skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common misconception by design [1]. The research that was "hidden" behind this innocent-sounding name is very closely tied to the origins of backpropagation in the work of Paul Werbos where it will be further developed as "approximate dynamic programming." Bellman's research is more general and is close to a lot of thinking in physics after Lagrange, indeed quite close to the very notion of a "Lagrangian." Over-simplifying, the question has to do with optimization and guarantees of convergence inside various increasingly less-deterministic processes: how can we provably find true maxima of a given function step-by-step.

[1] In the article, an extract from Bellman's very interesting biography, we read:

"The 1950s were not good years for mathematical research. We had a very interesting gentleman in Washington named Wilson. He was Secretary of Defense, and he actually had a pathological fear and hatred of the word, research... What title, what name, could I choose? In the first place I was interested in planning, in decision making, in thinking. But planning, is not a good word for various reasons. I decided therefore to use the word, ‘programming.’ I wanted to get across the idea that this was dynamic, this was multistage, this was time-varying... Let’s take a word that has an absolutely precise meaning, namely dynamic, in the classical physical sense. It also has a very interesting property as an adjective, and that is it’s impossible to use the word, dynamic, in a pejorative sense. Try thinking of some com- bination that will possibly give it a pejorative meaning. It’s impossible. Thus, I thought dynamic programming was a good name. It was something not even a Congressman could object to. So I used it as an umbrella for my activities.”
If that's all you want then couldn't you just print to PDF?
I believe we should explore a less anthropocentric definition and theory of intelligence. I propose that intelligence can be understood in the context of thermodynamics. Essentially, intelligent entities strive to maximize the available possibilities, minimize entropy, or enhance their potential future outcomes. When an LLM makes a decision, it might be driven by these underlying principles. This competition for control over future possibilities exists between the trained model and the human trainers.
Laws need to be clear about where the line is though. If circumventing rate limiting is illegal then that should be explicit, including the criteria used to determine that a service is in fact rate limited in such a legally binding manner. As it is an API is available but somehow is not considered public (criteria unclear) and thus engaging with it in certain ways (criteria unclear) is out of bounds.

If we want using a service to perpetrate a crime to itself be an additional crime then that should be made explicit. In the (unlikely) event that NSO wasn't actually perpetrating any crimes against the end users then that fact is probably what needs to be fixed.
It's not AI in itself, but it's one of the best possibilities for enabling AI systems to generate mathematical proofs that can be automatically verified to be correct, which is needed at the scale they can potentially operate.

Of course it has many non-AI uses too.
> This event expanded the market with such massive awareness.

I think you might be overestimating the impact of this (whatever 'this' is) on the rest of the world that isn't trying to make signatures a business. This is the first I'm hearing that Google has introduced a (new?) signature feature, and the Google trends for "Electronic signature" haven't moved much if at all [0]. A Google search for "Google signatures" still mostly turns up information about email signatures, including when I filter to the News tab.

I'm honestly not even 100% sure what new feature you're talking about. In my searching I don't turn up any announcements about Google and signatures, and I do find a help article about it going back to 2022 [1].

In short, I have no idea what sparked this for you, but for the rest of us it's Tuesday. It might be good to slow down and figure out what's actually going on and what its real impact is?

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...

[1] https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12315692?hl=en
Notice how it includes the Igigi (lesser gods of their pantheon) and mention great weapons of An[u], Enlil & Enki, the Ruling gods of their pantheon, associated with city destruction
Sure, you can avoid it if you don't trust it. But you can't claim that it is something that it has not been proven to be. Don't falsify reality even if you have good intentions.
Israel literally blew people up with a supply chain violation. I’m very comfortable with my assessment.
Kinda related to the theme, but looking for other perspective. Having a brag document is a really useful way to track those things too:

https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
The key difference between Turing machines and real-world computers is that Turing machines have infinite memory. A real-world computer is thus not really a Turing machine, but rather a finite state machine.
> with the intention of spamming or otherwise causing harm to its users

That sounds hopelessly ambiguous to me. What if Google decides that making use of yt-dlp is causing harm to them? What is the criteria here?

We wanted email spam to be illegal and so it was explicitly made illegal. We wanted robocalling to be illegal and so it was explicitly made illegal. In such cases we have (reasonably) clear criteria for what is and is not permitted.
ah thanks for the feedback! I agree, not the best onboarding experience. I'll certainly look into this.
I would recommend not using pixelation as means to hide text. It is easy to reverse.
My impression from reading this was it was about knowing which classes reference which other classes when and which jars everything is in.

So I think you’re right.

So a bit more linker style optimization than compiler related caching stuff.
Syzygy: Dual Code-Test C to Rust Translation Using LLMs and Dynamic Analysis
Not sure how to quantify "how much is new" as like all other breakthroughs are "built on the shoulders of giants". I'd find it almost impossible to answer that same question accurately if it was asked about something like Kyber (Post quantum cryptography) - which would probably be newer than Tide. A proper answer would require quite a lengthy seminar, I'm guessing. Your last question is a fascinating one and the answer is: no. We're not asking people to suspend their disbelief. On the extreme contrary: we'd encourage them to challenge it as much as they should challenge their current beliefs. Today's automated belief in all existing Zero-Trust vendors may be misplaced/misguided. The blind beliefs in all IAM vendors should be re-examined. We ask for people to question their automated belief in the integrity of processes such as: "JWT introspection" where the same entity that generated an attestation is now requested to validate it, or if an OIDC connection is "secured" by a shared "client secret", there's no need to verify the JWT signature, or it's safe to send passwords over HTTPS because it's secure by SSL, or it's safe to store passwords on a server because it's hashed and salted, or passkey is foolproof because it's stored in the TPM, etc... How many of these beliefs are verifiable to the end-user???
Do pooling with the average embedding of all customers
Thanks for the feedback. What is your computer specs, do you have about a mid-range GPU or better?
I don't get it, why wouldn't you just store tag + count instead? Am I missing something?
Coordinate bilingualism seems like when you're learning languages separately and consciously, later in life. You can still acquire high fluency, but it doesn't seem as 'native' as it might be as if you acquired it during childhood and unconsciously.
Only if you do it with the intent (or prior knowledge) that will happen.

If they just like suiciding against a specific window of yours for no apparent reason, then you’re fine.
That point is pure gold! This is such a critical aspect that we hardly see addressed even in the leading platforms. This exact sentiment was the drive behind our SDKs primary premise: Assume a breach! Assume an error-prone junior dev. Assume belief an example code is real code. We aim to have our technology protect user's authority/identity from buggy developers. We want to protect the organization's systems from mistakes the developers or administrators have made. We aim to protect companies from themselves. Our documentation is in its very early days. We've got the technology, but we don't have a (much needed) sample api service yet to demonstrate how the dev DOESN'T need to verify the JWT or qualify against blacklists (the SDK will do it), DOESN'T need to worry about session hijacking, etc. But that's exactly what we're working towards.
How does this compare to Kafka? Is the primary difference that this is a hosted solution?
Tricky question, because the answer to this will evolve in time (as planned). First, thanks for pointing out the license issue on Github. We'll fix that right away. The Cybersecurity Fabric operates based on the Tide Protocol: our WIP open standard. TideCloak is exactly that: just an implementation of that protocol on a Keycloak IAM. The protocol is "source available" but "commercially restricted" - similar to the BSL modus operandi. It'll take us some time to properly document that protocol to a level adequate for release - but in the meantime, we'll provide office hours and direct interactions with the community to share that knowledge.
> s it all eccentricity, mental illness, or overprivileged jerkiness?

Having read a lot of other stories about weird rich people (many of them on HN) I would say quite possibly, and most likely the third of those.
It's no great conspiracy for a religion to have tiers of understanding and nuance reserved for people more intelligent and dedicated in practice- that is one key purpose of having a distinction between lay people and monastics. The mystique of this is openly part of the draw for people to sign up for it.

There's no deception- it's something that (as this discussion shows) is very subtle and dangerous to the religions when misunderstood- but not dangerous when understood correctly. It is written down repeatedly in religious texts, in a subtle way with plausible deniability, but clear to those that can read between the lines. Writing in that way was the essential basic art of any intellectual until very recently, it is only now (sort of) safe to plainly state nuanced philosophical and religious concepts without facing persecution. Nietzsche argued you still should not do so even if you can.

It's also both quite obvious and relatively unimportant on its own to people that would be capable of understanding nuance, and could be quite harmful to the faith and the stability of the religion of those not able to understand.
How frequent is frequent?

For the use case of identifying where they are on a map, I can certainly believe that an iPhone will connect more often than you move the object the tag is attached to. But when it comes time to actually trigger a sound to find it stuck under a cushion or what have you, is there going to be an iPhone within range at that moment?
> However I am unconvinced that SCOTUS got this right. I don’t think there should be a free speech exception for obscenity

If you look at the question from an originalist viewpoint: did the legislators who drafted the First Amendment, and voted to propose and ratify it, understand it as an exceptionless absolute or as subject to reasonable exceptions? I think if you look at the writings of those legislators, the debates and speeches made in the process of its proposal and ratification, etc, it is clear that they saw it as subject to reasonable exceptions – and I think it is also clear that they saw obscenity as one of those reasonable exceptions, even though they no doubt would have disagreed about its precise scope. So, from an originalist viewpoint, having some kind of obscenity exception seems very constitutionally justifiable, although we can still debate how to draw it.

In fact, I think from an originalist viewpoint the obscenity exception is on firmer ground than the child pornography exception, since the former is arguably as old as the First Amendment itself is, the latter only goes back to the 1982 case of New York v. Ferber. In fact, the child pornography exception, as a distinct exception, only exists because SCOTUS jurisprudence had narrowed the obscenity exception to the point that it was getting in the way of prosecuting child pornography as obscene – and rather than taking that as evidence that maybe they'd narrowed it a bit too far, SCOTUS decided to erect a separate exception instead. But, conceivably, SCOTUS in 1982 could have decided to draw the obscenity exception a bit more broadly, and a distinct child pornography exception would never have existed.

If one prefers living constitutionalism, the question is – has American society "evolved" to the point that the First Amendment's historical obscenity exception ought to jettisoned entirely, as opposed to merely be read narrowly? Does the contemporary United States have a moral consensus that individuals should have the constitutional right to produce graphic depictions of child sexual abuse, for no purpose other than their own sexual arousal, provided that no identifiable children are harmed in its production? I take it that is your personal moral view, but I doubt the majority of American citizens presently agree – which suggests that completely removing the obscenity exception, even in the case of virtual CSAM material, cannot currently be justified on living constitutionalist grounds either.
That would be awesome! I love tldraw, but I’ll admit that more than once I’ve had to go through my web history to find a project I forgot to bookmark
What do you mean by "things that are actually teleologically useful"?

Fellow physicist here by the way
A similar article discussing the same book: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/a-philosophy-of-software-...
> And, indeed, this is why we should not expect the process to stop. Nobody is rallying behind the rights of child abusers and those who traffic in child abuse material. Arguably, nor should they.

I wouldn't be so sure.

When Apple was going to introduce on-device scanning they actually proposed to do it in two places.

• When you uploaded images to your iCloud account they proposed scanning them on your device first. This is the one that got by far the most attention.

• The second was to scan incoming messages on phones that had parental controls set up. The way that would have worked is:

1. if it detects sexual images it would block the message, alert the child that the message contains material that the parents think might be harmful, and ask the child if they still want to see it. If the child says no that is the end of the matter.

2. if the child say they do want to see it and the child is at least 13 years old, the message is unblocked and that is the end of the matter.

3. if the child says they do want to see it and the child is under 13 they are again reminded that their parents are concerned about the message, again asked if they want to view it, and told that if they view it their parents will be told. If the child says no that is the end of the matter.

4. If the child says yes the message is unblocked and the parents are notified.

This second one didn't get a lot of attention, probably because there isn't really much to object to. But I did see one objection from a fairly well known internet rights group. They objected to #4 on the grounds that the person sending the sex pictures to your under-13 year old child sent the message to the child, so it violates the sender's privacy for the parents to be notified.
Congrats! I played it for a bit and it looks great!
Thank you!! When you say announce list, do you mean like an email list of publishers or press that i'll be reaching out to? I have a few sources.
At my last job, the management greenlighted a full rewrite in Kotlin in order to attract/retain developers bored with Java and Python. The actual business project was boring since all the important design work was already finished by the architect. No language rewrite, no interested devs. So management made a quiet trade with ICs where everyone got what they wanted at the cost of future maintenance.

I learned that social whims (developer fun, preferences , dopamin) are weighted as much as technical rationales (performance, maintenance)
I was the only person working on it for ~2 years, and I wrote the majority of the code in the first version that shipped. That said, I’m definitely glad that I eventually found someone else (and later a whole team) to work on it with me, and it wouldn’t have been as successful without that.

When people think of a binary translator, they usually just think of the ISA aspects, as opposed to the complicated interactions with the OS etc. that can consume just as much (or even more) engineering effort overall.
I love how the only historical discussion on the topic he found was a HN discussion from 2019 where at least one person was confidently claiming they don’t steal affiliate commissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589273
4th of July was about what I expected, but "sexy 4th of July" just looked like random colors basically. (I didn't have any expectations going in, other than I expected at least some hues of red, white, and blue)

With this kind of thing, how are you really supposed to know if it's even working, vs just returning random colors?

Something broke though now, both of my 4th of July queries now return me to the main url with no result.
Thank you!!! = )
You can play for free, no account required. Just click Play Now!
ah yess we will certainly be looking into this in the new year.
The “dense slums” happen to be the most desirable areas of the country. People live in dense areas because they want access to their amenities.
This is technically what Microsoft Recall promises to do and no one is happy about it.
A classic. Every time I see that link I read the whole thing starting from the new beginning.

...oops
There's a similar question that crosses my mind occasionally: 'how would capitalism work if there were no brand names and no advertising, but only product reviews?'

Would it even be possible to safeguard the product reviews system from bribery? The current systems we use for product reviews obviously would be unsuitable.

At any rate, I commiserate about the role of branding and advertising today. It's as often noise as it is information.
> Global namespace soup

Packages still exist.

It’s just not necessary to add an additional level of namespacing.

Statics never were some pure OOP anyway.
Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to giving this a shot.

Using firefox on android and the play button was hidden, even when I flipped my phone (zfold).
> If you sit and wait and do nothing AI will eat your job

If you sit and do nothing, doing nothing will eat your job. AI will have had nothing to do with that.

AI is only replacing jobs in departments with leads that have zero idea of what they're doing. Once they realize that you can't say, "hey make my app" and have everything setup and ready to go for you, those companies are going to be paying out the ass to contractors to cleanup the mess they created for themselves.

The same thing happened with outsourcing overseas years ago. As many have said before, writing code is the easy part.
Role open for AI Agent only
Thanks for feedback! Sadly yea the game may not run well on some older model laptops and anything with lower than mid-tier GPUs. We optimized as best we could to reach most hardware possible. We actually have servers globally, but depending on your region you will auto connect to servers closest to you.
Not OP, but I'm assuming he means that they are maddeningly black-boxy, if you want to know how the sausage is made.
I did a DEXA scan at the end only so I don’t know the before accurately. I have some measurements from my Scale on muscle mass which shows a drop of about 2 kgs. Overall I lost about 30-35 lbs of weight. The measurements from the scale should be taken with a grain of salt though because they are based on impedance and formulas that are related to BMI
I'd like to think humanity will eventually obsolete money in favor of something a bit more flexible. It's kind of a clumsy tool.
Wait till he reads this comment…you’ll be banned and the pubs shut down!
if you have chatgpt, you can ask it these kinds of questions, and more... for real, it'll give you better advice than any real person lol (bc you can keep following up)
Think some of the palette prompts are being censored and giving no warning. Neat tool though!
Related:

Slow Deployment Causes Meetings - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622834 - Nov 2015 (26 comments)
3D printing materials for realistic medical modeling
How would you say it panned out? Were you able to hire people easily and did retention go up?
> It is written down repeatedly in religious texts, in a subtle way with plausible deniability, but clear to those that can read between the lines.

Can you give me an example of what you mean? From Christianity, as its the religion I know most about.
How did Omegle stay in operation so long?
Omegle was basically Tinder for predators throughout its operation but i can't believe they were allowed to operate for so long..
What psychopaths downvoted this??
Money buys real assets which will be worth something; AI can't magic up land or energy for instance. In fact AI is a dream for capital, and a nightmare for labor/work/human intelligence w.r.t value.
Court Order: Unethical for Judges to Discuss Justice Alito's Unethical Behavior
Did you actually read what I wrote? I completely agree that genocide is a matter of intent. That is why my comment was about intent, not about scale. in fact I specifically said Israel is killing too many non-combatants, indicating the scale is bad and if scale is what mattered I probably would call it genocide. But as you say, it is not about scale. That is why I made the point that the non-combatant casualties would almost certainly significantly decrease if one side of this conflict was not aggressively using humans as shields – that to me speaks to the intent of Israel/IDF.

The people ultimately to blame for the high civilian casualties are the people who 1. started the war and 2. insist on staging that war entirely in civilian areas. That is Hamas on both counts. I am certain that if tomorrow Hamas said "hey, let's have a pitched battle in the style of Middle Ages Europe, where we go to a field and send all our fighters against all your fighters and and the victor is the one left standing", the IDF would be happy to oblige.

But Hamas will not do that, because they want the destruction of Palestinian peoples more than Israel does. After all, it helps their cause much more than it does the cause of Israel (and they clearly can't actually win the war without the human shields).
That's cute. Reminds me of those old Flash dating sims on Newgrounds.
That's super impressive. I remember being astonished that the x86 executable of Python running through Rosetta 2 on my M1 was just a factor of 2 slower than the native version.

QEMU was something like a factor of 5-10x slower than native, IIRC.
One of those simple charming tech experiences. Thanks for sharing!
I had a boss who actually acknowledged that he was deliberately holding up my development process - this was a man who refused to allow me a four day working week.
I think plenty of other comments have made good suggestions but that this clearly takes the cake for me!

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that German has a great word for this, although I admit when I started reading your comment I expected it to be a compound word.

I quite like the literal translation too!
Nobody with sufficient scale will be paying retail for data transfer.