skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we sunk our own boat, it forced them to get on rafts and leave, and now we're declaring our own boat sea-worthy again.
Nvidia Discusses Joining OpenAI's Latest Funding Round
(uncertain if you recognize quote is from robocop ED-209)
Also, I thought it was a very fitting time to share the project after the Disney+ ToS drama
North American actuaries have developed two localised indexes - the Actuaries Climate Index and the Actuaries Climate Risk Index [0].

“The Actuaries Climate Index (ACI) measures the frequency of extreme climate events over recent decades for the U.S., Canada and 12 sub regions in North America.”

“The Actuaries Climate Risk Index (ACRI) illustrates the economic impact of climate risk and its evolution over time.”

There is work being done to develop a European ACI [1]. Australia has its own AACI [2].

[0] https://content.naic.org/cipr-topics/actuaries-climate-index

[1] https://web.actuaries.ie/development-european-actuaries-clim...

[2] https://www.actuaries.digital/category/climate-change/aaci/
2) Require confirmation you are a real person (check ID) and attach accounts per person. The commercial Internet has to follow the laws they're currently ignoring and the non-commercial Internet can do what they choose (because of being untraceable).
Private trackers have incentives to seed poorly-seeded torrents, like discounted/free leeching or double seeding credits. Although I agree with the general sentiment.
And do you when it is happening now?
My Other Ride Is a Spaceship (2019)
> The purpose was to change the law so platforms could moderate content

What part of deliberately showing political content to people algorithmically expected to agree with it, constitutes "moderation"?

What part of deliberately showing political content to people algorithmically expected to disagree with it, constitutes "moderation"?

What part of deliberately suppressing or promoting political content based on the opinions of those in charge of the platform, constitutes "moderation"?

What part of suppressing "misinformation" on the basis of what's said in "reliable sources" (rather than any independent investigation - but really the point would still stand), constitutes "moderation"?

What part of favouring content from already popular content creators because it brings in more ad revenue, constitutes "moderation"?

What part of algorithmically associating content with ads for specific products or services, constitutes "moderation"?
All will be heat after X amount of time. Where the X can be a few seconds or decades or centuries.

The more interesting thing would be the light reflected by the panels (albedo factor). This could be lower or higher than the surface these panels are placed on.
Cutting staffers to force the justices to do an even worse job is really not the greatest idea I’ve ever heard. The stinky thing about all this is that if the Supreme Court justices were democrats then democrats wouldn’t be saying anything.
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
Canada's first 3D printed multi-unit homes
That's so quintessential AWS :P. Even only for this Elastic should be compared to not waste 10s of hours on poorly written documentations.
I think it's pretty sad that Conglomo X can take an open source product, add some tweaks and sell/capture the entire market. Basically taking all the work that open source maintainers have done.

What's the solution here?
Maybe it should be open source. It is using our tax dollars after all. But I think this failure isn't a failure of the software. But a failure of using software. And of have complex laws/criteria of who can be helped. We should craft laws and programs that are uncomplex. 400 million dollars on admin software to ultimately deny people care they want. That just shouldn't be a thing. We should have spent that money on helping people, and using it to 'eat' the cost of accepting too many people.

Our justice system acknowledges that it's flawed and it's flawed with the idea of letting guilty people go, in order to make sure we aren't charging innocent people.(granted we are failing at that). But we should be crafting care with the intention of accidentally helping people who may have no qualified so that all qualified people would get care.
in the article, Einstein is firm regarding his belief that there is no free will. there are many other quotes in the article to choose from.

anyway, my own view is that ones belief or disbeleif in free will is predetermined - if one could predict the path of every atom and molecule in the galaxy from the start of time until now, theyd be able to predict what choices a random person would make before the person had decided. for example, being able to predict if someone would read the linked article before commenting on it :-)
Yes, let's praise and reward the hyperscaler and not the small company that is 1% of the size of AWS.

AWS got Elastic's goodies for free. They just came in and gobbled up all of that value for themselves like vultures. Meanwhile the people putting in the work effectively got robbed.

Small companies should stop doing open source and switch to source available + MAU/ARR restriction clauses.
> The article estimates the Google Search Index at 12.5PB.

I realize there was a mistake with the estimated number (thanks for pointing out, should be closer to 180 PB for raw crawl data). Since this is speculative and also does not account for other data needed to actually rank pages, hardware to do it in under 500ms at a scale of billions of queries per day and thus can be misleading in terms of true effort to do it, I edited that datapoint out of the article.

You are right, just crawling large number of pages (millions even billions) is indeed straightforward (eg [1]), it is about creating a searchable index of the web scale that has certain quality level that is simply impossible to do anymore for many reasons that would require another article to explain. Microsoft spent $100bn and last 20 years by their own account trying to match it and most people agree it is still not even close. At some point you reach diminishing returns. To use the analogy from the article, it is akin to someone trying to rebuild all of the US railroad network today. Sounds plausible, but not really in practice. That train has left the station in early 2000s.

[1] https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-to-crawl-a-quarter-billio...
so if I create a website called other-Facebook.com that looks exactly like Facebook, I can even tell people I'm going to steal their time and information just like the real Facebook, and that's allowed?
Not the OP but one thing I find interesting about free will is that one of the things you can do with it is to choose to give it up, such as by delegating a decision to either a random process or one that you have no prior knowledge or control over. The act of flipping a coin to decide whether to drive to work or take the bus might end up altering the course of your life to an extent that no other decision you make that day will.

Given how often we delegate whatever free will we have, intentionally or otherwise, it's easy to conclude (or at least suspect) that whether or not it exists in the first place simply isn't an interesting or important question. Sure, we might have free will, but if we do it's almost overwhelmed by noise.
This is very cool! Since HN's own search doesn't work without JS enabled this is a massive help
as in portable or embedded? Embedded, Pi has too much consumption. saving a watt isn't your problem
Lots of negativity in this thread. Can we take just a bit of time to appreciate this. Thank you Elastic folks!
Prosaically, all of your examples are moderation. And as a private space that a user must choose to access, I'd argue that's great.
> Your last sentence puts a lot of words in peoples mouths.

Well, it’s the most common sentiment I see on both here and (before I gave up) the AI-centred parts of reddit.

It’s not quite the Chinese Room, since LLMs can’t even simulate reasoning very well. So there’s no need to debate the distinction between ‘fake reasoning and actual reasoning’ — there may or may not be a difference, but it’s not the point I’m making.

As for Hinton: I’m sure he has. But inventors are often not experts on their own creations/discoveries, and are probably just as prone to FUD and panic in the face of surprising developments as the rest of us. No one predicted that autoregressive transformers would get us this far, least of all the experts whose decades of work lead us to this point.
Orion, based upon Safari.

https://kagi.com/orion/
You cannot do that without completely publishing the price. It will otherwise be caught.
I updated my post, adding a broad analysis to the prompts:
"Unveiling the System Prompts Behind Anthropic’s Claude: A Complete Prompts and Analysis"
Curious to know the origin of your likelihood calculation (HN & Physics).

Also very funny you inspect my account to figure out I'm a physicist.
CHERI plays fine with virtual memory, it's omitted in some of these minimized cores because it's not necessary for security and the target cores didn't have virtual memory to begin with.

It's still useful for making swapping work efficiently, but that's not relevant on a tiny embedded device.
> I may have ruined my chance of ever being backed by YC in the future.

was tongue in cheek, as I don't have any desire to start a start up.

> If anything, this reactionary boring thread ruined that chance.

I thought it was funny, not boring. It got more upvotes in the 45 minutes it wasn't flagged than any other post in the same time frame. But to each their own, I guess.
The US constitution is even more loosely defined if you exclude the outcome of hundreds of years of judicial interpretations of it. Hence the endless disagreements over what is or isn’t constitutional.
Because the users suffer from this. What Brazil should do is arrest Musk and anyone complicit with the alleged crimes.

Banning products and services is punishment to the users too. Would you ban Paracetamol if the CEO did something bad?
Thanks for the nojs version!
chinese phones do. beelink has the opportunity. they deserve credit
Let's do some reductum ad absurdum here, if a school were to ban actual pornography would that be unconstitutional? If not, then these "bans" are not unconstitutional.

Now, if these books were banned in Florida, that would be unconstitutional, just like if Florida banned pornography it would be unconstitutional.

That doesn't mean schools are not places where free expression can be disallowed. They're not banning the kids from having the books, they're preventing the state owned school from making them available as part of their educational endeavor, which a school is nothing but that. You know what's unconstitutional that is happening in schools, preventing students from expressing themselves by banning the wearing of certain insignia or sanctioning them for discussing certain ideas and opinions among themselves.
Yeah that happens now on Xitter, that doesn't seem to be a federation problem.
Better yet, it already does have support for local LLMs! You can use them via `humanify local`
> How did the government force Facebook to comply

By asking.

The government asking you to do something is like a dangerous schoolyard bully asking for your lunch money. Except the gov has the ability to kill, imprison, and destroy. Doesn’t matter if you’re an average Joe or a Zuckerberg.
Okay, back to my original skeptical position lol. I don’t understand why CRDTs seem to attract so many people claiming that their favorite computing concepts count!
Source available + MAU/ARR restriction clauses that prevent hyperscalers from robbing the bank.
Show HN: Genie – Add Events to Your Google Calendar from Screenshots
Hi HN Josh here,

I'm excited to share a small app I built called Google Calendar Genie.

I created this tool out of frustration—so many websites don’t provide Google Calendar links for events!

With Genie, you can simply upload your event details screenshot, and it’ll generate a Google Calendar link for you. No need to sign in to Google or download anything — just click the generated link, and voilà, the event is added to your calendar instantly!

It uses an LLM on the backend to parse and generate the events (no data is stored on the app). I’d love to hear your feedback!
I love the idea, but I think "Modern and relevant" is almost impossible while still being compatible with what I think of as maker culture.

Like... Writing a sorting algorithm comes before using a debugger? I've never written a sorting algorithm and don't expect I'm going to want to any time soon.

I think ideally these would be simple markdown or JSON files with the cool tree layout generated automatically.

I'd rather see a more fantasy game looking layout, I'm sure some would love a sci-fi or cyberpunk theme, and everyone would like easy pull requests and contributing.

I think perhaps a true tree layout might be the best, because it could capture the orthogonality of different paths.

Low level algorithms could be a totally different branch from "Regular old coding", to capture the orthogonality and extreme specialization of modern tech.

I'd probably also keep the steps a lot more general.

Like, for electronics, I would probably have firmware, analog (Branching to RF and power), hand assembly, digital, and DFM.

Digital might go:

* Blink an LED with Arduino

* Build something with at least two outputs and two inputs

* Use a discrete logic gate

* Do something with an FPGA

* Design a Linux or other OS capable PCB

Analog could go:

* Use an op amp
* Sub microvolt signals
* Megahertz
* 10Mhz
* Make an RF transmitter or receiver
* Control something greater than 25 watts
* Design a piece of uncommon scientific equipment
You can run a local LLM on a $100 minipc with Vulkan GPU acceleration and get a usable token generation count.
Yeah, it hasn't been nearly long enough for "everyone" or even most people to migrate.
Don't Log, Return Errors
The parent said "grew", but I think a closer reading of the article indicates a more robust idea that tboyd47 merely misrepresented. A better sentence is potentially:

are able to profit to the tune of a 40% margin on advertising revenue

With that, they're saying that they're only going to be able to profit this much in this current regulatory environment. If that goes away, so too does much of their margin, potentially all of it. That's a big blow no matter the size, though Facebook may weather it better than smaller competitors.
Natural gas combustion does not contribute to smog at all. Are we required to take every claim no matter how ridiculous seriously or can we continue to dismiss absurdity outright?
Are you referring to the speech that the judge ordered to be taken down? I don't know the details, but it seems the request was related to alleged anti-democratic remarks. I'm not familiar with Brazilian law, but I believe that some countries impose restrictions on free speech. Regardless of what was said, it's not uncommon to comply with the judge's order first and then challenge it in court until it can be published again.
They can have my uMatrix Firefox when they pry it from my cold, dead app list!
This makes a great case for UBI.

Years to get a benefit that should be dispersed in days or even minutes. Shame.
My soon-to-be-not-current insurance company.

https://imgur.com/a/7WMuu7c
Super, thank you for adding the link! It really helps to get people to find the tool
I don't think that's their intention. Elastic wouldn't be able to integrate Amazon's patches back into their codebase without losing the ability to change the license in the future. Even more, since it's AGPL, they'd have to get rid of their other licenses immediately.
Nice! Time to switch back real quick.
hey, nice to be in touch! i haven't done much lately with sip

not just in our lifetimes; within a decade

as for embodied energy, the energy payback time on solar panels has been on the order of a few months to a year or two for decades now; see https://iea-pvps.org/snapshot-reports/snapshot-2024/ for a comprehensive overview, http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/9/8/622/htm for a detailed analysis from 02016, or https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/37322.pdf for an easily digestible but outdated explanation from 02004. you're right that it depends on capacity factor! according to https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights... the capacity factor across the border from you in kentucky is better than 25%, which is about as good as you can expect anywhere, but in much of your area only 10–15%, so you might need to multiply those payback times by as much as 2. https://atb.nrel.gov/img/electricity/2021/p19/v1/solar-annua... provides more detailed ghi (global horizontal irradiance) data for the usa which makes it look like it ought to be more like 20%. i'd be very interested in actual numbers by us state

batteries use an insignificant amount of land, but probably overprovisioning of solar production is cheaper than batteries until you get into those 95th percentiles you're talking about. so probably we're talking about something like 10× the land use for solar panels that would be needed to meet demand on average? it depends a lot on how much demand flexibility there is; will dunkelflaute electrical grid demand be 20% of average grid demand, 2%, or 0.2%? that's a question that depends on things like what new designs people come up with for aluminum smelters and haber-bosch fertilizer plants, which is impossible to anticipate ahead of time
Not sure if that is true, but assuming it is, does this really count as destruction instead of moving it around and spreading it? After all unitary evolution is reversible and I could therefore reconcentrate the superposition into the small system. It would however seemingly be a good explanation how to get from the decayed non-decayed superposition of a few atoms to an almost alive or almost dead cat. This is however also what makes me doubt your statement, if true, why are we still puzzled about Schrödinger's cat?
> I could build up a lot of solar panels and use the electricity to heat up an oven more than the surface of the sun, right?

Yes, this would be like using a hydroelectric dam to power a fountain that sprays higher than the initial reservoir. Machines can convert a large amount of low-quality energy into a small amount of high-quality energy, even when passive components (e.g. mirrors or pipes) cannot.
> You may select any real number between zero and infinity.

Should that have been “between one and infinity”? Otherwise you cannot claim that 1/R is between zero and one.
Crowdstrike configured Windows to not start if their driver could not run successfully.

That's not the default option for kernel drivers on Windows, so this was an explicit choice on Crowdstrike's part.
Convex Optimization in the Age of LLMs
We have seen that adults can't seem to unhook from these dopamine delivery systems and you're expecting that children can do so?

Sorry. That's simply disingenuous.

Yes, children and especially teenagers do lots of things even though their parents try to prevent them from doing so. Even if children and teenagers still get them, we don't throw up our hands and sell them tobacco and alcohol anyway.
It's a nice system but far too complicated for the world we live in, where most tech companies, especially banks, are filled with imported labor or outsourced globally.

DDD requires a certain discipline and dedication I just haven't seen in my career across many companies.

Good luck getting more than a handful of people to not only digest the big books but also structure all their code and company around practicing it.
> The HN moderation team makes a lot of editorial choices, which is what gives HN its specific character. For example, highly politically charged posts are manually moderated and kept off the main page regardless of votes, with limited exceptions entirely up to the judgement of the editors. For example, content about the wars in Ukraine and Israel is not allowed on the mainpage except on rare occasions. dang has talked a lot about the reasoning behind this.

This is meaningfully different in kind from only excluding posts that reflect certain perspectives on such a conflict. Maintaining topicality is not imposing a bias.
What your parent is saying is that the compiler treats that loop as

{
let result = match IntoIterator::into_iter(1..10) {
mut iter => loop {
let next;
match iter.next() {
Some(val) => next = val,
None => break,
};
let i = next;
let () = { println!("{i}"); };
},
};
result
}

(95% sure I got that correct)

And so in some sense, "loop" is more primitive than "for".

> But then hypothetically the assembly output could… end up not even having a loop at all

Absolutely, with any of these loops, the compiler may not emit a loop in assembly. And in this case, that seems to be true: https://godbolt.org/z/7Gq69Gvre
I think it depends on some technical specifics, like which meta data was associated with that content, and the degree to which that content was surfaced to users that fit the demographic profile of a ten year old child.

If your algorithm decides that things in the 90th percentile of shock value will boost engagement to a user profile that can also include users who are ten years old then you maybe have built a negligent algorithm. Maybe that’s not the case in this particular instance but it could be possible.
> What part of deliberately showing political content to people algorithmically expected to agree with it, constitutes "moderation"?

Well, maybe it's just me, but only showing political content that doesn't include "kill all the (insert minority here)", and expecting users to not object to that standard, is a pretty typical aspect of moderation for discussion sites.

> What part of deliberately suppressing or promoting political content based on the opinions of those in charge of the platform, constitutes "moderation"?

Again, deliberately suppressing support for literal and obvious facism, based on the opinions of those in charge of the platform, is a kind of moderation so typical that it's noteworthy when it doesn't happen (e.g. Stormfront).

> What part of suppressing "misinformation" on the basis of what's said in "reliable sources" (rather than any independent investigation - but really the point would still stand), constitutes "moderation"?

Literally all of Wikipedia, where the whole point of the reliable sources policy is that the people running it don't have to be experts to have a decently objective standard for what can be published.
Ha, I have only ever used screen for serial comms and only learned about Minicom from this thread
They did? I can't stand all the missing parts around documentation and the lesser known pieces like Spark integration - horrible.
It's extremely effective. Not just USDS either, but also 18F (now GSA TTS). Also, much of the UK government.

The people win when the sun can shine.
I've always been a little sceptical as well of the grassroots (maybe, maybe not) resistance on here against any efforts to stop the big 3 from using their network effects to syphon off the revenue from these projects.

The messaging against elastic style licences and even copyleft licenses is too convenient for me to trust as being 100% genuine.
if you're burning it in aluminum-air fuel cells, it can be literally exporting electricity. right now that isn't a commercial-scale activity, but possibly it will become profitable in the coming years for places with a lot of solar power and no hvdc lines to export it
So, yes, the ELv2 did introduce significant friction?
I don't think I have any more bias than any other programmer. But I do have some insider insight into the considerations that go into the design of popular mainstream languages.
> Has Deloitte ever built any software that is good?

Not in my experience.
I assumed that "website that tells you nothing" was a deliberate thing, presumably because somehow they make more money as a result. It seems to be the rule more than exception.
No /s required. You can see a list of landmark judgments here, some of which apply to the UK. (Although you’re confusing the EU with the Council of Europe.)

https://www.coe.int/en/web/human-rights-convention/landmark-...