skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That's such a nonsense argument; one could apply the same argument to Amazon's products by using their third-party sellers to do product research for them. Why even try to invent a better vacuum cleaner if both Chinese copycats and Amazon itself will eat your pie?

In the space of consumer retail, your business differentiation is marketing and pricing scheme. What Amazon does isn't even new, people are getting upset over it because the media is bored and they are paid off by Walmart and co. But retailers have been doing the _exact_ same thing as Amazon does for decades before, with Walmart being the biggest player. It actually gets funnier because even "bidding for the buybox" that Amazon does is just repeating "bidding for the shelf space" that all retailers have done for a long time (eye level shelves are more desirable).

And marketing and pricing applies to even beyond selling through big retailers. Tons of more unique things get Chinese copycats, it's branding, support and continued innovation that keeps those companies afloat.

>Apple shouldn't be allowed to make apps, only to publish APIs that would make it possible to make more interesting apps. If you've ever tried making apps, you'd know how limited what they offer in comparison to the data and possibilities your phone has. Check their phone usage API as an example, it's virtually null. They'll keep using the excuse that they can handle your data better than third party apps, all their narrative is about making them bigger.

Ok, but I want that to apply to everything. The phone should come with absolutely nothing on it.
Even the Store and Dialer are apps.
Hey, you might have to pay a subscription fee to call someone now, but it'll be what you want.
All the languages I can think of that have iteration over a slice also have the ability for users to define iteration over custom collections, such as with generators or whatever... yet the comment I'm replying to is saying custom iterators, something every language has, is too much magic, so clearly "every language has it" isn't enough justification for something not to be magic for them.

Anyway, not every language has it. C has arrays, but doesn't have any iteration sugar for them, and the general attitude of gophers does usually seem to be "if C didn't have it, it's not simple, it's magic", and that Go should just be C but with a GC, goroutines, and builtin hashmaps.
How to test your tap water for PFAS [video]
What the Titan failure has taught us about exploring the deep ocean
its kind of unbelievable to call someone who works in an office setting a modern slave, of any sort.
Arc agi is a small stepping stone to agi but is not agi.

Program search mimics what humans do to a certain extent but not in entirety.

A more general world model and reference will be required for agi.
> Western drone companies haven't bothered competing in the consumer space

This is factually wrong. Most drone companies have tried in the consumer space before pivoting towards the military. The military has been more and more present since around 2019, and most Western drone companies have pivoted to the military since Ukraine. Not because it's more profitable, but really because they failed in the consumer space.

Also the military makes it easier for Western companies because DJI cannot compete (obviously). But I am absolutely convinced that DJI is better at making military drones ("micro aerial vehicles") than the West.
Makes sense. The reason I highlighted is because I'm finding that most people overestimate how safe some investment strategies are without actually looking at the historical data.
> Why would they release research on security if they are being targeted for security concerns

Hmm. That doesn’t really follow IMO.

Every big corporation needs to have information security people. And most of them probably do some form of research as well. That’s the only way to stay on top of information security.

Whether they publish anything or not is up to them. But it’d be super silly to base the decision for that on the fact that USA government is banning TikTok.

By that line of argument, couldn’t you just as well say that they shouldn’t reveal that they hire infosec people either? Yet for example at https://careers.tiktok.com/m/position?category=6704215862603... they have several job openings relating to infosec such as this one: https://careers.tiktok.com/m/position/7379470900063095078/de...

> The Global Security Organization provides industry-leading cyber-security and business protection services to TikTok globally. Our organization employs four principles that guide our strategic and tactical operations. Firstly, we Champion Transparency & Trust by leading the charge in organizational transparency, prioritizing customer trust, and placing user needs first. Secondly, we aim to maintain Best in Class Global Security by proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development. We constantly work towards a sustainable world-class security capability. Thirdly, we strive to be a Business Catalyst & Enabler by embodying the DNA of technical innovation and ensuring our Global Security operations are fast and agile.

Heck here they even say just that: “proactively identifying and reducing risks while enabling innovative product development”. A natural part of that would be doing for example the kind of security researcher that the article of the OP is about.
The emperor has no clothes.

Numpy 2.0 came out two days ago and it's chaos in the whole AI ecosystem. I'm not sure how much money we're wasting on that but I wouldn't be surprised if it's on the order of a billion dollars - suppose there are 50,000 people getting paid on the order of $1,000 per day each spending the two week dealing with fires over the next year: $500,000,000
Yeah! Though a similar tone to framework documentation, so it would have to declare some opinions on things (Templating must use the <template> element and custom elements, data fetching outside of the initial load must use fetch(), etc) and the surrounding glue code you have to use to compose all of these APIs together is described to you. (rather than just describing the APIs, like most of MDN's docs)

I think there's easily enough API surface area to cover every part of a front-end web application without any dependencies.
Chicago is easily one of the best places to own an EV for one simple reason. There are no decent road trip destinations. Upper peninsula is the closest one Id consider and at that point why not just fly somewhere? I gave up on road trips and just bought a shitty condo in slc, works much better and the travel time is lower.
Strange. In my experience Haskell is the best language for long-term maintainability! I can actually come back to code I've written years ago and understand what it does. I've never experience that with another language.
Would anybody be interested in this for Rust? I already do everything this library does with the exception of returning the price in my LLM utils crate [1]. I do this just to count tokens to ensure prompts stay within limits. And I also support non-open ai tokenizers. So adding a price calculator function would be trivial.

[1] https://github.com/ShelbyJenkins/llm_utils
The formula is not thought to have been shared, like the plans to the nuclear reactors were shared. Knowledge of gunpowder is thought to have likely been inadvertently transferred through trade along the silk road, by way of the Middle East, where the knowledge of gunpowder was acquired before Europe.
We are building an enterprise application that manages (create, update data) and interacts with (read, display, enable user to browse via linked entities) a large-scale knowledge graph. In some views we have live updates from the server with SSEs (alerts, logs, etc.). Everything is rendered server side with Go + stdlib templates, Material Design Bootstrap for CSS, and HTMX for all the in interactive bits like fetching and rendering an entity's properties panel, enabling add/edit for entity or edge properties, and so on. Search updates results with HTMX. Entity/property edits are done with HTMX "panels".

The entire experience using Go + Fiber (gofiber.io) + templates + HTMX (htmx.org) is fantastic. This approach has allowed us to create a beautiful modern application that's highly performant, interactive in all the places you'd expect, and simple code, deps, devops, etc.
That doesn't seem very bay-specific, any DIYer will happily talk about their project.
It's a Five Eyes effort impo.

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17914935
Indeed, it's off by orders of magnitude (so probably a simple typo). The Earth orbits the Sun at between 29 and 30 km/s. It would take roughly that much dV to successfully create an orbit that intersects the sun.
> isn't it just about banks not wanting to open-source their apps or connection details for supposed security or other reasons?

Not exactly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715542

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714796

Indeed, finding a bank reasonable from every side is much harder.
Soooo, did anyone check de compilation time?
Who are your target market ?
> “We desperately need a law in this country to cap the length of a train,” Cassity says. “We need to know what too long is, and we need to know what the limit is going to be.” The big picture of the Risk Analysis study is correct, in his view: “They’re seeing the reality that long trains derail more often than shorter trains,” Cassity says.

The limit should be whatever fits in the sidings on a track. It's ridiculous that the rail industry can handicap passenger rail by just increasing the length of the trains until they physically can't fit in the sidings.

Then if they want to make their trains longer, they have to improve the infrastructure instead of putting pressure on everything and everyone except the shareholders' profits.
They probably did think of that, and they did it too: Science as it is practiced in the real world. This sort of stuff is related to our whining about replication crises, careerism, etc.

But it can have its utility too, it's just more "defense from morons" instead "advancing the field". Or more neutrally filling in very predictable gaps in knowledge, like if you got something really unexpected but this stuff is all bog standard unhappy cells
> That is to say, if you can make a drone for $200, and DJI puts one out for $50, you don't really stand chance

The situation was more that western companies could make a drone for $1000, and DJI would make a significantly better drone for $500. Were they both $1000, the DJI drone would still clearly be better.

I am not praising DJI for free here. I just think that we need to face the truth. There is no way to improve with denial.
My cat can’t comprehend code written on my screen and the world that is internet.
Maybe other being exists and our notion of intelligence would collapse the same way a cat can’t possibly understand what internet is.
Compared to them, would we be conscious beings ?
Would they consider us conscious beings ?
Site generator with AI is good. But using react and other existing libraries are a bloat ware. Cant the AI generate an efficient code by itself ?
> …and even undercut fossil fuels on price with the addition of energy storage, in some cases.

We should try to do apples to apples here. To match the reliability provided by traditional sources, we need storage.

Any comparison between intermittent and base load generation should always include the cost to make wind/solar reliable.
Our compute architecture has been brute forced via an revolutionary algorithm over a billion years. An LLM approaching our capabilities in like a year is pretty fucking good.
Jacob Riis exposed a lot of these things:

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jacob-riis/riis-and-reform.html

The amount of filth, trash, disease, and other unpleasant things used to be pretty crazy in NYC (and in other places like London or Paris, for that matter.)

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/when-new-yorkers-l...
Go package for calculating the sunrise and sunset times for a given location
Robert Macfarlane has a fantastic book around this theme. "Mountains of the Mind" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/839157.Mountains_of_the_...
Yeah i understand the concept. But i am under an impression that those guys are just milking an easy source of dumb money this way.
Yes I do in fact read those things, every VP or above that I know does too. A meeting covers high points that doesn’t mean you don’t have to do your homework.

Trust but verify.
Unquestionably. No study required.
The other thing to realize is that the brain's available neuro-chemicals are different in different people. For example there exists people where you could kill their mom, but as long as you replaced it with a sufficiently similar person that provides the exact same services, the child would not be sad - all the services would exist and therefor the atomaton human would operate normally. I've seen this in both autistic and non-autistic persons. The bigger issue with that person being capable of handling the change in their life is how other people push emotional baggage onto them. (For example telling people how they should feel - doesn't make them feel it, but rather makes them feel wrong and then the sadness comes)

In other words we have described emotions that we attribute to all people, but the reality is, not all people have the same emotions - they are some idealised state - and in reality everyone is very different in their emotional capabilities.
Misaligned incentives are killing what's left of rail in this country. There needs to be a serious reckoning... or just a straightforward law about how long you can make a train, either in absolute terms or relative to the sidings available.
Yeah... it obviously uses the appropriate tokenizer
I also have OP7Pro (what an amazing phone btw), and yes, we're pretty much sufficiently out of date that they still work - a wild but true reality we find ourselves in.
The luxury product, materialistic worship influencer segment is only a tiny percent of the influencer economy.

For every one influencer posing with a sports car in Dubai, there are a thousand other influencers whose content can be produced at very low cost. Video games, parenting, fitness, beauty/make-up/skincare, cooking, woodworking, gardening, backpacking, dancing, DIY, personal finance, etc all have tons of content creators working from home (or the gym, park, shop, whatever).

I know a woman who started posting videos that were just her holding her cell phone recording a selfie video talking about being a mom. She now has brands paying her tens of thousands of dollars to promote their products, and her videos are still just phone selfies sitting on her couch.
The project is open sourced at: https://github.com/Cocoon-Data-Transformation/cocoon
Yes, this is the problem I'm talking about. We are not understanding physics at quantum level, so we are using mathematical model to describe reality, but it creates problem when we are starting to understand the physics.

Hydrodynamic quantum analogs are macroscopic objects with quantum behavior, which we can study. We can clearly see, with our own eyes, medium, particle, it pilot wave, and their interaction. For example, double slit experiment is not a mystery anymore: it just self-interference of pilot wave.
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> and another app to show seconds in the menu bar

I think you can do that now, at least mine does that and I don't have anything special installed.
Being 2.3% neanderthal, I'm... not sure what to think about it.

I think it's a case of the classic issue of trying to make sharp boundaries in a continuum. There just are no fully satisfying answers.
Indeed. Francois Chollet himself said during his interview with Dwarkesh that he is not against LLMs and in fact believes that the long-term solution mixes LLMs with something else which has not been discovered yet (his bet is on discrete program search but is open to anything else).

Pitching him against LLMs in such a binary fashion is deceiving and unfair.
this is not industry-imposed regulations. this is not industry.

this is single party ToS atmost.

Do not whitewash harmfull practice as the law.
Absolutely. Brexit proofed that this is a really great idea. Who doesn't want to start paying through the nose for roaming again?

The idea that just abandoning a thing with some issues is better than trying to repair it (or even just keep it as is), does not seem quite realistic today. Even the various national politicians who wanted to do a *xit before the UK did this have quietly dropped those ambitions.

Dumb laws exist globally. Don't expect this to go away if tomorrow it was all up to the national governments again. Collectively getting bad laws like these repealed or changed is much more likely though.
I think we’re talking about some sort of population average. A median New Yorker.
My understanding is the ECJ can overturn legislation that has been passed and appealed, but it can't pre-emptively block legislation?
> With crypto we are surely getting to spitting distance of advertisers paying users directly to look at ads instead of paying Google to organise the web such that users look at ads.

Who would take that deal? Getting paid $.02 in some cryptocurrency to look at an ad? So that I can then maybe spend more money on the product being advertised? Why would I ever agree to that? It's a bad deal for me. Why would the ad agency do that? It's a bad deal for them versus paying for captive eyeballs.
About four weeks ago I read Harry Mathews' short-story collection The Human Country.

I came to it for "Franz Kafka in Riga" (sold to me as a sort of proto-quine, but really it's not very quiney, it's more a funny story about the writerly ego).

His most famous work in there is "Country Cooking from Central France: Roast Boned Stuffed Shoulder of Lamb (Farce Double)". It's a story that requires leisure to read, as the recipe does to cook; if you just want to read the story and get it over with, it's not going to work at all. Which is clever in hindsight. Of course I just wanted to get it over with, and so it didn't come out for me.

There are several stories literally about linguistic games (particularly the first few in the book); personally I found them intriguing and entertaining but ultimately kind of pointless. (The kind of erudite game where you want to get out a paper and pencil, or go to Wikipedia, but suspect with near-certainty that you won't find any there there if you do.) "The Bratislava Spiccato" is worth reading twice just to see how the non-digressions actually do add up to a reasonable story; I thought it was going to be like Douglas Hofstadter's "Little Harmonic Labyrinth", but (IIRC) I decided that it was actually totally honest, which made the second read feel very satisfactory.

The story I enjoyed most from that collection — the one I recommend it's worth a small amount of your time no matter who you are — was "The Broadcast", which is a linguistic game in technique but not in subject matter. The (much) longer variation "Their Words, For You" also somewhat appealed to my aesthetic sense but (like "Farce Double") went on much longer than my patience.

https://archive.org/details/humancountrynewc0000math/
Anyone who has had a pet knows they're conscious. Of course they're conscious.
I can tell you've never actually built anything worthwhile
One of our cats was very old (18+) and sick. We made the choice to have her euthanized to end her suffering and the vet came to our house to do it. One of our other (male) cats loved her and always tried to cuddle her. My wife took the old kitty out of the room where they were cuddling, and after it was done she thought she would let him say goodbye. He got very upset at my wife and hissed at her for days. He's normally very sweet with my wife, but he was clearly distraught at losing his friend and seeing her dead. He didn't just think she was sleeping, and he blamed my wife.

I've always known our cats have emotions and understand a lot about the world they're in, but after that experience, I have no doubt that they are conscious.
Encryption is deeply threatening to power: Meredith Whittaker of Signal app
Are Google really pushing it a 'proper' security feature? You've quoted a line at the end of a blog that doesn't elaborate further. In the android documentation for instance it stats '[MTE] helps detect use-after-free and buffer-overflow bugs': https://source.android.com/docs/security/test/memory-safety/... without making any stronger claims.

> This isn’t that bad news either. It may leave existing chips vulnerable but the next iteration of MTE will probably account for this problem (assuming you can’t patch microcode to solve this).

I might argue fixing is is actively bad. Helps push the idea this is a feature to actually use for security rather than augment bug detection. Still fixing it shouldn't be too hard, just speculate as you do currently but always assume the tag check passes so you get the same speculative behaviour regardless of tag values (likely easier said than done of course, probably some fun corner cases where they'd still differ).
I think boards like these that go into everyday computers will help streamline things like drivers and apps a lot. One of the most important things with new platforms is price for people to play with and availability. The raspberry pi for example made getting arm computers very easy and until Apple launched their arm computers it was very difficult to get a computer running arm chip with such a diverse community as raspberry pi. I hope this is the start of such a community for risc v
I've heard that switching to all of that will add 20-40 seconds of dead time waiting for the display to change, as the NFC transfers power to run the whole procedure. That'd be too long an interaction time with no feedback.

And of course the cost goes way up.
I slightly undervolted an i7 11800H by -100mV.

That resulted in a -10C average CPU temperature. Massive!

I don't remember last time I heard the fans. Not even with Docker + Jetbrains IDEs.

I wonder why doesn't it come like this by default. It runs faster too because it's no longer frequently thermal throttled.
A guide for fabricating, assembling and shipping WikiHouse
Why is it buggy?
The idea of the EU as "radically anticapitalist" is very funny. I'm sorry the DMA happened to you or whatever, but it's just another boring market regulation.
They were on a death march for a while.
Don't call me a 'consumer' or an 'end-user' (2012)
Well, fix the economics. That will make corporations rational overnight.

If a derailment only happens X% of time and causes Y$ amount of monetary loss, you need to increase Y. Apparently no one cares when corn gets derailed, and maybe that is okay. If derailments cause human injury, the cost goes up. Toxic chemicals are the classic example.

So why not raise the cost when a toxic chemical is released during derailment? You can do it with fines, regulations, etc.. But until you fix the economics, its going to continue to happen.

Ask yourself: Over the course of 1 year, it better to have a 20% longer train with a 0.1% chance of corn derailment, or a 20% shorter train with a 0.001% chance derailment? If you arent breaking out excel, and instead using emotions, you never had a chance to make this decision.
If you look closely at it, the concept of "species" is impossible to define exactly.

That's fine in general. Many words are like that. But it makes it flawed as a scientific concept.
No way, the real Yu-gi-oh is played with hologram projectors and the cards have personalities. Plus the rules aren't ever quite explained.
A single time or repeatedly? That is a scary failure mode, but seems like proper rinsing (washing out an upside down bottle) should have stopped it.

Any idea what happened?