skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> No other function can be smaller than the actual function that generates the observations.

You mean if I write a shitty program that takes the string "hello", copies it 10 million times and stores the copies, and then generates a single copy any time I run it, there's no algorithm that can achieve a better compression than that because "no other function can be smaller than the actual function that generates the observations"?

I suggest, before coming up with fancy theories about compression and intelligence, that you read a bit about computer science, first. For instance, read up on information theory, and maybe about Kolmogorov complexity, the abstractions that people who swear that "compression <something something> intelligence" are basing their ideas on.
I think they probably meant the opposite. There's an statistics-illiterate subreddit for FiveThirtyEight, which largely refused to believe any poll that said that Kamala was going to lose, and heavily pushed any poll that reinforced the idea that Kamala would come out ahead.
The battery life and performance improvements alone would be worth the upgrade to me at that point.
> In particular, your project automatically gets a bug tracker – and you don’t get a choice about what bug tracker to use, or what it looks like. If you use Gitlab, you’re using the Gitlab bug tracker. The same goes for the pull request / merge request system.

With Forgejo (Codeberg) you can toggle features such as pull requests, issues, etc.

You can also configure any external issue tracker or wiki apparently, though I've never tried it, because those included with the forge are good enough for me.
If you can keep it on the road. I have a 25 year old car too. I spend more on maintenance than fuel (I only drove it 2000 miles last year) Parts are getting hard to find. There is rust that would be expensive to fix.
> fly to New Zealand

It's a 7700nmi trip:

* http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?MS=wls&DU=nm&P=KJFK-NZAA

Not many private jets (or even commercial ones) can do non-stop:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Global_7500

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfstream_G650/G700/G800
I think its more than just a "few selection locations". Its the majority of major metropolitan areas.

Especially with Uber, Doordash, Instacart, etc. Having a car is almost a liability in many instances.

Now I agree this gets to be a dodgy proposition if you have kids, and the further out you are from major pop centers. Suburbs maybe, rural areas are definitely out.

I did for many years and definitely contributed to the economy
Honestly this would be an improvement over the status quo. You get a choice in the matter, and unlike it being sprung on you after you bought it, you presumably would know upfront.
As soon as that happens, I drop them. There’s no reality in which I pay someone money to watch ads. Absolutely not.

I suppose it will be a bigger deal for folks who really enjoy TV and don’t want to miss it. But man… I can’t help but think of how much better myself and my family will be if they push me over that edge.

FAFO, Hulu, FAFO.
Michael Moore did something very close to this in the mid-90s for his briefly-lived TV Nation. Parked a series of cars in front of the home of a car alarm company CEO and set them off.
8 YoE checking in. I have a github, but that's about it and even that is mostly geared toward my endeavors to go full-stack. The fact is that no one cares. In my area of expertise (restful web apps with a spring-java-jpa stack) you don't really need to look at someone's whole project in order to tell if they're experienced and knowledgable. Often it's just a matter of a quick conversation or some pair coding. "Build me a ReSTful API using spring that takes in a string and returns the reverse", and we sit on a call together while you do that, followed by "describe to me a piece of functionality that you built that you're proud of, and another one that you were frustrated by" with some followup questions for each. It's how every interview I've ever participated in, on either side, worked.
I can't find it right now, but the Financial Times ran an article a few months ago about how YouTube is the world's most useful website, period, because it has everything imaginable: Not just entertainment, but also educational content. In a real sense, YouTube is the planet's #1 teacher.
What is your workload that this machine helps with?
This assumes that no other manufacturer will put ads in their cars. Hopefully that's the case!

I think the concern is that once/if a critical mass of manufacturers include in-car ads, the rest can follow (because people still need vehicles in most areas), and the consumer has no more choice.
> This is some Black Mirror type dystopian vision of the future for me.

Indeed. I always assumed this was the impetus for FSD: these vehicles confine the most captive audience, so they will be a surveillance/advertising gold mine.
Wow, that is an extraordinarily ugly laptop. Reminds me of a classic Onion bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Are they being held there indefinitely? I was under the impression it was a temporary relocation until they could be forwarded to country of origin? But I frankly can't remember if I've seen any argument from the govt about why they're sending them to gitmo
I’m beginning to think the lumpy intelligence theory is true… that if someone is way above average in some area they must also be below average in some other area(s).

The only exceptions being literal super-geniuses.
Porting LangGraph to Java in One Weekend? (With Claude Code)
For the teen's laptop, you can simply get the base model. Even a base M1 is more than fast enough.
Jeep hasn't built anything worth a damn since Chrysler picked it up off of AMC in its dying breaths, and MOPAR has not ever built anything that wasn't a flaming pile of shit for many, many decades. It's a shame, you'll never see another useful great vehicle like an XJ, YJ or CJ-8, and if you try (like Mahindra did with the Roxor) and it looks too much like a "Jeep" you'd better bet Chrysler is going to shut that shit down quick.

You should have said that people who buy Fiat Chrysler are basically blind and undiscerning because the whole company basically operates on generating total garbage with few exceptions (some Cummins powered trucks be among those).
The Germans have the money, the largest GDP in the EU and France is a distant second (would be third if you counted the UK though).

At the end of the day there is no EU without Germany, and as we've seen with Ukraine, waging a war without funds is like trying to breathe in a vacuum.
Today the most common use is is as a store of value.

If you have excess cash, be it $100 or $1 million and keep it in dollars, you'll loose ~8% a year, which is the historical yearly rate of US money printing which is the real inflation (not the fake 2%; check the inflation of health care plans, college education or housing).

To preserve that value you can do simple / safe (bank savings account rate, bonds, S&P 500 etc.) and underperform that 8%.

If you want to match / outperform that 8% (i.e. not loose money over time) you have to become a successful (better than average) stock investor or invest in real estate with all the hassles it involves (like managing tenants).

Or you can invest in Bitcoin, which, historically, over 4 years, outperforms dollars, gold, us stocks.

Bitcoin outperforms dollars because US can (and does) print as many dollars as it wants, whenever it wants. Bitcoin has a fixed limit of 21 million bitcoins. You can't print more bitcoin than that therefore you can't devalue bitcoin.

It's even worse in countries like Niger or Argentina because they print even more money than US, causing even greater inflation, making it ever more important to park assets in non-inflationary asset.

If you self custody bitcoin, you remove the risk your money will get confiscated by the government or bank.

In some countries you can already pay directly in Bitcoin.

In US you can use Strike to basically store you net worth in Bitcoin and convert to cash (dollars) to pay for stuff.
> people seem to genuinely believe, for example, that the US is betraying NATO by not supporting Ukraine

You’re correct in this being incorrect.

The informed concern is in Trump and Musk’s coziness towards Putin. That brings up questions around what, if anything, Trump would do if Putin annexed Latvia.
This fight is about providing encryption to the masses. If you want to use your own open source security solution, you should definitely do that (really!). But you will be one of a small number of people doing so. And a society where only a small number of "wizards" have freedom isn't a free society at all.

I am very sympathetic to the idea that more components should be open source, and Apple's systems should be much more open (particularly backup.) But at the end of the day if Apple is compromised there is no open source solution that can save you. They design the silicon.
This is disgusting. It's already getting hard to find new cars that don't include a bunch of "features" that make the experience worse. Something as greedy and adversarial as turning a personal vehicle into an ad platform is a hard no from me; I will never purchase a car with this included.

My one hope is that there are enough car manufacturers on the market for competition to stifle this. That doesn't work in many areas of tech because they are controlled by a monopoly or duopoly. Chrome is free to dump all over users because Google leveraged their other monopolies to drive out competition and gain a browser monopoly.

This kind of anti-consumer behavior that tech pioneered has really lowered my opinion of the whole industry.
The realistic answer is to say that Ukraine is going to be supplied with weapons for as long as needed, case closed. The whole Russian strategy after the initial blitz failure was to wait for Trump to get into power, who telegraphed to anyone with the brain, that he doesn't care about Ukraine and loves Putin very much. Russia can't do it forever, but it focused on appearing "strong" until the elections, the bet that paid off for them. Now imagine they were facing a prospect of non-friendly US administrations for decades, they would've already stopped.
I’m simple on that notion: Russia is our adversary.

They have assassinated people in the EU and UK. Sabotaged our pipelines. Paid anti EU politicians. Threatened EU powers. Shot down civilian flights. Made plans to invade the Baltics.

They are an adversary. We have weapons and an army. We should neutralize that adversary.

Russia has currently lost momentum in Ukraine. So they are seeking a temporary peace, to rebuild. Logic dictates that we start behaving as their adversary. To not give them any benefit, and build on that momentum to keep them diminished.
To quote the The NSW police board's report, written around 1987 when Trump put in a bid to open Sydney's first casino:

"Atlantic City would be a dubious model for Sydney and in our judgement, the Trump mafia connections should exclude the Kern/Trump consortium"

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-31/trump-chinese-triads-...
The Alpha architecture was 64-bit from the very beginning (though the amount of addressable virtual memory and physical memory depends on the processor implementation).

I think it goes something like:

- 2106x/EV4: 34-bit physical, 43-bit virtual
- 21164/EV5: 40-bit physical, 43-bit virtual
- 21264/EV6: 44-bit physical, 48-bit virtual

The EV6 is a bit quirky as it is 43-bit by default, but can use 48-bits when I_CTL<VA_48> or VA_CTL<VA_48> is set. (the distinction of the registers is for each access type, i.e: instruction fetch versus data load/store)

The 21364/EV7 likely has the same characteristics as EV6, but the hardware reference manual seems to have been lost to time...
Is it a DRM chip? Or is it just a basic flash chip that tells the printer roughly how much toner is left and to alert the user that they put the toner in the wrong color slot.
How COVID Remade America
> doesn't care if humans all die

That seems to be a harsh and misleading framing of his position. My own reading is that he believes it is inevitable that humans will be replaced by transhumans. That seems more like wild sci-fi utopianism than ill-will. It doesn't seem like a reason to avoid celebrating his academic achievements.
Zoning in State/Local issue so fundraising for Federal Senator isn't going to help you with that. More likely Mark Warner is moderate Democrat AND very influential with DoD and Government Contractors. OpenAI needs revenue bad and selling some overpriced plans to the Government is great way to get hooked up to some easy cash flow.
Libertarian taking government money and liberal are two different things. I doubt there's any liberals in Sam Altman circles. It's hard to even call people like Sam Altman libertarians when they have no regard for other people's intellectual property.
A rare, insightful post from someone who didn’t do well in maths in high school. A true HN treat!
https://archive.today/D8N6p
I've never seen so much literary analysis on HN before.
Some quick searching suggests the US government has some Japanese Yen and Euros, and if other stuff exists it's much more indirect via the IMF etc.

https://home.treasury.gov/data/us-international-reserve-posi...
Bill Hicks "seeds" didn't seem to have bloomed yet.

So here we go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
Not sure if they are a reality or just a MBA's wet dream yet: TVs with integrated eSIM to not even require WIFI for transmitting usage data and ads.
> You can vote with your wallet and buy a car that doesn't have ads.

For now.

I've yet to see an advertisement on a bus or train that wasn't easily ignorable. It's a lot harder to ignore things when you're driving
Indeed. It was never about efficiency.

What astonishes me is that these obvious lies often trick otherwise smart people. Specifically, I recently watched a roundtable that included John Cochrane and he was super excited about the "brilliant little doge team" and their cost cutting (this was just after they nuked USAID). Like, is it possible that's hes actually stupid? Or maybe media illiterate. Or maybe he's not paying attention to the way the world is going, and still takes these people at face value. All of these are bad looks for someone who's supposed to be a top economist.
Well I guess if you don’t see it it doesn’t exist.

Apple sells Pro Motion displays. If it matters to you, you can buy them. They aren’t refusing to serve this market, they just don’t prioritize it with their lower cost products.
I would as well. It's unclear to me what would change the picture there. Do they just need more of the same (155mm artillery shells, drones, tanks, etc.) or are there qualitative things that need to change?

This speaks to the fact that I haven't seen any clear "this is how we win it" proposals. I could understand why the details would be classified, but I've not seen broad strokes, either. Has anyone else?
I believe that was the case with Anne Heche. She was producing a documentary on child trafficking and was going to name names. Her car drove her into a building. The ring videos and audio can not be unseen or unheard. She was trying hard to overpower the car with the brakes which were not yet drive-by-wire. The media immediately said drugs and alcohol were involved yet the toxicology report showed her 100% clean.
France depends on Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Niger for uranium. At least it depended on Niger until there was a military coup that stopped further exports. If there is a large scale conflict, I would not bet on those reactors accomplishing much. Not to mention that they did not accomplish much three years ago during the biggest energy crisis in decades, and that they need humongous investments just to keep running, so that they can get retired for further enormous costs. I'm not sure you can lead where your allegedly biggest asset is barely holding its head above water and is long term s huge liability.
> and circuits for receptacles are almost always 20A circuits, in modern construction at least.

This is not true. Standard builds (a majority) still use 15-amp circuits where 20-amp is not required by NEC.
Whenever AR glasses with ad-blockers are available, I will be an early adopter.
I witnessed the dystopian future where humans are slaves to machines at my favorite local Mexican restaurant. It was about an hour before close. The kids and I were the only customers there. Before we ordered our food we had to wait for the staff to explain to a very annoyed door dasher that the meal they were here for had already been picked up by someone else. As we ate dinner over the next half hour, a new door dasher would arrive every few minutes in an attempt to pick up that same already-picked-up order.

Eventually eight people had been sent by the machines to pick up the same order!

So no, robots are not required to enslave humans and cause them misery, an app will suffice.
This is Pascal's wager written in terms of ... RAM. The original didn't make sense and neither does this iteration.
> I was curious to learn from you, or anyone, what could be done differently to defeat them

Russia doesn't have infinite capacity, their primary strategy was to take as much as possible at all costs as fast as possible, while waging info campaigns against the far right, in the hopes that Trump would come to power and cement a deal with them. If that option goes away, it strictly reduces Russias exit strategies. They can't escalate, because the west has more leverage and more options, it would be zero sum at _best_ for Russia. The West would likely hand them Crimea for peace, but giving them all of Donbas is too large a victory for Russia. The post WW2 orders foundational principle is that appeasement of land grabs leads to stronger positions for the grabber - see Hitler's numerous escalations before his full on attack as an example. Ideally you don't wait until the attacker is on your door step before fighting back, that's what this whole debacle is about.

Some of the options could have been:

- Continue on, but with aligned support from the left and right (read: Russian psyops campaign vs the US right failed). Probably enough on its own.
- Pressure China (tariffs) to pressure Russia
- Pressure Europe to increase commitments
- Offer Russia Crimea (already done ages ago, when their position was stronger)
- Setup an increasing schedule of more advanced weaponry

> How would Russia respond if we send more advanced weaponry?

AFAIK they haven't responded to the last several increases; what would they respond with? The Nuke is their last card, and in addition to pulling in more Western support would alienate the other players (India, China) who have their own leverage on Russia. IDK overall it seems like the only major limitation here was the psychology of Trump's party.
With javascript turned off, I only see one (innocuous and obviously broken) ad.
> But in terms of Tailscale, if you are going to set up all kinds of client certificate things that will take a lot of time and effort, why not self-host Wireguard also?

Already do! I tried Tailscale initially, but ultimately decided to put in the effort of a proper Wireguard setup. It's how my personal devices always get back to my home LAN, and then exit to the internet; it's also how I make sure every DNS lookup hits the Pi-Hole, for domain blocking wherever I am.

I emphatically recommend learning WireGuard (and to a lesser degree, VPN Concentration) when practical and possible. Until then, Tailscale is an excellent product.
The important part is getting others to do so as well. You alone don't matter.

The big players here are KBB, edmunds, consumer reports, and all the car magazines. If they scream manufactures will listen.
Many industries have run out of ideas for new products/features. The only card they have left is more and more control of the lives. At least until AGI is reached when we're not needed and can be disposed of.
Your car makers and economy sure are doing great.
How'd you recommend I learnt to paint? I've not really done much painting in my life at all, and I'd love a breakdown.
> Eurasia to always having been Asia

Nothing in the text you’re referring to implies that. It just suggests Russian isn’t fully European. Which has never been in doubt. Within a security context where Russia is the aggressor, it makes sense to exclude them.
If Apple gives in, it will certainly happen in dozens of countries. China alone would be a dealbreaker.
I honestly don't understand battery complaints. Cafes have plugs. Airplanes have plugs. Were are people working for hours without power?
If more than 10% of their warheads still work, I'd be (hopefully metaphorically) blown away.
>Yeah, in both cases it is user hostile entity hellbent on tracking you, with strong legal defense.

This isn't related to the point. I'm not recommending any specific product.

I'm just saying that the anonymity (or not) of the maintainer(s) can and should play a role in the decision of which browser you use. You may decide that you don't care about that, or that it's a risk you accept, and that's completely fine. But having the information to base the decision on is important.
> On a more practical level, they would need to ditch the Maastricht rules on fiscal discipline

I think this has been suggested by Ursula von der Leyen. Europe has to get united and get to the point where it can defend itself. The US has definitely proven that they are unreliable, so it has to be done. But it will take some time, and in the meantime Europe has to rely on the US. If not as allies, then as partners.

The US have been threatening to become enemies, but that's not (yet) the case, which is why the EU is still considering relying on a partner.
Just because it is on a form doesn't mean it is legal. Contracts are only legal if the words themselves are legal in the country.
In the short term, that's true.

If they can't independently maintain the weapons, it ceases to be true beyond the short term, though.

OTOH, my understanding is that that is not a problem for the UK; they don't “essentially lease” their arsenal from the US; they use domestically developed and maintained warheads on purchased-from-the-US but locally-maintained Trident missiles carried by UK-built-and-maintained subs.

They might have some uphill work if they wanted major delivery system upgrades, but their existing arsenal is, AFAIK, functionally independent of an ongoing dependence on the US.
You might be thinking of deepdream... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream

"Hallucinations" have only really been a term of art with regards to LLMs. my PhD in the security of machine learning started in 2019 and no-one ever used that term in any papers. the first i saw it was on HN when ChatGPT became a released product.

Same with "jailbreaking". With reference to machine learning models, this mostly came about when people started fiddling with LLMs that had so-called guardrails implemented. "jailbreaking" is just another name for an adversarial example (test-time integrity evasion attack), with a slightly modified attacker goal.
Same with Intel and others, but it's still annoying.
A two front war is tough. Trump has also said the he'll get Greenland, "one way or the other":

https://www.politico.eu/article/us-will-take-greenland-one-w...

The last time a US president has used that phrase Nord Stream was blown up.

There is a high chance that all of this is political theater designed to get the EU to spend more on its military and take over the Ukraine war so the EU will be the culprit while the US can trade with Russia and China. Playing off continental powers against each other has historically been the hallmark of Britain and now the US, both of whom live in splendid isolation.

The EU should hedge against this scenario and seek better relations with Russia.

If Trump is serious and none of this is theater, the EU should also seek better relations with Russia, otherwise it will have a two front war against the two superpowers.