skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and we're using methods that have been proven to work in several large countries/industries (particularly in video games where botting & hacking is also a major concern).

There are no games that have successfully blocked all bots.

> We don't allow users to create multiple accounts.

Unless you're requiring proof of identity using things like passports or driver's licenses, this is a rule, not a guarantee. You can't possibly know whether someone over the Internet is the same person as someone else. The crypto community has spent the last decade trying to crack this nut.

> that's risky because there's lots of ways to detect that, they'd get penalized, and then would not be able to make a new account.

You're assuming they want an account in the first place. They're not doing this because they want to have an account on your service, they're doing this because someone is paying them a few dollars a day to sit in a room and put on different hats or Photoshop a new name onto their citizenship card or whatever to bypass your verification so they can post a link to a sketchy casino. There's no risk, they'll just keep doing it. The big bosses will just cycle through warm bodies (of which there are many millions) to sign up for your service for pennies and post spam or election propaganda or whatever they care to.

> At the time the user creates an account, we know that they are a human and that they are relatively unique

I really want to underscore how much hubris is wrapped up in this comment. Your business model is predicated on doing something extremely difficult and presently unsolved (and likely unsolvable!) with essentially 100% success. Forever. I worked on this problem at Stripe for half a decade, it's not a small challenge.

Can you start checking people's passports? Yeah of course. But then you're going to fail because nobody wants to upload their passport to the account they're creating to shit post and message their friends. And your user acquisition costs are going to be enormous because you're doing passport scans on every signup.
I don't think it's slowing down any time soon either.
Across a Continent, Trees Sync Their Fruiting to the Sun
And Jainism, and while I don't know much about the religions I'd imagine there's a ton of new world ones that don't treat animals as conscious
But if you’re using an external data source and putting it into the context then it’s the external data source that’s providing the reference — the LLM is just asked to regurgitate it. The large language model, pretrained on trillions of tokens of text, is unable to provide those references.

If I take llama3, for example, and ask it to provide a reference.. it will just make something up. Sometimes these things happen to exist, often times they don’t. And that’s the fundamental problem - they hallucinate. This is well understood.
I love it. It’s clean. Quiet. Relaxing. And I don’t have to deal with other people. You couldn’t pay me to take public transportation over a Waymo. What a joke.

I can’t wait until this tech makes it to private vehicles.
I've seen 'em right up through high school saying that there was no purpose to learning math, and that math wasn't "relevant". And then they go into the workforce and mismanage their finances into perpetual poverty.

I also see them choose college majors apparently on the basis of avoiding all contact with math, and wind with degrees that employers aren't interest in.

Your hero story worked, good on ya! I would have related the true story of hiring a contractor to build an elliptical patio. He charged by the square foot. He laid it out, and had the bricks delivered. Something seemed off. I measured the L+W+H of the brick pallet, and the volume of one brick, and computed the area the bricks would cover. Then, measured the L+W of the patio layout, and used the area for an ellipse formula. The bricks was the right number for the area, but the area was only 2/3 of the area he quoted me and charged me for. I nicely inquired about the discrepancy, and he hemmed a bit and said he'd made a mistake, and adjusted the bill accordingly.

Of course, we both knew he tried to cheat me, quite egregiously. I figure he did this regularly and got away with it with his math challenged customers.

I recall a documentary about a famous entrepreneur who made a lot of money in high school by gambling with other teens who did not comprehend the odds.

Sure, finance doesn't interest a 6 year old. But I've never heard of a teen who didn't want to have money in their pocket, and who looked forward to being taken advantage of. Even the unruly ones.

I don't agree that finances are bullshit reasons for learning math.

P.S. In high school, I joined a poker game with some peers who I knew had engaged in fencing stolen goods. They cleaned me out. I knew enough about poker odds to realize they were card cheats, but I didn't see how they were doing the cheat. It was a cheap lesson for me :-/ The most effective scams are the ones where the mark doesn't realize he was cheated, and will come back for more. I didn't return to poker.
Throw "deepfake loss" onto the pile of loss functions.
How Good Is Parquet for Wide Tables (Machine Learning Workloads) Really?
Average life expectancy is what matters.

We'll probably have more outliers of wealthy/healthy people living longer, but poor management of broader access to basic health and education may not result in that drastic an increase in overall average results.
If it's a matter of national security, why would it be made available to the American consumer? They'd have more than enough business from the DoD, and wouldn't have to compete on price.
"Occam's razor" is not some natural law so I fail to understand how invoking it goes towards proving anything.
ms personal computing revenue was 13.9 billion usd in 2023
Can you clarify your argument? Is it that "no, buses are not more efficient, but with enough investment they can be?".

Do you have some data to share to show this is true in suburban environments? I live in a very wealthy area, budget is not a problem for the city, the busses are clean and well run. But they're often empty...
Also, the US Operation Burnt Frost which shot down a non-functioning NRO satellite in 2008. Luckily this one was in a low orbit and everything decayed within a couple years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost
I hate the interview process now. 20 years ago a phone call was enough to get an offer.
Sorry, TEE stands for Trusted Execution Environment. It's where stuff like DRM executes with access to secrets that the HLOS (Android) can't tamper with. On ARM SoCs the TEE is usually provided as part of TrustZone. No need to patronize.
> To me, having separate individual accounts, feels like you aren't committing fully to marriage and are keeping your money yours "just in case." If you are already feeling like you need a "just in case," why are you get married to begin with.

And even if that's not true, keeping track of everything separately just seems so... exhausting. Like, you pay the electricity, I'll pay the water bill, you pay 75% of the mortgage, I'll pay 80% of our vacation, but we split meals 50/50... And then you have those cases where I can afford to go to Disney World, but my spouse only has enough for Six Flags because she makes less or hasn't been saving--now what? OMG that just sounds like so much work to manage, all for what?
Minimally, a graphene based classical (or quantum) computer would require transistors and traces on a carbon wafer, from which NAND gates and better could be constructed.

FWIU there is certainly semiconductivity in graphene and there is also superconductivity in graphene at room temperature.

And traces can be lased into clothing, fruit peels, and probably carboniferous wafers.

Which electronic components cannot be made from graphene or other forms of carbon?
Is it just me or does Meta seem to be doing better than most companies right now open sourcing their AI research?
If the technology matures and is mass produced, those costs are going to come way down.

You probably don't like single/low occupancy vehicles, and that's fine, I'm not here to convince you otherwise. But this particular argument is nonsense, it applies to every new technology ever.
NIAC awards are so fun. We write about them frequently in Orbital Index because they're crazy and weird and speculative. Here are some recent favorites:

- https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-05-15-Issue-269/#nasa-...

- https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2024-01-24-Issue-253/#anoth...

"A proposal for a beam of microscopic hypervelocity (>120 km/s) particles propelled by laser ablation to push spacecraft on fast transit interstellar precursor missions" is fairly representative of these types of awards. :)
2013 Subaru Outback
Main Reason: All wheel drive
I had a couple bad experiences in the past not being able to get out with only moderately slippery roads.
Thanks for the tip on the short stories. When I read “The Conversions” I tried to tease out all the meta games, same with Tlooth. But I never found it rewarding. I’m more drawn to his prose, topics, and the air of aristocracy that comes from his eccentric and wealthy upbringing. His talent plus that inescapable past makes for some unusual stories. Like The Journalist, or Cigarettes.
If you leave things alone for a while, many non-renewable resources are surprisingly renewable on medium timescales. Forests will typically regrow, fishery stocks will come back.
How I pwned hacker news (2024)
Building a Distributed ETL Pipeline with Bacalhau
Yes, I'd also like to know why Meta has chosen this path, whereas many of the other big players haven't. Usually they all settle upon the same viewpoint.
"revolutionary battery checklist" meme comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28025930
There is no Twitter, only X
> And since we as human beings are conscious, it stands to reason that there are probably other living beings (or matter in general) who are not.

I'm not following this line of reasoning. It seems be exactly opposite to panpsychism, which reasons "since I experience qualia, it stands to reason that everything experiences qualia, because I don't know of a state that does not result in qualia". I'm not a confident panpsychist, but that logic seems to make more sense. Unfortunately, it is just as unproveable as the opposite view, just like pretty much everything around qualia.
We agree on the importance of accessibility, but it can be both terrible and brilliant in every language or framework.
First, I don’t fully appreciate the distinction between an ‘influencer’ and someone having a Youtube channel as a side gig that posts practical content. Second, I am a forum kind-of-guy too, but I find YouTube channels to be useful complimentary additions to forums. Trying to implement a feature in Obsidian? The forums can help, but a ten minute YouTube video from an organized content creator can be just the thing needed to get the job done right and quickly.
Also utter failure to build any new housing.
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The Booming Business of Alabama's Artificial Reefs
Currently trying to figure out how to use Plex so that i can cancel subscription.
Another great fermi filter hits the shelves!
No reason for the Senate to not vote it into law. There are no lobbyists telling them to do otherwise. In an election year, they desperately need to show that they can get something, anything passed.
I use Brave
I suppose ollama and llama.cpp, or at least any corresponding Python SDKs, would be good for using self-hosted models, especially if they support parallel GPU use. If it's something custom, Pytorch would come into the picture. In production workflows, it can obviously be useful to run certain LLM prompts in parallel to hasten the job.

For now I have used only cloud APIs with their Python SDKs, including the prompt completion, TTS, and embedding endpoints. They allow me to run many jobs in parallel which is useful for complex workflows or if facing heavy user demand. For caching of responses, I have used a local disk caching library, although I guess one can alternatively use a standalone or embedded database. I have used threading via `concurrent.futures` for concurrent jobs, although asyncio too would work.

The one simple external Python library I found so far is `semantic-text-splitter` for splitting long texts using token counts, but this too I could have done by myself with a bit of effort. I think langchain has something for it too.
I've never met him in person and I don't usually judge a book by its cover, but he gives me a creepy vibe. It is difficult to put in words because this the first time I feel like this about someone I've never met. Something feels always off when I look at his photos or videos. This has been happening long before all this OpenAi drama.
Notes from "You Are Not a Gadget"
We Proved Why Ice Is Slippery [video]
Duplicate thread here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720090
Keep in mind how immense income disparities are there. For someone living in India, getting a job that exists anywhere at all on the US payscale pretty much guarantees living comfortably and being able to save tons of money on top of that.
Better to let ideas compete and build consensus than to surrender decision making abilities that effect everyone over to some arbitrary group of people that we are just told to trust (but don't worry they have good intentions).

We don't currently have a select group of people who share a vision of "common good" making decisions for us, and yet things keep improving. So I'd advocate we stick with what we know is working, rather than the above surrendering of autonomy in exchange for the promise of some utopia..
I can search my comments by popularity, but I only get comments from 8 years ago and this year. I think that HN doesn't let it get the karma of comments from the intervening period. (If not, then it's an algolia bug.)
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The original 3DGS paper relied on some really hand-wavy heuristics to optimice the gaussians' location and size (and yet it worked remarkably well).
He got new funding, but it's relatively modest ($2.69 million spread over two years).
Something I haven't considered much but, in a world where you hop into a self-driving taxi; how is the passenger protected from someone who wants to rob them?

I'm imaging a situation where an attacker can step in front of the vehicle, have it safely stop, before demanding you hand over your valuables, breaking a window to get in etc.

As a passenger you're trapped in an enclosed space and left without a way to escape, where as a human driver would be able to make the judgement call to do whatever is necessary to get out of danger.
In basic training we were taught to wear in our new boots by bending the toe-half of the sole back and forth for hours, and when we went to bed, we positioned them in a folded up position under our bunk bed frames. When we went to use them the next day, they weren't too stiff. Still have those boots, some ~15 years later, for mowing the lawn now though.
I’d be willing to bet the proportion factual is roughly the same as today’s data. We love to think we’re better, but most people aren’t expert scientists who know all of the latest literature. Also, what information is illegal?
What do you mean that you "cannot draw" them? This is a digital medium and both (well one, the other is half supported) variants are valid Unicode glyphs:

ꙗ / Ѧ

Or do you mean you literally can't draw them?
> It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

I love this line
And Zurich to Paris or Milan or Vienna or ...
I use Internet Explorer 5
CT scans of coffee beans: raw to dark roast
Yeah, I moved on from Java before lambdas were standardized, so can't comment much but what was painful was watching just how bloody long it took to get them into the language.
Pity they aren’t including image generation. Multimodal generation with reference inputs is my #1 ask for things like novel illustrations.
The eternal problem with this idea the some people are smarter than others is that never finishes the statement *smarter at what?*

An overly simplistic view of intelligence and human capabilities seems to think that you’re just “smart” or at least smarter than those around you in general and that’s it, you’ve won the lottery. When in reality, people have aptitudes and gifts across spectrum of endeavors and where you may not seem smart in maths, you can be an incredibly smart engineer or artist or communicator.

It’s hard especially to have this conversation with traditionally “smart” people because you find very quickly that their entire identity is wound up in this idea of being universally intellectually superior than others through no effort of your own. Gods own gift. You challenge that, and the teeth come right out.
Apple M4 Support Added to the LLVM Compiler, ARMv8.7
If your human bus driver crashes you place all the blame on that guy, fire him and move on with your business. If your AI that is used to drive every vehicle your fleet screws up you're potentially looking at grounding the entire fleet and running an extended PR campaign.

At the very least you'll need to stick a human behind the wheel to take the blame when the technology fails like Tesla does. You can't remove humans from the corporation centered blame shifting society because you remove available scapegoats leaving the company without a blame shield. Perhaps they'll hire third world people for lower wages to remotely watch the AI car feed all day and auto-fire them in the event of a crash.

This is all still a worse deal than Uber hiring humans to do it all, they outsource all of the maintenance and liability onto some rando that they can ban from the app if they get uppity and then take a cut of the profit in exchange for running a data center and some ads.
It started by accident, with the original llama weights being leaked by two separate employees. They've since embraced opening the weights, which I'm all for.

As for why? I have a theory: Meta is not in a position to capitalize upon the model itself. Yes, they can use it internally, and maybe their competitors can copy it to - but there are no real competitors to Facebook or Instagram that can benefit from it enough to make it a differentiating facet.

Thus, releasing stuff for open source does two things:

1) Make them more attractive to research talent (Apple famously recently started to publish research because their traditional secrecy was causing issues with hiring top talent) and...

2) Continues to undermine the ability to make $$$ off of model alone, driving it towards being a commodity rather than the long term profit engine for other companies.
There is already a Debian port available for RISC-V platforms including 99% of its packages: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V

IIRC even a port of Fedora Linux.

So you could use it as a daily driver already — unless you need a bit more computing power. A YouTuber made a nice video on how he edited a full episode on a RISC-V SoC using Kdenlive on Debian some time ago: https://youtu.be/7ke7d0iO_-0?si=-rjXdTxfYd_jLQuU
Certainly there is some bias, the other comments here have addressed some of the things we skim over. I don't know enough to speak to other countries specifically, but the US does now have the "de-orbited within five years" rule enforced by the FCC for any newly launched satellites. I believe Europe is also following this now as well, but I believe the ITU rules are less strict and still follow the older rule for de-orbit within 25 years.
Same reason they open sourced reactjs or encourage jestjs usage. If they give it away they can benefit by being embedded in the stack. Then all the scale issues they can beat implementers on because they have the money to run it. To keep ahead of people implementing their tech they have their own data trove to train on. You only get a small piece of it. It’s all to position themselves as a sensible solution.
I asked the same prompt, but have a memory asking for detailed answers. It gave me:

The text presents a logical inconsistency. Here's a breakdown of the issues:

Sequence of Events: Joe drives Sue to the university and then returns home. This part is clear.
Inconsistency: The text states that after Joe drove home, he drank tea with Sue in the kitchen. However, Sue should be at the university if Joe drove her there, not at home.
To correct this, consider one of the following revisions:

Sue returns home: If Sue returns home with Joe:

"Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he drove back home with her, and they drank tea together in the kitchen."
Joe drinks tea alone: If Sue stays at the university:

"Joe drove Sue to the university. Afterwards, he drove home again and drank tea alone in the kitchen."
Either option removes the inconsistency and clarifies the sequence of events.

This is pretty impressive.
Is Llama3 400B still going to be released?
Referral marketing for iOS (in-app purchases and subscriptions)
There's already billions of businesses for referral and affiliate marketing with Stripe: Rewardful, PromoteKit, Branch.io, Viral Loops, +∞ more...

I don't see any specifically targeted towards iOS app developers. At a very high level you would need to integrate a few APIs:
- App Store Connect API to generate referral codes on demand
- App Store Server API to verify receipts

Is this a niche hole in the market? I'm assuming companies like Dropbox and Uber do it in-house, but is there no solution or demand for "In-App Purchase Referrals" specifically?

Thanks in advance
Found the first one (using HN's Algolia search api) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37803494
Personally I doubt think it's just as high. But in any case, I'm not arguing for microplastics in particular as an explanation, just against the suggestion that IBD is some timeless human invariant that couldn't be attributed to peculiarities of the modern environment. (I find the hygiene-hypothesis-like explanations a little more compelling, although I don't have strong beliefs.) If the commenter wants to argue against microplastics as a cause, he needs to make claims like the one you made.
"Normal citizens" don't have to file anything. The 45-day congress filing requirement is part of the STOCK Act (previously it was once per year) and is unrelated to SEC regulations.

13-D and the 10-day filing timeline only applies to beneficial ownership of 5% or more. That would apply to members of congress, if they hit that threshold, which normal people don't.
chips do increasingly come like that as intel gets better at binning, they don't want to leave money on the table and are creating more SKUs in order to mark up good chips like yours (this is why silicon lottery is no longer in business)

the reason your chip didn't come like that is because intel plays it very safe when it comes to stability and their margins for error are likely broader than yours, the stochastic nature of the failures means that the voltage margin between one crash for every 2 hours of stress test and one crash for every day of stress test can be hundreds of milivolts, but they're definitely working on it because pat doesn't want you getting free real estate
I kinda don't find this prescient when Reflections on Trusting Trust basically hit the root of it decades earlier.

"The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing than drunk driving of an automobile." - Ken Thompson
My guess is that when Llama leaked on 4chan and it blew up in the community it somewhat forced their hand to go with an open strategy. But they also have a history with pytorch of reaping the benefits of an open strategy. The benefits are well explained in Google's leaked "We Have No Moat" document.
Amazing work. Simple, easy-to-use code. This must have been quite the effort. It's honestly stunning work. Also, good to see R is still alive and well!
I fell through the rabbit hole on this one, and found this post with a delightful video from the The Computer Chronicles about RISC, circa 1986:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIccm7H3OA0

I'm so glad we have these sorts of things archived!