skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> well, that is the question. that narrative may not be necessary for you, but it is for me and for many others.

Being convinced that we need something is not the same as something being necessary for us. There are all sort of human endeavor out there whose main goal is to convince us we need something, be it some
consumer commodity, some skill, or some divinity. Most often than not, people who conduct these propaganda campaigns are themselves convince that it's relevant to do it for some of their aspiration to become a reality, be it something they expose in what they communicate openly or some more or less hidden agenda.

The topic is not that much about are narratives a necessity, but what they lead to. If they lead to people wanting to give only love and respect to other as much as for themselves, that sounds great, and who would complain, really? If they lead to "we the camp of the good vs the heretics evil others that must be destroyed whatever the means", that's an entirely different concern.

When we think "advancing civilization", we are actually stashing the real issue that is that there is not "a single narrative about a single civilization".

It makes as much sense to ask whether we need narratives as to ask whether we need tools. Stories can glorify the gun holder or the people who learnt how and when to use first aid kits.
I like his content, but these sort of unbelievable thing on a raspberry pi articles with clickbait titles aren't particularly interesting when they essentially involve offloading all the work to an external component that is more powerful than the pi itself.
Second harshest - Gaza has worse.
> But my concern is always what happens to the poor.

There are subsidies available to low-income households. I'm unsure about the specifics as subsidies differ from one canton to another and usually depend on your income and family status.
Beyond the surface level there is a didcussion to be had on the marketplace business model of cornering the arbitration of producer-consumer interation.

This man amplified both his production and consumption to capture arbitration kickbacks. Is that an exploit? Of course it is. On the other hand Spotify amplifies its mediation position from audience capture bootstrapped through grey zone practices. Was that an exploit?
I think the joke was Cloudflare has a generous free tier that covers a lot of ground, sp your bill will be zero. Most hobbyists won’t hit the limit.
Steve, I see you’re in this thread. I was using jj for a while before reading your tutorial and yet still found it quite insightful and helpful. Thanks for your contribution!
Public health tends to take the view that access to antibiotics is already too high, not too low.
Are you aware of Firefox Relay[0]? It seems you have extra features, but their plan is priced at 0.99€. For what I need it seems Relay is just enough.

About the site, those blocks under the "Say goodbye to spam and stop cold emails." heading are impossible to read, and the effect on mouseover don't make it any easier.

Good luck with your endeavour :)

[0] https://relay.firefox.com/
Because a lot of sites these days require special (but not too special) characters.
Ignorance is the problem.

Plenty of wealthy people are taking horse deworming medicine for political purposes.
At what point do we acknowledge that the power structure is going after it's political opponents?
IIRC Japan has had at least one court ruling that training on copyrighted data is fair use (or a version thereof).
nobody is paying for the training so you either pay for the inference or the ads do
> Cancer kills over 9 million people per year

"Cancer" isn't one disease though, it's hundreds, and many of them require completely different approaches to treat.

> Tuberculosis kills nearly 1.5 million people per year, or 3x

So in other words, yes, it would be "worth it" to develop a vaccine for strep A. It would also be worth it to develop a vaccine for tuberculosis. Let's do both.

> Over 9 million people die from hunger related causes, which while not a disease is 18x strep A

Not really relevant. The people who have expertise in developing vaccines and the people who have expertise in "fixing hunger" are not the same people.

> the scale and the fact that it can be treated with common antibiotics means that we can put the effort and resources that would be spent on a vaccine to better use elsewhere

That's not a good way to evaluate where to put resources. To borrow your example, maybe it will take 10x more time and 5x the cost to develop a vaccine for tuberculosis vs. strep A. Then working on strep A sounds like a good allocation of resources.

Just offering that as an example; I of course don't know the relative resource requirements here. But things are not so simple. (Though going back to your cancer example: I feel pretty safe in guessing it would take way more than 18x the resources and effort to cure all forms of cancer than to develop a strep A vaccine.)

And regardless, resources are usually not allocated in the most simple, efficient way. People work on things because they want to, and can find someone to fund them. Funders might want to fund something because they have a personal connection to the thing they're funding. Certainly government grants are given with a bit more rigor than that, but there's a lot of disease-fighting out there that comes from a variety of sources. And that's ok.
In terms of difficulty, perhaps. In terms of significance, it's an achievement on the same scale as sleeping late on the weekend.
Is the US sanctioning Canada? I must have missed that news.
But this is also why you have a layered system of safety. Here, there are three layers:

1. Uncontrolled aircraft stay in uncontrolled airspace, airliners generally stay in controlled airspace (speaking generally, I know class E is controlled, but it's not positive control, and I know that the class C doesn't extend up to the class A) (successful)

2. The airliner had TCAS, as required, and the small plane had a working transponder, as required. As long as the airliner followed the RA, they would remain safe (successful)

3. The controller was supposed to provide separation on a workload permitting basis (not fully successful, the goal is more separation than was provided).

The ultimate result though was that the two planes missed each other by a fairly comfortable margin. The great thing is that the system doesn't depend on everyone being perfect to have a safe outcome, and it's been many years since an airliner has hit another plane in the U.S.
Not all 2^N - 1 are prime. For example, N=18 makes 2^N - 1 = 262143, which can also be written as 3^3 * 7 * 19 * 73 (not prime).
Such a grand oulipo. well done
Clay is expensive for sure. To clarify, it’s more of a data enrichment tool than a sequencing tool.
Did you ask AI about Haiti's exports. 63M might be a monthly average of some year. I think they are higher than $1B

Did the same AI tell you about Cuban exports? At least $2B is in the same ballpark, but definitely lower.
Not in the example given there.
There’s tons of numbers of the form 2^N-1 which are not prime.

To discover the primes, we have to iterate through the numbers and test their primality. With numbers that are so big, it’s very compute intensive
Oh, right, all Mersenne number is in the form of 2^N -1, but Mersenne prime is Mersenne number plus being prime
That’s besides the point I’m making. Technology should develop towards simplifying humanity’s life, not making it more complicated. It’s a good thing we don’t have to use clever loop constructs anymore, because compilers do it for us. It’s a good thing we don’t have to obsess about the right varchar size anymore, because Postgres‘ text does the right thing anyway.

It’s a systemic problem. You’re going to loose the battle against human nature: Ever noticed how, after moving from a college dorm into a house, people suddenly manage to fill all the space with things? It’s not like the dorm was enough to fit everything they ever needed, but they had to accommodate themselves to it. This constraint is artificial, exhausting to keep up, and, if gone, will no longer be adhered to.

If a computer suddenly becomes more powerful, developers aren’t going to keep up their good habits performance optimisation, because they had those only out of necessity in the first place.
Ive had similar experience with a Hyundai with steering assist. It would get confused by messed road lining all the time. Meanwhile it had no problem climbing a road curb that was unmarked. And it would try to constantly nudge the steering wheel meaning I had to put force into holding it in place all the time since it which was extra fatigue.

Oh and it was on by default, meaning I had to disable it every time I turned the car on.
My comment was directed to they have to show that whatever they build actually works in the near future. And not that they don’t have money or they’ll go out of business anytime soon.

With the current state of affairs, it is not hard to believe that in 10-15 years they might be a shell of their former selves and they do only maintenance on existing airplanes.
Who is being abused by AI generating text?
What's novel about this? iirc, Apple withdrew its plan to hash photos client-side a couple years ago after an outcry. Dropbox has been hashing every file forever to save storage space. Store your shit with a cloud provider, expect it to get scanned, right?

Also, there are a million cute methods to make two different photos produce the same hash; that was actually what the outcry about Apple's version was about. The more the hash algorithm tried to produce the same hash for different variants of a photo, the more likely it was that someone could get their hands on a flagged hash and theoretically send you an innocuous looking photo that registered as CSAM. Pretty sure that's why Apple pulled it.
And yet a half million people still get it and die. Doesn't sound "solved" to me ("technically" or otherwise). I'm not sure if mass vaccination campaigns would be more effective than hoping people see a doctor when they get sick (seems like a lot don't) and hoping they are able to pay for a full course of antibiotics (seems like a lot can't), and hoping they actually stick with it and take the full course (many people in general don't).

At least with vaccinations, it's usually one shot every $DECENTLY_NOT_SHORT_INTERVAL, and that's it.

Granted, crazy stupid antivax sentiment is on the rise...
And yet the US trades openly with Palestine. Seems like maybe the issue with Cuba isn't entirely the US embargo?
https://oeis.org/A000043
You’re presupposing they actually survive the current events and come out victorious in order to “write history”. I’m not sure of that at all if things kick off in earnest there.
> Maybe I'm just tired, dunno.

Definitely you are tired my friend; I know exactly what you are talking about!

I find it extremely amusing and energy draining at the same time, when I see some projects that are unnecessarily over-engineered, when I could write a simple shell script that produces the __exact__ output, but it's deemed un-enterprise-y!
People openly racist, and also happy to break the law, probably aren't going to integrate well regardless of policy.
1. https://www.gayle.com/career-advice

2. Book - "The tech resume inside out"

3. Youtube - "Create Your Resume for Google: Tips and Advice"

4. Science of job search (archived) - https://web.archive.org/web/20200513195903/https://talent.wo...
Maybe pay for residential proxy network access?

I used to get my internet from a small local ISP, and ip blacklisting basically means no one in our zipcode could have reliable internet.

These days, the 10-20% of us with an unobstructed sky view switched to starlink and didn’t look back.

The thing is, both ISPs use CGNAT, but there’s no way cloudflare is going to block Musk like they do the mom and pop shop.

Anyway, apparently residential proxy networks work pretty well if you hit a spurious ip block. I’ve had good luck with apple private relay too.

I’m hoping service providers realize how useless and damaging ip blocking is to their reputations, but I’m not holding my breath. Sometimes I think the endgame is just routing 100% of residential traffic through 8.8.8.8.
Would that matter if the company wants to do business in countries with more restrictive laws?

I.E. if I wrote my own spin-off of a popular book series, which was somehow considered fair use in country A, but considered infringing in country B, the publisher could get it removed from stores in country B.

By the same logic, if AI training is ruled as copyright infringement in the US, it won't matter if the company trains their model somewhere else - if they open a US division to sell service using that model, they'd get sued.

Granted I'm not an IP lawyer and AI IP law is in its infancy - maybe I'm missing something?
Do you do extra spam filtering? I see the advantage of not always giving out my email (I use Apple relay sometimes) but ultimately, a thing that routes to my email is another avenue for spam (until I kill that route).
As a commenter points out, that’d make programming a difficult pastime. Can’t think of a non-esolang without if and for apart from Brainfuck, and that’s got an f in the name.
Not directly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms–Burton_Act
It means both "in a long time" and "in a short time", depending on context and intonation.
A true lipogrammer, I guess.
Yes, I figured that he would need a tablebase anyway. But that's still a few bits per position, the number of possible games doesn't come in to it.
The lead has been taken over by Xai already as far as I know. They seem to have 100k H100's up and running.

OpenAI is not really leading the LLM world anyway ever since Claude sonnet 3.5 came out.
Welcome to the world of politics and the hypocrisy, where application of rules depends on the weaknesses of who is being blocked.

"Certain jurisdictions, such as the European Union and Canada, have so-called blocking statutes in place that are intended to mitigate the impact of U.S. sanctions on their citizens or entities conducting (in their view) legitimate business in Cuba."

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2019/05/under-...
The LLM. How would you feel if you were compelled to generate child abuse content?
And yet we still have many successful mandatory vaccination campaigns. Certainly they've been hurt by all the antivax garbage going around since the pandemic, but that doesn't make them not worthwhile.
I didn’t say the author was obscure or that his ideas were not relevant, but rather that this particular text was rare.

I was overly dismissive in referring to its contents as tangential (it’s a framework for analyzing media that makes some vague but bold claims about what constituted effective content on varying mediums for media at different points in time).

But he can be “famous” and the material can be relevant and the original point can still stand — they found something sufficiently relevant and mysterious and famous enough to point to as an external appeal to authority to justify the sale ads on the serving of visual opium to children. I don’t think that would have been McLuhan’s cup of tea, eh? But if you do it in his name, maybe it’s easier to swallow.
I would expect those channels (PH, HN…) would be helpful in getting early adopters to click around and point out what is wrong with app - not getting really customers.

For me personally PH would be more like ideas to copy from.
I don’t really know. I don’t write posts to optimize for SEO (include FAQ at the end or something like that) and hope it’s just good content people will share.

There are also SEO pages which do not have any useful content. I think I should have more of them because my competitors have only SEO pages but I don’t have time for it as I have to focus on the product and customer support. Probably a good mix between useful content blog posts (maybe with SEO filling) and strictly SEO pages is best to bring traffic.
Article says it has 71 bits of entropy, that's a number with 22 digits in it. It's not really an issue.
I think it's weird (and a bit callous) that you'd so casually dismiss the idea that saving 500,000 lives a year is something significant.
I wonder how easy it would be to avoid that letter when programming. It would certainly be easier in Perl, since you can use unless conditionals and while loops, and subroutines are simply called sub. In the case you absolutely need a module using the dreaded letter, require can be used instead of use so that letter can simply be escaped. The same applies to method calls, just call indirectly. The idea reminds me about JS*uck.
The point is that he made it possible to do the offloading.
>When I've tried, it has always just slowed me down because I constantly have to map back and forth between the picture and the native non-geometric version in my head.

That's the whole point though, and I think the article try to also point that.

That is, there are considerations which are harder or downright impossible to model when a scene is approached under some perspective. But change perspective, and everything might now be obvious if not completely trivial to handle. The additional information pointed here is that even if placed in the very same perspective, people will still perceive the situation differently. Even at the same position with the same light exposure, a color blind person won't experiment the same observation as someone whose cognitive process overload the mental picture with additional color information.
amazing how many bitcoins have been discovered since then. Satoshi should've incentivized mining something useful.
Does OpenAI's revenue per user increase with each new user? I don't think so, but it was definitely the case with Google and Facebook . That's a big difference that you can not overlook
The sanctions are nothing most Americans ever think of, apart from maybe Cuban cigars being exotic or hard to procure - though I feel like that was more of a thing 30+ years ago.

The goal was Cuba was openly hostile to the US and so we swung our large economic …stick, around. They took our assets and then held nuclear missiles for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, essentially putting them incredibly close to our shores.

They’re lucky the US didn’t do more, frankly.
Poland's economic success has more to do with the collapse of the USSR than any US', or any other particular nation's intervention
The part in parentheses has only recently been added.
Codeproject.com Is Gone
This week in Plasma: hardware is hard
>presumably go on infinitely long

prove it
happenstance x > 0:

per x in y:
Unfortunately for them and their ideological allies, fortunately for people with common sense.
If you have an adversary that can afford to tie up 10k servers each capable of doing gigahash per second for 7.5 years go ahead and use a stronger password. And while you're at it you better buy the best physical security that money can buy.
I guess you can (at least in C ) use && where you would use “if” and a convoluted while where you could write a “for”.
So the wealthy can finally cheat death efficiently once and for all ;-)

On a more serious note: that might be hard in medicine per se to pay for “results”. And I found some of the insights from “Outlive” quite interesting: how we focus in cure but not prevention; and how in the bigger scheme of things Antibiotics was almost the only “real big invention” in western medicine for a very long time (e.g., in terms of actual medical impact)
I'm more with skeeto on this that asserts should make it easy to slip into a debugger to get that further context you're looking for: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/06/26/
This was a lawsuit by shareholders, and the judge thought investors should know whatever Elon says is bullshit.

Completely different from e.g. consumers, of whom less such understanding is expected.
With Rust you could get by with "match bool { true => ..., _ => ... }" and "loop { ... break }" I think.
Weird stuff, on the other hand, art is there so you can create your desires w/o being a hazard to other humans.
I think the opposite... instead of going through the trouble of making people change their ways (which we know is hard and takes generations) instead we eliminate the root cause. Sounds efficient to me.
Goo, they keep it in goo
Canada is a rich and prosperous nation. How do you figure “too many of its resources” is being spent on elderly care??
One PDP-10 operating system stored five 7-bit characters in one 36-bit word.
This was back when memory cost a million dollars a megabyte in the 1970s.
I for one would stay away 100 feet from any project that remotely alludes to being vaguely interested in crypto/blockchain.
So not doing that is a huge green flag for me.

Haven’t yet seen and canola where this crypto distributed network actually had benefits and wasn’t just a giant grift - to be fair I did not look very hard though.
I can draw that for you, if you provide the tesseract-board and the trans-cubic pen required to represent this.
The next worst is to popularise its beauty on Instagram :’( . As a hobbyist landscape photog I have a complicated relationship with this
I was bitten by this as well. My product retrieves RSS feeds from public government sites, and suddely I'm blocked by cloudflair's antibotting for tryng to access a page that was specifically created for machine consumption. It is not that the website owner or publisher intend to block this. They are unaware that turng on Cloudflare will block everything, even stuff allowed to be consumed according to robots.txt .

P.S. when I mentioned this here on HN a few weeks back, it was implied that I probably did not respect robots.txt ( I do, Cloudflair does not) or that I should get in touch with the site administrators (impossible to do in any reasonably effective way at scale).
Adding a comment here to check back later because I'm curious now if someone has the answer. I thought it would be easy to find the answer, but I can't find it either. I figured it would say somewhere a number is converted to an int32, but instead I got to the part where there's a map of active timers[1] with the time stored as a double[2] without seeing a clear loss happening anywhere before that.

[1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-promp...

[2] https://w3c.github.io/hr-time/#dom-domhighrestimestamp
> super effective indoctrination

We're already starting to see signs of that even with GPT-3, which really was auto-complete: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/2/pgae034/76109...

Fortunately even the best LLMs are not yet all that competent with anything involving long-term planning, because remember too that "megalomaniac" includes Putin, Stalin, Chairman Mao, Pol Pot etc., and we really don't want the conversation to be:

"Good news! We accidentally made CyberMao!"

"Why's that good news?"

"We were worried we might accidentally make CyberSatan."
Any evidence for that claim? The issue is not whether there is administrative overhead, but the amount of it. It’s not obvious to me that completely different funding models would incur the exact same amount of overhead on the practitioners.
There was adequate evidence that nuclear is capable of killing millions of people and causing large scale environmental issues.

It’s still not clear today what effect CO2 or fossil fuel usage has on us.
My friends and I had great fun with Micro Machines 2 on the Mega drive (Genesis).

The cartridge itself was fascinating because it had two extra controller ports on it! You had for player gaming by plugging two controllers into the console and two controllers into the cartridge that was protruding from the top of the console. The cartridge was a little taller than usual to accommodate the extra hardware.
thank you steve, i’ve been excited for this!
> It wasn’t until my mid-30s that I found a method that made me productive (going from 2-3 hours of work a day to 9-10 hours

What was this method ?
> theoretically send you an innocuous looking photo that registered as CSAM. Pretty sure that's why Apple pulled it.

Apple also had human reviewers in the mix. The only reason they pulled it was PR/optics.