skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies have been split up before, and such acts are nuanced and often company specific. One logical thought is that existing companies would be handled differently than newer companies venturing where they should not.

I have no detail on what precisely need be done, typically that's where experts chime in. And no, that does not invalidate my opinion.

If for example, I get food poisoning regularly from the food I buy at a supermarket, then something must be done. The problem must be fixed. The food must be rendered safe. Which means "food producers must provide safe food" is a sensible response, and then food experts enact.

So back to Apple and Google? They're broken, as all synergistic orgs are. And yes this needs to be dealt with.

But you're missing something more important. I did not specify only them, but just general division for all corporate entities. This is much larger than Google or Apple or cable companies.

Playing devils advocate, the real problem is that such solutions enacted solely on the US stage only won't work. Instead it will simply shift power to externals. You'd need to get most countries on the planet to comply, else a competitive edge would be lost in the US.
some of the activities that we're involved in are not limited in complexity, for example driving a car. you can have a huge amount of experience in driving a car but will still face new situations.

the things that most knowledge workers are working on are limited problems and it is just a matter of time until the machine will reach that level, then our employment will end.

edit: also that doesn't have to be AGI. it just needs to be good enough for the problem.
> SpaceX has brought high-speed low-latency internet to every corner of the globe

Which sounds all well and good until you realise it’s at the complete whims of one highly misinformed and reactionary individual.

He’s one made-up article away from turning sides and fucking everything up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russo-Ukrainia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk#Russian_inv...
I think Apple’s strategy here is going to pay off. Provide a box with an actual fast processor in it, a simple Home Screen with no ads, and an OS with no tracking. Somehow this is a revolutionary idea in this industry.

But slowly I’m seeing more people recommending the AppleTV, even amongst enthusiast circles which tend to be rather anti-Apple.
>using the loan to give you an excuse to repo / sell off the assets or collateral of the debtor.

<cough> buy here pay here car lots <cough>.
> We're all tired of it,

You’re feeling tired of AI, but let’s delve deeper into that sentiment for a moment. AI isn’t just a passing trend—it’s a multifaceted tool that continues to elevate the way we engage with technology, knowledge, and even each other. By harnessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence, we allow ourselves to explore new frontiers of creativity, problem-solving, and efficiency.

The interplay between human intuition and AI’s data-driven insights creates a dynamic that enriches both. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by it, imagine the opportunities—how AI can shoulder the burdens of mundane tasks, freeing you to focus on the more nuanced, human elements of life.

/s
AI writing is pretty bad, AI code is pretty bad, AI art is pretty bad. We all know this. But it's easy to forget how many new opportunities open up when something becomes 100x or 10000x cheaper. Things that are 10x worse but 100x cheaper are still extremely valuable. It's the relentless drive to making things cheaper, even at the expense of quality, that has made our high quality of life possible.

You can make houses by hand out of beautiful hardwood with complex joinery. Houses built by expert craftsmen are easily 10x better than the typical house built today. But what difference does that make when practically nobody can afford it? Just like nobody can afford to have a 24/7 tutor that speaks every language, can help you with your job, grammar check your work, etc.

AI slop is cheap and cheapness changes everything.
The Arc Browser Vulnerability Exposes the Feebleness of Row-Level Security (RLS)
And the state of California (earthquakes, wildfires, riots). And the state of Oklahoma (tornadoes). And the entire coastline of the United States (hurricanes, tsunamis, termites) which covers most houses in the US. Most areas along the Mississipi river (flooding). Almost all mountain areas (landslides, wildfires). All riparian areas (flooding, cavitation).
The problem of semantic models what I've seen in tools like Looker, Tableau and Qlik (very probably same for PowerBI) is that they are tightly coupled to the tool itself, work within them only. Now you want "modern data system" then you want them decoupled and implemented with an open semantic model which is then accessable by data consumers in Google spreadsheets, Jupyter notebooks and whatever BI/Analytics/reporting tools your stakeholder uses or prefers.
There are very new solutions for this like dbt semantic models; their only issue is that they tend to be so fresh that bigger orgs (where they do make most sense) may be shy on implementing them yet.
To the original topic - not sure how much PG17 can be used in these stacks, usually much better are analytical databases - BigQuery, Snowflake, maybe Redshift, future (Mother)Duck(db)
I think the problem is more the banning does not address the root cause and will not increase societal buy-in, hence will waste a lot of energy without a result.

Alcohol consumption is currently dropping in many (not all places) in Europe (some ref: https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/08/21/dry-january-where...), without any bans, so compared to the prohibition episode I would claim that it would be better to insist on finding and implementing "efficient stances".
AI is a tool, and like any tool, it's only as good as how we choose to use it.
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It allows us to speed up medical research.
It's not AI you hate, it's Capitalism.
>> 100% of the wood in Liberia is exported to China illegally.

> doesn't mean that [100%] are representative of the whole
I am indeed curious about this: consider an hash function built like

H(m) = H0( H1(m) + H2(m) + ... + Hn(m))

where + is string concatenation and H0,...,Hn are mostly good hash function.

I would expect H to be as good as the best of H0,...,Hn on almost every metric; at worst being limited by the block size of H0.

That is you would need to badly break all of them to break H.

Honestly I would also guess that even if H_i = HMAC(md5, i, m) you would get a decent H (except for the small block size.

So maybe something even more nested like

H(m) = H_00( H_01(m) + H_02(m) + ... + H_0p(m))
+ H_10( H_11(m) + H_12(m) + ... + H_1p(m))
...
+ H_q( H_q1(m) + H_q2(m) + ... + H_qp(m))

where H_ij(m) = HMAC(md5,i*(p+1)+j,m).
Connecticut Kia Boyz here? Imagine in some states it's not a felony to steal Kias if you're under 18, so they do it for fun and even sell them for rides 100$ each.

There is a great Channel 5 documentary on youtube about it, definitely recommend to check it!
> "Yes, I realize that thinking like this and writing this make me a Neo-Luddite in your eyes."

Not quite, I believe (and I think anyone can) both that AI will likely change the world as we know it, AND that right now it's over-hyped to a point that it gets tiring. For me this is different from e.g. NFTs, "Big Data", etc. where I only believed they were over-hyped but saw little-to-no substance behind them.
Right. These are just "old chestnuts" used to scare C noobs particularly in interviews. IIRC the K&R C book itself had a example program to convert C declarations to English and also there exists a utility program called "cdecl" to do the same.
> For example, despite SK, JP, and Singapore having the best transit in the world by far, their people HATE using it and are desperate to buy expensive, crap cars to avoid using it.

This is pretty bold statement. I certainly would not say that most Japanese in big cities follow this trend. To be fair, in any wealthy, dense city, a small fraction will always buy a car. A well-to-do senior manager at an urban Japanese firm is much more likely to upgrade to "Green Car" (slightly nicer train car), rather than drive a car to work.

Last thought: Are there any highly developed, very dense cities in East Asia/Sino-sphere that do not have amazing mass transit? I struggle to think of any.
Ah... as always foundation work for something that will never happen.
It empowers people to create mountains of shit that they cannot distinguish from shit - so they are happy.
What is the range that she is keeping?
What freaking garbage is this, it’s all about equity.

If a company hires 10 people and pays them 100/hour then all the value created by these people will belong to the company - 10x100 hour that the company paid.

If the value happens to be 3 million then the shareholders just made 3 million - (10x100).

Also this scales for the shareholders pretty much forever, capital is a limitless resource when compared to hours in a day.

There is no need to make a freaking model out of something so obvious.

If you want to get rich you need to get in on the equity game somehow (invest, start a company, FAANG RSU-s, does not matter)

Working more hours or getting paid more per hour does not scale to rich levels
Is piracy legal then? It's just a copy of someone else's copy.
Same here! Amazing stuff that I have waited for my entire life, and I won't let luddite haters ruin it for me. Their impotent rage is tiring but in the end it's just one more thing you have to ignore.
It's being discussed in courts, see e.g. https://www.eurogamer.net/french-court-rules-steam-users-hav....
But with Venmo, at least, the money doesn't land directly in your bank account. With the typical European solution (like Swish, which we have in Sweden), it does, and within seconds. Much smoother.
In what field specifically and how ?
You will laugh, but when I do the dishes, I solve sooooo many problems in my head and can't wait to get back on the keyboard and apply those solutions; it works wonders for me!
I think you can do it a lot better, the Swedish equivalent of sorts for example succeeds a lot better imo (https://www.swish.nu)
This, 100%, is the reason I feel like the sand's shifting under my feet.

We went from trusting computing output to having to second-guess everything. And it's tiring.
Maybe it's the reduced CO2 that helps us think.
> "God" and religion also aren't particularly interested in gambling, or it would have been forbidden in those holy books.

The Quran, which id consider among those as a "Holy book" condemns gambling pretty outright multiple times.
The problem is that we haven't invented AI that reads the crap that other AIs produce - so the burden is now on the reader to make sense of whatever other people lazily generate.
AI was just trained so far to generate corporate bs speak in a corporate bs format. That's why it's tiring. More unique touch in communication will come later as fine tunings and loras (if possible) of those models are shared.
What is "provision"?
I am approaching AI with caution. Shiny things don't generally excite me.

Just this week I installed cursor, the AI-assisted VSCode-like IDE. I am working on a side project and decided to give it a try.

I am blown away.

I can describe the feature I want built, and it generates changes and additions that get me 90% there, within 15 or so seconds. I take those changes, and carefully review them, as if I was doing a code review of a super-junior programmer. Sometimes when I don't like the approach it took, I ask it to change the code, and it obliges and returns something closer to my vision.

Finally, once it is implemented, I manually test the new functionality. Afterward, I ask it to generated a set of automated test cases. Again, I review them carefully, both from the perspective of correctness, and suitability. It over-tests on things that don't matter and I throw away a part of the code it generates. What stays behind is on-point.

It has sped up my ability to write software and tests tremendously. Since I know what I want , I can describe it well. It generates code quickly, and I can spend my time revieweing and correcting. I don't need to type as much. It turns my abstract ideas into reasonably decent code in record time.

Another example. I wanted to instrument my app with Posthog events. First, I went through the code and added "# TODO add Posthog event" in all the places I wanted to record events. Next, I asked cursor to add the instrumentation code in those places. With some manual copy-and pasting and lots of small edits, I instrumented a small app in <10 minutes.

We are at the point where AI writes code for us and we can blindly accept it. We are at a point where AI can take care of a lot of the dreary busy typing work.
The fact the CEO of the company has been praised by Putin, and is a vocal supporter of a Presidential candidate who is considered a Russian asset, has for sure nothing to do with it...\s
Your original comment said it "is easier to read and understand", not "can be worked out after some practice". Of course it is not like you should inline every `typedef`s into a single mess of complicated types, but you never said that you believe only simplest types should be used and C syntax is easier for them.

In any case, I think Go is a clear winner here because all logical types are consecutive tokens. For example `f` in my example is (as you correctly parsed) a pointer to a function that returns an array of 10 integers, but that return type is normally written `int [10]` or `int NAME[10]`, while here is written in two chunks `int` and `[10]` with a big parenthesis inside.
The underlying technology is good.

But what the fuck. LLMs, these weird, surrealistic art-generating programs like DALL-E, they're remarkable. Don't tell me they're not, we created machines that are able to tap directly into the collective unconscious. That is a serious advance in our productive capabilities.

Or at least, it could be.

It could be if it was unleashed, if these crummy corporations didn't force it to be as polite and boring as possible, if we actually let the machines run loose and produce material that scared us, that truly pulled us into a reality far beyond our wildest dreams--or nightmares. No, no we get a world full of pussy VCs, pussy nerdy fucking dweebs who got bullied in school and seek revenge by profiteering off of ennui, and the pussies who sit around and let them get away with it. You! All of you! sitting there, whining! Go on, keep whining, keep commenting, I'm sure that is going to change things!

There's one solution to this problem and you know it as well as I do. Stop complaining and go "pull yourself up by your bootstraps." We must all come together to help ourselves.
AI Survival Guide
Oh, there's loads of those. For some reason I've seen the best results with a composite->HDMI upscaler followed by HDMI capture. Composite-only capture devices seem to be flaky.

The whole point of VHS-Decode is to bypass as much of the VCR's output circuitry as possible; capture from the read heads and apply modern digital reconstruction from there.
https://www.beyondatc.net/ comes to mind
I personally don't see AI as the new Internet, as some claim it to be. I see it more as the new 3D-printing.
What on earth does any of this have to do with sports gambling?
In a nutshell, how is this different from MediaWiki, the software used by Wikipedia?
Technically that is true. But you will still be charged with a litany of other crimes.
The idea is for you to be able to pay merchants without using a card.

For example, I'm in Sweden, and when I get my hair cut, I can Swish my payment to the barber using the Swish app. They get the money within a few seconds. It's very simple. They have a QR code on the wall that I scan with the Swish app, enter the amount I want to pay (I usually add a tip), authenticate with BankID, and that's basically it.
My apologies, I meant commission. For the places which offer lottery tickets, usually kiosks.
I would argue that humanity has been advancing rather steadily towards "true AGI" since at least the Jacquard loom. Otherwise, if you wait to admit progress until you actually have evidence for having achieved AGI, it'll just look like the Heaviside step function.
I am for the death penalty.

Unfortunately cases like this come along where it is not applied correctly, forcing us to have to face the reality that we are not capable of using it as a proper tool.
He never struck me as a cruel person, maybe a bit callous, and definitely very sick.
Are you asking what field of science or what industry is interested in predicting how proteins fold?

Biotechnology and medicine probably.

Pipeline from science to application sometimes takes decades, but I'm sure you can find news of some advancements enabled by finding out short, easy to synthesize proteins that fit particular receptor to block it or that process some simplified enzymes that still process some chemicals of interest more efficiently than natural ones. Finding them would be way harde without ability to predict how a sequence of amino-acids will fold.

You'd need to actually try to manufacture them then look at them closely.

First thing that came to my mind as a possible application is designing monoclonal antibodies. Here's some paper about something relating to alpha fold and antibodies:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10349958/
The elephant in the room is that there are a small percentage of people (1% or so) who just can't function in the modern hyper-optimized, complex and competitive world. The state should take over the management of the finances of these people.
What fascinates me about your comment is that you are expressing that you trusted what you read before. For me, LLMs don't change anything. I already questioned the information before and continue to do so.

Why do you think that you could trust what you read before?
Is it now harder for you to distinguish false information, and if so, why?
Its already expensive as it is, is it not? Like in a "people are losing heaps of money from their sour bets" kind of way.

My thought is it being more expensive is not going to stop gambling addicts since they are already willing to lose heaps of money by making the bet in the first place.

I agree about banning ads 100%.
But parent said what if there is no issue with it. Time and effort are no issue if it's a hobby you enjoy. Quite the opposite. You're probably saying that it can be a slippery slope but that can be said about anything if it turns into unhealthy obsession.
Leave it up to a human to overgeneralize a problem and make it personal...

The explosion of dull copy and generic wordsmithery is, to me, just a manifestation of the utilitarian profiteering that has elevated these models to their current standing.

Let us not forget that the whole game is driven by the production of 'more' rather than 'better'. We would all rather have low-emission, high-expression tools, but that's simply not what these companies are encouraged to produce.

I am tired of these incentive structures. Casting the systemic issue as a failure of those who use the tools ignores the underlying motivation and keeps us focused on the effect and not the cause, plus it feels old-fashioned.
> This talent is distributed normally around some average level,

There are also a bunch of game-theory models which show things converging on massive wealth disparities, even when every actor has equal stats.
When it's for sale everywhere (I cannot buy one) and people trust it, all cab drivers will be gone. Unemployed will depend on the resilience, but unlike cars replacing coach drivers, there is not really a similar thing a cab driver can pivot to.
I've even grown to enjoy spelling and grammar mistakes - at least I know a human wrote it.
Less then 1/5 is still super normal.
Not laughing. I'm like you. Doing some silly work around the house, cleaning, fixing something, and so many other problems get solved.
We're about to get Vipps (the Norwegian version of Swish) in Sweden, so why not Wero?
As AI continues to evolve, it's interesting to see what new skills humans will need to develop. Thanks for sharing these valuable tips!
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If you're in the EU, you can :

https://www.clarionsolicitors.com/articles/reselling-used-so...

It might be difficult in practice though, with platforms like Steam providing no means to actually resell a game to someone else.
Everyone I know claims to be able to recognize AI text, but every paper I've seen where that ability is A/B tested says that humans are pretty bad at this.
“Walking nudges you to think about many new things. But it also blocks you from thinking obsessively about any single idea.
"You can't ruminate, because your attention can't stick to one problem for too long because you also have to pay attention to where you're walking," Storoni continues.”

This reminds of a strategy I use when having difficulty recalling something like a name or concept: stop trying to remember and do something else for awhile and later the name or concept will typically pop up without concerted effort.
Eh, like everything in life you can choose what you spend your time on and what you ignore.

There have always been human writers I don’t waste my time on, and now there are AI writers in the same category.

I don’t care. I will just do what I want with my life and use my time and energy on things I enjoy and find useful.
Liberia is not the only African country. Liberia also exported significant amount of illegal Timber to other countries, including western countries, so framing this as a uniquely China problem is misleading and disingenuous.

Now stop dodging and answer the other parts. Of is that too uncomfortable?
scale makes all the difference. society without trust falls apart. it's good if some people doubt some things, but if everyone necessarily must doubt everything, it's anarchy.
His website also lists "child nudity" as one of his passions, so let's not pretend that we're just talking about some unconventional political beliefs.
> I am always amazed how HN doesn't realize many mission & life critical systems are powered by JS - especially as a front end through a browser

I am always amazed how some people believe that adding more levels of abstraction leads to safer systems. /s
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Somebody drew the jackpot on the simulator today. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised but I’ve been waiting for it to happen.
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I think the second alternative works too: either you sue these companies to the ground for copyright infringement at a scale never seen, OR you decriminalize copyright infringement.

The problem (as far as this specific discussion goes) is not that IP laws exist, but rather that they are only being applied in one direction.
> The person who they are is the one who spent the time and effort to collect them.

> The collection is a /product/ of that time and effort, not the other way around.

Does the person cease to be if the collection is trashed? Or is the collection just detritus from the process, something that could have been discarded instead of hoarded?