skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The algorithm would never work if the user had so little choice as to be "injected" with whatever they were shown. In fact we have full agency over whether we are interested enough to listen and trust the arguments, just like any other persuasive message. If not, we swipe up and injection fails.

This reminds me of the exaggerated claims made around subliminal advertising and brainwashing. People love to model others as weak-willed simpletons rather than accept that thoughtful people are persuaded because their perspectives differ.
If you haven't been to Japan, it's worth lingering over these pictures and noticing a few things:

- The complete absence of vandalism

- How generally clean everything is

- Accessibility strip for blind people (bumpy yellow stripe in train stations and sidewalks)

- Nothing is broken or out of service

- How safe and welcoming the public transit system feels.

Japan is worth the journey if you ever want to step into a high-trust other dimension.
Berlin has this and it's Schöneweide. There is a light rail ring with two lines going in opposite directions... and one line going straight into the middle of nowhere. If you don't pay attention it's easy to end up there by accident.
It's remarkable how few of the comments posted here are informed by having read the article.
I'm not sure why others have problems, but I love it!

Once, in a similar situation, I had the thought that "somebody should build that" and never imagined that somebody actually would.

With your tool, I learned that our home is better located than I thought and that there are many places more downtown that would be worse for me and my wife (bc of highways and good public transport connections).

I will show this some friends!
Thanks!
I don't get this what so ever, is there memory allocation bugs in GC languages such as Java?

Even if that is the case Rust specifically is design not to be GC.

Ontop of that you csn do manual memory management if you want in Rust afaik.
We can constrain their use, as with nuclear materials.
I'll bite and play devils advocate here - both of those are not a solution to his problem. Ultimately he's the maintainer and he gets the emails if X driver is broken, so because of that he doesn't want to rely on another group to maintain the 'Rust half' of his part of the code. It's also a system that works until it doesn't, the biggest rule of the kernel is no breaking userspace - at some point in the future it won't matter if it's his C changes breaking the Rust drivers, it's still his changes that have to be rolled back if the Rust code isn't updated.

And to clarify I'm not saying he's right or wrong or acting good or bad. I have however expected R4L to ultimately fall apart because of this exact issue, the maintainers have never been on board with maintaining Rust code and that hasn't changed. While that remains the case the project is going to be stuck at a wall - to the point that if they're confident they can maintain the Rust code themselves they should just fork it and do that. If it works well enough they'll eventually be too popular to ignore with people choosing to write their new modules in Rust instead.
Great Minds Think Alike and This Undermines AI Oversight
New paper finds that:
1) Model mistakes are getting similar with increasing capabilities, pointing to a risk of correlated failures.
2) LLM-as-a-judge is biased towards more similar models
3) Training using another LLM benefits from complementary knowledge
I still don’t think the UK is a big enough market for Apple to be that worried about the following, but if the government and Apple escalate to the point of Apple pulling out of the UK, it would be pretty easy for the government to force all of its telecoms to ban any new iPhones from their mobile networks. So the citizens will probably not get to simply walk right around the restrictions that way, assuming the government is serious about this.
So now we are pro imperialism?

This stuff is also what breeds hate against US world wide. People are tired of foreign government mendling in their country.
Note that you need to use 3 shifts. All the triplets of shifts listed in the paper should generate sequences with period 2^32-1 or 2^64-1 depending on the state size, because the tables were generated with that constraint. For example the first triplet for a 32 bit state corresponds to the algortihm:

def advance_state(state):
state ^= state << 1
state ^= state >> 3
state ^= state << 10
return state
Not sure the range operator is fully specified, this works and seems like it shouldn't:

echo "regular expressions" | ./trre "[a:A-z:a]"
REGULAR EXPRESSIONS

In fact, "[a:A-z:x]" seems to do the same thing as "[a:A-z:Z]" for all x.
People using quantum computers for random uncorrelated 50/50 bitstrings makes me unreasonably angry (disclaimer: employer in profile, this is my personal opinion). At best, it's just a test of how well we've got the calibration dialed in, how isolated the qubits are, etc. Fine as a test "does the machine do what its manufacturer claims," but otherwise a tragic waste of resources. Hardware RNGs can beat any quantum computer on bandwidth and reliability for a few pennies, versus a multimillion dollar behemoth.

That said... as a demo of a stack using quantum cloud compute, it's all in good fun and I shouldn't be a stick in the mud.
Might a multimodal LLM be taught to generate illuminated equations and descriptions?
Nuclear materials have the advantages of being rare, dangerous to handle, and hard to copy over the internet.
I immediately thought of old school blogs in the 2000s when the page loaded. No annoying clickbait titles, memes, or reaction gifs, just personal reporting with short paragraphs and plenty of photos.
The Congress will not act before people are on the streets.

And people won't be on the streets until Constitutional crisis and severe economic impact have fully developed.
> But it's not a theft of goods, it's theft of service.

What service? If somebody washes your windshield without you asking, it isn't a theft of service to not pay them. A theft of service arises from entering into an agreement and then failing to pay as stipulated in that agreement.

Copyright isn't an agreement you can choose whether to participate in. Copyright is a legal enforcement system that imposes legal liability even on those who don't use it. You may not see this legal liability as "harm", but it absolutely is. Arguing that copyright extends to training is arguing for a dramatic increase in the scope and power of this legal enforcement system.
Not sure what's even the point of this article. One of the conclusions I was able to surmise is "it's OK to suffer all the time" which I vehemently disagree with but oh well.
The two-ended Min/Max sliders of the Dynamic HomeFinder and the SimCity Frob-O-Matic Dynamic Zone Filter allow you to effectively invert selections by dragging the Max end all the way to the right, and then adjusting the Min end, since the filter passes everything between Min and Max. Or you can drag the whole slider range by the middle to adjust Min and Max at once, exploring a fixed width interval of the values.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978733

https://youtu.be/_fVl4dGwUrA?t=3m35s

A useful feature (not implemented in that video of X11 SimCity from 1992, but it would be easy to implement now with better graphics and faster computers) is to display a histogram in each of the sliders, where the x-axis is the parameter value, and the y-axis is the number of items of that slider's value (given that all other sliders are at their current value), so you can easily spot clusters and peaks and sparse areas, and you can include or exclude them from the filter by sliding the Min and Max edges across the histogram. So as you adjust one slider, the histograms in the other sliders change to reflect the current "slice" of multi dimensional space with respect to the filter you're adjusting.

Showing a histogram for every filter parameter on each slider gives you a multi-dimensional view of the distribution density of the data, that you can tweak and explore in real time, which helps you figure out how to adjust the filters to find interesting and ignore uninteresting items, and focus in on just the items you want.
Basically he has to avoid any community with significant numbers of people. Not liking HN, reddit, twitter and so on, its just a numbers game.

To respond to that by trying to cut of access to any place where many people exists is a questionable approach.

And judging people simply by from where they arrived in a place is also questionable tactic one that we should not tolerate in real live.
A taxi from Otsuki (the station mentioned in the article) to even Hachioji (another station that's famous for being "the last stop") would take over an hour and cost >20,000JPY. At that point it's cheaper to get a hotel. Even if you have the money, the possibility of taxis just not being available at that time in a place like Otsuki is pretty high.
I expected dancing teenagers singing the texts of the posts.
https://archive.is/rESxe

This is a recurring pattern I see with drama in some open source communities, where people measure others using yardsticks they themselves don't live up to. People can't post stuff like this while accusing everyone in the vicinity except themselves of bad behavior. Choose one.
I have, though it's semi-prosumer equipment. The largest UPS systems for standard systems, like someone might want for a small home-lab rack, can be found with 20A 120V plugs that work in normal outlets; if they're on a 20A rated circuit like a kitchen refrigerator or bathroom sink outlet (the two most common sorts in rental units).

I suspect some beauty products might also use 20A, or in combination easily reach that.
I once read that one of the reasons behind very straightfoward page layout on Japanese websites is a legacy of the internet-on-phone data services, screen sizes, and reading experience in the years before 2007/2008+, when the iphone and then android devices came out.

Japan had its own domestic ecosystem of IP data to phones and web browsing 2006 and earlier, but page rendering features were very rudimentary, and you had to keep the total data transfer sizes down or nothing would load properly.
It's pretty nice actually. With a Big Echo and Lawson's within just a few minutes walk from the station, you're all set for a reasonably comfortable night on the cheap, with a toothbrush, hot chocolate, snacks, and a private space. Probably still best opting for the hotel though.
You are right. I'm confusing State Farm with Allstate, via McKinsey (I'm reading the book "When McKinsey comes to town"). Berkshire Hathaway owns Geico and has taken a similar path, however. But, this Oregon utility has BH ownership.
Safari, Firefox, and IE all had no trouble producing 100k random values without a collision. Chrome couldn't do it without at least two collisions. Chrome's `Math.random()` performance/speed was not measurably better despite, but it could only produce 2^32 random values despite IEEE-754 FP supporting up to 2^53. That is how I found this bug, because only Chrome used low enough entropy. Which is definitely worse.

My recollection of that time working on that stats library was that Chrome took many shortcuts to max out things like SunSpider. There were other Chrome specific workarounds I had to implement to address what I considered bugs, but they were definitely in lightly defined areas like `Math.random()`.

I couldn't find the original bug I file, but the discussion on it specifically noted that they could just copy the Firefox one (which was noted to be an improvement over Chrome's) but they decided on Won't Fix until someone more important than me drew attention to it. It was trivially fixed within a week once that happened.
He said explicitely:

>Every additional bit that another language creeps in drastically reduces the maintainability of the kernel as an integrated project. The only reason Linux managed to survive so long is by not having internal boundaries, and adding another language completely breaks this. You might not like my answer, but I will do everything I can do to stop this.

I think that clearly means he is out to sabotage any other language than C making it into Linux.
Sure, so since it's not clear for now, let's give Trump and Elon the benefit of the doubt, that what they're doing is from the good of their hearts, for the benefit of all the American people.

It's not like they're openly corrupt, narcissistic egomaniacs with history of screwing up people for their personal gain or something. Up till now, especially Trump, has made huge strides in bettering the country and wellbeing of the people, let's let him cook.
I am leaving the Apple ecosystem.
No he did say he doesn’t want rust in Linux at all. Now I understand that he didn’t say “I won’t allow rust to be in Linux”, which is a useful distinction to make. But let’s not pretend like he didn’t say “rust shouldn’t be in Linux” at all.

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250204052916.GA28741@lst.de/
Uxbridge, High Barnet, Edgware, all painful for a wake-up nudge from a rail worker at 1am.

Cockfosters was proper despair, and Mordor (or Morden) well... don't.

What took the cake though was flying back and arriving at Stansted after midnight and waiting for the 5am escape back home in the depths of winter.

London offered many memorable evenings for those silly enough to party in the city a while back.

Not drinking so much is probably a way to avoid the despair, but where is the fun in that?
What is it that makes this possible in Japan? And why doesn't it happen in the US?
Thanks for the link. I wondered what that word meant.

From the article: Kopimashin, as in Copy Machine.
Or even worse, Frankston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification#Fourth...
Care to explain yourself?
The rust folks should make a Linux compatible kernel and distros that include a stripped down Linux kernel as a compatibility layer for legacy software.
As a kid in the 80s, I remember the "Hole in the Ozone Layer". My mom watched the morning news, and I remember it being mentioned frequently as a crisis and we needed to stop using CFCs to fix it right away. There were TV shows (Captain Planet) about it and environmentalism in general. Congress passed a law banning them even with chemical companies like DuPont lobbying against it.

I grew up in a conservative state, I remember people mocking the ban, like spraying paint into the air just to mock it. My 8-year-old brain couldn't understand why they did that, but they also seemed like a minority. It felt like in just a few years we mostly managed to come together and fix it.

I am at a loss as to why Global Warming isn't treated the same. It was pretty clear to me to exist as a teen, just a decade later, but it seemed to face much more skepticism[1], both in prevalence and in intensity. What circumstances are different, that we didn't all band together and fix this problem, like we did the ozone layer?

- Did DuPont not lobby as hard, since they had other chemicals ready to go?
- Do oil and coal companies just lobby more to prevent action on Global Warming, since they couldn't cheaply switch to alternative forms of energy?
- Did the oil companies see what happened, and start better devising strategies to obstruct change? Like learning from the tobacco companies, who learned from the sugar companies?
- Why didn't the chemical companies do the same? Was it just not as big a deal, like I mentioned above?
- Fox News? They didn't exist until 1996, and I'm sure they would have spent enormous effort convincing their audience the ozone hole was "fake news". But there was plenty of conservative nutjob talk radio, did they not protest the ozone regulations? (At that age, I listened to what my parents listened to, and they didn't listen to talk radio, so I don't know).
- Tobacco companies successfully fought off any regulation for decades, until finally there was a critical mass in the mid-90s.

What's changed between the 80s and now, that's us from solving this problem, when like 3/4 of the people in the world and even 60% of Americans agree is an emergency?

[1]: Not even skepticism, more like deliberate orneriness. "Rolling coal", etc.
American individualism
At the risk of stereotyping an entire nationality, Japanese culture puts a high degree of emphasis on conformity, obeying rules, obeying social hierarchies and keeping things in a generally orderly fashion.

For instance, many Japanese primary public schools have no janitor. This is normal. The children scrub the floors, bathrooms and do all the other cleaning tasks in a defined schedule.

some random reference examples: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=japanese+...
Since the goals are not clear for now, let's give Trump and Elon the benefit of the doubt, that what they're doing is from the good of their hearts, for the benefit of all the American people.

It's not like they're openly corrupt, narcissistic egomaniacs with history of screwing up people for their personal gain or something. Up till now, especially Trump, they've made huge strides in bettering the country and wellbeing of the people, let's let them cook.
So what are you saying? That it's okay to just invent quotes and spread misinformation about people, based on what you suspect their true thoughts might be?
(lose*)
The post above what you replied to already had a good synonym: "communication".
You're saying this as if psychedelics cannot 'have all sorts of severe, life-altering, mostly permanent side effects'.
Looks pretty similar to what I'd expect to a regular European town.

What are you comparing it to that you see such a drastic difference?
Ping me on signal when you get a chance!
Your last paragraph is very true, and is the biggest scandal in AI. Unfortunately, we have let the group of people who believes that mere exposure to ideas one disagrees with can cause them significant harm, make the rules, so we see more and more idiotic things like this.
Waiting for the FAA to outlaw talk of gravity, sometimes objects just collide in three dimensional space folks
No disagree. My response lacked nuance. I see this decision as entirely consistent with current world views held by the US government, at least as expressed from the white house and associated channels. It will permit an immediate forward spend cost saving to be written to the excel sheets on "goals achieved"

Personally, I think it's short sighted.
Allowing you to catch and handle an exception is not the same as silently returning a wrong answer.
He said no Rust (or any other language except C) in any core code. Notably the patch was not eve being added to kernel/dma
Strategic behavior of large language models in game-theoretic settings (2024)
Because employees are the startup, without them it’s just an idea.
> Does everything need to be signed? Use a tool to much and you end up becoming it's slave.

In a trusted society full of honest people, no.

In an untrusted society with dishonest people, the amount of resources (money, time, cpu, memory) required to protect yourself from abusers will only ever keep growing.
The people censoring the LLMs are the exact same people who want to censor everything else.
What an absolutely awful statement about one of the most successful community projects ever. Direction usually comes from the community and the maintainers just steer it. Little in the kernel comes from maintainers saying "let's do X" and community members implementing it
You are missing the most important part: a culture in which these kinds od overreach are not tolerated. For sure resistance has waned over time, but it is still strong. The constitution is merely a piece of paper if people are not willing to defend their rights.
This is super cool!

I was looking for something like this just a few days ago. Ended up going with Flow[1], an open source Android app, because I wanted something that I could enter data on from my phone and run completely locally there. I don't yet have Tailscale running, or some other solution to access my homelab on the go. But it's great to see more and more software designed to run on people's local networks. And from the screenshots ExpenseOwl is the next tool I'd try if Flow doesn't work out... Getting Tailscale or a similar solution up and running is also on the to-do list.

I know other people want direct integration with banking APIs, but for me it's actually a feature to have to enter everything manually. I'm deliberately working on better spending habits, and having a local set of data with me which is actually sometimes ahead of my bank in terms of cleared transactions is good. It means I build the habit of entering and categorizing each time I spend money, and it means I have to regularly reconcile accounts. It's only a hypothesis, but I suspect in the era of checkbooks the practical fact of having to keep up the books manually enforced better spending habits.

[1a]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mn.flow.flow

[1b]: Also, github: https://github.com/flow-mn/flow

N.B. There's another expense tracker on the Play store, also called "Flow", which AFAICT isn't open source.
Coincidence, maybe, but convenient.

That currently may be the case that many or most engineers rarely use both.

But, from a historical perspective, when power generation and distribution were new, there was probably not such a distinction.

Even today, large industrial users of power need to know and understand the types of equipment they're using, impedance and power factor of them, and the aggregate effect on the power grid, and adjust for it.

I imagine that many of the early large users of power were radio broadcasters.

There was likely significant overlap of power engineering and wireless broadcasting. An engineer would need to understand what effect the broadcast system was having on the grid and adjust for it. Calculating the impedance of the entire system using ω and the associated capacitance and inductance of portions of the system. The broadcasting antenna would certainly be a part of calculating power draw and power factor.
How about you just show who is flagging instead of talking around people? It's trivial to show data about moderation here, but you never do. Why?
You weren't wrong, your comment was relevant and therefore where I choose to contextualize further.

> Personally, I think it's short sighted.

Absolutely. This Is America. It'll come back to bite us, but when the meal is served, those who ordered will already have left the table.
> More likely it's just for train maintenance, and indeed, 24-hour train operation is vanishingly rare, with NYC and Chicago the only well-known major cities with it.

Yes, and at least NYC is notorious for how poorly it's train network is maintained, which I suspect is no coincidence.
Things are actually open. In Switzerland everything closes. Japan is notable because there’ll be people everywhere and things will still be clean. Compare football games as example.
It took us 2 years to add bog standard expansions to our factory, and we had amazing people who were trained efficiency engineers hand holding every hiccup.

It took 6 months for the power upgrade portion to happen after we submitted it to the power company (no government involvement at play).