skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's understandable, but perhaps they could just give him an isolated PC, and let him pick some github projects he wants to clone, download those (after approval of course) and put them on the PC, let him work away on it for a while, perhaps allow periodic pulls from those repos, and then when he has something to contribute, give those to someone to review for anything disallowed (like a manifesto in the comments or whatever), and once they confirm it's just working source code, allow it to be contributed somehow to the project so they can accept it or not, understanding where it's coming from.
Did a crazy thing and adopted Bazel for our two person company. Took a while to get everything working, but the average build takes about 30 seconds to run, across Go / Rust / TypeScript.
If we are in a simulation. This seems like a good path to getting our process terminated for consuming too much compute.
Breaking down bolt.new – Why does it work so well?
What if Musk becomes a Scientologist?
“Quantum computing will surely have amazing applications that we cannot even conceive of right now…”

As best I understand, it’s not clear yet whether quantum computing will ever have any practical applications.

Furthermore, there has already been a great deal of work identifying potential applications for a quantum computer, so I’d say we’ve got a fair idea of what you could do with one if it ever exists.
Cheaters aka hackers
It’s all very convenient and airtight, very nicely packaged.

I’m not saying it’s not exactly what it looks like, just kinda makes me think huh. Either the perp really wanted to be caught, or someone really wants to close this case. I’m going with he wanted to be caught, since he’s apparently not an actual idiot.

So just a relatively smart privileged dude swept away by dark ideology? It wouldn’t be the first time. If there’s any more to it, we won’t likely know.
Also happening in Japan. Quite a number of big-name vendors like DMM, DLsite, and others are getting heavy pressure from Visa and Mastercard to censor certain merchandise for no justifiable reason (as in no legal basis) and in some cases have been blacklisted outright.

The Japanese response, and this is after placating the first round of censor demands, has been to reverse-blacklist Visa and Mastercard because Japan realized that giving an inch only means they will then demand a mile, then a league, and so on.
> Apple silicon RAM is basically all VRAM

The actual ram is lpddr5 - miles slower than what you’d find in even very old dedicated GPUs

It’s as you say though - for some tasks like LLMs that doesn’t matter if you’ve got enough bandwidth to said slow ram…ends up being almost the same thing as having actual fast ram.

It’s a neat trick & little bit frustrated that nobody is copying it. Cause using dirt cheap lpddr5 (about a dollar per gig) but paying Apple’s comical ram upgrade prices feels like a cruel joke.
If we had an artist's statement of intent for a particular piece, that might be a reasonable argument.
Same here. I think one must be occupying very nice couch in a nice house in a 1-tier country to say that AML/KYC doesn't affect 'typical' users
disagree. it's a very (environmentally) inefficient way to mass produce meaningless, generic pictures which are poor stand-ins for authentic expressions the human condition.
This misunderstanding was already solved in a sibling comment.
I don't really understand how this would work. Writing long paragraphs to prompt the AI is much more tedious than writing a few bullet points for the slides.

If you need the AI to help you brainstorm a good narrative, that is a different story
You're correct. I realized that I completely misunderstoond the original problem after reading McDonnell's paper more carefully.

I thought you meant the strategy can make the winning chance always >50% even after the player opens the first envelope, which isn't possible.

However you actually meant the strategy can make the expected winning chance >50% before the player opens the first envelope, for any well-defined distribution of real number, even the distribution is not known to the player, which now I realize is true.

(I haven't thought through some edge case like Cantor distribution, but now I incline to it's true not just for "many distributions". Of course for a discrete distributions, we need to specifiy the two envelopes can't have the same number. Besides that, it seems to hold true for any distribution?)
"...terrible loss for ... the healthcare community" sounds like they're claiming that UHC actually provides healthcare, or is somehow integral to the provision of healthcare, and certainly seems to paint the company as a respectable one. All these responses from these Dem leaders clearly ignore how much these companies have harmed Americans, which you can see in any news articles' comments sections about this shooting.
I think at some point it stops being a joke. Even if it is still, actually, a joke. It just isn't. But is.
Not the money saved but the "free" money from the 6% returns, that wasn't from sacrifices as much as just the rewards of already having money.

Phrased it oddly, but index funds give me a weird feeling of getting something for nothing.
They, in fact, do represent Funko. If you give someone legal authorization to act as your agent, you can't pretend that they aren't your agent when they act like your agent.

Funko might have beef with their agent, but that is between them and the agent. They still have to deal with the fact that they gave someone permission to do legal things on their behalf, and the someone acting on behalf of Funko caused damage to itch.io.

If a McDonalds employee serves me coffee that scalds me, I go after McDonald's, not the guy who McDonald's hired.
Edit Edit: I was wrong. I completely misunderstood the problem. See my other comment below.
"We dragged our feet as hard as we could, but some idiot decided to call us"
If you have finite storage, you need to do something. A very simple rule is to just drop everything older than a threshold. (Or another simple rule: you keep x GiB of information, and drop the oldest logs until you fit into that size limit.)

A slightly more complicated rules is: drop your logs with increasing probability as they age.

With any rule, you will lose information. Yes. Obviously. Sampling metrics also loses information.

The question is what's the best (or a good enough) trade-off for your use case.
Anyone know if it can replace CMake in desktop Qt projects?
You can't say it had nothing to do with them. At a minimum, the manifesto directly motivated them.

Im not a Kaczynski scholar, so maybe it is possible to embrace the philosophy and come to sperate conclusions, but that is rarely the case for manifestos. They usually make strong positive claims about the necessity and justification of the author's actions.
It's quite effective at causing _something_ to happen, but what that something is isn't controllable; the volatility in outcome can be sculpted via a lot of different approaches, but smaller actors have fewer tools to sculpt the outcome. And it's very easy to enter a state of total commitment from both sides no matter the other costs, essentially forcing other systems to be sacrificed toward what is now a "totally committed conflict." This happens on the small scale (person to person) and on the large scale (state to state). Violence forces shifts in every facet and system at every scale, shifts towards total commitments to more violence. Violence is the final means of trying to enact social change; there's nowhere else to go.

Those who've lived total commitment to violence are it's loudest opponents. I hope we can continue to listen to their stories.
> It's important to note many of these studies involved self-reported coffee consumption, and the research was funded by the Institute for Scientific Information of Coffee – a non-profit organization supported by major international coffee companies

Interesting…

Anyway, I don’t see any data about the cardiovascular fitness of the participants in this study. The article mentions that coffee “offsets” the negative effects of sitting but does that even matter?

Coffee increases the heart rate but I wonder if caffeine would just stress an out of shape heart.

Feel free to enlighten me. I’m just a normie.
Sounds like a terminally online edgelord.
It's hard to believe that this is true. There seems to be enough people who knew him, from friends and family who were worried about him, to people who went to school or worked with him. Do you want to tell me that not even a single person identified him in the pictures and notified the police? Not to mention that his friends and family didn't know where he is, so it fit the narrative perfectly.
PMOS Logic
Is buying an index fund the same as planting a tree?

The odd thing to me, that I still havent been able to wrap my head around, is that it's no work at all. It's money that comes to you because you had it, not because you did anything.
It was actually a patron at McDonalds.
Those don't really mean anything when an attacker can eavesdrop on customer and employee comms and possibly redirect transactions (MITM).
Yes, and phones are regulated to a greater extent. For example. in some jurisdictions there are do-not-call lists and specific rules about how to do electioneering over the phone.

You are actually proving the point that social media needs more regulation, which is actually quite funny.
It's quite well-supported on here, that's for sure.

Somewhere there's a site for "hackers" where it isn't, and I hope I stumble across that site at some point.
To put pressure on the mark to fold/shut up. Standard strongarm tactic. See: collections industry.
Looks interesting. I am on the hunt for clean tools for producing presentations. I really like Powerpoint, mainly because of their animation and vector editing features. However, I don't want to keep using a proprietary tool.
Related:

A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You're Laughing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42362259
> there still seems to be a separation between music systems users and music systems developers.

That's true, but just like a pianist typically doesn't need to build their own piano, computer musicians rarely need to build their own DAWs or audio programming languages. However, computer musicians do build their own systems on top of Pd, SC, etc. and these can evolve into libraries or whole applications. So the line between computer musicians and audio application developers is blurry.

That being said, I can tell for sure that only few computer musicians end up contributing code to Pd, SC, etc., simply because most of them have no experience in other programming languages and are not really interested in actual software development. Of course, there are other important ways to contribute that are often overlooked, like being active on forums, filing bug reports, etc.
Nice, thanks for linking that paper. I also did below.

The authors argue (e.g. in the first comment here https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8310#comments) that by their definition, Google still only has a fraction of one logical qubit. Their logical error rate is of order 1e-3, whereas this paper considers a logical qubit to have error of order 1e-18. Google's breakthrough here is to show that the logical error rate can be reduced exponentially as they make the system larger, but there is still a lot of scaling work to do to reach 1e-18.

So according to this paper, we are still on roughly the same track that they laid out, and therefore might expect to break RSA between 2040 and 2060. Note that there are likely a lot of interesting things one can do before breaking RSA, which is among the hardest quantum algorithms to run.
Maybe he was planning to do another.
Did I miss something? Under which court of law was the person this dude murdered found guilty of something?
Lynchings were not always reserved for blacks nor were they solely conducted by whites. It's also not an American thing, it is human nature and exactly why we have a legal system. There were some racially motivated lynchings of course but to reduce it to that is misleading. Approximately 40% of lynching victims were not black.

If you wanna read something awesome, look at the account of this guy's encounter with a mob that wanted to lynch him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_C._Jones
I suspect that BrandShield is about to discover how much a lost day of sales costs Itch.io, plus some punitive damages thrown in.

then they are about to discover that IP properties don't want to be associated with companies that get them involved in public lawsuits on the wrong side of their fandoms.
Ask HN: Other websites using HN's forum software (news.arc)?
Edit: To whoever flagged this, why?
> Being able to empathize and understand the motives doesn’t make what the person who shot that dude morally or ethically right.

Never said it does bro.
I hear you that the end result is the software product, but what I'm saying is there are a lot of middle steps and grey area that could also be argued to be "software."

In other words, I think I was trying to say I simply disagree with, or don't understand the point of the article due to the massive nuances.

Also, yes, I love quines. And they're a great example of a nuance I'm conveying here.
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Right, but you're thinking as someone who has a vision for the image/video. Think from someone who is needing an image/video and would normally hire a creative person for it, they might be able to get away with AI instead.

The same "prompt" they'd give the creative person they hired... Say, "I want an ad for my burgers that make it look really good, I'm thinking Christmas vibes, it should emphasize our high quality meat, make it cheerful, and remember to hint at our brand where we always have smiling cows."

Now that creative person would go make you that advert. You might check it, give a little feedback for some minor tweaks, and at some point, take what you got.

You can do the same here. The difference right now is that it'll output a lot of junk that a creative person would have never dared show you, so that initial quality filtering is missing. But on the flip side, it costs you a lot less, can generate like 100 of them quickly, and you just pick one that seems good enough.
I think you've misunderstood the objection.

Lets pick something concrete. It's a medieval script, it opens with two knights fighting. OK so later in the script we learn their characters, historic counterparts etc. So your LLM can match nefarious villain to some kind of embedding, and doubtless has trained on countless images of a knight.

But the result is not naively going to understand the level of reality the script is going for - how closely to stick to historic parallels, how much to go fantastical with the depiction. The way we light and shoot the fight and how it coheres with the themes of the scene, the way we're supposed to understand the characters in the context of the scene and the overall story, the references the scene may be making to the genre or even specific other films etc.

This is just barely scraping the surface of the beginnings of thinking about mise en scene, blocking, framing etc. You can't skip these parts - and they're just as much of a challenge as temporal coherence, or performance generation or any of the other hard 'technical issues' that these models have shown no capacity to solve. They're decisions that have to be made to make a film coherent at all - not yet good or tasteful or creative or whatever.

Put another way - you'd need AGI to comprehend a script at the level of depth required to do the job of any HOD on any film. Such a thing is doubtless possible, but it's not going to be shortcut naively the way generation an image is - because it requires understanding in context, precisely what LLMs lack.
Someone mentioned TwoStopBits[1] in a comment[2] today, and I know there's the original Arc Language forum [3]. I remember seeing one other heavily modified one with a cool dark colourscheme, but I don't remember which.

1. https://twostopbits.com

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42358749

3. http://arclanguage.org/forum
The larger issue is that they sold a product which was designed for children to form emotional attachments to, but the product was never designed to be long lasting.

If they were ethical, they would’ve ensured that moxie would work at least somewhat offline.

Nintendo has been doing this for years. Their games are always almost entirely playable offline (outside of timed events.)

That’s why you can “time travel” in animal crossing and Pokémon.

It doesn’t even phone home to check the time even if it affects gameplay.
You can be smart and still slip up, especially under pressure (and as we're learning, possibly mental and physical pain). Presumably one of the reasons why professionals are better is that, beyond working experience, they have a lot of practice.
I mean tribalism is already at play. Apparently finding cheering somebody’s murder incredibly tasteless and gross puts you in the wrong tribe.
Back in June, an innocent Latino student was shot in Dolores Park around 10pm. (Dolores being one of the most popular parks in SF, with people walking their dogs and playing tennis late into the night.) His family put up fliers all over the neighborhood begging for any leads. I've barely heard a peep from the media or authorities about the murder since it happened.

In contrast, how many man-hours went into investigating Mr. Thompson's assassination? The wealthy and powerful will sleep more soundly with the suspect under arrest, yet I still feel a bit nervous walking around my neighborhood after dark.

Is there even a question that we have a two-tiered justice system?
Violence can be very effective. Violence is not effective by definition.

Somehow people miss the fact that the difference and power to effect change resides in the context, not with violence itself.

The list of failed revolutions that left everyone worse off is far longer the the list of revolutions that resulted in the betterment of society.
Ouch, that’s a bummer
Gelsinger fires back at recent stories about 18A's poor yields
https://archive.ph/Md9sw in case it goes away.
It has already happened: https://iranwire.com/en/technology/133773-iranians-defy-inte...
You have to eat. If you're in a strange city with limited transportation options a fast food place seems pretty reasonable. I'd have probably taken the food to go, but realistically you can eat in ~15 minutes and depending on the route back to where you're staying you might be seen by fewer people.
I think Putin and his lackeys have exemplified this countless times in recent years. They perpetrate horrors but will cry foul when someone dares punch back.
No worries.. I'd be interested to see the results of a multi pass consistency test.
Stingrays require overpowering other towers to my knowledge. Doubt that’s going to fly from space.

Could facilitate other forms of passive monitoring though. eg I recall hearing whispers around attempts to track stealth planes via space based emissions. (Noting that even if that works it would not be accurate enough to shoot it down)
Impersonated, confirmed by CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/brian-thompson-unitedhealth...
Security consultancy companies need to always point out something that needs to be changed, even though it is not really important to show themselves as useful.

And executives don't have enough tech knowledge to discern between security measures that are actually effective or not, so to avoid risks they just make their tech teams implement it because the consultancy said it should be done

Had a similar situation in my current job, and unfortunately it is not something worth picking a fight with senior leadership for.

Ironically most of these companies allow access from Web Browsers (which are completely controlled by the client).
Obvious, lit up in neon, lie. It's "we show our customers our value by giving them a report every month on all the 'takedowns' we've delivered", and it's a tiny little step to "we get more reliable takedowns by calling it 'fraud' than a simple 'copyright violation', even though that's a lie and we know it. If we could call it 'child molestation' or 'terrorist funding' and get away with it we'd do that too.".

Follow the money.
A very interesting philosophical and moral can of worms you just opened there. Bitcoin is governed by the protocol, so if the protocol permits anyone who can sign a valid transaction involving a given UTXO to another address, then it technically isn't a "crime". Morally I'm not sure I'd be able to sleep well at night if I unilaterally took what I didn't exchange value for.

As for the forgotten key case, I think the only way to prove you had the key at some point would need to involve the sender vouching for you and cryptographically proving they were the sender.
The author probably meant that the last launch added 20 new satellites and with their addition finally completing the constellation. I'm pretty sure that they have over a hundred since many months back
>it doesn't change the fact that "insurers" absolutely add a layer of uncertainty to the process.

Not relative to the case of having no insurance.

You're implicitly blaming insurers for the fact that the US doesn't have universal public healthcare. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
I’m not (exclusively) talking about formal education. There are lots of people (I would dare say the majority of the planet) that don’t have the ‘digital literacy’ required to handle what’s happening right now. Being from a developed country I am very much worried about this.
This is being framed as a bad thing, but it is a good thing.

Something going on in the country as the status quo, and someone wants to take it to the supreme court. Without discretion, the court has to take up the case. That means they have to set precedent. Precedent is something you don't want to overturn often, because it erodes legitimacy pf the court to do so. And courts make mistakes. You want as few of those mistakes to either become rock solid precedent or get overturned later. So, they have discretion to take up cases, if something's not that consequential in the moment, why shake up the rules we govern ourselves by and change it, or set it in stone? Wait until it is consequential. And the court can only do that if it can use discretion on raking the case in the first place.
Not sure I agree with that. Had he stayed in hiding for months, he wouldn’t have been ID’d. Why is he walking around bare-faced a few days later? My take is he planned the actual act but didn’t think about much beyond that.
Agreed. He seems to be smart enough to never be caught. Could just be the need to be liked/famous/known. On the other hand, he might not have expected to be noticed by someone who knew him. That's a real 0.01% you can't predict in your perfect planning.
Isn't that.... the joke?
Now here is a science recruiting tool
The End Is Near for NASA's Voyager Probes
Exactly. It's basically spam: there's nearly no cost to send it, so even an abysmal success rate is likely to return a fat profit.

I've heard that the average reward is about $500. You can afford a lot of rejections per success at that rate.

Never mind that you're destroying the effectiveness of those programs, driving staff nuts, and generally making the world less secure; that's their problem, right? (Sarcasm, obv.)
I think cosmological limits plus the neutrino observatories put some tight bounds on that.
Interesting they went with 'Games Industry' angle rather then mention he studied AI or worked as a data engineer in the title
How to Exercise for Better Sleep
agreed, but i don't see how it makes much difference - if they wanted to be exposed, they could be. the justices are smart enough to know whether they or their peers could be swayed or whether its rubbish.
Found his github

https://github.com/lnmangione
The USD is legal tender in El Salvador though, so...