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> Google images let you turn the porn filter down, not off.

In this analogy the equivalent being used by LLM makers is “guilty puritan” or “imam insisting on the niqab to rid men of all impure thoughts.”

There’s degrees of censorship, but current AIs enforce the level that is suitable for the youngest of minors.

We’re talking Disney World levels, or Frozen on Ice the musical.

I’m a big boy, I’m allowed to stay up late and watch The Terminator.
Canada has less free trade between provinces than the EU does between countries.

The two are not compatible.
You can definitely get a decent lunch tasting menu experience for $100 or so in NYC
Great stuff! Amazing that playing a game written in 2004 which follows the style of games written in 1994 feels current in 2025 just because it runs in my web browser. But nonetheless it did feel modern and it was also really good fun.
They can change the criteria or ignore it. Wouldn't be the first time.
> At it's core an LLM is a sort of "situation specific simulation engine."

"Sort of" is doing Sisisyphian levels of heavy lifting here. LLMs are statistical models trained on vast amounts of symbols to predict the most likely next symbol, given a sequence of previous symbols. LLMs may appear to exhibit "real creativity", "understand" problem solving (or anything else), or serve as "simulation engines", but it's important to understand that they don't currently do any of those things.
On The Expressive Power of Programming Languages [video]
Doing something pretty similar with u,v coordinates to project half-edge arrows onto triangle faces.
Oh I totally agree that I think its not great for the game in terms of balance. As a dev, I do enjoy being able to make my own custom addons, especially as a healer. But I think a push towards less addons in the game will help its casual accessibility big time.

This is an issue even in Mythic+ where missing a single kick means you likely wipe your group and if its a pug they probably all leave the key afterwards (the latter is a separate community issue, but exists nonetheless). If Blizz in the future is forced to assume that most players dont have kick addons that tell them which party member has a kick up and a timer/alert to tell you when to kick the caster mob, then theyre also forced into improving the UI to help the players know that information without external assistance. Or even better improve the mechanics writ large so that arcane knowledge is less zero-sum when you dont have it.
I have a pet project to integrate org mode with LLMs via tags, and the hardest part has been interfacing with the base org-mode tags to provide all the functionality I want. This library is exactly the thing I need to pick it back up!
I think people are quite tired of the harms of a centralized globalization effort - whether from a decentralized cabal or official part of law and official government agreements.
No, that's discrimination.
Ask HN: If not a bicycle for the mind then what?
Software was supposed to be a bicycle for the mind. Instead we got something else, what is the best analogy for "the thing" software actually became?
True! More money means more taxes though, they should consider using Intuit™ TurboTax™ to make them easy!

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Thank you for that video. Unfortunately the guy spends the first part of it just hating on Hancock, which I don’t think is a good way to debunk stuff

I was also hoping the guy would find whatever papers or publications were made by the scientists Hancock interviews throughout the series, but he’s mainly just rebutting the concept of an ancient advanced civilization (which yes, is very speculative, and even Hancock says that himself in the series)

Clearly the guy has a lot of detractors, his grand theories are speculative and they certainly have many holes

But it also seems like even mainstream archaeology is also, to some degree, speculative (we can’t really know exactly what happened in the past). And that some of the research that Hancock is supporting his theories on, might actually be right

Anyway, thank you again. I will take Hancock’s most grandiose claims with a grain of salt, but I’m also going to keep an open mind about alternative theories of how the Americas might have been first populated by humans (especially the Amazon)
My wife and I both pay for Kagi Ultimate, which they've quietly developed as a Perplexity killer. Aggregates all the major LLMs and couples them with Kagi's clean search results with citations. All with no ads, no bullshit. It's the whole corporate mission. It's awesome. I hope enough people are willing to pay to make Kagi successful.
Canada should join the European Free Trade Association instead of the EU!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Associatio...
Insecure coder or just trying to pump up their commit activity.
Greenland leader calls for independence from Denmark
The actual food itself often uses both more expensive/rare ingredients and is significantly more labour intensive to prepare, even if you could hypothetically order it off of a kiosk McDonald’s style
Hot take: Canada should join the US.
Geopolitical thought experiments pop up from time to time but rarely come to fruition. There will be enough domestic opposition from both sides that this will never happen. The idea may become more compelling if Canada completely loses freedom of movement and free trade with the U.S., but that means the Canadian economy would have to crater first, which weakens the benefit EU would receive from accepting such a member country.
Canada should join the [commonwealth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations), then I can go work there :) Then in its best interest, it should immediately leave the commonwealth.
Is the Economist often advising others X to do things contrary to the interest of X, but claiming the contrary ?
> When the adherence to mask usage guidelines is taken into account

Which pretty much in my observation no one back then was wearing masks correctly, was wearing the correct masks that actually had some effect (when worn correctly), or were changing them at a appropriate frequency according to guidelines.
I fully expect forward/back buttons to work in an SPA.
The performance of this can matter in some scenarios. In embedded systems, smart cards etc., generating the primes can take a significant amount of time (15-20 seconds typical) even with the 'low' number of iterations. Higher iterations means the user will have to wait even longer. Actually, in such systems it is not unusual to see occasional time-out errors and such when the smart card is unlucky with finding the primes. The timeout value may be a fixed, general value in a part of the stack difficult to change for the specific call.

Another case is short-term keys/certificates, where a fresh key pair is generated, and cert issues, for each and every signature. This setup makes revocation easier to handle (the certificate typically has a lifetime of a few minutes so it is 'revoked' almost immediately).

There are also scenarios where the keys are generated on a central system (HSM's etc.) to be injected into a production line or similar. There performance can matter as well. I worked on a system where the HSM's were used for this. They could typically generate an RSA key in 1-2 seconds, so 12 HSM's were needed to keep up with demand - and this was again with the reduced number of rounds.
Overly verbose? Reddit comment?

Are you here simply to troll with low value comments?
By the time a non-engineer has waded through all of those necessary explanations they'll deserve to call themselves an engineer.
Relevant: <https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22R...>
Nothing lower value than criticizing a satirical post about a piece of satire. How dare I offend the “humorous thoughtpiece” with my own humorous thoughtpiece.
LOL.

>We would finally be able to explore the Mandelbrot space at full depth

What does that mean? The Mandelbrot set is infinitely intricate.
I still see a lot of RSA especially for encryption. While ECC can be used for encryption it is more convoluted and much less supported in hardware, software etc. than RSA decryption/encryption.
US should join the EU
A product that either moves the needle as far as revenue and/or makes the ecosystem better. It also needs to be a product that gets continuously better as long as there is a market for it and not abandoned quickly.

- “a connected TV device”. How many cancelled lines of products have they abandoned?
How many market failures have they had in their own line of phones? The Pixel’s aren’t taking the world by storm and they spent billions on Motorola and then sold it off for scraps

They have been releasing a cancelling their own tablet initiatives for years.

At one point they had 5 separate messaging initiatives going on simultaneously.

Even today they have three operating system initiatives that are not on the same codebase - Fuscia, Android and ChromeOS.

They have basically abandoned Flutter and don’t use it for any of their high profile apps.

What have they actually done besides ads?

And the obvious evidence is their money losing “other bets”

Also Google Fiber

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
Picked a fun game and a popular number. There's probably dozens of me out there, not unique in any sense.
FWIW Canada does have a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU: CETA.
Ok you guys, since this has been posted 4 times, there's obviously an appetite to discuss it, so I've turned off the user flags on the original post and merged the comments thither:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583297
When I hear "Varda" I think of the 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars. Any connection?

Concerning the business model, I can't help but think that small processes don't generate much material, resulting in a high cost. If there's a market for the result, then their business model is always at risk that some Earth-based chemist develops a cheaper method which works at 1 gravity.

That seems like an awful lot of risk.
Oof. Been there.
He wanted to expose ads to AI, which felt weird for some reason.
Um... Canada IS in the commonwealth
Ya, that was an error. I was thinking of myself, perhaps.
Thanks for answering, appreciated. I suppose I will just hang onto it as an interesting piece of history, though I never thought it would be worth much - more I'm just hoping to find someone out there who wants it for some personal reason so I can "send it home", so to speak.

Is anyone doing anything with transputer technology now? Do you think it has a chance at resurgence?

> the earliest computers 2000 years ago

Typo, exaggeration, or a reference to something like the Antikythera Mechanism?
Canada needs to do something but I don't think joining the EU is it.
This is hardly a serious analysis, and the author knows it.

No European would seriously consider the reduction of population density that comes from admitting Canada to be a meaningful improvement to the EU. Canadian energy resources would definitely be welcome, but that's hardly enough of a reason to extend membership, especially since a trans-Atlantic power cable (which would be needed to get the most out of Canada's hydro) would be a beast of an engineering challenge itself.

Tighter EU-Canada integration is a much more important and achievable goal, as the article points out in the final paragraph.
As I understand it, the number of rounds needed (for a given acceptable failure probability) goes down the larger the number is. Note (very importantly) that this is assuming you are testing a RANDOM integer for primality. If you are given an integer from a potential malicious source you need to do the full number of rounds for the given level.
As someone who has lived in the EU for over 20 years, I can say that the Schengen Area is a fantastic thing, whereas the EU itself is a disaster. Civilized countries should join the Schengen Area but avoid joining the European Union (these are two separate things). They should take an example from Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein - countries that are part of Schengen but not in the EU. Joining the European Union means a complete loss of sovereignty.
imo it's more flexible to just have two boxes, especially if they're cheap.
This is an absurd take. The west embraced Japanese games when the rivalry between Japan and US was at its peak.

A full refutal of every point would take an article, but in a nutshell:

1) Japanese and European games that weren't localized and translated to English remain unpopular in the English-speaking west to this day, including great classics.

2) Just because a game is popular, it doesn't mean it deserves to be discussed among critics and the English-speaking public, especially one hit wonders that are derivative from other western games but contain cultural-relevant content for other countries. We tend to not discuss Indonesian pop music often irrespective of its success in Indonesia.

3) For retro gamers,much of the value in revisiting games comes from Nostalgia. It's reasonable to not talk about old games that weren't available to the audience many years ago - there is no nostalgia. Only historians and the hardcore would be interested in these games.

Note: I'm a hardcore gamer interested in these games, but I know it's a niche taste.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_single_market

The four freedoms of the single market you get in return are incredible.
Vana – MapleStory server implementation in C++
Voxels was an interesting technique for about five minutes in the early 90s, but they could never really be rendered at a high enough resolution for them to look good imho.
The rejection was expected. The EU and its associated organizations are only open to countries on the European continent by their current rules. Canada would have to broker a hell of a deal to get even partially in. EFTA membership might be a possible goal.
Yes, of course what you quote is true -- more resources favors large entities and corporations. Similarly for example, the rich versus poor when appearing before the legal system. That is a deep problem of democracy + capitalism.

But if the desire is to reduce the influence of money in politics and the weight of corporations in our lives, that is something for Congress and our laws to be modified to do. Similarly to decide to tax, redistribute, or equalize the playing field between rich or poor. You would not have a court decide what tax policy to enact, or what the thresholds of welfare or social security brackets are. Courts are to resolve concrete disputes between individual parties using principles derived from the law, not promulgate new laws.

Courts have to treat people and entities coming before them in cases as equal parties, based on their arguments and evidence. If the side of corporations have more resources to pursue cases, hire lawyers, and fabricate evidence, etc. than individuals, then that's something for Congress and laws to fix. Courts are not here to somehow say that when there's a dispute, individual people's arguments take precedence over a corporation's when the law is clear about enumerated rights or regulations. Or to say a general policy principle like "people's rights trump corporations' rights". That is not a justiciable statement.

The relative rights of people versus corporations is where laws should lay out those definitions, in the places and applications where the theoretical becomes the real. Not for courts to create novel rights that are not subject to the democratic process and checks/balances on such important questions. Or if they're not specified in the Constitution.
Deepseek writes some good code, at least in my experience with it
I've argued in the past that Australia should join the European Union and gotten laughed at in my face. :/
It’s lazier to claim something is correct without offering a useful point as to how it’s correct. I trust in your ability to theorize.
Why do you believe it's cynical?
It is in the Commonwealth?
I had a blast exploring this codebase as I learned C++ ~13 years ago, as it heavily intersected my MapleStory interest as well.

Quite a fun reverse engineering project.
Only easy to see that it's optional if you read the source code vs. looking at the auto definition in your IDE/in autogenerated documentation.
It's a very nice idea, but to join the EU, you have to be in Europe.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/167/the-e...
it took less than a minute to figure out dependencies and build on my workstation (EL9). If you don't have an OS with a package manager, it might be harder though...
This is true, but I'd love to see something happen to force Canadian provinces's hands to improve this.

To dream the impossible dream...
Yes, I read the whole thing, thanks. It's the standard form letter for people who beat the startup game after a life of mindless career-maxing. To me, this sort of thing reads as humble-braggy, faux-introspective slop. Now he can point to this blog and say: "I'm so brave for acknowledging my flaws", while avoiding any real effort to change.
This is the future I want to live in. Bountiful cheap energy is much more attractive than the futures most people write about now, that vary between some sort of managed decline, dystopianism, or other negativity.

I hope to see you or your faithful recreation in the Matrioskha brain one day.
Why did the nullary function get along with everyone?
I've seen many implementations that relied on iterating (or rather, they used a prime sieve but it amounts to the same thing in terms of the skewed distribution). While maybe not a problem in practice I always hated it - even for embedded systems etc. I always used pure rejection sampling, with a random one in each iteration.
Artemis I already went around the moon and back in 2022.
This is never passing.

Trump-inspired conservatives are on their ways to be guaranteed majority at the next federal elections.
I'm using local LLMs for battle-testing an app by impersonating various personae with bad intentions (mostly on the social side, but also ones trying to break the system). Off-the-shelf cloud LLMs refuse such things (probably rightfully so); Llama 3.3 in q8, and qwen 2.5 72b even more so, are surprisingly good for this.

Also, even not-so-capable, smallish LLMs are able to be really good testers even outside the bad persona domain (given a good CLI interface). As long as your energy cost is okay-ish and you already have the hardware, that's quite a good use.
perplexity already has a subscription plan...
If you have a simple website , you can containerize your backend and use much simpler services from AWS and serve your static assets on S3.

Kubernetes is rarely the right answer for simple things even if Docker is.
I, perhaps unwisely, use the same username absolutely everywhere. Basically the only exceptions are places which don't use usernames, like Linkedin, or which predate inventing the username.
This little thread was a nice bit of nostalgia.
Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers
Looks like we can add Tim Cook to the growing list of spineless enablers of fascism. What a truly pathetic, despicable lot.
The Assistant product is incredible. It's been my daily driver (+Cursor), since September. I don't even bother with normal search results unless I really can't find something (like a specific GitHub issue that hasn't been cached yet)
That's a fair point, I just want to call out no one except you can tell you what you can control, since you're able to just "do things."
The obvious solution is simple if it’s a concern… Act with your wallet and stop using their services and praising them in high regard. It’s harder to distinguish which tech corps abuse the program but you can be assured open source is safe and that colocation/vps services are more than likely to be operated and run by domestic hires than major cloud ops.
> only open to countries on the European continent

Cyprus would like to have a word.

As well as potentially Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.
Do these apply to their paid "pro" option?
The Privacy Notice states the following:

By using the Whole Foods Market Services, you are consenting to the practices described in the Privacy Notice.

So tantalor isn't necessarily "out of [their] mind" to consider shopping at Whole Foods an agreement to the statement.
I also have NY at the end of my name for New York!
Anonymous. Let's just say there are certain people I never want to hear from again.
So does OpenAI, but they're still burning billions of dollars every year. Ads are another way to stem the bleeding.
At least in some cases, old.reddit.com has a click wall but doesn’t require login for NSFW. Hope that helps ;)
I think the faces in Mona Lisa and The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne looks fairly bad. I much prefer Titian's portraits.
Yes that's what I meant. The benchmark suite I took from rapidjson was benchmarking against:

Oj::Parser.usual.parse(string)

That is what isn't thread safe. And yes you can implement a parser pool, or simply so something like:

parser = (Thread.current[:my_parser] ||= Oj::Parser.new(:usual))

But that didn't really feel right for a benchmark suite, because of the many different ways you could implement that in a real world app. So it's unclear what the real world overhead would be to make this API usable in a given application.

> is that it stores the parser state.

And also a bunch of parsing caches, which makes it perform very well when parsing the same document over and over, or documents with a similar structure, but not as well when parsing many different documents. But I'll touch on that in a future post when I start talking about the parsing side.
Somewhere between tv and an infinite filing cabinet for bureaucracies; not to mention the holy grail of false productivity for the NYSE-conscious, an 'activity treadmill' for rosters of highly-credentialed people to seem concerned about.
Does Canada have a migration issue? It didn’t seem that way the last time I was in Vancouver.

Meanwhile, in Europe, self-inflicted wounds from austerity, corruption, and years of ineffective policies continue to mount – and as usual, immigrants are the scapegoats. When the euro was introduced, the conversation was about harmonizing taxes, social welfare, pensions, and wages. Now, the EU celebrates forcing iPhones to adopt USB-C, as if that matters – and they pat themselves on the back for it.

Big corporations avoiding taxes in Ireland? Silence. German companies suppressing wages by threatening to relocate to Poland? Why not raise wages in Poland and create a fairer landscape?

These days, the EU feels more like an extension of NATO than a representative body. Its survival so far seems like a miracle, but I wouldn’t place bets on its future. The normalization of parties like AfD, pushing to exit the EU, adds to the uncertainty.
On the contrary, I think we’re finally realising the benefits of centralisation. Separatism and isolation are things of the past.
No one pays for things but very few people are going to quit because of ads. Having an ad-supported tier almost always makes the most sense.
The same, and I periodically create a new account here. Hmm, this one's getting a bit long in the tooth.