skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A derivation of the axiom of choice in Martin-Löf Type Theory, which is constructive:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/axiom-choice/choice-and-t...

This is exactly what I'm talking about, "every vector space has a basis" is not a provable statement in constructive mathematics because that ranges over non-constructive objects, but it can prove constructive equivalents like "every finite-dimensional or countable vector space has a basis".

I'm just not persuaded that this is not sufficient for any realizable mathematical construction. In my view, some non-constructive objects are non-realizable and so must ultimately serve only as convenient shortcuts that are ultimately eliminated when the math manifests in a real construction, either physical or computational. So if such things are merely artifacts of a particular formalism, then it should be possible to dispense with them entirely with a constructive or intuitionistic formalism.

That's why I'm looking for something that truly, fundamentally impossible for constructive mathematics, but that we know to exist, be true, valid, etc. that would contradict this position.
Can you explain this a bit better? I just went to Vox media and (as a Youtube Premium member) I'm not seeing any ads in their embedded videos.

But I definitely would expect sites embedding youtube videos to show ads to users who don't pay for an ad-free youtube tier.
Oops! s/reduced/reproduced/
> downvoted

Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances", 2. HN site norms are enforced by downvotes - downvoting is correct by definition

Plus another important guideline is "Please don't comment about the voting on comments". I'm trying to help you moderate yourself - of course the next escalation is for this inane subthread (including my comments) to be flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (edited: added more details)
You can see from the emails he outright does it just to "create a sense of urgency" and wants others to do the same. It does have its results but it churns through employees a lot as well. It's a good recipe to achieve great things but the problem is random middle managers of random SaaS b2b products thinking they need to do the same.
Good write-up. And i completely agree with you.

I had long since come to the conclusion that "speed reading" is a hoax and just another name for "skimming". They are not fooling anybody but their own ego.

The technique of Reading varies widely based on content and our own interest in it.

For example, i have spent hours upon hours reading/re-reading the Sherlock Holmes canon dozens of times because i find the language phrasing/stories/deductions highly appealing and hence want to savour/understand every word of it. On the other hand even though i love Charles Dickens' novels i don't spend as much time on it and skim through large parts which are not appealing to me. The result is that i can literally write essays in my sleep on Sherlock Holmes but can't do it for Oliver Twist/Great Expectations/etc. Thus the meaning of the word "read" is not the same for both.

I have a huge personal library consisting of a large number of "hard copies" and an even larger one in "soft copies" and love skimming/reading them. Skimming to note the larger main points and coming back to Read them if and when i feel like it.
Haven’t you ever wanted research, advice or work done and your coworkers or employees were busy or not quite up to it? White glove consulting is just well-packaged, expensive help.
You have to remember what came before 2012: SVMs, Random Forests etc, absolutely nothing like the brain (yes, NNs are old, but 2012 was the start of the deep learning revolution). With this frame of reference, the brain and neural networks are both a kind of Connectionism with similar properties, and I think it makes perfect sense to liken them with each other, draw inspiration from one and apply it to the other.
There almost certainly is a distant relationship. Almost all writing systems in Eurasia are derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphics through the Phoenician script, which gave us the Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, Arabic, and the Brahmi script, among others. The only system in use today in the whole world which isn't derived from Phonecian is Chinese and even there its derivatives like Japanese kana and Korean hangul were influenced by knowledge of alphabetic writing via India.

To find something unrelated would be monumental and would suggest another culture independently invented writing, something known to have happened only a few times (Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, Mayans, maybe the Indus Valley civilization, plus a handful of other disputed instances).
Well I think your analogy would be better if they could also chew and swallow rapidly, but then their digestive tract took inordinate time to process the meal... (^_^);
You can create a timelock smart contract requiring a future state of the blockchain to have been reached. Once that time has been reached, you can freely execute the function on the contract to retrieve the information. Tested it years ago, to lock up 1 ETH in essentially a CD for a year.

The trust is held in your own code implementation of the contract and that ETH will continue to exist and not be hard-forked or Shor'd or something.
I’m not sure what you are asking. There is someone who knows some ugly secret and is considering if they want to publicly release it. If they can recall many dead whistleblowers who were rumoured to have been assasinatend over that kind of action then they are more likely to stay silent. Because they don’t want to die the same way.

And the key here is that the future would be whistleblowers hear about it. That is where the gossip is important.

In fact it doesn’t even have to be a real assasination. Just the rumour that it might have been is able to dissuade others.

Which part of this is unclear to you? Or which part are you asking about?
I'm just cautioning people against disclosing how they set up their switch. Not criticizing your service in particular.
There's probably a certain unconference aspect to larger groups. (i.e. if something isn't working for you feel free to move on.) "This is really interesting but I really need to say hello to my friend over there who I haven't seen in ages." Of course, there's some art to politic transitions.
She didn't get an apartment because of an AI-generated score
84 dead, 120+ injured.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster
Code is both much smaller as a domain and less prone to the chaos of human interpretation. There are many factors that go into why a given civil or criminal case in court turns out how it does, and often the biggest one is not "was it legal". Giving a computer access to the full written history of cases doesn't give you any of the context of why those cases turned out. A judge or jury isn't going to include in the written record that they just really didn't like one of the lawyers. Or that the case settled because one of the parties just couldn't afford to keep going. Or that one party or the other destroyed/withheld evidence.

Generally speaking, your compiler won't just decide not to work as expected. Tons of legal decisions don't actually follow the law as written. Or even the precedent set by other courts. And that's even assuming the law and precedent are remotely clear in the first place.
> There are massive proprietary datasets out there which people avoid using for training due to copyright concerns.

The main legal concern is their unwillingness to pay to access these datasets.
So, what you're saying is, not very mundane at all and, in fact, that it's specialized knowledge requiring advanced education. ;)
> a faulty brown detection circuit

This genuinely feels like a line out of a scifi novel written by Terry Pratchett.
I still want to set up a copy of TeamWare SCCS… it seems to have several SunOS specific expansion extensions that are prevalent in many Solaris source files (such as %Z).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WorkShop_TeamWare
Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Journey, Radiohead, Guns and Roses, Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC, The Eagles
"Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances""

We disagree on "tangential annoyances". And that's it from my side.
I know, I'm just pointing out that it might not be secure against the NSA. And yep, definitely don't tell powerful enemies where your switch is.
Show HN: Run a script if Git changes a file
you forgot South Georgia
I don't think that is the case even now.

Don't know much about LatAm now but can comment on conditions in Asia.

In fact, internationalization and local language input (especially for Indic content) is much more neater and simpler in Linux as I have seen. And in India/Indonesia/Philippines especially, most SMEs/startups/mid-or-small-banks simply use English itself and get the job done. Except for some PR related stuff, all content and data that they manage is almost always in English only.
A smart contract can still help. Use Shamir's secret sharing to split the decryption key. Each friend gets a key fragment, plus the address of the smart contract that combines them.

Now none of your friends have to know each other. No friend can peek on their own, they can't conspire with each other, and if one of them gets compromised, it doesn't put the others at risk. It's basically the same idea as "social recovery wallets," which some people use to protect large amounts of funds.

If you don't have any friends then as you suggest, a conceivable infrastructure would be to pay anonymous providers to deposit funds in the contract, which they would lose they don't provide their key fragment in a timely manner after the liveness signal fails. For verification, the contract would have to hold hashes of the key fragments. Each depositor would include a public key with the deposit, which the whistleblower can use to encrypt and post a key fragment. (Of course the vulnerability here is the whistleblower's own key.)

The contract should probably also hold a hash of the encrypted document, which would be posted somewhere public.
Congrats on launch!

Spent about 30 seconds (I assume same as any average visitor) and still don’t know what you offer!

Needs way better value proposition messaging.

Very clean and slick design with great elements though. Good job on that.
Add South Georgia to make it four
this all makes sense of course, I am not forced to stay at the FBI. however, I just might:

- love what I do and love the team I am on a my mission.

- have a career at fbi, not a “job” I am willing to change like underwear

- be gs-15 few years away from retirement/pension/…

you can technically say this is a “free” country and all that but it is just semantics
What's it like to be a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience
And then it's published if you experience a temporary power outage. If it's important that it's only released if you're actually dead, putting it in the hands of a person is your only real option.
Well, it looks like the entire point was "you can no longer expect a capability gain from a model with a bigger ndim trained on a bigger internet dump".

That's just one sentence, but it's pretty important. And while many people already know this, it's important to hear Sutskever say this. So people know it's a common knowledge.

The rest is basically intro/outro.
"serious" might not be the right term[1][2], but Dusk OS[3] has a wide set of features, including a C compiler[4] and a Text editor[5] which clocks at 339 lines of code[6][7] (third of a kilo?).

You can see the editor in action at time 2:30 of the first screencast[8] on the Dusk OS website

[1]: https://lists.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos-discuss/%3CZ0Cr6m01ZNaAN...

[2]: https://lists.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos-discuss/%3CCADfQ9L9D6DNR...

[3]: http://duskos.org

[4]: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/co...

[5]: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/te...

[6]: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/text/e...

[7]: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/text/g...

[8]: https://duskos.org/demo.html
Interesting complementary view at the end:

> The most problematic aspect of the paper is the speed with which it races from a single data point in Montana to humans playing a role in megafaunal extinctions hemisphere-wide,” David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University who was not involved in the work, tells the New York Times.

And while the findings are a “big deal,” as anthropologist Vance Holliday of the University of Arizona, who did not participate in the research, tells Science News, “I don’t know how you could ever test them unless you found more human remains.”
I think globalized but diverse was always kind of a pipe dream because along with things you're trading across the globe you're also spreading information back and forth. And as the article points out, human preference is roughly the same in aggregate across the globe, so we all loosely converge on a local maximum of "the best" rinse, repeat, and you suddenly get homogenization.
> The vaccines hospitalized at a rate higher than they prevented hospitalizations

The vaccines emptied the hospitals. Literally.

Two weeks after the vaccination (with any of the western trio, or the one China exported), the odds of people being hospitalized felt more than 90% every time somebody measured, everywhere.

The Chinese one was the "bad" one, with the odds falling by not much more than 90%. The other ones were much better.
Other interesting kinds of orange (International Orange and friends): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_orange
Hi! Author here.

I keep stumbling on teams who are losing time to realise an issue they are experiencing while developing is because there's a new dependency or a migration has to be run on that branch or after pulling new code.

run-if-changed allows you to configure a script to be run when a file is changed by switching a branch or pulling new code using Git hooks.

I'm looking for more use cases and contributors.

What are some of your pain points when developing in a team?
Is there something in your build which is annoying you when you check out another branch?
In more modern times, although I'd say the barrier of entry is higher there.

Plus most analogs would require additional procurement, to which the response for most business users would be "No, you're not a developer."
I would say that tracing concepts back to their origins could be a good benchmark for evaluating AI models.

In the context of the article you mentioned, Robin Dunbar’s research and the Max4 Principle are referenced [1], along with a relevant Wikipedia article [2]. Expanding further, one can trace earlier foundational works, such as “The Primary Group as Cooley Defines It” [3], and even earlier sociological contributions by thinkers like Auguste Comte.

As for the “Serve it Forth” answer, I haven’t come across that yet except when, obviously?, I named it explicitly.

[1] https://newcreate.org/max-4-principle/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_in_small_groups

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4105179
You get into more people and you're likely to just be hesitant to go there on a lot of topics--at least unless you know everyone pretty well.
So I find this unsurprising because it was what I was always taught growing up.

After a bit of digging it appears that this study is important because:

1. It's direct evidence of mammoth consumption vs the existing evidence of arrow heads and other tools being found alongside of mammoth remains.

2. There's apparently been a growing movement to paint Clovis culture as primarily relying on plants and smaller animals in spite of the existing evidence so this confirms the traditional view.
Yes, it's the usual advice of how artists/authors/scientists make something: 1) Make the thing, 2) Try removing each part, 3) If the work fails without that part, put it back.

For example, adverbs are good when readers might have the wrong image without them. E.g., "Alice [quickly] walked." Most of the time, writing is better without words like "very" or "quite."
That’s sorta the case with frames and asynchronously loaded stuff anyway though right? I think they just consider the problem solved in practice through scripting and frames. Besides, HTML doesn’t have room for that— they need room for all the features nobody uses and cares about. XD I’ve been writing HTML to some extent for 30 years and I periodically come across shit— not even new shit— that I swear I’ve never even heard of.
Sorry, I was really just re-stating it, to see if I was grasping the point.
You're right that I'm being a little loose with terminology, as when I say "constructivism" I mean something more like "intuitionism", as with type theory.
sorry, but i think neural-networks came way before 2012, notably the works of rumelhart, mccleland etc. see the 2 volume "parallel distributed processing" to read almost all about it.

the book(s):
https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/4424/Parallel-Distrib...

a-talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQbJNEhgYUw
This seems like a bad idea all around. BITI, like many “ETF that tracks ___”, tracks daily changes, which means as price chops around you’re continually losing value, i.e. BTC can break even over a year and BITI will lose value. Then there’s the issue of it tracking a deflationary instrument that is essentially guaranteed to rise over time unless it were completely eliminated, just due to people losing BTC via bad/lost hard drives.
Yup, there's also a huge amount of copyright-free, public domain content on the Internet which just has to be transcribed, and would provide plenty of valuable training to a LLM on all sorts of varied language use. (Then you could use RAG over some trusted set of data to provide the bare "facts" that the LLM is supposed to be talking about.) But guess what, writing down that content accurately from scans costs money (and no, existing OCR is nowhere near good enough), so the job is left to purely volunteer efforts.
Well, aside from the fact that people do say "in C++"... the fact that it is written in Rust is novel. Rust is still quite a lot less common than C++.

If you were reading an article about a concrete bridge you wouldn't expect "New bridge built out of concrete!" would you? But "New bridge built from 3D printed stainless steel!" is a perfectly reasonable title.
While Le Mans has proved most deadly to spectators, it is topped by 5 other races in driver fatalities [1], with Indianapolis topping the chart.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_driver_deaths_in_motor...
It seems likely that we're relatively close to the point where it will no longer be economical to push the limits here. It's unlikely that even the entire world working together would want to spend more than $1T for a single fab, which Rock's law suggests is less than 20 years away.

Given that Apple at the start of 2019 was worth $600 billion, and now $3.7 trillion 5 short years later, I think a $1 trillion plant in 2045 is not so farfetched. This is especially true if compute requirements for AI continues to grow.

Twenty years is a long time. I don't think people in 2025 could have predicted out needs for chips back in 2005.
A localized reduction of entropy will always result in an increase of entropy in the larger system.

It doesn't matter how efficient your process is, the entropy of the surrounding system will ALWAYS increase as the result of the work needed to effect a localized reduction.
Any plans to integrate this with an animation engine? I've found Svelte animations little bit buggy however. Also are the limitations of 3D just a design choice? Thanks for the HN post.
If you challenge me like that, of course I won't. Clickbait is clickbait, even (or especially) when it says "researchers say."
But isn't that part of the problem? Some of the brightest minds in the field's public statements are filtered by their need to lie in order to con the rich into funding their work. This leaves actual honest discussions of what's possible on what timelines to mostly be from people who aren't working directly in the field, which inclines towards people skeptical of it.

Most the people who could make an engineering prediction with any level of confidence or insight are locked up in businesses where doing so publicly would be disastrous to their funding, so we get fed hype that ends up falling flat again and again.
Oh man, I had a fuzzy, nth-copy VHS tape of Live at Pompeii when I was in high school. I'll have to check that out, thanks!
Technically, the term "insider witness of the prosecution" could fit his role.
Intuitionistic logic also allows for negative statements, which then are entirely non-constructive.

From a proofs-as-programs POV, this is just the observation that a proof is not just a program, but rather a program plus an explanation of why that program works correctly within its constraints, e.g. why it never ever tries to divide by zero. (This can be rephrased by saying that the program is both requesting and providing abstract "capabilities", i.e. information-free tokens, to its environment. Classical logic is then the logic of these capabilities, in the sense that providing a weak capability as output is essentially the same as asking for a strong capability from your environment as input.)
They're not trying to blame YouTube, they are squarely pointing out the absolute truth that YouTube is to blame.

It's YouTube's choice to do whatever they like with their own product, but the reason what they've chosen to do is problematic is:

1. It's yet another bait'n'switch

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

In short; yes it's Google's prerogative to be a bag of dicks, but let's not pretend that's not exactly what they are (continuing to be)
At 49 I retired and spent the following years travelling. I did not really see it as a midlife crisis though as it was based on hitting a specific net worth. Now 3 years later I just completed my first marathon. I guess that is text book midlife crisis.

Never been healthier. Never been happier.
Satellites reveal detailed maps of Earth's seafloors
This is the kind of thing that confuses me. When insurance companies deny claims I actually understand that; I'm honestly open to the idea that they might be doing it for good reasons. That there are some procedures which might be done and should not be.

The $300 breast pump and $79 Tylenol is harder to understand. Why can't insurance companies step in and say this is crazy we're not paying for it?

Is it like the $3000.00 hammer? i.e. we want the jet fighter to come in under a certain cost so there are bundled items that are ridiculously expensive. The hospitals or some other 3rd party somehow put the insurance company in a posistion where they can't say no even though they want to?

Or is there some perverse incentive? Insurance companies benefit from an expensive breast pump / Tylenol? If that's the case why do they ever deny claims?

Is the amount too small in grand scheme of things?

Do they get some kick back for some types of care that make eating this cost still worthwhile?
It is just another competitive advantage for me I guess.
As a frequent reader (I like to do an hour before bed), I will say that most fiction novels are hard work the first 1/3 or so, getting to know all the characters, the situation, etc. But once you "know the world" the middle third is usually very enjoyable, and the last third can be thrilling / addictive. Series books help there, you usually already know the characters / world a bit when you start.

That said it's often just entertainment / mental junk food, not some great virtuous act like it's frequently portrayed by libraries / kids shows / lit majors.
The vast majority of healthcare can be shopped for. Emergency care is only a few percent of total spending.