skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Numbers are not physical, but you see three objects all over the place. A number is a category. The number "three" exists as a property that I can use to group physical objects (or even other categories). So I can group together three pencils or three cars. The only physical properties that cars and pencils have in common is that their both physical...maybe they're the same color...but I have grouped three pencils and I have grouped three cars, so now they share a property of "three", but "three" is not an intrinsic physical property of pencils, nor cars. It's a potential metaphysical property, but only becomes manifested once an observer groups three pencils.

My argument is that a "mind" cannot be a purely physical process in the same way that a video game is a purely physical process. The computer instructions are stored in my hard drive and encoded, and it's a physical process for my computer to retrieve those instructions and follow them, but the game itself is something the user interacts with by watching what's happening on the screen an interacting with it. The computer program of course has a physical component, but lives mostly in the layers of abstraction from 1s and 0s up to "flashy lights on screen", but none of those things mean anything if a mind isn't watching the screen, paying attention, and interacting with it.

Here's a question that boils down what I'm trying to say: If you have a pet bird that sits next to you as you play Fallout New Vegas, and taps the keyboard occasionally, is your bird playing Fallout? Is playing Fallout a purely physical process?
> I would have expected this from some weird UK black comedy...

There was an episode of the IT Crowd with this as the scenario. The boss declares war on stress, and says "Oh, by the way, anybody still experiencing stress at the end of the day WILL BE FIRED!"
No, I meant Llama 3.3 70B.
Yeah, I just question if there are enough customers to make this work.
This is generally something that the founding team has to answer because it's grounded by the objectives and values of the founding team.

Do you want to build a solid business that pays your bills, creates value for your customer base, keeps a team of employees gainfully employed and productive, and retain control over the mission and long-term objectives for your company? Then keeping it bootstrapped is the way to go. Some people will tend to look down on this type of business or denigrate it with the label "lifestyle company", but there's really nothing wrong with this if it aligns with your life goals.

VC money makes sense when your objective is to go big and go fast (as you noted, "breakneck speed"); that money will let you scale everything you're doing: marketing, product development, hiring, etc. The VC network will connect you to more customers and help you generate more revenue. In accepting that capital, you're committing to growth at an accelerated pace so that investors can get a return on their investment.
> most bad content is pretty lurid stuff

That is the badly executed bad content. Well-executed disinfo/misinfo is what gets you.

Believing we can tell the difference just by looking at qualities such as luridness is the critical error. It's like people who think they can spot fake reviews - they can spot the reviews that don't fool them, not the reviews that do fool them.
100%

JSON wasn't some magical, made-on-the-fly format that makes Crockford some kind of genius. It was simply the standard Javascript object literal notation with some added constraints. I think some of those constraints make sense (i.e. are there any other languages that support both single and double quotes for string literals?), but funnily enough, some of the biggest issues with JSON interoperability is it is very underspecified in the areas that matter, such as the type and width of numeric literals, what to do in some edge cases like duplicate keys, etc. Just did a quick search, and here is a post that outlines some of the real security risks this underspecification leads to: https://bishopfox.com/blog/json-interoperability-vulnerabili...
The explanation is that Hartmut Neven has a bunch of sci-fi beliefs and somehow has managed to hold onto his job and even get to write parts of press releases.
Because the "something" in question is not decryption. It's actually specifically something with no useful result, just a benchmark.

Decryption with quantum computers is still likely decades away, as others have pointed out.

To be specific, the best know quantum factoring did 15 = 3x5, and when 35 was not able to be factored when attempted. Most experimental demonstrations have stopped in recent years due to how pointless it currently is.
Yup. European and North American cities in XIX century were on average much more ghastly places than the countryside. Homelessness, hunger, starvation, hordes of underage prostitutes were common in Paris, London etc. If you had a job, you worked 80 hour weeks for pittance. If you lost it, due to an injury or company not needing you anymore, you ended up on a refuse pile. All that gave us socialism and communism, which did not exist before the industrial revolution.
It also seems intuitively wrong that there are different sizes of infinity, yet Cantor discovered exactly that.
Onchain advertising platform Slise to be acquired by media conglomerate
How to Make a Computer Appear Intelligent (1962) [pdf]
It's a continuum. Two years ago (at age 55) I made an effort to get into decent cycling shape and certainly was the fittest I'd been in a decade. But comparing to similar level of fitness 20 years earlier, I was still 10-20% slower in every respect. I say "was" because I've backslid since and aged another couple of years. I'd say you can maintain peak physical ability until about age 45 and from there it's downhill.

There are outliers, like the 75 year old who passes you on a hill climb. But he's probably much slower than he was 30 years earlier too.

Another limiting factor is you get more "injury time". A knee injury that the doctor said would get better in 6-8 weeks "if you were twenty years old" mostly got better over the course of a year. But that's a big chunk of time.

All this being said, if you enjoy doing a thing, you'll still enjoy it if you have to go slower or not as long. Just do it.
Please don't perpetuate religious flamewars on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Interesting, this morning I got a response from a staff member of the parent company that owns iwantmyname saying they didn't get my response with regards to the abuse notification they sent and that's why they took the domain down.
You can retire or quit, like a normal person. I'm sure you can find a new CEO.
And I think this realistically is going to be the shape of the tools to come in the foreseeable future.
I'm not sure the little details are enough of a moat. Consider TikTok - people use cheap "special effects" to get the message across, e.g. if a man is playing a woman he might drape a towel over his head - it's silly and low quality but it gets the idea across to the viewer. Think too about programs like Archer or South Park that have (stylistically) low quality animation but still huge fan bases.

What I think this will unlock, maybe with a bit of improvement, is low quality video generation for a vast number of people. Do you have a short film idea? Know people with some? Likely millions of people will be able to use this to put together good enough short films - that yes, have terrible details, but are still good enough to watch. Some of those millions of newly enabled videos will have such strong ideas or writing behind them that it will make up for, or capitalize on, the weak video generation.

As the tools become easier, cheaper, faster, better etc more and more hobbyists will pick them up and try to use them. The user base will encourage the product to grow, and it will gradually consume film (assuming it can reach the point of being as or nearly as good as modern special effects).

I think of it like - when Steven Spielberg was young he used an 8mm camera, not as good as professional film equipment in the day, but good enough to create with. If I were a high school student interested in film I would absolutely be using stuff like this to create.
> I don't see how anyone could think a $14/hr job rating ads or the like entitles an employer to knowing...

They probably just assume that anybody seeking the job is desperate enough to consent.
> Under the hood, with the way the text is turned into vector embeddings, it's fairly questionable whether you'd agree that it can even represent such a thing.

The text encoder may not be able to know complex relationships, but the generative image/video models that are conditioned on said text embeddings absolutely can.

Flux, for example, uses the very old T5 model for text encoding, but image generations from it can (loosely) adhere to all rules and nuances in a multi-paragraph prompt: https://x.com/minimaxir/status/1820512770351411268
Ah, I didn't interpret your comment that way.

Yes, people should get coverage under the terms of their agreement. I'd guess that the reason this is an issue with health coverage is because the sums involved are great, and usually the people on either side of the argument are either (1) unwilling or unable to effectively argue their case or (2) nonexperts who lack full understanding of the subject matter.

These aren't really an issue with airline tickets, not because we don't regulate insurance, but because the contract is exponentially more simple and understandable.

But I do think more should be done.
That wasn't the library I had an issue with but the general problem is this:

Downstream consumers of a library that have integrated Dependabot get alerts for CVEs filed against a library, even if the are "awaiting analysis". Those consumers send messages asking for a resolution, and there's no trivial way to push back that an advisory is false.

For example, here's the one I'm griping about. This is marked as _Github reviewed_:

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fqhp-rhm6-8rrj

I used the reporter's reproduction and could not reproduce the slowdown at all. It turns out that the testcase was slow only because they were printing the URL under test.

https://github.com/progscrape/urlnorm/issues/1

As a maintainer, I have a choice: either I need to go and clean up all of the automated tools that respond to CVE spam, OR I just release a new version of a library, fuck it all and move on with my life after blocking the reporter.

For what it's worth, Github did not respond to reports about this user, so I got to the point where I think everything is broken and I no longer care about anything other than clearing those alerts out.
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if you look at it as a programmer, vacuously true makes sense.

In js if I write:

const allHatsGreen = hats.every(hat => hat.color === 'green');

it will be true if hats is empty. Same thing for C# Linq. Imo this makes sense, because if I write:

const matchAllConditions = conditions.every(condition => condition.matches(item))

In some condition matcher (lets say I want to check rules before an user is allowed to post), the correct behavior is the result to be true, when the array is empty.

I'm not well versed, in functional programming, but in Ocaml (of F#, hehe) it would be

let rec all_hats_green = function
| [] -> true
| hat::rest -> hat.color = "green" && all_hats_green rest

so in a recursive implementation, this is the behavior that makes sense.
There is support for oddly shaped arrays but you gotta use a custom mapping function, there's a generator online for it. The discord is really helpful.
“Right before the TikTok ban goes into effect” is incredible market timing for the release of a tool that is useless for anything other than terrible TikTok spam videos
I'm not sure, who?

Here he is describing his own films as ballet in 1996 in the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/22/garden/on-location-with-j...

https://web.archive.org/web/20231022080220/https://www.nytim...

> "When I shoot action sequences I think of great dancers, Gene Kelly, Astaire," he said. "In action I feel like I'm creating a ballet, a dance. That's what I like. Even though there's violence, it's a dance. I make it a dance.

> "I always use music. In all the camera sequences I use music to help the scene, I use music to get inspiration for a scene. An explosion is like a happy drum beating. I like to see everything on the move. If an actor isn't moving, my camera moves. Music creates fantasy."
It is like an attempt to do psychic battle over the meaning of "disruption".
On an open internet forum like HN, posting like you did in this thread is basically a form of trolling. Please don't do that here.

I know it wasn't your intent, but we have to by effects, not intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) and the effects are clear—I don't just mean in this case, but in the general case.
I think this is a bit overkill for my taste with root but depends on use case.

I'm SSHing regularly into my Android phone (and it does not need root) for backup purposes. Used various apps for that but settled for years on Termux.

* Install https://f-droid.org/ store

* Install Termux from there

* Install ssh daemon and rsync in Termux with

pkg upgrade
pkg install openssh rsync

* Read manual on https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote_Access#Using_the_SSH_ser... on how to start, configure, stop ssh daemon. In general: The Termux documentation is good!
I used a Japanese protonVPN , I got past the "Not in the EU" thing but it said "no new signups are allowed atm".

Perhaps just best to wait
I don't know what he's saying, but I'm saying that the answer to your question is "Yes," unless quantum computers behave differently than expected.
We already have an existing project with a bunch of Helm charts deployed using ArgoCD. What would be the benefit of using Holos now?
Some brief googling suggests that 41% of first marriages end in divorce (ex. https://www.wf-lawyers.com/divorce-statistics-and-facts/). Obviously not >50%, but certainly in the neighborhood
> A way to test this is to take a piece of footage or an image which is the ground truth, and test how much prompting and editing it takes to get the same or similar ground truth starting from scratch.

Sure, if you then do the same in reverse.
You were probably quoted "up to" gigabit speed. Which means anything from zero to gigabit is acceptable.
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Im sure if openai just waited the extra day or 2 to make sure its available int he EU it wouldnt annoy everyone in the EU so much. Often with new releases everyone in the EU needs to wait a couple of days, the FOMO is not cool bros
Raises billion dollar, claims of agi by 2025, cannot handle new user sign up traffic.
regarding all the comments about physics, I wonder if a hybrid approach would work better, with an llm generating 3d objects that interact in a physics simulation with guiding forces from the LLM and then another model generating photo realistic rendering.
That's how math defined what "all" means. You can be talking about all elements of empty set without implying it must have some.

Basically it disentangled two unrelated concepts, that English language unduly mixes. Concept of every item having some quality and concepts of at least one item existing.
I don't recall anywhere in her video where she didn't bring up expectations without also bringing up an example of when the Disney company had already implemented the idea.
> I'm curious if EC can mitigate the sub-par decoherence times.

The main EC paper referenced in this blog post showed that the logical qubit lifetime using a distance-7 code (all 105 qubits) was double the lifetime of the physical qubits of the same machine.

I'm not sure how lifetime relates to decoherence time, but if that helps please let me know.
You can defer selling capital gains for decades in a buy-and-hold portfolio, while your portfolio continues to grow. Dividends are always taxed in the current tax year. One benefit here for investors is that you can defer taking capital gains until years when you are in a lower tax bracket (e.g. retired), which you cannot do with dividends. (The US capital gains tax rate is progressive, if with fewer buckets than income. There's a 0% bucket, a 15% bucket, an 18.8% bucket, and 23.8% bucket.)
Thank you for sharing genuinely in face of societal pressures. Yes so the autosquelching of valid voices to the conversation like this are part of what keep are from seriously considering taking that big, and especially irreversible, life step.

It's like, in this day and age where anything and everything is said by somebody, we can detect, however subconsciously, an artificial absence of expressing a position expected to exist. So, societal pressure (per the comment) in this case evidently.
Personally, I recommend "Computer Organization and Design - The Hardware Software Interface" by Patterson and Hennessy. From it's preface (regarding this book):

Some readers may be familiar with Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, popularly known as Hennessy and Patterson. (This book in turn is often called Patterson and Hennessy.) Our motivation in writing the earlier book was to describe the principles of computer architecture using solid engineering fundamentals and quantitative cost/performance tradeoffs. We used an approach that combined examples and measurements, based on commercial systems, to create realistic design experiences. Our goal was to demonstrate that computer architecture could be learned using quantitative methodologies instead of a descriptive approach. It was intended for the serious computing professional who wanted a detailed understanding of computers.

A majority of the readers for this book do not plan to become computer architects. The performance and energy efficiency of future software systems will be dramatically affected, however, by how well software designers understand the basic hardware techniques at work in a system. Thus, compiler writers, operating system designers, database programmers, and most other software engineers need a firm grounding in the principles presented in this book. Similarly, hardware designers must understand clearly the effects of their work on software applications.

Thus, we knew that this book had to be much more than a subset of the material in Computer Architecture, and the material was extensively revised to match the different audience. We were so happy with the result that the subsequent editions of Computer Architecture were revised to remove most of the introductory material; hence, there is much less overlap today than with the first editions of both books.
GP is clearly just talking about them being taxed at the same rate.
Because this result is still very far from anything related to practical decryption.
Ah, I'm sorry, I totally misread that.
Gentle reminder that it's important to boycott this kind of thing.
Achieving a zero-downtime Postgres major version upgrade
Hey HN,

I put together this blog post[0] and this repository[1] with supporting resources to immortalize the decision tree and step-by-step run book I used that led to us successfully upgrading the AWS RDS Aurora Postgres database of Medplum's hosted service from v12 to v16 without downtime. There are many write-ups out there on the topic, but just about all of them were frustratingly light on details or assumed the reader was already fluent in the technologies used. This guide and the runbook are anything but light on details and attempts to explain/describe decisions and steps from first principles when possible.

As just about anyone who has worked with Postgres version upgrades and logical replication will tell you, there are many sharp edges and a steep learning curve that can only be overcome by doing. I have varying levels of experience with the tools used and by no means claim to be an expert in any of them! I'm sure there are ways this process could be improved and streamlined and would absolutely love to hear any suggestions and field questions from you either here or in the issues/discussions/PRs of the repository.

Medplum[2] relies heavily on Postgres and we only intend on deepening our relationship with it and all it has to offer as we continue to grow. That was a big part of our reasoning to justify investing the time to level-up our operational proficiency with Postgres. We're an open source company, so it felt right to make this guide open source too!

[0]: https://www.medplum.com/blog/zero-downtime-postgres-major-ve...
[1]: https://github.com/medplum/medplum-postgres-upgrade
[2]: https://github.com/medplum/medplum
LLM summaries are near unusable.
I've seen the quality of OpenAI engineers on Twitter and it's easy enough to extrapolate. Moreoever, neural networks are not black boxes, you're just parroting whatever you've heard on social media. The underlying theory is very simple.
Cool stuff! What I like about the idea is to have an agent working with you on your document without doing any window switching. The beginning is there, specially with the UI actually being used to apply changes. However, you can't really see it since it has a loader every time you prompt it. Kinda breaks the co-working experience.

Ideas for iterations: allow to start from scratch (e.g. "generate a blog post about x"). Or allowing to focus on selected text, rather than having to prompt the area to change (also a bit costly). Bonus; if the user is not me, but the agent.
Yes, it's both. It works fine in real world million line codebases. I have never, not once, seen a bug or portability issue caused by it. I have seen multiple header guard macro names collide.

Eschewing pragma once these days is pure ignorance and superstition --- then again, so is writing new code in C at all.
Yes and the thing is, even for those tasks, it's incredibly difficult to achieve even the low bar that a typical advertising manager expects. Try it yourself for any real world task and you will see.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'aggregate', but there are still serious journalistic organizations:

* NY Times: Ignore the politicization of their reputation, and the demonization. Ignore that it's the boring, status quo answer - it is for a reason. Just look at the articles, which describe their methods for that article: The research is extensive, statements are made carefully, and they offend everyone on all sides equally. Their claims tend to be born out in the long run (though nothing is perfect and certainly they've made mistakes).

* Financial Times: Very expensive, but very good if you can afford it.

* The Guardian: Certainly a liberal point of view, but quality research for their journalism.

With the recent corruption of the Washington Post and CNN, and MSNBC (though that was always biased), we are running out of top quality, credible news.