skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reviewed the code -- but did they inspect the machine? Check the network for reliability? Review the crypto for replayability? RNG that's is actually random?

How many expert do we need? Do we need cross-domain experts to check if any domain experts missing anything between the gaps?

For paper voting, it is literally just check the box is empty before voting and nobody get near the box unexpectedly
There are and have been browsers that work like this.

Opera Mini worked like this for optimization of sites for limited cell phone bandwidth and processing years ago. You would get a pre-processed and rendered site as an image. https://www.consumersearch.com/technology/ultimate-guide-ope...

More recently there are security solutions that do this so that all website processing is sandboxed and run outside your desktop, particularly for enterprise environments. If you have many many users who will click on all sorts of nonsense, it's better having that processed off in an ephemeral container somewhere then streamed to the desktop statically.
> The mission is far from complete; we still have a safe AGI to build.

He might as well take the rest of the decade off.
extern "C" seems related to the other flags, not 'r'?
Reminds me of the "harder drive" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio&t=1s
Also my conclusion. Not from personal experience, but the article itself doesn’t seem to justify that classical music ecosystem enables such bullshit. It seemed the fraud had a pretty small impact, which the fraudster being caught pretty quickly.

I feel that any industry or community are vulnerable to some small scale fraud like this.

The fraud investigation and story were pretty interesting and well written though
Do you have any plans to support ACH/NACHA payments?
Comparison with YAML, Jsonnet, HCL, CUE, Dhall, Nickel, Helm, etc... here:

https://www.kcl-lang.io/docs/user_docs/getting-started/intro...
FYI, when you share an Apple Podcasts link, anyone reading on an Apple device without the Podcasts app installed cannot do anything with it, even copy the link to open elsewhere-it just turns into a prompt to install "Podcasts." So I don't even know what podcast you're pointing to to find it in the app I prefer.
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What's fascinating here is not the ongoing drama at OpenAI.

What I believe is most fascinating is that many people are fairly sure that history is being written (assuming Microsoft/OpenAI/sama remain a/the leader on the AI front).

But there is so much secrecy and uncertainty that it's completely unclear what meaning the drama will have in hindsight.

Maybe we reach utopia by 2050 and it all goes down in history as "wow, it was an epic ride worthy of a Hollywood hero story!"

Or we have a few years before a panopticon dystopia where we're all thinking "damn, we came so close to saving it all!"

Or, as is the most likely outcome in everything, it's mostly business as usual for 100 more years, and most of the drama is completely forgotten, while a couple of stories end up as Netflix docu-fiction series to watch on a rainy Sunday.

What's everyone's bet at the moment?
“Never” since when?

I was under the impression that Beethoven and the other famous composers after him were pretty big and known internationally in a word without internet. I would call that “mainstream”

If you are talking about 20th century, then I would agree with you
What do you find mind-blowing about this pic?
The video and the pitch strike me as odd. The value proposition here is to grow the market for small planes by making them easy. You still need to be rich so this is basically an expensive toy. I'm not sure comparisons to what came before matter, the people who will buy this don't know or care about the existing way to control a plane.

All you have to do is show how easy your system is. To which end, why the hell would you put two separate hand controls rather than a steering wheel that also goes in and out and some pedals for speed up and slow down. It it's as easy as a car, make it like a car.
Carbon neutral green ammonia and|or methanol are serious contenders for both replacing marine fuels and for being transported to places that long extension cords won't reach.

(2021) https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-shipping-industry-is-betti...

(2024) https://fortescue.com/news-and-media/news/2024/03/15/world-s...

4,300 km long extension cord: https://www.suncable.energy/
stall AoA depends on flaps though?
The problem isn’t that Google has search and makes Android. It’s that they have search and paid android phone makes and Apple oodles of money to make Google search the default.

Apple would not need to pay anyone to make their search (or maps or browser) the default. It would be the default on Apple devices and not used much outside of that.
Shoot and scoot doesn’t work with lots of drones near front line. You will be most vulnerable when you “scoot” actually. You need to dig in well instead
Too late to edit — forgot paywall https://archive.is/oiA3c
They don't have a better product, not for a long time, but they do have a famous product, with which most of the people are familiar with, unlike the competitors. They have been matched and over-matched long ago, but since virtually nobody within 99% accuracy makes research on current search engine market before typing into the box, that doesn't matter - people know google, so people go to google, however inferior their product would be. If it's not literally useless, they'll keep using it for a while now.
Let's get concrete here on the BS laws.

Does the law hope to prevent people from causing harm, physical, financial, etc, to others or their property? Keep it.

Does the law aim to prevent people from harming themselves, excluding suicide? Toss it out, freedom. [i.e. heavy taxes on soda; mandatory helmets]. Some jurisdictions try to enumerate every little possible way a bad thing could happen and make it a fineable offense, and it comes off as very much "invasive HOA" energy

Does the law aim to indirectly incentivize particular behaviors for political goals? Toss it [i.e. some parts of California have fully failed permitting systems which prevent any new houses from being built whatsoever, which is great for the environment since all development has been permanently halted. the faulted law is gladly allowed to persist with the hidden political reason behind it]

Now as for monopolies I think we have entered a bizarre system of mostly duopolies. The OS duopoly. the cell phone duopoly. search engine duopoly. Streaming duopoly. Social media duopoly. the stock markets is a duopoly. our political system is a duopoly. coke and pepsi. and so on. what we do need on the point of looking out for the "little upstarts" is a very careful investigation of these duopolies to see if they are truly competing for all their worth, or if there's a backroom agreement on things. I believe tech is a little thicker on the backroom agreements
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In a verifiable voting system, voter usually get a recipe that he can verify, in later time, their vote have been counted.
But what stop same recipe is handed out twice? Do you do transparent log? Second system to audit those? How general voters are supposed to understand this?

Just pick a voting station with lower computer literacy, and you can do whatever you want ..
and now it's Pro - https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/Pro/New.html

and it was a cheaper upgrade for pre-existing users.

Seconded as a great tool.
Is there any compiler option to have it yell at you if you mark something that can throw as `noexcept`, which seems to be the cause of (at least some of) the slowdowns where the compiler is forced to accommodate with `std::terminate`? I feel like these situations are more commonly mistakes, and not the user wanting to "collapse" exceptions into terminations. So the current approach to dealing with these cases seems to be suboptimal not only from a performance perspective, but a behavior perspective as well.
This is a great offer, and I can see how it'll be helpful both to you (for need finding) and for the people you coach.

However, it gives me a weird vibe to see it be anonymous.
Search is dead anyways. It’s all SEO nonsense. I would rather have a curated list of validated sights. Like recipes only from actual chefs or publications, news from newspapers and networks, be absolutely sure the address I am looking at is my BANKS website.

All the Reddit, twitter, Pinterest, and blog stuff can stay in the Google wasteland and gotcha ad links.
Show HN: Python Code Resumption. A way to stop and resume a Python script
Wanted to share this crazy little idea I had and implemented. Not sure if anyone has tried to do this in python before, but I wanted a way to interrupt a python script and then restart it from the interrupt point later.

Obviously the implementation is very POC and simple, but it works. Let me know your thoughts! What crazy python stuff have you done?
ML weights should not be copyrightable in the US: there is no copyright gained from sweat of the brow. Until it recently became extremely profitable to claim otherwise, pretty much no competent copyright attorney would have told you otherwise.

ML practitioners who make this claim are playing with fire too, since I don't see how its conceivable that ML weights could be copyrightable without being a derived work of the underlying training materials. ML opponents who think arguing for model copyrightability will protect jobs are also playing with fire, since they're pushing for a world where only organizations like google will be able to create powerful ML models by using the TOS to gain access to weights and training material-- there will still be AI but it will be controlled by a few corporations instead of being available to everyone.

Of course, someone could choose to litigate against you any time for essentially any reason. But that's life-- hopefully the creator of this set prices such that they're comfortable with whatever risk they believe they're taking. And in any case, someone offering the same data for download wouldn't be much better off.
You can't seriously bring 2009 as a proof the situation now is the same. In Internet terms, it's like arguing current politics with examples of the time of Charlemagne.
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The digital platform would allow you to recast the vote after. Only the final vote counts. So unless you are kidnapped and guarded after rhe fact, it wouldn't work.
No offense to you, but I won't install an extension unless it links back to its source code for auditing. Especially if that extension wants to read the page of every website I'm on.
You don't need to make it a full circle. Fan menus are also good. https://cuppalabs.github.io/angular-fan-menu/
Being able to take a sabbatical would be so nice. I lost my dad in 2021 and my mom has ovarian cancer. I feel like I just need a break for reflection.
Did I miss where the commenter above you said he didn’t read his opinion? He obviously did…he commented on it. His point was about owning your opinions even if they are unpopular.
You disagree that search mirrored is poorly readable?
Id wager SEO/AI slop is a much bigger problem for Google than ad load for their userbase. Only 20% of queries have ads so 4 out of 5 times ads won't even be seen. But on those 4 out of 5 do have the chance of turning users away from Google with awful SEO optimized sites and AI slop.
not sure about you, but I don't really see much political stuff since I use adblocking (and don't really give a shit). When that fails, I mentally filter stuff out
My point is simple, you are poorly informed on this topic and should refrain from speaking about it.

None of the libraries you listed are independent implementations of the standard library let alone source compatible.

EASTL does not claim to be an implementation of the C++ standard library, its claim is that it is an alternative to the C++ standard library. Perhaps the distinction is too subtle for you to have actually understood it but one thing is obvious, you have clearly never used it.
I’ve often thought this kind “do what I mean” control could expand to a lot of machines where currently it takes potentially years to develop an intuition around how moving various levers/pedals actually results in things moving physically in space the way that you intend.

A few years ago I rented a mini excavator whose levers are directly connected to hydraulic valves that control the motion of the bucket in a weird polar coordinate space. It’s extremely tricky as a beginner to even e.g. make the bottom of a trench level, and it seems like just a bit of intelligence would make this trivial. Even a bit of force feedback would do wonders for controllability.
Fascinating, I would've never guessed this would be remotely possible!

I wonder what other counterintuitive inventions have come along during humanities time.
These default search deals are only on new installs though. How often will those users reinstall Firefox?
My dad saw the big mirror go past his school on its special railcar, when it came from Corning.
> If we already have the infrastructure and the technology, why isn't everyone flying planes?

Because driving a car 50-300 miles is cheaper, easier, and may even be faster in some scenarios.

Oh, and when I get to my destination, I have a car.

I’m not a pilot and this couldn’t make me one. Too expensive, too much work, too inconvenient. Very cool but everyone isn’t going to be flying any more than they already are. It’s for people who already are or already want to be pilots.
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A rare gem of a book! I've tried using many books to get started with GPUs, but I always ended up giving up quickly. This book is the most in-depth yet easy-to-understand one I've ever come across.
Not at all. I am implying that if you know how to farm in a different manner than the current widely used methods and deliver enough food at an acceptable price to the population, then you should do it.

But I suspect that people around the world who have decades of farming experience are paying for glyphosate for a reason.
This sort of thing is the reason I never got comfortable with automatic updates.
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Oh man, the passion with which I hated realplayer when I was in high school. Eclipsed only by QuickTime.
Google loses antitrust case over search, will appeal ruling
Agree, there are pointer-centric patterns of computer use. Usually visual things: art, design, some CAD, marketing, and of course the GUI patterns of personal computer use that most people have been taught
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Gallium? That's only liquid down to 30C. And it expands when heated. So what happens when your laptop is off and drops to room temperature?

Worse, this is what happens when a small amount of gallium contacts aluminum.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeghGhVdt9s
This is sort of my view as well, most of the hype and the criticisms of KANs seem to be fairly unfounded.

I do think they have a lot of potential, but what has been published so far does not represent a panacea. Perhaps they will have an impact like transformers, perhaps they will only serve in a little niche. You can't really tell immediately how refinements will alter the usability.

Finding out what those refinements are and how they change things is what research is all about. I have been quite enjoying following https://github.com/mintisan/awesome-kan progress and seeing the variety of things being tried. I have a few ideas of my own I might try at sometime.

Between KANs and fixed activation function networks there is an entire continuum of activation function tuning available for research.

Buckets of simple parameter activation functions something like xsigmoid(mx) ( ReLU when m is large, GeLU at m=1.7, SiLU at m=1). This adds a small number of parameters for presumably some game

Single activation functions as above per neuron.

Multi parameterizable activation functions, in batches, or per neuron.

Many parameter function approximators, in batches, or per neuron.

Full KANs without weights.

I can see some significant acclaim being awarded to the person who can calculate a unified formula for determining where additional parameters should go for the largest impact.
Back then it was just called music.
Try having neighbors. I've one who thinks she's quite the environmentalist because she "feeds the deer", which means leaving fresh fruit and veg out. Sure the deer love it, but so do the rats (the neighbor blames the HOA landscaping for the rats). She also leaves out peanuts, so I constantly have squirrels and jays digging up my attempts at gardening things so they can bury their loot. The HOA copes by leaving poison traps out. Of course the coyotes and raptors don't know this and keep coming by anyhow. But hey, she's an environmentalist.

Alternatively try living in an area with a high risk of fire. Leaving your back yard to grow wild could easily create a huge tinderbox. There are fire resistant plants suited to e.g. dry summers, but invasive stuff that's ill-suited to dry summers is just as happy to take root.
funny timing, I was just reading about Lt Gov Denny Heck cause tomorrow is the election, and I ended up reading about RealNetworks cause he was an early investor.
Atlanta’s huge success is that the trains run on time and they have been able to maintain the automated train control. Atlanta doesn’t get enough credit for being a blue city that actually does some basic stuff right.
I remember feeling the same way the first time I went up in a small plane (Cessna 150). I had a tourist ride in a small helicopter later (R44) and it was so much smoother. But I was probably safer in the Cessna.
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I wonder if this has ramifications on the OpenAI IPhone deal too.
Correct for this case and I absolutely would have done so in such situations, but such domain reduction does require a human reasoning that has to be separately verified.
Guys, perhaps we all should be strive to be thoughtful, less reflexive, and assume good faith (& sanity :)?

upbubbling has been capped by HN autopilot probably for emotive language & behavior, dang asleep.

Maybe wait for him to wakeup, suggestions also welcome.
I think the author did quite well at explaining how Classical music's industry engenders this though: Foision was literally being given awards and prizes based solely on his made-up CV rather than his actual music. Sure that's not inherently unique, but it was convincing enough to me that there are structural problems inherent to how credential-and-"fame" focused the classical industry is, based on the articles arguments.

That said, I think the fraud itself is small, so perhaps the conclusion is too grand; but it's not out of nowhere either, I'm somewhat sympathetic to the arguments made.
Better source for John Schulman directly from his account: https://x.com/johnschulman2/status/1820610863499509855

My read is "return to hands-on technical work" is more important than "AI alignment" aspect, since he is quick to clarify OpenAI is also supportive of AI alignment research. But maybe it is difficult for him to return to hands-on technical work at OpenAI.
Musk moves "X" out of San Francisco
Only 120 employees left there. Moving to Palo Alto and San Jose for now.
Well, on terrain avoidance, yes, that's fairly simple. What's not simple is avoiding terrain until you reach a certain point, after which you want to collide with the terrain. Identifying that point and autonomously targeting the correct bit of terrain is the problem.

There are systems that can detect and locate a signal like an RF jammer, but you have to 1) deploy that system into the area, 2) operate it, 3) maintain it, and 4) protect it. Then to make use of the intelligence it produces you need to have some sort of ordnance or PGM available. That is, you need to dedicate and risk plenty of materiel to take out a simple RF signal broadcaster, with the reward being the use of drones (including the enemy's drones).

I don't think your approach is ill-conceived or anything, but the reality for both Ukraine and Russia is that it's really difficult to properly implement that approach.

I think the calculation is pretty simple, really: the cost of developing and using a reliable jammer-seeking drone is much higher than the cost of a second jammer.
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I love the aesthetic of the original Glider - Brian really went the extra mile to port it over to 6502 assembly on the NES. Given that it looks like it was on a flashable cart as well (guessing similar to an Everdrive) I'm impressed that he was able to get the price down to just 40 USD.

Sold on RetroUSB at the time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080410120221/http://retrousb.c...
Land use laws and culture around land use differ greatly. The further you get out from urban and suburban areas the less you typically encounter. Rural areas tend to have less land use laws than urban/ suburban areas.
Their planes cost half a million dollars, I’m not too concerned about everyone flying just yet. These are expensive toys for the wealthy.
Elon Musk submits another lawsuit against openai after retracting one months ago
> Does C++ std::terminate unwind the stack and call destructors?

No, it doesn't. Try this: https://godbolt.org/z/cvG17cYEs
On the flip side once you leave the dark forest you stop needing search engines as much since you're contributing to a community you exist on the inside of.
I've never played it, but it looks fun and as somebody who grew up in the age of CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure Books) I love the interactive fiction genre.
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Is it a classic or a modern sabbatical?

In a modern academic sabbatical, researchers generally visit a different university and work on a problem adjacent to their regular research interest (there's a whole paper about this phenomenon: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1360080X.2022.2... )

Sounds more like a classic, 'period of rest', sabbatical. Seeing where someone from OpenAI goes on a modern sabbatical would be interesting.
I would expect YC to have competent automated tools to flag submissions.