skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have an internet. It was and is already very easy to download things, legally or not [1] . That's why speculating about legalization making piracy easier misses the point - it's already as easy as it can get.

Netflix just made it that much easier to find what you want[2] and just watch it. People were and are willing to pay for that.

[1] for movies and other large files you can use a torrent tracking site: type what you want, click the result with most seeds, download, play.

[2] Not necessarily as easy as it used to be a few years ago. So piracy is going back up.
Chiang makes some insightful points, e.g. about what we mean by magic.

Then I come to

> [LLMs] can get better at reproducing patterns found online, but they don’t become capable of actual reasoning; it seems that the problem is fundamental to their architecture.

and wonder how an intelligent person can still think this, can be so absolute about it. What is "actual" reasoning here? If an AI proves a theorem is it only a simulated proof?
Couldn't get the code to run with Perl on Mac:

$ plenv exec perl midi.pl
Not enough arguments for main::pedal_notes at midi.pl line 107, near "$note)"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at midi.pl line 150.

I got something similar working in Supercollider though, which has a lot of tools for these sort of things, eg:

MIDIIn.addFuncTo(\noteOn, ~myNoteOnHandler);
Not allowed by whom ? On what criteria will you recognize bad actors ?
It's not that I don't agree with the sentiment but moderation is a complex problem that has side effects (censorhip). It's like you are saying "There shouldn't be any homeless
people", I agree but what is the exact solution ?

So I guess my question to you is what do you think is not working in the current system ?
I am arguing that it's working fine:
The half crazy person's comments are so faint I can't even read them, or [dead]
The soviet space program stalled on N-1 because this approach (*integrated* move-fast-break-things testing) turned out to be unviable once there are too many failure points. And the engineers were well aware of that and proposed to do static fire tests, but that was not in the budget.
Sure. But they do worship something else, with disastrous bad choices as a consequence. Garbage in, garbage out.
It's about proportions.

1) The current system is that the rich get richer faster than the poor.

2) You're proposing a system where everybody gets richer at the same rate at the best of times (but probably devolves into case 1 IMO)

3) I am proposing a system where people get richer at the rate of how much work they put in. If a rich person does not produce value, he doesn't get richer at all. If a poor person produces value he gets richer according to how many people benefit from it. If a poor person puts in 1000 units of work and a rich person puts in 10 units of work to distribute the work to more people (for example through marketing), they get richer at comparative rates 1000:10.

My system is obviously harder to implement (despite all the revolutions in history, societies have always devolved to case 1, or sometimes case 2 that devolved into 1 later). It might be impossible to implement perfectly but it does not mean we should stop trying to make things at least less unfair.

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We're in agreement that forcing companies who take (steal) work from everyone to release their models for free is better than letting them profit without bounds.

However, I am taking it way further. If AI research leads to fundamental changes in society, we should take it as an opportunity to reevaluate the societal systems we have now and make them more fair.

For example, I don't care who owns assets. I care about who puts in work. It's a more fundamental unit of value. Work produces assets after all.

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And BTW making models free does not in any way help restore users' rights provided by AGPL. And I have yet to come across anybody making a workable proposal how to protect these rights in an age where AGPL code is remixed through statistics into all software without making it also AGPL. In fact, I have yet to find anybody who acknowledges it's a problem.
Try to understand the maths, apply the circle / sphere transform and you’ll see that naturally it converges to a stable state. MD is the hard way, spherical transform is the easy way (nature uses it)

My theory on maths shows that any shape can have its points on a circle edge and midpoints on that same circle edge morphing showing all possible paths through radius scaling (P=C). It’s all about constraints.

Transforming the protein through 3D coordinates aligns all forces so it is fundamentally different than MD, it’s a geometric solver, so it is super fast!
> Publishing no science at all, or only once it's been thoroughly scrubbed of all mentions of certain topics and the researchers threatened or punished is much, much worse

You know that much social science research, especially on hot button topics, has already been dealing with censorship and academic shunning for years.

I'm not equivocating with EO, etc but that is bad too.
After reading this, I see lots of zstd fans around here, and with good reason. That being said, I think our shop will stick with gzip until zstd arrives in the Python Standard Library.
A paper that came out 15 months ago?
That's what the Lost creators claimed though, and we all know how that went.
I don't how well it works in practice for long texts, but for song lyrics I've used this Anki plugin: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2084557901

It takes a text, and creates a bunch of cloze deletion cards, each presenting you with a number of lines, and asking you to recall the next line.
Strongly disagree. The worst thing that’s happened to educational theory is the idea that everything needs to be fun and exciting to be worth doing. Some stuff is worth doing because it works, even if it’s a little boring. SRS is one of those things.
Didn’t Trump issue an EO to expedite security clearances for people who were in line 1 day after inauguration? Could they be those people?
I've come out of self imposed retirement from the shitshow that this site has become just to point out that how long you have been here doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the quality of your contribution.

OP is right in that HN uses the 'it's been flagged' excuse to avoid facing some very uncomfortable truths, and that is fractionally why the world is currently being destabilized to a degree that we have not seen in the last 90 years or so. We - all of us - in the tech world are part and parcel and in many ways instrumental in this, and dare I say guilty as well. We're chasing the $ but we're losing sight of our impact on the world.
The theoretical limit of DNA survival, I believe, is about 1 to 2 million years. So no.
No. The VR revolution will never come.
That's called Mammon and is well known idolatry.
I mostly agree with you, I don't do SR myself, but I do think the benefit of spaced repetition is solid for medical students/researchers and language learners.

Also some people just find it fun to go through their Anki deck instead of doomscrolling while on the subway or waiting in line. Whether there's any real benefit for that person is debatable. It's “fun“ in the same way going to the gym, or drinking kale smoothie is fun.

The key for improvement is deliberate practice, and one component of that is "working really hard" which you've pointed. But this is still too vague to be helpful. For those interested in the science of expertise, I highly recommend Peak by Andres Ericsson.
That's true. Pure Land buddhism is quite crazy if you look at the basic writings in buddhism. And you're correct in that buddhism can't protect its trademark as it were, like Catholicism can. But on the other hand, Chrisianity or Islam also can't, with funny situations like Unitarian Universalists who are, as far as I can tell, basically not christian in any meaningful way. Or in the case of Islam you get everyone saying everyone else is a heretic and people trying to kill each other.

In this respect, the Catholic Church got it right with the concept of excommunication.
Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
Wow, never heard of SuperMemo and this Wozniak. What an interesting and awesome rabbit hole
How the climate is changing the taste of beer
Earth's crust is peeling away under California
I made an app to experiment with life interventions and track goals.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id64638...
Comic strip archive RSS feed
Even for a furnace or boiler, condensing the steam in the exhaust only makes it around 10% more efficient.
Everything you need to build foundation models, end-to-end
I think this is a case where it’s becoming clear that some US laws were vague and there always needed to be some specification. I mean, what does checks and balances mean? How do you execute it? By sheer force of will apparently.
Spaced repetition is merely an optimal way of organizing repetition. All of the “brilliant” people you’ve met almost certainly study their topics constantly, and this daily exposure is itself a form of repetition.

This misconception is a common mistake by people that think Anki / SRS are equivalent to the spacing effect itself. That is not the case. The spacing effects exists independently of any particular software implementation.

I don’t think any one claims that memorizing a bunch of facts will make you a genius; rather that if you are aiming for optimal learning and memory, SRS is pretty much the gold standard and is backed up by tons of scientific research.
As someone who just switched from an IPoE internet service to PPPoE, just make sure your device can cope. I have been using a trusty Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite 3 for many years without issue. Unfortunately, the Cavium cpu does not support hardware offload for both ipv6 vlan and ipv6 pppoe at the same time.

If you do go down the general-purpose cpu (x64/arm) route and your ISP uses PPPoE, you may need to tweak so that the rx queue is handled by multiple cpu cores as they will default to the first core by default.
ARU-11/A Attitude Indicator – Tear Down and Release of Magic Smoke [video]
Can the addons be re-enabled or is this just a way to force updates?
Tariff is a legal tool, I give you that.

Trump's tariff on the other hand doesn't have justification. He uses Drugs as an excuse to get his tariff unchallenged.

Trump also wants to use revenue Tariff to cover the tax revenue deficit for his proposed Tax Cut that only benefits the Rich people and he's selling Tariff as "tax on foreign countries" where in reality American consumers are the ones footing the bill, not the Corporate who pass the cost.

Go out and ask what Americans know about Tariff prior to this debacle and check how many articles, short videos were published to explain what or how Tariff works. It's pretty clear Americans don't understand how it works and Trump eloquently attempts to misled these folks.

Now having said that... Let's get to the details:

If you take out Oil from Canada-US trade agreement, both nations are on-par (yep, White House didn't tell you that)

You know how much Fentanyl goes across the border from Canada side? 19kg, you (yes you) can carry it in a military grade backpack probably. Fentanyl is US problems.

Trump is building a narrative to justify stealing US taxpayer money and shift it to the Billionaires.
The article mentions ai “art”. Probably better to describe the images as just “ai images”.
They do. "I thought you knew I'm trans".

> Trying to be the opposite of your biological sex is what "trans"

They are not trying to be of another biological sex. "opposite" is a rather bad term here. They are living out their idea of what a person from the other sex would do. "their idea" emphasized.

> It makes as much sense as replacing "tall people" with "tall-identifying people".

"tall" is an measurable thing. Distance is a metric unit, even.
Well that is highly disappointing. I was hoping to gain insight into what they were doing so I could see how they managed to speed up an algorithm by 800x.
> And like Windows, you cannot run it headless.

As an FYI for anyone who needs/wants to do this, the workaround is a headless display adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D9W2HHM1
Trump Memecoin Shows Limits of Crypto's Democratization Pitch
See also The Board in Control (2019).
Sex-segregated spaces for one. For another, is anyone obligated to call a Catholic priest "father" simply because his beliefs give him a special title? Of course not. Clearly gender is not treated this way.
I recently used virtualbuddy with a macOS VM to test a developer environment setup with an Ansible playbook.

Worked well for my simple use case.
Any cost effective newrelic alternative?
Need mainly tracing for PHP app with about 100M daily hits
Uh this isn't about Trudeau.

This is about Trump wanting to replace the deficit from him fleecing US tax revenue to be distributed to the billionaires as Tax Cut.

He needs to replenish some from another source: Tariff, which is a form of tax for stupid voters.

He already said it that there's nothing Canada can do during meeting between Officials.
WAS-110 is the one to go for.

https://pon.wiki/xgs-pon/ont/bfw-solutions/was-110/
Not all spaced repetition is equally effective.

Repeated exposure (e.g. re-reading a book) does something, but active recall is much more efficient at solidifying memories.
Building an AI tools aggregator – Sharing my journey and looking for feedback
People never learn. The same issues are with PayPal and Stripe.
Also people do not seem to grasp that "the cloud" is "someone else's computer".

Only when their accounts are swiftly terminated, they start crying for help on HN.
Walksnail is not 802.11 based. If anything it is loosely 802.16 based. Likewise DJI OcuSync is more like LTE than anything else.

802.11 is not a good fit for FPV video and trying to use it has held non-proprietary-Chinese video systems back quite a lot.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/on-microsd-problems/

“One vendor in particular interested me; it was literally a mom, pop and one young child sitting in a small stall of the mobile phone market, and they were busily slapping dozens of non-Kingston marked cards into Kingston retail packaging. They had no desire to sell to me, but I was persistent; this card interested me in particular because it also had the broken “D” logo but no Kingston marking.”
AI Exploits Bug in Trackmania
The linked article is about hoaxes which are specific to Wikipedia. Not about falsehoods in general.
One of the problems of outright refusal is that you'll end up being fired, and likely replaced by a Trumpdroid. Staying in your position and cooperating the "least amount" you can get away with is better. Very thin rope to walk though, and seems like a nigh-impossible position to be in.
This looks coveted af
It continues to amaze me how many companies believe that customer care about their brand. The brands people care the most about are yet those they actively attempt to avoid, or those who doesn't need to constantly remind people of their existence.
Objects Missing in Modern Sky Surveys from a Century of Observations (2019)
> on <1s execution time benchmarks the startup impact also works against both

That would be 5 measurements out of 100?

With the tiny tiny benchmarks game programs startup and warmup and shutdown costs must effect measurements longer than 1s -- but less so.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Lem is humanist. The sci-fi part is only a vehicle to make you think (eh, if you want to), and while things are written in 1950-80... they are not outdated, because humans are essentially same, for millenias. Just read "Stories of commandor Pirx". Somewhere in the middle of them, you may notice something like the current frenzy around LLMs and ethics. But he goes further..
>is there a chance we had pseudo gender science as well

It wouldn't surprise me if there were a bad actor or two, but suggesting everything in the area is "bad" would.
Sweet, now I can build the RC car from Watch Dogs 2.
lol, this is just "paper" justification just like the whole Military plane debacle with LatAm countries.

Eventually Colombia still reject Military plane deporting immigrants, just like how Mexico said "Fuck you" when Trump sent military plane (this didn't make a huge news in the US)
Big thread a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272
Funny how Hillary sets up her own email server (which she obviously should not have done for any sort of "official" uses) and they have a freakin' stroke over it, but Musk sends folks to just plug email servers into government networks and somehow they think that's gonna just be okay?
> But why ignore a huge body of research in how to write scientific tests of intelligence and cognition?

Not saying to ignore it, but we are not dealing with humans. Those tests may give misleading results as you're proposing to use them outside of their design envelope. This is an area of research in itself.
The Three Worlds of AI/ML
As an AI/ML practitioner in the Third World, curious to hear your thoughts on the proposed three-world division and why nobody seems interested in the huge market lifting the third world of AI/ML.
I agree with all of this, but in points 1 and 2 you’ve clearly and succinctly described two issues that I’ve always struggled to express. Thank you!
A good mental exercise with these kinds of examples is to imagine splitting up the parts of the program that each optimization looked at, so that they live in different translation units.

This prevents your mind from playing games with what exactly the optimization can know. The article tries to do something similar by fully writing out the output of each optimization as a separate program.
Related:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Very much so. Same failure mode. Win by deceiving voters, keep the deceptions going (external enemies - Soros, the EU, etc, take your pick, "we're under threat") enough to keep winning. No need to rig vote counting - it's all rigged before the election. Mess up the economy through corruption, incompetence and favourism. Become more and more authoritarian, suppress dissent and checks and balances. Country goes to hell.

I'm hoping it doesn't happen, that the culture of the USA will be the basic mechanism to prevent this, but if enough people are living in fantasy land, they're going to cheering along for all this.
I like Chiang’s stories, but he simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about when it comes to LLMs. Forget the philosophical points - he claims that LLMs are strictly worse than search engines for information retrieval. This is just obviously false, I can give you dozens of conversations from my ChatGPT history over the past two months which would have been impossible to get answers to on Google.
I wrote a kanji learning app around Anki’s Flexable Spaced Repetition (FSRS) algorithm https://shodoku.app

My design principal is that I don’t need to be limited to few words, a sentence, and maybe a picture for each flash card. Instead each flashcard can be the all the relevant parts of the whole dictionary related to the kanji that you are learning.

Another design principal (where I deviate from Wankikani) is that drawing the kanji helps remembering it. So my app has two sided cards, one for drawing and one for reading. Both reading and writing practice include every word in the dictionary + example sentences that contains that kanji.

My third design principal is that I can learn vocabulary at the same time as I learn the meaning and the writing of the kanji (in fact, I like to learn a few vocab words instead of memorizing the different readings). So you can bookmark vocab words you want to learn along the kanji, and the next time the SRS system picks the kanji up for review, these words pop up at the top, to help you recall.

Note that the app is still in development, so use at your own risk, although I am actively using it for my kanji-studies. I still have a couple of features missing before I can call it done enough.
Uh... Ya just like GDP going up is good for the nation ignoring GDP hides distribution and wealth inequality goes up unchecked.

Average sucks.
> Do you let people self-identify, and there are many rapes caused by this,

Citation needed. That sounds deeply dubious (as frankly the rest of your argument)
Very very nice indeed! Signed up. Hope it keeps a free tier. :)
> Darleks

Something interesting about the actors’ accents is it always sounds like it would be spelled this way. It’s actually Dalek, pronounced in a way that is nearly indistinguishable from a British person saying Darlek. (I also notice the auto-correct on my phone knows the difference, which I did not think about until I saw it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
> I like the fact that different sites have different typography. It's an identity that tells me where I am.

While I do get that and to some extend agree, what we get is light grey on white, skinny fonts and illegible pages. It's one of those things that are awesome when they work, but it's so hard to get right and very few people/teams are able to do it.
Based on a man who has dedicated the last twenty years of his life to fighting vaccines (and who thinks that even the polio vaccine killed more people through cancer than it saved) becoming Health and Human Services secretary. What makes you so sure that antivaxx propaganda will continue being banned from education?
Amazon returns are very easy --- maybe even too easy.

I suspect the real issue with memory cards is that most people probably don't check them. The solution is --- don't be like most people.
The most rapes involving trans people are in men’s prisons where trans women are put. You’re very thinly veiled in your fascist rhetoric.

If misused bathroom rape was the actual issue at play, men would simply push the fucking door open and rape the women you apparently care so deeply to protect. Men with motive to use the opposite bathroom would not go through the often sterilizing trouble of hormone replacement therapy when the doors are already unlocked. You tell on yourself badly with this argument, rightbound.
99% of devices that use SD cards are battery powered. It's an issue with the power supply.
> drop body mass releases calories for other survival purposes. Any increase over the critical need consumes resources better used for other things.

Hahaha you just made the exact naive one-variable mistake you accused me of once sentence earlier. Can you point to any evidence whatsoever that reduced body mass is beneficial for human evolution? Back your claim up. Show me. Where is it? Losing body mass is an evolutionary disadvantage at least as often as it’s an advantage, which is why humans are evolving to be larger over time and not smaller. Unfortunately, reality doesn’t back up yours and @roenxi’s claim about body mass vs evolution.

It seems like you’re making stuff up and moving the goal posts. We’re talking about evolution, and you’re defending @roenxi’s claim that having 1% less body mass is a huge evolutionary advantage, so tell me what calories are “released” with lower body mass when an individual is compared to it’s neighbor? Where were they being held? Please define “critical need”. What “other things” will these released calories do? You’re making an enormous number of unexplained assumptions.

Body mass is beneficial for hibernation in many species, beneficial for energy to survive winters and periods of no food, beneficial for muscle growth for hunting and attracting mates, beneficial for defending one’s self, etc. etc. I mentioned those last two already and notice you quietly ignored them without being able to address them at all. Having lower body mass than neighbors makes an individual more likely to be prey, less likely to succeed at hunting or mating, and gives them a shorter survival time without food.

You’re certainly not convincing me you have a grasp on evolutionary biology, but by all means continue the thinly veiled insults and smug remarks that attempt to compensate for it, and maybe you’ll win some internet points.