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> "Science" didn't send anyone to the moon.

> The science of getting to the moon was centuries old

Not sure I understand, does "Science" lose its capital after a century?
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Gambling - Causing harm since (at least) the Iron Age.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_Lament
> the underlying activity is already illegal so the things that make it possible [should also] be

The logic being that an object which can be used for murder should be outlawed by virtue of the fact that it can be used for murder, such as a monkey wrench or a kitchen knife.

Like it or not, some people have a use for guns that doesn’t involve violence and it’s reasonable to allow non-violent uses for things when such a use exists.

> the underlying activity is already illegal so the things that make it possible [should also] be

Oh! It’s like how I could commit criminal fraud by telling a lie in an email and, therefore: SSDs, routers, modems, keyboards, speech; all outlawed because they can be used for crime.

It’s just like how I can launder money by keeping my financial life private and therefore a private financial life should be outlawed. I hope you can see why one might reject this line of reasoning. Indeed, the underlying activity is already illegal so things that make it possible don’t need to be.

That is not “breathtakingly idiotic”.
Something kinda like that was done, TikTok apparently algorithmically identified likely 'drivers' and flooded them with videos instructing and glorifying taking the cars for a joyride... while other platforms did not promote and even took those videos down.
“Reality TV” is a prime example of racing to the bottom of mass produced trash.
Upregulating VTA Activity Increases Vaccination Efficiency in Humans
That’s one amusing typo. (Won’t lie, I did consider for a moment what would happen if setting president was done by someone’s DNA.)
Dude YES. This stuff was maddening in rust. “How many links to GitHub issues will the compiler fire at me today” was a sincere feeling. I think it’s much better these days, but you still get em doing async work
There are liability issues for any sort of "money" or finance paper that don't exist for regular news reporting.

Under regular news reporting journalists have no legal obligation to their readers or the truth. They can say anything they want, essentially. It can be accurate, or not. It can be the truth, or not. It really doesn't matter. You can be lying for personal profit or political effect or any reason you want and it really isn't something you can get sued over. Just have to avoid tripping over defamation laws.

Where as if you are dealing with financial reporting there is legal liability. It is possible to get busted for committing fraud, it is possible to get sued for misleading information.

So keeping these sides of the business completely separated is probably a good way to limit liability.
> It depends on your definition of smart. I think that holding a degree != smart.

You wrote:

> I've seen people with masters fail at spotting hallucinations in elementary level word problems.

I wanted to express that having a master in some (even complicated) subject does not make you a master at [pun intended] spotting hallucinations. To give evidence for this statement, I gave a different, more down-to-earth example of a similar situation.
What is the context of posting this now?
Perhaps it was inadvertent diction, but your use of “imagine” appears to ridicule my opinion. Not cool.

I’ve done time with an individual who got (I believe) wrongfully convicted due to genetic genealogy. A lay jury watches Law and Order, hear “DNA”, and will proverbially buy the Brooklyn Bridge from prosecutors.

Get too unpopular with those in power, and maybe your DNA can be traced to a shell casing for an unsolved assassination a continent away from you.

Annie Dookhan wrongfully convicted thousands upon thousands upon her doctored drug tests. Someone just like her could do it to you or someone else with your DNA test.

There are laws against insurers citing preexisting conditions to deny coverage, and most DNA is equivocal as to whether you’ll develop expensive maladies. So that doesn’t worry me either.
You can't just send a carrier pigeon somewhere. It just knows how to get back to its home. The time taken to transport the pigeon to the "server" needs to be taken into account if you want to compare with a request/response. I imagine it would still be faster.

There is a significant risk of packet loss unfortunately. Pigeon racing is a cruel, terrible thing.
It’s because the folks who are the middle-aged adults with disposable income in their 40’s and 50’s used to have computers from the 80’s.

Although one of the benefits of them is that you can still play and program for them (and even on them.) They’re simpler and more immediate.
My review: https://boxd.it/7pIZox
I disagree with the content
Also some people like their children and grandchildren to enjoy some fruit trees.

(Even if they are just "family" in the broader sense and not their own)
I think that’s the other side of the same theory: the reason it’s worth owning as a trademark is that millions of people remember it. Keeping it alive is cheap as long as the cost of printing labels is lower than the profits from a limited run.
> I don't think future generations are going to be very interested in tinkering with a C64 or an Apple II

There's a decent bunch of Gen Z'ers absolutely fascinated by the DOS 3.11 / Windows 95 era, and almost certainly also C64 / Apple II. Both the hardware and software from that time period was still novel, innovative, and plain weird. On the other hand, it is very clearly just a computer: you can hook it up to a network or play games on it.

It brought us Microsoft Bob, who wouldn't want to poke around with that?
What about candidates that do the ghosting? Can companies form a blacklist of their own? If that isn’t a goal of this tool, in theory would you be okay with that?
This can’t be defined away. Most of the members of the set ({pubs} U {sports pubs}) have screens in London.
Question about anonymous data is well, why not do it where the content originates? Sale of discs? Rental instances online. Number of times something was streamed... Why does it have to happen on end device, when it is entirely possible at source.
Good idea -- DoorDash has you covered!

They've got a variety of offerings such as "The Essential" and "DashMart", stores they own where Dashers can pick up food and other products.

Arguably, these services are all going to converge on virtuality soon, because it matters not to the consumer whether these places have storefronts, open to the public, or even a brand, so the "ghost kitchen" model here is inevitable.

Even chains which still implement in-house picking and delivery (Safeway, Kroger and others) will find it efficient to run locations totally closed to public traffic, no checkers or baggers or huge parking lots or deli tables necessary.
You don't need anything nearly so fancy for a laser microphone.
who said anything about coveting cars from the 80s.
It looks really good.

Out of curiosity, I’m sure everybody has heard of the FFT. They are quite general and used all over the place, and I imagine they’d be the first thing somebody would reach for if they had to describe waves.

But I’d never heard of Gerstner waves. This leads me to believe that Gerstner waves are a more specialized thing. Since lots of work has already gone into rendering water, I tend to assume the method with a name I’ve never heard of was only reached for after very clever people rejected Fourier transforms for some reason.

But, the results look better than most of what I see elsewhere. Has something changed to enable the more conventional solution?
That's same logic as for frameworks like react.

With react you are more productive, my web experience is worse than without a those frameworks.

And LLMs get worse if they are trained on AI generated text.
At the current speed I don't know if in 10 years AI is still worse the high costs.
Extremely interesting! We have still so much to learn.

This seems to be an example of Extremeistan as described by Taleb. Can this specific research be extended to any other domains, e.g. finance? Most financial software uses known worst case scenarios while doing retirement planning, such as a 30% drop in equities. What if the worst case is a lot worse than 30%? Asking for experts to weigh in.
Sending a private corporation your DNA is a bad idea the second you hear about it no matter what the "benefits" are. Why would people, especially those who frequent HN and are aware of the data privacy debacles throughout history even trust them with something like this?
It's both. I recently saw a comparison of various models on two IQ tests, one of which was public and the other of which was carefully curated to be not directly learnable from the likely training sets.

On public tests, LLMs vary between "just below average human" and "genius".

On the hopefully-private test (it's difficult to be sure*), the best was o1, which was "merely" just below an average human, Claude-3 Opus which was stupid, and all the rest were "would need a full time caretaker".

In both cases, the improvements to the models came with higher scores; but there's still a lot you can do by learning for the test — and one thing that LLMs are definitely superhuman at is that.

https://www.maximumtruth.org/p/massive-breakthrough-in-ai-in...

* I could have said the same last year about last year's models, so I'm emphatically not saying o1 really is as smart as this test claims; I'm only saying this demonstrates these IQ tests are a learnable skill up to at least this magnitude of difference.
can't wait for the javascript error when I try to switch gears on the touchscreen of my future car!
ah amazing, thanks - looks like 330k vertices
The best approach is to implement Paxos.

I suggest https://github.com/emichael/dslabs.

It will take 100-200 hours to fully implement with all tests passing.
This will absolutely go in missiles to handle GPS jamming and submarines where satellite signals are unavailable, yes.

It'll be nice if they can get it small enough for a phone, though.
Ask HN: Why not verify users by making THEM send emails?
Email delivery (if you don't want to end up in the spam folder) costs $ these days. So why not turn the tables and generate a random string and put it into a mailto: link that the user is prompted to open? If your email server picks up the string anywhere in the body it confirms the user registration. Bounce rates would go up but depending on your CLV and CAC this could be highly economical.
> with all incentives aligned to the outcomes we collectively agree upon

Some things are simply not possible.

> If humanity is to mature

Recognizing and working within the constraints is maturity
The throughput of the AVX-512 computation instructions is matched to the throughput of loads from the L1 cache memory, on all CPUs.

Therefore to reach the maximum throughput, you must have the data in the L1 cache memory. Because L1 is not shared, the throughput of the transfers from L1 scales proportionally with the number of cores, so it can never become a bottleneck.

So the most important optimization target for the programs that use AVX-512 is to ensure that the data is already located in L1 whenever it is needed. To achieve this, one of the most important things is to use memory access patterns that will trigger the hardware prefetchers, so that they will fill the L1 cache ahead of time.

The main memory throughput is not much lower than that of the L1 cache, but the main memory is shared by all cores, so if all cores want data from the main memory at the same time, the performance can drop dramatically.
Invest? No that aint it.

I'm talking about the poignant reality that you, me, and everyone on this website will be gone in a matter of decades (or less).

Half or more believe that upon death they will be instantly transported to a GOLDEN CITY (unless you're bad, then you go to FIRE CITY!) forever. "Gold good... fire bad..." yeah totally not made up guys sounds real.

For everyone else it's MasterCard - distractions.
Here are the CLIA retention regulations.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-42/chapter-IV/subchapter-...
Actually and perhaps surprisingly I think it would be only marginally worse than just living in a Martian settlement. First go and live in a submarine and if you like it, apply to go.
Hindsight is always 20/20. My excuse is that I was young and even now I don’t see this as a huge disaster. But maybe I am just naive.
That’s literally what’s funding this research
It's interesting how hard this problem is. We've been trying for decades, and we're still in the uncanny valley with it.

If you freeze-frame this, the peaking waves look like snow-capped mountains. It feels unrealistic because for water to have features this sharp, it would have to be quite windy -- and the wind would never be blowing straight up. Here, the sharp features would need to be directional.

The simulation has the swell nature of the waves down pretty well though. There isn't as much horizontal movement, as more up-and-down, which is what you'd expect to see in open water.
Landslip / glacierslip 'tsunamis' in confined waters are not really the same as those from subsea earthquakes. The landslips just slop the water along the fjord or bay. The volume of water is tiny compared to big 9.0 oceanic quakes, like those for the Indian Ocean (2004) or Japanese (2011) tsunamis. We really need a different word for the local landslip type.

Here is a famous landslip-tsunami event with one eyewitness account:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and...

See the book Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay by Philip Fradkin.

P.S. Yes, an earthquake triggered the landslip, but the earthquake did not displace the water.
Psi+ 1.5.2041.0 Installer Has Been Released – Qt Jabber/XMPP Omemo/OTR E2EE
Sure there are of course plenty of great places. They weren’t like purged or something. But now you have to go searchings, like in the US
> Images of food (especially marketing images, which are photos of inedible objects masquerading as food

I agree with your overall point, but this is incorrect. I'm pretty sure there is already a law that says they cannot have fake food in commercials, at least for restaurants. There have been articles explaining how they take a "stock" hamburger (ok, they call it a "sandwich", technically) and dress it up for the commercial. But the interesting part is that the food photographers are constrained to using only ingredients from the store, they cannot use paint or plastic to represent the food. One of the little details I remember was they would use a brush to draw the ketchup to one side of the bun to make it look like it was liberally applied. It's quite interesting how they achieve the final goal - even though it looks NOTHING like the product that is delivered to the consumer.
Oh damn do I love a metadiscussion! I appreciate you taking a stand for quality discourse, and I agree 100% on your basic motivations, but I think this is overly dismissive.

I'd say an audio discussion of this 100+ page dissertation is directly gratifying my intellectual curiosity, if I'm someone who is interested but doesn't have time to skim 100+ pages. And yeah anyone could figure out how to do such a thing, but a) most people don't even know it's possible yet, b) it presumably takes some amount of expertise and/or paid credits, and c) it saves people time. I'd consider it to be pretty similar to the usual archive link comments, in that way; anyone could probably find it themselves, but they might not even think to try.

Finally, if I had to quote any one part of the guidelines to support my "LLMs are welcome on HN" claim:

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

The guidelines don't mention any sort of institutionalized human-centric speciesism, so I'd say it's fair game. As my fave philosopher David Gunkel says: #RobotRights ;)

Obviously you're 100% correct to downvote a comment you think is distracting, I just thought I'd share my response on the broader question.
Companies have billions of dollar and all the power in the world. No, they don't get to tilt the scales even further (but given your post history, I can see why you'd be okay with that). This isn't the gotcha you think it is, and labor rights don't work the way you think they do.
So, we did full circle, again
Don’t conflate doctor/patient confidentiality and data security. If someone broke into an office and stole medical records, that’s not a violation of doctor/patient confidentiality, even if the doctor chose crappy locks on their doors.
I think make the move gradually - find the stuff you were excited in originally, that you would love to learn more about and eventually do. Spend maybe a few hours a week diving into it - then gradually increase and move away from your current job.

Go for it - we're all rooting for you!
Jimmy Carter at 100
M3 Pro is 150 GB/s (and that should be compared to Lunar Lake's nominal memory bandwidth of 128 GB/s) and the cheapest model with it starts at $2000 ($2400 if you want 36 GB of RAM).

At those price levels, PC laptops have discrete GPUs with their own RAM with 256 GB/s and up just for the GPU.
I'm struck by how badly we wanted the opposite of everything on your list, back when a C64 was what a kid was typically stuck with. Well, maybe not the opposite of point 6, there's nothing fun about a locked-down machine. But we very much wanted graphics, and sound, and 3D and simulation and virtual reality and MMORPGs (and internet, or at least improved telnet). And we wanted to be wildly distracted by a machine that does magic tricks and spins fantasies. OK, we wanted to be creative too, but as an afterthought.

Possibly the joy of the golden age was in ruining computing for everybody who came after.
But L2ARC only helps read speed. The idea with dm-writecache is to improve write speed.

I started thinking about this when considering using a SAN for the disks, so that write speed was limited by the 10GbE network I had. A local NVMe could then absorb write bursts, maintaining performance.

That said, it's not something I'd want to use in production that's for sure.

There was some work being done on writeback caching for ZFS[1], sadly it seems to have remained closed-source.

[1]: https://openzfs.org/wiki/Writeback_Cache
Looking to open a service that lets you gift someone a billboard with their first pet's name and mother's maiden name. I feel inspired
You've airbnb, coinbase, instgram, dribble, pintrest, and netflix listed there. There are no case studies or documentation about them and these logos themselves aren't clickable.

How are these companies using this technology? Are they using it in prod? Is it in one of their main apps or just an internal tool?

What happens at scale? How do I separate read and write pools? How can I tune query configs and wait times?
The screenshot looks like a copy of the hasura web console. The same looks also similar to Hasura’s internal RQL. I wonder if this is just a coincidence.
I love how easy it is to organize my weekend tasks with EchoPal. No typing, just talking – it’s brilliant
More specifically, nuclear arms, where the budget is "there is no budget." Just the inertial guidance system of a 90's-era ICBM cost over six figures per missile. The ability to precisely place a missile without any external navigation (except for stars.)

Once it gets cheap enough, it'll probably go into cruise missiles; it could eliminate or reduce the need for terrain contour matching, which requires radar transmission.

I'm not 100% certain but I believe when MEMS accelerometers first came out, the better ones were subject to arms controls because of fears they could be used in missiles.
C is Turing complete

https://dotat.at/@/2024-08-02-turing-c.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41138599
Can you tell me more about what you enjoy about HEB so I can look out for these things when I visit next? My last visit was too short.

I'm down in the Austin area from time to time.
Sure, but then DNS breaks on the device and it's useless. Might as well just hit it with a hammer.
You can't make this thing up.
UX is way worse if they don’t have a mailto handler set up (I don’t on my work and personal laptops, for example, and on my phone it probably won’t open the email account I want to use with you).

This also relies on them having various antispam things set up in their DNS, otherwise you haven’t verified anything.
Doesn't this lead you to, perhaps, question the category and measure of "intelligence" in general, especially how it is mobilized in this kind of context? Like this very angle does a lot to point out the contradictions in some speculative metaphysical category of "intelligence" or "being smart," but then you just seem to accept it in this particular kind of fatalism.

Why not take away from this that "intelligence" is a word that obtains something relative to a particular society, namely, one which values some kind of behavior and speech over others. "Intelligence" is something important to society, its the individual who negotiates (or not) the way they think and learn with what this particular signifier connects with at a given place and time.

Like I assume you don't agree, but just perhaps if we use our "intelligence" here we could maybe come to some different conclusions here! Everyone is just dying to be like mid-20th century behaviorist now, I just don't understand!
As I understand it, full sequencing is a _lot_ more expensive. 23 and me currently shows the genotyping is like $100 while sequencing is $1000. It’s probably too expensive and time consuming for them to sequence everybody’s samples unless they pay for it.
Hmm, interesting, I'll hope it's a bug for those who have it. (Anyone else see it at all?)
Yeah but not zero - also see two/multi photon absorption.
These kind of studies are dubious. The PhD report could have been generated by an LLM in about a day, and no one would know any better.

It works like this:

Take any hypothesis. And have a lot of verbiage around it with dubious experiments to "statistically" validate it. and write a giant report which would eventually turn into a book.

Steve Pinker and his likes excel in this kind of stuff. Psychology/Sociology and sometimes economics are filled with these sorts of studies.

It is more persuation than science.

And one could could argue that science itself is a certain kind of persuation.
I think knowledge of them would absolutely be a breach, because you wouldn't be able to guarantee that person didn't remember and subsequently misuse them.
Touched upon in "The State of the Culture 2024" By The Honest Broker.

Many graphics showing how art was swallowed by entertainment which was swallowed by distraction which was swallowed by addiction which is what Silicon Valley wants.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-202...
> Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults.

The very first sentence of this post is ungrammatical.
I feel this way about every flashy startup with billion dollar valuations.

It seems amazing that they are pulling off what seems impossible.

Years later, we learn they really aren’t. They unjustifiably made a name for themselves by burning VC money instead of running a successful business.
Please keep the cheeky reductionist takes to yourself
Is this firebase but from a different vendor and in sql? If so, I'll wait for the security horror stories.
It really heavily depends where you live, in my hometown for example it's every single day at most, but it can be less depending on their assessed need. In my childhood street it's every day. On the other hand you don't have a personal or building bin, you only have street bins that everyone takes their trash to. https://fagar.pt/residuos
Painfully accurate. Nothing is worse for me creatively when the work environment is paranoid, ass covering, disinterested in the work.
It says they’re magnificent!