skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The complexity and detail in our universe create an incredibly vast search space, which may hinder development rather than promote it. To speed it up we need to be able to narrow the search space by cutting some stuff out and simplifying the model. Do we need to model atoms? Molecules? Organelles? DNA? Some other made up building block?

I have been intrigued by artificial life because I think it takes a more holistic look at that question than AI. I feel like starting with the neuron is kind of a huge assumption, how have we ruled out or accounted for the importance of all the more basic building blocks and developmental milestones of life?

I also think the environment is critical. We formed and evolved as a product of our environment, we have to find food in it; our goals, behaviors and fitness level are largely dependent on/derived from it. An AI doesn't have an environment. It doesn't have any sense of living and being in a place. It can't care about anything. It's not going to see an apple fall and wonder why that happens. It's not alive or doing anything when it's not called to process an input into an output. It makes things up by stitching together words that it has no actual context or experienced meaning for. I find it hard to believe that we're going to achieve anything resembling the interesting characteristics of humans with these abstract Chinese Rooms.
Yes, that is the most obvious plan. I want to find a community-friendly way to do this.

I know Supabase has a similar and successful monetization plan but I know some take issue with the way they offer their hosting.
Ask HN: How to get started 3D printing on Linux?
I'd like to get a 3D printer and play around with it, but I'm not sure how to get started. I'm fairly technical, but brand new to the world of 3D printing. I only have Linux machines, and strongly prefer to keep as open source as possible. With that, I have a few questions:

1. Any recommendations for specific printers? If not, is there something I should look for to help know if it will work properly on Linux?

2. How do you design your own 3D objects for printing? Is there open source software you would recommend?

3. Where do you find existing things to print? Are there online repositories? Is there a standard for printer files or are files unique/proprietary to individual printers?
Oh, I see, that's what you meant. Thanks for clarifying :)
Very well, I encourage you to prove my initial assertions wrong.

How does the reader appease you - what is your proposed solution?
We do have those terms. The way they are used is not relevant here.
Meritocracy is a satirical concept.
I did try DuckDB at first. Not for tags, but the relationships between the nodes, ways, and relations. It was slow. Really fast to important, however!
minerals in the snow / wind blown grit / rocks / banging around in the ski rack, the lift line, hitting poles, etc.

You're right. Snow isn't hard enough, but, it's probably a mistake to assume it's just snow.
No? Methane produces less than half the CO2 per kwh than coal.

Which is still bad, but not worse or as bad.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
If you're saying "watery grave", then "ferry" would be far better than "carry" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon
You've Been Sherlocked (2012)
"Knowing" and "willful" can be a bit confusing. Generally in statutes you do something "knowingly" if you have knowledge of it. If you know the report is false when you sign it you have "knowingly" signed off on a false report.

"Willful" means that you knew that you were doing something that the law forbids. If you knew the reports was false but did not know that the law forbids doing that then it would not be willful.

Here's a more detailed explanation from the DoJ [1]. That's in general rather than specifically about Sarbanes-Oxley but a quick grep in SOX didn't turn up any SOX-specific definitions for those terms.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
If it does go to trial it would be great for people behind this to be directly tried for their criminal actions as well.

The reality is that a company is on trial for the actions of individuals and if there is no follow through on that it will not change anything.

I doubt it goes to trial as I am 99% sure that the judge will rubber stamp the whole thing because the US is a corporate driven hellscape where peasants are accountable, but wealthy individuals and corporations are not.
Please share the details of your preferred alternative.
(both positions have been filled)

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Product-wise, we integrate recycling processes, equipment/sensors, production, and procurement/sales data to deliver an insights platform that helps metals recovery facilities optimize their processes. We employ a strong, domain-driven design approach to building our product. We're looking for execution-focused engineers to join our team and deliver complex features with autonomy.

We're currently hiring for two roles:

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> What would be the equivalent of jail for a company ? Unable to sale for x years ? How long a company should be able to exist ?

If they can't sell then they don't have money, and everyone is fired. Is that what you mean? Why are you trying to make companies into physical people who can be punished separately to their employees/shareholders, instead of thinking of the actual outcome you want and coming up with something to achieve that?
But then what is a "community group" if not that?
> It doesn't create an internal model of the problem given, it just guesses.

It's not entirely true. They often use some sort of memory/scratch-pad to keep a context other than previous tokens. This recent exploit lets you see claude's default prompt that have some references to this system.

https://youtu.be/AbPTz08oq58?si=7F5Lbbkxg99tr3FP
UltraPixel: Advancing Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis to New Peaks
I have been an Austrian trained ski instructor since 2012 and I can tell you that a sharp ski is essential if you want to have carve in any conditions below where the snow isn't slushing or soft. I.e. any run that is either early day, windblown, mid-season (generally colder) or shadow side.

HOWEVER 99% of the skiers on a mountain (and yes I mean 99%) do not actually ski on their edges, they do skidded turns (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4hioJ4ThJA). And the same 99% will typically just slide off of hard and icy parts of a slope as they aren't comfortably riding their edge. To these people sharp edges matter, but less than to the few who successfully carve.

But if you are within that 1% of skiers that do ski mostly on the edge, then a sharp edge is extremely important; you see true carving technique is a delicate skill:

In order to carve properly you need to need to get your skis in a steep angle with the snow, which means you need to get your feet in a steep angle, which can only be maintained if you move your center of gravity into a position that isn't above your feet. Which effectively means your body is in a position that is out of balance. Similarly to how sprinting essentially is just leaning forwards and playing "catch up" with our legs, carving technique tries to do the same. Exception being that we use the rhythmical centripetal forces of turns and the resistance of the snow to create the balancing force (https://d3t7modobimpp4.cloudfront.net/uploads/_1200xAUTO_fit...).

And this is why edges matter; because if the centripetal force provided from the carving turn isn't generated because the skis blunt edges cause them to slip, then instead of generating movement towards the skiers body (reestablishing balance), the skis will drift away from the skiers body (removing balance) resulting in poor turns if not slipping down onto ones hip.

TL;DR:
Very good skiers NEED sharp edges to ski well. Most skiers will be fine.
(As a matter of fact I think 99% of all skiers will do just fine on ANY ski, and make more significant improvement from 2 days of ski school than any equipment upgrade or tuning that money can buy).
Chinese scientists identify super moss able to 'survive' in Mars
Are there microphones that would let you "listen" to bats? We have bats fly around our house at dusk, it would be interesting to know what they "say", especially when two of them come close (unclear whether that's intentional or not).
At first, I didn't do it, but I had that shower thought of "What If?"

It worked! It was super helpful in finding more accurate results.
> Students from families earning up to $175,000 a year will have living expenses and fees covered as well.
I think the underlying issue is that phone power buttons are “special” in that they don’t work like literally any other power button.

I do not chord key binds on my desktop with the power button. My speakers, TV, router, etc will only ever turn off/on when I hit the power button.

It overrides a fairly rational user assumption: that “the power button” is responsible for controlling whether the device is on or off, and that that is its primary function.

They would probably fare better if they switched to calling it a Meta key (or something else that doesn’t invoke Facebook). Meta+VolumeDown to shut down makes more sense than Power+VolumeDown; the latter makes me wonder why the power button alone isn’t enough.

Overall, there really just aren’t enough context-free inputs on mobile phones. Apps generally use the whole screen, so all your non-app-specific inputs have to be put on weird chords of the 3-ish physical buttons a mobile phone has.
They should learn about b-trees and how indexed queries can be done with them either with or without an explicit query language. Then they can decide what kind of data storage service they need. Understand what's happening inside the black box.
Package management has been a problem almost every time I have dabbled in Python. This is a great overview of the situation and will save me time the next time.
Wants me to scan a QR code and chat via WeChat to continue. That's a no go.
This is indeed the main thing I use Spotlight/Alfred for on MacOS: I want to go to the window for this app, regardless of what virtual desktop it's on, and I don't want to hunt for it.

I use that "text-based finder" approach _everywhere_:

- Telescope in NeoVim (https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim)
- The "Actions" (Cmd-Shift-A) and "Find Anything" (Shift-Shift) shortcuts in IntelliJ
- Alfred on my work macbook
- KRunner on my personal linux laptop (with KDE)
- The `t` shortcut on github to jump to files
- the `!` "bang" shortcuts on DuckDuckGo

I have the hardcore vim brainworms of "don't make me touch the mouse", and in _spades_ if that mouse is a laptop trackpad.

I haven't found a good equivalent on Windows, not because they don't exist, but because they're all focused on trying to do everything _but_ launch fast and swap to the application I want...so they wind up taking 4-5 seconds between "hit keyboard shortcut that invokes it" and "start typing", because they're busy indexing the registry or my recycle bin or whatever.
You can definitely punish countries as an independent entity: with trading sanctions, refusal to give in on certain diplomatic compromises, or different degrees of military retaliation.

Same with companies: mostly fines, but also limits on how they can operate, additional oversight...

Of course, the consequences trickle down to people, but these punishments are not meant to target any given individual, and if the individuals in charge change, the ones that leave don't necessarily carry the punishment with them.

This makes sense, legal entities like companies are guided by incentives. And it sometimes makes more sense to punish the legal entity to change its behaviour, by imposing disincentives, rather than punishing whichever people are running it at the time.

For example, people within a company might pressure an individual to commit a crime, because even if that individual might get punished, the company may benefit as a whole. But if the company's (financial) survival is at stake, everyone is more likely to collaborate to prevent that situation, including the shareholders, if the punishments are big enough.

The point here is, that for issues like negligence and fraud, the current punishments are not significant enough to act as a real deterrent. The punishment on the companies is too lenient (they can absorb the fines, they are rarely an existential threat), and the punishment on the individuals responsible is too lenient (difficult to attribute culpability, limited liability...).

We do want to figure out how to hold individuals more accountable, as you said, we are just having a conversation about why it works like that right now and what could be changed to improve it.
So you’re saying they would rather be poor just as long as they can avoid tourists?
I have not tried that.

Will PGO work with CGO external libraries? I'm using https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
> Personally I’ve not found the ability to open my css files in Word beneficial!

Imagine writing a blog about your favorite CSS features. I mean, if you use Word at all for writing, wouldn't that come handy?

But Word actually is not the primary goal here. grep or awk may be more important - I've created ad-hoc tools for ad-hoc quick-and-dirty tasks on code a number of times, and the fact that code is just text helped a lot. Taking that away would make me spend time on figuring out how to hook up text tools to that format.

> Many editors are already altering what is stored on disc before presenting it to you

True, but the difference is between being able to enrich commonly understood format, and not having a common format between different tools at all.
The European Eurocheque system was terminated end 2002, 22 years ago. Americans still can still pay with a signature?
Grammarly, but point taken. Will fix.
It’s assessed to show income is less than Y over X number of years. So reducing income right before going to Johns Hopkins would not normally qualify.
Methane burned for electricity is better than coal no doubt. But methane that escapes into the atmosphere is way worse than CO2 in the nearish term. And not every extraction company is super thrilled about proper containment.
> even in a world full of inconsiderate jerks

This is the cynical negative worldview that a therapist would attempt to steer a patient away from. The more time a person spends in a negative headspace the more easily that person will find themselves in a negative headspace - just like a muscle the brain will build neural pathways to find that negative pattern faster and more efficiently. And the longer that person spends there the stronger that pattern building will get.

Of course the person cutting in line's mother didn't die, more than likely they were lost in thought about their bills piling up, or feeling incredibly self-conscious about their weight, their husband's difficulty in finding a job or not ever being able to buy a home in these market conditions. If you had touched them gently on the shoulder and reminded them of the line they'd apologize profusely and move to the back.
> Forsén herself has also suggested that the photo should be retired. In 2019, she said she was “really proud” of the picture and she re-created the shot for Wired magazine, which called her “the patron saint of JPEGs”. But later that year, the documentary Losing Lena spearheaded the latest effort to encourage computer science to move on. “I retired from modelling a long time ago,” Forsén said on its release. “It’s time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let’s commit to losing me.”

Yes it is.
Network Manager also has 'mntui' -- which is a simple text ui for configuring Wifi.

As a systems guy, on Debian, the workflow that works for me is to have wired interfaces defined as 'manual' in /etc/network/interfaces, so NetworkManager skips them, and I can configure them using the typical linux tooling and leave wifi managed by NetworkManager, so it can easily manage the dance between WPA/DHCP/AP association.
After reading that article, you might be interested in:

Redbox Parent Company CCSE files for bankruptcy: https://www.wsj.com/articles/redbox-chicken-soup-for-the-sou...

Or that the current stock price of CCSE is less than 2 cents a share down 99.82% all-time. https://www.google.com/search?q=csse+stock+price
Oh boy a new level of ouroborous enshittification!

LLM websites need more profit and more data, so all they have to do throw in new training questions to force their already paying customers to do more work for them, before they can do their own work! I can already feel microsofts drool on my neck
No. His plea deal was rejected. That is not the same thing.
Always, constantly, appeals never work. It's well documented but nobody at Meta cares. Main reason I deactivated FB.

There's all kinds of reasons. One major symptom is when you get email notifications all the time of someone trying to log in to your account. VPN might be one but I've never been hit for it.

Another is they seem to hit lurker profiles more. Profiles without a proper pic or something AI looking.

Also friend groups. If your friends are bad guys, your odds if being flagged as a bad guy is quite high.

There's a detailed article on WA being used to target Israeli bomb targets, including the Where's Daddy protocol which hits groups of innocents at once based on who they're grouped with: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Weird that nobody bothered to do a simple google search.

"Bart, don't make fun of grad students. They just made a terrible life choice."
> Investing that much in hardware that depreciates over 5+ years and is theoretically still usable at the end, maybe

Isn’t that exactly what’s happening?

A $300k 8x H100 pod with 5kW power supply burns at most $6k per year in power at $0.15/kWh. The majority of the money is going to capital equipment for the first time in the software industry in decades.

These top of the line chips last for much longer in the depreciation game. The A100 was released in 2020 but cloud providers still have trouble meeting demand and charge a premium for them.
Maybe the first time it happens you pop up with a confirmation dialog and it has a checkbox that says something like “always ask” (and an option in the settings).
So the TL;DR is a) SOX forced companies to improve internal controls, which we can all agree is a good thing, and b) when things still go wrong, the execs are usually committing other crimes that make it more feasible to prosecute those instead.

Seems to me to me more legal inside baseball than an indication execs are getting away with more fraud than before. Seems prosecutors are just choosing to charge other crimes when they know they have a good case.
Absolutely. If I came out with a project that said "Get the power of Oracle with a simple javascript API" people would think I had a new Oracle API for javascript, not that I had a JS-friendly database I thought was as good as Oracle. But before I even mentioned webflow at all, I'd first want to make sure they didn't have any related patents I'd be bumping up against without being able to clearly show prior art. Only after that might I consider saying "webflow-style workflow" or something along those lines. It's sad, but you have to assume their lawyers will use every legal tool at their disposal to protect their client's bottom line whether its reasonable or not.
But this is now a false dichotomy. When in line, you are better off not escalating. When designing systems and lines, you are better off building ones that don't encourage and reward cheating.

At the end of the day, you will be forced to reckon with the fact that the optimal amount of cheating is almost certainly not 0. Which sucks in many ways. But does not change that you are better not escalating anything.
I picked up Player of Games on Kindle a few months ago after seeing all these threads on the Culture series here.

I just couldn’t get into it. I made it through about…a third? into the book.

The whole setting just feels so bizarre and exotic. I couldn’t relate or empathize with any of the characters.

I might get back into it someday but for now it’s languishing.

Should I try Consider Phlebas or Use of Weapons first?
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Let's see how long it takes them to realize they should have gone with the latest nuclear power tech and will eventually be unable to meet demand with anything but coal or nuclear (unless something changes).
"AGI is just around the corner" but we haven't be able to build "fully automatic car driving" for a decade... So first I would like to see car drivers replaced by non-general AI, then I will start believing in AGI...
> They could have said "only X were sold". Or X sold, where X is a very low" number".

They could have said "I don't think they sold too many." It would have clearly indicated that they are speculating and expressed the same information.

The problem with the sentence "they know only 30 people in the entire US bought the thing" is that it indicates precise knowledge where there is none. Is it 30, 32, 300 or 3000? who knows? We don't even know that the 30 is the right order of magnitude. We just speculate that it must not have been too many units. How much is "not too many" for Amazon? How colossal a flop this was?

> Seems fine to me.

I'm afraid you are too used to the blurry edges of the "truth". We can push back against that. If someone is speculating they should say that.
Not sure if that's the one actually... it only says "disables the fullscreen button", it doesn't even specify whether it will actually prevent fullscreen through e.g. the 'f' shortcut

Also, the kind of site I'm talking about has a fullscreen button visible, only when you press it it says it's disallowed

But I see no other fullscreen related settings (other than the keyboard shortcut related one partially) so it could be this one of course but its description didn't catch up with reality
Data owned by another service/application/org that is written and read without modification.

For example, a healthcare document that wasn't built or technically owned by the application storing it.

For example, a web text editor that serializes it's state as json.

Not json, but a web scraper storing html documents.

These have structure, it's only that the structure is built/maintained outside of the application storing it. You could of course transform it but I think it's a bit obvious where that might not be worth the cost/complexity.
The NTSB and FAA were both sent to help with the investigation (as they would for any US airplane manufacturer), so I’m not sure how them “[setting] the bar for aviation safety and crash investigation” comes into play here.
Yes, and until the start of Covid, a check was the only convenient way for me (American) to pay my rent.

The other (inconvenient) way I could pay is by exchanging cash for a "money order" at a post office or a retail location known as a "check-cashing store", then giving the money order to the landlord. Giving cash directly to the landlord was (and remains) not an option.
Well, it's hard to get someone to hate their source of income.
We mounted a laser in a plotter, I think you can find the pieces common.

You can see it here in action cutting artworks in the context of the Art Basel [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/46w2XLHd9vs?si=_MnFKGgOiWBnmXj0
Null is closer to ‘empty set’ than to zero, and the two concepts are similar but different enough to be distinct.
Comparing Code Completion LLMs – GitHub Copilot, Refactor.ai, and Fitten Code