skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is indeed something to consider!

Not as an excuse for bad behavior but rather to consider infrastructure and expectations:

The packages might be cached locally.

There might be many servers – a CDN and/or mirrors.

Each server might have connection limits.

(The machine downloading the packages miiiiiight be able to serve as a mirror for others.)

If these are true, then it’s altruistically self-interested for everyone that the downloader gets all the packages as quickly as possible to be able to get stuff done.

I don’t know if they are true. I’d hope that local caching, CDNs and mirrors as well as reasonable connection limits were a self-evident and obviously minimal requirement for package distribution in something as arguably nation-sized as Python.

And… just… everywhere, really.
Interesting concept. But for a working system in C, why do we need to "convert" it to Rust. Seems like an effort where juice isn't worth the squeeze. Probably will create more problems than we're fixing.
Do you have a public example of a good agentic system. I would like to experience it.
Theoretically, it does not have to be.

Practically, the big names are not going to accept less than the maximum they can get. Just like almost all people would if they were negotiating multiple equivalent job offers.
> Which reads for my as not accepting the existence of it

You should work on that, I guess?
It's great but the way you write I can't stop comparing them to what used to be brainwashed communist kids.

People aren't robots, or we would be living in a sad world

What did you do to make them behave like that ? That's uncommon, at least in occidental society. Closer to what the CCP does.
I’ve said this story before but I quit Facebook about 10 years ago, at a time when it was essentially the only social media game in town, so I was essentially quitting social media, and the quitting process felt exactly like when I had quit smoking the year before that.
They fired the government earlier this year.

The new one removed the ban on building wind turbines on land within 48 hours of taking power, and are pushing through new transmission lines where they were previously blocked.
Didn't he mention it was the court's definition?

But I'm not sure if that's true. The court didn't define anything, in contrary they only said that (in simplified terms) the chatbot was part of the website and it's reasonable to expect the info on their website to be accurate.

The closest I could find to the chatbot being considered an agent in legal terms (an entity like an employee) is this:

> Air Canada argues it cannot be held liable for information provided by one of its agents, servants, or representatives – including a chatbot.

Source: https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bccrt/doc/2024/2024bccrt149/202...
I developed things which i would have never started without AI because i could see upfront that there would be a lot of mundane/exhausting tasks
Browser-Based Web Data Extraction Automation
Exactly- It seems pretentious to say it’s “filler” or not real music if people are happily listening to it, on a platform that provides any music you ask for.
Ugh. They didn't compile any C to Rust. They modified the F*-to-C compiler to emit Rust instead. So they compiled F* to safe Rust. And they couldn't even do that 100% reliably; some valid F* constructs couldn't be translated into Rust properly. They could either translate it into Rust code that wouldn't compile, or translate it into similar-looking Rust code that would compile, but would produce incorrect results.

Flagged, this is just a lie of a title.
Also, if a bird kills itself, that isn’t illegal. Even if members of it’s species consistently does it on your particular window.
What can a human do that the automated processes for account recovery/etc. can't?

I talked to a human Apple support person once and we had quite a long chat but ultimately his conclusion was basically "I can't know anything you don't already know and there's no way to resolve the problem."
This take is only possible if you trust anything Tel Aviv says with no fact checking

Israel is:

- blockading humanitarian aid

- targeting UN and aid workers (more that half of all deaths of UN personnel in war zones happened in Gaza in the last 14 months)

- starving the population by blocking food from entering Gaza

- bombing every hospital

- destroying almost every building in the strip.

- already selling beachfront land for planned settlements

- Holding thousands of children hostage in administrative detention without any charges

- carrying terror campaign in the West Bank

- explicitly applying a strategy of collective punishment against the entire population (matching the definition of terrorism)

This computing over the already inhuman apartheid regime in the West Bank

I would posit that counting all children Putin illegally deported you get less that half of the numbers of children killed or kidnapped by the Israeli army
For touch-typists having decades of experience at the time, most of whom had quite long fingernails too, they could only laugh at some keyboards today that cost more than the C64.
Yes, and a former executive confirmed that it's intentional: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498
Bird stickers unfortunately don't work, birds don't recognize them. Something like "anti collision dot stickers" will work though if the spacing between the dots is not larger than recommended.
You're paying the largest marketer in the world to consume content that's a large percentage ads. I agree with paying for things, but subscription model provide no ownership and limited value. I avoid all subscription services.
rnull is in the kernel. And I believe one of the generic Realtek drivers is Rust as well.
Brainstorm (1983) did it before Neuromancer. The movie is about a device that records and replays sensory and emotional experiences, and a central plot point is that it records the dying moments of a character.
> My kids are not on social media.

Your kids are big outliers then. I wouldn't extrapolate to the general young population.
Is naming the company in Danish (strøm means power) supposed to suggest Scandinavian efficiency?

AFAIK resistive electrical heating is banned in Denmark, except in buildings for only occasional use (summer house etc).
there's probably a difference between doing maybe a handful of live shows spontaneously, and having a career that's filled with live shows and tours. having a "record" (a whatever physical release) is kind of irrelevant cause anyone can put anything on anything, live shows and tours are more complicated and some people just don't do it, and it's a yet more bizarre way to measure "legitimacy" cause again, so much music and so many artists just don't do that.
I have no idea what that is. You're talking about kilobytes per second? This feature makes it useful to use bluetooth or other non hardwired sound output?
Yea it might take many years but if it's a big enough problem, it would surely be obvious that only the cask-contents-munchers are having deformed babies or whatever.
Your writeup was awesome, and couple probably be resubmitted since it has been a few years.

I'm surprised to learn there was a Starstrike 2, I just remember the original "3D Starstrike", but looking at the videos online there's definite family resemblance! My history started with the spectrum too, like so many others:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming
Maybe my stance is derived from the fact that I consider many of what is extremely successful in anything to be shit anyway. Music, movies, vídeogames, you name it.

People are fine consuming shit, they always were. Why would I be surprised that they are fine consuming shit music that Spotify add to slop playlists with the purpose of increasing their own profits? This is just a logical consequence of how things always were.
Having information about you (that you provide when opening the account) is entirely different from calling you out of the blue after you already have an active account for long enough that you trust and depend on it for your migration status. Refusing then is in no way breaching AML/KYC requirements. They would ask them to validate the identity on the call, not to gather regulatory data on their client. If they didn't have any info and were to "call as ask" how would they know it's the right person and data anyway?

How is a bank not validating one phone call grounds for freezing funds?
Novel Uses of Core Java for Low-Latency and High-Performance Systems
That is the top question, actually.
Given all the billions at stake.
California is not the Bay Area and LA metro. There are lots of places in California you won't get "California salaries" either.

Having grown up in rural California I have will return the favor I get for confusing the UK with London ;)
Amusingly, lately I did something similar, though I still believe my manual code is better in Elixir. :)

I'm open to LLMs being a productivity enabler. Recently I started occasionally using them for that as well -- sparingly. I more prefer to use them for taking shortcuts when I work with libraries whose docs are lacking.

...But I did get annoyed at the "programming as a profession is soon dead!" people. I do agree with most other takes on LLMs, however.
I'm being skeptical about something someone wrote online about something the read online. Don't make this about ethics.
They should try to profit. People seem to take issue with deception. They should just label the spotify songs as what they are and stop trying to trick people. It's weird and abusive.
> "Those who invalidate caches know nothing; Those who know retain data." These words, as I am told, were spoken by Lao Tzi. If we are to believe that Lao Tzi was himself one who knew, why did he erase /var/tmp to make space for his project?

-- Poem by Cybernetic Bai Juyi, "The Philosopher [of Caching]"
Not too long ago music fans were pretty much all agreed the record labels were mostly rent seekers stealing from artists. It seems wild to me that people are now angry that music streaming services are disrupting that and paying artists directly based on actual listens.
That's not the half I have trouble believing.
I’ve read a lot of people griping (quite validly) that Spotify doesn’t distribute each subscriber’s monthly fee according to the streams they listen to that month. Does anyone why they don’t do that? Is it complex artist deals or difficulty in computing attribution at scale?
> The world isn't _just changing_, it is RAPIDLY changing and it shouldn't be surprising that people are struggling to make sense of it all

That has been true for at least 3 generations. They experienced in their lifetimes creation of electricity, gas utilities, radio, tv, flight, public transport, medicine, global transport network, vaccines, cars, computers, tanks, bombs they got exposed to in world wars. Nukes. Llms are comparatively benign and limited in scope and impact so far.

It's a bit self-centered to think we are uniquely challenged by changing world when things were rapidly changing for last 200 years.
You can always run model checkers like Kani, though even that is limited.
Discovery matters. Google doesn’t decide which websites you visit, but how often do you go to the 2nd page of search results? Supermarkets don’t decide what you buy, but there is a reason why everyone wants their product in middle shelf and not a bottom one. And Spotify doesn’t decide what you listen to, but a playlist on main page will get an order of magnitude more listens than a playlist you need to search for
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An intelligent system could take more advantage of an increase of knowledge than a dumb one, so I should propose a simple formula: the derivative of efficiency with respect to knowledge is proportional to intelligence.

$$ I = \frac{partial E}{partial K} \simeq \frac{\delta E}{\delta K} $$

In order to estimate $I$ you have to consider that efficiency and knowledge are task related, so you could take some weighted mean $sum_T C(E,K,T)*I(E,K,T)$ where $T$ is task category. I am thinking in $C(E,K,T)$ as something similar to thermal capacity or electrical resistance, the equivalent concept when applied to task. An intelligent agent in a medium of low resistance should fly while a dumb one would still crawl.
It’s adds up with all the other sources of toxic material we are exposed to.
INT 21 was for DOS what INT 80 was for Linux: the gateway to the OS kernel.

Overriding software interrupt handlers was a common mechanism, applied to BIOS interrupts as well (e.g. there was a BIOS timer interrupt that was there just for that).

The idea was that programs would take over the interrupt vector then chain-call the previous handlers. One can still see something similar at play in certain scenarios with e.g. callbacks. The system/library doesn't have to maintain a list of clients.
Can someone ELI5 how ARC-AGI-PUB is resistant to p-hacking?
Nodal vs Zonal pricing definition : https://diversegy.com/nodal-pricing-vs-zonal-pricing/
1. People were clearly wrong about music. Audio only is clearly not as addictive as video + audio.

2. People did say that about TV and TV maybe had the potential to be like this. However, TV failed in many ways to be a hyper addictive device. Some of the many reasons:
i. Just less content. There wasn’t that much TV content at all. YT probably adds more content in an hour than all the TV content ever created.

ii. You couldn’t choose what you wanted to watch beyond a few dozen channels at best. So you always had opportunities where you were forced to do something different at many times.

iii. The TV wasn’t available to you at all times. You had to go to the den to watch it and you couldn’t take it to school with you.

iv. TV couldn’t specifically target you individually with content to keep you watching. The most amount of targeting TV could do was at maybe a county level.

v. You couldn’t be part of the TV. Social media and phones today make you an integral part of the “show” where a kid can end up having a video of them popping their pants on a playground shown to millions of people. Even in a more ordinary sense, a kid commenting on a video or sending a message to a friend makes them part of the device in a way TV never could outside of extraordinary situations.
Defining "agent" as "thing with agency" seems legitimate to me, what with them being the same word.
Opaque Sets – the shortest possible opaque set for the square
I support this.

It’s not possible to be “perfect,” but if we do our best to get there, we’ll make really good stuff.

It’s unlikely to happen, though, as we have a system that explicitly rewards writing crap, because it makes money.

As long as we fail to reward good work, we will continue to get poor work.
Team presents first demonstration of quantum teleportation over internet cables
But how do I evaluate how the magnitude of effect of my income on the value I get from the insurance (relative to the average buyer who sets the market price) if I’m lacking the figures to compute the Kelly criterion? Is it useful to me at all as a consumer? Is there version of the formula I can use if I want to implicitly accept the work of the insurance company’s actuaries, but skew the result to account for how I differ from the average customer?
> while using this implicit knowledge and feedback it gets from running the program.

What feedback, and what program, are you referring to?
If you disregard time, all computers have maximal intelligence, they can enumerate all programs and compute answers to any decidable question.
This is a really hard and weird ethical problem IMHO, and one we'll have to deal with sooner or later.

Imagine you have a self-driving AI that causes fatal accidents 10 times less often than your average human driver, but when the accidents happen, nobody knows why.

Should we switch to that AI, and have 10 times fewer accidents and no accountability for the accidents that do happen, or should we stay with humans, have 10x more road fatalities, but stay happy because the perpetrators end up in prison?

Framed like that, it seems like the former solution is the only acceptable one, yet people call for CEOs to go to prison when an AI goes wrong. If that were the case, companies wouldn't dare use any AI, and that would basically degenerate to the latter solution.
Why should one kind of phenomenon which slows down performance on the test be given a special "you're more intelligent than you seem" exception, but not others?

If we are required to break the seal on the black-box and investigate the exactly how the agent is operating in order to judge its "intelligence"... Doesn't that kinda ruin the up-thread stuff about judging with equations?
It was also a native application on macOS (OS X at that time). But then it was replaced with this Electron abomination which would have a runaway process any other day and consume all battery and would require 2 years to implement sorting in playlists.

I truly ask myself what their development team is doing.
More welfare for the rich.
Ask HN: Do you backup your Emails?
I wonder if its just me or other people feel the urge as well to backup their emails. I feel oddly attached to my older emails and have the fear of loosing something important which might hide in my mail archives.

Also I don't necessarily trust some of my email providers (nor my self hosted one) and soonish have to clear one out because I run out of storage.

So what tools are you using to backup your emails? Is there a service which takes care of this automatically?
I don't have any insider knowledge, but I can't imagine this to be a technical limitation.

I think this is the outcome of contract negotiations, with big labels being shareholders of Spotify the power balance is not in favor of the smaller artists.

Edit:maybe there is some overhead in paying so many smaller artists
They make a very good case against corporate-friendly licences like MIT/BSD, which I definitely agree with, but say nothing about why they don't use AGPL. Honestly I think the problem with A/GPL is that they are considered "uncool". You just can't use them, because reasons.

Who decides what is cool? That's right, the marketing departments of huge corporations...
An interesting point from a philosophical perspective!

But if we'd take this into consideration would it mean that 1st world engineer is by definition less inteligent than 3rd world one?

I think the (completely reasonable) knee jerk reaction is a definsive one, but I can imagine absolutarian regime escapee working side-by-side an engineer groomed in expensive, air conditioned lecture rooms. In this imaginary scenario escapee, even if slower and less efficient at the problem at hand would have to be more intelligent generally.
Yeah speed is a key factor in intelligence. And actually one of the biggest differentiators in human iq measurements
Payola scandal said that the mere fact the platform schemes to prioritize on-platform cheap dreck under multiple names says they are watering down product in a cheating fashion. Adulterated saffron got you burned on a pile of your own fake saffron in parts of medieval Europe. Such a concept as fraudulent activity exists and will not disappear with mere hand wavery.
So the AI industry is not a money grab essentially training their models on all the work of other people while keeping their own "sauce" secret? If we allow AI companies to disregard copyright then they should be required to publish their models. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The problem with alcohol is that it’s a drug that isn’t just legal and tolerated, it’s a drug that’s celebrated and encouraged.
This growth story I never understood. The grey market has been extremely saturated for at least 20-30 years - demand can’t really grow from “everyone who wants it has it”. There is barely any value add that a company can do with the raw output (flower). The growing and processing equipment is already a mature market. Growing is easy if you can follow a basic guide and invest $500 in equipment. Harvesting is just cutting it off the plant and putting it up to dry.. The vape cartridges etc, anyone can buy from AliBaba for cents a piece. I just don’t see where you can outcompete a random Joe
Interesting, but the simpler way is to use plain html with microformats [1], so this:

@book{kn:gnus,
AUTHOR = "Donald E. Knudson",
TITLE = "1966 World Gnus Almanac",
PUBLISHER = {Permafrost Press},
ADDRESS = {Novosibirsk} }

becomes this:

<div class="book" id="kn:gnus">
<div class="author">Donald E. Knudson</div>
<div class="title">1966 World Gnus Almanac</div>
<div class="publisher">Permafrost Press</div>
<div class="address">Novosibirsk</div>
</div>

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-formats#BibTeX
So we ban cars?

So top 3 killers are cats, windows and cars and it doesn’t help if cats only kill small birds and mammals because they basically kill the food of the larger birds.

Don’t forget tire wear and all the other sources of pollution that endangers any living being.

And add climate change.

So why are wind turbines singled out?
Yep - Notion doc answers your question.
> surveys a nationally representative group of teens each year

Self reported with nothing actual to verify (e.g., hair sample, school sewer water sample, etc.) Self-reported data is notorious for being unreliable. Why would this be any different?

Editorial: What a waste of time and money. Hopefully taxpayers aren't paying for this.
Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust
Where did someone ask that?
Have you looked at the Highways?

And we are talking about skyscrapers not simply houses.
Basically solutions that were doing well in arc just threw thousands of ideas at the wall and picked the ones that stuck. They were literally generating thousands of python programs, running them and checking if any produced the correct output when fed with data from examples.

This o3 doesn't need to run python. It itself executes programs written in tokens inside it's own context window which is wildly inefficient but gives better results and is potentially more general.