skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you've sort of nailed it. You need someone who is willing to coordinate, but you can rely on protocols and technologies that allow for frictionless dissemination of information to do the heavy lifting. In the event of socials, PeerTube and Mastodon come to mind. Archiving is harder, you need someone to babysit spinning drives and physical media somewhere safe, hence why the Internet Archive requires more centralization and coordination (and a bit of deep pockets to fund someplace safe to store the bits and atoms). In your example, Bittorrent and torrents for the datasets being shared. If "information wants to be free," it can be done, but someone still has to herd cats (whether that be people and/or code) to bring about the desired outcome.

The piece to solve for is where the operations meets the legal entity, to ensure continuity and durability of the value provided. Again, look to the Internet Archive, Let's Encrypt, and Wikimedia to see how this is done. Certainly, it gets more challenging for an org like Anna's Archive that is in direct conflict with copyright law, but you can build and run high value, widely distributed systems without turning into Pied Piper.

Corporations are always going to chase fiat, it is inevitable, avoid relying on them whenever possible if you don't want to be disappointed when they try to corner the market and extract whatever they can from what potentially has become highly valuable at scale to the user population. Twitter and Reddit are the most glaring examples, but there are many others.
Sadly, this article is plain wrong.
I've been working in the gov. IT sector in switzerland and reading the headline and article gives a false impression.

The aforementioned law EMBAG does not mandate the use of open source software.

What it does is mandate that software develeoped especially for the federal government needs to be open sourced, unless that is not possible due to licensing issues or national security reasons.
The whole swiss administration is microsoft based.

Also, most day-to-day administrative tasks are handled by the cantons (think state) administrations, and they are, as far as I understand, not subject to this law. The federal and cantonal administration are quite separated in switzerland.

All of this happened in november 2023
> Auxiliary Space : O(n).

> The Space required to store the elements in Heap is O(n).

I don't think this algorithm is suitable for trillions of items.
A body and an image of a body are two totally separate things.
> How does it have to be one or the other though?

Economies of scale. It’s cheaper to build lots of identical things.

On the secondary market, relative demand: an ugly house will be cheaper.
"to appear to a reasonable person to be indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the individual"

so if deepfake would be generated with distinctive indication that this is AI generated forgery then it would be ok? for example cyborg hand or palm and everything else like real person.
When comparing history's greatest chess players, people have looked to using relative strength measures like Elo. A newer approach is to use superhuman bots like Stockfish and directly evaluate each player's moves. I wonder how long until someone applies this idea to evaluating books, TV, and film. The most controversial part of it will be how to operationalize whether one book is "better", but I'm leaning towards the idea that this approach would actually be pretty helpful in finding good books to read.
Put another way, I don't trust amazon to not screw me. Many people have concerns, some based in reality and some completely imagined, about Amazon and other large corporations trying to screw them for just a few more cents.

Why would I give up what little control I have?

Buying purely on voice commands is new and different. In an environment of trust that is novel and exciting. In an environment of fear or concern that is scary and burdensome. Why would I choose burdensome?

They need more trust, which means being more trustworthy. That likely means losing some profits for consistency.

They need a smooth voice purchasing experience and I have no clue what that means.
But in practice is was crap
My canonical use-case for macros in Scheme is writing unit tests. If you want to see the unevaluated expression that caused the test failure, you'll need a macro.

(define-syntax test (syntax-rules ()
((_ test-expr expected-expr)
(let ((tv (call-with-values (lambda () test-expr) list))
(ev (call-with-values (lambda () expected-expr) list)))
(if (not (equal? tv ev))
(printf
"\nTest failed: ~s\nWanted: ~s\nGot: ~s\n"
'test-expr
ev
tv)))))))
I think the absence of real world usable secure alternatives is not really strong evidence, operating systems are like web browsers, there's such huge inertia and network effects in the apps that competition doesn't tend to spring up, "build it and they will come" doesn't work.

On the research side there's lots of stuff. Singularity, the various capability based systems, Qubes (granted more towards the adding-features dimension), etc.
There are also advantages to being slower. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%2FK_selection_theory , which I reference historically and encompasses also the discussion on Wikipedia about subsequent refinements of the theory.
s/meekly/Merkle/g
Not sure what features those need, but at least the stack traces are correct in swc-node, so maybe worth a try.
Lindy Fiorentina fucking up HP. Boeing all over. I'd hope to see employee-owners counteract short-termism
Ladder logic is sort of a similar case right? Supposedly it derives from notation for documenting relay racks in factory automation that could very well date to the 1800s. And it's a pretty brilliant implementation - you don't need a degreed engineer or C programmer to set up fairly sophisticated concurrent system with it.
Persistence hunting as a major driver of human evolution, or a common mode of hunting, is a theory that has caught the popular imagination, but has precious little actual evidence behind it, sadly. Most of the pop culture articles cite a list of facts, that are not true (Humans are uniquely efficient, humans are some of the only animals that sweat to cool themselves, only humans can travel long distances at a moderate pace). While persistence hunting is possible, modern experiments have shown that it has an incredibly low success rate, especially considering the level of effort necessary.

https://afan.ottenheimer.com/articles/myth_of_persistent_hun...

https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hu...
Mbed is neat in a sense, but also pretty weird.

Basically it gave you embedded development without having to install anything - you get a browser-based IDE, and when you plug the development board into your PC it appears as a USB mass storage device. You hit compile on the web IDE, download the resulting file to the USB drive and it gets programmed onto the microcontroller.

I can see how that would be a boon in education environments: No need to get a system administrator to install the special IDE and toolchain, no need to fumble around with special programmer hardware - if you've got a web browser and a USB port, you're ready to go.

It also supports loads of boards from loads of different vendors - ST, Samsung, NXP and Toshiba microcontrollers were all supported. And over a hundred compatible development boards.

But despite the wealth of board options, it never really seemed to gain much traction outside of education - and it didn't pick up the same momentum the Arduino ecosystem has.
SWP is trendy and "chemical-free" but in my experience every decaf made with it is lacking something. C02 is neutral. EA is probably the best for fruity coffees.
so 2.8% is "healthy" for the US, but 5.3% for China is a "disaster"...
this was validating. I actually did it twice...once last night, forgot, and then did it again this morning.
A lot of buyers want a single-family home though. It kind of sucks to have neighbors on the other side of the walls and ceiling, especially if the construction didn't include really good soundproofing.
Please read the Show HN rules.

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

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

I see no way to try this, I only see a contact form.

(I can't even figure out what it's supposed to be, there's so many buzzwords)
Actually lots of algorithms "feel" like cheating until you understand what you were not looking at (fast matrix multiplication, fast fourier transforms...).
I don’t know how well or bad this bill will be but it’s a good idea to try to stop the mental health assault being inflicted on users of social media. Humans haven’t evolved to be able to handle the targeted messaging that is common on Facebook.
I just tried it in Chrome on Linux and it didn't work. Even tried switching my user agent so it would look like i was on Windows but that didn't work either.
There are a lot of interesting details embedded in this number, specifically how strong consumer spending was.

I still have concerns about dwindling savings and increasing credit balances, as well as historically high APRs, but will worry about that another day.
The OEIS Game (not affliated)
OEIS is the The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®). Refresh for another question if it's a bad question.
Again the Palantiri were communication and surveillance devices used in times of peace. A warhammer by contrast is weapon whose sole purpose is to create violence. (Perhaps a better counterexample here is Palmer Luckey's company Anduril, named for Aragorn's sword, a "weapon clearly for good".)

Yes Sauron hijacked the communication channels, but Sauron also corrupted literally everything he touched--he would have caused the same evil if he was doing morse code on a telegraph.
Back in the day, there were lots of websites where you could play the game.

You can improve your performance at this game by playing in extremely high contrast, so you can use the retinal afterimage to give you more time to study the numbers.
Similar to how that "LSD" video requires you reconstruct persistence of visionsl while watching a too-slow animation of light painting.

Such a weird case, since any human could directly objectively test the claim on their own.

https://www.novelgames.com/en/ayumu/
They do offer a link for sharing as an alternative: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HZMATsSJJhpcejoJ8
pardon! it's fun to think about though!
Lucid claims its Air Pure electric sedan is the most efficient EV ever made
Microsoft's Bing adds AI overviews while Reddit blocks it
Side note, but IMO Typescript is too complicated. They should have stuck to a reasonably simple type system but now I see projects with incomprehensible and frankly unmaintainable typescript consisting of extremely complex generics, type conditionals, and type constraints. Basically if you aren't careful you'll find your project metaprogramming in typescript's turing complete meta language...
"Each bottle should indicate how many drinks the bottle is."

Wine bottles in Australia are already labeled with the number of standard drinks they contain.
Then you don't get a guaranteed O(n) complexity if the approximated algorithm happen to make bad choices
It’s not about pretentiousness. It’s a market for collectibles, and for a piece to be collectible, it has to be authentic.

Here, they mixed a bunch of identical fake plates with a real one. They’re trying to prove that people don’t care about beauty, only about collectability. But that’s no secret. The art world doesn’t give a damn about beauty or meaning, they care about how collectible it is, plain and simple.

Anyone who thinks high-worth art, 20k plus, is purchased for beauty or meaning is not active in the art world.

There’s a book, "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark," that lays out the art world in fine detail. I highly recommend it.

Art dealers, collectors, and auctioneers couldn’t care less about meaning or beauty. It’s all about provenance, scarcity, and an artist’s desirability.

There’s a fourth participant, the casual buyer with lots of money. This is who everything is marketed towards. That’s where the myth of intrinsic beauty and meaning comes in. They’re the sucker. Auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christie’s hire top marketing firms to concoct stories for the artwork and imbue it with meaning, but that’s all aimed at the casual buyer.

Everyone else is in it for the money. Art dealers, collectors, and auctioneers trade among themselves, pumping up the value due to provenance. Then they unload it on the sucker. And here’s an interesting fact, over 90% of the time, once an artwork is unloaded, it never reaches that high price again.

If you want to make money in the art world, you have to be an active participant and be part of the inner group, you can't be the casual.

This doesn't mean there's no beauty in art. There certainly is. Go to a local gallery and buy yourself something good to look at. But don't confuse wall decorations with the "art market". They're two very different beasts.
In the US, not as long as there are Conservatives. A pillar of the Republican ideology (and perhaps Libertarian, even) is that money is for people who work and if you don't work, die - you're useless to them.
> it's just what a default POJO (with nullable properties) already is

I think you missed the point. Partial<T> is an example of a "mapped type", see the handbook for more explanation: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/mapped-types....
visual depiction of the individual can include a cyborg hand so imo no, if there are obvious clues that some person is d-faked, it still applies
I guess they're applying the same test you would expect with libel; would the layman expect the speech to be truth or intentionally misrepresentative — i.e. would the image be construed as real.

Otherwise, parody and criticism using AI would be limited.
Is their evidence for that claim?
How to Automatically Convert COBOL to Go
Although COBOL can be considered a legacy language, there are still billions of lines of COBOL in production. Modernizing these systems which are costly to run and maintain is a challenge. One solution to this issue is a COBOL to Go transpiler that I want to present in this article.
The countries operate very differently, so yes, it's possible to view it that way and have it be a logical statement.
Hungary – Who's Laughing Now?
The funnest way I've heard of conceptualizing a neutron star is that it's basically a giant atomic nucleus.
Blind since birth, writing code at Amazon since 2013 (2018)
From the article:

> Cook and Wilson (2010b) subsequently trained two university students to a level superior to the chimpanzee.

Sounds like humans do in fact win.
People who want to make money above all else are pursuing that because they think that will make them happy. It’s just their idea of the path that will get them to happiness. They see Mark Zuckerberg wakeboarding at his Lake Tahoe retreat and think, ‘That’s happiness — having billions of dollars, not having to worry about meeting basic needs, being able to do what you want.’
That a country having a "dominant group" is something that would form an ethnostate?

Of course the fact of one group being dominant is not sufficient; there need to be deeply structural (legal) mechanisms in place for that group to maintain its dominance, which has certainly been the case with Israel since its very founding.

You may consult the definitions in Wikipedia as to "ethnostate" and "ethnic group" for further detail if you wish.

Which ethnicity would that refer to in your opinion?

The one referred to in Sections 1, 5, 6 and 7 (and whose language is given preferential treatment in Section 4) of the Nation State Bill.
I'm dubious. Searching for globally unique commit IDs is still a least a million+ request operation. That's easy enough in a cryptographic sense but the attack in question requires banging a web UI, which is 100% for sure going to hit some abuse detector. I really don't think you can do this in practice, and the article certainly doesn't demonstrate it.
> Ultimately when an algorithm has worse complexity than another it might still be faster up to a certain point.

Sure, but the author didn't argue that the simpler algorithm would be faster for 5 items, which would indeed make sense.

Instead, the author argued that it's OK to use the simpler algorithm for less than 5 items because 5 is a constant and therefore the simpler algorithm runs in constant time, hence my point that you could use the same argument to say that 2^140 (or 2^256) could just as well be used as the cut-off point and similarly argue that the simpler algorithm runs in constant time for all arrays than can be represented on a real-world computer, therefore obviating the need for the more complex algorithm (which obviously makes no sense).
When does this type of censorship (yes, that's what it is, though maybe a positive kind) run into the first amendment? If I make a deep fake of Trump making love to Lindsay Graham, when does it become protected speech? Do I need a storyline? Does there need to be a moral bent? Does Trump need to say something about Graham "crossing his border?"
Not a problem: the supreme court will likely rule in your favor.
Yeah home prices are mainly based on location and sqare footage. Condition, age, and amenities factor in but pretty much all the houses in a neighborhood sell for similar prices. It's definitely possible to over-improve a house and find yourself upside down in it at least for a while, which is OK if you want to live there and enjoy it but can backfire if you're planning to sell soon.
If you read the actual law, it looks like this law pertains to "digital forgery" - computer-generated material that "falsely appears to be authentic". Does this mean that AI-generated porn is OK as long as it is explicitly labelled?

South Carolina is currently in a funny state where it's illegal to distribute non-consensual AI-generated porn of someone, but there aren't any laws against non-consensual revenge porn. Good news is that revenge porn laws have been adopted almost country-wide.
But the human element is quite related.

Consider the following:

A) One of your co-workers touches you inappropriately without your consent.

B) One of your co-workers distributes pornographic images of you to your peers without your consent.

It's easy to say that "touching" and "distributing images" are not "the same thing", and also both scenarios are blatant sexual harassment.
Exciting! So many models dropped on the 24th. Really to know whether the numerical suffix means YYMM or MMDD!
Nice. With the current trajectory Apple Maps will be a serious competitor to Google Maps.

When it first came out we all made fun of it and it deserved that fun to be made. It was absolutely terrible.

Fast-forward to today: I live in Turkey, Google Maps' satellite view is extremely blurry at an unusable level, and Apple Maps displays satellite view perfectly at a nice resolution. There has been a change in street numbers about three years ago here. Apple Maps displays the current new street number while Google Maps still displays the old street number. And before you say Apple is only good at first-world metropolitans: I live in a small town in Turkey, barely more populated than a village in winter.

The only reason I keep Google Maps is compatibility especially when sending location etc to others with Android devices, otherwise I'd have long deleted it.

With this upgrade I might actually indeed delete Google Maps which has one of the worst UX I've seen (well, it's a Google product so that's expected) and very bad data, at least for all my practical purposes.
I’ve been using Google Maps forever. When Apple Maps came out, I experimented with it a bit, even tried using it as a default, and it was terrible. Several locations it couldn’t find, or just was in the completely wrong location. Even businesses were missing.

Every now and then I try it out, and it will seem improved a bit over the previous time, but it won’t take long before I run into an address that is again missing or incorrect.

After a while, I gave up on it altogether. But sometimes on CarPlay, I will accidentally end up on Apple Maps, and will realize it after it either has me going in the wrong direction, or it can’t find the place I’m going.

Even my last trip a couple weeks ago this happened.

I’m surprised it has the usage it does, because still to this day, I — admittedly anecdotally — still have issues with the data.

I think maybe in larger cities it functions better. But outside of large cities, I think the data is still quite a bit behind Google Maps.
Wouldn't a more effective way be to hold any maker of a porn deep fake financially liable for lost revenue?

Just like if I made a movie using a famous actor using AI.
I agree to some extent, but still: if you were starting your own company, would you wait until someone wrote a secure OS? Or would you provide your developers and sales people etc. with an existing OS, and run your servers on an existing OS, and deploy other security tools to mitigate the bugs in those existing OSs?
I never understood why so many hate "New Kind of Science"... Just ordered it and will form my own opinion.
What are they supposed to use instead? "Starting in Q3/H2"?
Cryonics Chances
Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils
It all depends on the size you are starting at and your population size.
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That said, in regards to established software like Microsoft Office vs LibreOffice, it's likely that there will never be full feature parity, but that's probably not some absolute dealbreaker for most.

At least for finance and insurance industry, the feature differences between Excel and LibreOffice Calc are are deal-breaker (users in these industries are often power users of Excel). I can also easily imagine that the same holds for Powerpoint vs LibreOffice Impress for the consulting industry.
The way this author[0] took complex scientific processes and made them understandable to someone without a science background is admirable. I want to try and emulate this when I write for non-technical audiences.

[0]https://miamioh.edu/profiles/cas/michael-crowder.html
Not sure if if you're just not understanding what the comment you replied to is saying or if your are just responding in bad faith.

The comment doesn't say the 2 are the same. They say that both should fall under your consent because they are either your actual body or a depiction of it...

Not sure how taht can be any clearer.
If JS ever adds type checking, I hope it doesn't choose Typescript.

We need a type system that is actually sound and TS is intentionally unsound. We need a type system that doesn't allow bad coding practices like TS does. We need a type system that enforces program design that allows programs to be fast. We need a Hindley Milner type system.

If you want a module to be typed, add a `"use type"`. This should disallow bad parts of the language like type coercion. It should disallow things that hurt performance like changing object shape/value type or making arrays of random collections of stuff. Incoming data from untyped modules would either coerce or throw errors if coercion can't be done at which point the compiler can deeply-optimize the typed code because it would have far stronger type guarantees and wouldn't have a risk of bailing out.
Yeah I usually pay cash everywhere but I found Americans get nervous (and may think you're a criminal) if you pay bills north of $100 in cash.
You lost? You respond to the wrong person?
It'll move to lawless eastern europe wild west probably.