skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the Japanese government will let Nissan fold and will instead invest directly, allow Foxconn to take over or some combination thereof. Losing the formerly mighty Nissan would be a big black eye for the government.
I'd be interested to know what inference hardware they are using. Some of their cars are so cheap the inference hardware would cost a good percentage of the cost of the car....
The last one sounds like this: A zero-knowledge protocol for nuclear warhead verification [0].

Sadly, I don't think this is actually helpful for nuclear arms control. I suppose you could imagine a case where a country is known to have enough nuclear material for exactly X warheads, hasn't acquired more, and it could prove to an inspector that all of the material is still inside the same devices it was in at the last inspection. But most weapons development happens by building new bombs, not repurposing old ones, and most countries don't have exactly X bombs, they have either 0 or so many the armed forces can't reliably count them.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13457
> Instead, the number of homes with sufficient connectivity and percentage of the country covered by 10 Mb/s mobile may be better metrics to pursue as policy goals.

Hard pass.

5G is far from ubiquitous as it. Though how would we even know? I feel like my phone is always lying about what type of network it's connecting to and carrier shave the truth with shit like "5Ge" and the like.

I have not, ever, really thought "Yeah, my phone's internet is perfect as-in". I have low-signal areas of my house, if the power goes out the towers are sometimes unusable due to the increased load, etc. I do everything in my power to never use cellular because I find incredibly frustrating and unreliable.

Cell service has literally unlimited headroom to improve (technologically and business use-cases). Maybe we need more 5G and that would fix the problems and we don't need 6G or maybe this article is a gift to fat and lazy telecoms who are masters at "coasting" and "only doing maintenance".
While this is HN so any automotive conversation inevitabely becomes an ideological war between EV vs ICE fanatics, this didn't play as significant a role in the failure of Nissan and Honda's merger.

As stated in the article - "the merger talks unravelled in a little more than a month due to Nissan's pride and insufficient alarm about its predicament"

More critically, Japanese automakers have always tried to diversify away from Japan as part of the "Flying Geese" paradigm.

For example, Toyota and Honda truly became "American", Mitsubishi truly became "Southeast Asian" (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), Isuzu became "Thai", and Suzuki became "Indian".

Nissan on the other hand tried a foreign expansion with the Datsun in the 1960s-80s, but that crashed and burned horribly, and reduced their appetite to expand abroad.

Post-Datsun, most of their international expansion tied their future to Brazil, China, and India as part of the Renault-Nissan partnership under Carlos Ghosn, but that itself came very late (early 2000s) and other players (domestic, international, and Japanese) were well established in those markets already.

Furthermore, Nissan Group's prestige division Nissan Shatai is too entwined politically to Kyushu, which scuttled the merger as Honda would have shut down Nissan's Kyushu factories which represent much of Nissan's capex.

Fundamentally, Nissan's leadership has a low appetite of taking risks abroad after the failure of Datsun, and this would have been toxic for an internationally minded Japanese firm like Honda who has stronger PMF abroad compared to domestically in Japan.
Same article (but different source) from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999788
It is never a choice and it is always a choice because it is fundamentally an internal psychological battle.

I personally think that viewing it as a choice is the more productive of the two. That is to say, people have the choice to persevere, keep trying to improve, and trying to recover. Nothing will change without intent.
5g Home internet is getting common
I am the founder of Skiplabs. I am around if there are any questions.
> What will happen is that we will replace humans by AIs in more and more positions of influence and power, gradually. Our ChatGPTs of today will become board members and government advisors of tomorrow.

Great, can't wait for even some small improvement over the idiots in charge right now.
AI finds its voice: Now entering the conversational computing era
Sure, but give some specific values. What potential damages and potential risk multiply to more than $10k?
All intelligence is unaligned.

Intelligence and alignment are mutually incompatible; natural intelligence is unaligned, too.

Unaligned intelligence is not a global death sentence. Fearmongering about unaligned AGI, however, is a tool to keep a tool of broad power—which AI is and will continue to grow as long before it becomes, and even if it never becomes, AGI—in the hands of a narrow, self-selected elite to make their control over everyone else insurmountable, which is also not a global death sentence, but is a global slavery sentence. (It’s also, more immediately, a tool to serve those who benefit from current AI uses which are harmful and unjust to use future speculative harms to deflect from real, present, concrete harms; and those beneficiaries are largely an overlapping elite with the group with a longer term interest in centralizing power over AI.)
Humans do not agree on what values are correct, but values can be averaged.

So for example if a family with 5 children is on vacation, do you maintain that it is impossible even in principle for the parents to take the preferences of all 5 children into account in approximately equal measure as to what activities or non-activities to pursue?

Also: are you pursuing a complete tangent or do you see your point as bearing on whether frontier AI research should be banned? (If so, I cannot tell whether you consider your point to support a ban or oppose a ban.)
So you make the street parking paid.

It’s insane that so much land is dedicated to giving people free space to store their personal vehicles.

“But that’s unfair!” People can take the bus.

“But the bus service isn’t good!” That’s because no one uses the bus, if there’s demand, supply will be added. The biggest determinant of transit use is the availability of parking.
None of these techniques are actionable. So what, someone is training AI, it's not like anyone is proposing restricting that. People are trying to make a distinction between "bad AI" and "good AI", like that is a possibility, and that's what the argument basically is, that it's impossible to differentiate or detect the difference between those, and signing declarations pretending you can is worse than useless.
All these work well on our devices, old and new. Y2K wants its talking points back.
Nah, the dial-a-hitman militarized trigger happy police force still sounds like the bigger issue, by an order of magnitude...
1. So if the problem is that war frequently breaks out between them, then in order to fix it, China is (or at least seems to be) willing to go to war with Taiwan? The cure is the disease.

2. China is not all of humanity and all of history. I cite the US and Canada as a counterexample.
Maybe just open an issue and provide the ffmpeg command then
The quality doesn't matter if consumers aren't willing to step into the showroom. YoY sales are cratering, down 50% (!!!) in Europe. That's catastrophic for a "quality product".
One of the lead researchers in KM3NeT mentioned that the particle was emitting 2 horse power in light during detector transit. A typical body builder expends about 1 horse power while performing, so its 2 body builders in a single particle.
718 videos https://www.youtube.com/@StrangeLoopConf
The discoverer had these choices:

- monetize the bug themselves; i.e. set up a site where you can submit a YouTube user id, pay some fee using your credit card and get an e-mail address.

- report that they have the ability to convert any YouTube id to an e-mail, with proof: then negotiate over compensation for the disclosure of the details

- just report the problem and be happy with whatever they get.

Ten grand doesn't look too bad for the most timid choice.
I wouldn't be surprised if EU has their own competitor within a year or so.
To me, an outsider looking in, she seems to have reasonable positions.

She's anti-war.

She believes that there's a military-industrial complex that is unduly incented to promote war.

And then that ultimate sin: she visited, in-person, a secular dictator in the middle-east who was accused of committing genocide. So did American news channel anchors. As a Congressperson (or maybe ex-Congressperson) who had served in active duty in the US military, she had every right to visit and talk to the guy. Build bridges and all that.

It completely baffles me how everyone accuses her of being Putin's agent.

If she's Putin's agent, then produce the evidence and arrest her!

Sorry. I just watched a video on YT which shows the timeline of when the mainstream (media and politicians) turned against her: as soon as she came out as being anti-war.
I implemented something similar years ago, but much simpler/less sophisticated.

Unicode has two non-printing space characters: zero-width space (U+200B) and zero-width joiner (U+200D). This allows you to encode arbitrary data in binary. I would give an example, but HN seems to strip this :(
We all prefer to use TVs for non-shorts YouTube because of the larger screen size. Since they are already using their TVs to watch regular YouTube there is no reason to switch to another device to watch shorts.
I am actually in the UK...

I started with a genuine question, which has strangely been downvoted, and the many replies went in all directions except providing an actual reply...

Regarding "the UK has become a police state" so if I understand when privacy groups say it HN agrees but when Musk says it it is unhinged and fascist... right. Now, I don't agree with the claim but how it is received is telling...

> they put out that three girls had been murdered by an asylum seeke

Which should show you that Musk had a point! That is exactly symptomatic of how things are going in a worrying direction in Europe regarding immigration. The issue is that people don't want to see and certainly not when Musk is telling them because that would be "far right " or "fascist"...
We did a lot of work at https://www.quillmeetings.com to build a diarization & speaker recognition pipeline that works locally on mac and windows. Basically, we can create embeddings of parts of the audio, like you might create embeddings for text for a RAG system, and cluster them (simplifying a lot of details from the "last 80%" that has taken a lot of effort to get working...)

The speaker recognition can't be as perfect as listening to each stream separately like Zoom itself can do, but it also learns your contacts over time and can recognize voices for ad-hoc in-person meetings, etc. which I've found really magical since we launched it.
I don't understand what went wrong here, for a while the Nissan Leaf was _the_ economical all electric sedan. Toyota was and still is dragging their feet on it and Nissan had a lead for years just to blow it?
What makes you think that? That's what the last generations said about us and it turned out to not be true.
> Sure. From the employers perspective, I get the appeal of references.

Respectfully, it doesn't seem like you do. References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes. An example for Anthropic is if the employee might be exposed to medical data, then reference checks can be used as part of a larger validation of employee identity to satisfy HIPAA requirements.

Amazon and others have the importance of reference checks baked into their agreements for those who work with them.
I use Guake for this. I have it configured to fire up Tmux and then I have it bound to Ctrl Alt T, and it drops down a terminal anywhere I am: any desktop, any screen. I didn't read the entire article (I don't think it's particularly well-written or stems from any particular expertise in the domain), but I doubt the author addresses the huge advantage I see with terminal multiplexers, which is it allows me to cut and paste from the terminal without using a mouse, and allows me to log scroll back and capture sessions effectively in any terminal emulator I use, not just a fancy one like iTerm2.
This tracks. I recently upgraded from 100mbps to 500mbps (cable), and barely anything is different— even torrents bumped from 5MB/s to barely 10MB/s. And there's no wifi involved there, just a regular desktop on gigabit ethernet.
> I definitely knew a lot of people who end up heading over to the US though. Lot of people who come back because living in the US is miserable for a lot of em though!

As a country, Japan (probably) wants the opposite, where the talented spend their most productive years in Japan and the most negative-productive (elderly healthcare costs, pension, etc.) years elsewhere. I'm not denigrating the individuals though, ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.
You could imagine a God who is infinitely delightful. If he's the only thing in existence, he could delight in himself without end and would not be wrong in doing so, being actually delightful.

Having no limitation of knowledge or thought, he could think about himself. His thoughts would not be deficient in any detail, and thus would be an exact representation of himself. [1]

He could delight in that representation with his whole being, and that would be yet another full representation of himself. And thus he would not be alone or sad.

And he could have the propensity of emanating his delightfulness, expressing it outwards like light out of a star. And that emanation could be expressed as the creation of everything else. [2]

[1] https://ccel.org/ccel/edwards/trinity/trinity.i.html?queryID...

[2] https://ccel.org/ccel/edwards/works1.iv.ii.html
I for one, also welcome our new Omnissiah overlords.
> We are destroying software by no longer taking complexity into account

What books can anyone recommend on software complexity ?

I'm looking to assert or challenge my intuitions around software complexity that I've built in the last decade.

Also to drive meaningful conversations around it. Having published material helps
Agreed. I was in eighth grade and even I knew Apple was making an ApplePhone.
Sturgeon's Law is fractal, I have also been to three and don't regret it. Your frame of mind shapes an experience as much as the actual experience.
Where are you that it's only $15? It's $60 around here.
Exactly, I prefer to call them "racist and discriminatory" too.
The doomerism on AI is frankly, barking madness, a lack of sense of probability and scale, mixed with utterly batshit paranoia.

It is like living paralyzed in fear of every birth, for fear that random variance will produce one baby born smarter than Einstein will be capable of developing an infinite cascade of progressively smarter babies and concluding that therefore we must stop all breeding. No matter how smart the baby super-Einstein winds up being there is no unstoppable, unopposable omnicide mechanism. You can't theorem your way out of a paper bag.
Considering the fact that Jon despises open-source you might be waiting a long time.
with LLMs able to generate infinite synthetic data to train on it seems like AGI is just around the corner
data Viz for it's own sake might be design - in real applications, you always have a story you're trying to tell - and it doesn't go away just because you're not consciously aware of it.
Yes.

The person who wanted a single family house with easy parking moves out of the way for other people who don't have those requirements and frees up more space for businesses and apartments who prioritize being in the center as opposed to living in inefficient single housing with a car.

I don't get the argument that its some type of right to have a single family house in an urban center with a place to park your car in front. Thats a luxury.
US Coast Guard releases suspected audio recording of Titan submersible implosion
France and the UK have nukes precisely because they did not believe that a country would be willing to risk total destruction to protect another country.
So your prediction is that chinese EVs manage to take over and destroy the Japanese car market, but the American auto market somehow gets a pass and Tesla wins? Why would Tesla be any more able to withstand cars that cost like 1/2 for similar quality, and why wouldn't that same calculus apply to their "halo" products? Are the Chinese fundamentally incapable of building a luxury EV? And if Tesla somehow sees that an EV halo product is their only chance for survival, why wouldn't current halo manufacturers like BMW and Mercedes and Lexus also try for that market, and why are they sure to fail while Tesla succeeds?

And maybe your response to all of the above is that Tesla will not be allowed to fail as part of an industrial strategy on the part of America, in which case the question is why would the other domestic manufacturers like Ford and GM be allowed to fall by the wayside? And further, why would Japan not also embark on a similar strategy and prop up their domestic manufacturers?

Any way you look at it, a prediction that China wins out everywhere except for plucky old Tesla moving into the "Apple" position seems like some sort of bizarre partisanship/home team support that doesn't stand up to a moment of scrutiny.
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43027150
Who are you advertising to? What is the risk of getting caught or getting scammed back while trying to receive your payment?

I feel like you are just taking into account the theoretical max value of a bad actor having these accounts, not the cost/risk of using this knowledge.

I could have the master key of a bank safe with 100MM worth of gold in the basement, but it's value is going to be nowhere near that, even to bad actors.
Why does apple still do this? Surely there's some other way they can implement whatever functionality these files provide? The collective number of man hours wasted on this issue is probably centuries by this point.
Assuming a decent AI and robotics, is a lot of working age population still a good thing? Or just more mouths to feed?
It's time to put an end to this fashionable and literal anti-human attitude. There's no comparative advantage to AI replacing humans en-masse because of how "stupid" we are. This POV is advocating for incalculable suffering and death. You personally will not be in a better or more rational position after this transition, you'll simply be dead.
We do this at quillmeetings.com - the audio stays on your device and is transcribed by whisper. We also do speaker splitting and recognition with a combination of models. If you share or sync notes/meetings they are e2e encrypted.

FYI, the transcript-only product is free forever (it's local, so why not?), but generating AI notes, interpreting screenshots if you enable that, etc. are in the Pro plan and do require using a cloud API.
Fantasy is precisely the right word.
Ok, that's pretty neat sounding. I'm behind the times with a 15 year old Saturn that's fully manual controls (except headlights turning on).

My temperature adjustments are the old fashioned "what temperature air to blow" and not "I want this end result temperature", so my previous comment is a whole different paradigm. Thinking about it, with more recent rentals, I haven't messed with temperature controls much either.
Vine is compensated with free products to review, but I don’t think they’re paid beyond that.

They are also not experts, generally.
Prominent youtuber doxxed and killed; terrible press extended for an extended period by litigation. 1 in 5000 but very high cost.

Large scale data leak and need for data leak disclosure. 1 in 3, moderate cost.

Bug report saving engineering time by giving clear report of issue instead of having to dig through telemetry and figure out misuse and then identify what is going on, extents of past damage, etc. 3 in 4.
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I’m not tempted by ungrounded explanations lacking logic or reason, but I am tempted to wander off the reservation. History suggests every theory used to organize our understanding of the world will fail to adequately capture something, and that better theories with more explanatory power often require entertaining things deemed outside the realm of plausible explanation. Conscious experience appears to be one of those things we haven’t managed to adequately explain.

I can also think of many first and second order explanations for NDEs that don’t require any change in explanatory paradigm, but the fact that all physical phenomenon are based on observations of our conscious experience of the physical world makes any purely experiential phenomenon like NDEs a different class of phenomenon than physically measurable phenomenon.
Yeah, my recollection of the past couple decades is many companies felt like: "Someone else will surely train up the junior developers, we'll just hire them away after they know what they're doing." This often went with an oddly-bewildered: "Wow, why is it so hard to find good candidates?"

I don't see how that trend would change much just because junior developers can use LLMs as a crutch. (Well, except when it helps them cheat at an interview that wasn't predictive of what the job really needed.)
> because you know the other person is real

Technically both are real people, one is just not human. At least by the person/people definition that would include sentient aliens and such.
Yeah I think the level of diminishing returns takes a while to reach when you're taking about flights. I'd be thrilled to drop a 6 hour flight down to 3 hours. Or 1.5. Or 45 minutes. Or 20. Or 10. Or instantaneous teleportation.

But if there are little to no applications for faster Internet speeds -- which for the most part there aren't -- then it just kinda doesn't matter.
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