skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the author: How "you" think is not how "we" think.

The tendency to assume that your preferences or tastes are globally shared is really puzzling to me. That has never been true and (most likely) never will be true.
Because frankly nobody gives a sh about throwing resources and finding just better (not globally optimal) solutions to synthetic benchmarks.

Academics care about proving optimality. Businesses care about their own specific use case and not synthetic benchmarks.
See https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore
In a MBA-led economy anything which doesn't create immediate monetary value gets pushed aside - humanities and education in general, for instance. And before somebody jumps: we did have innovation before this just as well.
To think it’s purely money is utterly naive. It’s surveillance tech for the NSA which ALSO makes Microsoft a packet.
Historically, the people taking up arms certainly did NOT distribute wealth if they won. Rather, the leaders of any successful rebellion just became the new elite and the poor remained the poor but with new leadership.
And there's also regulation IIRC dictating that more hazardous material should be packed at the center of the ship, to avoid falling off in case of accident.
If only someone had run a greyhound next to the runners in the Olympic games in ancient Greece. That would have killed it off fairly quickly and we could watch rubiks cube solvers instead of pointless track events this August.
Nvidia overtakes Apple as its market capitalisation surpasses $3T
No, we can’t explicitly establish that. It is of course true that many squatters do so out of financial necessity, but others do so for other reasons: a lifestyle choice, a political choice, or plain freeloading and financial gain - in a squat in my village there were people living there with full time jobs and driving brand new Audis!

I would add further that the responsibility of paying the utilities and tax falls on the building owner even if it is occupied by squatters.

None of this diminishes the fact that housing is increasingly expensive in Spain, particularly in Madrid and Barcelona, and this is causing real problems.

But the situation is definitely more complicated than just ‘build more houses’.
Bartender Mac app shifts owners, adds telemetry
Understanding QEMU Devices (2018)
As per Elon Musk,

> Streaming live exclusively on this platform!

Broadcast link,

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWYzDXjWGQ

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edit: It looks like there is a YouTube link available (see comment below mine), and what Elon meant is that SpaceX themselves would be streaming exclusively on Twitter. Apologies for confusion.
so official microsoft documentation vs infosec twitter.

that's not how you back up an argument with proof. there are no microsoft engineers in that video. i see a laptop. is that from tiktok? how are you taking this guy's word for shit without even thinking? its like 13 seconds taken out of context showing a folder click and authorization (what's even happening here, is this an admin account?)
Think about this: People are not Go stones

(ok, maybe managers of low margin business are, but I digress)
A transient marketing based regular bank specifically pitching itself to "Real 'Mericans"

Pitching itself as a financial institution that allowed one to be “free to celebrate your love of God and country without fear of cancellation,” GloriFi’s marketing read more like a campaign ad than an enticing APR offer on a new credit card.

Highlights from the “about us” page include: “OUR BILL OF RIGHTS IS NON-NEGOTIABLE” and “WE ARE ONE NATION UNDER GOD.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/anti-wok...

There's also been a "Freedom Phone" (?? IIRC) mobile phone company that pitched itself in a similar manner and pledge to use a percentage of profits to nominate and support candidates into public school boards to axe "woke" books and oppose diversity policy, etc.
I don’t think this is a good analogy, since laws and government don’t tell you how the world works, it’s either observable without explanation or left unexplained. In religion there’s no whole story, it all made up. It may contain some real life parts, but it could do so without religious parts. Real life stories doesn’t make it more credible in sentences containing “god”. In fact, the quote of this subthread is wrong, false, debunked. There’s no need to look at it in context, cause whatever role it plays in it can’t make it look good. Looking at falsehoods “in context” and referring to “deeper knowledge and proper understanding” is a beloved theme of religious manipulation.
Using Genetic Cartography to Map Cell Lineage
> there is a dedicated team of human collaborators
> from OpenAI

How long until we have corporate controlled counties with “AI” as a front?
Yes, building more housing would fix it.

Speeding up evictions would be important to unlock old buildings (people have quite some money sitting in them) and to improve them.
Thanks, very informative.

> The "real" numbers, "complex" numbers and quaternions are all obtained as the results of some division operations applied to certain kinds of vector pairs. Affine spaces (i.e. spaces of points) can be defined axiomatically, vector spaces can be defined based on affine spaces (a vector is the difference between a pair of points) and scalars are the quotients of pairs of collinear vectors. "Complex" numbers and quaternions appear naturally as quotients of certain kinds of non-collinear vectors. With a proper set of axioms for affine spaces all the properties of the derived notions, i.e. vectors, scalars (i.e. "real" numbers), "complex" numbers and quaternions result automatically.

Do you have any source detailing this approach to recommend?
I know. I know. Im hoping they secure it somehow without crippling it.

But honestly, it’s like it was designed for the way I work. I dont have a trillion tabs open any more.

I run multiple projects at once plus personal stuff throughout the day. Really really poor project management. But now I just go about what I’m doing and can pickup where I left off.

Literal use case: I was writing a report for a client and had done a bunch of research on a topic, then got distracted as I remembered I needed to upgrade the homelab and wanted new unifi gear. Then got back on another project where I needed provide a summary of similar other projects we had worked on.

So after I finished the last task, I quickly pulled up the research where and where I was at, it even found items I didn’t notice initially. Then at a day later I was able to pull up all the spec sites, reddit posts and recommendations and shopping sites I found for the cheapest place to buy my new gear.

It was awesome.

And that’s one of many many times it saved me.
I don't want to run an operating system where I need to get the vendor's permission to run my own applications under my authority.
Yes, but housing market is a market, so for owners to have a ROI on their houses, the supply needs to be lower than the demand.

Usually the way governments "patch" this is by building social houses and apartments, but if you were building enough of them then people would rent or buy them instead of the other private ones. So, again, it would make home owners unhappy to not have their investment go up.

I don't know if it's the same in all countries, but in France, 3.5% of households own 50% of the homes rented by individuals. So it's not even a problem for people buying a home for themselves, or a second home as a passive income, but it's a problem because it's highly concentrated. And they're the ones who want to have their investment to go up, at any cost.
Actually, I think "that" font (I don't know how it's called or if it even had a name) was originally designed to be shown 8 pixels wide and then simply reused when the 9x16 matrix was introduced (the 9th column being always blank or repeating the 8th column for block-drawing characters that required it). Which explains why the "background pattern" characters (0xB0, 0xB1 and 0xB2) look so ugly when shown 9 pixels wide. IMHO the whole font looked really ugly - back in the day I built a utility that stored a custom font in a codepage file to replace the standard font, and added (amongst others) new patterns with the pattern restricted to three 2-pixel-wide columns and two blank columns in between (2+1+2+1+2 = 8, which together with the default blank 9th column produced a nice regular pattern). Unfortunately there was no GitHub back then, otherwise I would have probably published it (or found out that someone had already done the same thing, as it often goes)...
Right but I think his point was that we accepted this decades ago, and this latest case hasn't changed anything at all. In other words the baseline hasn't shifted.
Humans won't survive long-term without colonizing other planets and/or star systems. There are existential threats already in motion besides climate change; Earth won't have any surface liquid water in about a billion years. While there is several times more water underground than on the surface, that may also not be locked away well enough for when the Sun becomes a red giant 4 billion years later.
"Better" depends heavily on the parents.
> Justifying anything by bending logic and doing mental gynmastics.

Well ., LLM already doing that. Try arguing LLMs that they are wrong on their hallucinations .
No I won’t be installing your keylogger.
Webhooks are not just HTTP post requests
Ah, the squatters with Audis sounds newsworthy, is it something like this https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2023/02/23/63f66cacfdddffa0b48... ?
I for one hope feminism had EVERY effect on this!
> Totally worth being vaporized.

Agree. We should list of all kinds of similar endeavors. I volunteer to be dropped at PSR J0108-1431
A big chunk of these investment rounds are tender offers for employees looking to cash out.
A Neverland for salamanders: researchers discover "neoteny Goldilocks zone"
> we also should discuss the boundaries required for its concept to
make any sense. I feel that this understanding gets sometimes lost,
and its naivety gets regretfully relabeled as "innovation".

Good observation. It gets blamed on globalism, liberalism,
post-modernism, capitalism, and a bunch of other things, but somehow
we got the wrong idea that all boundaries are bad. Boundaries must be
broken!

I think that came from the language of science and technology. We made
"Smashing barriers!" a synonym for progress. But it is a childish,
iconoclastic and directionless notion of "progress", for its own sake.

Psychologically at least, a lack of boundaries is a kind of madness,
it's disinhibited, intrusive, lacking self-control - and to the extent
there's a political theory of mind it leads to wars and internal
unrest.

We raised "connectedness" to supernatural hoodoo, but connectedness for
it's own sake is a catastrophe to systems. It violates the principles
of modularity, decoupling and appropriate cohesion.
Vibes already doing good job ...
Allen Greenspan said it best in 1996:

"But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values..."
As a user and programmer - good. Sandboxing is what is ruining modern software. I want to be able to reach into my file system with software. I want software to be able to integrate with other software even if those programs don't have APIs or weren't designed for integration. I want to be able to easily install mods for games. Most of all I don't want to manage annoying permissions screens and popups for every non trivial interaction. My computer, my choice.
You chose an analogy close to my heart! I have managed to convince myself that most "food" in the supermarket is inedible poison!

It's exhausting and a real nuisance to my quality of life but I equally refuse to knowingly consume excess additives unless completely in a pinch.

Needless to say I'm also very suspicious of online businesses. Although I'm actually getting a bit fatigued/defeatist by privacy issues. We're all so overwhelmingly in this ship that I don't know what I really stand to gain by constantly hamstringing myself digitally...

If we wake up in the worst case scenario, I'm sure I have enough of a footprint I wouldn't be able to meaningfully hide much from a determined bad actor...
This is an ai anime girl friend product. There are more than 30+ ai girl friends. In the prodcut, you can create your own ai anime girls and chat with the ai anime girl friends.
How do you think about the virtual friend? Which virtual friend product do you like?
> There is also the problem with the insecurity for the landlord in Spain: right now, is you rent to a family with kids, and the family doesn't pay, you can't do nothing! How is it a mistery that landlords are retiring their properties from the rent market to sell them? That's causing a massive shortage, that causes prices do go up.

There's an easy way to fix that: create a tax for unoccupied housing. If real estate sits unused for extensive durations instead of having tenants in them (i.e. having a rent low enough someone can afford it) it will burn a hole in your pocket. If you want to sell instead of letting someone rent, you will be incentivized to sell it ASAP even if you have to lower your price or make a loss.

Preferring to sell rather than renting out doesn't create a shortage. Preferring to keep housing unoccupied (in order to sell it) rather than renting it out or selling it at a price someone can afford does. If the market can't connect buyers/renters and sellers/landlords because the former can't afford the prices set by the latter and there's no economic pressure on the latter to lower their prices, you can just create that pressure.

Of course this would disincentivize private housing construction for people who don't also plan to live in that housing themselves but there's no reason there can't be a publicly funded organization for housing development able to take losses on sales/rent because it is backed by public money. This isn't uncharted territory either.

There's no reason housing has to function as an unregulated commodity. There's especially no reason to believe we can approximate that without further feeding into the housing crisis. There's a reason we have the term "rent-seeking" and why it has negative connotations: landlords only exist because most people can't afford or aren't eligible for the kind of loan that would allow them to build or buy a house. Unlike loan payments which end once you've paid off the loan (plus interest), rent goes on forever and only ever goes up. The entire point of being a landlord is that the rent accumulates to a sum greater than what you paid for the property (plus interest if you had to get a loan). Landlords literally don't add value. They're more like scalpers.
China Miéville Writes a Secret Novel with the Internet's Boyfriend
> """It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and discover which actions maximize their chances of achieving defined goals"""

This is exactly why I suggested you define the mental model you’re working with, because now I agree with mannykannot’s first gp addressing your original lament over those you interpret as “moving the goalposts”:

> If we are going to define AI as whatever AI researchers are working on then the only way the goalposts will not move is when they are not making progress.

Your “definition” of “AI” is full of wishy washy anthropomorphisms like “perceive” and “discover”, and elsewhere is so broad it could apply to just about anything.

An astable multivibrator with two LEDs at each output and a switch fits your definition.

The circuit is a “machine” that “perceives” the switch being pressed then “discovers” which side of the circuit will “maximize its chances of achieving the goal” of illuminating the environment.

> We have plenty of medicine without anyone saying "aspirin isn't medicine" or "heart transplants aren't medicine"

People do in fact say blood letting the humors “isn’t medicine”.

So you’re interpretation of “medicine” is yet another common example that also exhibits your apparently super rare “AI effect”?

But this attempt at analogy is just a distracting digression.

You appear to be changing the rigidity of your definition of “AI” ad hoc to satisfy whatever argument you’re trying to make in that moment.

In this thread alone you refer to products, the “aspirins”, as “AI”, but then claim your definition is that “AI” is a “field of research”, your “medicine”.

Take the press release from the product being discussed here and replace “AI” with “field of research”.

“Corpo just released a ‘field of research’ for your PC.”

Starting to “see how ridiculous your words look” yet?
This is not correlated. Android has sandboxing and you can run your own applications.
This is a very reasonable question which should not be downvoted. There was a huge scandal about interest rate collusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal

I think it's under-studied how information and markets interact. There was the great "markets are efficient if and only if P=NP" paper. Basically the insight was that prices are information and a market is (supposed to be) a computing mechanism for finding "optimal" transactions. Price discovery is often difficult. It is natural for participants to outsource it to computers. But if all those computer services are run by the same company .. suddenly you have a single agent setting prices, not a market.
There’s no reason for that. There’s no shortage of space in transit, and plenty of ideas for making transit comfortable (inflatable habitats or reusable cyclers, for example).
I swear I saw a comment or link on HN where somebody bemoaned a lack of innovation in computer interfaces, and provided some suggestions. What MS calls Recall is one of the things they suggested. When I saw Recall being announced I wondered if somebody at Microsoft had seen the same thing as me.

If only there was some way for me to find it...
Lol that’s also true, though I was alluding to hardware sitting next to/after the keyboard. But whatever is easier I guess.
Wow, the project is great! What's your next plan about the project?
They don't need to be an astronaut to wear the prototypes and check how they fit, how they allow you to move or not move, how convenient it is to access the tool belt, etc.
This is Microsoft building an automated AI corporate panopticon.

Its presence on every PC will enable and normalise hitherto unseen levels of surveillance and control over employees.

It ain't a good thing.
"USB disk as /dev/sda on a not-rooted smartphone using Termux, QEMU, Alpine Linux": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40507319
They work now though. Do you remember all the CSS hacks? All those pages are broken today.

I'm not saying it's better, I'm just saying that I have a lot of regrets about jumping too hard on the bandwagon with a lack of critical thinking, and if I'm honest, evangelism.
Spanish here. I've been to many homes occupied by squatters due to the nature of my voluntary service for quite some years.

The people you seem to be describing just applies for a tiny proportion of the actual landscape of squatting in Spain. So your sentence is partly true, but nowadays as the situation becomes chronic, most people just do it because it is convenient for them

Believe me when I say that I've been tasked to helping "homeless" people and once I got closer, some of them were begging in the streets, making +300€ on a good day. I was speechless the first day that I heard about it.
right, azure ai running on your device. microsoft cannot access shit on your device.

by saying this, you are also claiming microsoft has windows 11 backdoored.

and thanks for the heads up, thats news to me.
There is Windows S Mode where you can only run Windows Store apps and only use Microsoft Edge. That should qualify for "proper sandboxing", shouldn't it?

Then again, no one who needs an actually useful computer runs Windows in S mode.
Unit Tests Help Preventing Bugs
Gwynne Shotwell, Tom Mueller, Hans Koenigsmann… it was more than one stellar hire. Those are just the top three of an all-star cast.
Global inference is a nightmare, you simply don't want global inference. It means that the minimum understandable system is the entire system, if you don't understand the entire system you don't understand any of it, this can't scale.

When weird type theory people insist you want global inference and that you should sacrifice something you actually value to get it, treat them the same as if Hannibal Lecter was explaining why you should let him kill and eat your best friend. Maybe Hannibal sincerely believes this is a good idea, that doesn't make it a good idea, it just further underscores that Hannibal is crazy.
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I think you overestimate how much people don't really care what OS they are using and familiar with.
For non-expierienced people Linux will look as exactly the same black box as the previous one. It is bad for intermediate users that are familiar with the system but not enough to be an administrator.
> Letter of the law benefits the powerful because they can always stay ahead of legislative attempts to fix the letter of the law (or lobby to change the letter). Spirit of the law is much harder to corrupt.

This is precisely the opposite. "Spirit of the law" makes the rules squishy and indeterminate, providing opportunities for fancy lawyers to bend the result to their own interests.

"Letter of the law" often leads to harsh results when the law is drafted poorly, because if they wrote something dumb then you get something dumb instead of a judge rewriting the law to make people happy. But the people they're making happy are usually the powerful, so pick your poison.
I get by just fine with "one variant" using all the Vulkan 1.3 features that are ubiquitously available on desktop (= almost all of them) platforms with up to date drivers.

The fact that there's n+1 extensions does not mean you have to support 2^(n+1) combinations. I can't recall a single situation where I would've needed even two code paths to get something done in the past few years.

Situations where you need two or more code paths only arise if you use new hardware features like mesh shaders or ray tracing. For "software" features like dynamic rendering or dynamic states (both of which simplify things a lot), there's no need for a fallback on desktop, just require a recent driver version and you're good.

That said, the mobile driver support situation and lack of long term updates is an issue if mobile support is required.
Are "images" of encrypted devices possible? How much does this help when an "image" of the encrypted device exists? Perhaps there need to be different sessions stored with different unlock codes for each session? (Much like some carry "fake" wallets to hand over during robbery.)