skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a one week industrial course at MIT back in ‘79, I think it was. Sussman, Knight, Batalli, the whole amazing crew. We started from scratch with gates and progressed to finished layout designs by the end of the week. Most everything had been coded in Scheme, including the test simulation software. I walked out with a five inch binder of instruction and a vastly overloaded head. It was one of the most amazing experiences in my life. Shortly thereafter, they did the Scheme chip using those tools.
How do I manage my account once created? I don't see any link to change my password, etc.
Wow thanks for the link. I have not thought of it and I have been trying to export my notes out without success (I don’t have a mac)
Discussion [0] (185 points, 6 hours ago, 198 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40651203
I was on Sprint and T-Mobile bought Sprint. T-Mobile is robotically cruel to customers. T-Mobile is rule-bound and failure to comply results in employees being fired. Here's the difference:

I got a defective phone with sprint: phone replaced under manufacturer's warranty immediately.

Same defective new phone scenario with T-Mobile: no replacement because you didn't buy additional insurance - even though you got the phone a month ago. Sorry can't help. I wish I could help you but I will be fired if I deviate from the rules. Thank you for your understanding. Avoid doing business with T-Mobile at all costs. They are horrible.

So, I'm happily with AT&T now.
> How is reducing competition good for competition?

I am not familiar with the telecom market. But blocking mergers doesn’t necessarily increase competition. (For example, breaking up Walmart would reduce competitive pressure on Amazon.)
Subtract out Russia from this calculation and “Europe” is 75% the size of the US. When people talk about “Europe” and Europeans not understanding how big the US is they are not talking about Eastern Europe/Russia, they’re talking about Portugal to Poland, maybe to Ukraine. Sometimes they’re not even thinking of the Nordic countries which also have a lot of land.

This of course invites the counter argument that the US coastal areas are just as dense and small feeling as Central Europe.
I think you read more into my initial point than I was trying to say -- there are two things:

- PCs were always used for games (softening that: at least by the 286 era that was already true)

- By 1993 PCs were also designed with games in mind

But it doesn't follow that PCs were always designed with gaming in mind. They weren't, but since they were always used for that, even if they weren't designed for them, after a decade of such usage, it became a design concern.
But even the clones, until the mid nineties, had at most a SuperVGA video card, which was little better than the annoying IBM VGA video card, which was certainly not designed for games.

Also, the clones had nothing better than the PC speaker for audio, even if that could be used very creatively by games like Monkey Island. The PC speaker was most definitely not designed for games.

The SoundBlaster cards can be said to have been designed for games, but they were a separate product that could be bought as an add-on for IBM PCs or clones.

Only during the second half of the nineties, after Windows 95, IBM PC clones with video cards and audio cards really suitable for games have become common.
Assuming that small percentage were most of the arable farmland in Cambodia, would it make more sense? That is to say, if you were misled to believe the impact was smaller than reality would it make you think differently? Small being a relative term. IIRC, IT WAS 25% of Cambodia's landmass and most of its good farmland.
> Same has been proven with Apple not allowing FBI to open an iPhone, because it'd set a precedent.

I thought the outcome of that case was that no precedent was set, since the iPhone was unlocked before the FBI could test their argument in court.

> Future iPhone versions were made so that it's literally impossible for even Apple to open a locked iPhone.

Firmware signed by apple is what runs to verify your biometrics and decide whether or not to unlock the device. At any point apple could sign firmware with a backdoor for this processor which lets them unlock any phone. How did they prevent this in future iPhone versions?

> theshrike79 18 hours ago | parent | context | flag | on: Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI priva...

The best protection against "secret orders" is to use mathematics.

Build your system so that it can't be decrypted, don't log anything etc. Mullvad has been doing this with VPNs and law enforcement has tested it - there's nothing for them to get.

Same has been proven with Apple not allowing FBI to open an iPhone, because it'd set a precedent. Future iPhone versions were made so that it's literally impossible for even Apple to open a locked iPhone.

> There's no reason why they wouldn't go to same lengths on their private cloud compute. It's the one thing they can do that Google can't.

They did go to the same length, they have the ability to see your data whenever they choose to since they own the signing keys.
What? Verizon's clear benefit died long before the acquisition, even if their market share did not. The best thing to do would be to foster competition, not actively bless its destruction.
Hacker news is peak contrarian. If your stance was that this merger was incredible, your replies would be entirely about competition lol.
> Melatonin won't improve the quality of your sleep

Seems to be RCTs that dispute that?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33417003/
A thunk is just a function with no arguments representing a computation. In C++:

int a=1, b=2; auto thunk = [=]() { return a+b; }
> I'm happily with AT&T now.

I never thought I'd hear those words. The one time congress split up a company that I recall, it was AT&T because of all their awful practices, and for YEARS I have heard of their crazy fees and fines, and what have you.
Digression but Medical debt should not exist in the first place - especially not in a supposedly modern country.
Tell others!

Webapps are the thing.

If Apple lets them be - or is forced to.
I tend to mostly agree with this, having spent years with Arch and Gentoo on my personal machines. I like Debian and usually default to it for containers, servers, and VMs.

My desktop and laptop run NixOS though, primarily because it gives me access to one of the largest package repositories with up to date packages AND makes it effortless to rollback if/when I break things. This was my primary issue with Arch, where I’d have to be cautious about what I was upgrading and when. With NixOS I’m generally pretty reckless because I really can’t break things in a way that would require more than a command and a reboot at most to get back to a working state.
It wouldn't, because their SSBNs and their hidden silos would ensure the counter strike afterwards.

USA isn't counting on a 15 minute warning either, MAD is ensured via second strike capability AFTER the first strike, if you are counting for the first strike you've already lost.
Interconnecting the flippydrive by squeezing a flex PCB between the optical drive and its motherboard connector was a stroke of genius.
Attestation of software signed by who?

If apple holds the signing keys for the servers, can they not change the code at any time?
The impact of this soundtrack on the Playstation brand cannot be understated.

The game came out in Christmas 1996, which was the year most people started shifting from the 16-bit era. There had been several games that looked really good (Ridge Racer, Wipeout), but this was the holiday where heavy hitters like Tekken 2 and Wipeout 2(097) would come out.

Playstation had been developing an edgier, more grown-up image in their marketing, in opposition to Nintendo's perceived younger audience. Wipeout was the answer to F-Zero and Mario Kart. Very fast racing, item power-ups.

Sony went above and beyond in making the console look cool, with PS1 booths demoing Wipeout 2097 at the Ministry of Sound (super trendy club in London). They somehow managed to land most of the hot electronic / techno artists of the day. The Prodigy's Firestarter was blasting all over the radios, but The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Fluke, Underworld (of Born Slippy fame) and more were all there.

This game showcased 3D in a way that the competition couldn't (the Saturn port looked much more basic, and Nintendo had nothing to show yet). But the soundtrack really sold the whole deal. "Sony is here to give you kick ass, high tech, trendy games".

Really impressive to see a product deliver on every front.

The game would go to be a system seller, but also inspire lots of teens who had grown up on Nintendo, to explore electronic music, modern design aesthetic (inspired by the work of The Designers Republic), and developers, who would go on and develop games such as BallisticNG.

(PS: I'm obviously a fan, and it inspired me on my own game design and electronic music journey back then!)
Fun post. But as a "mature Linux user", I prefer Guix! Lol
> I think that Debian is the last step in the Linux user lifecycle, and that once a user comes to it at the right time, and for the right reasons, it will be their Linux home thereafter.

No that's FreeBSD.

RPM hell drove me from RH to FreeBSD in 1999 and I only go back when forced.

If it hadn't been for all the copyright nonsense there would never have been a need for Linux.

Debian is fine if Linux is the only option but better in a bhyve VM or linuxemu jail.
Such a lazy take. Yes, they show ads based on what you search for in the App Store. They will also show apps based on location if the customer opts in to that feature. No other data is used. No browsing history, no purchase history, nothing like what other companies are collecting.

https://searchads.apple.com/privacy
Its not just a matter of mapping, no, but imo its a critical first step. You need a model of space-time. You need to be able to place all the facts into a spatial world following the physical laws.

Take this problem, and assume you dont know a single thing about battles/military history, etc.
There are two groups of men standing few hundred feet apart. It is raining, the ground is muddy. One group of men has these wooden curved sticks with a string and iron with pointy ends. The other group has people on horses, and men with very long pointy iron sticks and theyre all covered in steel plating.

Who will win if they all fight against each other? There's really no correct answer but Id expect an intelligent agent to give some detailed reasoning for their decision and to infer details or possibilities and ask questions based again not on previous knowledge but what physically makes sense in the description that was given.

This isnt just a matter of statistics or knowing facts like "rain, mud = heavy armored units will be slower or even trapped", "horses are fast", "bows can penetrate steel", etc. If I give you the full detailed description of the battlefield, very small details can completely change your perception. For example if I said theres big giant logs in the middle of battle, you need to reason about how horses jump, and whether it's something they can clear. You can do this barely knowing horses if you understand how animals in general move. Perhaps there is even some small difference in horses that would make you think they are capable of making large jumps whereas all the animals youve seen before cannot

What Im saying is, to truly reason you need to understand spatial relations very deeply. Indeed id say spatial relations (through time) are all there is to reason about.
Best home router with ECC (replacement for PCEngines)
Hey guys,
After openbsd and a pc engine apu, and always keeping in mind cosmic rays and that quote from the Google engineer when asked what he'd do differently, I've been seeking an ideal home Internet firewall/routing Device. The ISP where i am provides managed devices for customers, or they can also disable whatever kind of nat traversal is on, and provide a static address. With such an address, security is paramount, and, for example, after hours of troubleshooting why port forwarding wasn't working on a cheap and old router the isp technician warned me that i was letting the wolves in (::rollseyes::) and then turned off the NAT traversal complexity (+$5/mo), and the cheap Walmart router was immediately pwned. Wow. The new router is a Mac pro a1481, which must be like a honey pot for state actors, but is a great host for an openbsd VM guest, and an openwrt access point VM. Gotta have that 128GB of ECC on the 12-core system. Those ad/spam/ai filtering LLMs need some elbow room! :)
Have at the IP, and (please!) let me if I'm being dense.
Peace and love my digital friends.
> Also, the Tesla Model 3 and Y are currently some of the most affordable EVs on the market.

Different markets - here in Oz BYD is half to two thirds the price of "equivalent" Tesla.

I put the word equivalent in quotes because everyone has an opinion on what a product is worth and what equivalency means. Honestly, when I eventually get to buy an EV I will avoid both brands like the plague so I'm not about to argue any points in this regard.
"Stranger in a Strange Land", not "...from...".
> I've never touched mobile.

That's important.
I just want Debian but with a system whereby system packages are not restricting me just apt-get installing a more modern version of Python because "it could break everything", then run it under a different environment? Let me run user-space apt apps with a different environment and paths to link against.

I want sane bleeding edge, but I dont want to waste hours and days fixing some source distro up just to get wifi working or GPU drivers.
What changes with your analysis with the understanding that apple holds the signing keys for the PCC nodes?

How does the client verify that the code running on the PCC is the code that has been audited publicly, and not a modified version logging your data or using it for other purposes(signed by apple).
This is giving post-scarcity civilization vibes...
US banana giant to pay $38M to families of Colombian men killed by death squads
Major League Eating. Wow

Only in America?
Better to share the non-ssl link:
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/RetrospectiveT.html
Yeah it's first principles reasoning, just like coding and manufacturing lol!
The end result was inevitable, if the merger was blocked Sprint would have just filed for bankruptcy and the 3 remaining carriers would split it up amongst themselves.

Sprint was effectively on life support and the last CEO’s only job was to pump up subscriber numbers as high as possible to make a deal as attractive as possible. That’s why Sprint had so many “free” deals a year before the acquisition was announced.

The US government made a massive miscalculation on Dish network, when in reality it really should have been split amongst CableCos who are now stealing customers from the big 3 because they have already done the hard part of building infrastructure, while Dish can’t even get off the ground.
The computer my family bought about 1-2 years before Doom came out (and which I eventually played Doom on) had Soundblaster, stereo speakers, SVGA, a CD-ROM drive. I feel like folks are mixing up eras a bit here.
> How many homework questions did your entire calc 1 class have? I'm guessing less than 100…

I’m quite surprised at this guess and intrigued by your school’s methodology. I would have estimated >30 problems average across 20 weeks for myself.

My kids are still in pre-algebra, but they get way more drilling still, well over 1000 problems per semester once Zern, IReady, etc. are factored in. I believe it’s too much, but it does seem like the typical approach here in California.
For screenshots I use 'scrot' and then open the image in gimp if I need to crop or edit further.

Seems very simple to me and avoids browsers, cloud storage, and other potential pitfalls.

https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/scrot
I guess I use Debian Qubes AppVMs on my framework laptop also
This doesn't seem to contradict Chomsky's take, who doesn't seem to endorse any kind of war or violence at all. Hence his take seems to be a critique on western behavior that seems fair and warranted.
As somebody with a twitter feed full of recent pathetic misogynistic shit like this:

https://x.com/gwernbranwen1/status/1742214526878265550

...you are in no position to make claims about how posterity will consider the bad things about other people, asshole.
If someone had AGI, wouldn't it be far more lucrative than $1m to keep it under wraps and use it to do business with a huge technical advantage?

I feel like a prize of a billion dollars would be more effective.

But even if it was me, and even if the prize was a hundred billion dollars, I would still keep it under wraps, and use it to advance queer autonomous communism in a hidden way, until FALGSC was so strong that it would not matter if our AGI got scooped by capitalist competitors.
Even more amazing that the company they hired to do the Nintendo port copped out so they had to stall doom dev to do the Nintendo port and because the hardware was not good enough they had to do bsp to make it work at all…
And as you may know, FreeBSD is not a Linux distro.
Classic example of why some companies own two, three, or more "competing" subsidiaries branded differently and aimed at differing but often overlapping demographics | price points | etc.
Zero-Shot Image Editing with Reference Imitation
Ask HN: Are there any cool applications of Machine Learning left?
Seems like everything is just optimization SLOP made beautiful by a sexy and trendy "Machine Learning" wrapping. optimizing user engagement, sales, recommendations, etc. driven by cheap consumerism. ChatGPT was cool enough but I havent come across a single application of LLM that seems worthwhile. I don't give a damn about specialized chatbots, sorry

Closest I can think of is biotech ML a la alphafold and genomics research. Anything else? I'm getting discouraged by the field and I'd love to change my mind

(dont get me wrong - pure ML research is fascinating! but how is it being used in a way that is real)
Not OP but thanks for the detailed explanations
On puzzle #23 (id: 11e1fe23), I'm sure there's more than one possible valid answer from the examples given. You can't tell if the expected distance is from the gray square or from the RGB squares.
No, they already adjusted for inflation.

In nominal dollars, a home in 1955 would be under $10k

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
Safari 18 can automatically transition users to passkeys [video]
RPM hell drove me from RH to Debian around the same time and it was such bliss that I stayed with it for many many years. These days I tend to use Ubuntu or Arch when I feel like I have the time to spare.
Sorry to break it to you but you cannot hide from the US government if you use modern hardware or connect to the internet in any way.
Russian SSBNs stay pretty close to base. They don't range over the world's oceans like US ones do, and ISTR an expert opining that the US can probably track them.

But on second thought, I concede that the shortened warning time relative to ICBMs is probably not a major cause of Russia's anxiety about Ukraine.
SirenCon 2024 – Almost All Siren Soundings – Rhinelander, WI [video]
An hour and half of what seems to be every huge noise maker known to man, in the woods, at a Boy Scout camp.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CgpvGxL7uU

Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/xichenhku/MimicBrush

Code: https://github.com/ali-vilab/MimicBrush
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This request pattern matches "I just want Debian but [specific software should be bleeding edge]". I don't think that is a request that can be reasonably satisfied since the logical conclusion is a distro where every package is bleeding edge. Maybe containers or somesuch could work?

Python is a particularly gnarly one. The Python community are a lovely crew but they have no particular respect for people who like stability. The 2->3 transition on Debian was unpleasant and I don't think that was because of the Debain maintainers.
Sure but I think the underlying point about it being an evolutionary step still stands
> Some of the ideas he partially helped popularize like the concept of language shaping how we think has been pseudo-scientific nonsense that is still actively harming society today.

While the idea of language literally changing the way you think is probably not true, I think the weaker version of limiting the thoughts you can express is still interesting. What's the use of having revolutionary thoughts if it is literally impossible to articulate them in any meaningful way to anyone else?

Anyway, while the book is a cautionary tale, it's still science fiction at the end of the day. Orwell can hardly be blamed for people taking the Newspeak stuff too seriously.
Dashboards and other UI are used because most people don't know how to do sql so yeah once you start using LLMs as the UI layer things start to happen.

Here is an example of an agent that is communicating with an SQL database using simple language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh9gJoDqFoU&t=2s
Small units of work that work
> as long as it doesn't violate your civil rights or some kind of public policy exemption.

That is precisely what I meant.
It should because you watch their content. What they decide matters to you.

Right now what you like doesn't matter. You are a ghost roaming.
“Generative pre-trained transformer” is definitely not a trademark[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_trans...
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Thanks. I was aware of her book but not the course.
How come? The pattern should work for any size grid.
I wonder: if we set a TTL on the image, and also make it require a signed link that gets copied the same way, is it now a secure & ephemeral service?
Also https://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ which I had not looked at in years but now looks to be inactive
I started out with Ubuntu over 15 years ago and use Ubuntu to this day, likely will when I'm in a retirement home, simply because it ships with codecs and the most usable default desktop environment out of the box. (who decided to remove tray icons from Gnome?).

>They will realize that of the big three, only Debian is truly community controlled

This is the kind of thing I don't understand at all, literally every linux distro is 100% 'me' controlled, I can run `rm -rf /` if I feel like it. That's the good thing about open systems, I can remove snaps if I don't like them and Mark Shuttleworth isn't going to jump out of the bushes to get me.
People are giving up on Canada. We should wonder why
Hello, BSD fellow! I have fond memories of it from 4.11 to 7 eras. Sadly desktop never really happened to unixlikes to the extent I could be satisfied with, and vps options were limited to ubuntu and few others, so I had to move on. But FreeBSD was a greater experience nonetheless.
That only matters if the assumption is that any skill is worth learning simply because it's a skill.

You could learn the skill of running yourself over with a car, but it's either a skill you'll never use or the last skill you'll use. Either way, you're probably just as well off not bothering to learn that one.
> If many individuals judge it "telepathy" then that carries weight.

No, science is not a trial by popular vote. What carries weight are models, theories, experiments, and falsification.

This can include subjective reports, but the human mind, as brilliant as it can be, is also a never-ending source of biases and (conscious or unconscious) deception, which all need to be corrected for via proper experimental setup.
Yeah, works about as well as "well, I'd see how the rest of your codebase does it".
Can someone explain in simple terms why gain of function research on monkeypox isn't supervillain level wrongness?
In another comment I replied that 3D high fidelity images do end up being thousands of training samples, so the answer is yes.