skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not better at math. It can only compute some operations better, but there is much more to math than that. Otherwise, this wouldn't be considered cheating:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41550907
I think you may need to review starvation events that humans and animals have had in history.

>> I hope not all here are brainwashed and understand what I'm saying.

So if someone doesn't agree with you, they are brainwashed?
I haven't seen any in supermarkets, but bought two in a shop in central London recently and it cost £9, which is eye watering compared to Japan 7-Eleven prices.
> Black market approaches to attempting to limit / control human behavior are insane and do not work.

The idea that governments may not be able to (completely?) protect people does not invalidate the the idea that people cannot protect themselves.
Thought this was from 2012. Aren’t we in 2024?
Hmm time to adjust the old IRA investments.
We are still waiting for AI (Deep Learning) to do the same and move to efficient alternatives without incinerating the environment and consuming the oceans to cool their GPUs whilst training and doing inference on their AI models.

So many years, yet no practical efficient solutions currently in production to reduce the emissions AI is producing. Much more urgent than crypto since that already has largely moved to proof-of-stake.
I've wired non-USD from my U.S. bank and wired U.S. dollars overseas. I presume their bank is doing KYC. But I don't know.

You claimed "all large financial transactions or storage useful and active in commerce require KYC." That's simply untrue. It's advisable to ensure someone is doing their KYC. But not necessary.
Nah, this is just doom and gloom based on persistent and pervasive messaging. On large geological timescales, our temperatures are pretty close to the mean. Even given the last 500 million years, we're nowhere near the peak [1].

Will habitable zones change? Yes. Will migrations occur? Yes. Will there be unrest leading to disease, famine and death? Yes, for sure. And we could get all those things from war, a major natural disaster or an extraterrestrial event. Just take war for example. War promises to bring all of those changes too, that hasn't stopped human beings from fighting. If anything, destroying our economies to deal with the climate threat will inevitably lead to war, and then the resulting outcome will be the same: Death, famine, unrest, change/loss of habitable zones. What would we have gained?

[1] https://www.climate.gov/media/11332
They are just looking for funding that's all.
> Earth’s oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, providing a valuable carbon sink as humans burn fossil fuels. But this process also makes the oceans more acidic, which can disturb the formation of shells and coral skeletons and affect fish life cycles, per the report.

Atmospheric CO2 levels are at historic lows.[1]

Bivalves have shells and evolved during the Cambrian Explosion. The Cambrian explosion took place around 540 to 520 million years ago (Mya)[2].

During the early history of bivalves atmospheric CO2 levels were around 4,000-5,000ppm. Current levels are around 400ppm.

References:

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth's_atmo...

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalvia
“nearly every software company would go out of business overnight if this was a stance they actually enforced”

For the better, if your attitude is the “healthy SDLC”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk

> Amazon stated that more than 90% of the U.S. population was covered by the Sidewalk network.

> Amazon Echo devices have Sidewalk enabled by default and do not inform their owner about it.
But encapsulated factories were solved by automation using technology available 30 years ago, if not 70. The technology that is becoming available now will also be enabling automation to get a lot more flexible than it used to be, and begin to work in uncontrolled environments where it never would have been considered before. This is my field and I am watching it change before my eyes. This is being driven by other breakthroughs that are happening right now in AI, not LLMs per se, but models for control, SLAM, machine vision, grasping, planning, and similar tasks, as well as improvements in sensors that feed into these, and firming up of standards around safety. I'm not saying it will happen overnight; it may be five years before the foundations are solid enough, another five before some company comes out with practically workable hardware product to apply it (because hardware is hard), another five or ten before that product gains acceptance in the market, and another ten before costs really get low. So it could be twenty or thirty years out for boring reasons, even if the tech is almost ready today in principle. But I'm talking about the long run for a reason.
"Of vices I am Gambling."

~Krishna, Gita
I am a person self-diagnosed with aphantasia. I can for example think of a cube that is placed in front of me. I can spin it on an axis and have a rough idea of where the rotated edges should be. I wouldn't be able to draw it, though, because I would just be guessing about the proportions, or reverting to tricks to draw perspective. Because I don't see the cube in any way. It's completely invisible. It's just an idea of what the cube's position might be in the space directly in front of me.

On the other hand, I can see hypnagogic images directly before falling asleep. These have fidelity, color, detail, look real, and are definitely visual. I also lucid dream occasionally, and the amount of visual detail there is more than I see in real life because of bad eyesight.

The cube I'm "picturing" in front of me, though, has no visual component at all.

I also remember reading about how in some study they watched the brain activity of people with normal visualization capabilities where the visual components of the brain lit up when they were visualizing but did not light up for people with aphantasia when they were visualizing (or trying to).

If people really have no visual component at all when they picture a cube in front of them, then I would agree that aphantasia is not a thing. But people I talk to go on and on about the level of detail they see and what they use visualization for without even consciously thinking about it.
IA Writer's Android App Is Frozen in Carbonite
Right from Wiki my friend

Lunar Lake is the codename for Core Ultra Series 2 mobile processors designed by Intel, released on September 24, 2024.

Manufactured by: TSMC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lake

It's September 27 round abouts here so I'm not sure it gets more recent than that.
We could define similar boundaries for humans:
Wealth, education, health etc.

They are also directly correlated but still a indicator of a humans condition.
Thanks for the link. I wonder if this journal is constrained to observing gambling rather than doing experiments to trying to exacerbate it as Harrah's is doing: "The Journal of Gambling Studies is an interdisciplinary forum for research and discussion of the many and varied aspects of gambling behavior, both controlled and pathological. Coverage extends to the wide range of attendant and resultant problems, including alcoholism, suicide, crime, and a number of other mental health concerns."
Web Archiving Projects
I mean look at the shit Disney tried to pull recently saying a park guest couldn't sue after her husband died due to negligence on the parks behalf because they acknowledged D+ subscriber agreement that specified arbitration.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/business/disney-plus-wrongful...

They backed away from it but they tried.
OpenAI is looking more and more like a Ponzi scheme ego play from sama. They'll find ways to offload the losses to retail investors and everything valuable will end up in Microsoft's pocket in the end.
there are many threats that can exist simutaneously
Digital Universal Media Box.
Proof of work is a leader election algorithm!
to hold the libertarian belief that “people will do it anyway so might as well make it legal”, you must believe marketing and ease of access have no impact on usage.
There's probably a basic philosophical point. If you get bent out of shape because someone is taking your open source software or Creative Commons content or whatever and profiting from it in accordance with the license, you probably shouldn't do the work or shouldn't publicly release it.
I think you are right that most people who want to ban such activities want to go back to the former situation where people could only bet on sports with friends. Their position is different to mine.
Why am I even not surprised? The only time HP disappointed me was in cryptocurrency era where they failed to react in time and integrate a crypto wallet to print txn or facilitate blockchain printing ledger or something.

HP appears to integrate anything that is riding the hype. Thankfully, from one of their hype I have one of the best printers they ever made so I suppose, sometimes food things come out of hype.
Amazon/AWS has no use case for VFIO in Firecracker. They're open to the community adding support and have a community meeting soon, but I wouldn't get my hopes up.

QEMU can work -- I say can, because it doesn't work with all GPUs. And with consumer GPUs, VFIO is generally not an officially supported use case. We got it working, but with lots of trial and error, and there are still some problematic corner cases.
Proof-of-stake ruins it's security with a rich get richer endgame where the stakers concentrate until it's not distributed enough and one entity or group can collude and control the system and there's no way to exit that state.
> Automattic (my employer) does not own WordPress.org

I really think your employer is lying to you about this. The Automattic CEO made an official WordPress.org announcement that the .org was taking action against WP Engine on September 25 in response to legal threats. WP Engine says - and neither Automattic nor WordPress.org have produced evidence to the contrary - that the only legal threat they've made was their public one to Automattic on September 23. This clearly implies to me that Mullenweg is operating WordPress.org as an extension of Automattic and its business interests, regardless of what official ownership records might say.
Having never had one, are onigiri filled with anything? I think of eating something that's basically entirely rice and wonder where's the protein? It seems to just be all simple carbs, which feels like a setup for an insulin spike and sugar crash.
There is a big difference between regulating advertising for something and banning it.
Looks like this is only about placement. I wonder if it can be applied to routing?
Thanks! Yes, I was looking for recommended papers/info.
Because complex systems in general are known to enter critical transitions when pushed hard enough, and we do keep pushing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_transition
That's pretty remarkable that Kushim holds the title, and not for anything other than dealing in barley.
I still RANT that we have OpenBank by law since 2017: there is no damn reasons not to open it to final customers. We could then pay via SDD (SEPA Direct Debt) everywhere, and we could manage all our transactions LOCALLY with signed XML or JSON and collecting signed-pdf-rendered tickets and invoices as well.

Here (France) some supermarket have started around an year ago to offer no-print-ticket option to get the ticket by mail if you give them one or if you have an account to download from their websites, in eIDAS we have the certified mail concept (by laws in some countries like Italy, since more than a decade) for official formal communications.

There is no need to add another broker/PSP to the list, it's about time to CUT the list.
Definitely not historic lows. Perhaps it's been higher, but it's definitely been lower than now.
I'm sure we've literally never written a vulnerable line of code in our lives, right?

Security reviews are part of a healthy SDLC. You catch vulnerabilities as part of security reviews as they would be totally unnecessary if people simply wrote perfect code to begin with.
Fair enough, I take that generalization back.
if 7 of the 9 are highly correlated, then breaching all 7 isn't as bad as it sounds, it's just one boundary.
Well put, you beat me to it! Specifically this line started my disbelief:

Humans don't learn about things this way.

Naturally, as is the hacker way, with no citations. I’ve only scratched the surface of pedagogy, but it’s a massive and mature academy drawing its modern principles from the empirical psychology of Dewey and Piaget. There’s a LOT more to say about it than can be covered in a blog post, much less a subsection of a blog post!

As you point out, the biggest issue is that people are different. The next biggest issue is we aren’t even sure why those differences occur, or how stable they are over time…

Well written post otherwise and it’s a good dive into the pragmatics of a particular educational strategy — I just would ask to see more humility, I guess!
He's leveled up to expert level polycule
"Historic"?

I do not think it means what you think it means
I wasn't comparing Sam to an Olympian; I was comparing you to one. Just because you were working in a donut shop at that age doesn't mean that that's the benchmark for achievement. Some people go to the Olympics. I honestly don't know enough about Sam's achievements before then to know if he'd done impressive things.

The whole "white man" thing is also a complete straw man. The other two YC-founders-turned YC CEOs of that era were Michael Seibel and Garry Tan, neither of whom are white.

It sounds like what you're offended by is the whole YC process -- that there are quick interviews that (back then) translated to small amounts of funding -- that literally the decision was made in a single interview. But that wasn't anything specific to Sam; that's how it worked for everyone. You can find that stupid if you want to, but then might I suggest this is an odd forum to hang out on if you find that to be offensive?
Looks like archive.today is rate limited (full content blocked)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240927160825/https://theinterc...

This works.
> difference is if the bank does KYC and the criminal uses a dark identity, the bank will likely get away with it

What is a dark entity? Have you worked in finance? Because if you collect KYC and accepted forged or faulty documents, the moment you figure out what's going on is the moment you call your personal lawyer.
The animals alive in it today aren't adapted to these Cambrian conditions though?
I think at a fundamental level it is a freedom issue.

There is one and only one limit on freedom which I believe in: when one individual (or group) begins to infringe the freedoms of others.

The problem which I see in a lot of ideologies which purport to value freedom, is a naive idea that government is the only organization which can infringe on individual freedoms, and this is blatantly and obviously false. Corporations and religious organizations can and do infringe individual freedoms all the time, and a society which fails to address this problem becomes less and less free as these organizations become the de-facto oligarchy.

We don't need to set aside our belief in freedom to fight against these organizations, and I think when we do that, we're making a huge concession we don't need to make. Casinos and advertisers manipulating people to take their money and provide little value in return absolutely is a freedom issue: casinos and advertisers are manipulating us to give up the freedoms money allows us. When we make concessions like,

> This isn't some "freedom" issue

I think we lose a lot of the people who care about freedom, when we could be explaining to those people how these companies infringe their freedoms.
I tried asking Gemini to summarize a non-existent poem, and it said it would need the actual source of the poem to summarize it (but provided four potential themes based on the title). I then suggested that it was a standard English course text and it apologetically said that it couldn't find any record of it, but perhaps I was thinking of this other poem? It is perhaps too helpful at coming up with a workable solution to my request, but it did seem to know when it didn't know. Although perhaps that isn't the LLM but some additional information from a search query being fed into the LLM.
Yes they’re usually filled with some kind of filling. Often a fish or meat filling.

They’re essentially like a dumpling.
IRC is still around - and more popular than Usenet. Go and connect to Libera and see which channels exist. Or Rizon, if you're more of a 4chan guy.
No, I came to the comments after having this exact reaction.
I think it's a combination of both technology and changes to our behavior. A cheap way to sequester CO2 and methane would be really helpful. The 2020 lockdowns showed us that slowing down on shipping and driving to work can make a measurable positive impact on our environment. But we'd have to get over our own ego and greed to do this full time.
Do the things that will give your kids the greatest exposure to different ways of being, living, and seeing. That ain't done by having entrenched routines.
There are lots of organizations with $1M and a desire to influence the population

This can only be done with a sentiment that was, at least partially, already there. And may very well happen naturally eventually
The hosting company sells WordPress hosting services. The rest of the arguments are nonsense, such as the one about revisions being disabled.
TSMC made a point of calling out that their latest generation of software for automating chip design has features that allow you to select logic designs for TDP over raw speed. I think that’s our answer to keep Dennard scaling alive in spirit if not in body. Speed of light is still going to matter, so physical proximity of communicating components will always matter, but I wonder how many wins this will represent versus avoiding thermal throttling.
Seems more like political news than tech news.
only poorer humans will suffer and die. the rich will be fine.
Yes if you cutoff the first word it becomes untrue, how ridiculously disinguine.

Here's an exercise, look at the FATF black list and then start asking your bank about the process for wiring large sums there. A lot of this compliance is driven through FATF actions that drive any country that wants access to anyone touching dollars or us banks to comply.
You don't say.... something banned for decades was not a actually banned by accident!
Yeah it's maddening.
If your argument is that legalized sports betting doesn't increase the total amount of sports betting, in the absence of extraordinary evidence, that seems implausible on its face.
Author here.

You are absolutely right to be skeptical. I wrote that a long time ago.

I did detail the current status of those claims in a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41672316 .
Could that page be all sarcasm? Is this person head to toe drowned deep in sarcasm and living a sarcastic life?
In the case of Argentina, in most cases people have turned to the much safer USD.
I totally agree. If someone has let developing open source software become an all-consuming nights and weekends project without compensation or any other real path to personal benefit, they probably want to take a step back if they're not feeling the love any more. Passions are fine up to a point but past that point they shouldn't feel they're compelled to continue.
We have regressed so far since 2020 imo.

2020 showed that we can have remote work as the primary method of work for a vast majority of jobs. The government could’ve mandated that if your company’s work could be done remotely, remote work has to be an option.

The amount of emissions to support daily commute of this many people (especially with commutes getting longer and longer) is insane.
Damn, and I thought 3€ a piece was a lot.
It's rather annoying as a brit. Apparently the wholesale cost of electricty is about 7p in the UK but I get charged 25p. Something not very efficient is going on.
"superhuman or comparable"

What nonsense! XD
> My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it?

The main threat against any cryptocurrency is that a malicious actor will gain control of 51% of the voting power of the system, and use it in nefarious ways that ultimately break the cryptocurrency. Different Proof-of-X systems handle that problem in different ways.

It's generally considered that Proof-of-Work is easier to 51% attack, but also easier to recover from that Proof-of-Stake. The attack and recovery both use the same mechanism - add more hardware mining power to the system. There is no hard limit on this baked into the system, it's just a matter of how much mining power is available to purchase irl. And recovery can be accomplished without having to hard fork the network.

Proof-of-Stake on the other hand may be more difficult to 51% attack since it requires an attacker to obtain 51% of all the currency value in the system. But if this is accomplished, then it's difficult or impossible for the honest participants to rectify, since there's no more currency available to purchase. The attacker isn't going to sell them any of his 51%. So there's an inherent hard limit baked into the system, and the attacker now has 51% of it (including 51% of all newly created currency as well, since new currency is created by staking existing currency). The only fix is for the honest participants to hard-fork the network and create a new version of it that excludes the attacker. (There are other mitigations like slashing for malicious behavior designed to prevent attackers from gaining 51% in the first place).

There are other differences, but I believe those are the main ones, and one reason why Bitcoin hasn't moved to it.
[dupe] More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665593
It's a shame for you, then, that immigration has caused, to within margin of error, no actual problems except for an increase in the visibility of people who strongly oppose immigration.
Given that the person who created LLVM also created Swift, the ability to be used as a systems programming language was always there.

Chris Lattner, the creator of both LLVM and Swift, has referred to Swift as “syntactic sugar for LLVM.” They are deeply tied together.

The amount of Swift code in Apple's operating systems has increased every year.

https://blog.timac.org/2023/1019-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...

Lattner gave an interview looking at the advantages of reference counting over the sort of garbage collection used in languages like Java, C#, and Go while still avoiding error-prone manual memory management.

> ARC has clear advantages in terms of allowing Swift to scale down to systems that can’t tolerate having a garbage collector, for example, if you want to write firmware in Swift. I think that it does provide a better programming model where programmers think just a little bit about memory.

https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript#gc
I will see if I can open source it.
Some of us who give up won't have grandchildren because we're not having children either.
Oh so more than just what’s on top? Neato.
Correct. They carry a net assets balance at the end of the period. But they do not retain earnings because there are no shareholders to pay out.
North Korean Hackers Target German Missile Maker with Fake Job Offers
I actually don’t even see the word “buy” currently. I see “add to cart” and “checkout”.

That said, I doubt it has any real impact on sales. It’s like “Beef chili” vs “Chili with beef”. The average consumer wouldn’t know the difference.