skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is touching on the whole obvious problem with no controls on speech: cancel culture is free speech since it's just me asking other people not to freely associate by freely speaking that I don't want to freely associate with them. Then you enter the whole "tolerance of intolerance" debate and so on.

This whole thing is a question of degrees. I think "common carrier" was a useful concept: loss of control traded for immunity.
> "I'd love to see a world where more companies self-host the wiki for their game..."

I played a game where the developer did that. The wiki and all of its painstaking user contributions vanished the day the game reached its end of service and is lost to history forever.
The Chinese version is way better than the Netflix version, I couldn't finish the Netflix one.
Are these guys so unimaginative that they ended up taking a page from the playbook of authoritarian regimes?
You're in a discussion with two different users. I haven't specifically expressed anything about my view of the world.
Why is digital scarcity a good thing? Why is scarcity at all a good thing? Is there any reason for this, outside of trying to sell them at an ever higher price? And how does sharing a read-only e-ink card benefit over a regular card, or a card with an NFC tag in it?

I get the feeling people think because things are scarce already, scarcity is good. but... it really isn't. outside of a store-of-value, there is no real benefit to it, is there?
No, but if you want to something about what happens when you swallow what you probably think it might have been misread as, the Straight Dope has some information on that [1].

[1] https://www.straightdope.com/21341232/how-many-calories-are-...
> Other animals don't raise billions of other animals to cram them into factory farms

Sure they do. For example, certain ants are known to keep livestock.
How so? Is there an English dub of the Chinese version?
It was sad seeing AMDGPU limit undervolting semi-recently. A couple complaints or bits of damage ruined a practice that a lot of people were using just fine to save significsnt wattage, https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Lower-Power-Limit
I so wish they were a viable option to replace Illustrator for certain printing things. But they just have this slightly different output that the printing house I'm trying to use (Tayda) doesn't jive with.
There was one in a supermarket in Australia when I was a kid
Coming from Australia, everything about Westboro baptist style freedom of speech is something I'm pretty happy to not have.
I am not a free speech absolutist, but I don't know that free speech in Australia is lacking very much compared to any other English speaking country, including America: I don't really believe that your constitutional right protects you the way that you might think it does, assuming you're American.

As to the latter point, no, that's incorrect. There were some issues in the past with getting a game approved at a 15+ age rating instead of 18+, but those have gone by the wayside as videogames in general have become more mainstream & accepted.
What durable artifacts of either are presented in the article? It's paywalled, I haven't read the whole thing.
Before you can prove anything about consciousness, even "to your satisfaction" or in relation to yourself, you would need to propose a clear and unambiguous definition of it.
This is always an interesting read for the rest of us neither in the US nor China.

On one hand I understand we'll need to move to more insular and protective policies and basically ban foreign technology in so many places, on the other hand I don't want a gov like Ethiopia to have the choice between having no technology or being spied to the bone by all of its tech providers. The EU would be the only place with a one in a million chance to pull it off, there sure must be another way ?
Yeah, my bad, I was thinking about rounding.

I'm surprised that a.add(b) promotes to an extra decimal place.

That's a touch ... odd.
Really? I'll admit most my experience has first been in an ASP.NET 4.x environment and currently in WPF MVVM.

It's been a mess. Maybe I've just had bad luck seeing these architectures in action?
That note about manufacturing is very interesting. It is indeed very difficult to make 10s, 100s, or 1,000's of things. Let alone millions.

At my company, we (software group) took a tour of the hardware R&D lab. They have a mechanical lab and a machine shop, which does the initial prototyping. A lot of the mechanical engineers on the R&D side work on basically "dev tools" for the big factories.

An assembly has an intermittent issue with something going out of alignment; they go on site, take measurements, create a CAD model, and take it to the machine shop. Then, they take whatever fixer part to the factory and install it to fix the issue on the line.

There are so many pieces of it -- it's just like software really. The factories are only partially automated, so fixtures and mounts for things need to be ergonomic if a worker is going to place a half-finished part into a fixture 1000s of times per day. Parts have to have an obvious orientation, so it's easy to tell at a glance to know how they go into where they need to go. Every part needs to be designed to actually be manufactured, keeping in mind the limits of the machine that will be creating it, whether CNC or a mold, etc. All this, with a minimum of steps to manufacture the part, using as little material as possible, while looking good and functioning as desired.

I went to school to be a mechanical engineer and hardly any of this stuff was discussed. (It was a big research university to be fair, but still) We spent maybe 6h across my entire degree talking about the way things actually get made. Things like, why use a flat head instead a rounded head on a machine screw in a design? How to design a part to be injection molded? Sheet metal? CNC?

We need to onshore manufacturing as soon as possible, because these are all very difficult skills that require ingenuity, craft, and dedication to acquire. They only can be acquired slowly, over time, through a long career, in an environment where volume manufacturing is happening.
It is necessary but not sufficient.

If you can't do ARC, you aren't general enough. But even if you can do ARC, you still might not be general enough.
I think it is fundamentally dishonest to point to a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph as any sort of representative example of "child porn". Neither of the photos you specifically call out would meet the "I know it when I see it" standard cited by the US Supreme Court and the photos that do would never be published by reputable news sources regardless of their actual legal status. Therefore, your argument isn't even really about the law, it is about societal standards of decency.
Tokyo government to launch dating app in bid to boost birth rate
In all likelihood this tool does not work for most users, specifically in response to this vulnerability. If you're on the latest microcode, undervolting is no longer possible due to Intel's mitigation: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...
I’ve worked for those call centres and they don’t tell employees to hang up if it’s being recorded by the customer, because the company is already recording everything and trains their staff to operate as such.

“Cool you are recording too, IT will be happy we have an offsite backup”
That’s been recorded!
Hhmmm not sure how react helps here. I would love to see your code if you could share a gist?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40705522, which was posted earlier
There's a sub but idk if there's an English dub.

It's available on Amazon Prime, Peacock, and PBS (depending on your station) as well as for free on YouTube, because most CDramas don't really care about commercializing outside of Asia.
Did British Airways write this story? It’s oddly complimentary
Jolla Mind 2: privacy-first AI Computer
> We were able to corrupt the integrity of Intel SGX on Intel Core processors by controling the voltage when executing enclave computations

> If you are not using SGX, no actions are required. If you are using SGX, it suffices to apply the microcode update provided by Intel to mitigate Plundervolt.

It's not nothing, but that seems minor to irrelevant to most people.
And the French can bomb your ship, even if they're not competent enough to hide that they're the ones who did it.
Resisting change for the sake of it, and having space to make pragmatic choices not based on popularity are quite different things.

The latter got a lot worse. Along with React came the rise of evangelists, celebrities and their courses and a generation of developers raised on the idea that github stars are the ultimate measure of software quality. The jQuery era was peaceful by comparison!
Quite right; apologies.
But will they happily geofence all of it if they are not allowed to keep selling their product?
> and have attracted tons of developer talent to crypto

And yet: "Both issues were caught after the code had been audited, merged, and slated for release"

I wonder who did those audits?
It's ridiculous that congress gets to wait 45 days but normal citizens get only 10 days. It's bad enough that they can insider trade, even worse that they wait longer than regular citizens when it comes to disclosure like this.

It'd be pretty hilarious if Elon simply changes his title to something like C(not E)O and nothing of substance changes. Shareholders would clearly support it if needed.
Most philosophers have assumed that animals are conscious. Science, however, cannot assume – fundamentally. This comes from the science side of life.
It was well and truly a "why would anyone ever pirate photoshop
ever again?" type of product.

Nah. Lightroom is/was the primary Adobe product I used. Pretty much the only new features they've ever introduced that meant anything to me revolved around supporting new cameras. At $80 for a perpetual license it was great because I rarely upgrade my camera bodies. Aside from supporting new cameras the only other worthwhile to me feature Adobe's introduced was a 64-bit installer. Yeah, LR 4.4 was a 64-bit app, but the installer remained 32-bit because Adobe is that lazy or greedy.

None of that justifies renting the newer versions from Adobe. Were I using LR professionally I'd just have buy something capable of running Windows 7 and keep it air gapped instead of upgrading.

Sadly, as bad as Adobe is, they still way ahead of the competition. Some come close with photo editing capabilities, but nothing touches Lightroom for library management. DxO comes with a rootkit (and has for years). DarkTable and Raw Therapee suffer the open source curse of mediocre (yet strongly opinionated) user experience.
You mean object-fit contain?
There's a good summary of the legal issues surrounding Ms. Pac-Man here: https://pacman.fandom.com/wiki/History_of_Ms._Pac-Man_legal_... .

Essentially, the game was originally created as an unofficial upgrade to Pac-Man arcade games by a third party, GCC. GCC then licensed Ms. Pac-Man to Namco, with a contract stipulating that they were due royalties for any Ms. Pac-Man coin operated games, as well as any electronic distribution of Ms. Pac-Man. Namco then forgot about the contract after Ms. Pac-Man went out of production in the mid-80s, meaning that the extremely broad "electronic distribution" term was never renegotiated.

In the early 2000s, Namco started releasing Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga multigame cabinets without paying GCC's successors royalties, so they sued Namco. The arbitrator decided that "coin operated game" meant that GCC's successors were due royalties from any Ms. Pac-Man machine with a coin slot, but not machines without coin slots meant for home use. More importantly, they decided that because the contract defined "electronic distribution" as "any use in which the game is broadcast or in any other way transmitted to other receiving devices", this meant that GCC's successors were due royalites for rereleases of Ms. Pac-Man on any device with internet connectivity.

Around 2018, Namco reached out to GCC's successors in an attempt to buy out their royalty rights. Before negotiations completed, AtGames, a company that mostly focuses on rereleasing old games, significantly outbid Namco. Namco contacted AtGames saying that if AtGames didn't rescind their offer, Namco would permanently stop licensing their titles to AtGames and ensure that "there is zero income stream delivered pursuant [to the GCC] agreement".

Since that point, the only new Ms. Pac-Man rereleases have been standalone games that fall under the "not coin operated" loophole. In 2022, they delisted most existing Ms. Pac-Man rereleases, likely to cut AtGames off from receiving any Ms. Pac-Man royalties at all. Additionally, Namco has started editing the Ms. Pac-Man character out of rereleases of other Pac-Man games in favor of a new "Pac-Mom" character (likely as an attempt to reduce awareness of Ms. Pac-Man to further devalue AtGames's purchase).
#BillableHours
Drug dealers also have the same modus operandi.

First, free samples, then you must pay, once addicted you pay more and more, no money ? go sell these drugs and be an evangelist for us, now your work is our profit.
What do you think people come to this site for?
Everyone knew that they would be easy to convert into very effective weapons since the very start, no?
This is a very good aggregation page. It makes it much easier to find AI tools and the UI is also very beautiful.
I'll make one when I get home. IIRC: You'd scroll down vertically on the site, through divs with different backgrounds. The initial HTML/CSS approach was nothing special, just adjacent divs with background-image with background-size options, and I tried other tricks to no avail. The React approach was useWindowSize(), set div width to 100% or the screen width in px, set div height to (image aspect ratio) times width, set `background-size: 100% 100%` or the exact div width/height px.
I think we're on the same page here. I've also found that a non-trivial number of teams actively maintaining React apps are still totally capable of rendering them into a state of dysfunction and paralysis in the same way that stagnating apps can devolve.

They think they don't need batteries included because it's 'bloat' or the opinionated patterns are inferior, but after a couple years they've got a couple dozen seriously bad patterns and a 400kb application that could easily be pared down to 100 or so.

This isn't so much a virtue of Angular or React specifically, but a reality of the deficiencies in our industry when it comes to the human side of the equation. These people would be better off following Angular's general conventions whether they realize it or not.
I checked out your book link < https://rodyne.com/?p=1252 >, is there a preview chapter or two somewhere? That's cool you wrote a compelling sci-fi but my list is competitive :)
Hitachi to Release PCs with Preinstalled BeOS for the Consumer Market (1998)
Re: 2/3, why not just legislate on what data can be sent abroad, thereby rendering DJI ineligible to operate in the US market, rather than adding them to a ban list? And preferably go one further and enact more stringent data privacy protections _no matter the drone manufacturer_.

I think it's really telling that Congress has no appetite to tackle part of the root issue (that US data privacy laws don't go far enough because it might "hurt" domestic companies who indiscriminately vacuum up user data) and instead just takes the easy route. There have been too many hacks and leaks in recent years to trust even "friendly" companies.
Absolutely. I guess it's more fair for me to say I can't imagine what it's like to go through something so traumatic that I wouldn't talk about it for decades. Lucky to not have personally experienced anything like that
Figure 2 (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05587#page=10) is not at the logit level, it's at the whole completion level (entire names classified by nationality).

So you don't know how any sampling would affect that. There could be only a few options at each token, which give rise to that, and higher temperature sampling may shift that around, but it doesn't ever restore the original base model behavior or restore all of the names erased by mode collapse. (Remember, the LLM is an agent, and when you are sampling, it is on-policy because you are letting it make choices of tokens, and it is steering the completion as a whole back to where it wants to be. With mode collapse, all roads lead to Rome, whether you like it or not.)

People do observe that increasing the temperature does not help, eg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936766/ finds basically no difference going from 0 to 0.9 (!): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10936766/bin/po... Just the flattened logits (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774#page=12&org=openai) at work.
It might just be a great example of having to put food on the table in difficult times.
They competed until they were undercut, and then just didn't bother pursuing more profitable business instead. 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, so get out of the way and find more profitable businesses.

Anyways, DJI seems to just publish its revenue ($3.83b in 2021) but is it actually making money (profit, not revenue)? I'm not finding anything on Google. If they are selling each drone at a loss and just burning through VC still, that could be a huge problem.
As an alternative to those steps of 10x, one can do 1000x steps. Real world, micro-world, nano-world, etc. Easier to remember, but harder to then work in.

If I ask you how big a cup is, you're unlikely to handwave a thimble, or a trash bin - you've handled cups, and they're familiar. At 1000x zoom, that red blood cell is sized like a red M&M candy (though they're really barely-tinted clear). Familiar, memorable, finger-nail sized - 10-ish mumble meters. Not millimeters (wouldn't fit in your arm), not nanometers (too small), must be micrometers. A 10 um candy - munch, munch. Table salt is a cardboard box, etc. With 10x steps, an object appears at a variety of sizes, so that familiarity anchor is absent. But a downside of 1000x, is object sizes can be inconvenient. A public bus appears as either actual-bus sized (real world), or grain-of-rice size (meter-world) - neither great for drawing a sketch. So 1000x is nice to remember object sizes and their relationships, but then you'll often need some other scaling.

If you're really interested in the topic, I did a page with some videos, but I'm afraid I've let it fall off the web. Internet Archive has it, but the page is very heavy and slow to load (wasn't intended to be public), so please be gentle with them. https://web.archive.org/web/20221007220513/clarifyscience.in...
Genuinely don’t know: can you do scripting/batch processing with GIMP? I have set up some complex workflows in photoshop using JS to manage the batch sequencing IIRC, though it was quite a while ago.

Another one I don’t know: can you embed a gimp file into a layout editor? A common workflow is to embed a photoshop file into an indesign file; you can then edit your photoshop file and have your indesign file updating automatically. This is a common workflow in several adobe products, eg I believe after effects sequence embedded into a Premiere timeline is possible/common.
exactly, they should have!
Previously:

60 points, 10 days ago, 114 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40615953

19 points, 13 days ago, 27 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40575425

Will Japan see more marriages with Tokyo's taxpayer-funded AI-driven dating app?:

43 points, 5 months ago, 44 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39060790
> In order to make reactor fuel, this percentage must be increased, via conversion of the metal to uranium hexafloride gas, which is purified via gas centrifuges.

Unless you're using CANDU reactors which can use unenriched uranium (the trade-off is you need heavy water (deuterium, D2O) as a moderator, and producing it is an up-front cost).
Not really. The whole point of ssr alongside react 19/rsc is exactly abstracting the idea of "sending data between two places". You're sending html and removing waterfalls by moving data fetches to be as early as possible

If you don't want an interactive website, sure, just do everything on the server. That's a fine decision. Most of us work on apps where interactivity is a must
> assuming by unbiased we mean something like "has a world model and reasoning that has no systematic deviation from reality"

Yeah that’s a way’s off. An LLM is just a reflection of the text that humans write, and humans seem very far off from having world models and reasoning that accurately reflect reality. We can’t even reason about what the real differences are between men and women (plus countless other issues) because our pictures of reality are so warped by ‘points of view’.
That results in empty bars on the sides or top/bottom, which we didn't want. We wanted the div to resize to match the aspect ratio of the image. Realized my above comment wasn't clear about this, so I edited it.
Ah, I'm not the creator just an admirer hehe
Isn't 50% kind of a failing grade?
I can't say this is backed by anything, i don't know, but my gut feel is humans are somewhat different in that they have developed language both spoken and written to such an extent, that now there is a constant journaller as part of most people's minds documented everything we do, feel, think. This journaller basically happens autonomously, without direction. This journalling mechanism, i think, is what most people consider consciousness.

I suspect we fool ourselves into thinking this journaller has any control over our situation and so we give it more value than it has. I don't see how it would give us free will, for instance. But it is a powerful illusion, none the less.

I've had lots of dogs, horses, cats, and think they all are on the consciousness spectrum, but i'm guessing (couldn't possibly know) that they lack this constant overarching journaller in their brains. For species that have a richer communication, i still don't think they would have this... I think the need to write down language, and make it available to others asynchronously plays a part in it.

Interestingly, some people report that they have no such journaller, or sometimes called inner voice that talks to them. I have no way to know what it's like to be them, or if my understanding of what they are saying is indeed what they are saying, but if true, i wonder if these folks are more like what other animals feel in their heads. I have no clue. Frankly, i can't imagine that someone wouldn't have a journaller in their heads, and so it's even hard for me to imagine. I assume i just don't understand.
AI product factory seems like an odd choice of phrasing ...
It wasn't a request for assistance; when was required to use a mac for work, I found a plugin. It's still irritating that I _have_ to use a plugin.
> for changes the variable

That's a design decision, not a law of nature. JS 'for let' lacks this problem; probably the committee would have named it just 'for' if not for legacy.
> Svelte is an enormous productivity increase from SolidJS

Could you expand on this? SolidJS DX seems pretty great.
Now that UUIDv7 is lexicographic, does that mean there is no use for ULID?
- 128-bit compatibility with UUID
- 1.21e+24 unique ULIDs per millisecond
- Lexicographically sortable!
- Canonically encoded as a 26 character string, as opposed to the 36 character UUID
- Uses Crockford's base32 for better efficiency and readability (5 bits per character)
- Case insensitive
- No special characters (URL safe)
- Monotonic sort order (correctly detects and handles the same millisecond)

ULID's claim according to their official documentation are the above of which everything is taken care of by UUIDv7 officially now. Why should I or not shift back to UUIDv7?