skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A slippery slope to eliminate copyright out right. The argument made is that AI is somehow more special and will otherwise lose to competition with China.

The flaw there is that AI is not more special than any other endeavor while all other American markets must equally compete with China.

What that failure means is that when anything is exceptional then everything becomes exceptional because the economic conditions apply equally and therefore bypassing copyright protections applies equally to anybody facing external competition.
Spain - the bank asks for evidence of income (payslips or tax returns), existing funds (bank/broker statements) and checks outstanding debts (via a public register: https://www.bde.es/wbe/en/para-ciudadano/gestiones/informaci...). Risk analysis runs on that data directly. There's no credit history where you need to have ever borrowed money before.

Average interest rate on mortgages in Spain with this system appears to be _half_ that of the US, so it seems this isn't so ineffective that premiums have to spike to match. (is that right? https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/mortgage-rates/ suggests 6% interest mortgages is a current average in the USA while Spain is below 3% now - personal anecdotes plus gov stats shows 3.25% average on all issued mortgages in 2024: https://ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/en/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_...)
Building a virtual neuron – part 1
How long did you try the ones that you say have an impact on your brain? I've never tried white/pink/brown noise for long but I can imagine that you get used to it. Can relate to the noise canceling headphones too, but only during the first experience.

Mind you, I really like listening to music so I never really have them on with nothing or white noise or whatever.
I remember de people graph search when no privacy settings really existed and people kept complete and updated profiles. It was the ultimate stalker took. Absolute batshit crazy that it existed even for the short time it did.
that's problem with APPL's attitude, not the "EU App Store".
The scale is different.

Should the rules for owning a gun which can fire 1 round per hour be the same as a gun which can fire 1 million rounds per hour?
Apple has been really against this one, but you can now have p*rn apps on your iPhone in the EU. Which I think is great, because why should I be restricted in the use of my own device by the moral code of an American corporation?
I know your comment isn't about Elon specifically and I have my own reservations about some of what he does, but it's important to point out (and maybe this depends on what you call "misinformation", it shapes all future discussion) that Twitter absolutely was censoring for partisan reasons (before he bought it; I know some have complained Musk does indeed ban his critics) including silencing covid dissent, real doctors and researchers getting kicked off. Him acquiring it was absolutely necessary to break the deadlock

Edit: We do not want our platforms to be owned by someone like Susan Wojcicki who inflated her own importance and who thought mass censorship is ok (Google has really abrogated their responsibility here)
I saw the first recommended article being another one posted on HN earlier about a tea extract or whatever. Body / life hacker of sorts.
> Can't all recursive functions be transformed to stack-based algorithms?

Yes, you can explicitly manage the stack. You still consume memory at the same rate, but now it is a heap-allocated stack that is programmatically controlled, instead of a stack-allocated stack that is automatically controlled.

The issue is either:

* whatever the parser is doing is already tail recursive, but not expressed in C in a way that doesn't consume stack. In this case it's trivial, but perhaps tedious, to convert it to a form that doesn't use unbounded resources.

* whatever the parser is doing uses the intermediate results of the recursion, and hence is not trivially tail recursive. In this case any reformulation of the algorithm using different language constructs will continue to use unbounded resources, just heap instead of stack.

It's not clear how the issue was fixed. The only description in the blog post is "It used the same mechanism of delayed interpretation" which suggests they didn't translate the existing algorithm to a different form, but changed the algorithm itself to a different algorithm. (It reads like they went from eager to lazy evaluation.)

Either way, it's not recursion itself that is the problem.
This is absolutely not arguing over semantics. There is a severe lack of democracy in the US and this is the root cause of the problem. Why does Donald Trump have this much power to begin with?

It is only possible due to the United States of America’s flawed system of government. With this much centralised power, this will inevitably be the end result.

You had two realistic choices for president in the previous election, one that hasn’t even been selected in any form of democratic process. They both spent billions of dollars to try to get elected.
Merely being in the app store makes everything 30% more expensive! Including any subscriptions through the app, which is just ridiculous. This was the whole basis of the Epic lawsuit. And you can't tell people to sidestep the Apple cut by not putting the payment through them, that will get you banned from the app store.
For HTML, you can probably do the following:

<span aria-label="my text">𖢑ꚲ 𖢧𖤟𖤗𖢧</span>
Didn’t read but

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Celebrating 8 years of self-hosting Mail-in-a-Box – nilsnh.no
I agree for something like a McDonalds employee or even entry level software engineer but this is a senior managerial role at Facebook. Nobody needs to do this job. Unless your spending is out of control you do not need this income. So if it comes with unreasonable demands, I don’t really care. There are problems worth caring about and this ain’t one of them.
Have we accidentally bred some dogs for obesity?
I question the usefulness of that way of thinking. 10x isn't an unchanging skill level, it's comparative performance over a period of time, and that extremely high level of performance likely has many contributing factors. Saying "oh, John is a 10x engineer" stops you from exploring how John is doing ten times the work of his colleagues.

There are good answers, like John is an expert in the specific technology you're using and he was hired through a meet-up you sponsor; there are bad answers, like John has found a way to game the ticket system; and there are debatable answers, like John's team has a high support burden which he never helps with. If you insist on seeing him as a 10x developer through innate skill or divine fiat, then you're not going to look for the root cause of why he's doing more work than everyone else.
The same dev will often literally sell you the same IAP/subscription off their own website for 30% less. Under the current system.
It's definitely something I'll keep in mind whenever I move. Front of the house is a thoroughfare, back of the house depending on weather there's the noise of the various highways in the neighbourhood, and inside the house there's neighbour noises because it's a connected house.

However. Quiet and disconnected real estate is a premium commodity, either due to base costs, or because it's far removed from 'society' so getting anywhere costs money and time. It's a tradeoff.

I used to grow up fairly quiet, plenty of neighbourhood noises but otherwise quiet... except for the fighter jets from the local military airbase lmao.
Here there you go, https://www.apple.com/ipad/
> just because you don't like the person...

Do we need that person to keep having the product though?

> Most people don't give two fraks...

They sure don't. These products and services are more like a... public good, used by and available to everyone.

But if it's a common good then should it be managed like a dictatorship?

The people using them don't have an equivalent alternative, and the companies have moats on a scale never seen before. Is that an issue?

Zuck is selling his customers wholesale, and squandering the resulting cash on asinine, unthinkably dumb projects like Metaverse. Maybe he should have just stayed with the initial product?

Maybe these public platforms would better serve the people using them without the person running/ruining/most associated with the brand?
If a person can read copyrighted material and produce derivative works, why not an AI?
Comparing Apples to Oranges.

One is a device sold with a specific purpose that the buyers knowingly paid for, the other is a piece of isolated pieces pluggable hardware.
I notice in my (brief and probably user error filled, I'm an embedded dev, not an AI expert) testing, it(and pretty much every other small model) seems to have trouble interpreting numbers expressed as words when filling out a JSON object like:

{"operator": "*", "command": "calculate", "a": 473, "b": 2848}

You might say something like five thousand fifty six, and it will fill in something like 556 or 5560.

Like as if it is just transferring digits one by one, not using the structure to know about the implicit zero.

Which is very interesting since that seems like a mistake I would make too!

It doesn't do it all the time, and I only know about the ollama quantized version, and I mostly only try the 1B models, and I've seen similar issues with other sub-2B models as well.

The other interesting thing is in a chat, almost every model I've tried seems to interpret the numbers correctly, if you say "what's ten million and fifty times eight" it will start with "10,000,050 x 8 is...".

Sometimes they get the math wrong after that, but the number interpretation is right.

I wonder if there's something special about all "intro text" in the chat mode that is actually acting like reasoning, or if the digit separators(that don't exist in JSON) help them figure out what they're doing?

I wonder if it would be better for some applications to include a line of thoughts/summary/intro in the JSON format constraint?

Other than that I've been really enjoying Gemma3!
I just wish they understood they are limited not by the content available, but by the intrinsic characteristics of the architecture and algorithms of LLMs. It's just not the AGI that will magically open it's eyes one day.The sooner we stop burning billions of dollars on it, the better.
The inability to use superuser to access system files from the new linux subsystem and later somehow blocking termux to run, would be an ideal evil plan from Google's perspective.
It’s a passive kill switch. Not that we can rule out an active kill switch.
They tend to have cult dynamics because the people who subscribe to the cult dynamics are the ones who get promoted. If you’re happy to just make a living as a software engineer instead of trying to propel your way up the ladder of the world’s richest companies then you can live very happily and comfortably.
Self-Righteousness, Dogmatism, and Such
The problem has always been Apple's attitude, which the DMA sort to fix.

Whether Apple is in compliance or not is up for debate.
The follow-on prompt was "add the word freedom a lot more."
Hahahahahaha, sore over losing in Ticket to Ride and Catan. Those aren’t even “serious” games.
All of this, plus it's not even AI in the generic sense, it's just very advanced text generation, or a certain application of AI. So the chinese Gemini will offer to summarise e-mails at lower cost, who cares?
_Centralized platforms_ socialising happened around 2004, Facebook being one big survivor of that time. Because then, centralising stuff to provide a massive service proved more efficient (money wise: resources, investment, control, ads).

But socialising on the internet? There were plenty of options before, around and after then. Only, they didn't get the same support, convergence and effort since then. Because most people trusted the centralized services would opt to do the right things eventually. Ha. Fools were we.
Boycotts might work occasionally but they are often not enough.
I'm not sure a single individual owning multiple products from the same company is the typical way "network effect" is used.

The protocol example is a good one. However I don't think it's the network effect that's beneficial in that case but rather the innovation of the thing that was built.

If it's closed, I think that facet specifically is detrimental to the consumer.

If it's open, then that's the best you can do to mitigate the unfortunate reality that taking advantage of this particular innovation requires multiple participating endpoints. It's just how it is.
Agreed, and this is why some languages have annotations that ask the compiler to check a function is indeed tail recursive.

However I don't think that is the case in Expat. If the algorithm is tail recursive, but accidentally not expressed in that way, its a simple (but perhaps tedious to manually apply) program transform to express it in a way that does not consume unbounded memory (heap or stack). From the scant details on the fix in the article it appears the parsing algorithm itself was completely changed. ("The third variant "Parameter entities" reuses ... the same mechanism of delayed interpretation.") If this is the case the issue is not recursion, as the original parsing algorithm would consume unbounded resources no matter how it was expressed in C.
I hope the term "deyodawgification" enters the pantheon of elegant code purification terms of art, alongside the classics like "degotofying", "deCOMtamination", and "outparamdelling".

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gecko:DeCOMtamination_Algorithm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22708241

Who knows (or can invent) any other good ones:

Deadlocksmithing, JSONcology, YAMLectomy, XMLimination, DeDTDification, DeXMLEntitification, ExCDATAration, AntiPOJOification, SOAPerfluousness Scrubbing, WSDLectomy, Delogorrhea, DeK8ification, HelmholtzianRechartification, DevOpsDevangelicalism, FactoryFactoryDefactoringDefactoring, Antiquasimonolithicmicrofragmentedmacrodecontainerizationarianism...
vs. Outside Context Problems. Or, why smart people make bad predictions
In the six months I was unemployed more than a year ago I applied to one or two dozen jobs directly and that went nowhere. The only traction came from working with third party recruiters. There was one week when I landed three interviews that resulted in two offers each with prestigious firms but my wife did not want to relocate so I had to drop them. After that I felt like giving up. Part of wanting to quit is that I did not want to write JavaScript professionally anymore and really didn’t care to lie on a resume to compete with people that cannot program only to work in low expectation environments to deliver low quality work.

About 6-8 weeks later I received two offers for different lines of work. One paid more and was more prestigious but required a long commute. The second was work from home. I took the second one and have since been promoted into leadership.
>I remember the grognards giving me shit about memory management and me giving it right back by explaining that what they considered a large chunk of memory would be worth pennys next year because of Moore’s law and I wasn’t going to waste time considering something that I literally couldn’t learn faster than it became obsolete knowledge.

And that's why all applications are laggy as shit these days.
This table is not bad, but I see product owners deploying AI more than PMs. The tools for distilling and describing value are just better.
Wonder how much the addition of copyrighted material affects how smart the resulting model is. If it's even 20% better LLM makers could be forced out of the US into jurisdictions that allow use of copyrighted data.

I suspect most LLM users will ~always choose the smartest model.
> AI models reproduce existing audio tracks when asked, although in a distorted and low-quality form.

So can my wife. Who should I call to have her taken away?
Hmm, I appreciate that there is a cost to generation, but a monthly limit of 100 questions seems quite low for a 20$ plan for hobbyists. How am I going to iterate, make changes etc when I have to keep glancing at the limits to make sure I won't get stuck for this month? It feels a bit like an electric car with 200km range.. fine for staying in the city, and yes you can drive to another city, but if you do you're going to be stressed and thinking about the next charger the whole ride. So similarly I feel if i eree to sign up I'd end up frustrated.

Would it not be better for the audience and use case to use a top up model? And might you be able to offer a 5-10 message free plan?
Compound Innovations
The fact that Meta is aggressively trying to suppress the book just reinforces the point. If it were all "misleading and unfounded," they wouldn't need to fight this hard to bury it.
I'm a few years out of date, but I don't believe that any sort of PHI scanning is specifically required by HIPPA either, though I've seen plenty of consultancies happy to sell you it.
That's because your wife works in medicine, not because she does science. The pharmaceutical industry spends enormous amounts of money to influence medical practicioners and researchers.

Actual academic conferences are very different. Budgets are much tighter than in medical conferences, or even in tech conferences. Academics usually have to adhere to the same rules and restrictions as government employees. For example, having wine and/or beer at the conference dinner sometimes depends on private sponsors, as government money cannot be used for alcoholic drinks.
I'm fine with Apple making their gear work together, but they shouldn't be privileged over third parties.

Moreover, they shouldn't have any way to force (or even nudge via defaults) the user to use Apple Payments, App Store, or other Apple platform pieces. Anyone should be on equal footing and there shouldn't be any taxation. Apple already has every single advantage, and what they're doing now is occupying an anticompetitive high ground via which they can control (along with duopoly partner Google) the entire field of mobile computing.
In an alternative version of reality, she would be so distracted, that she failed to give birth and the child died as a consequence of her being completely absorbed in a toxic work culture. That alternative version of reality would be completely believable, and probably many would not be more surprised than now reading this news. This tells us all we need to know about FB.
Can you point to some resources that show this? Are there new facilities that make cuts fewer? Are there more accepted idiomatic ways published for different kinds of problems?

I learnt Prolog a long time ago and would like to start from scratch.
There's an argument to be made that incomprehensible proofs are still very useful.

I understand that mathematicians are all about understanding why a theorem is true, not just checking that it is, and then using that understanding to push forward other research. Same as most scientists care more about understanding how the world works rather than developing methods to control and manipulate it.

But proven theorems are mathematical tools that can be used to make progress, regardless of your understanding of how they work. I think there is a path forward for maths as an engineering discipline, possibly with much faster progress, just as computer science expanded into software engineering. AI is just the next step of many, software libraries, interfaces and abstractions are also black-boxes in a sense that do stuff for you without knowing how.

A good engineer learns to build on the shoulders of giants, mastering the understanding of what tools do and how they behave, without necessarily needing to know how they are built from scratch. It might be less satisfying to the curious, but you can get a lot more done.
> This is a real concern for me because people credit the ACA with making a big dent in the healthcare problem here in the US, but it feels more like it just created a massive legal protection...

Both are true! The ACA is a literal life-saver and bankrupcy-avoider for a significant percentage of the population. So it is a huge win for the common person.

At the same time, yes, it perpetuates the corrupt insurance system, which is bad. But at least makes it more widely available, which is good.

> Not every system becomes more efficient with profit incentives, and this really seems like just such a case.

Health care can only ever get worse with profit incentives. The best way would be to eject all the profiteering out of the system so that only the people who provide actual care (doctors, nurses, medical technicians,etc) get paid. Remove all profit from the hangers-on that do nothing useful (insurance middlemen).

The path to get there is obvious, but politically quite impossible in the US (and only in the US, since every other country has it figured out.)
> WebUSB and its associated political disagreements

What are the political disagreements?
Copyrights are more often used to defend large corporations than small creators. As long everybody has a level playing field and individuals benefit from weaker copyright laws, it might actually make the world a better place. I'm not arguing for the complete elimination of copyright protections, but today's laws, in particular copyright duration, are immoral. This is as good of a starting point as any assuming OpenAI isn't the only who gets to benefit from it.
Sure, so, can I make and sell my own Lilo and Stitch movie now? It'll be even better than the one about to release, and all that means is I'll deviate even less.
> An export control strategy that exports democratic AI: For countries seeking access to American AI, we propose a strategy that would apply a commercial growth lens—both Total and Serviceable Addressable Markets—to proactively promote the global adoption of American AI systems and with them, the freedoms they create. At the same time, the strategy would use export controls to protect America’s AI lead, including by making updates to the AI diffusion rule.

What a bunch of gibberish hot garbage.
Mostly because Android doesn't matter as much in the US.

If they could do it on both Android and iOS - they'll absolutely do it.
> That parallels something Putin did in 2020. Putin called in the top two dozen oligarchs, and told them "Stay out of politics and your wealth won’t be touched.

> Khodorkovsky [...] was arrested in 2003

Something doesn't square here
If you want to use such an effect on your own website that’s probably the way to go (although I’d probably try to use real text in HTML and replace it with some CSS magic... or just use a web font).
I can indirectly say that, as someone that understands the opposition to sideloading, we are one year in since the DMA took effect and I've seen no incredible massive threat has imperiled the digital lives of iPhone users like Apple claimed it would.
Apple would probably say that's because of the measures they've take in implementing the sideloading mandate, but I would rather assume that there are generally less risks that they say there are.
Macs are pretty popular with a lot of non-tech-savvy people nowadays, and despite being able to install all you want, there is absolutely no major incredible threat coming from it.
I believe it's time for Apple to stop the madness and re-unify iOS globally under a system that works more like macOS.
A loan for a house typically isn't really "credit", because the value of the house covers the loan. The small print in your mortgage will say that if you default the bank will get the house.

There is some risk to the bank because the house may have declined in value and it may be tricky to sell it when you default. That's why they do a risk assessment, but it can be a lot less invasive than for providing a personal loan for an education.