skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Practically it has to be higher than the bitrate of audio-visual data that is presented on a computer. Call that 1MBps for a video stream (way under-calling the amount of data human vision reports I would suggest). That'd put a lower cap of around 50 GB/day of new data, 20 TB/year. Of course, computers can train with more than 2 eyes with one location and perspective. We aren't anywhere near the data cap with current training.

Although to be fair I do suspect that most of that data is repetitive, boring and of little use. In my opinion some sort of check for novel data is probably going to be the next big breakthrough in machine learning.
For a person it doesn't matter. But the context here is gangs, and for organizations it could make a difference. $2B can be split many-ways and still have significant money for everyone.
I just did it on Kagi and except for the obvious stock.adobe.com ones, all of the AI generated images were from snopes and
media sites repeating this story, but I have quite a few sites blocked (pinterest is definitely nuked)
Would you be as excited if there were no viable solutions?
That’s orthogonal to the point though, which is about the social value of private chats etc. Not whether they’re truly technologically “private”.
> They raised millions of dollars recently.

Bit of an understatement: $57 million.

But of course, the majority of HN is still stuck in the “PHP is a stupid dying language” loop from 2012.
Private in the sense of admittance, not observation.
Yup! I find Elixir makes it really intuitive to know when to represent a collection as a map and when to use a list of tuples. And its easy to transform between the two when needed.
An Open Source 3D Printed Sundial That Reads Digital Time (2015)
> ultimately denying their request to scuttle the reactors

A solid source detailing the story would be useful.

TEPCO ignored his order to stop pumping in order to avoid re-criticality, and Kan soon accepted TEPCO views on the matter:
This seems sourced to me (no mention of scuttling anything): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoto_Kan#Fukushima_nuclear_ac...

> was rewarded with merely the loss of

I don't think so. Japan was, then, in a political turmoil with 4 prime ministers from September 2006 to June 2010 (when his mandate began): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Jap...

He passed a bill to promote the use renewable energy. This is sufficient, even for this ex nuclear enthusiast, to be blacklisted and villified.
A handful will take this path. The big herd will not.
Ah yes, it's "territories" nowadays. It's completely the same besides the name!
Just finished watching the doc on HBO.

The key piece of evidence seems to be this comment from Peter Todd: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2181.msg28739#msg287...

It stands out to the producers because: 1) Peter makes it just after joining the form, so he is unlikely to have detailed knowledge of bitcoin. 2) He seems to be finishing Satoshi's thought, as though he returned to an earlier post forgetting which account he was signed into. 3) The post happens just before Satoshi disappears and Peter leaves for a few years.

The doc also features many scenes with Peter and Adam Back where their eyes kind of shift around and they laugh awkwardly when asked about certain things. Since the doc it seems that Peter has taken to twitter to say he was mislead about the purpose of the interviews.

I've always kind of thought that Satoshi was probably one person who built it all in isolation, and I never played much attention to theories that Satoshi was actually multiple people. After watching the doc it does seem like Adam and Peter know a good deal more than they are letting on, even if it wasn't them specifically, it seems likely that they have some idea who it was.
No no,

Un-annotated tuples and too many func params are OK, because at least they are pushed and popped from the stack.

Calls and rets without a prologue and epilogue on the other hand…
In High Mountain Alaska, a Glacier's Deep Secret Is Revealed at Last
Computing with Paper [video]
Iirc, biased sources are avoided here even for factually correct postings
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/climate/alaska-great-gorg...
Refusing to understand that everyone (politician or not) can fail and that if we now can replace something dangerous in case of failure (nuclear) by something new which isn't (renewables), we should do so... is the error in logic I am talking about.
on the contrary.

Good fences make for good neighbors.

Its not a coincidence that the printing press brought devastating war to europe in the form of the wars of reformation [1] .

The internet is another real tool for knocking down fences for free, by anyone. Its only a matter of time when there's pushback by angry fence-owners.

We absolutely need less friction and more of minding our own business and focusing on our own back yard instead of chiming in on someone thousands of miles away.

Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for the free flow of information, but what people (HN crowd?) don't understand is that a significant subgroup of humans cannot tolerate relentless change or challenges to their worldview for too long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion#Defi...
By status I mean geopolitical power and leverage, not fear or admiration.
Telegraph/morse code would probably work fine.

For this application I might also consider classic serial/RS-232 (c. 1969), which can be implemented with one signal wire (tx) and can connect to modern USB.

I'm not entirely sure whether they qualify as "right foundation" but they've worked well in practice.
None of this alters the fundamentals about the checkpoints to reality. Sure, they can drift from observed outcomes, but to the extent China (or any nation state) trades internationally, it's capacity to supply, and acquire goods and services and raw materials to meet external market demand present an objective reality.

Can you know if the published reserves are as large (or small) as suggested? No. But you can reflect on the terms of trade and decide if they are better or worse than you expected in the light of reality.

DPRK is supplying shells to russia for the war in Ukraine. This speaks both to the DPRK capacity to manufacture and supply shells, their quality (the rate of duds) and the industrial capacity inside the FSU such that it requires this to meet expected demand. These are the kind(s) of measures in reality which make it very unlikely sustaining "lies" about the economy can work long-term: Other people can draw their own inferences.

Planned economies set goals. China set specific economic goals. Failure to deliver has consequence. If they miss targets there is an internal conversation which in due course we hear about. If they exceed target there are consequences and a conversation in due course we hear about. If a goal is met but the next cycles goals are radically different that tells a story too: if your demand remains but they cannot supply, their prior ability to supply must have had consequences or some other aspect of the econnomy has changed.

In any event, planning an economy on false data is an exercise in peak frustration for the staff concerned. It's less likely anyone pushes paper for a fake outcome, the stakes are too high.

I view this as similar to differential analysis in cryptography. Heat of the chip die tells a story. Where the work is done tells a story. Remember, aircraft and satellites fly the world 24/7 so it's not like an open cut mine can be hidden, or the spoil heaps of a deep mine, and the extent they grow is governed by the laws of physics: you can only pile soil so high before you have to slope it. So even things as unlikely as overflight by remote sensing satellites can tell you about the fundamentals of mining, industrial activity.

"success" here has many measures. I'm focussed on the one which relates to the core topic, the economy. There are other measures, the demographics for instance which tell a tale of a cohort "missing" during the Mao famine years, and in due course will tell a tale of covid.
All sources are biased to some extent
Family farms are a good example but there are still plenty of others like a family business. I wouldn't care to see an increasing fraction of assets fall into institutional ownership simply because people are taxed out of owning them intergenerationally. There's a massive difference between "the government will tax you for part of your value" and "the government will, over a sufficient time, tax you entirely out of even a growing asset."

If the concern is how much the policy costs the nation, then I don't think that's a sufficient reason to change things either. The top 1% in America hold about 31% of a total $140 trillion, or $43 trillion. This is, in a very optimistic case, around twenty years worth of the current federal deficit. Given the trajectory it's taken over my entire lifetime I find it unlikely it would last more than a decade. If the concern is cost, we have a "money out" problem in the US, not a "money in" one, largely driven by our ballooning mandatory spending (much of which goes to a radically outsized group of old people, whose entitlements neither party will touch despite their outsized ownership of wealth) and the high interest expense that's caused. Even if we outright confiscated every dollar of the 1%'s net worth, that wouldn't represent a remotely sustainable solution. Hence my comment about most of these policies looking more like schadenfreude than a sincere desire to fix things.
Everything is biased; the main difference is how good they are at hiding it. Heck, Wikipedia’s cofounder calls it “propaganda” and said the site has “become merely left-wing advocacy essays.”
Auxetic structure research (2018) [video]
> Wordpress.org isn't a legal entity. It's simply a domain owned by Matt.

Automattic's website (https://automattic.com/2024/10/02/wordpress-trademarks-a-leg...) says otherwise:

> The Foundation also licensed the name WordPress to the non-profit WordPress.org, which runs a website that facilitates access to WordPress-related software.
Thats only because your list has different types. Its a badly formed API and if you really need to support that use case then you can use maps and reflection to handle it.
Hasn't Rails been traditional server with patched with dynamic parts since like 2005? I would pick that
Whew, I'm glad its not the Iranian, Russian, North Korean or Chinese governments
Ask HN: What do you do for online privacy?
Two years ago, I submitted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33558737 which turned up some interesting comments.

I thought I'd revisit this topic now that it's been almost two years.

# Applications, Operating Systems

Do you run specific browsers, and why? Do you have specific applications that you use to protect your privacy? Do you engage in any kind of hardening?

Do you run any specific kind of operating system (say, Windows, Mac, etc) and why? Does it matter to you personally whether you are tracked?

# Online Storage

For example, do you store files on cloud storage as-is? If so, what kind of criteria do you have for that? Do you encrypt all files before they go anywhere? Does AES128 or AES256 encryption provide reasonable protections?

# Social Media

Do you avoid or block social media? If so or if not, why?
Sorry, but I can't engage you on this. You have to understand that your original statement, in both content and tone, simply precludes any follow-up or debate. And then when this ws pointed out, you doubled down on the same weird, time-traveling, debate-terminating formulation.

So okay, fine: HN is a big place, and there's plenty of other people you can debate on this particular point if you want. I don't think we'll convince each other of anything anyway, which is also perfectly fine.
Soprano isn’t really “very high”, it’s just the higher of the two ranges of women’s voice types. There’s soprano and mezzo soprano. Those are the two broad types for women. Within soprano and mezzo soprano there are subtypes, like lyric soprano, coloratura soprano, contralto, etc. (There’s a lot of detail I’m eliding here. This is not just about pure range, but about what kind of sound you can get in specific ranges using certain techniques. Also note that this classification is specific to opera and does not translate to singing in other styles or singing.)

I’ve heard statistics that most women are sopranos. It’s just that most don’t have voice training.

Likewise… and this may surprise you… I’ve heard statistics that most men are probably tenors. Like, 80%.
>“We were very unlucky, we lost our son. But the court has given us a very precious gift. We would now be able to get our son back,” the mother, Harbir Kaur, told the BBC.

This sentence suggests otherwise, unless it is a mistranslation.

They are NOT getting their son back. They are getting a different person. And I'm not sure this is what the son wanted; It probably is not.
Physics does not explain flow of time at all. If one films a thrown ball, physics can tell from few frames its speed or where the ball is on the following or previous frames. But it tells nothing about why, when see the film, we perceive the ball moving. Articles like the above misses this.

In fact there is no even notion of direction of time in physics. All physical models are time-reversible. And even if we observe violation of, say, CPT, in nature, it still will not explain while we perceive time flowing in a particular direction.

This is very well discussed in the book “Time’s Arrow” by Huw Price.
> Which are never in ASCII because this isn't 1990.

This is a very silly statement. I'm willing to believe that you have lots of cases where those things are outside the ASCII range. Perhaps even most of the cases, depending on where you live. But I do not believe for one second that it never happens.
Caustic lenses are wierd. (2023) [video]
Who does this still??
... thanks to sheer luck as, AFAIK, no-one knows exactly why the reactor didn't completely melt, threatening the vessel and therefore containment.
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour: the wealthy have siphoned off music industry money
Images were already pretty devalued because of how good phone cameras are and how every person has one. Now it will just give it a little more kick
You don't think the AI content creators will target the next search engine if Google fails? I don't think Google WANTS to prioritize AI slop, they just are unable to not do it.
It actually is. That covers the vast, vast majority of people in the US.
I’ve been idly wondering about something like the Web of Trust. A social network where users vouch for one another's actually-a-real-humanness. There could be setting that let you adjust the size of the network you see (people you’ve actually met? One remove from that?)
Baby male peafowls don't exist?
Also a happy Q Revo Pro customer. No mic/camera, but with the lidar the auto location and pathing is shockingly efficient. And vacuuming might be easy, but mopping is a pain that I never have to deal with anymore. The difference between a pure vacuum and a vacuum plus mop on hardwood floors is night and day, especially with two pets.
Not a great source. You would do better to find a less ideological/tabloidy outlet covering this story.
I spent quite a bit of time with Peter Todd in the very early Bitcoin days. I really enjoyed our conversations back then, I have no idea what he is up to now. My gut feeling is that he is probably not Satoshi Nakamoto. Adam Back is a far more likely suspect, particularly for his British english, which Satoshi wrote in.
that silly softmax1 blog post is not worth the read. no one uses it in practice

if you think about it, the "escape hatch" is the design of the entire transformer dictionary. if Key/Query attention misaligns with Value's weights, you get a layer head that does not attend to anything...
>Taylor's strategy of having auxiliary SaaS / PaaS offerings to the framework seems to work.

Sure, but it would require a business person to make it work and most of Django people seem more like straight developers who don't want to get into building "Django hosting cloud"

I'm not sure Django hosting cloud would be successful since most of Django sites I've seen are either legacy and hosting has been arranged or backend business sites that need inside the network. Greenfield public sites seem much fewer and far between.
There was no reference to Luminati or Hola VPN which, iirc, were exposed to be working together to offer scrapers "residential proxies" by using their free users internet as proxy servers
I think that time isn't what we think it is - but I don't think it's all already set; rather I think that the past can be constrained by the future just as the future is constrained by the past.

I don't think that there's spooky action at a distance (it's fundamentally equivalent to retrocausality, and the consequences of the distant foreign event cannot outpace its light cone anyway).

I think its a superposition of states of a closed time-like curve thing being fleshed out as its contradictions are resolved and interactions are permitted between its colocated non-contradictory aspects.

But I'm not a physicist, so that's probably all just bullshit anyway.
>Vulkan/DX12 _are_ learnable by hobbyists.

I did see that post. It is commendable, but we should also note that that author has 15 years of experience in tech and was already a solo developer as a hobbyist.

It can be easy to forget that there's a lot of cruft and API to grok through for these things, things potentially out of the scope of students and juniors who haven't had to navigate codebases with millions of LoC in various states of disarray. That speaks more to our ability to tolerate the chaos than the learnability of the API.

>I don't think it really makes sense for them to teach how to use Vulkan well or how to make a fast renderer, the details of that often change quickly year by year anyways

From a learners' POV I agree. From the industry's point of view they want someone who can jump into the fray with minimal training. And we both hopefully understand that theory doesn't necessarily correlate to real world experience. So there's some critical bridge that is missing on some side that as of now industry just expects potential programmers to learn in their free time somehow.

Which in and of itself still isn't a trivial matter. Because so much of this knowledge is tribal wisdom carried by industry. So you see where the issues add up. You'll find breadcrumbs here and there scattered across the net, but this is only adding more obstacles for people to hit that bar.

>That's more a symptom of how garbage working in the game development industry is, and less about any underlying technology. There's a reason I work on a game engine for fun, as my hobby, and not professionally despite having the option to do so. Everyone I spoke to in the industry talks about how terrible the working conditions are.

I can concur with that as someone in the industry. But there's not really that many places you can go to work professionally if you're not in games:

- animation renderers (Pixar, Dreamworks, Illumination. maybe Laika), but the reputation in that industry isn't much better

- various research firms that look more for PhD's if anything. Maybe some Masters students. So you're basically in acedemia land (which is known for its lack of pay, even compared to games).

- and of course, the GPU companies. Nvidia, Intel, and AMD among a few others.

It's a very niche field that requires very specialized knowledge. If no one's offering training nor even an above average pay for that, what are you going to do? If left unchecked, these kinds of fields will be the first to suffer the brain drain as pioneers start to retire or die off.

>A professional graphics developer I recently talked to summed it up well - everyone needs a game engine, but no one wants to pay people to make and maintain one.

I'd say that's the 2020's in general, yes. Everyone wants senior+ level workload with the pay of a junior. Meanwhile efficiency is going up and they instead try to pack on more work than ever to "compensate". Something's got to give.
See also the importing of millions of people whose worldviews we cannot reconcile with ours.

It’s not just the HN crowd.
Never stored in ASCII, never limited to ASCII. They're UTF-8, usually.

If somebody's name happens to fit into ASCII that's irrelevant because it's not guaranteed, so you can never blindly do an ASCII case conversion.

For text data meant for users, I literally cannot remember the last time I used a string in ASCII format as opposed to UTF-8 (or UTF-16 in JS). It's certainly over a decade ago.

So yes, when I say never, I literally mean never. Nothing "very silly" about it, sorry.

(Again, excepting identifiers, where case conversion is not generally applicable.)
As a former physicist with a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics, I would say that this is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. I suspect COVID-19 made people collectively dumber.
The author discusses some of these points. One excerpt:

> But even at a much more mundane level there’s a certain crucial relationship between space and time for observers like us. The key point is that observers like us tend to “parse” the world into a sequence of “states of space” at successive “moments in time”. But the fact that we do this depends on some quite specific features of us, and in particular our effective physical scale in space as compared to time.

> In our everyday life we’re typically looking at scenes involving objects that are perhaps tens of meters away from us. And given the speed of light that means photons from these objects get to us in less than a microsecond. But it takes our brains milliseconds to register what we’ve seen. And this disparity of timescales is what leads us to view the world as consisting of a sequence of states of space at successive moments in time.

> If our brains “ran” a million times faster (i.e. at the speed of digital electronics) we’d perceive photons arriving from different parts of a scene at different times, and we’d presumably no longer view the world in terms of overall states of space existing at successive times.

> The same kind of thing would happen if we kept the speed of our brains the same, but dealt with scenes of a much larger scale (as we already do in dealing with spacecraft, astronomy, etc.).
How does computer know it's 10% of 10? Unless specified, 10% is 0.1
Or am I an idiot and missing something here
Where do you get that information?

Liu Kun reached official retirement age, and I can still find engagements involving him after his successor was announced.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-10-24/china-...

I’m not a huge fan of China or anything but let’s stick to facts instead of conspiracy theories?
> right thing, robustly, more efficiently than you can possibly imagine doing it.

Well... actually evolution doesn't tend to do that well against an engineered process. It has higher bandwidth than human engineers.

For example, engineers can move humans around faster and with better energy efficiency [0] than evolution managed directly. We've also figured out more effective ways to organise society (laws & principles) than nature managed (many of our instincts have effects that lead to measurably stupid outcomes, eg, mob forming instincts are just a disaster). There are quite a lot of examples where it turns out engineering > evolution in a quite strict sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport
when you die, people say that your time has ended. Does anyone know scientifically speaking what happens to time for a dead person
"Unit 8200’s new project, Lavender, uses artificial intelligence to select targets for the Israeli military’s bombing campaign in Gaza"

Link for anyone who missed this story from April, it's not linked in the article:

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
So statistical test won't work, and we need something else
> from the stack

Or many, many stacks you can't comprehend nor amend.

I dare to add a new `key` to a dict, can you modify a func call or a tuple with confidence?