skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Save the Children ... will advance the survival and the health of women, mothers, newborns, and children worldwide.

> The entire premise of a limited republican government is based upon limiting the coercion of the state.

> We should not be voting away property for special causes or partisan journalists.

> If we recall history, the issues around 1776 were in response to an unaccountable parliament taxing colonists without adequate representation.

You're equating taxation with coercion, to justify unelected, unappointed individuals forcibly changing how taxes are spent. Then somehow trying to make a connection to taxation without representation. When, in reality, the spending was made through representation, and this reversal of spending is being made without it. Look, just because you happen to agree with the autocrats doesn't make them any less autocratic.

I believe we can and we should "vote away property for special interests" like providing basic care for mothers and babies who might otherwise die, and therefore have no chance to experience either life or liberty. You're free to disagree on the "should", and we can have civil debate on that resolved through democratic means. But if you disagree on the "can", I'm afraid that's just authoritarianism cloaked in the guise of libertarianism.

Keep in mind that total US foreign aid has been less than 1.5% of the total federal budget going at least as far back as the year 2000. [1]

Since you bring up western liberalism and accuse me of illiteracy, I'll wrap up by quoting none other than J.S. Mill himself:

"Governments and nations have made mistakes in other things, which are not denied to be fit subjects for the exercise of authority: they have laid on bad taxes, made unjust wars. Ought we therefore to lay on no taxes, and, under whatever provocation, make no wars? Men, and governments, must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life." [2]

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/06/what-the-...
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm
Yeah I was thinking less casino thingie and more https://pickerwheel.com, I guess I used the wrong term for it.
I Will Measure My Life (2018)
Life existed before photosynthesis.

However there are only 2 known ways of obtaining energy for living without photosynthesis, which are called acetogenesis and methanogenesis.

In both cases the inputs are free H2 and carbon dioxide (or alternatively carbon monoxide and water), while the output contains acetic acid for acetogenesis and methane for methanogenesis. Methanogenesis is confined to a certain group of archaea, while the simpler acetogenesis is widespread among bacteria and archaea and there is good evidence that the last common ancestor of all cellular living beings was able to do acetogenesis, using the free hydrogen provided by volcanic gases or hydrothermal vents.

H2S can be used as a source of energy in 2 ways, both of which require photosynthesis. H2S can be used instead of water and oxidized by bacteria that are capable of anoxygenic photosynthesis, or it can be oxidized by using free oxygen that has been produced elsewhere by algae or plants, using solar energy (instead of free oxygen, other oxidizers may be used, for instance nitrate or sulfate, but those must have been produced elsewhere by using free oxygen, so ultimately also by using solar energy; sulfate can also be produced directly using solar energy, in anoxygenic photosynthesis). So H2S cannot be used to obtain energy in the absence of living beings that capture the solar light. (Because the reaction of H2S with CO2 does not produce energy, but it consumes energy.)

Similarly, the living beings that oxidize H2 coming out of hydrothermal vents, using either oxygen or other oxidizers derived from oxygen or from anoxygenic photosynthesis, like nitrate or sulfate, are also completely dependent on the photosynthesis carried on by algae or plants elsewhere.

Only the acetogenic and methanogenic bacteria and archaea are completely independent of solar energy and they depend only on the internal heat of the Earth as a source of energy (which is the ultimate cause of the production of H2 in volcanic gases and in hydrothermal vents, by the reaction of water with magmatic rocks that are chemically stable only at the temperatures from higher depths).

Like other anaerobic bacteria, acetogens, methanogens, and also sulfate-reducing bacteria, are widespread in human guts, where all 3 groups consume the H2 produced by other bacteria in fermentations.
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Not just that, but models that are “independently trained” by a community of people using some kind of distributed p2p method.

If this LLM stuff is as important as it is made out to be (and I think it is), it is absolutely crucial that it isn’t controlled by just a bunch of large corporations and tech oligarchs. A world where everybody needs LLM’s and the only source is from gigantic tech companies would be incredibly distopian.

Plus I seriously doubt the true innovation on these things will happen until the “little guy” can train and infer their own models. Right now these things are playing it way to safe. We should be reading articles about people using home built LLMs to do crazy shit that sticks it to “The Man”. That’s how transformative technology changes things. It challenges the status quo. The only “quo” that is being challenged right now is some boring mega tech company is peeing in some other mega tech company’s cheerios. Yawn. Wake me up when this technology threatens the entire fucking system (and not fake “AGI will take over all white collar jobs”… that is just corporate propaganda).

… I mean remember Napster and all those file sharing companies? Or the million iterations of Pirate Bay? Where is the LLM equivalent of that? Where is the “Linux” of LLM’s that freaks out all the tech companies? Or dark web of LLM’s that attract the eye of every three letter agency in the world? Where is the revolution? It’s just a bunch of huge tech companies safely jerking each other off wearing three layers of protection and their corporate lawyers on speed dial. How completely boring.
You don't have to go in person. Put it in the mail. In person can get same day service though. Next day mail is expensive, but you can get it (and if Apple is serious they can partner with the next day mail and do overnight repairs.). It isn't uncommon for someone to ship you are replacement device and then you ship your broken one back after the new arrives (if the old is only partially broke this can be useful). Apple has a lot of options to make this not too inconvenient.

Though will Apple blink is still unknown. Just because they can doesn't mean they will.
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> Say your rents it's going to be late, you can pick up 20 or 30 hours of Uber this month to make it happen.

Maybe... I really don't get how the economics work out here though. If you look at the numbers, it mostly just seems like you're converting car equity into cash via depreciation.

But also, I'd guess that for a big chunk of people who are going to have trouble paying rent with any regularity, they'd have to overpay for their car in the first place to get something that's Uber-appropriate. My car's a couple years too old for Uber now, but is still perfectly functional, and there's just no way the math would work for me to buy a newer car so that I can convert its capital cost into cash via Uber.
At the risk of wading into politics - consider a legal environment, in any country, where laws become increasingly strict, but where prosecutorial discretion, pardon powers, and a justice system designed to allow well-resourced law firms to delay cases indefinitely, are all transparently used for political purposes. Such an environment could easily exhibit a feedback loop that allows justice to be arbitrary and opposition voices to be silenced.

I'll refrain from value judgments on the above - but for heaven's sake, we're on a site called "Hacker News." We should understand that a machine like this could turn on any one of us in an instant for any reason.
This is interesting, and I have always thought this approach worth exploring given the "bitter lesson" in other ML domains, but I think we should be skeptical until we see such models deployed and operating effectively on real-world vehicles.
If they have scrubbers and if they are placed in non-heavily populated areas.

My point is an electric car a such says not much of environmental benefits.

Take for instance the Nissan e-power. The car drives electric but it uses a combustion engine to load the battery.
have you seen the Freya Holmer video on generative AI as a parasitic cancer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY

Also I love how the internet is "dead", yet here we are, on a website with a bunch of humans providing soooo much value that at least corners of the internet still seem very much alive.

I wish there were more sites like HN.
Could be why OpenAI paid them so much, to go after their open-source competition hardest of all.
Use the cloud, sign up for random stupid breakage.
For the wanderers who became the Aztecs history was a chorus of voices Essays
I love it. This plotline feels out of cryptonomicon or silicon valley series.
That sounds revisionist.
A better question is why does Japan use Both 60 Hz and 50 Hz in different areas? And that’s really just a legacy from early decisions at different companies when the grid was first introduced, and there’s never been a sufficiently compelling reason for either to swap.

60 Hz is slightly better in terms of flickering, but neither has enough advantages to really be a determining factor on their own.
This reminds me of rental car companies deciding they should switch their vehicle fleets to electric.

A few months ago, I visited San Jose for a wedding. When I picked up my rental car at the airport, the only options were electric, even though I had specified that I wanted an ICE vehicle tat the time I made the reservation. During the four day trip I wound up visiting five different charging stations (some of which slow charged, so weren't able to replenish the battery in the time available), and I had to install three different apps. I still have like $20 of unused credit between them. I spent several hours waiting for the car to charge, not to mention making major detours looking for a fast-charging station. If I were to guess a part of the world you'd expect to find the best possible electric vehicle charging infrastructure, San Jose wouldn't be far off the mark. But my trip wound up being dominated by range anxiety.

I drive a PHEV (plug-in hybrid) for my commute from home to work and I love it. Electric is the future, and it's great that electric vehicles and charging stations are becoming more common. But renting an electric car in a strange city today is about the worst possible scenario for a short range vehicle. You don't know where the charging stations are, the charging stations require different apps, your hotel might not have a charger, and so on. The people making decisions at car rental companies should know this!
What a repulsive comment.
The privacy aspect of the app is there are no servers converting the file for you. Everything happens in the browser (in the demo) or using local tools. The demo in the browser's privacy can be confirmed with for example Chrome Developer Tools. For the app, people can confirm no sending of files with tools like wireshark or little snitch, and if people have ideas on how I can improve that transparency, then I'd invite it.
Whales communicate with a 'language-like' structure similar to humans
The linguist learning to speak the expressive language of cows
Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6B plastics plant in Texas
Haven't we seen real life examples of this occurring in AI for medical imaging? Models trained on images of tumors state that tumors circled in purple ink or images of tumors that also include a visual scale are over identified as cancerous because they reason that both of those items indicate cancer due to the training data leading them that way?
Tangent, but interesting: how do you get fair samples from a biased coin?
1. You take a string of biased samples like 001011100101
2. you split it in pairs 00 10 11 10 01 01
3. you keep only pairs with a zero and a one in them 10 10 01 01
4. You assign 0 and 1 to them, e.g. 1 1 0 0, this is a fair sampling from an unbiased coin

Why does it work? Because even if p(0) ≠ p(1), p(01) = p(10).
Do you think developing countries are just peppered with libraries, and their inhabitants order books from Amazon?

Libgen originated in Russia, and its users are global. This is not a purely American issue.
How so? It is still illegal if meta does it, they will face trial.
Particle accelerator and AI offer peek inside 2k-year-old Herculaneum scroll
South Korean ministries block DeepSeek on security concerns, officials say
I’m not saying the WSJ was the only place reporting on it, and indeed my link isn’t even an example. That’s an opinion piece.
I've never seen a band that had. I usually end up buying CDs that then end up on the shelf or in a drawer, never opened.
I am endlessly fascinated that the grid frequency across an area the size of entire countries/continents gets driven, at the end of the day, mechanically by countless titanic sized spinning machines that slow down when more load is offered, and vice versa.
This really has fuck-all to do with copyright though, correct?

If you can't tell how the content is before you read it, it could be written by a monkey.
I think that kind of proves my point: These "budgets" are so damn convoluted that nobody actually understands them. Even the House Speaker is surprised at the shit DOGE is digging up, and he's the boss of the people who write and pass the budgets.

And even that aside, anyone who knows how the real world works can understand that what should happen and what does happen are not necessarily the same especially if corruption is involved.

The whole thing needs an audit.
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I've also heard the term "regulatory arbitrage" to describe this.
Too late. They've completed their coup, and don't need your worship any more.
Interesting essay. Not sure it really provides insights into the problem spaces I'm interested in personally, but it's interesting to see a formal connection to mereology.

One of the problems in many of these domains is that the potential higher-order interaction space is so large that it's impossible to make inferences about them (in an exploratory way at least). So in genetics for example, there's a lot of genes, and the number of potential combinations of causal factors is huge. Unless you have an a priori reason to think a particular P-way combination of factors is important, it's impossible to search for them because the resources required to make inferences about the P-way interactions exceeds any computational resources available to study them.

This is kind of the idea of emergence, that at some point the information involved in representing a set of higher-order interactions becomes too great to actually represent, so we measure some property of the system that summarizes these interactions instead.

I think the problem scientifically always is knowing whether that information required actually is too large, or whether we just don't understand what is exactly involved. Unknown unknowns or something like that, but where some of the unknowns might in fact be fundamentally unknowable.

I've always found it might be useful to have an estimate of the predictability of some system from some level of analysis of predictors, so we at least know how much we can ever expect to explain from them. In some cases I think this might be doable and others impossible.
Afaik, the trick was to stream (via http, I assume) the first few hundred kilobytes or so from fast/expensive servers and then try to p2p the rest in some clever order. I guess seeking also triggered the fast/expensive path for a while.
A nicely written article! And an interesting project.

Myself, I'd lean towards a sound (linear) type theory. If it's not too much trouble, insert the run-time checks in debug builds but use the type system to erase them for optimized builds. It might seem like the mountain is impossible to climb if you're not used to formalizing such systems but every mountain is surmounted one step at a time.

It's hard to bolt-on correctness after the fact. In my experience, for critical pieces like this, it's better to get the specification right first before digging in too deep and writing code.

Best of luck on the project either way you go. Memory safety is increasingly important!
Since when does rejecting poorly founded empirical studies equate to rejecting all possible empirical studies?
>Is this an attempt to imply the Scots had imperial ambitions and have not been fighting to keep their homes free of invasion for several thousand years?

Obviously yes. Who have they been fighting to avoid invasion exactly?

>Fuck this sounds familiar right now

Maybe you read it in a history textbook.
> the point of copyright to begin with, which is to incentive people to create things

Is it?

(I don't agree)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971847
nice, thanks for the article. Never seen this trick before but it looks super neat.

What sort of JS library would you recommend for a similar effect to this?
PixiJs, D3, Paper, P5.js, good old vanilla canvas?
I think SE? <-> mini is more common.

If my phone is lost, I’ll look for a refurbished version of one of a <= SE3 or a 13 mini.

If it’s run over by a truck, i’ll put the pieces in a bag and ask apple to repair it.

My budget for new phones is $1300 every three years, but no one makes a reasonable phone, so the budget is left unspent.
A restatement of Orwell's "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others".

The irony must have been lost on him.
Two wrongs do not make a right.

All my arguments hold even if Musk and Trump are the devil incarnate. In fact, they may be the devil that convinces people to take their eye off the ball of climate change. They are exploiting people's emotions and hatred to do damage to the fight against climate change.

It doesn't matter what Musk Tweets, It doesn't matter how shitty Trump is. If you use that as an excuse to do anything less that 100% of what you can to help in the fight against climate change, then you are a climate change denier who doesn't really believe we're in a fight for our lives.
Exactly. There are a lot of things above efficiency on the priority list.
Lol, that's clearly a descriptive law/maxim not an actual law.
what made it so special?
I think I can afford the lifetime cost. Some of our hens are rescued battery hens as well so I'll take the financial hit for the good karma.
They don't and shouldn't. Developer relations are great, but Chrome's users are the most important consumers of extensions and their interests should be prioritized over those of developers. I understand why it might be convenient for AdGuard to use a "QuickFixes filter" which changes the functionality of their extension without having to push a formal upgrade, but it seems like Chrome is right to identify this as a vector where unaudited code might arrive in the trusted Chrome sandbox.
I think you are generally correct. I think also the personality types who become public makers, etc. tend to also be controlling, so any negative comments / discussion, etc. that they can’t suppress really irks them and often they go to great lengths to try to get rid of it
Nice idea, but watching the spinning coins made me a bit nauseous. I had to go away from the page.
Sam altman and elon at the same conference? I'd wanna come just to see that
Things are the way they are because they got that way over time.

Civil infrastructure is legacy systems all the way down. Once a choice is made, it's hard to change. In the city where I am, some of the design decisions date back to the Romans.
If you're thinking of Google's WEI, I'm thankful that went down in flames:

"Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites. Google says this will reduce ad fraud. In practice, it reduces your control over your own computer, and is likely to mean that some websites will block access for everyone who's not using an "approved" operating system and browser."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-s...
Although linear typing is certainly interesting, I think linear typing on its own is not enough. That is, you basically end up with something like Austral where you use linear types _plus_ some form of compile-time borrow checking, at which point we're back at borrow checking (did I mention it seems inevitable?) :)
> What's interesting is that in many cities now, Uber and Lyft are in fact more expensive than taxis. And the experience is equally mediocre.

That, of course, was the plan all along.
Such august figures as JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller,and Andrew Carnegie all made their fortune by undercutting the competition,
putting them out of business through means legal and otherwise,
and finally monopolizing the markets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_baron_(industrialist)
Whoever chose it must have been aware of the use of 60 in time measurement and its practicality: 60 min/hr, 60 sec/min, 60 cycles/sec.
50 and 60Hz were about equal in transmission efficiency but in 1891 Westinghouse engineers decided 60Hz produced less perceptible flickering in light sources.
This stuff started from the Online Safety Act 2023 passed under Rishi Sunak's Tory government.

For some reason Americans, including Musk, go all partisan and feel the need to blame speech restriction on the lefty party but it's not what happened.
Thanks. Fixed table scrolling.

(not sure which border from the table element. will try to figue out later)

Update: also fixed. Thanks again :)
This article seems to use "borrow" to mean what I would normally understand to be the reference count of a refcount-gc system? Rather than a Rust borrow, which is part of the type system and not counted at runtime.

In C# you can force a type to be stack allocated with "ref struct". https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...
Yes, but getting your hands on the material isn't a very interesting legal question IMO.

Whether you can train your LLM on it is a very interesting question.

I've personally never been in favor of punishing people for downloading (or seeding) things.
Yes, they are already keeping the link at 0MW transferred for a while and will now disconnect it. You can read more on Elering's website: https://elering.ee/en/synchronization-continental-europe
>What are we actually worried about happening?

Few company can amass such quantities of knowledge and leverage it all for their own, very-private profits. This is unprecedented centralization of power, for a very select few. Do we actually want that? If not, why not block this until we're sure this a net positive for most people?
Your bot can go fuck itself, the internet is zombiefied by undead AIs enough as it is.
Fun fact: you can't steal paid software by faking a user agent, because that's not how sales work. But you can lose sales by blocking user agents.

And use your brain for a hot second will you? Bad actors don't use a rare user agent, they use the same Chrome user agent that everyone else uses.