skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generating billions of nonwords to investigate properties of uselessness, as part of a pataphysical research project. https://patanyc.org/nonwords
Oh, I misunderstood the point you were making.

I guess you _could_ have a modern digital receiver with SCART-out (if such a thing exists) to a B&W TV. This BBC article (2018) claims 7,000 people watching TV with a B&W licence – whether they were actually watching it in B&W is not known :-D

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46125741
Your brain isn't magic, you learn from experience.

AI isn't magic, it learns from experience.

If the inputs used to train an AI are "stealing", why aren't the inputs (experiences, what you read, what you listen to) to your brain?

And I don't mean in the reductive sense of "you are a human and the AI is not" I mean the act and the process and the result are the same, what differs is the substrate and the architecture — proton exchange across lipid layers vs. electron flow across doped semiconductors for the former, and transformers vs. the evolved chemical mess of the human brain for the latter.
As someone who has both independently published and gone through a technical publisher, there’s still a stamp of approval, fully deserved or not, associated with your book being published by a known name.
A script which replaces all comments in a file with confusing yet plausible-looking alternatives - https://github.com/tiniuclx/CommentCPP

I did this seven years ago - way before generative AI came around to do it in twice time and 1000x more expensive ;)
Sure, diseases carried by dog poop:

https://www.cpha.ca/human-diseases-transmitted-dog-poop
> Many state legislatures, for instance, are constitutionally prohibited from fucking with certain obligations, commonly pensions.

Which is a serious problem. The entire idea of a truly guaranteed pension is not feasible and always leads to a pyramid scheme and then insolvency.
In my experience audio is an order of magnitude more important than video.
I've seen this mentioned before here in the comments, but custom fitted ear protection isn't that expensive if you consider the amount of time you can use them for and especially if you consider the damage to your hearing in terms of monetary elements.

I had to work in very loud and noisy environments and I also cycled to work through rush hour traffic in a busy city. The roughly 150$ for a custom molded in-ear protectors/filters (they lower between 10 and 25 db specifically aimed at limiting big event noises - music/announcers/etc). You can even get models with swappable filters, so you can easily get a few filters for different needs and swap them out.

Check with your local pharmacy or doctor and get them. If you can't afford them as $150 is a lot for many people, I've had a friend use the loop in ear protectors, but at an event where we worked a 16 hour day, he said that they got very uncomfortable, while my custom-fitted ones were still good!
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Everyone that doesn't want to write Java/Kotlin is using the NDK.

Although from Google's point of view the NDK only purpose is for enabling writing native methods, reuse of C and C++ libraries, games and real time audio, from point of view of others, it is how they sneak Cordova, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin,.... into Android.
She most probably participated in a birth event, some years ago
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This is similar to what Australia is doing to X, requesting content be taken down worldwide, which X is fighting.
What if there are hidden properties that affect each particle of a pair after they are split, in predetermined ways? that would certainly create correlations that seem to be created on the fly, but they would simply be the result of the inner workings of particles that don't communicate.

For example, if we have two balls, each containing a spin mechanism inside them which makes them spin in relation, let's say, to the magnetic north, and we throw one of them to the other...and later we discover that their spin is somehow correlated.

That is not action at a distance, that is the result of the inner mechanism of each ball.

Why not a similar thing happens with particles?
That's not blind.
> Couldn't LLM provider just fine-tune their model for these tasks specifically - since they are static - to get ad value?

They could. They would easily be found out as they loose in real world usage or improved new unique benchmarks.

If you were in charge of a large and well funded model, would you rather pay people to find and "cheat" on LLM benchmarks by training on them, or would you pay people to identify benchmarks and make reasonably sure they specifically get excluded from training data?

I would exclude them as well as possible so I get feedback on how "real" any model improvement is. I need to develop real world improvements in the end, and any short term gain in usage by cheating in benchmarks seems very foolish.
The question is if Google became useless, or the amount of useless information it indexes somehow has skyrocketed ?

There seems to be a ton of mostly AI generated content out there (or simply keyword based), designed to grab your clicks.
It was not in a scientific paper but in the presentation, were a legible letter, even seen from far in the conference room, is more important than anything.
I get you, but to my ears, the phrasing itself implies it's part of the sentence (unless the common phrasing was different back then).

Most people would say "The number _preceding_ this sentence". "of this" sounds like it's part of the sentence.
> Sunsetting Win32, or even having significant backwards-compatibility breaks, would upset so many corporate customers who would then refuse to upgrade.

Creating solutions in search of a problem doesn't work.
I have to do my job and my computer shall halp me not get in the way. We are at the end of 2024 and i need admin access to install and use an USB to serial converter (or any other HW device) in Windows.
But not if you search comic sans mono -it's a very specific easteregg
Consciousness is a suitcase term. Once all the clothes that define consciousness are neatly arranged and packed into AI then it will be conscious too.
Please don't litter HN with LLM generated spam, there's more than enough of it out there as is. The real value of HN is the human discussion and this is not it.
There is another place where you should not use CH, and it's in a system with shared resources. CH loves, and earned the right, to have spikes of hogging resources. They even allude to this on the Keeper setup - if you put the nodes for the two systems in the same machine, CH will inevitably push Keeper off the bed and the two will come to a disagreement. You should not have it on a k8s Pod for that reason, for example. But then again, you shouldn't have ANY storage of that capacity in a k8s pod anyways.
Going from 4MB to 16MB made Autocad and Orcad Capture under Win 3.1 no longer slow.

I remember a few years before that you'd zoom in on a drawing and do as much as you could without zooming back out because it would take a full minute to redraw the screen. And then another minute to zoom back in somewhere else.
> ANI Media Private Limited, the parent company of news agency Asian News International (ANI), filed a ₹2 crore (approximately US$240,000) defamation suit against the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) over the description of ANI in the English Wikipedia article about the news agency.

Asian News International used the Delhi High Court to censor Wikipedia? Or did the court order the censorship ex officio?
given that the population of michigan is 10M (and was last 8M in 1963) I don't believe either of those numbers.
> That's because it's not understood what a liability allowing this to occur is.

No, it's because they understand what the liability of allowing this is (minimal and inconsequential). So why bother?
Thank you for your project and interest in mine. I really appreciate it.
> I don't see the amount as being the issue they pointed out, the parallel as far as I read it, is that it would be horrible if Apple kicked out an app for not paying them money.

Nope, still missing it. In the G(GGG...)P's parallel, Apple didn't "kick out" the app, only the creator. Just like Automattic / WP.org (is there really any difference, or has that only been an illusion?) didn't "kick out" the plug-in, but WP Engine, the company.

The issue they pointed out was that Automattic (via WP.org?) hijacked the plug-in's user base. They basically stole the plug-in from the creator -- like if Spotify on the App Store was now, as far as users are concerned, an Apple app.

Do you finally get it now? (Please, please do.)
Thanks for that citation, that really helps.

Archived just in case!

https://archive.is/qjppc
Just as a note, also to myself ;), the CAD stuff seems to be hosted in
laser000.ps. Nice demonstration what PostScript is capable of!
> because you have to hire more people or lose speed

Yes and 9 women can make a baby in 1 month :)
> The prior page has been scrubbed from the history of the page, which I have never seen before.

Its rare, but does happen ocassionally. Normally it only happens when someone posts personal information that is not something that is in the public interest enough to belong in an article.
I guess what is missing for me is that there is no verification of the truth of it's responses.

When a human "reasons" they are trying to take some information and find an answer that apparently fits. We don't just blurt out something that may or may not fit. Or at least, if we did we wouldn't call it reasoning.

That an LLM can still produce answers which are correct some of the time is amazing. I just think without the ability to step back and assess it's response, it doesn't hit the bar of reasoning for me.
"A record is an unordered collection of name to value mappings"

If there is one thing that is for sure, it is that we have too many names for "collection of name to value mappings".

In my book the term record is not what first comes to mind when thinking of unordered mappings. All of the usages of the word I can think of imply the possibility of access by name while retaining order. Sometimes this allows easy indexed access (database rows used to be called records) sometimes it doesn't (C structs which also used to be called record types).
Stripe Climate: Remove carbon as you grow your business
or ... destructs
Well written!

I wonder if there's a way to efficiently implement it without resorting to monomorphization?

A function that's polymorphic can be transformed into a more primitive (say C or assembly) function that gets extra arguments that carry the "shape" of the type variable (think of sizes, pointers vs. values, etc.). Is there a similar strategy for these polymorphic records?

I see two issues:

1. The offset of any particular field in the record is unknown at compile time

2. The size of the record itself is unknown at compile time (but this should be trivial as an extra argument.)
> the technologies you mentioned helped spread very useful information, not worthless images devoid of meaning, artistic expression and thought

Both. They did both.

Cameras replaced most portrait painters, but they also gave us "Paint Drying" which is 10 hours 7 minutes long film of exactly what it sounds like — deliberately worthless images devoid of meaning as it's a protest.

And when I was a kid, the talking heads in the press were upset about cable TV introducing the UK to the cartoon channel, with a similar argument to yours.
tinfoil hat on.

I think Microsoft is making windows slow to prepare people for when they move everything on your computer to their cloud.

tinfoil hat off.
This is how jwst sees it
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-finds-evidence-f...
Unclear to me at the moment; I’m catching up on the Wikipedia Talk page that has some staff quotes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)
I disagree with this. The buck stops with WMF. They write the rules and they are the ultimate arbiters of edit wars. They are the ones ultimately responsible for granting and taking away privileges from users.

If something is written on wikipedia it's because they are okay with it. The political slant of wikipedia is an expression of WMF views.

Also an important point is that wikipedia aims to create a work that is a coherent whole spoken with one voice rather than say hosting a discussion where writing is clearly attributed to its respective authors.
Yeah, people forget Ronald Reagan passed some of the nationa's earliest gun control laws as governor of California partly as a response to groups like the Black Panthers arming themselves.
No UDP in browser?
> This pattern has been played out time and time again.

I wish more people would recognize it's a standard playbook, quite intentional.
Wouldn't this principle apply to all news, blogs and social media posts? Why would a website operated by a defendant with content from 3rd parties be any different?

Also, is the principle of subjudice applied in countries without jurors?
> the other technology is guaranteed to only be used to do bad things

That would require all images to be bad.

Why can't I have a daugerotype of a Victorian era werewolf Prime Minister standing in front of 10 Downing Street? What harm does that cause anyone?
I just wrote a script that uses 2 ultrasonic sensors + 1 raspy to detect if somebody is moving in one direction, so that I can put that in a giant green tunnel at the entrance of a video-game-themed party next week:

https://0bin.net/paste/GrfAHJRt#oqVtar1pUzqtdCWWzvEEK71mNlcd...

When the person walks in the tunnel, it makes the sound of Mario when entering a pipe.

It does nothing else. It's for one night only, and nobody will ever use it again.

Meanwhile, it's setup in my bathroom, because it makes me giggle when I go.

It's the little things.

I do have a timing problem, as for now the sound is triggered no matter the direction I walk.

For the same party, I made a "loot generator". You scan a QR code, and go to a page that asks you to enter some info. Then it generates what your own cadaver would loot to heroes if they killed you. Used that as an excuse to try Cloudflare workers:

https://loot-generator.drax2industries.workers.dev/

(It's in French and can get pretty politically incorrect)

Again, it's one-time use software, mostly for drunk people to have a giggle. Then it will disappear like tears in the rain.

Last year, it was a light-speed effect on a fake spaceship cockpit:

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/light-speed-with-python-and-js?ut...

Ephemeral software for the fun of it.
It is a moral imperative to include the cost of looking after the people you feed through a meat grinder once you have ground them up and spat them out in the calculation of how much the machine costs.
If someone makes you import a CA, you have to assume they intend to eavesdrop on ssl encrypted communications. Enterprise WPA doesn't require it.

The right flavour of incompetence might get you there without bad intentions but really if you give someone the capability of eavesdropping you have to behave as if they're intending to use it
Those deletions seem consistent with Wikipedia norms and come from within the organization and its editors, compared to this action being seemingly complied with under protest in order to leave all options open legally.
Indeed, test data like this constantly leaks into the training data, so these leaderboards are not necessarily representative for real-world problems. A better approach is to use variable evaluation like GSM-Symbolic (for evaluating mathematic reasoning): https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05229
> And nations that do not tolerate dogs are healthier.

Yeah, the furry bastards force people to walk every day, two times a day, train their launching skills, make people laugh, alleviate boredom and mental issues, save children from their bad ideas, and drag its owners directly to interact with other dog owners and make friends.

Social interaction, exercise, security, happiness... just the opposite to following a healthy life style.
ps. During the 2000s, around ten new copper deposits were discovered each year worldwide. In the 2010s, it was more like 3 to 4 on average. And over the past three years, there has been a total of... one discovery, according to Les Echos: https://t.ly/yhqQr

For copper, as with many other underground resources, discoveries eventually decline over time. It's similar for oil: the peak of annual discoveries of "conventional" oil fields—everything except shale oil—was 60 years ago, and 50 years ago for gas.

Additionally, the copper content in new mines tends to decrease: it is now about 0.5% on average (it was ten times higher a century ago). This means that to extract one kg of copper, you need to extract, crush, and process 200 kg of rock. The higher this number, the more energy is required for a mine to maintain the same production.

For the current production of 20 million tons of copper per year, a few billion tons of ore need to be processed annually—more than for iron! Incidentally, over a billion tons of rock is also processed annually to extract 3,000 tons of gold.

The International Energy Agency has long pointed out that copper production may start to decline in the coming years (even though more is needed in its decarbonization scenarios). A 15-year forecast is reasonably relevant because it takes this long—or even 20 years—to bring a new mine into operation after discovery.

It's not just about permits: roads must be built, a power network for high-power machines, water supply and wastewater treatment facilities, processing plants, etc.

Thus, the production from existing and planned mines is fairly predictable over the next one to two decades. Is it serious if there's less copper?

Maybe, for electrifying 1.5 billion two-ton vehicles. For having only half or a third of that fleet consisting of small vehicles (an electric bicycle requires 100 times fewer materials than an electric car, and there are, of course, intermediate possibilities), maybe not.

For energy, the economic world has not understood that the signal of its decline won't be an indefinite price increase but a contraction of "physical" production (happening in Europe since 2007). A decline in energy means a shortfall in production, hence incomes, leading to less energy but less solvent consumers, with a new price that could settle "anywhere."

For a systemic metal, it will be the same: reduced supply will result in decreased material production, but not necessarily an indefinite price increase. The economy is primarily about the physical!
With the right dongle and monitor combination, you can definitely get by USB-C (I’ve a BenQ DesignVue which has built in support for USB-C altmode and works nicely with HDR). However, for better compatibility, I’d definitely go for an HDMI port as well (All my machines have HDMI port).

Dongles are a hassle and I avoid them as much as I can.
Publishing important papers in Latin has also fallen out of favour.
"The state currently has 8.4 million registered voters, according to the latest records obtained by Bridge Michigan, nearly 500,000 more than the number of people in the state who are old enough to vote."
Back at university I found out about Python's operator overloading and decided to reimplement integers:

https://github.com/bjackman/pynum
Strange there's no flag meaning "Discard all previous/following flags".
Blogpost: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/a-local-first-case-study/
Only thing I have posted online currently: a Photoshop script to radially-repeat the current layer, making for interesting graphics! Assign it to a key-command, draw some stuff and press the key-command each time to progressively refine your artwork! Fun stuff. https://github.com/amatecha/radialRepeat
Their concern is compliance, not security.
Actually, learning APL with a sort of "beginners mind" is not that big of a deal. It is sort of adjacent to learning math symbols themselves.

It's just when you start learning other sorts of programming languages you start to diverge.

Strangely nowadays, I think APL is not only adjacent to math, but also emoji.
My large corporate has just declined continuing its Copilot 365, citing that there wasn’t much usage and people didn’t find it very useful.
Youtube constantly moves it's layout seconds after the page begins to paint, so I try to click on fullscreen or whatever and then the viewer shifts to the side and I wound up clicking a link to some other video.

Probably would have been an ad there if I didn't block those, though.
Watching tutorials is exactly what I would consider "not fun", and I'm not surprised it wasn't successful. On my side I had no problem getting into a software engineering career, so my point stands.
Was thinking more about sink holes and the entire area caving in after much of the underground is destabilized and/or removed, but battery eating zombies would be worse.
A college friend wrote a C program with:

while (true) fork();

It crashed the university supercomputer. This was in the year 2000.
In my experience it requires in-depth domain knowledge to sufficiently understand the environment in order to see problematic issues. Since the scope of your question depends on your environment and context, why not study those around you who do identify problems and propose solutions. I'm sure that if you asked some genuinely curiosity driven questions, you might get some useful insights.
They both store JSON, each in some particular way, but they don't both store it in the same way. Just like they both store tabular data, but not in the same way, and therefore get different performance characteristics.

Are you arguing that since Clickhouse is a database like Postgres, there's no point for CH to exist as we already have Postgres? Column-oriented databases have their uses.
It sounds very nice, but at the same time very naive, sorry. Funding is not a gift, and they must make money. The more funding they get - the more pressure there is to make money.

When you're in charge of a billion-dollar valuation company which is expected to remain unprofitable by 2029, it's hard to find a topic more crucial and intriguing than growth and making more money.

And yes, it is a recurring theme for vendors to tune their products specifically for industry-standard benchmarks. I can't find any specific reason for them not to pay people for training their model to score 90% on these 113 python tasks, as it directly drives profits up, whereas not doing it will bring absolute nothing to the table - surely they have their own internal benchmarks which they can exclude from training data.
I really don't like the camera shifting on jump. Can that be a toggle?
You are thinking from a consumer point of view, consumer as in Jane taking videos of her cats which 8K, even 4K would be overkill. You can set your recording device to record in 720p or 1080p and so on to suit the purpose.

For commercial purposes it's another story and it makes sense to consider shooting in 8K if possible, thus the option should exist.
Wikipedia endeavors to have neutral point of view, and there are nearly 900 “admin” editors. This is not an easy consensus, and I’m not sure that such sweeping statements applied collectively to MWF or Wikipedia are expressing to me what you might seek to convey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Indeed, i agree. I just meant on a technical level, scrubbing page histories is a thing that happens ocassionally. The current situatuon is pretty unprecedented as far as i know.
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It's already open source, because GPL requires it. It's unlikely to be accepted as an upstream contribution given that Oracle has their own Vector type that is only available in their MySQL cloud service. Don't expect it to show up in a standard Oracle MySQL community release.
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