsait the VPN companies usually propagate
> Having society accept neurodiversity is going to be best outcome

A lot of f-ing sh-t is going to have to change before this can become even remotely possible.
So, to resolve this tough situation: get rid of what you can't control. He will find help with Windows elsewhere..
The Linux kernel changes internal APIs, and whoever changes it gets to fix the kernel code that relies on it. The end user of the kernel -- user space -- never sees any of this, and the userspace API never breaks.

You're implying this is equivalent to GTK and Gnome intentionally breaking API with every major release for every applicaton that uses those libs. It is not. Frankly it's a bad faith argument.
Point is, people on this very site are cheering on unmanned plane aerobatics while hyperventilating about linear algebra and associative memory which might at times tell you to eat rocks.
I've had a similar problem before.

I wanted to add a "!calc" trigger to an IRC bot written in Python. Rather than implement the Shunting Yard Algorithm [0] to make sure PEMDAS was handled correctly, I wanted to use `eval` (With some extra steps with the AST library to make a whitelist of AST nodes to prevent code injection), but with Python supporting essentially infinite integer precision, someone writing "!calc 9 * 9 * 9 * 9 * 9 * 9 * [..]" would eat up my entire CPU.

I solved it the same way. I execute it in a separate process and terminate it if it takes more than a couple seconds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting_yard_algorithm
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40560010 because I felt bad about albinowax_ posting this first and not getting any karma for it.

xrayarx, I hope you don't mind! It's on my list to implement proper karma sharing for cases like this. In the meantime we sometimes resort to the crude manual approach.
The NIST Hires a Contractor to Manage CVEs
yeah, it was a genius way of putting into use LCD screens (or even entire laptops) that had burned out backlights.