skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The effectiveness of search goes hand-in-hand with quality of the value function. But today, value functions are incredibly domain-specific, and there is weak or no current evidence (as far as I know) that we can make value functions that generalize well to new domains.

Do you believe that there will be a "general AI" breakthrough? I feel as though you have expressed the reason I am so skeptical of all these AI researchers who believe we are on the cusp of it (what "general AI" means exactly never seems to be very well-defined)
Building boats and navigating them would require colonies of large brain specimens; this approach would carry a big energy cost. Not to mention boat propulsion, especially if you wanted to sail without depending on weather.

Instead of boats it seems more efficient to replace hands/legs with fins/tails.

Tongue in cheek, but only half - natural selection works on a different scale and with different goals, and in that it seems pretty good.
You do realise there's a very good reason for those sanctions, don't you.
Still, similar to when you have read 10 textbooks, if you are answering a question and have access to the source material, it can help you in your answer.
What do we fertilize those plants with once we dramatically reduced animal product consumption? And how do we handle the health issues of removing almost all animal products from our diets?
Where does this end? No central bank and all dollars are backed by bitcoin?
I had a coworker who could really Go Fast in Excel, and by watching him, learned enough tricks to be able to impress onlookers by flying through computations with keyboard shortcuts.

From my perspective, it's gotten harder to use spreadsheet programs efficiently with each new version - the keyboard shortcuts collide more, and everything moving to Office 365 / Google Docs / etc. has made the available tools less powerful.
> in either situation, there isn't room for free will -- if things are deterministic your decisions are made by the state of the world at t-1, if things are random your decisions are made by coin flips.

Yes, but what does this have to do with free will as most people understand the term? They want to be responsible for their choices, but this is compatible with a deterministic universe.
Usually databases. 8/10 times I see excel used badly is when it should have been access.
Google Mitch Kapor Hawaiian shirt. Nobody in Boston VC or angel investing wears a tie. They might wear a jacket and laundered shirt meeting a limited. Nobody pitching them wears a tie.
These stories are a big part of what I love in HN. Thank you.
I'm always amused when I read an article from years ago that uses perfectly-fine-but-quaint terminology:

> ...that hope to deliver broadcast quality programming over the Internet--the holy grail for nascent video-on-demand (VOD) services

What year did we all suddenly stop using the term "video-on-demand" and start saying "streaming"? I don't remember it happening, but obviously it did.

Well at least "broadcast quality" still means the same thing. An ancient antenna on my roof can still kick Youtube's ass when it comes to clarity and resolution.
A genome-wide association study of social trust in 33,882 Danish blood donors
Immersion Cooling Dunks Servers to Cut Power
Whether it is affecting 5% or 10% of your customers, if it is erroring at that rate you are going to want to find the root cause ASAP. Traces let you do that, whereas the precise number does nothing. I am a big supporter of metrics but I don't see this as the use case at all.
You're missing the lede:

> The business generated $300 million in revenue in the 2024 fiscal year, down from a reported $2 billion in 2022

Followed closely by news that they shut down in Europe over European data laws, and they're the focus of class action law suits over their data privacy policies.

They also spent billions buying their way into this business, so its not clear that $2Bn/yr in revenue was ever profitable after accounting for their costs for prior acquisitions.
Nobody is saying central banking is unwise. It’s that the fed is run by private individuals (who are very cozy with the banks) with no accountability who don’t really care about the American people outside of how much wealth they can extract from them.

A central bank with a goal to serve Americans would be a great institution.
Hey, can you please make your substantive points without resorting to the flamewar style? We want curious, respectful conversation here.

This is especially important when you're advocating for a minority view, because if you post like you did here, you just create an additional reason for people to reject what you're saying.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_impor...
My numbers are 2022, yours 2023.

Yes, oh, the US got a small superavit in 2023. It is still not a relevant net exporter and won't be for the simple reason investments in the development of new fields have basically stopped with the Democrat government. So, the production will inevitably fall in the following years.
Try saying each of those though.
You're omitting the somewhat relevant part of recall ability. I can train a 50 parameter model on the entire internet, and while it's seen it all, it won't be able to recall it. (You can likely do the same thing with a 500B model for similar results, though it's getting somewhat closer to decent recall)

The whole point of deep learning is that the model learns to generalize. It's not to have a perfect storage engine with a human language query frontend.
Right, although nobody really has a guarantee about their job, not even government jobs. I think what it comes down to is the number of jobs you could take if your job is eliminated (and this is where your point about remote work being safe enough to swap for another job). But as soon as you get a nucleus of remote workers, now you'll need to build more businesses in the city to support them, like gas station, restaurants, etc. Those jobs aren't remote jobs and will be filled by locals. You really need both to get it going. Agree government jobs would really help keep the stability.
Solar ejecta are almost completely composed of hydrogen. Just like any other part of the Sun's outer layers.

And God! What a convoluted theory full of ideas nobody can test.
Reminds me of old React codebases that used mobx :')
https://archive.is/ntAB8
My Weekly Review Practice
OpenTracing was a much clearer name, especially for those of us who really don't care about doing logging or metrics through OTel.
Abrash was a prominent and prolific writer at the time (in addition to be an excellent coder). That might have helped enough to make that example stick for folks.

But also worth noting that that article is dated one year after quake, two years after descent.

Also, lysator... there's a name I haven't heard in a while! Thanks for reminding me.
This graph includes refined products. The data I am using from wikipedia is only for crude oil.
It’s a polarizing filter. The atmosphere polarizes sunlight based on the angle the light enters. You can find the position of the sun above the horizon as the point where light is least horizontally polarized (a horizontal filter has the least difference between brightness through the filter and around it), and potentially find the position of the sun itself by the highest rate of change of polarization angle. This works remarkably well even on overcast days — try it with polarized sunglasses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)#Possibilit...
> they probably bought all the companies aggregating data in a way that was kosher under gdpr and would corner the compliance market

They actually exited Europe because they didn't want to comply with those laws. Combined with all the lawsuits they're apparently facing, I think it's the opposite.

> but then nobody cared for real about any of that and there was never the market they hoped.

Well, the industry moved to exclusively first-party data in response to these laws, so yea, no one really cared for their data anymore.

Oracle can run a big database of data in the cloud, they clearly had no desire to maintain the data sources and comply with laws when sharing. The engineering effort Google/Facebook put into maintain their privacy compliance is a lot higher than most people probably realize. Oracle lawyers work on the offensive, not defensive.
why either of these over plain wireguard if you're not provisioning accounts?
Related:

AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive "sleeper agents" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39028196 - Jan 2024 (65 comments)

On Sleeper Agent LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974802 - Jan 2024 (130 comments)

Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974404 - Jan 2024 (17 comments)
If you believe that free people have a right to speak their opinions, which I do, any government action that hinders that is as a matter of fact an injustice.

All this language about "amplification" and "platforming" is a way to get people to forget that I think.
> tell people what problem you're trying to solve

That's literally step one in OPs advice. It's just a pat way of conveying the "introduction > argument > summary" format for presenting and it scales really well from 3 slides to x.

1. This problem I'm trying to solve (i.e. I'm going to tell you how I solved this problem - Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em)
2. This is how I solved the problem (Tell 'em)
3. This is the outcome (i.e. This is what the solved problem looks like - Tell 'em what you told 'em)
Ubuntu with it's Telemetry and bizarre proprietary Snap store?

It's not just the initial install. Eventually for almost every distro I've installed things get rough and you need to use the command line.

Want to play Fortnight, well you can't. How about Roblox , might be possible but it's a full comp sci project.

The only thing that will ever change this is if Valve comes out with a full laptop. The Steam Deck is the closest thing we have to a mainstream adoption of Desktop Linux.

In my personal life, Linux is where I go to when I really just need to focus and get things done. Less weird background crap going. It's much easier to enter a flow state with Linux.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626764 - June 2024 (38 comments)

Gravity Without Mass: UAH Study Proposes Alternative to Dark Matter - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610133 - June 2024 (44 comments)
Explain "hypocrisy". As far as "overblown" goes, there's no other realm of social balance wherein concession to something means an obligation to an extreme.

Last, your statement falsely presupposes that most are happy with any tracking / intrusion.
https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN or use the site for political battle, no matter how right you are or feel you are. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(I'm not taking a position on Catalan politics - just HN threads.)
> If we had a trillion humans, we would have, at any given time, 1,000 Mozarts and 1,000 Einsteins

We'd also have 1,000 Hitlers and 1,000 Breiviks. Just sayin'.

Aside from the fact that you can use his argument in exactly the opposite way, this kind of stuff doesn't scale linearly anyway; certainly when it comes to music there's already far more talent out there than any human being can reasonably listen to. We also need to wonder if we really want a musical world dominated by "Mozarts".

We also had "1,000 Einsteins" in the 20th century already. Most people here can probably name a few dozen physicists on at least the same level as Einstein. Then there's probably quite a few "lesser (or unknown) known geniuses", people working in other fields, etc. etc. This might scale a bit better than music, but it's not clear to me this has that much potential for scaling either, because a lot of discoveries aren't a "just genius working in his office", but require complex machinery and all of that. We'd also have to build a few dozen LHCs.

Bezos views on all of this seem almost shockingly simplistic.
Yes, not a big impact to my project, I plan migrate to Github Pages.
Is it related to the 11 year sunspot cycle or just a coincidence?
I think you underestimate the amount of businesses who would love this for reasons of fear mongering. Yes, they also want it for training their crummy AI models
Lol loony
Martin Amis and the pursuit of pleasure
The theory is that we're due for another ice age and that there's going to be a pole shift. Pumping CO2 into the atmosphere would then be the best thing to do to stave off this scenario.
> Many would say you can't have free will in a deterministic world because free will is about selecting one option from many. If there is no alternative option -- because the universe is completely determined -- how can you have any choice?

Because "select 1 option among many" is not what's meant by free will and not how anyone serious understands the term. If someone is holding a gun to your head and telling you to choose option X, which is an option that you would NOT otherwise choose, you still have a choice by your definition, because you can choose to die or choose to accede to those demands. No one would agree that you have a freely willed choice though. Clearly you're missing some important ingredient, and this extra bit is why free will is compatible with determinism.
I think they meant "an event ID and a parent event ID".
Wouldn’t hurt to attract a sufficient population of retirees that had pension and social security income, thereby providing some measure of income base for the local economic system that couldn’t be revoked (unless they all moved out of course). Same way investment and retirement visas work.
Good point! I think part of the tension comes from the fact that there's this idea that AI is superior or will be superior to people. If this is the case, it doesn't make sense for it to make so many mistakes. In a way, you could say that the mistakes mess up our preconceived notion of what AI is supposed to be.

Ditto on the car thing, tho. Much scarier that weird AI photos with too many fingers
This is junk. They claim "anomalies" and fail to state the statistical odds of this anomaly occurring globally and the odds for this particular location. They also examine precisely one large earthquake rather than even considering looking at earthquakes in general.

"My cat walked across the keyboard right before the large earthquake" is not statistically significant.
That's a tough one. I care more about the airline than the airliner, and Frontier definitely is not near the top of my list.
The last time I played with Freenet, it was glacially slow. Like, it took several minutes to load a basic page. What's the user experience like today?
Directly related
I think that's a reasonable and insightful definition, but I don't think that's what most people are likely to think when they read the words I quoted.
> because model output has some kind of exclusive super-copyright apparently

Well, its not copyright that is being used to forbid this, its terms of service, but yea, it is quite a hypocrisy.
The key to beating this is being self-aware and figuring out when your brain's maintenance cycles are bleeding into your waking thoughts. And use something to cover your eyes while sleeping, even if it's dark outside.
To be fair I think information entropy is more self descriptive than Shannon entropy
Fasting is incredibly well tolerated and good for you. The longest a person has gone without food was about 380 days (Angus Barberi)
Ok,makes sense. Using this terminology, I asked claude and found out how to move a shell from a standalone window to sharing 2 panes with another shell.

Incidentally, this "screen absent" is why you should always volunteer to help create base shells (programmatically via packer not by hand) - emacs and tmux are always there when I made the image.
I think Chomsky's position is that _humans_ are primed for language, but it doesn't mean there exists no system that can learn language from 0.

Also, the ability to understand language is a spectrum, not a binary quality.
Doesn't every state of the art codec do that, including H.264 versus previous?

Also I haven't seen charts of decode difficulty, but as far as encoding goes, codecs a generation more advanced can crush H.264 at any particular level of effort. The even newer codecs can probably get there too with more encoder work. https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/AV1-Co...
You're deliberately misconstruing the story. Elon was shopping for rocket boosters, and the R7 hadn't been an ICBM for decades. They were retrofitted as single-use booster rockets, and were more commonly known for taking Yuri Gagarin to space.
... interesting question though..

Is this related to why my part of the US has had UV notices lately?
Reddit employed NATO employees at high level position. Almost all of the main subreddits are active propaganda channels. I am constantly bewildered at the amount of Zelensky/NATO photos on innocuous subreddits like damnthatsinteresting or pics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/wdrirf/reddit_is...

It's outright depressing even casually scrolling through reddit these days with blatant ads and propaganda smothering you.
For me personally, I find a functional programming to be the most productive when working on a project as a solo dev or as part of a very small team that I've hired. But the downside is that it's much harder to onboard devs without experience in functional programming. It takes a while before they can be productive when introduced to a codebase that's mostly written in a functional style — one that's written in Effect for example.

I recently started a company and was tempted to use Effect as I felt I would be able to build faster and higher quality than Standard TypeScript, but decided against it since I felt that I would pay the price when it came to grow the team. So far the decision has paid off.

I did indulge myself a little bit though and do make heavy use of remeda and ts-pattern across my code.
In addition to employable skills, also improve your personal finance skills.

Balance your budget, have a healthy safety net of savings, investments, develop good spending habits, no high interest debt, live frugally, etc.

Nothing is certain, you might find yourself out of work at anytime for an unknown period of time. It's hard to anticipate the market, but you can always re-skill to adapt to the changing market. That's easier to do if you have a stable and secure financial foundation.
> Inflation is created by an increase in the money supply

This is wrong again, it’s velocity of money, not net supply. Inflation is possible with a fixed supply of money, I.e. gold
> Want to play Fortnight, well you can't. How about Roblox , might be possible but it's a full comp sci project.

God forbid they want to entertain themselves without using spyware.
https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SKYCAL/SKYCAL.html

This seems like the best resource that includes planets and meteor showers

Some events aren’t really calculated for, e.g. some comets appear spur of the moment
Comparison: Dask vs. Ray
For now, and probably the next 20 years? I'd still bet on the dollar. Those changes are coming, but they will take decades.
Smartphone encryption uses TPMs to keep keys out of RAM and to limit thieves/police to 9 PIN attempts before wipe on failed attempt 10. If you care about your phone being encrypted you benefit. If you wipe a phone with just a few taps thanks to key destruction instead of waiting for a full TRIM run you benefit.

On the negative side requiring TPM to install Windows 11 is planned obsolescence that greatly outweighs any perceived platform level security Microsoft promises. A lot of e-waste will be generated ahead of the Oct 2025 sunset of Windows 10. Who really believes Microsoft is fighting for user security like Google did when they proactively sunset SHA-1? Platform security also means bank apps refuse to run on rooted phones. Some online games have metastasized from kernel extensions to TPM verified hardware IDs.
They’ve invented the “motivation” of a text. Reinvented, obviously!
> Compatibilitism is the the theory that player characters (conscious people)and NPCs (philosophical zombies) are morally equivalent.

Compatibilism has literally nothing to say about consciousness. It's a completely orthogonal question. There's nothing incoherent about deterministic p-zombies or non-deterministic p-zombies, nor is there anything incoherent about deterministic conscious people or non-deterministic conscious people.
I'm not sure that I agree with this decision.

That post was on the front page for about an hour and then sank into oblivion, probably because of the flame war detector (more comments than upvotes). This one was very interesting to a lot of people and stayed at the top of the front page for quite a while and likely would have stayed there barring intervention.

I agree that dupes are a problem when there was ample opportunity for discussion, but when the previous submission gets downed by the flame detector or gets flagged to death by bad luck it seems like it's only fair to let the second submission stand a chance at natural survival.

At this point, the previous submission is arguably the dupe and this is the canonical submission.
> crew resource management

That doesn't mean what I'd assumed it would by mean just looking at the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
Pretty sure a lot of it is related to MIT and biotech.
I don't think that mistrust of tech companies is cynicism, especially not after we have seen them repeatedly prioritize profits over our privacy, including literally selling our privacy on the open market.

It's hard for me to imagine that Microsoft would implement a "watches everything you do" program if they didn't want to look at what it sees.

The entire internet, all of your personal information, every written text, and every photo uploaded to social media have been absorbed into these companies AI models, and they are all clamoring to one-up each other. They are going to acquire as much data as they can get their hands on, and this software is a clear way to do it.

Even the AI features in MS Paint will send your data to Microsoft for "content safety", even though the model runs locally. They're already setting the scene for what they plan to do with Recall.
This is nowhere near the top. If I had to hazard a guess, the rabid propaganda and pushing of the ukraine war is near the top.
Why did Oracle not acquire TikTok (US)? It seemed like a good move for them.
And gravity.
Can you explain why Spotify must be a gatekeeper?

Spotify has a smaller share than Android, there 2 similar companys offering similar service and you can export your data, playlist.

Deezer offers a service to transfer all data.
Every enterprise communication platform provides something similar.

It’s important to realize you don’t own any of the communication on a corporate owned device.
As far as I can tell, in a dense Japanese city, directions start relative to a particular train station, then use distances and landmarks to go from there.
Is London a top city for startups? Also, where is Bangalore & Stockholm?
Isn’t Boston usually ranked 2nd or 3rd in these lists? I think the MIT ecosystem, military / defense, and biotech usually make them punch above their population size. But also Boston itself is fairly tiny but when you include Cambridge and surrounding cities it’s like 5 million people.