skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is how the current legal framework works, and if you expect someone to behave differently, you have to be explicit.

The classroom teacher was explicit in their expectations. The student did not follow the instructions. Did you RTFA?

> It's a tool that authors can use to create their works

This isn't about authorship or ownership. It doesn't matter whether the words are "yours" or not - that you keep making that a point of contention is a semantic sideshow. This isn't a commercial or artistic enterprise. If the student wants to publish their copy-pasted, error-ridden slop (or masterful slop!), then by all means, they can go for it.

Rather, this is a classroom, the goal is to learn, think, and demonstrate understanding. Copy-pasting responses from AI does not do this (even setting aside the explicit instructions not to to do so). Similarly, plagiarism isn't bad in high school because it hurts other authors, it's bad because it's a lazy end-run around the process of learning and thinking that undermines those goals and creates bad habits to avoid critical thinking.
Yeah, talk about hiding the headline...

I see a screenshot that looks like the output of ls, ok it has colors, and some filenames have "!!" behind it. Great success?
Very true. I saw comments in the code base where I work from someone that had worked there 3 years prior. Most of the people I asked could barely remember the person.
Sorry my thoughts seem to have offended you into a defensive position. That was not my intent. I'm sure that's why you attack someone's understanding. Saying there are gaps in logic, isn't accusatory or demeaning.

> None of it, I would guess.

You guess? Are you the author?

> AI is radical

Is it? Or is it a logical unfolding that has been predicted and theorized for the better part of a century?
Perhaps aspects of its implementation are radical?

> It is literally free

So are disposable razor blades when you buy the handle. Who has the most to benefit from some companies' AI products being free? I bet it's not the end-user.

> Some people don't know what a metaphor

Is that passive aggression? If so, how thoughtful. Some people are autistic.

All I'm saying is: Show me how much AI has actually changed and for whom. Then we can start this conversation. I was in fact, challenging the use of the plow as a metaphor.

AI seems very much a top down kind of tool, where a plow is bottom up.
Less competent in what? The people with decision-making power are supposed to be good at some combination of product innovation, product management, sales, marketing and accounting. ICs are only suited to making some decisions in the first two, and have next to zero expertise in the others.
Hybrid VQE photonic qudits for accurate QC without error-correction techniques
Sadly, the parents could still win. What a precedent that would be. Though I'm not sure there's any avoiding a future with mass societal atrophy of reading and writing skills.
It does not matter if author is human or computer.

If there is a spelling bee, but student is secretly using spellcheck on the phone, they are cheating.

If there is a math speed competition, but student is using a calculator on the phone, they are cheating.

If it's a calculus exam, but student is using Wolfram Alpha (or TI-89) to calculate integrals and derivatives, it is cheating.

If it's a written exam but student is using ChatGPT to write the text, it is cheating as well. Not that different from previous cases.
I'm not sure what country you're in, but my country's government (USA) did next to nothing besides issuing hollow advisories. Just a bunch of talk about "please wear a mask" and "pretty please stay at home" and "pretty please with sugar on top, don't go around coughing on each other." But there was almost no enforcement, especially in smaller towns. The only thing pretty consistently enforced was school closures, which obviously wasn't enough.
Of course you're right!

After much thinking about it, providing a printing press would be the most effective invention to bootstrap a modern society. And, well, that's exactly what happened after Gutenberg invented it. The greatest inventions in history are:

1. writing

2. phonetic alphabet

3. paper

4. printing

5. networks

And the pattern is obvious!
Earth's Pole Drift Confirms: Groundwater Depletion Affects Sea Level Rise (2023)
Full title:

Drift of Earth's Pole Confirms Groundwater Depletion as a Significant Contributor to Global Sea Level Rise 1993–2010

A summary from Popular Mechanics (which led me to the original paper):

Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn't Happen.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a629959...
I think you have a very valid point here. Perception of the issue will likely carry the day eventually. Sadly, I am not the person to come up with a good slogan or decent marketing campaign. I just have rather strong feelings on the matter and am somewhat surprised how many people do not see the long term benefit.
CHIPS was signed into law in August 2022. The yearly inflation rate for 2023 was 4.12%. Inflation, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, was caused by an extremely large amount of different issues and chalking 9% inflation up to infrastructure spending is a wild jump.
I’m not really in neuroscience but by just reading the intro I’m thinking “of course”. Astrocyte can maintain synapses “clean” or not by letting neurotransmitters in or letting them out. So it seems quite logical that interfering with these celles would impact memories.
How to name your startup. (2017)
This was a prominent mark of the Bush era too (and I'm sure many other Democratic/Republican administrations, it's just my example). I was rewatching Fahrenheit 9/11 because of our government's current foreign engagements, and it's striking how even then people were duped, but back then it was by lack of information, now it is by overinformation
But discrimination against trans individuals has by most measures increased. Bathroom bills, many states categorized gender medicine in minors as child abuse, etc. Polls asking people of they agree that gender can be changed has decreased over time: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/america...

So whatever is causing trans identification to increase ~250x faster than left-handedness is happening despite increasing discrimination against trans individuals.
This is lots of fun. One bit of feedback for mobile: Would be nice if a back swipe took me out of the menu back to the game.
Have you had a common theme for these projects you navigated?
'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf]
also disciplinary action and very probable expulsion
> There’s pretty much no way for them[renewables] to lose money if they’re connected to the grid, especially because many get outside incentives for every megawatt-hour they generate. They even submit negative bids in some cases, meaning they’re willing to pay money to stay connected to the grid.

The negative price reflects their incentive, not their willingness to pay.

If I am guaranteed $18 a MW/h for my solar farm, then I will bid -$18 (or maybe slightly less to account for costs). The state, or federal government will ensure I am paid at least $18.

Without these incentives we would not see negative prices, zero perhaps, but not negative.

For instance the IRA offers upto $33.00/MWh incentives.[1]

This is a problem if you have a power plant that must run - such as a nuke. You may end up paying that negative price, unless the market offers you some sort of make whole payment. But where does that come from?

[1]https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/inflation-reduction-act-ta...
> There are many places in summer where people would pay $200/kWh to run a small air conditioning unit, for example, when their normal price of power is $0.10/kWh.

I don’t know anyone that would pay $200/hr to run a 1kW air conditioner. I’d just go in my air conditioned car and pay for gasoline..
Kind of wish this entry had a date on it.
If your goal is to get a cushy high paying job you will need to make sacrifices, otherwise that job would no longer be cushy and high paying.
Some sacrifice their 20s and grind an education, career, and have no kids or spouse.
Others put a large burden on their spouse to retrain, you have to weigh the short term toil versus the amortized improvements over your career. And it is important to remember that luck plays a part as well. Some get lucky on their first go around and others never get luck in life. The only thing you can do is maximize the number chances you have for good luck.

It is important to live well within your means. Having an extra margin makes job and life changes much easier and lower risk. Many people’s expenses grow to their income and they paint themself into a financial corner. Unfortunately once you are in that spot it becomes much more difficult to get out, and larger sacrifices need to be made.

There are always options, and we have more opportunities and “stuff” than any other generation which has lived. Our stuff and jobs should serve us and not the other way around.
Last I checked, 65 was a D-, not a C+. So the C+ was for the course.
From OT TA NewsArticle: "Photon qubits challenge AI, enabling more accurate quantum computing without error-correction techniques" https://phys.org/news/2024-11-photon-qubits-ai-enabling-accu... :

> VQE is a hybrid algorithm designed to use a Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) and a Classical Processing Unit (CPU) together to perform faster computations.

> Global research teams, including IBM and Google, are investigating it in a variety of quantum systems, including superconducting and trapped-ion systems. However, qubit-based VQE is currently only implemented up to 2 qubits in photonic systems and 12 qubits in superconducting systems, and is challenged by error issues that make it difficult to scale when more qubits and complex computations are required. [...]

> In this study, a qudit was implemented by the orbital angular momentum state of a single-photon, and dimensional expansion was possible by adjusting the phase of a photon through holographic images. This allowed for high-dimensional calculations without complex quantum gates, reducing errors.

ScholarlyArticle: "Qudit-based variational quantum eigensolver using photonic orbital angular momentum states" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado3472
> It has made the cost of shelter astonishingly expensive. That has a knock on effect to all other aspects of life.

Many people in tech have had a moment in life where they either had a windfall or could have saved aggressively for a few years before moving somewhere low cost and working a 15-hour workweek. (Or retiring.) Almost nobody I know who has had this option, self included, took it.
I propose an implementation of these petnames by sharing directory access through mutually trusted brokers, whose identity is proven by certificates and whose location is discovered through a standardized directory service protocol. I think we can make huge strides by working with the ITU here — if we can convince them IP is the next big thing, then we might not end up being chained to the OSI netstack for the first release.
That feels true, but a single gas station disappears and people fill up somewhere else.

The world isn’t a static place. The impact is often closer to saving X thousands of people a few seconds than anything more meaningful. Perhaps the indirect result is someone finds the love of their life but it could just as easily be a life changing STD or getting run over and impacting many people means many such indirect changes both positive and negative.
I could not get LocalStack to run on Podman (w/ Docker emulation), on Fedora, so had to go back to Docker.
VQE: Variational Quantum Eigensolver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational_quantum_eigensolve... :

> Given a guess or ansatz, the quantum processor calculates the expectation value of the system with respect to an observable, often the Hamiltonian, and a classical optimizer is used to improve the guess. The algorithm is based on the variational method of quantum mechanics. [...] It is an example of a noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) algorithm
Interesting fact - the note discovered is older than the first known use of ASAP, which https://www.etymonline.com/word/a.s.a.p. says was 1920, as seen at https://archive.org/details/sim_dental-economics_1920-03_10_... .
Keynes had a key observation that if people like both consumption and leisure and have to trade them off against one another, that the income effect of getting richer will dominate the substitution effect between consumption and leisure, so people in richer societies will both work less and consume more. The exact number of hours worked is just a function of the elasticity of substitution between consumption and leisure which he incorrectly guessed (not having the methods back then to empirically estimate it).
My dmesg is already constantly full of

INFO: task btrfs:103945 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

Until eventually

Future hung task reports are suppressed, see sysctl kernel.hung_task_warnings

So I'm looking forward to getting an actual count of how often this happens without needing to babysit the warning suppressions and count the incidents myself.
What Tesla and Apple Do Not Have in Common
The only clear distinction between the utopia and the dystopia is on wealth distribution.

All the rest of it is a narrative about consequences.

Anyway, the AI there isn't like our LLMs either. It's an AGI capable of long term societal prediction.
Ellison's expert accused of using fake sources to defend misinformation law
> My disdain is for those who wish these long departed engineers did things in order to entertain us in this day and age.

Surely you don't think they are actually upset at some people none of us know for not writing a poetic message.

The point is: "Wow, we found a hundreds of years old message, what amazing insights of the past might we glean, what insights into the minds of that time?" "Oh, it's just a list of who built a lighthouse"

> Saying that what they did wasn't the right thing to do assumes that the commenter ideas are more correct than their ideas. That's arrogant.

I will butt in here though, if you have a chance to drift out a message to sea with some hope someone else may find it one day and read what you wrote, would you write that you were the author of some open source project? Or would you write something about your real feelings, the world around you, your thoughts and hopes and dreams, or maybe even share something about your town, your ancestors, your culture, the things you care about, etc.

Most of us, I'm sure, would not choose to do the former.
Absolute numbers matter when considering the total CO2 budget for the Earth.

When considering how to divide that budget among the people of Earth absolute numbers for countries do not matter, because the atmosphere does not care about arbitrary lines humans draw on maps.

One easy way to see that per capita is the correct way to allocate the budget rather than per country is to consider what happens if countries split. Suppose we agree on a worldwide budget of 4 x 10^10 tons of CO2/year.

If we go by country each country's share is 2 x 10^8 tons/year. That would mean in a small country like Liechtenstein they could live a lifestyle that required 5000 tons/year/person.

Meanwhile, in the US we could only live a 0.6 ton/year/person lifestyle--about what Zimbabwe uses today. That's about 1/25th of the current US lifestyle.

That is not going to work. The US could hold a constitutional convention and dissolve with each of the current 50 states becoming an independent country, and at the same time make strong free trade and mutual defense treaties. They can call this the "American Union".

That raises the number of countries in the world, so each country now gets a smaller slice of that 4 x 10^10 tons/year global emission budget. Collectively the total emissions budget of the combined states in the American Union is around 8 x 10^10 tons/year. That allows the American Union to live a 24 ton/year/person lifestyle as a whole (which is 60% more than the current US lifestyle).

Of course China, which only gets a 0.16 ton/year/person lifestyle under the original country allocations could do the same thing. If they did the Chinese Union with the individual countries being what are now prefectures, that Chinese Union could have a 15 ton/year/person lifestyle (about the same as the current US CO2 emissions.

Each time a large country does this "split into a strong union of separate countries" thing the boost in how carbon intensive a lifestyle that union's residents can lives comes at the expense of a drop in what the rest of the world can have.

The limit of this is a world of thousands, or even millions, of micro-countries, each with about the same per capita CO2 allowance.
How could you even cite AI “appropriately”? That makes about as much sense as citing Google..
Self-promo: I'm working on www.flashka.ai , the Anki + AI that you might be looking for :)

It shines mainly if you have PDFs of the content you are learning from which to write flashcards. The best part for language learning is that, while doing reviews, you have some options to generate mnemonics and examples, it was super-helpful to me while learning Georgian!
"likely" is not doing much work for the domain I was thinking of: structures which are suitable for making into collection data structures, in that their carrier sets are infinite because their ops don't lose information about the values (the hyle if not the morphe) given by their arguments.

Of course, absent those restrictions, it's doing way more work than it can possibly handle.
Tell HN: Pinboard profiles now require login, even if public profile is enabled
Not sure if it’s a bug or a ‘feature’, but my once-public profile now requires login to be viewed.
They killed galleon in Gnome 2, which was the best browser of its era, replacing it with epiphany. iBM was behind it. Ever since then there has been a lack of innovation on Linux with web browsers and since konqueror is a former shell of itself, killed file manager innovation as well
Ask HN: Indoor Location Tracking?
I want to provide point-to-point indoor/outdoor wayfinding in a way that works at scale (for our largest customers, hundreds of global locations).

One of the challenges is figuring out where the person is within the building.

It seems there’s two sub-optimal options:

1. Use Bluetooth beacons. Involves purchasing & placing many beacons. High accuracy but also high effort. Works with Android & iOS

2. Use WiFi (RSSI). Leverages existing infrastructure. Relatively accurate, with relatively low effort. Works on Android, but involves additional work and perms with iOS (including sending our customers’s mapping data to Apple?)

Other methods using light and sound exist, but are also “high effort”.

Anybody have some insight I’m missing, or an idea for a novel approach?

I’m open to collaborating on this!
I can see how it could be rewarding, but it wasn't for me. Since I don't need to do and don't enjoy it, and other people are better at it, I can leave it for someone else and be thankful my circumstances allow for that.
China has more than 1B tons/year of new coal mines in pipeline
Article one referenced in the post:

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/23/who-is-d-b-cooper-ne...

Part two:

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/11/24/who-is-d-b-cooper-th...
What a time to be alive, I read it the opening fully expecting to see an open source automated trashcan that takes itself to the curb each Monday. I was disappointed to find out it is about an actual garbage collection algorithm.
What is the mystery? Perhaps one handedness was just first by chance and won because it self replicated the other handedness away by consuming it as food.
As well as knowledge of, and honesty with, oneself!
“Pooling” is just aggregation methods. It could mean taking max or average values, or more exotic methods like attention pooling. It’s meant to reduce the one-per-token dimensionality to one per passage or document.
(Not the same thing, but related)

Map platforms from Brazilian cities that allow browsing with old map layers:

Curitiba 1857

https://geocuritiba.ippuc.org.br/portal/apps/webappviewer/in...

São Paulo 1930

https://geosampa.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/PaginasPublicas/_SBC.a...
There’s a ton we can do before taking food off our children’s table.
Functional Programming Self-Affirmations
Is the AMOC Shutting Down? [video]
> It's reasonable to assume that there have been many variants of writing systems throughout human evolution.

I don't find it that reasonable an assumption. As far as I know, there is no hunter-gatherer society that has developed writing, except societies who have had contact with a sedentary agricultural civilisation with writing.

Given that all human societies for which there's evidence were hunter-gatherers until about 10k years ago, to me it seems more reasonable to conclude they had no writing.

Now, you might say that agriculture and civilisation were around earlier, but we dhaven't found the evidence. But we do have evidence of plenty of human groups at those earlier times, and they're all hunter-gatherers.
FAANG is literally 5 companies and they just do a market rate adjustment. Making $230k in Texas vs $270k in SF isn't really that different. Startups don't even do that, remote work pays the same regardless of geo. Any "in office" only startup is pretty much doomed tbh.

It's also not just my "current job", I make more than any peer that works in office and I always have at any employer that I've been at. If you want me to work for you, you have to pay what I require. That's how the market works.
I’ve been on machines in the last few years that didn’t have screen either. Maybe it was a minimal install or something, but I specifically remember having to install it to get some long running stuff going.

(Thinking it was Ubuntu server, but guessing someone will correct me)
I once had a student in a U.S. history class that literally copy-pasted almost the entirety of a paper from a Wikipedia article (incidentally, an article that was only tangentially related to what he was supposed to write about, which only made it more glaringly obvious something was wrong). After confronting him he told me he "had no clue" how the copying could have happened! I gave him a 0 on the paper, which caused him to fail the course, and reported the incident. But the school admins changed his grade so that he would pass. This was at a for-profit college that thankfully no longer exists (I quit after that experience).
There is significant warmup required, which is not good for most programs. Deegen's approach is very promising for interactive use or other situations that require low latency.
Depends. If one had been planning to shift tracks earlier in life but something got in the way, there would be some disappointment that the window for that track had passed.

But your narrative implicitly signals acceptance of one's station and a realistic assessment of the tracks still open which is probably the right way to go.
Putin ready to cripple Britain with cyber attacks, minister warns
Sounds like a fun project. However, from the readme:

Efficient file listing: Optimized for speed, even in large directories

What exactly is it doing differently to optimize for speed? Isn't it just using the regular fs lib?
As a UK national I would love to move to the US for better opportunities and weather. Getting a visa seems next to impossible, short of marrying an American. I probably missed my chance in the pre Covid tech boom.