skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Considering the size and age of the universe, it would be very very weird if earth apes were the pinnacle of intelligence.

It might depend on the origin of the universe. One theory involves an exponentially expanding spacetime driven by a quantum field. Fluctuations in that field can case a region of that expanding spacetime to greatly slow down its expansion and that region becomes a universe.

If that's how it happened our universe would just be one in a very very large collection of universes. In particular the rate of universe creation would grow exponentially and so the fraction of old universes would be exponentially smaller than the fraction of young universes.

If it takes a few billion years for the first human level intelligence to develop in a given universe and then hundreds of millions more years for the second intelligence to develop then of all the universes with at least one intelligence only a very very very small fraction of them would have more than one intelligence.

> In fact I think the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox is that we are kept isolated from other civilizations within range.

Another interesting possibility is that civilizations isolate themselves. It seems very unlikely that neighboring civilizations would be at the same level of technological development--there is just too much luck involved in becoming a civilization and in developing technology.

That suggests that first meetings between civilizations are very likely to involve civilizations with vastly different technology levels. They also are likely to have vastly different cultures and vastly different ethics and vastly different philosophies.

Maybe the more advanced will see it as their duty to help the other progress. Or maybe they they will view them like Europeans viewed the occupants of the Americas in the 16th century. Or maybe they will see them as animals and give them about as much consideration as we give the animals on a patch of wilderness that we want to use for something.

You can model how civilizations should behave when they learn of other civilizations using game theory. When a civilization learns of another than hasn't yet learned of them their choices are: (1) try to keep themselves secret from the other, (2) try to contact the other, and (3) try to destroy the other.

(We would not be able to choose #3 because we aren't technologically advanced enough, but we know ways to do #3 that we'll probably be capable of in a few hundred to a couple thousand years from now).

Assuming that a civilization puts much much much more value on its own survival than on the survival of other civilizations #3 is the option with the highest expected value. If you aren't to the point where #3 is possible than #1 gives the highest expected value.

In short, we could be in a galaxy full of civilizations but they are all avoiding doing anything that would let others detect them because they don't want to be the target of someone else's option #3.

A few months ago there was a PBS Space Time episode on this so called "Dark Forest" scenario, which you might enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYf47euE3U
The audience Bluesky is currently cultivating is the kind of audience that mashes the report button every time they see something they disagree with, so this isn't surprising.

If the user base actually keeps growing at a steady rate, I don't see how they'll get the resources to deal with so many reports (especially since they don't seem to have a plan to monetize the site yet) without resorting to the usual low-effort solutions, such as using some sort of algorithm that bans automatically based on keywords or number of reports.
It's definitely for the worse that they've gone so far in that direction.
I hate to be that other guy, and I in no way way want to override your own experiences but... I'm sure my experiences with being bullied have actively hindered me in my life, even 20+ years on. Particularly dealing with confrontation, this constant feeling of 'otherness' around others, and frequent nightmares about people I used to know.

Again, the other reply about not really knowing how you'd turn out applies to me, but it's hard not to think about it.

I don't want to come off like I'm shilling my blog, but last year I finally opened up about being bullied. The second post on the matter specifically talks about how I feel about it as an adult: https://callmeo.live/blog/childhood-bullying-ii-aftermath/
Not OP, but he website addresses this: https://lanparty.house/#cable-latency
Zuck dropped the ball bad.
I like the song, while simultaneously have a lengthy history of enthusiastically enjoying truly intolerable indie music.

The too-cool-for-hit-pop shtick has been over for at least a decade. Hipster snark is stale, itself deeply uncool, and low IQ. I'm unsurprised that this is a GQ article. Cultural media is in a fully-terminal tailspin.

In summary, We Built This City is a great American song. Catch me at the next karaoke night.
I find go pretty good at writing TUI’s using the react inspired lib, bubbletea, by the charm group.

Do all real work OOB and send messages of “state” into the rendering loop where all state can be reduced and then rendered into the interface.
If only that were true. See another comment in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159992. This comment isn't breaking rules, it is simply someone attempting to argue his point of view. I think it's a foolish point of view, but that's his right and he is arguing it civilly enough. Yet he got flagged into oblivion and will almost certainly remain so - not because he broke the rules, but because he expressed a view which is unpopular.

I would like it to be the case that people only flag posts which they think violate the rules, but that unfortunately isn't so. People on this site (just as with other sites) treat moderator reporting as a "super fuck this guy" button quite frequently.
Printers.

If you're thinking "what tools did they have to create photoshopped images of you with?", why would you attribute that to social media?
Being a retired pilot doesn't make you an expert on quirks in very high tech camera systems either or provide some natural credibility that blurry phenomenon in the sky are credible evidence of anything.
I couldn't possibly disagree more.

Once you're boxed in as a bullied person, you will continue to be bullied.

They're not "educating" you, and it's a little sick to suggest it.
I want both too, but neither is going to happen in the next 4-12 years so I can only fantasize about punitive measures
Some documentation can help with those issues though. I find it helps more because you’re writing to yourself why you’re making certain decisions and it helps when you decide to make others. It just so happens that it’s also a great way to onboard people.
My first thought was that we only know Cavendish's constant to a little over 4 significant figures, so how could this be right? The relativistic effects at Earth's surface would change this by only ~10^-8, so I think the challenge in refining the Cavendish gravitic constant lie elsewhere.
A grade school tried to punish me for stopping someone from hitting me by grabbing their wrist.

I said, to punish a nonviolent intervention would only incentivize future reactions would be violent, they had to think about their policy, because as I put it, “if grabbing their wrist for self defence was going to be punished the same as me punching them in the face” I’d settle for brutal violence in the hopes to persuade others not to hit me.

Children vs principals with masters degrees in a logic debate and the kids win. Sad
you really think Google/Facebook/… can’t do it reliably? :-)
That's their job, isn't it?
Also high-performance quadcopters are much cheaper to make and if someone is flying one around that shouldn’t be, it’s worth knowing about.

The chances that a UFO is actually a nefarious drone have gone up a lot over the past 20 years.
I thought Netflix engineers were the best and could even do mythical leetcode hards. What happened? Why are they paid half a million dollars a year?
Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.

It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.

https://joinmastodon.org/
That's where "rapidly" comes in. Also, LLMs allow very high customization via the choice of prompt. It's a lot quicker to adapt the prompt than to retrain a fine-tuned model. I think the outputs of the stabilized LLM could later be used to properly fine-tune a custom model for efficient use.

As for sentiment, even embeddings can do a good job at it.
There are vastly different scales where the approximation is correct for newton vs general relativity. Perhaps you can define the scales that you are calling relevant so we understand what you mean.
1. 4chan is much larger than HN ;)

2. People here like to act like it didn’t happen to them. If you didn’t see it, it still happened. Nerds are hated in America because life imitates the shitty art of John Hughes et al.
My favourite part of SICP and something that has stuck with me for years is the idea of "wishful programming". That is where you build something top-down by simply wishing you had the lower-level routines. Then, of course, you actually go and build those lower-level routines until you reach the bottom. I find this way of thinking works really well with test-driven development. Write a test against functionality you wish you had, then go and fulfill that wish. Most developers seem to build stuff bottom-up and then end up with something that isn't really what anyone wished for.
Cloudflare R2 has been huge for my open source project Argos Translate. Two years ago I was getting swamped with $250/mo+ bandwidth bills for a project with minimal revenue. Now I distribute 10TB+ per month of model weights for $0. I'm still on the free plan
I have a feeling that this is going to create a weird thing of some magnitude where accounts end up on popular blacklists for poor reasons and have no recourse.

I’m concerned that in time it might develop into zealous communities of samethink where you have to mind any slightly dissenting opinion or you’ll get blacklisted.

I think what I’m thinking about is essentially that judges cannot be replaced by community opinion. (Not that Twitter moderation was less bad).
It depends on if you define AI Twitter as AI researchers or AI hypesters.

Many of the former have indeed migrated.
Of course it means that!

You only need a big enough check.
I had issues here and there but there was workarounds. Then, towards the end, the quality either auto negotiated or was forced down to accommodate the massive pull.
> with JWST we see light and need to infer what the underlying properties of the system are

Every theory of dark matter is based exclusively on light-emitting objects. There is no "contrast" between JWST's methods and those of others. Casting aspersions on JWST because it can only see light is like casting aspersions on Galileo because he could only build telescopes. If we could teleport to the things we study and get more information that way, it would be nice, but we live in reality and must bend to its rules.

> highly sensitive to the galaxy formation model that's adopted

I should only need to remind the reader of the classic idiom "cart before the horse" to remind them that this line of reasoning is invalid.
It's about ~300m MAU and also hitting 1m users a day:

https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/DCWz7LSvA36
How do we know the stats are real?
It strictly depends on who you follow. Follow people who have something to say, and you'll have meaningful conversation.
The initial LLM acts as an intention detection mechanism switch.

To personify LLM way too much:

It sees that a prompt of some kind wants to play chess.

Knowing this it looks at the bag of “tools” and sees a chess tool.
It then generates a response which eventually causes a call to a chess AI (or just chess program, potentially) which does further processing.

The first LLM acts as a ton of if-then statements, but automatically generated (or brute-forcly discovered) through training.

You still needed discrete parts for this system. Some communication protocol, an intent detection step, a chess execution step, etc…

I don’t see how that differs from a classic expert system other than the if statement is handled by a statistical model.
This is so incredibly valuable that many are trying and failing. If it was possible, there would be at least one independent researcher who puts it on YouTube. These patents are not hiding in plain sight, everybody interested in advanced propulsion knows about them and knew about the research even before the patents.
This article is quite good in the way that is informative without giving the wft? reaction that many of the articles on this site give. I occasionally read their articles and I have very low expectations from a site that is called serve the home and deals too often with enterprise level hardware that will never get into someone's home, like $10,000 switches or $50,000 servers. Or dubious conclusions like a recent one about a certain piece of hardware from one of my preferred manufacturers that is praised as the `God given gift to humans` with excelent price that is ... about 3-4 times a decent or good price. It sounds so much as paid advertisement.
Until it switches entirely to Netflix one day
Three times doesn't exactly seem like a lot, right?

And for UFOs-as-ETs, these intelligences would have had to spawn pretty near our solar system, and their existence overlap in time with mankind's tiny fraction of existence (truly a blip in the lifespan of the universe), and detect our existence (or at least our system as a worthwhile destination), and develop tech to take them here, and be interested in this undertaking, and have the resources for it, and not wipe themselves out in an accident, ecological disaster or global war, and after all of this choose to just do mysterious flybys and abductions and no formal contact with Earth.

Too many "and"s for me...
Both extremes on the left and right have their own 'extremely dishonest grifters' and that issue is not exclusive to Twitter / X.
Cue the intro to the national anthem TV closedown on Soviet Central Television
I have a Ruby hackers starter pack at https://bsky.app/starter-pack/bradgessler.com/3laa47lbuwb2r

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Edit: replaced cable modem link with starter pack link
Normally, I’d be equally upset with excess but the fact that this is somewhat of a community building thing is actually refreshing to see from the wealthy (even if by community, it is just friends).

It’s mild in comparison to the ultra rich. Jeff bezos, Larry Ellison, and Elon musk have more wealth than half of America. That fact is what we should truly be upset about. In comparison this is a drop on the ocean.
> They have 0 incentive to be "good"

Yes they do.

X has shown the more trusted and safe your platform is the better it is for advertisers and your bottom line.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-a-re...
I wonder what the backstory to two different Brazilian Taylor Swift fan accounts getting onto the most blocked list is...
In view of this news, the story becomes even funnier:
https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...
I don't get the problem. Why are non-dollar transactions difficult?
> using real estate as a fiat currency

Even if we take your premise as a given, the entire reason real estate is so valuable is that there isn't enough housing in the first place. Real estate is, by its nature, a bad investment; it's only the scarcity of it that makes the value continue to go up exponentially.

> buying up available real estate just to make it unavailable

There isn't actually any available housing in the first place, at the point of cities even approving projects, compared to the number of people who need housing. That's the problem. The most extreme example is San Francisco, where as of this July the entire city had approved only 16 housing units [1] out of an already comically poor goal of only about 10,000 housing units per year.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-only-agreed-build-16-...
I love pwndbg. I work at the level of writing syscalls often, and it's wonderful that pwndbg's disassembler pretty-prints the operands of syscalls write next to the actual instruction.
Yeah I meant that in a good way. You can build powerful stuff with a DSL that doesn't include the normal imperative programming constructs that most general purpose programming languages, but also some specialized programming languages like bash, include. jq is a nice alternative to python for sifting through JSON for many things.

I think glimly is an interesting project but I wonder why they don't use something like mustache ({{ param1 }} for escaped and {{{ param2 }}} for unescaped) instead of p_web
The ratios between 650AU, 165AU, and 0.01AU are somewhat moot.

In 1957 Sputnik 1 had an apogee of ~900km from the Earth.

By 1969 NASA was sending rockets ~385000km to the moon.

By 1979 Voyager 1 & 2 were reaching Jupiter ~5AU from Earth.

We went from 900km to 5AU in 22 years.

If SpaceX achieves their stated goals of lowering $/kg to orbit and rapid re-usability with Starship it will unlock things like asteroid/lunar mining and space based manufacturing which will allow the construction of the kind of infrastructure needed to make distances like 650AU achievable in reasonable time frames.
why isn't mastodon one of the winners like bluesky?
Blue Sky feels like a cocktail party where half the guests are knitting sweaters for their cats, the other half are debating how to save democracy, and I’m just standing there wondering how I got invited.

It’s like scrolling through a group chat where everyone forgot the topic but kept texting anyway.

Honestly, it’s impressive how they’ve managed to create a platform that feels simultaneously too niche and too random.

Idk, I spent a few hours over a few days trying to find something cool about it, and couldn’t.
I feel like people will take the "UAP are real" comment completely out of context. They're only saying that "things exist that we can't (yet) explain", which we already knew to be the case. And if there were in fact footage from a short enough distance to see things clearly, then we'd already know what it is.

In other words, nobody (credible) is claiming that aliens or anything of the sort exist.
The Games Awards claims to have 118 million livestreams [1], and went off without a hitch.

I watched it for the game trailers, actually shocked that it's also superbowl viewership territory.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/game-awards-2023-break...
Talk about licking the boot which is stomping on your face!
> It also appears that resetting a fTPM works around this since it fully resets the TPM. Even if it didn't then people buying used CPUs could find that they're banned from games that they've never even played or installed on their system before

It depends how the TPM utilization was applied in practice. The initial manufacturer key (Endorsement Key) is hardcoded and unextractable. All the long-lived keys are derived from it, and can be verified by using the public part of the EK. Usually EK (or cert created from it) is directly used for remote attestation.

More here, for example : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad...
False dichotomy doesn’t bring anything to the conversation. However it it true that the far left is the main motivated to quit X, and the progressive views Silicon Valley were also dominant on HN.

Just something to accept and think about. Do not blame the messenger.
The analysis you refer to isn’t super interesting as it’s not controlled.

You’d need to be able to prove that independent safety and crash testing organisations are pushing out faulty results, since Teslas are among the safest (if not the safest) cars by their standards.
i have a feeling by being on the list, it fuels more blocks, the rich get richer
I watch PBS spacetime assiduously.

You can also consider the possibility that the intelligent civilizations of the universe don't even consider us a life form. I think about that a lot. "Maybe god and its creatures are not even aware we're here."

Moist pebble apes might be a short lived fluke. Our civilization has existed for an insignificant amount of time and even primates could be just a flare in the pan.
Assuming blocks themselves are never childish. Jordan Peterson is on the list and he doesn't even use the site: https://bsky.app/profile/jordanbpeterson.bsky.social
Mastodon is confusing for non-technical users, while Bluesky is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Twitter.
Of course there's extra detail, and one can parse out all sort of things based on what the commenter might otherwise have said.

I just find the choice of phrasing -- "No one in Israel is beating women" -- to be weirdly idealizing.
mastodon is federated, not decentralized
Why computers are ridiculous now
I'm grateful that I graduated well before zero tolerance policies. I was frequently bullied in childhood. The only thing that actually helped was hurting the bully enough that they'd pick another target. I rarely got in trouble for this, but I would certainly have been expelled these days.
The size of engineering head count is not informative, it really depends on how much is in-house and how much is external for Hotstar that would be i.e parent Disney or before Fox or staffing from IT consulting organizations who will not be on payroll.

For what it is worth, all things being equal there would be lot more non engineering in Hotstar for 2000 employees versus a streaming company of similar size or scale of users. Hotstar operates in challenging and fragmented market, India has 10+ major languages(and corresponding TV, music and movie markets) Technically there is not much difference to what Netflix or Disney has to do for i18n, however operationally each market needs separate sales, distribution and operations.

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P.S. Yes Netflix operates in more markets including India than anybody else, however if you are actually using Netflix for almost any non English content, you will know how weak their library and depth in other markets are, their usual model in most of these markets is to have few big high quality(for that market) content rather than build depth.

P.P.S. Also yes, Indian market is seeing consolidation in the sense that many releases on streaming are multiple lingual and use major stars from more than one language to draw talent ( not new, but growing in popularity as distribution becomes cheaper with streaming), however this is only seen in big banner productions as tastes are quite different in each market and can't scale for all run of the mill content.
> without resorting to the usual low-effort solutions, such as using some sort of algorithm that bans automatically based on keywords or number of reports.

Or you prioritize reports from accounts with a proven track record. If I consistently report posts that clearly violate the rules why shouldn't my report count more than an account that just got created?

If you consistently report nonsense then you should accumulate negative karma until at some point you can safely ignore whatever they report in the future.
You could be right but these platforms have not historically been about long form discussions, rather quips and glib remarks to drive clicks.
> fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.

No one owns it so there’s no team of well paid professionals trying to make it grow.
What would be the applications of this that is different from regular transformers? Perhaps stupid question.
Yeah I mean no matter how you look at it, it comes down to the individual ability to appraise the quality of something. You're always going to be bottlenecked by that. Its hard to talk someone out of their own judgment because you have to pass their test at the same time. Also you're assuming everyone values the cold hard truth above all else. They're probably getting more emotional validation out of their sources.