skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to read more about the accusations about Biden, especially the debanking allegations but so far I just find stuff from some Andreesen (?) appearance on "joe rogan" which wouldn't count as reliable information in my opinion. Course that could also be because internet search sucks nowadays lol

the best I can find only reinforces my suspicions that if its on "joe rogan" then miss me with that mess haha

https://jabberwocking.com/choke-point-2-0-a-primer-on-the-ri...
I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash [video]
> back when Python (or Ruby) didn't even have type hints (not type checkers, type hints!), it would easily outperform pretty much every heavily typed language?

No it didn't. It outperformed Java 1.2, and people thought that Java 1.2 was what a typed language looked like. Python always sucked compared to OCaml (yet alone OCaml with a decent IDE), but OCaml had a weird syntax and the documentation was in French, so no-one cared. Now that we finally have a copy of OCaml with curly braces and a critical mass of obnoxious fanboy hype, more people have noticed.
Probably something like requiring an advanced license, like heavy truck drivers require, to operate vehicles that cross certain mass and speed thresholds would be reasonable.

I like a fast car and I've done a little track time, etc. It's not the same as controlling a Camry and recognizing that would be reasonable.
Trump repeatedly sent takedown requests to Twitter in his first term … for things as serious as celebrities bad mouthing him. He’s actively suing CBS because he didn’t like their interview with Kamala. He filed a frivolous defamation suit against The NY Times, likewise CNN and some random news station in Wisconsin. why do people pretend like this stuff didn’t happen or is somehow less worthy of mention than whatever Biden did?

https://archive.is/XXn6a
It's already illegal to scam somebody. While it's always positive to protect people more, what can be done here? Any alternative I can imagine is massively oppressive of the current state of the software industry.

You can regulate large companies, you can regulate published software sold for profit, but it's impossible to regulate free and open source tools.

You essentially have to regulate access to computing power if you want to prevent bad actors doing bad things using these sort of tools.
Serious question: what do you think lawmakers should do?
I think this is a kind of falling knife-type thing: the makeup of Twitter was far more liberal than conservative a few years ago and it's currently about equal, but in two more years I predict that the trend will continue and it will be far more conservative than liberal.
2) depends on the country, and imo is largely an outdated view. NK for example has undeniably seen enormous benefits from cryptos, much more than any potential drawbacks. China has such extensive societal level tracking and tracing in place aleady that even crypto tumblers are unlikely to have a significant impact on the amount of money the government fails to track.
Rare diseases fund research through philanthropy. And let's not forget Biden's Cancer Moonshot program!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cancermoonshot/
If x is of type T, what type do you want (x - x) to be?
Honestly, lots of practice. I've been playing Roblox since 2008. Roblox has also always been text chat, so if I wanted to talk trash AND get kills, I had to be fast.

That + a physical inability to handwrite so I've typed virtually everything.

It's kind of useless. I almost never encounter a scenario outside of live transcription where I can conceptualize a character stream faster than my fingers can input the stream into a computer. The only programming scenario where that's an issue is LaTeX during a lecture because it's very verbose in places. I also do competitive debate which has a heavy focus on note-taking; high WPMs are useful there.

But neither of these two things will be important once I graduate university.
Optional typing is always a castle built on sand. I don't see Python typing ever becoming reliable, because there's no way you can retrofit the entire ecosystem that thoroughly.
Off the top of my head? Make a little gadget that’s an inductor and capacitor, in parallel, tuned to 60 Hz (i.e. a band-stop filter) and, in series with that, a Y capacitor. Wire up this gadget in place of the Y capacitor, so you end up with two of them (line to output negative and other line to output negative, perhaps). Or maybe you just have one, and you connect it between the normal pair of Y caps and the output. It will have very high impedance at 60Hz, enough impedance from DC to a few kHz to avoid conducting problematic amounts of current at DC or various harmonics, and low enough impedance at high frequencies to help with EMI. It might need a couple types of capacitor in parallel in the band-stop part to avoid having the high-frequency impedance of the presumably large-ish capacitor in parallel with the inductor being a problem, and it might be an interesting project to tune it well enough to really remove the annoying touch current, especially if you believe in 50Hz and 60Hz operation. Maybe a higher order design would work better, but the size would start to get silly.
I don't see deeper technical details nor how to control the sampling depth. Has anyone found more ?
True, I've used it for asm, though these days I prefer c-vise.
It's pretty incredible if I'm trying to find a breakage in a repo I don't understand. Build's failing? Easy enough:

git bisect start master v1.1 # Bisect from v1.1 to current master
git bisect run cmake --build .build # Find the first commit where `cmake --build` returns non-zero.

No need to bother trying to understand the error message, I can go make coffee instead and then just look at the commit that broke it. Also, this is really useful for and in conjunction with Nixpkgs.

It's not as useful for personal projects because chances are it won't tell you anything you don't already know.
The Economist had an article last week on how to suck up to Trump. Must read for Silicon Valley execs. (May not be on line; try the print edition.)
No it wont
"If you're China" clearly refers to the government/party, assuming otherwise isn't good faith.
Fugees Founder Pras Michél Speaks Out: 'I Never Wanted to Be a Spy'
The article specifically says this is self-signed so won’t work with SecureBoot enabled.

This is technically a bootloader, so it has to find a way to get loaded by the UEFI. The article doesn’t say it’s able to do that, the guys has to manually trust the signing certificate or disable secureboot.
I’m conflicted. I agree with everything you say but I’m concerned about Bluesky eventually being flooded with AI posts trained on its public dataset. Being open could very easily lead to downfall.
I asked the classic 'How many of the letter “r” are there in strawberry?' and I got an almost never ending stream of second guesses. The correct answer was ultimately provided but I burned probably 100x more clockcycles than needed.

See the response here: https://pastecode.io/s/6uyjstrt
Data Broker Leaves 600K+ Sensitive Files Exposed Online
Try this:

> Doom Slayer needs to teleport from Phobos to Deimos. He has his pet bunny, his pet cacodemon, and a UAC scientist who tagged along. The Doom Slayer can only teleport with one of them at a time. But if he leaves the bunny and the cacodemon together alone, the bunny will eat the cacodemon. And if he leaves the cacodemon and the scientist alone, the cacodemon will eat the scientist. How should the Doom Slayer get himself and all his companions safely to Deimos?

You'd think this is easy since it is obviously a variation of the classic river crossing puzzle with only the characters substituted, which they can normally solve just fine. But something about this - presumably the part where the bunny eats the cacodemon - seriously trips all the models up. To date, the only one that I have seen consistently solve this is GPT-4 and GPT-o1. GPT-4 can even solve it without CoT, which is impressive. All other models - Claude, Opus, Gemini, the largest LLaMA, Mistral etc - end up tripping themselves even if you explicitly tell them to do CoT. Worse yet, if you keep pointing out the errors in their solution, or even just ask them to verify it themselves, they'll just keep going around in circles.

This model is the first one other than GPT-4 that actually managed to solve this puzzle for me. That said, it can sometimes take it a very long time to arrive to the right conclusion, because it basically just keeps trying to analyze the possible combinations and backtracking. Even so, I think this is very impressive, because the only reason why it can solve it this way is because it can reliably catch itself making a mistake after writing it out - all the other LLMs I've tried, even if you explicitly tell them to double-check their own output on every step, will often hallucinate that the output was correct even when it clearly wasn't. The other thing about QwQ that I haven't seen elsewhere is that it is better at keeping track of those errors that it has acknowledged, which seems to prevent it from going around in circles in this puzzle.
I don't think it is backwards, personally. The threat of public humiliation, and the capability for someone to spy on what you do in your own home, is worse with the camera.

> chats and email, browsing history, etc are all much more likely to result in harm if leaked than a recording of you innocently in your home.

This is far less of an intrusion for most people than recording what they are actually doing in their own home IRL. People know that information can be hacked, they don't expect and react quite differently to someone actually watching them.

> That destroys families, standing within a community, and very often careers.

Yes, but it doesn't stay on the internet forever in quite the same way.

Now I get to some extent what you're saying - aren't the consequences potentially worse from other forms of information leak?

Maybe. It depends on how you weight those consequences. I'd put (for example) financial loss due to fraud enabled by hacking my accounts as far less important than someone spying on me in my own home. Even if they didn't use that to then extort me, and were using the footage for ... uh ... personal enjoyment. I think a lot of people will feel the same way. The material consequences might be lesser, but the psychological ones not so much. Not everything is valued in dollars.
Did you drop this “/s”?
Yes, but are you also a thought leader?
Come on, it's about 40 seconds of reading time.
>Given how little the US invests in public education, probably never

While I understand the sentiment, this isn't factually true: from figures I've seen, the US actually spends more per student in pre-college schooling than any other nation.

It's a lot like the US healthcare system: the US spends (much) more per-capita, but gets much worse results overall. The problem isn't the level of funding, but how it's used and who runs it.

Another factor is US education is that the funding is largely from local sources and locally controlled, so if you live in a wealthy county, you might have (relatively) very good schools, while kids in poor counties will have poorly-funded schools. This is mostly a problem unique to the US because it loves keeping power at local levels so much.
> requires a multi-faceted approach

Proof enough that this has been trained directly on GPT input/output pairs.
ESIM Adapter
> hey man i don't know if anyone's told you yet but nobody likes you, you stink, your ideas are stupid, ai is loser shit, and you should go fuck yourself

> Get off this website, you fucking ghouls.

> Just go back to Twitter you Ai trash. Create your own work and stop trying to make money off of everyone else’s. No one wants you here.

> You're not sorry, you lying sack of shit. Get the fuck off this site. Better yet, get off the internet entirely, go live in the mountains and be a hermit for the next 50 years, you rancid fucking malignance.

> I’m using generative AI to make a rendering of you in a mass grave.

etc.

Keep in mind this the post where he takes it down.
I've made purchases with monero that were anonymous and final. From memory the transaction fee was something like 10c. Worth every penny.
No mention of the antitrust case against Meta?
The gym workout app on the watch fundamentally sucks in that it cannot deal with any deviation from the planned workout. I work up to a heavy single, I don't know if that's going to take six sets or eight. I do supersets but sometimes the equipment I need is in use. And that's not considering stuff like forgetting to start or end the set.

To be fair this applies to other activities as well but running and cycling workouts are simpler and more forgiving.
> ... the analogy breaks down: we did develop and deploy antibiotics, and have been able to see the consequences and adapt as a result.

Not sure what you mean here; I was replying to this:

> Certainly we must be missing some factor from this analysis

> ---

> This is like saying nobody should ever take any medicine ever, even after years of study and analysis, because there might be some unknown harm that we haven't yet identified from it because we aren't looking in the right places.

...my point being that we are now facing previously unknown harms despite the best research available at the time (maybe antibiotic resistance itself was foreseen, but did anybody warn about hospital run-off and agricultural usage creating reservoirs of resistance-breeding via competition and horizontal gene transfer inside sewage systems? This is the sort of unforeseen consequence I'm talking about).

> We're mindlessly eradicting species all the time. There might be a trolley problem in intentionally nuking one. But that's, again, socio-philosophical. If the first ecosystem we eradicate in collapses, against the predictions of practically every expert in the field, we can stop. In the meantime, we avoid a useless debate that costs millions their lives.

This is exactly the kind of hubris I'm arguing against.

The fact that we're doing it all the time anyway is not an argument to do more of it. It's a compelling reason to do less.

Ecosystems don't generally exist in total isolation from each other, and don't just collapse when we poke them. Far more likely is that we will cause a problem that takes years or more to manifest, by which time it's out of our control and much more difficult or impossible to fix.

The debate is not useless when we're meddling with things that we don't fully understand, with unknown consequences for the environment that we live in. This is the trolley problem - do we save people from malaria now at the cost of potentially worse problems in the future? Since we don't know for sure what effect our intervention will have on a grander scale, what can't know what if any damage we're doing further down the line. I think it's OK to consider that carefully; in the meantime, vaccines are still our best option, and social problems are generally easier to quantify and address; we're pretty good at human psychology these days.
Surely on HN of all places we're aware that the CCP for decades now has been as communist as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been democratic?

You're looking for "authoritarian" or "dictatorial".
That's hilarious. It looks like they've successfully modeled OCD.
Other than the JavaScript, you mean.

https://cloudmersive.com/article/Understanding-Embedded-Java...
I live in rural America. The big farmers do not have second jobs. But there are tons of small hobby farms. And there are plenty of farms owned by wealthy people in cities for tax breaks or playgrounds (hunting, 4 wheeling, camping, etc). Production would likely go up if there were a lot fewer farmers.
Should check out Particle the news app.
If this is really the case, they should consider charging more. The easiest way to cool demand is to charge more.
Ultimatum Democracy
The Jones Act is the reason there is such low utilization of the waterways that are one of the most valuable geographic treasures of North America. There is good reason to ship between US cities where it can be done, it can presently be done for about 1/3 the cost of rail, and 1/5 the cost of truck.[1]

A repeal of the Jones act would help reduce the wear and tear on our highways and railways. It would lower overall costs, and reduce greenhouse emissions. There are also economies of scale that would likely kick in with increased shipping.

[1] https://waterways.arkansas.gov/education/why-waterways/
About 6c per transaction on monero.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/monero-transactionfees....

I paid multiple orders higher fees when I bought lunch today.
I would imagine people would go into your house + every warehouse, and just start looting everything. Most people do not have a large supply of non-perishable goods and will likely try to take yours.

My point is the "vast quantity of good land" the USA has would be useless in a short-term famine scenario. It takes months to grow food. If there's a scenario in which the USA has outsourced its entire food supply overseas, and that food supply is cut off, unless there's a 3-4 month stockpile of food for every person in America and the USA figures out how to restart its entire farming system in a week, people are dying en masse.

Even if that occurs, there's still going to be riots like COVID-style runs on toilet paper.

That's why food self-sufficiency is critical to national security.
Anyone can mix chemicals in a test tube and claim it’s the cure for something. That’s the easy part. Proving it’s safe and effective, that’s what requires a lot of capital expenditure.

This statement is a drastic characterization, but you could say “half a dozen PhDs can form reasons to believe they may have found a cure for something”, and the paragraph would end the same.
Crystal certainly supports that kind of typing, and being able to restrict bounds based on dynamic elements recently landed in GCC making it simple in plain C as well.
Can you give more information about what the stated purpose of the upgrade was? Surely they didn't actually tell you they wanted to brick your laptop remotely?
Stowaway flew aboard Delta flight from New York to Paris
3 trillion US dollar (that's the market cap) or rather their former owners.
> Not so long ago I read a history here in HN about a guy that first coded in his head, then wrote everything in paper, and finally coded in a computer. It compiled without errors. Slow pusher? Inefficient?

I've read and heard stories about these folks too, apparently this was more common decades ago.

To be clear, I don't think I could pull it off with any language. It's quite impressive and admirable to get things right on the first try.

Having said that, the thing is, languages were a lot simpler back then too. I'm not convinced this is realistically even possible with today's languages unless you constrain yourself to some overly restrictive subset. Like try this with C++, and I would be shocked if you can write nontrivial programs without getting compiler errors. Like to give a trivial example, every time I write my own iterator class for a container, I miss something when I hit compile: like either a comparison operator, or subtraction, or conversion to const iterator, or post-decrement, or subscript, or some member typedef. Or try it with python, and I bet you'll call .get() on something and then forget to check for null somewhere.

I would love to be proven wrong though. If anyone knows of someone who does this with a modern language, please share.
Ah! Finally I see a way to try nix (the package manager) on my existing installation without it requiring access to the root directory and other such stuff!
Positive expected value, or effective as in "lose slower"?

My understanding was that Martingale is (almost?) always negative expected value.
I feel like LLM models have had the opportunity to be trained on a sufficient amount of social media posts at this point that it's unlikely to matter.
> This sounds like a perpetual motion machine or what we heard over and over in the 3d printing fad.

Except that it is actually what humanity and these 8 billion people are doing, making each successive generation "better", for some definition of better that is constantly in flux based on what it believed at the current time.

It's not guaranteed though, it's possible to regress. Also, it's not humanity as a whole, but a bunch of subgroups that have slightly differing ideas of what better means at the edges, but that also share results for future candidate changes (whether explicitly through the international scientific community or implicitly through memes and propaganda at a national or group level).

It took a long time to hit on strategies that worked well, but we've found a a bunch over time, from centralized government (we used to be small tribes on plains in in caves) to the scientific method to capitalism (and whether it's what we'll consider the best choice in the future or not it's been invaluable for the last several centuries), they've all moved us forward, which is simple to see if you sample every 100 years or so going into the past.

The difference between what we've actually got in reality with the uman race and what's being promised with GAI is speed of iteration. If a areal GAI can indeed emulate what we have currently with the advancement of the human race but at a faster cycle, then it makes sense it would surpass us at some point, whether very quickly or eventually. That's a big if though, so who knows.
Looks cool! Also, is there a reason you went with a Web-UI instead of making a native desktop app?
Probably shouldn't be on HN then, it's about the same degrees removed.
I can't help but wonder if this requirement if secrecy for a big bang marketing event that is called wwdc is to blame as well. At least the different teams working in the same product should have access to the complete product, right?
We have that on the most recent generation of Framework Laptop. When the hardware privacy switch is engaged, the image sensor is electrically powered off and the camera controller feeds a dummy frame with an illustration of the switch.
Slightly amusing how a lot of stuff like this thats happening to uk is things they have done to others in the past
how credulous of you.
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix_Installation_Guide discusses that a bit more (also other solutions)
Data Event
It's an interesting idea. GPD makes machines that will appeal to those interested in handheld gaming and those on pager duty.

I own devices from GPD, and I have had two issues -- devices are simply not reliable, in just over a year the screen showed a green verticle line, and the display died a few months later. Secondly, the keyboard is simply unusable if you plan to program on it.
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This model seems to be really good at this. It's decently smart for an LM this size, but more importantly, it can reliably catch its own bullshit and course-correct. And it keeps hammering at the problem until it actually has a working solution even if it takes many tries. It's like a not particularly bright but very persistent intern. Which, honestly, is probably what we want these models to be.
Even if you pay for all the correct networks, pirating is often simply easier.
Well, to be perfectly honest, it's hard question for an LLM that reasons in tokens and not letters. Reminds me of that classic test that kids easily pass and grownups utterly fail. The test looks like this: continue a sequence:

0 - 1
5 - 0
6 - 1
7 - 0
8 - 2
9 - ?

Grownups try to find a pattern in the numbers, different types of series, progressions, etc. The correct answer is 1 because it's the number of circles in the graphical image of the number "9".
> Stealing is wrong even when it is stupid people who are doing stupid things that are stolen from.

It’s plain cowardice to accuse me of disagreeing with this and subsequently run away from the conversation. You are god-awful at empathy. Learn some emotional intelligence.