skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very late reply, but I think it's quite revealing that you seem to be implying that having an ideological stance is (a) optional, and (b) value-neutral. Why yes, people who are opposed politically don't think the other is right, and hope for their views to be promoted at the cost of the other's. That's as trite an observation as I can think of. It's like pointing out that every political ideology supports some violence but disavows violence from others; it's the political analysis of a child, or someone who thinks they are above ideology because their ideology is the dominant worldview of their culture. Ideology has substance and verifiable consequences that can be judged.

But I think you've read into what I'm saying too much in order to defend yourself and the terrible job you do moderating this website; my position isn't that those people should be banned for their political views. They should be banned if and when their speech has negative real-world consequences. Speech does have consequences, even if it's polite. But you would rather have liars spreading disinformation and bigots spreading hate than be seen as taking a side, so here we are. That's the charitable interpretation, anyways.
Quite surprised to see that the British Pathé clip on YouTube has a direct shot of the dead driver and multiple shots of the many dead in the crowd
What You Can Learn from Young Warren Buffett
Ah, putting the key under shared control of (hopefully independent) entities does sound like a useful extension.

But still, while this solves the problem of availability (the shardholders could get their stake slashed if they don't publish their secrets after the failsafe condition is reached, because not publishing something on-chain is publicly observeable), does it help that much with secrecy, i.e. not leaking the secret unintentionally and possibly non-publicly?

I guess you could bet on the shardholders not having an easy way to coordinate collusion with somebody willing to pay for it, maybe by increasing the danger of defection (e.g. by allowing everyone that obtains a secret without the condition being met to claim the shardholder's stake?), but the game theory seems more complicated there.
Dinner parties at someone's house are such a lost art. I'm going to use this winter to start to bring them back!
https://archive.ph/MuSa5
The "error maps" approach from the article doesn't have Go's compiler enforcement, but shares many attributes including the "being explicit about how to handle an error" aspect you mention.
It could only go back to 1992 or so. For most people, history is whatever is linkable or the 5% of pre-1992 stuff that is popular enough to rate a dead wiki footnote.
That teared me up
Waste Makes Haste?
Very nice article. There’s an alternative way of thinking of the Gibbs paradox, which is to attach labels to the particles. This naturally makes them distinguishable and increases the total number of possible configurations, and with it the maximum value of the entropy.
To me this means
1) You aren't hanging around the right people
2) You aren't talking about stuff you're interested in
3) You need to drink more.
I think it's a case of the conscious mind knowingly tricking the subconscious mind. Because doing so feels good. Compare with artificial sweeteners.
You don't need to simulate every atom in a planet to predict its orbit. A mathematical neuron could have similar function to a real one even if it works completely differently.
That's not how it works: You can fundamentally not store secrets in smart contracts, you do need off-chain agents for that. (How would a smart contract prevent me from reading anything published on a blockchain?)

> Tested it years ago, to lock up 1 ETH in essentially a CD for a year.

That's not locking up a secret, that's locking up value.

But it seems like there might be a game theoretic way to ensure that, as your sibling commenter has outlined.
>2. It is shady as fuck to not only make no announcement about the change, but make it difficult to even figure out what's happened

Source for this claim? The article doesn't make this accusation, and considering this is a B2B product that requires manual approval to use, I wouldn't be surprised if they sent out this as email rather than something to their blog. Searching for "YouTube Player for Publishers", it looks like their last mention of that product was in 2018, and it was only a passing mention.
>only for making TUIs

Ah, okay. I'll keep looking.

Great project! If you ever change your mind, and add GUI components, I think that would be huge.
> what should we make of the remarkable ratios found…

We also can’t implement those creatures’ control systems in silicon, so they too are doing things we can learn from?
For example, in the 1967 F1 Grand Prix (the subject of the legendary cult-favourite racing sim Grand Prix Legends https://www.pcgamer.com/why-i-loved-hardcore-racing-sim-gran... ) two drivers died, and apparently half of the drivers would eventually die in motor accidents over the course of their careers.
The question was “How exactly is post-death gossip going to dissuade other whistleblowers?”

I answered that. Understanding and describing how it works doesn’t mean that the alternative of keeping silent about suspected deaths is prefered.
It's mostly suitable for either modern DX12 games at medium settings or computations. No proper gaming at 1440p, even 4060ti can't do it.
I hope those Tinder times are finally coming to an end...
Earthmover – The cloud platform for scientific data teams
> numerous attractive alternatives that are more familiar and popular

There’s React Native. Ionic is stuck in the same limbo that PWA are in and Tauri is obscure. Qt is hardly used in mobile apps and Microsoft’s successors for Xamarin deprecate themselves every few years. What else is there, NativeScript? Kivy? Delphi?
Unless the surrounding system is already at infinite entropy.
Deeply saddening, especially given what was at stake. It takes someone truly exceptional to challenge the establishment. RIP Suchir. May the light of your candle, while it burned, have sparked many others.
Isle of Man doesn't have speed limits either, is a tax haven, and is generally quite low-regulation.
e.g.

$ uv venv
Using CPython 3.12.6
Creating virtual environment at: .venv
Activate with: source .venv/bin/activate
$ uv pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/uv/refs/heads/main/docs/requirements.txt
Resolved 43 packages in 283ms
Prepared 4 packages in 64ms
Installed 43 packages in 445ms
...
Use rlwrap with your tool as an argument:

rlwrap tclsh

rlwrap foo

rlwrap bar

And so on.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43630870
The recent submission on entropy[1] made me remember reading about this. I wish I understood it! Sounds fairly important.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415386
Corporations need death sentences. Like the sandy hook parents getting cash for infowars but infowars being allowed to continue its antisocial existence because money is a super fungible commodity with no limits.
> That last one consumed an hour of diagnostic time and involved using time-domain reflectometry (with a 20 ps rise-time pulser and 20 GHz scope) to locate the fault to within a region of a couple millimeters on one trace.

How does one even obtain the skills, much less the equipment to run such precision?!
The problem I think is that if you take the two extremes/limits - e.g. the "do as little as possible until we absolutely have to" and the "do everything that could feasibly make sense" sides, in the absence of an existential event, the former outcompetes the latter both in the short and long term because if you regulate _everything_ then you end up in absurd situations that kill progress.

What we really need is a time machine. With the benefit of a time machine we could implement a bunch of safety mechanisms, many of which would be inconvenient and retard progress, and then go back in time and tell people which ones made sense and which ones didn't make sense.
> incorrect assumption that we can’t feed everyone on the planet

You are the one making incorrect assumptions, specifically that food production is a steady and constant process like producing iPhones.

In the real world, crops fail due to seasonal weather all the time and it affects global food prices.

Research predicts multiple famines due to simultaneous crop failures in global bread baskets. That’s why responsible countries like Norway started stockpiling food.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-07-05/global...

The point is not even that - economists are simply not qualified to assess accuracy of their base assumptions.

now I have to debate people who claim we should not address climate change because worst case is 1% damage to GDP.

What are the report margins on that? Suppose there is a 10% chance that the drop is higher, like 30%/35% and does cause a famine specifically concentrated in the US, or nuclear armed Pakistan, and Global GDP falls by 40%.

Have you seen them report finds the n a way that accounts for, however small; possibility of total disaster?
When I was just a kid hogging all the time on my dad’s PCjr, I wrote a BASIC program to dither all combinations of the 16 colors, and since it was connected to the crappiest color TV we had in the house, it was just blurry enough (even at 320x200) that out came what looked to my eyes like all the colors ever invented - 256 beautiful separate solid colors, almost. Dozens of lovely shades of brown, and pinks and magentas and greens and a whole subtle palette of all the colors under the sun, at least that’s what it felt like. Then the Amiga came out and I was soo jelly.
Not yet! We're thinking about it but it's hard to do in a spec-compliant way.
Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of 'red team,' under new CTO
> men will be using AI chatbots

Men had a headstart from being more into tech, but I think women are already the majority users of AI sex-rp and AI partners. Makes sense too given that they read more erotica than men.
The comments oscillating between math puns and complaints about said puns are an ominous sin.
(wife is a dentist)

To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force. The difference today is a trained professional knows the technique and has practiced it a lot. (And anesthetic.)

Here's a random video of it from a quick search on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydv7aomV20
Come on, the YouTube player is so popular, everyone already knows this is just a YouTube embed.
These kinds of consultants have the same issue as LLMs: they say the maximally plausible thing without knowing (or necessarily caring) if what they are saying is actually true.

I don't think strategy advice is worth much unless it's coming from people who stuck around and lived with the consequences (i.e, tested their ideas against reality).
They are great, I have one on my proxmox host at home, and can reach all my containers and VMs that way.
Wouldn't you need the Arduino to do the inverse-kinematic calculations if you want to interpret gcode?
I think time machines would be used to opposite effect if they existed. If something bad happens, you just rewind a few minutes and say "hey Jim, be careful on that ladder, eh?"
Very interesting, but there's no link or reference to a paper here, just

> But his research has also explored how people act in smaller groups.

My assumption is that Rhys Blakely was at Cheltenham Science Festival enjoying a lecture, and decided to fluff up a minute of it into an article. He seems to have quoted from one of Dunbar's popular science books; maybe he should have checked the footnotes or the bibliography?

We're on the internet now, we don't have to "Authorities say..." anymore. This sounds interesting to me, but I don't want to look through every paper Dunbar has written to find it.

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edit: curiosity is annoying. I found this:

Robin IM Dunbar, Neill DC Duncan, Daniel Nettle "Size and structure of freely forming conversational groups" (1995)

Abstract: Data from various settings suggest that there is an upper limit of about four on the number of individuals who can interact in spontaneous conversation. This limit appears to be a consequence of the mechanisms of speech production and detection. There appear to be no differences between men and women in this respect, other than those introduced by women’s lighter voices.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

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edit 2: and this:

Guillaume Dezecache, R.I.M. Dunbar "Sharing the joke: the size of natural laughter groups" (2012)

> Our results confirm, with a considerably larger sample, the upper limit of N≈ 4 on conversation group size reported by Dunbar et al. (1995). In addition, they suggest that there is a similar limit on the number of individuals that can be involved in a laughter event.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.07.002
Exactly, and even beyond control of company management. In which case why is everyone so obsessed with productivity?
Since the U.S and Israel never signed it the rest of the world decided to back out.
You can buy a Windows 11 Pro license for for as cheap as 1€.
Does anybody else have trouble with tailscale "site-to-site" subnet routers -- deployed on Linux firewalls -- messing up their routing?

If so, what has worked for you?

(Edited to replace point-to-point with site-to-site.)
The Spaniards and the Portuguese people will be equally pissed, then.
So suppose a car had methane and oxygen onboard like a rocket and held on to its exhaust products, and you were able to reverse the reaction back to methane and oxygen, it would be a battery not a fuel cell.
If room temperature superconductors existed that were practical for transmission scale wires, it would be possible to make a global superconducting electrical grid. The middle East could fill their desert with solar panels and export that electricity to Europe. The sunny side of the planet could export solar power to the nighttime side of the planet. You could make electrical motors out of it a fraction of the size of current motors, like 1000 of horsepower out of a soda can, which would revolutionize the design of pretty much everything in the world with moving parts. Mechanical transmissions would go the way of the vacuum tube. Any vehicle or ship that's not completely electrified would be hybrid electric at least. You could also miniaturize transformers which has a lot more implications for making everything that uses a lot of power to be much more powerful and cheaper.
It's highly possible that in the next tragedy carried out by a kid that has messages from any of these chatbots that can be construed as manipulation will result in criminal prosecutions against the executives. Not just lawsuits.
A member of the British upper crust can correct me if I'm off the mark, but the definition there is of a really existing usage, and then the example doesn't match it at all. Did you make the example up yourself, by any chance?

There is, in ordinary people's language, "yeah, it was quite good", when talking about a movie or something, which could easily mean, it was moderately ok, not amazing in any way. It'll depend entirely on tone, you could say it in a chirpy tone and you'd mean that it was actually pretty good. This is the most common usage, and familiar to our brothers and sisters and non-binary-siblings across the pond, I suppose.

And then there's your mathematics teacher saying, "Oh, this lemma really is quite trivial", meaning it's very, very trivial, or a "quite difficult proof", meaning you've to drag yourself across hot coals for hours before it hits you.

Then there is also the meaning you describe above! E.g., a bunch of aristocrats are having dinner, and the candelabra suddenly breaks loose, flies through the air, and smashes into a thousand pieces with a crash. Luckily, no one is hurt.

Everyone looks around, shocked, there's a few shrieks of course, and then one of them says: "Oh, what a smashing evening!" and the other says, in a bored drawl, "Quite". It's like an additional layer of being removed from and above the mere idea that the original thing could have been worthy of a positive comment (in this case, the dinner).
Ask HN: Is it perfectly legal for Google to modify a user's android settings?
After being presented with an insurmountable 'agreement wall' for the Messages app (demanding I associate an account that was already associated), I forced the app to stop and uninstalled the update, which I suspect is RCS related. This allowed me to continue using Messages without succumbing to the new agreement. But every other day or so, it would occur again and I'd do the same.

Realizing that I couldn't be uninstalling this many updates, I checked Play Services and found 'my' settings had been altered to Auto Update - something I always explicitly deactivate with no exceptions. I don't want disruptive updates or stupid apps, at least half or more of which are unused, unwanted and non-removable. Unfortunately, the many such apps had now been auto updated.

There's no reason to pedantically remind me of encyclopedic user agreements and voluminous terms. I know. But is there any recourse in fighting this, beyond not using Android?

Regardless of technicalities, it's intrusive and plain wrong to invade and disrupt my personal workspace. It's pretty obvious that Google considered the legalities here by activating auto updates only over wifi. Otherwise it would be an FCC issue.
Maybe if you take Alice and Bob to be two separate alien species it could make more sense. Alice’s species has no measurement devices capable of detecting Bob’s version of entropy, and therefore Alice is not able to extract any useful work from Bob’s system and vice versa. Therefore any objective definition of entropy needs to include the capabilities of the measurer. Which is just the same as what you were saying about macrostates.
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine
Yeah suggestions are way too obvious. I put cycling in as an interest and it gave me 4 different helmets to choose from… errr

I think in general that suggesting items for peoples hobbies is usually a bad idea because if someone is passionate about cycling they probably know the exact gear they want, me who knows nothing about this topic can’t choose a good gift.

It’s better to buy gifts you do know something about, eg if I’m really in to kitchen knives I could buy a nice knife for someone because everyone needs a good knife and I can choose a good one.
I like that even as someone nearly 60 years old there are still new words to learn. TIL "degustation" - the act of tasting with relish; savoring.
All that is fine and good, but it comes down to your personal and non-universal moral intuition that suffering, abuse , etc. are bad. You make that an axiom and then judge moral systems based on that, using that axiom to build beautiful towers of “reasoning” (rationalization). We both feel that way because of the time and place we grew up, not because it is correct compared to the Ancient Greek or Piraha moral systems. That’s why you have to take discussions like this in a non-moralistic direction, because there’s no grounds for agreement on that basis.
The issue is not about this project. This is a fundamental problem with LLMs. Leaving the decision of what is malicious to LLMs is not ideal.
> Rallye stopped the insanity when Henri Toivonen burnt to death.

Alone it probably would not have done it, but the sanity of Group B (or lack thereof) had been in question for a while: earlier in the same season Joaquim Santos lost control of his car after avoiding a group of spectators (who'd routinely play chicken with cars) resulting in 3 deaths and 30 injuries.

And the previous season Bettega had died on the same course Toivonen and Cresto lost their lives on, and Vatanen was gravely injured in Argentina.
Right. There's no reason to let your opponent see the cards you're holding.
Show HN is for things that you've made that can be tried right now, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can post this when you're past the waitlist stage.
That's weird since this very much is a completely plain <ul>.
What OS and browser are you using? Which example is slow?
Is there a way to determine how miles per kWh would change with different batteries in currently sold EVs? Would it be fair to say like half the weight but same energy content means double the distance per kWh
A good EE degree with some RF specific course parts will teach you the concept. The scope .. well, you kinda have to borrow it from your employer as they're in the $10k range at that frequency.
Ask HN: Quickest Cyber Sec Certification?
Hi all,

I'm wondering if there is a cyber cert that is fairly quick and easy to learn. I plan on going for a CISSP cert later, but they don't have any test dates available until next year.

I understand that if it's fast and easy it won't be valued as highly, but it could be good to have some sort of entry level cert compared to others who have nothing. For reference, I has a focus on security classes during my Masters and I've been working as an Application Security Champion in additon to being a dev. So I know a lot of the basics and concepts, but would have to brush up on the domains that I don't deal with all the time as well as formal definitions of terms and concepts.
This sounds good. Sticking to their core competency and outsourcing to obtain synergies should increase shareholder value.
Yeah, there are varying opinions. Thank you for restating what I said.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string
Agreed - and in proportion to the number of competitors, I would guess that the fatality rate is less than, say, climbing K2.

Update: Summing the 'number of finishes' column in the Competitor Analysis' on the IOMTT site I get 17355 finishes (the data appears to cover competitors who have finished 6 or more races.) The above-mentioned Wikipedia list of TT fatalities page gives a total of 281 (including 16 non-rider fatalities), giving a BoE figure of 1.62%. In contrast, the Wikipedia 'List of deaths on eight-thousanders' page says that, as of August 2023, about 800 climbers have summited K2, and 96 have died trying.

Annapurna has the worst statistics among these mountains: "for decades, it has the highest climber to fatality ratio of around 32%".

For the TT, if you think the number of competitors rather than finishes is the correct figure to use, the TT list used above contains 1275 competitors, for a fatality rate of about 22% (though, as mentioned above, this seems to exclude competitors with fewer than 6 finishes.)

https://www.iomtt.com/tt-database/competitor-analysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousa...
Have not seen them either.

You pick really popular names but in most regular bands when there is more people there is worse link between them...
The EU objected to Microsoft having access to APIs that third party developers did not.

There has been no EU objection to creating new security APIs that would be accessable to Microsoft and third party developers.

As far as MacOS goes, you can't infect the system files with malware when the whole partition they live on cannot be modified by anything but the OS, which does indeed seem like a valid technical reason.
More fascinating is if it can trigger copycats and viral kickback, the same way suicides and school shootings tend tobehavwvirally.
For a “legal LLM” you need three things: general IQ / common sense at a substantially higher level than current, understanding of the specific rules, and hallucination-free recall of the relevant legal facts/cases.

I think it’s reasonable to assume you can get 2/3 with a small corpus IF you have an IQ 150 AGI. Empirically the current known method for increasing IQ is to make the model bigger.

Part of what you’re getting at is possible though, once you have the big model you can distill it down to a smaller number of parameters without losing much capability in your chosen narrow domain. So you forget physics and sports but remain good at law. That doesn’t help you with improving the capability frontier though.