skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> interestingly enough, one of my colleagues thinks very strongly that intuition should not be shared, and the path to intuition should be walked by everyone so that they ´ Make their own mental images ´. I guess that there’s a tradeoff between making things accessible, and deeply understood, but I don’t know what to make of his opinion.

If the objective is to advance mathematics instead of making it accessible, then this is a somewhat reasonable position. The mathematical statements that a person can come up with is often a direct product of their mental image. If everyone has the same image, everyone comes up with similar mathematical statements. For this reason you want to avoid that everyone has the same picture. Forcing everyone to start with a clean canvas increases the chance that there is diversity in the images. Maybe someone finds a new image, that leads to new mathematical statements. At least that's the idea. One could also argue that it just leads to blank canvases everywhere.
The court already ruled in favour of Apple, unfortunately.
I actually think source available software is great. Not every piece of software can survive as OSS but source available eliminates most the downsides of closed-source software from a technical perspective.

In my daily life I use a lot of essentially source-available software that I pay for. I spend like 4+ hours a day every day in IntelliJ IDEA etc. I don't have a problem paying for software, I have huge problems paying for software that I don't sufficiently control and/or it's closed-source nature affects it's ability to get it's job done - i.e anything mission critical where uptime and security are paramount.
I mean, fine, but replace one word for the other in my sentence and it makes no difference, really.
Absolutely, so does Google and Microsoft. How do we make this happen?
is there an open source variant available? I am building https://github.com/bolna-ai/bolna which is an open source voice orchestration.

would love to have something like this integrated as part of our open source stack.
Certain level of nihilism and simply not caring does help a lot in the process. Life is only downwards from here in health, retirement is uncertain... Soo, why not have the little fun before the inevitable end...
Has anyone asked the Alan Turing AI what he thinks about being reanimated as an AI?
I think that would be the right decision, to me that makes more sense than forcing Apple to allow any app to be installed on iOS or allowing alternate stores.
I'm not going to listen to "almost a day’s worth of legal analysis" no. If you have a link to a part of the decision I'd be happy to read it.
If memory serves, it was different judges in different courts. Google just got unlucky or Apple had better lawyers.

A lot of our justice system isn't really deterministic, and judge shopping is totally a thing :( It's unfair, and I wish we had a better system than that.

Here's one article... https://www.theverge.com/24003500/epic-v-google-loss-apple-w...
> The court declined to dismiss copyright infringement claims against the AI companies.

That "major win" being allowed to proceed with the case at all. All they've done is clear the first hurdle meant to kill frivolous lawsuits before they get to discovery. Their other claims were dismissed:

> Claims against the companies for breach of contract and unjust enrichment, plus violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for removal of information identifying intellectual property, were dismissed. The case will move forward to discovery, where the artists could uncover information related to the way in which the AI firms harvested copyrighted materials that were then used to train large language models.
This comment is a far more interesting story than the project itself.
I'm afraid you're redefining what a blockchain is. A blockchain is a distributed ledger. Distributed ledgers are an application of distributed conensus, which is a truly interesting field within computer science.
Piracy as a growth strategy was very common at the time. Everyone, including Youtube, was just rushing to stay on top long enough to translate piracy into money sufficient to keep the lawyers away a few days longer.

>> Karim left YouTube before Google bought it in 2006. But he kept YouTube e-mail on his personal computer, enabling Viacom to obtain correspondence that Hurley had said he lost, according to court documents. [..] In a July 29, 2005 e-mail, Chen advised Hurley and Karim to "steal it!" in an apparent reference to an unidentified video clip, according to the court documents. After Hurley asked if he wanted to steal movies, Chen replied, "haha ya. Or something."

>> Google had its own copyright reservations about YouTube before it struck a deal. Internal documents obtained by Viacom quote Google executives describing YouTube as "a 'rogue enabler' of content theft" and warning the site "is completely sustained by pirated content."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/youtube-viacom-spat-gets-dir...
> Apple has no competitor in the App Store

iOS and Android appstores are not distinct markets. They compete for the same users (mobile phone users).
Direct action is a French specialty and someone there could elucidate..
it would probably be more effective than mildly frustrating a few commuters though?
No, they were correct and you are not.

The cases are fundamentally different, and rest on the actions the two companies took.

Google actively harmed other stores. Apple has no other store to harm.

In the Google case, epic was able to prove anticompetitive behaviour. In the Apple case they could not prove anything outside of anti steering.

The judge doesn’t even need to factor in to the case at the point that Epic failed in the Apple case. They would have failed with any judge because their case was weakened by the lack of anti competition actions
The administrative class in America use Apple and sneer at Android.
Also Eric Cartman on SouthPark dropped a Tivo into a bathtub and was electrocuted into a coma that took him to olden times.
Indeed PMF mostly comes up as a negative - you'll know it when you don't see it :)

But I think searching for PMF should theoretically be the bread and butter of startups. You're searching for the right combinations in terms of the interaction between People, Problem, Pitch and Solution. Changing your Pitch and Solution is "iterating", changing People and Problem is "pivoting". Improve accordingly until PMF or die trying.
> Music industry revenue peaked in 2000 at $21B and went down to ~$7B in 2015 before steadily growing again.

That's because the music industry was incredibly slow to adapt to the internet. They basically took a full decade to react and lost revenue in the process.
Different judges, same court.
You are confused about markdown.

There is no "source markdown". Markdown is meant to be formatted to be read, without any intermediate step. "Prettifiers" like github etc are just converting the markdown into "styled" text. The format was always meant to be read as is.
> and doesn't work with filesystems that do their own redundancy like ZFS

Really? You somehow can't create a ZFS file system on an hardware RAID block device? Seems like that means the hardware RAID isn't the otherwise transparent block device it's supposed to be for the OS and whatever file systems it cares to employ.

You're concerns about management, tools and spares are correct for many use cases. Some uses cases, like cloud operators that don't suffer the burdens of long term management at that level of detail (where entire racks and generations of hardware are cycled in/out as a working unit, with ample spares at hand, under contract) won't care about that. They'll care about the nice efficiency gain. When you operate like that you can accommodate sophisticated integration such as this for efficiency gains.
Can't wait for the Python SDK!
The legal system shouldn't care about motive?
I'm very excited for discovery.
For the USA, ASUS also stopped producing the high storage models so what was left to buy wasn't as appealing.
Absolutely agree that creating effective evals requires domain expertise. Right now, we're co-building evals with customers, but we're identifying which aspects can be productized.

Regarding text-based evals — part of testing voice agents involves assessing their core reasoning logic. To do that, we bypass the voice layer and simulate conversations via text. So yes, the core simulation engine is reusable for both conversational text and voice interactions.

We're also excited about shipping the ability to replay a simulated conversation inspired by a real user!
It seemed obvious to me that giving a quote is the most un-biased way of commenting on an article.

Most of the time (like in this case) it's not actually commenting at all - HN is for commenting, you're right, which is why things that aren't comments tend to get moderated away. "unbiased" doesn't come into it - the goal is interesting conversation not 'unbiased' summaries. The participants' opinions and thoughts are what counts. "Bias" (i.e. having a viewpoint) beats pasting any day, in a forum.

The second point is that the comment also included a non-paywalled link,

Those are super useful and encouraged but you can't really use them to turn bad [non]comments into good comments. Like, there's no 'here's a bypass link and also some slurs', as a limiting case sort of example. That comment would also sensibly be flagged, no?

Both of those things were valuable to me.

That's great but lots of people find things that don't work on HN (for various reasons) valuable. Some people like LLM-generated comments. Some people feel some particular topic should be on the front page daily. Neither of these are unreasonable preferences but they break a messageboard with HN's goals. To advocate for some change in the way the place works, you need a better, more broadly applicable formulation than simply personal preference. Personal preference obviously matters a great deal but it's not a practical way to refine an existing thing with wide usage.
This looks super interesting. I built https://github.com/finos/perspective in a past life but have been out of the streaming analytics game for some time. Nice to see single machine efficiency be a focus, will give this a try and post feedback on github.
What a collection! Nice to imagine him sitting at home in his lounge room next to a Cray and an Apple I
if you aren't running on the gpu you're leaving 80+% of your computer's performance on the table. no optimizing compiler is going to make your legacy c or lisp or rust code run efficiently on the gpu, or even in most cases on a multicore cpu. nor, as thechao points out, can it compete with assembly-language programmers for simd vectorization on the cpu

in summary, optimizing compilers for c or pascal or zig or rust or whatever can only be used for code where considerations like compatibility, ease of programming, security, and predictability are more important than performance

probably the vast majority of production code is already in python and javascript, which don't even have reasonable compilers at all
at some point the ActivityPub protocol with its open interoperability will develop a sort of critical mass with the mainstream and everyone will need it. So you may be correct now, "nobody needs Fediverse or ActivityPub" but in some near or distant future your claim will need adjustment.
Palmer Luckey Is Trying to Forge a New America
How many boogey boo's can we fit into one article?

Project 2025, and rightwing, and environment, and Heritage Foundation, and LGBTQ+, and abortion, and religion - oh my! We can't forget the boogey man himself, Trump!

All tied together by what averages out to ~$6,000 annual donations to a wide variety of groups. Oh, the horror! I'm certain we can be 100% confident Shell doesn't also donate to Democrat groups! No way!

Of course this article should be filed under "News" instead of "Opinion" - we only report the unvarnished facts here! No angle or bias, we pinky swear!

Election-season extremely biased hit pieces are not a lot of fun to read, let alone discuss. Just devolves into a circle-#*@! with people screaming propaganda past each other.
Show HN: Printing Chess Boards in a Terminal
I'm doing some fun chess-related programing during my sabbatical, and taking the opportunity to dive down rabbit holes I'd avoid for in a work setting. Found out interesting stuff from old ANSI DEC escape sequences to sixel graphics that are useful today.
Speed running the last N centuries of banking regulation.

Makes you wonder if there will be a future FDIC equivalent, complete with single-business-day turnaround for receivership (idk if you've ever had your normal bank go under, but the fdic gets you access to your money like over the weekend, it's almost weirdly fast)
It meanders around the history of tales involving selling one's soul for worldly power or gratification, then in the last sentence says that's what smartphones are, because we trade privacy and identity for convenience.
As a test, I asked GPT to call my phone company and get my account balance. It worked and even declined some program they tried to sign me up for. Blew my mind.
Why would it be a big deal? You can always find another employer or start your own business. This isn't North Korea.

> If you expand this theory of economics

It's not theory, it's how business has been operating for many many decades.

> why shouldn't the market of labor punish an employer for undesirable properties as an employer?

Be more specific. What punishment for what properties?
> You do not [own your device]. You’re not forced to purchase Apple.

Holy oxymoron, Sherlock. You "purchase" something you don't own !? That's called a grift, you're getting grifted.
Here's the PDF of the court order: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...

(The "major win" in this case is that the court partially denied the defendants' motions to dismiss, so the case can now proceed to discovery.)
If all you're interested is cloning/expression, then I guess that makes sense, although I've not heard anyone complain that 20 min is a slow doubling time. can't you just inoculate your starting culture with a larger amount or something? I often find myself starting cultures late in the day so that they don't overgrow the next day (although I am not doing expression work).

Vibrio natriegens seems great for your purposes. I'm curious if there is a tradeoff to its super fast growth. Does it have a greater mutation rate?
Homeland Security Plans to Scan Migrant Children's Faces to Train AI
> No one can prove or even know what the impact of piracy is on a given work's short-term or long-term revenue

Just that is an indication on how little piracy affects revenue, the effect is at best so small that it's effectively invisible.

> I think there's a reason courts never debate this question, though.

Because discussing about the real financial impact of piracy is a sure way to throw a lot of pretty extreme copyright laws out of the window.

They really don't want to start this debate. Piracy is just a boogeyman at this point to pass ever stronger IP laws and the large IP conglomerates are pretty aware of that.
Google Pixel phones sold with security vulnerability, report finds
Kim runs it. Isn't it the defacto successor to the now defunct mega upload?
What line of work was it?
Man, that's one tortured legal philosophy... so it's more anticompetitive to allow alternatives and use incentives to deter them, than to forbid them outright? Crazy world we live in.
Because a jury in this particular case just determined that. Lawsuits are decided individually, and "but someone else did crime too" isn't a factor.

Apple should have antitrust action taken as well, and hopefully will in time. They sure are in for a rude awakening in Europe with their malicious noncompliance to EU laws...
This is a great talk if you want to know how it's implemented:

"Recent Interesting and Useful Enhancements of Polyphase Filter Banks: fred harris"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afU9f5MuXr8
Asking why the artists are mad at the corporations that are trying to profit off their labor without permission and not the fed or other artists is definitely a take.
Nvidia: Bringing Confidentiality to Vector Search with Cyborg and Rapids CuVS
I've designed, developed, and released multiple video games, and designed several (not yet unreleased) board games.

One of my board game designs is licensed by another company. Another game was a finalist in a popular annual board game design contest, although it hasn't lead to any publishers licensing it yet.

I have not yet decided to bring any board games to market myself, although I've been tempted due to struggles with finding publishers willing to license my game designs.

For the video games, they went alright. Some were played millions of times, but they were also free games so I didn't make any money directly from them. One video game was a finalist in a contest and won me about $5,000 worth of prizes.

Another one was a first place winner in a game contest which got me a $5,000 check (it was a small Flash game I made in about 20 hours worth of work, so pretty good ROI there).

The games I released and charged money for, so far, haven't made a whole lot of money. But I also didn't know hardly anything about marketing back then either (and I'm still not great at it).

I've played around with A.I. to help with generating some ideas for features or items to add to my games, and I tried using it to help code a couple simple systems as an experiment (like something that handles the rumble in controllers), but I'm back to using pretty much no A.I. I found myself fighting the A.I. to get it to generate what I wanted without issues too much to be worth it for anything more than something really simple.

A couple times since I have asked it a technical question and it's helped give ideas on how to resolve the issue, though. So it's not like it has no use for me, but it hasn't been super useful yet. I can't wait until I can get away with just specifying the design of a product, like a product manager, and it comes up with the rest though. That seems pretty far away still, though.
As much as you may say that out loud, it’s not how the market is defined and nobody has been able to interpret it your way in a legal context in any jurisdiction.

The legal precedent is that each store only services the ecosystem they’re on, and that is the scope of the market.

More so, Apple has argued and legally been accepted by the EU that the store for each of its platforms are scoped by the individual platform. So the iOS store is not the same as the iPadOS store.

If you can prove your case legally, there are companies that will pay you tens of millions of dollars. Till then, opinions to the contrary are just shouting in the wind.
You’re right, whether or not the integers are signed has nothing to do with the issue above. Unsigned integers have the same issue.

Here is an example for signed integers.

These represent zero time but have different representations in memory:

Seconds: 2
Nanoseconds: -2,000,000,000 (fits in a 32 bit number)
Time: zero seconds

Seconds: -2
Nanoseconds: 2,000,000,000
Time: zero seconds

Here is an example for unsigned:
Seconds: 1
Nanoseconds: 0
Time: 1 second

Seconds: 0
Nanoseconds: 1,000,000,000
Time 1 second
I once trained a model from data from a simulator which I wrote myself. I think it's clean.

Just sayin, zero is a strong claim.
Nice, but please post the text here, because nobody can read this thru the paywall
Monsanto to Use Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (2017)
I'm providing you my personal information so that I can train your AI for free?
Not sure what this is, but I'm definitely not signing up to find out.
In many countries laws tell that customers cannot be charged more than the price displayed on the label. If the price was X when customers put an item from a shelf to a trolley but synchronously increased on the label and in the database to 2X while a customer was on a way to a till he’ll be asked to pay 2X which may not be legal but even if it is it would cause a backlash.
Ah, well I'm guilty! The videos I saw, in the past, were just a ball of fairly fine wire on a plate. This was probably 20 years ago, when I was looking into melting black beach sand in the microwave.

For a rant about that, it turned out pretty neat. I put the beach sand in a thin layer on a dinner plate that was a half wavelength above the bottom of the microwave, turntable removed. The beach sand would start to melt where the standing waves were, but then quickly grow into a wire structure, with the growth of the tips driven by where absorption would be maximized, allowing the thing to heat more, and grow more. I tried to model the resulting "antenna", but none of the open source tools at the time could handle the complexity.
What would be the advantage of using an LLM here? As opposed to parsing/validating the input using any other technique (of it's a well defined format, where you have e.g. a grammar).
Anyone seen the full text of the error page?
The explosion of SLMs and license confusion
iPhone Driver's License Support Rolling Out Soon in California
It's a TheGuardian article, that's what they do. What else where you expecting?
I don’t know if it’s just coincidence, but I’ve been seeing this so much lately. People reflexively responding that thing A is totally different than thing B, completely missing that the point is not to suggest similarity between A and B, but to challenge the reasoning being applied to A by noting that it would also apply to B (in most cases where applying it to B leads to a clearly wrong outcome).
Backing up to your earlier comment. Pixels on some displays are in fact little squares of uniform color. The question then is how to color a pixel given geometry with detail within that square.

All of this "filtering" is variations on adding blur. In fact the article extends the technique to deliberately blur images on a larger scale. When we integrate a function (which could be a color gradient over a fully filled polygon) and then paint the little square with a solid "average" color that's also a form of blurring (more like distorting in this case) the detail.

It is notable that the examples given are moving, which means moire patterns and other artifacts will have frame-to-frame effects that may be annoying visually. Simply blurring the image takes care of that at the expense of eliminating what looks like detail but may not actually be meaningful. Some of the less blurry images seem to have radial lines that bend and go back out in another location for example, so I'd call that false detail. It may actually be better to blur such detail instead of leaving it look sharper with false contours.
yep, that's what I meant
You are making a bad faith comment. There's no mystery why artists are mad at Stability and Midjourney. I agree that demanding lower interest rates would be ridiculous. That is my point. You could delete Midjourney, Stability, DALL-E3, etc. tomorrow, and it will still suck harder today to be a working artist than it did in 2021, when interest rates were lower and there were literally hundreds more TV series being produced, 2x more video games being made, than today.

Why limit ourselves to turning back the clock on AI, on interest rates and content productivity, if we're going to play time machine fantasies? You could also go back in time and buy bitcoin, and be rich. I am mocking the idea of turning back the clock, and you know it, and while anyone has a right to be angry about anything, and to engage in a time machine fantasy about anything, it ought to at least be a fantasy that makes sense and achieves some goals.

Because the goal right now, "The smallest, most memetic sentiment of I'll show those corporations!" is kind of well-trodden, kind of old and tired. Brother, there are millions of people trying to do that every day. And when they achieve their goals of showing the big corporations, I cannot think of a single instance where all but the already lucky few - like these famous plaintiffs! - gain anything financially.