skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. The bots are already significantly better at passing almost every supposed "Are You Human?" test than the actual humans. "Can you find the cars in this image?" Bots are already better. "Can you find the incredibly convoluted text in this color spew?" Bots are already better. Almost every test these days is the same "These don't make me feel especially 'human'. Not even sure what that's an image of. Are there even letters in that image?"

Part of the issue, the humans all behaved the same way previously. Just slower.

All the scraping, and web downloading. Humans have been doing that for a long time. Just slower.

It's the same issue with a lot of society. Mean, hurtful humans, made mean hurtful bots.

Always the same excuses too. Company / researchers make horrible excrement, knowing full well its going harm everybody on the world wide web. Then claim they had no idea. "Thoughts and prayers."

The torture that used to exist on the world wide web of copy-pasta pages and constant content theft, is now just faster copy-pasta pages and content theft.
Canadian GDP per capita is 15 times that of Morocco. The EU would much rather admit a wealthy country than a relatively poor one. So there are clear economic reasons to treat the two differently.

Canada is a longstanding liberal democracy with a distant and purely symbolic constitutional monarchy. Morocco is a constitutional monarchy in which (until recently at least) the monarch played an active political role, there is still a widespread expectation among the population that he ought to do so, multiparty democracy is young and weak, and security agencies engage in repressive behaviour. [0] So there's political reasons too.

If Canada really wanted the EU and the EU really wanted Canada, they'd fudge the whole geography issue–probably won't happen but not completely impossible. But no way the EU is going to want Morocco any time this century, so they won't do it for them.

[0] https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2023/07/morocco-a-brewing...
"We are nameless, man. No names. We are nameless!" Cereal Killer
Debug CSS in Chrome DevTools with Gemini
"No time and tethered down" vs. "existential fear of dying alone." Six of one, half dozen of the other.
A large reason LLMs are useful for search and answering questions is because they omit the ads and (LLM-generated!) garbage listicles to give the searcher a straight answer. Ads are, by definition, worse for the searcher. If they were quality and strongly related to the query they would be organic results.

IMO it was always inevitable that companies will put the ads back in, removing this benefit. Perhaps the paid AI offerings will be able to continue focusing on quality results for the searchers.
Merged. Didn't seem to make much difference though. Results for the original Oj parser are pretty close to the core json now. I'll have to update the README for Oj. It's a bit stale. The new Oj::Parser is still much faster if not restricted to the current Rails environment.
Your capital has made you lonely, moreover, redundant as you have no needs. You cannot be coerced into a job, medical bills are no bankruptcy inducing issues for you (which is rather boring too), no need to work for the man.

And like a chipmunk sitting on a mountain of nuts anyone you meet wants one so nobody acts normal. Again how sad and lonely.

me i live in a blue collar neighborhood with people getting by and we look after each others kids and pets and gossip and share tools - trying not to sound too romantic but that's how it is. Sometimes I sweep the streets because I like it.
Please enjoy your capital. I’m not jealous at all, why should I? Don’t want to be a Midas, everything golden and hungry. I have community purpose and people to look after. For me, that’s wealth.
Canada will do much better joining US (and distancing itself from declining EU and its disastrous policies). The US is much better managed; the results speak for themselves.
I guess this is still puzzling to me. From what I can gather, it sounds like our idea of cosmological homogeneity and isomorphism are roughly equivalent to my layman's conception of "things are evenly distributed and the universe, could it be viewed as a whole, is symmetrical."

But what I don't understand is why we would expect that to be true. Once we learned about galaxies, what would imply their even distribution on a galactic scale? The very existence of nonidentical galaxies / lack of obvious symmetry around us already suggests the existence of early perturbations that cause an uneven distribution and asymmetry, no?
Yes, I suppose, although of course at one time it had been 100%. Maybe only the strongest lineages survived ?

What I really meant, rather than multicellularity being invincible, was that it's an obviously beneficial direction, and doesn't seem like it would need any extreme environmental stress to prove beneficial.
I noticed this when I was served an ad for the newish Venom movie. Add in TurboTax, and it seems like they really have no discretion about who they are willing to advertise for. That is worrisome.
Re: Cyprus, the rule may be being on the same tectonic plate, which AFAICT, Cyprus is (the Eurasian plate).
Factually, the claim of complete loss of sovereignty is just dead wrong. This list details the division of responsibilities between the EU and member states: https://commission.europa.eu/about/role/law/areas-eu-action_...

This shows how narrow the responsibilities of the EU actually are.
Ask HN: Has the Slack iOS app been sluggish for you lately?
I’ve been noticing most aspects of the app have suffered from significant sluggishness. For example, tapping an input field to start typing a message is accompanied with a second or longer hang. Trying to start the channel search UI is the same. Pretty much every view transition is choppy for me on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. My impression is that there’s a bunch of slow network requests blocking the UI but I haven’t confirmed that yet.
Ireland springs to mind, and in fact has strong ties to Indigenous nations in the Americas for their similar struggles
I usually use anon when others can be anon. I don't like the information imbalance. If nobody were anon I wouldn't mind putting myself out there more.
> Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates, though a housing crunch has frayed that consensus of late

A little bit of an understatement, that consensus has almost been completely shattered in Canada.

Currently Canada can barely handle the people it has, there's quite a severe housing crisis. There's just not enough housing in any of the areas that people want to live. Canada does not need more people.

And most of the people hypothetically moving to Canada from Europe will probably be refugees who have little ties to Europe. Which would also not go down well in Canada (because of uhh, human tendencies against the outgroup).

Personally, I'm pro-immigration. It keeps the cost of labour down which is good for people like me. I just think even the current level of immigration has been too destabilizing for our society, so I'm opposed to increasing it yet further.

That being said, as a Canadian I'd love to have the right to live and work in the EU, and I would love for honest hard-working Europeans to have the right to live and work in Canada. And I'd love closer and denser trade ties, for example an investment in LNG shipping infrastructure to help Canada and the EU, assuming this is economical and not just a pipe dream.
The weird trade things between the provinces are more to do with special exceptions and regulations around alcohol, trades regulation, etc. than the kind of tariff-oriented things people are talking usually with "free trade". They're a product of the fact that Canada, like the US, is a highly federal system and the provinces have strong powers. In some cases, stronger than in the US system (and in other cases, not)

In any case, we already have a free trade agreement with the EU. In some respects for some products its better than what we have with the US.
Canada needs people? I thought the recent controversy is all about Canada having too many people and the pro immigration government also taking a more tempered immigration stance?
Mystery volcano that cooled Earth in 1831 has been identified
What are the benefits that cannot be obtained by signing trade agreements?

Canada is already part of NATO for defence, so joining the EU does nothing for defence.

Does Canada want freedom of movement of EU citizens into Canada? They already have a housing crisis.

Greece's experience shows a single currency isn't really beneficial to all members of the EU, so Canada would be crazy to give that up.
I truly cannot tell whether you're joking. If you're not, I'd love to pick your brain. I'm very interested in what standards you have and why you have them.
Turn brain off. Style mundanity like decor.
Oh that is super interesting! I wonder if they track how often it succeeds in matching and replacing, I'd love to see those numbers in aggregate.

Total anecdote, but I worked on this for a bit for a research-level-code code editor (system paper to come soon, fingers crossed!) and found that basic find-and-replace was pretty brittle. I also had to be confident the source appears only once (not always the case for my use case), and there was a tradeoff of fuzziness of match / likelihood of perfectly correct source.

But yeah, diffs are super hard because the format requires far context and accurate mathematical computation.

Ultimately, the version of this that worked the best for me was a total hack:

Prefix every line of the code with L#### -- the line number. Ask for diffs to be the original text and the complete replacement text including the line number prefix on both original and replacement. Then, to apply, fuzzy match on both line number and context.

I suspect this worked as well as it did because it transmutes the math and computation problems into pattern-matching and copying problems, which LLMs are (still) much better at these days.
Encountering this by chance is exceedingly unlikely of course, if p and q are randomly generated. In probability terms it amounts to the first half of p (or q) all being zero (apart from a leading 1) so roughly 2^(-n/4) where n is the bit size of n. So for RSA 2048 the probability of this happening is on the order of 2^-512, or in base-10 terms 0.0000000...0000001, with roughly 150 zeros before the one!
commenting on streamer drama on main, eh. couldn't be me

GTA eRP lead to real life eRP during eu twitchcon streamers, and that was what broke the camel's back. the issues ran deep, it wasn't just one thing

As for the pogO stuff, Nick said it a million times: he has consent. He never farms with Emi, right?
Isn't "preferential caching" just Netflix providing a caching server for free to the ISP? Is this that different from Netflix building more CDN servers worldwide? It is Netflix paying in either case without exploiting their monopoly powers.
> A large reason LLMs are useful ... is because they omit ... (LLM-generated!) garbage listicles

What a sentence!
Only the free movement of labor is really unusual. As in ... really, really, really unusual. Lots of trade deals include variations of the first 3 ... free movement of labor is basically unheard of between nation states as part of trade deals.
Read your blog post backwards. Paragraph by paragraph and you get the answer to your intrinsic question. And btw it would be a much better read at the same time
I'd like to point out that "defend my privacy" is only one aspect. For me there's also a kind of 90s-internet-idealism about how forums should work, ex:

1. Good ideas or truths shouldn't rely on the credentials of the person talking.

2. Less information can allow more freedom of expression in a community. (For good or for ill.)
No surprise here, but what a bummer that this is "The Way™"

Just let me pay you $3-5/ month to never see an ad again. It's worth it to me since the service is actually decent.
Accidental. I made a mistake.
Cool (and intense!) game :) Pretty impressive you had something like that running on a PDA 20 years ago, I was probably playing J2ME games on a Sony Ericsson at that point so don't know the performance of those.

This constraint + your solution was pretty interesting:

> Only use technologies that can be expected to still be present (and backwards-compatible) 20 years from now.

I'd bet on that in 20 years TypeScript will no longer be maintained and also no longer be the most popular transpilation source language for JavaScript. Seems the JavaScript ecosystem always eventually finds a new "source" language even though everyone at the time is certain it won't happen with this current one.

Probably still wouldn't be hard to get the game running though, will still be easy to install old TypeScript compiler and run it.
AI products will be speed running the last few decades of tech - make a compelling product, then add ads based on the prompt, then store prompts from each user and build psychological profiles, and finally manipulate AI output to maximize user susceptibility to part with their hard earned money. Bonus points if they can get the user addicted to their product.
And the Prime Directive does not allow law changes without approval by the Imperium, so that settles it....,
Well, they do take part in Eurovision
Canada-Mexico!
Long term, maybe. Short and medium term, let's see if you guys tear yourselves apart in a civil war or some other footgun. Nothing other than internal shenanigans can possibly threaten overwhelming US hegemony, after all.
> Brexit should have been a near no-op. But it was a huge pain.

How was it ever going to be a "near no-op"? Putting everything else aside, Northern Ireland was always going to be huge sticking points. Ireland would make sure it was.

Besides, it was in the EU's self-interest to maximise the pain for the UK, in order to discourage other member states from going the same way - and the EU succeeded. Marine Le Pen no longer talks about "Frexit", instead she proposes reforming the EU from within.
If true then it's easy enough to produce video evidence of this.
For a moment I thought that was satire. Canada has its share of "multicultural" problems. And that's on top of french speaking people vs. english speaking people.
A couple of places I used my real name since I had no issue, or invite contacts.

Anywhere where I think my opinions might affect my income I stay anonymous. My name combo is very unique, so anything I post would be related to me.

Honestly it's a small world and anything could be sourced, just making it less casual.
pseudonymous - the people who i want to be able to find me online know to look for this name.
A meaningless BS choice no one would actively choose is not a real choice.

If you happen to have a working spouse, you can choose between which work coverage makes most sense for your family.
Canada's points-based system already makes it pretty easy for the latter category to come here. To the point where people in our profession have highly depressed compensation packages when compared to the US because our job market is very much flooded with inbound foreign talent.

Domestic trained talent tends to leave for the US. Because under NAFTA it's trivial to do so.

Manual labour, yeah, that's another story. NAFTA doesn't grant free movement of unskilled labour at all.
I don't believe either of these statements is accurate. Russia agreed to Ukraine joining the EU but not NATO, why would it be any different for Canada? The EU is China's largest trading partner, accounting for around 20% of China's exports. Adding Vancouver’s port to the EU market could significantly enhance trade between the EU and China. However, the real issue lies at the geopolitical level – the EU is heavily influenced by the US, and with Trump aiming to initiate a trade war with China, tensions are likely to escalate.
The user also calls unions a cancer on society, that tells you everything you need to know.
Ah yes ... in addition to all the existing bureacratic costs of the EU, we should add "constantly maintain a parallel set of rules so that member states can leave easily and cheaply whenever they want".

Why on earth would the EU do that? Why would any organization put in huge effort to ensure that its members could easily and cheaply leave at any time?
It's not that warm in Spain right now though. Maybe canary islands?
It seems confirmed correct that yes siri does incorrectly activate, and anyone with an iphone knows this. What is unsubstantiated and denied by apple is that those siri recordings were used for advertising.
The opposite would be better for the US. If the US joined Canada, they could benefit from universal healthcare, schooling, and responsible gun laws within a short period of time, given the available resources that would be added to the Canadian system.
You're asking why not apply the formula for adversarially selected candidates even if we are randomly selecting candidates. There is simply no reason to, except "maybe we made a mistake" but then why would we not think we made a mistake also in calculating the 1/4 value, or in any other part of the code?

Phrased another way, do you have an argument for why run the conservative 60 round test, instead of asking for an argument for why not run it?

Again, you are "very unlikely" to win the Powerball jackpot. Rounds 6-60 have a cryptographically negligible chance of rejecting a composite. It's different, otherwise we'd have to worry about the "very unlikely" chance of the attacker guessing an AES-128 key on the first try.

(I don't follow you on the key sizes, if you apply the 1/4 probability, the candidate size is irrelevant.)
Instead of reading the documentation, let's answer three questions:

1. Can your country introduce any law without asking the EU for approval?
2. Can the EU mandate your country to implement a specific law?
3. Do you still believe your country is sovereign?
I'm not sure if you read the entirety of my comment? Increasingly accurately predicting the next symbol given a sequence of previous symbols, when the symbols represent a time series of real world events, requires increasingly accurately modeling- aka understanding- the real world processes that lead to the events described in them. There is provably no shortcut there- per Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference.

It is a misunderstanding to think of them as fundamentally separate and mutually exclusive, and believing that to be true makes people convince themselves that they cannot possibly ever do things which they can already provably do.

Noam Chomsky (embarrassingly) wrote a NYT article on how LLMs could never, with any amount of improvements be able to answer certain classes of questions - even in principle. This was days before GPT-4 came out, and it could indeed correctly answer the examples he said could not be ever answered- and any imaginable variants thereof.

Receiving symbols and predicting the next one is simply a way of framing input and output that enables training and testing- but doesn't specify or imply any particular method of predicting the symbols, or any particular level of correct modeling or understanding of the underlying process generating the symbols. We are both doing exactly that right now, by talking online.
Yes, adding line numbers on each line is one of the ideas we've been considering trying. Thanks for the reminder!
EU needs to clear out its own backyard first, kick Hungary out... Orban has brought nothing but chaos and costs.

After that, why not? Turkey has been in discussion for ages and is barely in Europe. Also, South Africa might be interesting in the future if they can see eye to eye on political and economic issues.
Some of us are going to bed around 5, this cat's making coffee. Different strokes I guess
Does that come with a few trillions in reparations for lands confiscated from Loyalists who were forced to flee to Canada at the end of the American rebellion? Or for the Mohawk who fled here and helped us fight the Yanks off in 1812?
It's a common model organism in biology. One of the reasons is that it's easy to breed and keep in labs with fairly quick lifecycles. Raising millions of them is probably going to require a warehouse just like it would take to raise a million mice.
If Greenland can join the US, surely Canada could join Europe.
Author says:

> Bluesky waffling over what to do about multiple high-profile cases of harassment,

And links to: https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/bluesky-is-at-a-crossroads...

An article which, to put it bluntly, is a poorly-researched, absolutely atrocious hit piece targeting Jesse Singal.

As one X user put it:

"Absolutely insane Orwellian nightmare coverage of an app where viral misinformation has resulted in incitement to murderous threats against a journalist for impartial and scrupulous coverage of an ongoing medical scandal."

Which I think sums up the situation perfectly.
Very few Americans give a shit what Canada does or doesn't do. It's their country, they have the right to run their affairs as they see fit.
thanks! converted it to mp4 :)
>Is anyone doing anything with transputer technology now?

Yes, our Morphle Engine Wafer Scale Integration and our earlier SiliconSqueak microprocessor designs and supercomputers borrows many special features of the Transputer designs by David May. Also of the Alto design by Chuck Thacker, SOAR RISC by David Ungar and a few of the B5000-B6500 designs by Bob Barton. Most of all they build on the design of the Smalltalk, Squeak and reflective Squeak VM software designs by Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls.

>reference to Antikythera Mechanism[5]?

Yes. I could have referenced the Jacquard Loom [1], Babbage Analytical Engine or the later Difference engine [2], Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and dozens of other contestants for 'first' and 'oldest' computational machines, they are all inaccurate, as are these lists[3][4]. Or I could have only referenced the ones from my own country [6].

>Do you think it has a chance at resurgence?

Yes, I hope my chips and WSI is that resurgence of European microprocessor chips. I just need less than a million euros in funding to start production of prototype WSIs. Even just a single customer buying a $130 million supercomputer is enough. YCombinator should fund me. A science grant or a little support from ASML R&D might also be enough to complete our resurgence. It will take 2-3 years from the moment of funding to go into mass production [5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

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

[3] https://www.oldest.org/technology/computers/

[4] http://www.computerhistories.org/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhnjEQyuDk

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

[6] Oldest Dutch computers? https://www.cwi.nl/en/about/history/#:~:text=CWI%20developed....

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqKClBwFwI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhnjEQyuDk or https://www.uksmalltalk.org/2022/06/smalltalk-and-self-hardw...
> why smaller insurance companies aren't popping up to deliver better quality

I am no expert, but my impression is that it would be very hard for the insurer's customers (e.g. employers) to know an insurer was better, and many might not care. There's so much opaqueness and indirection in the system, it's not surprising it's both inefficient and heartless.

That said, all systems ration in some way or another. We need to come to grips with that.
I started BBSing in the 1990s where everyone used an alias. I like the name GWBasic so I use it everywhere I can. You don't need to look to hard to figure out who I am.

One of the things that I like about the internet is that you create your own persona, and that starts with using a name you make up.

That being said, I use a real name on Facebook and LinkedIn; and where it's "generally preferred" to use real names.