skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sending official letters to the local government isn't spam, and generally not a waste of time.

People with cognitive issues, issues typing, language or presentation issues, LLMs provide a massive improvement in how they are percieved and recieved by the other side. Also, immigrants or people with langauge issues aren't quite as disadvantaged and don't need to use excess time translating or risking an embarrasing misstatement. It's a night or day accommodation tool in the right circumstances.
Probably overkill, but I wonder if anyone has experimented with setting up a raspberry pi or something to pass through access to a network share over USB, that way you could have all the data on a RAID array with a proper automated backup strategy somewhere.
High-resolution imaging of radio source associated with Dyson Sphere Candidate G
Legality is what we're talking about, though. The government decided, against all reason, that this was something they needed to get involved with. So that means what whatever your definitions of sex and gender are, or whatever definitions the Wikipedia editors are accepting this week, they should not be used to discriminate against any individual, no matter how uncommon their physical traits and sense of identity may be.
Yeah, probably. Why does their jeopardy concern you more than the apparent lack of legitimate authority to do what they are doing?
> JavaScript is disabled. In order to continue, we need to verify that you're not a robot.

Ironic.
I think it maps much better to document databases.

Nodes are just documents.

You just need to slap on a relations document type for the graph edges, and to store edge properties

I was close to finishing at least version 1.0 of a document/graph database on top of Cassandra and dynamodb.
https://archive.is/TgfQZ
I would say as long as it is stated you can complete the coding exercise using any tool available it is fine. I do agree, no task should be a trick.

I am personally of the view you should be able to use search engines, AI, anything you want, as the task should be representative of doing the task in person. The key focus has to be the programmer's knowledge and why they did what they did.
> meander from one surrealist allegory to another because additional seasons were ordered

As a satire of office work, that would kind of track; a version of Parkinson’s Law.
Good luck to you, then. I truly hope you succeed!
I used Java for a while and then switched to Kotlin as my daily tool, and one interesting thing that I found was that Kotlin prevents inheritance by default, and the developer has to explicitly mark a class as "open" to allow inheritance. Eventually I stopped using inheritance and now prefer to use composition over inheritance wherever possible.
Destroying civilization by redirecting an asteroid is not on the current roadmap.
They will very happily use AI to evaluate your profile, though :)
Asia goes cashless as countries push for digital payments
If they're engaged in doing illegal stuff, at the federal level, I fully expect Trump to just pardon everyone involved.

Maybe they're too deep in the Yarvin / Thield / Musk (Kool-Aid) sauce, but they should know better. This stuff will follow them for life.
Yeah, I've been in the same (amazing) rabbit hole, can recommend.

Are there any public sources about SM being written in Pascal? TIL
Ask HN: How much should you trust your brain in solo indie dev?
Should you keep working on a game or app for a very long time, trusting that your brain will eventually figure out how it should work?
100% this is a margin play on the Platinum Group Metals - were just going to better ore sources.
It's absolutely infuriating. It could be such an awesome accessibility feature if it wasn't force-enabled by default. But what we get instead is YouTube engineers assuming that everyone just speaks a single language and needs auto-translations on every video. For every channel where this feature is enabled, I have to keep switching back to the original English audio track on every single video because YouTube knows that just because my primary browser language is set to German (the secondary language being English, btw), I am incapable of understanding the original audio track, of course.
Now they just have to revive Maniac from Netflix!
We have a refinery that dose exactly this. It's the main IP of the company.
I had a beloved F91W that I used for years. One day, when surfing in Morocco, it gave out and the screen became foggy before showing me an error code and never recovering. I guess I should have gone deeper.
In theory you can prove a theorem just by enumerating all the possible proofs until you find the one for the theorem you want. This is extremely slow, but do you think there's any reasoning in doing this?

Of course we don't know whether an LLM is doing something like this or actually reasoning. But this is also the point, we don't know.

If you ask a question to a person you can be confident to some degree that they didn't memorize the answer beforehand, so you can evaluate their ability to "reason" and come up with an answer for it. With an LLM however this is increadibly hard to do, because they could have memorized it.
bash, ksh, zsh and a few other shells have the awesome feature that if you call them with a link named "sh" they accept Posix Bourne-shell syntax.

This means you can make them your /bin/sh system shell which will be used to log you in and your login scripts can then set environment variables for your whole session. This feature is something I count on.

Some system shells (not dash) also allow login scripts to export essential shell functions to the session environment.

I would love to use a nicer shell, fish, oilsh, rc, etc. but it's gotta provide this key Posix compatibility. The Posix Bourne shell language is pretty simple. This is not a big ask.
I also made a theoretical calculation like this a couple of years ago [1]. I didn't answer the question "Can you memorize an infinite number of facts?" but rather the question "If you add a constant number of cards to Anki each day, what does your daily review load look like in the limit?"

[1]: https://issarice.com/long-run-anki-review-load
I'm not American and I'm not politically involved on US politics, but I'm curious whether there's a solid rationale behind Trump's tariffs. My gut feeling tells me it might make sense if there’s a plan to onshore a strategic industry or keep a non-aligned country out of US domestic market. However, is there an economic justification for applying a blanket tariff on allies, or is this primarily driven by nationalist sentiment? With unemployment that low the only thing I can think of is that this might generate a lot of pressure on inflation.
It's very worrying about society that people only think Elon is a Nazi because he did the Nazi salute, when everyone was saying he was well before then. What if someone is a Nazi and is smart enough to never do a salute? We might put them in charge of the country?
OpenWRT has prometheus node exporter packages.

But in your case I think a PiHole would make sense, first of all you don't need to put it on the router, just point the router's default DNS to your pihole. But a pihole will give you a nice dashboard of all the DNS records resolved in your network. Which will give you a really good idea of what your kids are doing, since most of it is via DNS.
I thought that meant what you typically write in the "Experience" section. GP, am I wrong?

Is everyone writing a "Projects" section by rewording what they wrote in "Experience"?! For me, "Projects" should strictly be personal projects. If not, maybe that's what I'm missing.
> failed to actually put in a framework to enforce that companies aren’t just lying.

That's not true. I work in an European company and we were contacted by the agency to give a complete list of partners that we use, reasons for why it is justified, which routines we have for deleting old data etc.

I guess in theory we could have lied and made up data, but only an idiot would risk lying to the government. Everyone at my company took it seriusly and tried to provide as accurate data as possible. There were also several follow up questions that had to be answered.

The mindset of lying to the government to "protect" your employer seems so far fetched. Why should an employee lie to the government? If it turns out that the company was in violation of GDPR the worst case scenario for the company is a fine. If the government finds out you are lying, the employee faces jail time. The trade-off is simply not worth it.

Maybe it's easier to lie to the government in some countries, but not in my country. The government agencies actually checks and verifies your claims.
I tried it ones to reinforce chess openings, but I never developed the momentum to keep it up. I think I was—and still am—lacking the ability to visualize the moves in my head from the algebraic notation on the cards.
And discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20645914

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655994

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021509

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24313607
We refine it (or better yet, enrich it) in space and bring it back to Earth. I wish someone would buy it in space, but currently, that market is worth... 0.

So, we ship that shit back to Earth and sell it into the commodities market.
Uses the acronym MDP several times before defining it. So perhaps not an introductory paper, but geared to those already immersed in the field.
"...has filed paperwork to go public..."

Enough said
Exactly. I can bet that every country on the world having a nuclear bomb would actually make the world a safer place. We are still primitive, so the threat of us being destroyed at any time should keep us at bay.

No country that holds nukes should be considered a pillar of morality. That's stupid beyond belief.
I'm sure the company will argue the warranty is voided akin to how trucks have "not liable for damage from rocks" or w/e (they are).

IIRC, this is under the Magnuson-Moss act but I didn't find it when skimming wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty...
It might help to clarify which part you haven’t figured out how it should work. Do you have an idea for a game mechanic, and you’re having trouble figuring out how to best implement it on the backend, or are you working on something cosmetically, hoping to eventually stumble across an interesting game mechanic? Maybe something else?

Technical issues can be solved, but the lack of an actual game idea is a bigger issue, imo.
Watson was a different flavor of NLP that was turned into a gimmick. The jeopardy show it was on was not exactly what it appeared to be.

According to someone who worked on it, it would fail a second grade level reading exam: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/technology/what-happened-...
Book titles have the benefit of artistic expression.
right, they were saying it's enough just to turn off location though.

tho tbh if i really cared, no phone/battery out/faraday cage is still the gold standard
Hmm…see also The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

If you have the energy to mine in space, you have a massive kinetic energy well to “throw rocks” into.
Apple’s “privacy protections” are nothing more than marketing.

“Ask app not to track” is a wash and privacy theater at best. One of the reasons I still run ad blocking on _all_ websites and at the network layer. Sorry “content creators” but you need to get your revenue from elsewhere (ie, sponsored content).

Now I want a phone that scrambles all of this data on a per app (or phone) basis.

Malicious app wants this data? Sure you can have it. But you will get randomized values for every bit of information — resolution, lat/lon, brightness, battery level (user can set range of 90-100%), ….
>I do think it’s fine for people to opt in to more tracking as a separate consent choice beyond merely participating in a loyalty program, for example to get more personalized and therefore more useful offers, but not as a condition of participation to merely receive at least standard offers and accumulate points. That’s how they generally work in Germany.

Sounds like that'll push retailers to switch from a system where they give points/discounts to everyone, to one where points/discounts are "targeted", which of course requires opting into tracking. Like I said before, the whole premise of loyalty programs is that you're being tracked in exchange for rewards. You really can't expect to have your cake (discounts) and eat it too (not being tracked).
I don’t think the human experience can be reduced down to “if feels good is true then continue else try something else”. But I could be wrong.
Thanks — this shit is definitely hard mode. But we're 3 weeks away from sending the first private spaceship to deep space, and we're doing it for orders of magnitude cheaper than anyone else before us.

Fingers crossed it works.
I've used NextDNS. Pretty handy. Just change DNS settings on devices with your NextDNS profile specific resolver address and you can see the logs of all websites accessed from each device.
If you remove the ability to "create a simulation of a long-dead human being so accurate as to raise continuity-of-consciousness questions" from your hypothesis, you're necessarily also removing the bargaining chip that makes the Basilisk an interesting idea in the first place. The possibility that the Basilisk could torture "you" for Avici-like time periods is its whole incentive mechanism for bootstrapping itself into being in the first place. (Arguably it also depends on you calculating probabilities incorrectly, though the arguments I've seen so far in this thread on the matter are reminiscent of five-year-olds who just learned the word "infinity".)

Absent that threat, nobody would have any incentive to work on creating it. So you're really talking about something completely unrelated.

I feel like doing the calculations properly requires summing over all possible strategies that posthuman superintelligences might apply in timeless decision theory. The Basilisk bootstrapping itself into being doesn't require that today's humans do that calculation correctly, but it does require that many of them come to an agreement on the calculation's results. This seems implausible to me.
Tesla's departure from reality, in one chart
Do Google and Facebook take down their websites for a few days when they want to deploy a change?
I think Ponal Holzleim Super 3 he tested is PVA based wood glue. MSDS states it based on
polyvinyl acetate dispersion.
There are endless ways to fine tune a general game mechanic idea. You could try out variations forever.
https://archive.is/Bw11a
>Why Is This CEO Bragging About Replacing Humans with A.I.?

this headline is mind-bogglingly obtuse-on-purpose: replacing humans with robots so humans can enjoy a "star-trek" future of pursuing what interests them instead of hardscrabble toil for necessities has been part of the woodwork of engineering since before the word robot was invented. Sure, "careful what you wish for" and law of unintended consequences, and employability will suffer along the way, so write about that, but that doesn't degrade the wish, and short term sacrifice is always entailed for long term gain. Does the NY Times have any new ideas to propose?

They would have been better going with "ther terk er jerbs!"

People on HN, instead of repeatedly expressing angst over their own job prospects, could try thinking "hmmm, will a future where nobody has to work be within the grasp of my children, or my grandchildren? think of the possibilities!"
Lions know not to fuck around with humans, which I always imagined made for a grim day in Simba's circle of life training. ("You must never eat a man, Simba, for if you do, its brothers will remember your face, and they will hunt you down, slit open your belly, and wear your skin as a cloak.")

Big cats who take humans tend not to be particularly bold or daring. Rather, they're injured, sick, or starving; in no condition to take their usual prey, they go for whatever is available including us. I wonder if the same is true of sharks.
At least Zizek can be funny sometimes.
Pol Pot tried to kill anyone who wore glasses, and Boko Haram are literally named after anti-intellectualism.
Income inequality will soon become euphemism
We've recently added a simulator in the deck options of the new scheduler.

If you don't want to upgrade to FSRS

* Export a colpkg

* File -> Switch Profile -> New

* Import

* Deck Options -> Enable FSRS & Optimize

* FSRS Simulator (experimental)
"I am of the opinion that A.I. can already do all of the jobs that we, as humans, do"

I think the most significant impact of the recent AI revolution is just to lower the bar of expectations humanity has for itself, thereby making a statement like that true.
Of course we will be next. This is something I factored in already when he was elected. I read you had a politician that proposed a global coalition where all countries that are being threatened by Trump aligns on retaliatory measures. I think was someone that was candidate to take over as PM? Sounds like a good plan to me.
That d=9 sure wins the day there, for me.
I like a lot of things about PEG but the way they support precedence is for the birds. I'd really love to see a PEG toolkit built as if developer experience matters but the problem with parser generators is that anybody who can write a parsed generator understands how to work around the problems with parser generators -- so we don't get parser generators that fit the needs of developers who don't know a lot of CS theory.
You can't know it all so choose what is important to know and what you look up.
There is something too this, though jumping all the way to DIY is unnecessary.

Context: I run a FF company (https://prefab.cloud/)

There are multiple distinct benefits to be had from feature flagging. Because it's the "normal" path, most FF products bundle them all together, but it's useful to split them out.

- The code / libraries for evaluating rules.
- The UI for creating rules, targeting & roll outs.
- The infrastructure for hosting the flags and providing real-time updates.
- Evaluation tracking / debugging to help you verify what's happening.

If you don't need #1 and #2 there, you might decide to DIY and build it yourself, but I think you shouldn't have to. Most feature flag tools today are usable in an offline mode. For Prefab it is: https://docs.prefab.cloud/docs/how-tos/offline-mode You can just do a CLI command to download the flags. Then boot the client off a downloaded file. With our pricing model that's totally free because we're really hardly doing anything for you. Most people use this functionality for CI environments, but I think it's a reasonable way to go for some orgs. It has 100% reliability and that's tough to beat.

You can do that if you DIY too, but there's so many nice to haves in actually having a tool / UI that has put some effort into it that I would encourage people not to go down that route.
"What might explain Tesla’s night moves?" - https://archive.is/ECyur
Beyond the numbers: PM2.5 is not PM2.5
Society still hasn’t realized that people can say anything they want online. CEOs, presidents, “influencers”, your average Joe…it doesn’t matter. They all wake up, pick up their phone, and share/reshare whatever comes to their mind. It may be thoroughly researched, or it may not. They may have an agenda behind it, or they may not. Stop looking for reason and logic behind everything you read these days because it doesn’t exist. 99% of what you see is fake.
We are hoping the electorate in the US doesn't want to find out. US leadership has threatened Canada and other countries with using economic or military force for annexation. Canadians are hoping that saner heads will prevail, but it's not looking very good. We are very much aware that our military has been underserved in every way by Canadians, and that was part of the reason I chose not to continue my military career.

In the meantime, we are carefully and cautiously reminding the United States that we fought many of the same wars and learned the same lessons as the US military about how insurgencies are fought, and while many of our friends, family, and neighbours are American, we are not, and do not want to, and will not be American. Do with that what you will.
You realize that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki are huge, inhabited cities, and have been without interruption, right?
Adult humans can do symbolic reasoning, but lower mammals cannot. Even ones that share most of our brain structure are much worse at this, if they can do it at all; children need to learn it, along with a lot of the other things that we consider a natural part of human intelligence.

That all points towards symbolic reasoning being a pretty small algorithmic discovery compared to the general ability to pattern match and do fuzzy lookups, transformations, and retrievals against a memory bank. It's not like our architecture is so special that we burned most of our evolutionary history selecting for these abilities, they're very recent innovations, and thus must be relatively simple, given the existence of the core set of abilities that our close ancestors have.

The thing about transformers is that obviously they're not the end of the line, there are some things they really can't do in their current form (though it's a smaller set than people tend to think, which is why the Gary Marcuses of the world always backpedal like crazy and retcon their previous statements as each new release does things that they previously said were impossible). But they are a proof of concept showing that just about the simplest architecture that you could propose that might be able to generate language in a reasonable way (beyond N-gram sampling) can, in fact, do it really, really well even if all you do is scale it up, and even the simplest next-token prediction as a goal leads to much higher level abilities than you would expect. That was the hard core of the problem, building a flexible pattern mimic that can be easily trained, and it turns out to get us way further along the line to AGI than I suspect anyone working on it ever expected it would without major additions and changes to the design. Now it's probably time to start adding bits and bobs and addressing some of the shortcomings (e.g. static nature of the network, lack of online learning, the fact that chains of thought shouldn't be constrained to token sequences, addressing tokenization itself, etc), but IMO the engine at the heart of the current systems is so impressively capable that the remaining work is going to be less of an Einstein moment and more of an elbow grease and engineering grind.

We may not be close in the "2 years of known work" sense, but we're certainly not far in the "we have no idea how to prove the Riemann Hypothesis" sense anymore, where major unknown breakthroughs are still required which might be 50+ years away, or the problem might even be unsolvable.
Can you expand on what’s wrong about it? I have some ubiquiti gear and I haven’t noticed anything wrong but I haven’t taken a close look.
Remember to open a new window and paste the URL in. jwz has a special treat for HN visitors otherwise.
I'm a very happy paying customer of NextDNS (https://nextdns.io) which blocks known adware and tracking hosts across all mobile and desktop platforms.
Agreed. This is why - while I won't ding an applicant for not having a public Github, I'm always happy when they do because usually they'll have some passion projects on there that we can discuss.
It seems that all instructions are based on Mac/Linux? Can someone confirm this works smoothly on Windows?