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Warranty is in no way predicated on issues of copyright or ability to backup. Warranty law applies to a copy of A Court of Thorns and Roses the same way it applies to a copy of Frankenstein.

Warranty is about fitness for use, merchantability, and honoring sales contracts. It has nothing to do with issues of intellectual property.

If you sold someone a book, filled with public domain content, and the ink faded after a week, you can't just throw up your hands and say that the buyer should have made another copy. You'd likely be liable for warranty of merchantability.
The slippery slope fallacy is not just the argument style, it is when the argument style is used by the event being held up as a cause is not justifiably believed to be likely to lead to the cited effect. (It is an informal fallacy, rather than a deductive fallacy, and, as such, requires evaluation of evidence, not mere shape of the argument.)

Also, neither deductive nor informal fallacies mean that the conclusion of an argument is wrong, in any case, so the conclusion of an argument being right does not disprove (or even provide strong counterevidence) that the argument contained a fallacy. Fallacies are about whether and to what degree a conclusion is supported by the reasoning (and evidence, in the case of informal fallacies) offered to support it, not about whether or not it is true.
yes, that's the point.
Bitcoin’s transparency isn't just an oversight; it's strategic necessity. Yes, it enables surveillance but that same visibility is precisely what allowed Bitcoin to become a mainstream financial powerhouse rather than a fringe curiosity.

The uncomfortable truth? Absolute privacy sounds appealing until it hits the cold, political reality: total anonymity is kryptonite to regulators, institutions, and mass adoption.

What I didn't fully acknowledge earlier is that transparency, despite its risks, is Bitcoin’s Trojan horse, its necessary concession to widespread legitimacy.

Monero might promise a purer dream, but purity without pragmatism risks relegating cryptocurrency to irrelevance.

The solution isn't blind faith in either extreme but a strategic synthesis: Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Taproot, and advanced mixing technologies layered onto Bitcoin’s transparent base.

Privacy shouldn't replace transparency…it should refine it.

Navigating this paradox is where the real genius lies, and that's what's needed to push my argument from compelling to undeniable.
What’s the tell?
Starship Troupers, the book, was explicitly pro war.
I bounce back and forth. First dir() then help()...
Ballmer would have caught this earlier.

Watch.

Nadella will not steer this correctly
Too bad; it was a great story. Still, they managed to communicate, in an emergency, using 1 photon/sec/m^2 !?
Never come close to breaking even? You can now get a GPT-4 class model for 1-2% of what it cost when they originally released it. They’re going to drive this even further down with the amount of CAPEX pouring into AI / data centers. It’s pretty obvious that’s their plan when they serve ChatGPT at a “loss”.
When do you decide it is time to go for an idea?
Used to work in quant and data analytics space for about 5+ years before upping to do a master's in math. Had a nagging issue at work for about 5 years, and increasingly feel like there should be a solution. A couple of mates and I did a bunch of user interviews and forum questioning, noticed a clear problem, and that people are using subpar solutions they hate (or bootstrapping their own in-house).

Some questions I guess, if anyone has experience:
1. We are math people. would investors balk that we aren't from CS?
2. How can you really tell if people will pay for new products or just suffer through their current solutions?
3. Someone from a small build accelerator told us we need to really ask people if they will hypothetically pay for a solution.

P.S. I kinda push back on 3 because it really doesn't tell you anything about if people actually will pay for something and it forces the convo into a will you pay for my idea kinda space but I could be wrong.

Thanks for the help :)
As of recently, Jiff with time zone support can now be used in a no_std project. :-)

https://docs.rs/jiff/latest/jiff/tz/index.html#core-only-env...
Honest question from someone who doesn't know much about crypto stuff:

What about the whole majority control thing? If another nation decides to scoop up a "controlling share" could they somehow gain control of the ledger? Could that be part of the reasoning in any way?
the rise of crypto broke that board
Certainly not in Pravda.
That amount is standard at EPFL and ETH, but I don't know about the USA.
I think private is an origin, not an opinion.
Gold is traditionally the currency of international exchange, where you can't use any one country's currency. One can imagine a crisis that reverts international markets to using gold like this, at which pointing having a reserve would be useful.
All the interesting benefits of LLM/generative AI grow exponentially with the intelligence of the model. There's no point in a 90% capable model, except something like replacing phone trees or extremely bad customer service.

A model that is 50% less likely to try to prove false theorems tho is much more useful than than one that happily tries.

I'm not sure that HN folks appreciate this, but making commercial software is way easier than math and science (all the evidence you need, except the experience of understand QFT or advanced mathematics) is found in HN itself.
The world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm
I've got bitrotted cds that the case says lifetime warranty or something similar. Of course, it also doesn't include contact information for getting a replacement, and I don't have a receipt for cds I bought 30 years ago, so there's that.
Terrific criticism. Rings true. I've never done it (directly). Only watched teams and teammates get sucked into that void. Sadly, they eschewed most of your list.

I do know that Google strategically used A/B testing to determine the precise shade of corn flower blue for some UI widgets.

> Run usability tests.

Maybe the point of A/B testing is to avoid all that battle tested and validated '90s era process and methodological nonsense.

(As though a design could stumble thru a solution space to some local maximum. Like an optimization problem.)

I also kept thinking of that SQA cliché "You can't test your way to quality."
Minesweeper Pro
That’s an interesting resource:

> In an interview with CNN in April 2024, American Sunlight Project executive director Nina Jankowicz claimed that investigations into so-called disinformation researchers make the U.S. less safe. 14 Shortly after the organization was launched in April 2024, Jankowicz sent a letter to U.S. Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), James Comer (R-KY), and Dan Bishop (R-NC) claiming that they have “done little to improve the health of our information environment” since the 2016 presidential election. 15 16 The group also alleged that they intimidated disinformation researchers through the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government 2 and that Jordan, Comer, and Bishop’s actions have led to federal agencies doing less to censor online speech in the name of disinformation. 17

Ah yes, the answer to bad
-think is to censor it using the federal government.
LLMs are text generators.
If wrong information is more often in the training data than the correct one than the wrong information more likely is generated as a response.

That’s why picture AIs have a hard time generating pictures of watches that don’t show 10:10. Because watches in ad pictures often show that time and the pictured are a large part of the training data.
Comments like these are literally why I come to HN honestly. It’s such a wonderful community here.
Well, it works 24/7 as long as you have a human telling it what to do. And checking all the output because these cannot be trusted to work alone.
If your data/leaf/heap pages hold indexed cells PostgreSQL-style [1], 16-bit in-page offset limits your page size to 64KB. On the other hand, physical memory frame size usually is 4KB or larger, so going below that is not really productive.

Having said that, both PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL has 8KB page size, while original SQLite had 1KB pages, before switching to 4KB, while still supporting 64KB pages. On top of that, Microsoft SQL operates internally on extents of 8 pages (64 KB) instead of a single page, but still pretends to use 4 KB pages [2].

In other words - no idea.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout....

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/p...
That is insane! Kudos!
> CRC was founded in 1984 by Willa Johnson, former senior vice president of The Heritage Foundation, deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel in the first term of the Reagan administration, and a legislative aide in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Journalist and author Marvin Olasky previously served as a senior fellow at CRC.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Research_Center
Germans aren't corrupt so much as psychotically trusting. Basically a country of scam victims who'll listen to anyone who wants them to shut down nuclear plants, buy Russian gas, conquer Europe, etc.
It does (work over ssh).
Pretty neat: reconnect to the host and you see all the terminals you left open.
So the goal initially is going to be to create a "constitution." Basically a document that outlines your voice, or whatever.

From there, you can create examples for every sentence and classify them... ie "this is a good example" or "this is almost a good example."

Then, after you have a good enough enough number of human versions (idk this number yet), you can use those to create dozens more examples, refine, etc... then at some point you've thoroughly described a document enough that there's no more delta. Then you can use the document to train / finetune / infer.

The effects are that the "instincts" of the model (if on the training / weights) or the "thoughts" of the model (at inference time) are closer to a well vetted baseline.
If we're working under the definition that it's something which is true regardless of how a person feels about it, then I think it can be found through non-verbal means.

For example, if I claim to my insurance company that my house burned down yesterday, they are going to want objective measurements to ensure that's true.

The problem comes down to what happens the further away from an event you get. I can claim my house burned down twenty years ago and it would be more difficult to prove me wrong. But you could still use things like police reports, satellite photographs, interviewing people alive at that time, etc. to provide what I would consider objective truth. Of course, you can always play the pessimist view and assume everyone and everything is a lie. Which is valid, I suppose, but not very useful.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/05/openai-reportedly-plans-to...

It points to an article on "The Information" as the source, but that link is paywalled.
There are plenty of occasions where retuning a promise is a good thing. I am often saddened to see how much "await"ing is done which could be avoided. Otherwise you are just turning asynchronous into synchronous.
If we send a person on a one-way mission to the moon to make sure that the instruments are able to work properly, we would have better return on the investment.
Cannot legally back up depends heavily on the specifics. For a long time (IDK about currently) it was legal to rip your own discs for backup purposes, and even to break the encryption as long as you did it yourself. So it was potentially legal but not necessarily within reach to do it legally. And that is, of course, wrong. There should never be any uncertainty about whether you can back up the media you purchased.

Saying you're "renting" the disc is just plain disingenuous, though. You own it free and clear. You can give it to anyone you like, for free or for a profit (i.e. how Netflix did things back in the day). The original owner is not asserting the right to come and take it back from you. It is in no way a rental, it is a sale.
> By asking ChatGPT about "Russian narratives."

This is so stupid. ChatGPT is inferring the expected response tone from your question. Which means you could get it to argue pretty much anything with guided questions. I got it to admit its going to destroy humanity. Or that there is a likely a covert alien invasion in progress. All that with none of those "pretend you're X" prompts, just back-and-forth banter.

Journalists should really have a mandatory course on what an llm is before being allowed to publish this kind of clickbait.
Yeah, honestly this might have been too early of a launch, but kind of just want to put something out and then iterate.
Most cyptos don't run on majority control. The rules of Bitcoin, for example, will never be changed.
Or on any major US news network
Can it code? Because after seeing webpages be altered with misinformation/BIAS, AI hallucinate, wikipedia 'moderators' put literal lies on pages and lock the pages from being edited based on their own power hunger and emotions.. none of this surprises me. Check out the real history of Christopher Columbus, who not only didn't discover America, but slaughtered everybody, and the history was given as migrants came to America and it sounded better when an author wrote whatever sounded better than what actually happened in a book so they just adopted that it would be the new history, and they-- being the leaders of the United States at the time.

History gets amnesia. People forget. They don't care. As children, they're 'taught' that 'this is what happened' and 'this is how it is' and 'this is how you must think for yourselves' and as we grow older we must learn and unlearn and keep doing that as we go while fighting the urge to bitch about things running circles going nowhere.

Humans infected AI tools.

Solve that problem, you'll solve some 'Moscow' problem.
That is the most clever part of bitcoin. To do this one would need to have 51% of the hash rate which would be VERY expensive.
> I've no problems believing that Marsalek is a Russian agent, but Bellingcat is of course funded by the National Endowment for Democracy

One, in part. Two, are you challenging Bellingcat’s credibility? On what grounds other than affiliation? They’ve been pretty spot on with all of their calls to my recollection.

Three, if you don’t like Bellingcat, maybe check out Marsalek’s Wikipedia page’s source list before creating a throwaway account to post a comment.
The biggest selling point of those handheld readers bars use is to gather data from your ID, not to in any way verify your age. It's the exact opposite of what you said.
The BBC programme: https://youtu.be/pJC9o3bpujI?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8B-g03RivIMt7l....
> History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.

That's a nice sound bite, but history is a lot more than that. That's why we have historians, archeologists and material basis of history.

We should strive to get closer to practical reality.
In what world is what they are doing masterful? Their product marketing is a huge mess, they keep changing the names of everything every few months. Nobody knows which Copilot does what anymore. It really feels like they're scrambling to be first to market. It all feels so incredibly rushed.

Whatever is there doesn't work half the time. They're hugely dependent on one partner that could jump ship at any moment (granted they are now working to get away from that).

We use Copilot at work but I find it very lukewarm. If we weren't a "Microsoft shop" I don't think would have chosen it.
Absolutely. Anyone senior should be able to fairly quickly get a handle on the requirements for a particular project and put forward a well-reasoned opinion on an appropriate tech stack for it. There might be some blank space in there for "I've heard of X and Y that actually might fit this use case slightly better, so it's probably worth a brief investigation of those options, but I've used Z before so I know about the corner cases we may run into, and that has value too."
Monotype and Phototypesetting (2000) [pdf]
$3k/month is the very top of the market.
Surely it just needs to be 6 times lower? ;)
Yep. I've seen more people fired for being passionate about their craft and their jobs than people getting raises for the same reason.

It's always the same. People trying to make things better for the next developer, people prioritizing delivers instead of ego-projects or ego-features by someone playing politics, developers wanting a seat at the table with (dysfunctional) Product teams, people actual good intentions trying to "change the world" (not counting the misguided attempts here).

You are 100% correct, you gotta play the politics, period.
Sam Bankman-Fried hints at becoming a Republican
I think vtune and toplev will report that as a frontend stall in their topdown metrics.
Intended use was playing at 1x. I don't think many players had a fast-forward either, just skip tracks or skip a few seconds by seeking the laser.
I was thinking of something more along the lines of a large set of Obelisks.
"no method of age verification is both privacy-protective and entirely accurate."

No method of age verification is entirely actuate. It seem a hardline stance that we can't think up a process that would allow for a reasonable level of accuracy with privacy. It could literally be drawing a usb token from a bucket full of them after a human at the DMV visually checks your license.
Ah, so not ownership of coins but computing power.
This entire administration is a giant grift. A to Z: from cheap MAGA merch manufactured in Bengladesh to obvious conflicts of interests in DOGE, POTUS-endorsed crypto pump and dumps and insane bribery of almost every elected official.
It's clear that OpenAI has peaked. Possibly because the AI hype in general has peaked, but I think moreso because the opportunity has become flooded and commoditized, and only the fetishists are still True Believers (which is something we saw during the crypto hype days, but most at the time decried it).

Nothing against them, but the solutions have become commoditized, and OpenAI is going to lack the network effects that these other companies have.

Perhaps there will be new breakthroughs in the near future that produce even more value, but how long can a moat be sustained? All of them in AI are filled in faster than the are dug.
> scrambling to be first

Third?
That is actually very accurate
Yes, unlike the "player" in a 4x game, there's too much discontinuity in administrations between decades. Makes it very easy to kick the can down the road.
He wants a pardon so yeah, will also cost money.
Especially never invade the part of Russia that's in Asia, in winter.
Had to ask Claude for a summary in simple terms. Is this allowed here?

This paper proposes a new approach to understanding gravity by connecting it to concepts from statistical mechanics and information theory. Here's a breakdown of the key ideas:

The author, Ginestra Bianconi, develops a theory where:

1. Spacetime geometry is treated as a quantum object, specifically as an "effective density matrix"
2. Matter fields are described topologically using what's called a "Dirac-Kähler formalism"
3. The interaction between matter and geometry is captured through a mathematical concept called "quantum relative entropy"

The theory introduces a "G-field" that serves as a link between matter and geometry. When this mathematical framework is developed, it produces modified Einstein equations that:

- Reduce to standard Einstein equations in certain conditions
- Generate a small positive cosmological constant (potentially explaining dark energy)
- Result in second-order equations that might avoid certain mathematical problems

The potential impacts of this work include:

- Providing new insights into quantum gravity (combining quantum mechanics and general relativity)
- Offering a possible explanation for dark matter through the properties of the G-field
- Creating a mathematical framework that connects geometry, information theory, and quantum mechanics

The paper builds on the author's previous work but extends it to a fully continuous, Lorentz-invariant theory that can describe real physics in four-dimensional spacetime.
Deep Research isn’t your average AI browser, it’s a relentless investigator. Built on the o3 model (a leap beyond ChatGPT’s earlier GPT-4 backbone), it boasts a multi-threaded research engine that tackles queries from multiple angles simultaneously. Picture it: while one thread scours recent breakthroughs in natural language processing, another traces parallel advances in computer vision—all within a single, cohesive analysis. OpenAI claims this parallelism boosts efficiency by up to 40% compared to sequential processing in tools like Perplexity or Google’s NotebookLM, based on internal benchmarks from late 2024.
> I've no problems believing that Marsalek is a Russian agent, but Bellingcat is of course funded by the National Endowment for Democracy ...

One of the most consistently useful lessons I've learned online is that you can spot uninformed low-trust dismissals because they're always based on how someone is "funded" by someone else or advise "following the money" but their theory of how this works either doesn't exist or is obviously wrong.

Very common in /r/science for instance. They won't read a paper or check if it's preregistered etc. but they will complain if it was sponsored by someone at all associated with the topic of the paper.
I mean, obviously? There is no good reason to go all in on OpenAI for Microsoft?

Also a bit hyperbolic. I'm sure there are good reasons Microsoft would want to build it's own products on top of their own models and have more fine control of things. That doesn't mean they are plotting a future where they do nothing at all with OpenAI.
I heard that Nvidia's graph cards are the best in the class in terms of power consumption vs TFLOP ration. I wonder what's the number of AMD vs Nvidia? I would like to see the number because power consumption is going to take a big portion of AI training. In comparsion, hardware might not be that expensive in the long run.
I have very slight astigmatism. I don't wear glasses when I ride my motorbike because they're a pain with the helmet. I don't have issues, but when I drive a car, I usually wear them. The difference is that I can see traffic signs much further away, especially at night. I do wear them when working at the computer, since I find they help with eye strain, but I do like using high-definition displays and prefer my text an widgets on the smaller side.

I only ever get blurry vision after very long days in front of the computer without doing anything else (think 12-14 hours). I doubt this is glasses related, since I remember having this issue while studying late as a child, and at the time I had perfect vision (which lasted until my late twenties when my ophthalmologist suggested glasses would be a good idea).
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus 1 week earlier
Man, the next Vessyl is going to be intense...
How do I place flag on mobile?
Admins: is job a scam / collecting resumes? The same person left a comment on another job saying they hire outside of US.
To be clear, I'm against U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine, but I still very much respect my European friends. I was just travelling there not too long ago. I think sometimes people with my perspective get locked into the "anti-European" group due to our views on the Ukraine war.
PubGrub version solving algorithm implemented in Rust