skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's often the objective. If they're properly written they will terminate, but not all sets of rules may terminate. It's possible for rules to cause divergence or cycles.

A -> A B (1)

A -> B (2)
B -> A

(1) never terminates, always adding a new B on application but not removing the A. (2) doesn't grow, but never terminates since each term is replaced with the other.
Is the total possible bandwidth available on these even comparable to optical fibers?
There aren't workers doing those jobs in the US anymore. 100% of those close-to-the-actual-manufacturing jobs were outsourced. The remaining people in the US aren't doing the same jobs; they're doing HQ stuff.
"Privacy" here means "no big tech will be tracking me and trying to shove ads down users' throats", not that the published content is protected from public view.
You're just upset that someone called you out on your own BS.
Here the same, just subsribed for pro accunt 20 minutes ago, and get this message. The only model that really help me is anthropic soonet... so not had fun for too long...
1. If rolled out right, you select a few influencers and taste makersn generate buzz and then release.

2. Retina scanning.

3. The Human Network.
I've never used it in production, but I have a deep love of Prolog, just because of how different it is from any other programming language I've used. As a programming paradigm, it found it as eye-opening as functional programming. What I found interesting is that you are operating on logical statements and pattern matching, which often means that the same "function" can be used for multiple different things. For example:

append([], List, List).

append([Head|Tail], List, [Head|Rest]) :-
append(Tail, List, Rest).

Is a simple list append function: append(X, Y, Z) is a predicate that match if Z is the list of all elements of X, followed by all elements of Y. You can use it to concatenate lists, of course. But you can also use it to confirm that a particular list start with a particular sequence, or ends with a particular sequence! The idea that the same predicate can be used in multiple different ways is really fascinating to me. I have no idea to what extent that would scale in a large system, but it's very interesting
but this one is owned by twitter guy I like! /s
Real-Time OLAP Databases Comparison: Apache Pinot, Apache Druid and ClickHouse
You completely missed my point, but I'm glad you don't care.

Isn't it actually 21 for alcohol in the US?
A vessel to cross the street.
FYI, we do this in our builds for our java docker image, if you want to see it in action in containerland.

https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-containers/blob/mai...
>Social media has also been enormously beneficial in terms of crippling the propaganda power of centralized, commercial media

This is just plain wrong. Social media has moved the propaganda power to foreign hostile nations on a golden platter. That is not an improvement.
> We'd also trade the fragments of resilience we have left against a single point of failure

It's the characteristic of the 21th century, trading resiliency and robustness for performance. As long as the world is stable, it's nice.
It looks like it's some sort of game-playing AI?:

> Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers.

That's not what I got from the notebook, though. From the notebook, I thought it was some sort of new programming paradigm, so I'm confused.
Democrats need to understand: Americans think they're worse
> That's a different issue, and already happening. It should be banned too.

There's basically no way to ban this (and advertising) without banning social media.
Is sailpoint considered legacy these days?
For those interested: https://woerterbuchnetz.de/?sigle=DWB&lemid=A00001
What you're detailing is a growing body of study under the BioPsychoSocial model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model?wprov=sf...

From personal experience I can say a dietary change reduced systemic inflammation for me and had as much of an effect on recovery as medication treatment. The anti-inflammatory diet eliminates foods well-known to cause inflammation in a sizable portion of the population. Out gut micro-biome takes the pharmacokinetics of nutrition even deeper by introducing another layer of breakdown or secretion.
This has a "Bitcoin will solve finance" feel to it. Not to be super dismissive, but there's just as much likelihood it will help as it won't.

But in your corner:

It's true that right now space-based deployment of broadband will provide broadband in locations where it's not currently available - perhaps spurring competition.

It's also probably true that space-based broadband will be able to compete directly with urban / dense areas where Comcast & company have an effective monopoly - also a good thing!

But there's no reason to think it will put comcast/company out of business at all. Has cell-tower based intenet service at all displaced comcast? Verizon and T-Mobile canvas my neighborhood claiming to offer the best internet, but as far as I can tell, everyone still uses Xfinity, even if Centurylink is much, much better.
Obama: "Clinging to guns and religion".

Clinton: "Basket of deplorables".

Biden: "Garbage".

HN, all over this thread: "How could people be so stupid?"

In the Democratic Party, there's a long, deep thread of contempt for everyone who doesn't agree. They're supposed to be the party that represents the little guy, but if you're a little guy who thinks abortion is morally wrong, or who doesn't think gay marriage is a good idea, or who doesn't think trans women should be in womens' sports or womens' restrooms, then they don't represent you, and they aren't going to. Instead, they view you as a moral leper, whose only proper action is to repent, and whose culture should be completely eradicated.

If you're on the receiving end of that kind of attitude, it's a fairly normal response to flip them the bird and vote for the other guy.

To all the people who are saying, "how could they be so stupid?", I say: "How could you be so stupid? What did you think was going to happen?"

If you want to win elections, start by not holding in contempt the people you claim to represent. Stop telling them what they're supposed to think, and what they're supposed to value, and what they're supposed to believe. Instead, find out what they think and value and believe, and then represent that.
All of the quantum networking stuff is point-to-point. It's not clear to me whether fiber amplifiers are even allowed on these links.
https://archive.is/7r4FC
> It's hard to have a meaningful conversation when everyone is pretending to be someone they're not

It's also hard to have a meaningful conversation with people who uncritically accept all information they hear as long as it's from the right source.
Social networks are social advertising networks.

A privacy-first solution by its nature is unlikely to benefit from network effects. You don’t organically discover content that has to be explicitly shared with you.

So they way to do it is to already have a network or platform and then allow private photo sharing. E.g. Apple Photos built on the iOS ecosystem or if WhatsApp had a photo feed.

One idea would be to sell photo-sharing tech to a non-US messaging app that’s popular abroad like Viber or CacaoTalk or that serves some niche community. (Photo-sharing for low-bandwidth users in developing countries?) Maybe it aggregates shared photos into an ergonomic feed or something. But they could just copy that themselves; it’s hard to monetize an improved UX directly without the data/community to power it.
> Is it just having a ton of knowledge about hardware / lower-level OSes?

Pretty much, yes. And knowing about common exploit strategies (the crypto engine partial overwrite for example is a classic one).
It's always worth checking out the native species that work best with your terrain, weather, and soil[0]. Though you may not be able to grow much food, you can grow a wonderfully rich, low maintenance garden with natives that will attract a diverse set of insects, birds, and animals. It in some ways might be more rewarding even than growing food, depending on your inclination.

My in-laws have an incredible native garden in California that is beautiful enough to have appeared in a couple of publications as an example (this is not some extravagant and rich family either, by any means). They rarely have to water their garden, compared with their neighbours who seem to have to hose/sprinkle their lawns every other day, practically.

0: https://www.canr.msu.edu/nativeplants/plant_facts/local_info...
EDIT: I should point out that in general what happens to other people does impact me so I do have a stake in the behavior of others. No man is an island.

I’m not a social media addict, I only use HN occasionally and really only to remind myself what other people are like. Without this I would forget and assume things about people that are just not true. I treat social media like the dangerous drug that it is and intentionally limit my exposure. But not everyone can do that. I personally know many people who have let social media ruin their lives and their minds to the point I’m not even sure they are rehabilitatable.

I wasn’t proposing a ban, I don’t trust the government with that much power and regulation would be difficult- at what point does a social club become social media. I guess my appeal to time travel did not properly reflect this perceived futility.

I think the only way would be as an Amish like intentional community with a religious level of enforcement. E.g. You can use social media but only in the shed, not in the house. But that’s not realistic so I just have to accept that X% of the population are not going to make it unscathed. These people will become a burden on the state at a time when the state is increasingly reaching to voluntary euthanasia for solutions. Perhaps in time people will socially and genetically evolve in ways that’ll be able to deal with it.
The Pythonic "simpler" does not mean "fewer characters" otherwise APL or Perl/Raku would be more Pythonic.

Namedtuple is not strictly simpler. It implements additional features which would not be in an frozen dataclass, which makes "simpler" a personal bias.

I've been using Python continuously since 1998 and well remember the "look before you leap" vs. "ask for forgiveness not for permission" debate from the bygone comp.lang.python forum. And I learned the concept of "easier to ask for forgiveness" from the 60 Minutes interview with Grace Hopper back in the 1980s.

That have nothing to do with this issue, which is one of taking on an API burden without due consideration simply because it's less typing.
Only if the context in which you're writing/speaking is such that you are likely to be referring to a historical restaurant genre or whatever this thing is
The process is always the same:

You start by reproducing exactly what other folks did.
Once you've done that a bunch of times, you unlock 2 skills:

* The ability to handle simple situations that do not require deviating too much from what you've seen in the past

* The ability to learn new techniques simply by reading about them, allowing you to learn much faster

Apply those 2 skills for a couple years (which is not hard at all if you are genuinely attracted to this area) and you are an expert.

What is marvelous is that you don't need to know about those steps, you just follow them naturally when you are passionate about something.
> Then you need the social media sites to agree on a common auth mechanism that uses the zero-knowledge proof, and if the same proof gets used on multiple devices, you log out the previously used device.

> So even if a parent lets their kid use the parent's passport to generate the proof on the kids phone, every time the kid uses this proof, the parent gets logged out of Facebook and all other social media apps.

Doesn't this automatically give the "common auth mechanism" perfect knowledge of all the parent's social media accounts, whether under a real name or a pseudonym? That sounds like an additional means of tracking.

Also, what if the parent legitimately has multiple devices that they use for social media (e.g., a phone and a laptop)? You might say, "log them out if it's used simultaneously from multiple devices", but then you're tracking all social-media usage everywhere in realtime.
> Reason? Clearly no. It doesn't understand what you're asking well enough to "reason".

If you ask something a question ("Could a car fit in a bread-box?"), it maps from words into concepts in its internal semantic space ("car" to representation of car, associated with large size), then applies rules/patterns in a way that reaches a correct conclusion more often than an RNG baseline - what concretely would you say is missing from the process?

> Would you trust a calculator that fails a simple addition test? Of course not. So why trust an LLM?

You can weigh something in proportion to its accuracy, opposed to giving total trust or nothing at all. An 80%-accurate weather prediction is still useful, as are calculators despite potential for hardware issues or (more likely) fat-thumbing the wrong button.

> Q: What is the square root of one plus one times forty five minus eighty eight? A: i * sqrt(42)

I'm unclear on what you intend to be showing here. Is this an LLM response?
It is in Scotland... if you are an 18th century crofter.
From the Github Readme[1]:

Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers.

Currently Automat's functionality is limited to keyboard macro recording & playback. It's fairly unstable but if you're lucky and it runs on your machine, it can be useful for automating some basic actions.

[1] https://github.com/mafik/automat
Typical hacker misconception regarding the law. You don't need to implement perfect tracking to enforce a law. Make it illegal and then let BigTech use their AI algorithms to detect and block minor accounts. Parents will also play a major part.
Is that actually how people use the word garden outside the uk?
There were a bunch of mostly small-scale issues with solder whiskering, yeah; that Xbox thing was probably about the biggest. Swatch also notably had major problems (though they were trying to eliminate leaded solder somewhat _before_ RoHS; it's not like no-one cared about this until RoHS).

Also, of course, "systemic problem with _leaded_ soldering" was also a thing before RoHS; it's not like all was well in electronics manufacturing before then. You may, for instance, if you're old enough, remember the circa 2007 MBPs with the dying GPUs; that was a solder thing, and it predates RoHS.
Terabits vs gigabytes

What does this mean? The article says 'TB' which would be terabytes. Terabytes are made out of gigabytes. There is nothing faster than straight memory bandwidth. DDR5 has 64 GB/s max. 12 channels of that is 768 GB/s.

Terabytes per second is going to take multiple computers, but it will be a lot less computers if you're using shared memory bandwidth and not some sort of networking loopback.
I was wondering about something related. Will there be universities in 10 years?

The obvious answer is yes. But I’m having a hard time imagining universities 10 years from now remotely resembling the behemoths they are today.
[Org mode](https://orgmode.org/) is a popular emacs plugin for organizing notes and todos. I don’t use it so I can’t be sure, but the reference to review is [probably this](https://orgmode.org/manual/Stuck-projects.html) about doing a weekly review of one’s tasks and projects, probably in line with [the practice](https://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Wee...) from the Getting Things Done productivity system. [Sketchnotes](https://rohdesign.com/sketchnotes) are an artistic visual summary.
Wait, people actually debate this?

As per theory of evolution, current species were created from ancestor species. Since chicken's ancestor species obviously laid eggs. It stands to reason that first chicken came from chicken egg which came from non-chicken!

So, egg came first.

Update: fixed typo
Also I think by definition a chicken is a bird that hatches from an egg (among other defining characteristics). So th egg must have come first, as a chicken-like creature that didn't come from an egg wouldn't be a chicken.
Is it any secret who she was back then?
https://dblp.org/pid/66/5507.html
I hope European 12-year-olds are still wise enough to know the age-old tradition of claiming to be 22 when creating online accounts.
I guess its a nice idea but really what California needs is less NIMBYs forcing all housing developments to be detached houses with gardens, instead of affordable housing blocks.
> What's a chicken?

Well I think the original saying could be expanded to something like "Given that chicken birds hatch from chicken eggs, and chicken eggs are layed by chicken birds, how did the cycle get started?"

Or in the case of the article "Given that all egg-layers hatch from eggs and that all eggs are layed by egg-layers how did the cycle get started?"

To answer the former question, we know that a bird can lay mutated eggs, but an egg can hatch into a mutated bird. So a not-quite-chicken layed a chicken egg.

The article deals with the second question.

Returning to your question I guess the answer you are looking for is a watchmaker God? And that if then we continue the analogy the purpose of the universe is to develop into another God?
Any old codebase will have their own version of Nina, Katya, Masha or even just an open reactor, monorepo or not.

I once worked on a codebase that had had a directory that no one was allowed to touch because it was "about to be decommissioned". When I looked into it more closely, it had been "about to be decommissioned" for 7 years and it was holding so many things up.
Automata were super common in popular culture in the 50s and 60s. The way of the future. I think many people would first think of them, especially without context.
Haha, yes funny absurd gender swap. You should actually talk to women and try to understand why they feel the way they feel instead of ridiculing it.
And this won't change for at least the next 4 years. Regulatory capture is a bitch.
The koan implies chicken egg, though, not any old egg.

Did the proto-chicken lay a chicken egg which hatched the first chicken, or did the proto-chicken lay a proto-chicken egg which hatched the first chicken?
Growing pest-free greens for 365 day availability (daily nutrition) is _incredibly hard_. It requires suburban housing, heated greenhouses, water and pesticide management, succession planting, fertilizer management, daily attention, etc, etc, etc. Not one person in a thousand achieves it. Buying produce at the supermarket for several dollars a day is dramatically easier, even if a high fraction of the vitamin C has decayed. Supplements are something on the order of 1-10 cents a day.

- Signed, a new gardener.
Hi, I built one of these a few years ago. Poured my life savings into it.

You’re about to get a very tough education on who uses social networks and why they do it. It has nothing to do with privacy. Would urge you to not bother.
That's if you count the entire coalition and don't take into account likely voters or primary voters.

I'm talking about reliable 90%+ will always vote D people and will show up on election day, the mainstays of the party, which is the biggest bloc of the Democratic Party coalition.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/the-democrat...

The largest bloc of the coalition are these mainstays, who tend to be older moderates. And almost half of these people are black. That's what I mean by "base". They lead the way of who the party chooses as a candidate.
Euro execs extend net zero timescales amid energy cost and supply crunch
Really cool results. I'd love to see some human baselines for, say, NYC cabbies or regular Manhattanites, though. I'm sure my world model is "incoherent" vis-a-vis these metrics as well, but I'm not sure what degree of coherence I should be excited about.
> I'll also note that the 2024 US presidential election cost us more 50% more than that

It’ll get much worse when you factor in the next four years.
My personal theory is that powerful people didn't want people to be digitally free. It might make them think about fighting for freedoms offline as well.
I still have to use 7zip because of how buggy the support in explorer is. And even if it was perfect it still can't handle encrypted archives
Trump and his supporters can talk as much shit as they want, because it's still a free country. A free country where people can talk shit in both directions, choose their own religion, or none at all.

Nobody is persecuting me for being an atheist, America hasn't and won't turn into a theocracy, no matter how much shit Trump talks. The election propaganda on both sides was way over-the-top, but the effect it had on people's psyches will wear off soon enough and a lot of people will be left feeling quite embarrassed for being sucked into it.
lol, I've been growing food-bearing plants in my backyard for about 10 years now. I plant jalapenos, tomatoes, bell peppers, watermelons, squash, zuchini, strawberries, eggplant and cantaloupe. I've grown maybe the equivalent of $100 worth of fruits and vegetables in that time. If I'm lucky I'll get three watermelons in a year. It's interesting to see and fun to do, but there's no way that planting vegetable plants is going to sustain you to any level on a typical lot.
Plan 9’s ARG(2) [0] macros are worth a look too. No dependencies at all, just plain macros, super lightweight and easy to use.

[0] https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/arg.html
An LLM necessarily has to create some sort of internal "model" / representations pursuant to its "predict next word" training goal, given the depth and sophistication of context recognition needed to to well. This isn't an N-gram model restricted to just looking at surface word sequences.

However, the question should be what sort of internal "model" has it built? It seems fashionable to refer to this as a "world model", but IMO this isn't really appropriate, and certainly it's going to be quite different to the predictive representations that any animal that interacts with the world, and learns from those interactions, will have built.

The thing is that an LLM is an auto-regressive model - it is trying to predict continuations of training set samples solely based on word sequences, and is not privy to the world that is actually being described by those word sequences. It can't model the generative process of the humans who created those training set samples because that generative process has different inputs - sensory ones (in addition to auto-regressive ones).

The "world model" of a human, or any other animal, is built pursuant to predicting the environment, but not in a purely passive way (such as a multi-modal LLM predicting next frame in a video). The animal is primarily concerned with predicting the outcomes of it's interactions with the environment, driven by the evolutionary pressure to learn to act in way that maximizes survival and proliferation of its DNA. This is the nature of a real "world model" - it's modelling the world (as perceived thru sensory inputs) as a dynamical process reacting to the actions of the animal. This is very different to the passive "context patterns" learnt by an LLM that are merely predicting auto-regressive continuations (whether just words, or multi-modal video frames/etc).