skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of a library's primary purposes is the preservation of history and culture. In the modern cycle, one of a company's largest competitors is their own history and back catalog. Destruction of historical artifacts is becoming necessary to ensure customers keep coming back, as we have reached a point of diminishing returns at most corporate scales. If a corporation's motive is to destroy history, and a library's goal is to preserve, there is no compromise.
it's all fun until someone gets gimbal lock?
I'd love to see this fight get reported on past the tech circle. We're talking about half the internet running on Wordpress!

It would be interesting if the NYTimes had to run a story, given their conflict of interest as an investor in Automattic.
Damian Conway did it in Perl back in the late 90's:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Quantum::Superpositions

(Sadly, the Perl Module has to do classical calculations underneath to get the Quantum computing code/functions to execute, but it let you experiment with silly little QC toys - "Look, I factorised 15 in parallel!!!")
They didn’t solve any kind of CS problem. As far as I can tell the problem they solved is “what is this complicated quantum system going to do” by building the complicated quantum system and seeing what it did.

Then they claim it would take a gazillion years to simulate on a conventional computer. Which I’m sure is true.
> We are working on getting some more ESG focused portfolios directly live

Thank you for mentioning this. ESG funds are the first thing that came to mind when I saw your post.
Thanks! I was just playing with it, and for the FIRST TIME EVER I was able to fly a proper pattern without using an external view or the mouse to see where the airport/runway was. Wow. A whole new level of immersion, for $12. Money well spent.
Well you are free to believe whatever you want. But at this point disbelief in quantum computers is akin to flat earth denial. There are thousands of labs across the world who have performed entanglement experiments, and dozens of labs that have built working quantum computers specifically.
Being radioactive is the reason why it is considered an option.
My guess is you haven't been at the scale where it starts to make sense. If you always approach these tools with the mindset of running a single process on a server somewhere, they are always going to appear as over complicating things. It's not a fair comparison.
That's true. Their technology direction is probably not efficient.

You can see something similar happening with Waymo. If it were actually scalable & in sight of a promising ROI, why wouldn't Alphabet fund it themselves rather than bringing in outside investment?
Supercruise might be comparable to Tesla's "Autosteer" product but its incomparable to Tesla's paid "FSD Supervised" product. The latter is closer to a Waymo or Cruise than it is to a Mercedes or GM driver assist.
That’s my intuition as well, but it does raise a question in my mind.

We have storage solutions that are far more robust than the individual hard drives that they’re built upon.

One example that comes to mind is Microsoft Exchange databases. Traditionally these were run on servers that had redundant storage (RAID), and at some point Microsoft said you could run it without RAID, and let their Database Availability Groups handle the redundancy.

With Postgres that would look like, say, during an HTTP request, you write the change to multiple Postgres instances, before acknowledging the update to the requesting client.
Thank you! I am gonna save this.
You mean the awesome 1996 classic action flick with Travolta and Slater, Broken Arrow? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/
I'm sure there are people here who have caused a lot of harm to others while working at amazon or google or facebook. Probably even a few who should be behind bars. It's possible that some of them were happy to hear that the CEO was killed. I doubt it's most of us though.

There's a lot of space between "knowingly kills people for profit" and "collects user data from an app/works on a manipulative algorithm" which could make it easy for some people to pretend that they aren't doing "real" harm or to believe that the CEO was a "real problem" while they personally aren't.

I hope that the more people are held accountable for what they do (regardless of how that happens) it'll force others to do some self-reflection even if only out of a sense of self-preservation, but I'd be careful about generalizing too much. The people posting here are a pretty diverse lot, and you can find hypocrisy in any sufficiently large group. I wouldn't call HN a "glass house" but it's got a few big windows.
Have a look at e.g. the path integral. It's a formulation for calculating the result of the mechanism behind probabilistic mechanics. I like to use the word "possible" instead of "probable", when explaining it, sometimes. When a car is hurtling down a road, it cannot really diverge from its "classical" path too much because it is already highly localized and entangled. There's a single car we're talking about. But a single isolated particle is not even so localized as to be able to be called a particle, but more so a wave of possibility of measuring in a certain state, such as a location. (I'm still a student though, so I do not yet fully understand how particle location and space-patch entanglement connect.)

But, anyway, as I grasp it so far... nature already makes it possible to look like one can "take multiple paths" when one is coherent, i.e. isolated from entanglement with environment during that path, i.e. where the "which path" is not already decided via e.g. measurement. For example, the Lamb shift is the consequence of the fact that the universe really doesn't know which paths of particle creation and annihilation, if any, the force carriers between the electron and the proton took. So, it is able to take all of them. Why should it rather be our expectation rather than how nature says it can work? It seems like a mental contortion is needed - but nature really does operate based on possibility because it's the consequence of the more fundamental fact that there being no one / nothing in the entire universe, including the particle itself, that "knows" what state it's in or going to be in, during a certain span of the system's evolution.

At the moment there is such a record keeper, the influence of "possibility" diminishes.
The only problem with this business model is that once you factored one number, you kill your market - people will stop using pre-quantum crypto. (The obvious retort is that NSA would have harvested a ton of RSA/EC-encrypted traffic by then and would keep cracking ciphers going back decades. Unfortunately, old secrets is a rapidly depreciating asset class.)
its not bots, its just privileged software engineers, surprising amount of which are libertarian.
I just don’t understand how it would be possible over any time period, doesn’t matter if it’s a billion years or even 10^10^10^10… years. There are conservation laws governing how particles can pop into existence and them all popping into existence in just the right place is only even remotely plausible if you ignore the antiparticles that are formed in the same space.
>Asian

I am not a race or genetics expert, but I think "Asian" is not a race.

Asia includes the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Natives of the subcontinent are different from Orientals, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean, for example, but both are Asian.
Hi,

This looks very interesting and I’d love to try it.

We have data extraction and enrichment platform. We process over 12 million automations for our users, half of this is done on lambda and rest we try to process in a container.

We also utilize 10 GB+ in proxies.

I tried to do all the math on how much it would cost on your platform if we do a pilot project but I’m so confused with the pricing.

Can you please explain for 10,000 hours and 10 GB proxy usages what would the cost?
What if it was someone who just happened to be extremely similar to you? There's a decent probability that someone extremely similar to you will come into existence during the finite lifespan of the universe. Would that person be likely to be "you"? By comparison, would they be more "you" than a version of yourself that woke up with brain damage?
First of all, you quote an old study with a very small dataset. We already know by now, that before going out of Africa at least two major genetic branches developed in addition to early Eurasians. At K=4 and clustering by genetic distance, they would likely represent two clusters while the rest of Africa would fall into one of remaining two. Not even close to what average American would understand.

Second, even if in the study you use, it’s „east Asian“. Where you would put Indians? How about southeast Asian people with black skin?
Why this clustering is even necessary when the rest of the world is doing fine without it?
what on earth do you mean by 'conditional if statements' if not a tautology?
My neighbor and I were talking a few months back and he had the same idea. He said he drove by the historical markers all the time it would be cool to know what they all said. Cool idea just sent him this app!
I can attest that in this US state, 6th graders are being taught those same concepts, at least at the local middle school. (systems of equations with single unknown, introducing multiple unknowns, powers, roots, types of numbers, irrationals, simple geometric problems using multiple shapes, pythagorean triples..)
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Yeah, I see what you mean but just take a much stronger approach. I think that France rampaging around the world was locked in with the French revolution and this is a bigger Factor than Napoleon himself.

One of the big problems with the King was that he was trying to implement tax reform to pay down France's foreign debt. The revolution simultaneously aborted this effort and worsened the situation.

I think an analogous situation that is often taught in textbooks is the impact of the treaty of Versailles on Germany. One could compare the relative impact of the treaty and Hitler on the course of history. I think most historians would argue that the rise of fascism and some war would have happened with or without Hitler as a result of the treaty terms. I think Hitler's personality shaped the scope and detail of that war, and the specific intensity of internal policy. However, without him awar would still have broken out, just with a different individual at the helm.

Moving even further afield you can look at characters like Cortez or Christopher Columbus. I think it's safe to say that Discovery and colonization of the Americas by Europe would have happened 99.9% of the time without them, and in a pretty similar manner. They're essentially replaceable and colonial events were determined almost entirely by the technological differences between continents, and the prevailing social doctrine in Europe. Europeans were bound to discover the Americas, and had spent the prior several hundred years in a cage match practicing the technologies and social structures for warfare and conquest against each other.
The use of 4 times "leverage" (and forms of it) in a single article is somewhat disappointing (discounts real technical content)…
something interesting is that these predictions can be made, and gives the hypothesis "we can have a better understanding of weather than makes better predictions than our current understanding does"

in contrast to "we cannot make better predictions on this input data than what we're doing now"
Antimatter on Wheels
I made a mistake in the timeline of Orb: On the Movements of the Earth. It begins in an unspecified year of the early 15th century, not the 16th, and thus several decades before Copernicus and his subsequent discoveries. It does, however, stretch across multiple periods of time.

All the same, thank you for the information as it provides significant context for the setting and for what could be a future plot point should the show decide to exploit it.

As I've mentioned in another thread in this comment section, there are a number of fictionalizations in the show that might, for lack of better phrasing, "stand out" to those who are more familiar with the history of the setting and era. But in spite of all that, it has an excellent story and the characters roles are very well performed. It's a real gem from studio Madhouse and I have no reservations in recommending it.
That's correct.

In your case you can either model it with a sum type or wrap each variant in its own type and take the union of them.

Example:

enum Result {
Success(String),
Error(String),
}

struct Success(String);
struct Error(String);

type Result = Success | Error;
> 3. After expiry, the ideas goes public. So if you don't work on them, someone else probably will

Heh, “someone else probably will” is such a strange way to say “no-one ever will” :D
Super excited!
> It is the crypto industry fault that they refuse to take the actions and accountability to work with the banks.

Yes and no. Are there many bad actors in the crypto industry who would be refused service by a reasonable, rule-of-law-based banking system? Yes, absolutely. Is the banking system that the US currently such a system? No. The SEC spent two years pretending to come up with a system of rules for determining whether a cryptocurrency is a security or not, and they still can't - or rather won't - tell you whether Ethereum qualifies.

Think of a guy trying to buy a house in a redline district. He says "I met all their lending criteria, but the bank still denied my loan, and they won't even tell me why! I don't even know what I did wrong or what I have to do to get them to approve me!" Is he lying? Strictly, yes, he probably does know exactly why his loan was declined and what he would have to do to get approved. So his statement is disingenuous in that way. But my sympathies are still with him.

> Like all businesses, banks have the right to refuse to service customers they don’t want to serve because the costs exceed the income.

Not in general - the article already mentions how they are obliged to serve unprofitable zip codes. Again, this is the current state of the US system (partly the result of written law and partly of other things), not inevitable objective fact, not something that can't be changed, and not something that the banking industry has no input into.
> After this post, I will refrain from personally commenting on the WP Engine case until a judge rules on the injunction.

Well, a judge did indeed rule on the injuction.

He just retweeted this tweet about the case: https://x.com/brian_essig/status/1866640985842692452

> This is actually bullshit. Agree with him or not, the court is forcing an open source maintainer into providing services to a user. What’s next, a company finds a bug and a court orders a maintainer to fix it?
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I was so fit in my 30's, I measured a heart rate of like 38 sitting in a work meeting.

I could amuse nurses in an emergency room by clipping my finger into the machine, instead of the patient I was with, to set off the alarms with the low numbers.

One time I came in with some severe stomach flu. I was lying on my back and the nurse said to another, "Come here! Look this guy is so thin, you can see his heart beating in his abodomen. (Due to the aorta passing through there, and the heart behind it being massive.)"

When your HR is low, you can get pretty dizzy if you stand up at the wrong moment between pumps.
I'm confused. We make predictions about things we don't fully understand all the time. And about things we cannot possibly perceive. We do so by recognizing patterns across things we can see, and probing the relationship to the things we cannot. (See could mean any perception).

It's not guaranteed we could do that, even in our universe it's not guaranteed, but it's also not ruled out.
These are pretty similar/related things. The maximal profit the bank can earn from the crypto company relationship is 100% of the crypto company's profits.
Here's 2.1 demo, released 2 years ago, for comparison: https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion
The argument I find most convincing for the increase in car crashes is due to the drop in traffic. People are driving the same, but less congestion meant they can drive faster in more places than before.
Consumer Reports claimed they found high levels of lead and cadmium in dark chocolate earlier this year. Pick your poison.
You will be mocked by the AI hype crazies for your very serious and important question during this time.
The reality is no ,we won't learn why and how something works. And it will get much worse in the future. We are trading human learning for machine learning. As time goes on humans will get more stupid and machines more intelligent and eventually we will have generations who know nothing about how anything works and depend on the machines to tell them how to function.

One could make the argument: hey... fifty years ago everyone knew intricately how a car worked because you had to. It broke down so often, you needed to be able to repair it yourself on the side of the road. Now people just press a button and if it doesn't work you have the 'shop' take care of it for you. AI advancement will be no different.
Problem is: the 'shop' today is still humans who designed and built the cars and know how a car works and how to repair one. AI advancement can lead to eventually no one knowing anything as models get so sophisticated we just don't know why A leads to Z.
The US did essentially copy and paste the Swiss system. That's what the ACA was modeled after.

It left out a few key bits though - like requiring those who sign up for healthcare backpay premiums for the entire period they were uninsured to whoever they sign up with.
To be clear, a DBOS worker isn't just one connection, but an entire application server that can handle many requests concurrently and batch/bulk write database operations. Past that, I don't really think we're disagreeing: there are clever optimizations (batching, offloading coordination where possible) you can do in both a library-based and workflow-server-based system to scale better, but at truly massive scale you'll bottleneck in Postgres.
lol I bought this back in 2022 !
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To follow up on above I’ll give a clear example. $77k/yr hardware engineer degree required job at intel in a high cost of living area for anyone wondering how dire the situation is at these uncompetitive companies.

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Intel-Corporation/job-titles/Inte...

They unsurprisingly rate ‘very easy interview’ on glassdoor since they’d hire no one without lowering the bar significantly. I would never begrudge anyone working at these broken companies either fwiw. You just have to be aware it’s a job you have while looking for a reasonably paying job. If anyone wants a lesson in the core place the rot starts consider maybe there’s a reason intel is struggling to achieve what it’s much higher paying competitors achieve.

A very similar story plays out for GM, Boeing and the other rotting companies. Short term focus leading to non-competitiveness in the labor market leading to poorer results in all aspects. GM is not going to win this. They can’t due to a focus on production lines using minimum wage staff and applying that to knowledge work.
the Fat Villain variation still prevents the death of the innocents.

No such direct relationship can be assumed about murdering a healthcare CEO
Do you have strong evidence for this?
By 2014 NN folks, of which I was one for a decade by that point, were solving real world problems at above human capabilities.

We'd been managing around human capabilities since around 2004 in certain tasks.

There were actual industrial applications in 1994.

You'd have to go back to the 1950s to find the type of research in neural networks that was of no practical application to anyone but NN researchers.
It was circa the same period that humans were supposed to be back on the moon (now delayed to end of 2027) :’(
Is ~2200 calories a caloric deficit for Bryan Johnson's size and activity level? If you're not in caloric deficit you won't really feel bad if you're hitting macros.
If it's a current trend then, much like with complaining about debanking, it's one that I was years ahead of the curve on. Humans should not blindly follow orders, and that you were following orders from the legitimate authorities does not absolve you of responsibility for your choices.
For me, it's like days, weeks, or months of distraction trying to get the license renewed, through the multiple bureaucracies that are involved: IT, purchasing, and accounting, to name a few. And a second license for the lab, or a site license, or one for home use? That's crazy talk. And now that software is sold by subscription, it's an annual headache, per app.

I get it that "single user at single computer" is the majority of use cases, so I'm not asking for accommodation. But for me, free means free site license, and I do like to have my tools installed on every computer that I touch.

Sure, there are work-arounds, but it's hard to keep using the proprietary stuff when the free stuff is so easy to deal with.

Disclosure: Wolfram user from 1993 to 1997. Also, when colleagues want to use proprietary software tools, I always go to bat for them, to get the expense approved, because I believe that people should have a choice.
This only sounds like a ridiculous idea. The weapon was ridiculously effective during an unintentional test.
Is there any indication this object detection algo was originally from Cruise? The linked code has been rewritten and has no attribution beyond "an autonomous vehicle company".

Fun fact - Cruise did actually have a source code leak a few years back, some engineer decided to embrace the 4 hour work week and outsource their role to a contractor, who uploaded their work to a public github repo (I assume this was accidental and they intended to make a private repo). But it was not core AV code.
It’s the entire premise of public goods, and the sustainable funding model for that would be through government funding or funding of open source foundations like the CNCF. For example, the IETF standards body is founded by the global charitable organization the Internet Society. How do we continue to build on this public goods funding model for projects like this?
That's the actual term for a bad accident. They're called Dull Sword, Bent Spear, Broken Arrow depending on severity.