skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you have deduced that stars are distant suns if you'd lived in the ancient world?

Apparently the only pre-modern people (i.e. pre-Giordano Bruno) recorded as making the claim were Anaxagoras, and Aristarchus of Samos, but their ideas were completely rejected by contemporaries.

In retrospect, it just seems so blindingly obvious that I'm tempted to believe that I too would have seen through the Aristotelean BS. But surely there must be aspects of reality that will seem similarly obvious to future generations, and yet I don't feel any insights coming on.

I should say, Aristarchus is the ideal of maximizing information from minimal data:

>Aristarchus of Samos (Samos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea) lived from about 310 to 230 BC, about 2250 years ago. He measured the size and distance of the Sun and, though his observations were inaccurate, found that the Sun is much larger than the Earth. Aristarchus then suggested that the small Earth orbits around the big Sun rather than the other way around, and he also suspected that stars were nothing but distant suns, but his ideas were rejected and later forgotten, and he, too, was threatened for suggesting such things

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsunasstar.html
> and no less than Elon Musk

I wonder how long it’ll take humanity to realize it’s not a good sign when he’s swooping in to help.
Scammers fooling people into thinking beign fired
I will ignore your dumb reductionist take...

The problem with doing it via downloads or plugins is that it's OS and maybe browser specific (have fun making your plugin for Firefox on Windows, Chrome on Mac, etc.), and also it's extra friction.

The reason I want to remote control someone's computer is because talking them through the actions is too tedious. The last thing I want to do is talk them through downloading and installing some browser plugin first.

Security & scamming is obviously a concern but let's not pretend it is impossible to solve. People thought the full screen API shouldn't be done because of security concerns, but that's laughable now.

As an initial step they could at least support showing a "laser pointer" on other people's screens so you can say "click here" instead of "up a bit, no... go back.. no third from the bottom, yeah that one". That has zero security implications.
To me, that makes it their car.
RansomHub claims to net data hat-trick against Bologna FC
It's known issue for any application that uses Electron but don't have enough money to get Ubuntu to whitelist it (I believe?)

I heard that this can be worked around if someone submit a package to the distro. I have no experience in packaging for distros, and help is welcomed!
Also, specifically an IP address is considered personal information under the GDPR as far as I understand it, which the person says they're storing (for 24 hours)
Productivity is irrelevant: when you have young children, any given amount of time where you can be awake and functional is incredibly valuable - particularly if it works outside the hours your children sleep.

Like I'll settle for "tired but no accruing sleep debt".
Ah very cool!
It’s a newcomer confusion vs old-timer habit. You’ll feel the same in C, python, etc if you never seen these. And vice versa in any direction.

Edit: But I absolutely agree that $subj platform should focus on that, not even on the language. A language can be learned in one evening on a “fiddle” site, no platform required.

Personally, when I become interested in another language, all I want is a page of common snippets or a cheatsheet to get the feel of syntax, and then how to make and deploy a non-toy project with all the usual libs and tools attached.
There are teams of people who go out to dig up battlefield graves. Soldiers know this. So, if they have to bury someone, they generally mark the site. Bodies are also laid out with a degree of dignity, not tossed. In very simple terms, soldiers in modern conflict tend to die face-down. A battlefield grave will have the body face-up, covered in loose earth, and positioned like they were lying in a flat bed. A body crumpled up in a pit is almost certainly not a battlefield grave.

(Soldiers dont bury bodies while under fire. The burials happen after the battle is over by whatever side now holds the ground.)
If you can’t trust Microsoft with a wallpaper app, should they be trusted with the whole operating system?
> Staff is required, even on driverless trains

Why? Is that some union requirement? Staff is absolutely not required on driverless trains. There can be at stations and of course for maintenance, but there's no reason to have staff in each train.
Yes. See https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
the compartments weren't watertight 100%, they weren't sealed at the top
Also cost savings through MAID doesn't have to mean forced. I mean would you rather have a good life, get diagnosed with terminal cancer and die peacefully or the same plus die after two years of pain in hospitals?
The standard library is good, readable, and probably the best example of how to write Go code.
Nice specs. Looks like more than you need (mostly on the CPU side) but if that's the thing you can get I am sure you aren't going wrong.
While there is some truth in what you say, it makes seem like writing in the CUDA style is something new and revolutionary invented by NVIDIA, which it is not.

The CUDA style of writing parallel programs is nothing else than the use of the so-called "parrallel do" a.k.a. "parrallel for" program structure, which has been already discussed in 1963. Notable later evolutions of this concept have been present in "Communicating Sequential Processes" by C.A.R. Hoare (1978-08: "arrays of processes"), then in the programming language Occam, which was designed based on what Hoare had described, then in the OpenMP extension of Fortran (1997-10), then in the OpenMP extension of C and C++ (1998-10).

Programming in CUDA does not bring anything new, except that in comparison e.g. with OpenMP some keywords are implicit and others are different, so the equivalence is not immediately obvious.

Programming for CPUs in the much older OpenMP is equivalent with programming in CUDA for GPUs.

The real innovation of NVIDIA has been the high quality of the NVIDIA CUDA compiler and CUDA runtime GPU driver, which are able to distribute the work that must be done on the elements of an array over all the available cores, threads and SIMD lanes, in a manner that is transparent for the programmer, so in many cases the programmer is free to ignore which is the actual structure of the GPU that will run the program.

Previous compilers for OpenMP or for other such programming language extensions for parallel programming have been much less capable to produce efficient parallel programs without being tuned by the programmer for each hardware variant.
> Modern cars are just smartphones on wheels at this point.

Complete with non-replaceable batteries.
It's not bold if the comment author lives in a state that switched clocks to EPT (Elon-Prediction-Time) this week-end.
I will respectfully disagree with your statement, with the caveat that I mostly dabble in arithmetic with 128b/256b float and int vectors.

Using C or C++ with vector extensions (Gcc/Clang) or Rust (nightly) std::simd is very easy and you get code that is portable to different CPUs and ISAs.

But most importantly they have a zero cost fallback option to CPU-specific intrinsics when you need them. An f32x8 can be passed at zero cost as __mm256 to any core::arch::x86_64::__mm_intrinsic (or xmmintrin.h in C++ land).

You gain portable arithmetic and swizzles and SIMD vector types, but lose nothing. Not having to write everything for x86_64 and aarch64 is a huge win even if doesn't quite cover everything.

Additionally you can use wider vectors than your hardware supports, the compiler is able to split your f64x64 to 128, 256 or 512 bit registers as needed depending on the compile target.
That depends doesn't it?

I keep my cars for a long time. 200k miles is the usual, and that has held true buying used a little ways north of 100k miles already on the board.

If we designed for very long car life, the waste equation would look different.

Toyota does, and there are a small number of people planning on half a million miles. Recently there is evidence Toyota is either struggling on this metric. Quality problems or deliberate design intent change?
Shout out to the old Peugeot 107. You’d struggle to fit your shopping in the boot/trunk, 0-60 takes several business days, the brakes are more of a suggestion to slow down, even moderate hills require dropping to second and ragging the engine (no idea what the redline is cause ours doesn’t even have a tach), and opening the passenger window requires reaching across from the driver’s side.

But it was mine and my wife’s first car and we have a lot of happy memories of places that car has taken us to. Aside from the odd flat tyre and a new clutch and timing belt over the last 8 years, it’s never let us down (it was largely engineered by Toyota which certainly helps there). We got a new car at the start of this year so it doesn’t see much use now, but we’ve kept it as a second car because it’s so damn cheap to run and maintain.
Wasn't this discussed by Oliver Sachs? The post encephalitis sufferers?
>(And for the record, I'm off them now due to other stuff clearing up such that I don't need this level of sleep assistance anymore. Not because I can't afford them.)

If it was available over the counter for, say, $50/month -- do you think you would be taking it just for the improved sleep quality?

Also, what was the specific name of the drug you had such a good experience with?
Yup, take this part:

> One can quibble. Food is 14% of EU expenditure, so even a 0.7 percentage point rise in food prices is an 0.1 percentage point rise in general prices, and we leave out food and energy prices from core inflation precisely because they are “transitory.” The whole “climate risk to the financial system” as well as “risk to price stability” faces the fact that almost all of a modern economy is indoor manufacturing and services, that are remarkably impervious to weather. Floods are local.

I’m not trained at all but to accept his argument is to accept that:

- food is 14% of expenses, so the ECB should only devote 14% of its price stabilization to it. The front page of the biggest newspaper in Russia today is about +75% potatoes. Central bankers are allowed to worry about potatoes.

- indoor manufacturing is “almost all” of a modern economy. Not credible: this is maybe 25% in China.
Too bad :)

Facebook trained the model on an Internet's worth of copyrighted material without any regard for licenses whatsoever - even if model weights are copyrightable, which is an open question, you're doing the exact same thing they did. Probably not a bulletproof legal defense though.
Never underestimate the value of being the sales exec to hand out free merch with every multimillion-dollar purchase.
Unfortunately a bit late :) Highway reached v1.0 about 2.5 years ago.
How long would it take until Clang/GCC/MSVC are ready, and all users' distros have updated?
Not to mention that the number of ops provided by std::experimental::simd is extremely limited - basically only math operators, and zero support for shuffling/crypto/rounding/interleaving/table lookups which seem indispensable for many applications.
Are we assuming then that you're not treating the children? Because otherwise they just sleep less as well and now you're back to square one.

I suppose you can full dystopia it, go the other way, make them need 12-16 hours a sleep a day whilst you only need 4 ;)
The more I learn about computers/software, the more I think it is a miracle that anything works at all.
A clever blogger or even entrepreneur sees the opportunities here.
If you find yourself with these symptoms (and even if you don't - see below for why), whatever your gender, get your testosterone level checked. We've known for decades that low testosterone causes fatigue and brain fog and the treatment for it has been approved for medical use for over 80 years, but you can go to doctor for "long COVID" and they'll do a blood test for a huge list of things and ignore testosterone, as does this article. If you want it checked you'll probably need to push for it and/or pay extra. There's a stigma around it and it's a controlled substance, but some people simply need it and will not feel normal without it.

There's a persistent myth that testosterone production in men falls as a natural part of aging. The truth of what happens to "normal" levels with age is more complex [1] but what is known is that in some people testosterone production falls dramatically and permanently at some point at some point in their life, sometimes after an injury or infection, sometimes for no discernible reason, and it can cause exactly the symptoms described here. When that happens it's not a "male menopause". It's not normal aging. It's pathological and it's treatable. The reason to get your level checked even if you don't have symptoms is so you know your personal baseline and can tell if a sudden change happens later.

The situation in women is more complex, and testosterone treatment carries different risks, but androgens are very much part of healthy female hormone production.

It's early days but there's been some interesting research about a possible mechanism for permanent changes in androgen production after COVID [2].

I'm not saying this is the only cause of long COVID. There's certainly more than one mechanism, and what helps one person can harm another (as with the graded exercise program mentioned in the article, which was entirely counterproductive for me). But it is one of the possibilities and if it were routinely checked for in people reporting these symptoms it would have spared me a few years of hell.

1. https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc4190174

2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10507138/
Thanks! I don't know about this
They keep changing the syntax and they've pulled out major features out of the language, that's a non-starter for me.
Angluar -> I'm using this from now on
Compose Multiplatform vs. Flutter
...and campfire, a one time fee slack alternative. Are people allowed to change their views?
Small? From your own link, recaptcha v3 takes 10-15s and costs $1.3 for 1000 captchas. This is actually huge, and cost prohibitively expensive for many things where you would want to use it (like scrapping a large website).
Trying to come up with a reply made me realize something. I was initially going to write something like "it's just not ready yet" but paused for a moment and reflected on that. That's actually not a real reason why it would come short of that. And instead of talking about how something "is not quite ready yet" we can instead choose to invest into it and use it anyway, with the goal of contributing and helping make it "ready" and more widely used.

Out of everything mentioned, I think Gleam is the most likely to succeed and what I think I will invest in as well. But that's not just because of the language design but rather because of their approach to community and community building! It's a very very nice extra that the language/syntax also happen to be what I like and have described in my previous comment.
Yes makes sense, I didn't took in account the model size and now you mention it makes a lot of sense.
An algorithm that searches for the highest probability answer is not "reasoning"? "Search" has been a fundamental building block of GOFAI since the beginning. How do you define reasoning? Can you justify it being different from the last 70 years of thought on the topic?
Checked it out. Works good. But there are some repeating exercises. On one level I got 4 consecutive "10-8" or something similar. I think it would be better to not show duplicate exercises, at least on a single level (if it has been solved already, of course).
A fully refueled starship in leo is a big big ask, akin to getting a full shuttle stack into orbit. On-orbit refueling at such a scale has not been done yet and is difficult to even think about doing. It isnt like KSP. The more efficient route would be to scrap starship and design a high-energy upper stage to be launched by the BFR instead, a purpose-built probe thrower. Starship is way to heavy to be a practical final stage for probes.
I never had 'real' social media account, and never had 'immoral' intentions. I find it interesting phenomena how easily people switched from pseudonymes on the internet to using their real names, and now think there is something wrong by not providing real data.
Please don't call model weights source code. Code is something you can (usually) read and understand, if anything weights are closer to a very obfuscated compiled binary - although even that can be analyzed by a good enough reverse engineer.

"Open Source" models are the latest in a long series of attempts to take advantage of FOSS's reputation without actually releasing something that adheres to the principles.
Sadly I'm in the same boat, for years now. Fatigue is such an inadequate term. Can't even sit up for long without getting exhausted. Still trying treatments but to no avail so far. The impact of Long Covid seems to be drawing a lot of eyeballs to this though so I'm hopeful something will be found.

It's taught me patience and empathy. I used to teach others how to program and when people couldn't get something I presumed they weren't trying hard enough. I get it now. Now I read the requirements or exercise or puzzle or whatever and there's just nothing where once there was a bubbling and filtering of ideas or whatever we call thinking.

There was a recent survey paper in Nature covering this syndrome that can triggered by various infections https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01810-6

Be well, and get your own Illness Benefit Insurance policy
I am totally in favor of increasing the annoyance of 4chan users.
Thanks to this post and a comment referring Iterated Function System, two polish people are interestingly connected in the field of the subject: Wacław Sierpiński (Sierpiński triangle) [1] and "Wacław Szpakowski", they could even met at the time.

Another interesting thing about such connections is trying to find a mention of them both in the same media (web page, research paper, etc) so thanks to this a very promising book is found "Art, algorithm and ambiguity. Aesthetic ambiguity with regard to metacognition based on visual semiotics, visual rhetoric and Gestalt Psychology" by Axel Rohlfs [2]. This method sometimes works in other fields, if a researcher is aware of a couple obscure facts, names or entities in a field, he or she is usually very good at the field or at least dedicated enough time to it

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wac%C5%82aw_Sierpi%C5%84ski

[2] https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/8576/1/Rohlfs_Art...
good one, I will implement that with the next update!

Thanks for your feedback and suggestion :D
a tiny bit more JavaScript to focus the input field on load would go a long way
Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee (2008)
In Argentina, this pro-Austrian economics government which has severe limitations in terms of law, regulations, and the heavily destroyed general economy of the country, does not have enough freedom to swiftly change things to "what ideally should be".

You have to thoughfully begin to implement changes in order for them to take place in the precise step-by-step order to actually change stuff towards an actual free market economy, and at the same time not just blowing up society's political support.

You cannot just make a jump from 40 to 80% of general poverty promising somewhere in the range from 5 to 15 years they begin to recover their previous economic statuses.

In Argentina, there is even a time constrain: 36 months precisely, after this the society's processes for a general election for presidency begin, and if the current government hasn't achieved enough success in the general population's opinion, one year later, it is not anymore the government.

Hence Milei is just going the fastest he can through the explained process.

I think the people voted a political leadership with enough empaty to understand they cannot just crush the population with free markets policies given the atrocius consequences of doing so without the minimal pre-conditions previously achieved.
>very new and unproven, written in a new and unproven programming language

while i'd generally agree with this, in the case of TigerBeetle i think it's safe to trust their tech based on their test-suite/practices - one of the most impressive things I've seen in the past 5 years.

they extend the testing practices of FoundationDB (now spun out into Antithesis[0]), going a layer deeper to test for data integrity when there is disk io corruption. check out from ~20:30 in this demo:

https://youtu.be/sC1B3d9C_sI?feature=shared&t=1228/

[0] https://antithesis.com
At this point I have to wait 90 seconds before making every post. (maybe because I don't persist cookies). I posted very rarely, but now I just stopped - I get it when someone shows me the door.
So much for internet access even for you! Your router is also made in China.
Yes, reverse engineering is labor intensive.

Expensive too. Your test harness is likely the car!
> I never had 'real' social media account

That's funny, you have an account here.
Not original commenter, but I would opt not to use such social media. There is world outside of computer, less social media is less temptetion to waste time online :)
Yes, but the redirection takes both time and energy, that’s what makes it such a good form of sabotage, the grit in the engine that’s too small to notice but still leads to pain and cost.
I’ll admit I didn’t read TFA.

Some combination of the title and the submission domain triggered my tick even more than usual around the use of “AI”.

It’s extremely unlikely that I’ll regard any artifact as artificially intelligent if the broader context fails a pretty low bar for intelligence of any kind.
Yeah, and it's pseudonyme, not 'real', I thought that's what author of the post was reffering to
In the popular HN discussions. They generate more fuss
Its not only that. Style may signify more than just a cosmetics, it can lead to vastly different code understanding.
> You lose flexibility but gain speed/reuse.

Its actually: You lose major flexibility AND all your speed but gain reuse.
OP, how does this scheme work? If the client is authoritative, that means anybody can just copy that network request and spam you with fake data for that domain. Indeed, if I copy that network request and curl it with changed headers, I still get a 200, which suggests that this is the case...

I'm also concerned about your claim for GDPR compliance. Keeping an IP address for a day and then incrementing against it is still storing personal information, even if it's not in a cookie. Using a server to do the tracking doesn't automatically exempt it from cookie notices.

Storing the IP address for a day doesn't automatically make it non-PII, either. At the very least you should be hashing it. See what Plausible does at https://plausible.io/data-policy or read up on the GDPR discussion at https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
Hi fellow cookie autodeleter, I experienced the same thing, but I just decided to stop posting. Whitelisting felt too much like giving in to terrorists. I'm considering just not going there in the future. Maybe after all this time I will finally be free.
Wow Funcaptcha cost the most and it is open source.
Please tell me Foubners Fund is a gigaparsec from this before I become the Unabomber.
That's right, we don't provide model access, models are accessed from providers (OpenAI/ Microsoft, Anthropic/Bedrock/Vertext-AI etc).

In the background, yes, its an "api layer" between the models as you said. One advantage is switching models in the API, and the good part is, it comes in with a chatbot infrastructure, like a backend to save chats and a front-end to interact etc.

In simple words, a ChatGPT like app will be readily available for you along with unified API call for models.