skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MultiOn has launched a new type of autonomous AI agent called Agent Q
MultiOn has launched a new type of autonomous AI agent called Agent Q. Agent Q, a self-supervised agent reasoning and search framework, can autonomously improve in real environments through self-play and reinforcement learning.

Agent Q is a brand-new self-supervised agent reasoning and search framework that has been officially released after six months of development. This framework focuses on autonomous improvement in real-world tasks and internet environments through self-play and reinforcement learning (RL). It harnesses state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) to process web content, create task plans, and engage in reasoning in natural language form, particularly suitable for tasks spanning long time frames.

Agent Q possesses advanced planning and self-healing capabilities. It combines cutting-edge technologies such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), AI self-critique, and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLFH), enabling AI to engage in complex multi-step reasoning and decision-making in dynamic environments.

Imagine yourself in a very large maze searching for the exit, with many forks in the path, each potentially leading you further away or closer to the exit. Agent Q is like a very intelligent assistant; it not only helps you analyze the possibilities of each path but also self-reflects when taking the wrong path to avoid the same mistake in the future.
As for the reason, Mr. Dotcom has claimed to have been a supporter lf WikiLeaks and this was probably not of signifigance, but I would overall bet 10% that his less public involvement with WikiLeaks & WikiLeaks-type activity was part of the analysis that led to him getting targeted.

May be worth to compare the usual tactics of IP owning companies to what happened to Kim. I have a feeling that it could be shown that the kind of treatment he got was not very probable for a normal piracy case, even after accounting for his eccentric behabiour.

ALSO politically he was a failure but not so much that it was not worth paying attention to him as challenger of establishment. Even those normally ignorant of related topics but active in politics may have seen him as an agent eating their votes.
Reticulum is incredibly versatile and has an entire ecosystem of tools under development. NomadNet is just one of the messengers. There is Sideband, a mobile app client (https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband), and Reticulum MeshChat, developed by Liam Cottle which is a browser based client https://github.com/liamcottle/reticulum-meshchat.

Reticulum can work over anything that has a throughput greater than 5 bits a second (yes, bits) and a MDU of 500 bytes. Not only can it work over hundreds of different carriers (LoRa, BLE, Packet Radio, overlay networks like Tor and I2P) but each of these carriers can be apart of the same network.

I threw together a quick proof of concept of it working over HF radio. I setup two nodes about 144 km (90 miles) separate. Both were ICOM-7300's with a Raspberry Pi 5 driving the software modem that would take packets from Reticulum and send them over the air. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blwNVumLujc

Node 1 was out in the field while Node 2 was back at my house. Node 2 had two interfaces setup, one for the HF modem and another connected to the TCP testnet. This means that Node 1 could access any peer that was over on the TCP testnet.

Here is a quick primer on Reticulum that explains some of the basic concepts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ltLt5SK6A
You might be right of course, I've just replied to a comment which was giving such an unconditional praise to Toyota it read almost like sarcasm - by all accounts they were super late with key technologies when it comes to hybrids, which is just weird given their very long experience building cars like the Prius. The EV point was purely about the fact that IMHO their first EV should have been super strong given their experience and it's just.....awfully unerwhelming.

I agree however that this lateness probably didn't hurt their brand that much though, and long long term they will be fine.
Things may get worse for a while, but then maybe they'll eventually get better than if we didn't break up Google.
"the state" is made up by normal people. And in this case the state is just protecting normal people from criminals like Dotcom.
> you're not the target. advertisements work. the people managing ads are very meticulous about their spend vs. return. if you are seeing an ad of something for any noticeable duration of time, that means it works.

This sounds like reasoning from an assumption of supreme competence (e.g. "there's no bubble, because if there was all those saavy Wall Street traders would have popped it by now;" or more commonly "if Apple does a thing, that must be the best thing, because Apple only does the best things."

Advertisement does work to a degree, in aggregate, but "if you see an ad then it must be an ad that works," is going too far.
I don't self host because of "security theater". I do it because I want to control my data and not be at the behest of a third-party to resist the siren song of enshittification.
The cover looks nothing like the dragon book however?
> The statistics show that children of divorced parents have more problems than children from intact marriages.

Even if that were true, it does not necessitate that divorce in itself is the problem, but that divorce correlates with behaviors on the part of the parents that can be detrimental. Staying in a problematic relationship does not fix that.

If you misdiagnose the problem, your solution will not be effective.

The more significant statistic qua correlations is the impact of growing up with just one parent after divorce, and of instability of changing circumstances. I have seen no research papers that make a convincing case that divorce is significantly negative for kids.

> People I know whose parents got divorced said it was devastating to them.

My parents were divorced. Know what bothered me? The constant high tempered fighting. They were fucking uncivil assholes with each other, and remained so after the divorce. If anything divorce was a reprieve for myself and siblings.

So your anecdote means nothing to me. Those parents you refer to aren't everyone's parents.

> Is it acceptable to break vows?

The vows are already broken if one of the two parties aren't carrying their own weight. Notwithstanding, if it's a miserable situation that doesn't get better no matter what the parties try, then yes it's acceptable in my own view. But your values aren't my values.
You confusing it with MegaUpload that was shutdown 12 years ago.

When MEGA launched Kim was well known enough where his new service got tracktion on it's own.
I tend to agree with the autho’s point of view. PMF should be viewed as a point on a spectrum, not a binary state. You don’t achieve PMF so much as you progress from no PMF to extreme PMF with respect to progressively larger and larger target market segments.

Many pundits claim of PMF that you’ll know it when you see it because the market will suddenly be clamoring for your product faster than you can make it. This is categorically wrong to the point of being harmful advice.

You need a leading indicator of PMF so that you don’t delude yourself into believing you have achieved PMF prematurely, only to scale and find yourself in the valley of despair where customer response to your value proposition is mediocre or churn is high.

Clues you have product-market fit with a specific customer include:

1/ the prospect has the problem you think they have

2/ the problem is of critical importance for the prospect

3/ they know they have THAT problem, and not some adjacent problem or symptom

4/ they articulate the problem using the same language you use to describe it

5/ they have tried to solve the problem themselves and have allocated budget and time to solving it, but failed

Too many entrepreneurs and product managers trick themselves into believing they have PMF when they do not - because they fall in love with their particular solution and try to sell prospects on their idea instead of actually doing customer discovery interviews - unbiased interviews where the prospect tells you about their experiences in the problem space without you ever mentioning your idea.
Apple doesn't match the description of a monopoly, as far as I can see. Amazon might. But Google is dominant. You could add Facebook to the monopolies, unless you think it shares the same space as Twitter.
Several years ago I spent a great deal of time thinking about how to create something like this, glad someone did it!

My vision went beyond this into allowing users to create their own channels (still only identifiable by a channel number) which would basically just be a playlist. I think a better idea now would be to have them add a list of channels and have it randomly play videos from only those channels and have that interrupted by anytime that channel is live streaming.
The MDN web docs for those who want to know more:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_...
I personally like the way that Obsidian and Typora hide the styling: when you get to where it would be, it shows up on screen to show you it's there causing the styling. When your typing indicator moves away from it, it hides it. Some don't like it because it can cause some displacement of text a bit because it's now showing characters it didn't before.
Because the real criminals are the publishers who keep publicly funded science behind a paywall. None of the people who actually conduct the science see any of the money. In fact, they typically have to pay a lot of money to get their findings published.
EV is perfectly fine for a daily commute unless you're driving 100s of miles a day.

It really comes down to whether you can conveniently charge the car or need to take very long trips and can't manage the overhead or availability of charging mid trip.
It makes sense to regulate what can be sold new, while grandfathering in what was sold legally in the past. People won’t stand for the government jerking people around and saying “this vehicle you purchased legally is now illegal and can’t be driven or sold, and you need to buy another with your own money… but no guarantees we won’t immediately ban the new one also.” Cars have a finite life span unless restored at great expense, so the problem takes care of itself without overbearing laws that would be seen as the government stealing peoples personal property. Appreciating classic cars is also a mainstay of American culture- with most towns having classic car shows, and things like discounted registration and insurance for antique cars.
Zombie company at it again!

They are like Boeing. There isnt really anything worth saving here. Do we need another fake-luxury SUV/Truck company? Not that I think Ford is better. Chrysler is more yikes than anyone.

Maybe a total replacement of management? There is so much Rot.
Sounds like you rediscovered Marxism?
This feels like a mixed blessing.

Gamblers look for fast feedback on their investment, so their interest in the market likely adds short-term volatility. For people investing for investing purposes (as opposed to gambling) the gambler's activities appear as "noise in the signal" and might make investing more challenging.

On the other hand, a $2 drop in market investment for every $1 in sports betting could cause large changes in both investment strategy and in central bank behavior. In the US at least, the "economy" and the "market" are the felt to be the same thing, so any drop in the market could be interpreted as an economic slow-down. If that linkage holds, then the central bank might lower interest rates or otherwise "increase liquidity" and CEOs might call for more stock buy-backs to keep the valuations high.
I'm mostly curious about the timing. Wasn't the raid on his house in 2012? 12 years ago?
That's fine, but the point is that they make hybrids and EVs so I don't see why we shouldn't discuss their engineering details regardless of whether me and you are personally interested in buying them.
Google may not be a pure monopoly but is a monopoly, by some definition of it.

https://www.economicshelp.org/microessays/markets/monopoly/

This article states that 25% of market share may be sufficient. That is not how I learned it in my economics classes: there we said it's 60% and values below that could be oligopoly (a small number of companies holding ~90% market share).

As for why it's bad: a single provider may choose to degrade their service, or increase charges, or create an unacceptable TOS. They would likely not be able to do that if there is an acceptable alternative.
I feel like I'm watching satire of what a 2000s mega rich nerd would be like but it's really him. He even has a basket/hanger on the wall for all of his ... canes. Didn't see the fedoras nearby, though.

"At only 1.5 years of age, (kims kid) is already at the top of most xbox leaderboards." What??

His bodyguards are picked out by a Kung Fu master?? This is so ridiculously cliche. Nobody serious about their security would hire Kung Fu martial artists to train their team. I train a bunch of martial arts (boxing, muay thai, bjj, hapkido) and I would never use something like kung fu in a tussle. I've got 16yo junior amateur boxers that could probably knock that kung fu master out in a single hit.

Gold bricks are here https://youtu.be/A4TXAaqmj0E?t=365
I found Obsidian’s way of doing it to be a bit jarring at first but now that I’ve used it for awhile I personally quite like it. Just takes a little while of getting used to
One of these things is not like the other. Ross Ulbricht was part of a murder for hire scheme, and was not a whistle blower or anything close to a reporter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Murder-for-hire_...
So (allegedly) like early Spotify
I think there is a reasonable breaking point though, where the platform becomes so ingrained in society that you are left out of social groups if you don't join.

"iPhone Families" is a very real thing that Apple has gone out of it's way to solidify. Or try being an (American) 15 year old kid and get included in group chats with an android phone.

It's pretty gross when a mega-corp is so powerful that it can leverage your friends and family against you, forcing you into their walled prison err.. garden.
>I do not think he's a criminal.

I should have added "in the context of this lawsuit". An edit now would be disingenuous.
Does this handle the special case of timezone changes (and local time discontinuity) that Jon Skeet famously documented?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6841333/why-is-subtracti...

And computerphile explains so well in their 10-min video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

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I've long ago learned to never build my own Date/Time nor Encryption libraries. There's endless edge cases that can bite you hard.

(Which is also why I'm skeptical when I encounter new such libraries)
YouTube Video to Tabs and Lyrics
I remain unconvinced that the relative punishments of the two categories is either pragmatic or fair, mind you.
Yeah my expat friend owns a midsized (for the US) SUV in Spain, and she finds it incredibly difficult to use in the city she lives in due to the narrow streets + sidewalk cafes.
Just had this exact discussion with the kids at dinner yesterday. In our case, we talked about the simplified traffic light rule “go on green, stop on red“. This to come up is wrong, of course. Because if the light turns red while you are crossing, stopping would be the worst thing you could do.
>I absolutely want electronics built into car! Requirements for antilock brakes, electronic fuel injection, and other electronics in vehicles has made them safer and more efficient.

There are car people out there who would rather drive a fully analog car without any electronics such as ABS - though that typically means a hardcore sports car such as a Caterham.
I seem to be mistaken. The 20th of August as listed by Amazon must be the European release date then
I understand that assembly file can be parsed in the same way. However, I want to learn about the machine instructions to the level of bits, and likewise the layouts of binary files. Unless I am able to go all the way to machine code loaded in memory, I would not know where in memory to add a breakpoint instruction when a developer wants the same on a line of code.

If there is some library that can help create machine code from assembly instructions on a line by line basis (at least as opposed to invoking a separate program that generates the entire binary collectively from the assembly code), that could also work.

In my case, I already know enough of the lexer, parser, etc., parts. What's missing is going all the way to making a debugger, profiler, etc.
Perhaps we're using terminology differently. When I say "honest question", I mean a question that someone wants a straightforward answer to, perhaps as a starting point for further discussion.

"What is motivating you to simp for the empire so hard?" is not such a question. Having been in such conversations before, if I responded with an honest answer like "I generally think the US is a pretty good country" or "I feel that it's important for criminals to be caught and punished", I'm quite confident that the original commenter would respond with personal insults and invective.
Seeker: Harnessing Social Engineering to Pinpoint Smartphone Locations
i think it's like an HTML browser at that point: content creators and power users might want to check the code for a typo or hint, some people copying a section of text want to be sure they are copying the code also and not just the text (or vice versa)
Bernie Madoff got real prison time for his white collar crimes.
1) The subs are certainly not for fighting China. By the time they're delivered, assuming all else equal, China will be in a position to ignore them. People are talking about deliveries in the 2050s vs a country that can basically build an entire economy in a few decades; it'll never work out in our favour. And we can't afford to be in a war with an Asian power under any circumstances anyway, we'd probably be better off surrendering immediately rather than fighting back against China if the US's deterrence fails. Ironically we'd probably end up with better infrastructure.

Fighting China with those submarines is a similar idea to fighting the US with those same subs. The plan is not to do that. It won't work out well for us.

2) Keep going with your thought, you haven't gone far enough. If diplomacy works because you have the means to defend yourself, why aren't we fighting the US? We can't possibly defend ourselves from them, and realistically we'd probably struggle to annoy them if they attacked us via a proxy war. And yet there is no realistic scenario where they fight us. Why is that, hm?
I think it's still hopeful. Even in places like Columbus we have regional leaders and mayors who recognize we can't just do "cars forever". Younger people I speak with want to be able to walk to places too. It'll be a battle but I think we can make things better for everyone, including drivers.
While we're at it, we need to break Microsoft and Amazon asap. I don't know how Microsoft is not up for discussion when it's a behemoth (GitHub, LinkedIn, Azure, Windows, Office, etc.). The same applies for Amazon.
To a person like me it sounds like MS and Apple should be broken up as well.
Aren't you pointing out the exact problem with Google? If Chrome wasn't a viable business without Google's ads subsidizing it, isn't its existence in its current form exactly the kind of anti-competitive outcome we would be better off without?

Without Google subsidizing Chrome, a real competitive market for browsers might emerge, with more vendors investing more effort into competing for users, without having to compete against one of the richest companies in the world that sees its browser as a loss-leader for its ad business, has the ability to dump infinite money into its product, and can advertise it on the one website that 90% of people regularly visit?
Not completely different, actually, they're pretty much the same.

The only difference is the "we encrypt everything so we don't know what users upload" trick, which seems to have worked so far (and branding and stuff).
Plenty of companies would happily offer you a package for both.
If you're not trying to be global scale and/or the only site in your market segment, you can go pretty far off of voluntary donations. As far as I know, even the largest Mastodon sites are Patreon/Liberapay/etc funded.
I see BulletML being mentioned but there is a third one: CannonML.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120626041044/http://www.libspa...

Haxe port: https://github.com/gunnbr/CML

As you may have guessed by the archive.org link, it doesn't have much support. Compared to BulletML and Firedancer, it has a very terse and rich syntax that kind of makes me think of Perl.
I always find this narrative funny.

Toyota didnt invest in EVs. Now they look like geniuses.

They made a mistake lol
I don't know who Andrej Illarionov is or why I should trust what he says Putin wants.

To understand why this conflict was imposed upon them, look at the history. Russia was invaded by Napoleon and Hitler through Ukraine costing Russia ~23M people in the latter. James Baker and US representatives promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch east of Germany back in 92. They lied and many countries were brought under NATO. There is a long documented strategy to surround Russia, cause regime change, split up the country to smaller states, and exploit its $81T in resources in the ground. There is much more, but I think I have said enough.

My view on Putin is that he failed in many respects. He seemed to hope that NATO could be trusted to do business with. He may have been delusional or may not have had the support to strike back sooner. All trust between the two powers is now gone, and we are in a dangerous place now.
Love this. Good quality video and low latency. The content? Well, can't please everybody. I was looking for cartoons, any cartoon. No dice. That would be great addition.
Because that creates a lot of additional work and controversy for no real gain. Do courts rank cases and hear them in the order of severity of the crime? It's exactly the same situation. I agree that both companies should be held to the same standard, but I don't think I really care about the particular order
Not in any important ways. The mainstream of the US and the entire government was focused on the Soviet Union as an existential threat.
You're not. Though on a recent vacation, one of my kids only had access to cable and absolutely loved the randomness of what was available.
You could probably do this in a way that doesn't trigger text reflow if a popover appeared with the visible syntax exactly positioned such that the extra syntax slightly obscured surrounding text. It's a tradeoff but I think that might be slicker.
What I mean is that search is not a product in the sense that you can say “search is free” and not have that be misleading in some way.

YOU are the product, being sold to advertisers, and Google search is the channel through which you are sold.
I think... I think the op was being sarcastic.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3WU1izg
The ultimate goal of any breakup would be to promote competition and innovation... Will se how it'll end
They're dominant but mainly due to the quality/cost of their products, not because competing with them is impossible. Android is open source. There's Bing and many other search engines. Google Mobile Services (Android is open source) and Google Search could disappear tomorrow and would be quickly replaced.