skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People seem to forget: AI is about data, the ability to process it, and having a few smart folks to do algorithms. The third part is actually the smallest and easiest part of the trilogy for AI.

MS has them all three too.

And since, as you say, the algorithm part is not the most difficult part, others may enter the playing field soon (we already have DDG and Kagi, for example, with Kagi now experimenting with LLMs too).
Makes sense. I was going to propose a line at "cpu writes to memory-mapped io pins directly controlling pixel data". The two definitions seem roughly equivalent.

In any case, HTML surely meets the criteria. A much more significant gain is to be had via performance engineering JS than translating it as-stands to rust, wasm, or any other "closer to the GPU" thing. And if comparing two post-optimizations, the HTML/JS will be much easier to debug, style, and make accessible, with practically identical performance.

In fact the flexibility of JS/TS may make the process of discovering a higher performing algorithm/data structure easier, resulting in a faster implementation than had the same amount of effort been dedicated to a worse algorithm in a "faster" language.

Important to note JS can get pretty close to the metal itself with glsl where it matters, while keeping the rest of the app traditional web tech.
Entirely possible, but the amount of people who moved to Mastodon after Twitter got lit on fire gives me hope that people might explore options if things go a step too far
It’s called “Reader” for a reason.
I am attacking the statement "Given that these are algorithms and not sentient beings capable of thought, it's clearly the case that [only taking the style or genre from a work] is not what is occurring." [1]

My response is that you are putting foward a novel hypothesis that is yet to be proven.

It has not been established that something needs to be sentient or capable of thought to be able to "only tak[e] the style or genre from a work".

How would you test this statement? What evidence do you have?

(The thrust of my thinking here is that whether or not a machine is capable of thought is a red herring. The rest is me trying different angles to see if I can get that across.)

(edit: to be fair: Ekidd WAS directly comparing with humans. I'm not saying Ekidd was wrong or right, but I'm not Ekidd of course. Here I'm responding to your argument as is.)

(edit2: If statement [1] is not actually what you are trying to say, then I may have misunderstood, and it would be my turn to apologize and say "my bad" )
That accountability is more of a joke though.
It's a very self-serving system and the people on top are granting themselves more lavish salaries than what the chancellor gets.
> Actually there are times when GC is more efficient than than automatically freeing memory because GC can batch cleanup work.

Where can I read about these details of software performance? Can you recommend a book?
I find it extremely jarring how many reputable western media outlets immediately jumped to the conclusion that Russia did it even though that made zero sense - but absolutely refused to even consider the possibility that the US or another western state could have done it.

But at this point, the article is basically "cool story, bro". The only independently verifyable bits are the public statements of Biden, Nuland, etc, which are already well-known. But those only show that the US really really really didn't like the pipelines - and that was never a secret. They do not give any evidence for a planned operation to destroy them.

The rest of the article is amazingly detailed but only based on an anonymous source. Even if we trust that the source existed, there is no way to know if that source itself is trustworthy.

So as of now, I don't the information in the article would convince anyone of the "US did it" hypothesis who wasn't already convinced.

I think the only thing that the article is useful for is as a future reference. It could be useful to remember the details and keep an eye if they match with any future developments.
There is a long standing misunderstanding about what actually limits the amount a bank can loan out. In (very) rough strokes there are 3 big limits to loan amounts.

- The reserve ratio. This is the amount of reservable (read deposited) cash that is required to be held by the bank in cash equivalents compared to the amount of deposits on their books. This is typically (for instance in the US) a regulatory capital requirement of a central bank to its member commercial banks. But note its only a second order limit on what the bank can loan out as the loans (or investments, or CDS' or bitcoin) on the books are not part of the equation. What this _really_ does is increase the cost of capital of deposits, making them more expensive for the banks to use for other activity. Prior to the pandemic many types of reservable deposits already had 0% ratios and the headline amount was 3%. This is the _least_ important limit on bank balance sheets for loans.

- Another is the regulatory asset:liability capital controls. Banks can be subject to many different regulators, and they all have a variety of balance sheet rules (and those rules encompass many other things like risk processes and other operations) but always banks must keep more assets on the books than liabilities. But! Thats not a stop to lending, because loans are assets, instead thats to ensure depositors are made whole. The stop to lending is the actual balance of assets is also regulated. Those balance of assets are scored both against market risk and credit risk. Too many loans on the books without enough cash will blow those limits up and get them in trouble with their regulators.

- The loan to deposit ratio. This is explicitly what it sounds like, the amount of money loaned compared to the amount of money deposited. In the US this is not actually part of any regulatory regime limiting the amount a bank can loan*. Instead it is a market based limit that the owners (investors/shareholders) of the bank keep track of to understand how liquid the bank is and how safe the bank is as an investment. This is important because depositors have senior claims in the case a bank goes belly up. Currently, investors look for a .8 loan to deposit ratio. During the pandemic the industry was sitting at around .6, which is one of the reasons the Fed removed the reserve requirement. They wanted banks to put more deposits to use in lending so they made it cheaper to do. Banks with high loan to debt ratios very frequently go out of business so have extremely expensive fund raising costs, therefore its something they take pretty seriously.

If you are curious what the lending amounts look like in practice, the last number is probably the easiest to understand and get access to. As I said, the industry sits well below 1:1 on loans to deposits. You can find some that approach 6 to 1 or even sometimes higher but those are typically distressed banks. The central bank reserve requirement is much more lenient than that and always has been.

* Loan to deposit ratios are a part of some regulations about bank size, but only as benchmarks.
People who respond like you have are either being willfully obtuse about how awful search has gotten or honestly do not remember how it was 5-10 years ago. As others have mentioned, SEO has all but made search useless for anything outside a narrow window of need. I used to be able to do "deep dives" into the dusty corners of the internet to find things using google and now it's about useless for that.

And I've /recently/ hunted for something obscure, couldn't find it, managed to find an old bookmark to it, the server was still online and the content I wanted was still there. And no amount of crafting of a google search would bring it up. And the server in question didn't contain copyrighted material which would have resulted in a takedown block or anything like that.

It's frustrating how /bad/ Google has gotten for anything other than fairly basic, high level "searching".
I taught at the high school level for about ten years before shifting into tech. I was always astounded by the level of devotion many families had toward traveling sports (notably hockey up here in Minnesota). Outside of truly elite athletic pipelines, I honestly believe competitive youth sports have gotten completely out of hand. Here’s to hoping my son grows up to be a mediocre athlete.
I can see a future self-defense class titled "Learning to recognize when your AI has become dangerous".
Yeah, probably the main reason that US high schools seem to perform worse than other countries is that the US doesn't kick students out in middle school.
less extreme than I thought
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cbc-news-canadian-broadcastin...

AT least compared to the https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/huffington-post/ or https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/fox-news-bias/
yeah also seeing this, many such cases
Yup; all representations of numbers have tradeoffs. Fixed-sized Integers, log-scaled numbers, and floats all have finite precision. Everything else requires variable space and/or time.
It looks you can query it further:

> Show options for intent variable

Persuasion
Information
Anecdote
Reflection
Inspiration
Nostalgia
Humor
Heartfelt
Political
Spiritual
Also does this lead to an increase in dependencies for building the kernel? How about building it for older hardware?
This shit is a rabbit hole that never ends. If there is anything about you that is seen as abnormal by a doctor (including being a woman yikes — and age also yikes) it gets blamed for everything regardless of whether it makes any sense at all.

I swear so many doctors treat medical diagnosis like it’s a game of spot the difference between you and the reference 25 year old white man.
Not really everyone's familiar with the example of cooking recipes being breakfast with the author's life story in order to improve their position in Google rankings, but it's far more prevalent than just recipes. Today I tried to look up something about a feature in a particular piece of reasonably popular desktop software. The top hit that wasn't an advert was several years out of date. The second hit was clearly artificially inflated to long form journalism to try and get me to read a thousand words where 10 would do. Duck duck go linked me to some actual recent results, just like I would have expected with the crawlers of the previous era
Afaik these LWCs are supposed to also be easier to implement in HW (=smaller die area/gate count), but I'm also wondering is the difference really meaningful especially with current manufacturing tech? I imagine there are limits on die size reductions where the returns really start diminishing very quickly.
This is absolutely right. The web died about then, really. What we have now is shameful and embarrassing, and society is poorer for it.

And it's not Google's fault.

But it also remains true that Google's search just doesn't work well for many people, and that some alternatives work better for them.
Note that YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006; it's not a product that was launched by Google.
Are any middle eastern militaries competent enough to blow up the Nord Strom pipeline and cover their tracks?
I think YouTube, which has a paid and ad-free version along with its Live TV offering, somehow manages to still be a sleeper hit within the larger Google portfolio and doesn't get talked about enough.
You don't even need to get that specific, even web developers encounter this sooner or later, often as a UI bug in what should be really simple math. Then one day you wonder "what the fuck are all these zeroes? Oooooh..."

That's how I learned about it years ago.
The Western press seems to more or less parrot the government talking points or are even more hawkish themselves. Criticism is offered on minor topics or is feeble and drowned in a torrent of other articles.

One could recognize this also with the Coronavirus fiasco when for example the press was parroting the governments saying that the virus is not going to come to Europe and urging people not to be racist against the Chinese (extra funny given the current mainstream position against China). Then the press was parroting that masks don’t work. Then they were parroting that people should really wear masks. Not all the press, not all of the time, but the trend and direction were obvious.
And the tireless downplaying of AstraZeneca and mRNA side-effects, goodness.

All of these narratives were also mainstream on HN, just as most opinions on the war are unsophisticated and thoroughly mainstream.

It’s so bizarre, imagine having freedom of the press and then doing what’s expected of you anyway.

Or as an individual being able to think, gather facts and information and draw your own conclusions. And having the freedom to present those conclusions go to waste while just repeating some simplistic talking point.

HN is worse than usual at discussing the war. Many non-mainstream commenters have given up or were censored and it’s mostly pockets of conformity now.
Most News outlets prefer to have more than one source of info. For the life of me I cannot see how this would be a net plus benefit to the US. The potential to destabilize our allies seems likely. If they find out it is true - some of them would be at minimum very pissed.
KagiAI summary:

A Sudden Stratospheric Warming event (SSW) is forecast to displace the Polar Vortex and potentially shake the weather patterns in the coming weeks. The Polar Vortex behaves like a very large cyclone, covering the whole north pole down to the mid-latitudes. Rossby Waves (a pair of strong high and low-pressure systems) deflect energy upwards into the Stratosphere as they break, temporarily pausing its strengthening or weakening its circulation. The influx of energy into the Stratosphere creates a major disruption and warming, completely collapsing the upper stratospheric Polar Vortex. The forecast for the 30mb pressure level in the Stratosphere shows a complete collapse of the upper and middle Polar Vortex. The pressure pattern analysis for the weekend shows a strong lower core of the Polar Vortex bringing very cold air over the Midwest and the eastern United States. The temperature anomaly also shows the strong, abnormally high temperatures surrounding the Vortex, weakening it further. The expected pressure pattern post-SSW is high pressure over the polar regions and low pressure in the lower latitudes, prompting a low-pressure response over the eastern United States and Europe. The temperature anomaly from the CFS ensembles shows this cold extension from Canada down over the Midwest and into the eastern United States. An interesting fact is that the Polar Vortex can reach over 50km/31miles in altitude, making it a powerful force in the atmosphere.

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://www.severe-weather....
You can also get crypto coprocessors to accelerate such operations, without switching platforms or sacrificing for example power usage.
"Free speech maximalist"
> What are people expecting out of Google that it's not delivering?

I mean what you just listed.

Google won the search war because of PageRank eliminating lots of spam, and then something like 15 years of staying ahead of SEO spam and providing useful search.

Lately it seems like they've given up on the arms race and let the SEO spam win, but it isn't clear why.

And Google didn't produce high quality search for free, they used ads and sold the eyeballs they won.
The author of this piece is responsible for lobbying Congress to pass legislation that I think the HN community would be opposed to: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Haidt%20Testi...

One of the author's suggestions is a strengthening of COPPA:

> Second, Congress should toughen the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. An
early version of the legislation proposed 16 as the age at which children should legally be
allowed to give away their data and their privacy. Unfortunately, e-commerce
companies lobbied successfully to have the age of “internet adulthood” set instead at 13.
Now, more than two decades later, today’s 13-year-olds are not doing well. Federal law
is outdated and inadequate. The age should be raised. More power should be given to
parents, less to companies.

I don't think it takes a genius to see that this suggestion would have virtually no effect on the problems the author is trying to address. These COPPA age limits are impossible to enforce, raising it would only mean more kids lying about their age when making accounts on websites, or just getting parental consent. And even if it were possible to enforce, how does it address social media causing mental illness?

One of the author's other suggestions is to pass a version of the UK's Age Appropriate Design
Code(!!!!)

California passed its own version of this law in September 2022. It has already been commented on and critiqued extensively on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32587592 Dear California: How Can I Comply with Your New Age-Appropriate Design Code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32646043 Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

Putting aside the main subject of the OP, it is important to remain vigilant and watchful for legislation that will hamper privacy on the internet in the name of "saving the children". I myself can agree that "social media" is a contributor to increased social discord and depression, but these problems affect everyone, not just teenagers. And I think the root cause is, of course, the design of these sites; the way they crudely attempt to quantify "likes", the way they use metrics like the "like" and the "view" as the sole guiding principle behind their design philosophy, rather than productive and humanistic conversation. It is the way these platforms lie to the user, presenting content as if it is the user's hidden inner desires discovered by an external algorithm, when in reality it is the user being shaped by the platform, not the other way around. The way these platforms prioritize content meant to inflame, to provoke, to get "engagement".

This is the real problem of social media, the product itself, the structure of it. But those with power in our society are addicted to it, and instead propose all kinds of useless "safeguards" like age gates and ID checks that only serve to increase the power of these platforms as surveillance tools. The mantra of each side of the aisle is, "if only we were the ones in charge of moderation." I think it is clear to see that this is a naive and unconsidered approach.
I mean, Google still often gives me the result, but it’s such a chore now. And they can’t even seem to deal with what I consider extremely obvious blogspam.

Content that is just literally directly copied from other domains often.
And users of the New Bing will certainly verify that the sources say what ChatGPT claims they do?
Is the PremptRT path merged in to the Kernel mainline as of this version?
Buttons are much better than touchscreens, if you have a fixed interface that fits in the space available.

Touchscreens win when you need multiple interfaces in the same amount of space.
No need to invent a divide between "computer people" and "tax people," whoever they are. Maybe the IRS allows small errors because bugs attributable to floating-point precision are too hard to fix.
I think that learning to acquire new/additional training data would be a better first step towards learning agents, than trying to mutate its structure/hyper-parameters.
I feel your pain and switched to high quality, physical cookbooks instead. Recipes on the web are generally garbage unless they come from an author that you’ve already vetted.
and by "best" we mean interspersed within 12 pages of heavily ad laden blogspam
Of you're building the district heating anyway then a district heating reservoir, a heat pump and some solar collectors plus enough wind and solar for equivalent total gross heat output (in addition to the collectors) is still cheaper.
I've had the absolute opposite luck with go. There's a lot of good things made in it but I prefer to not be involved in them. A nightly toolchail for rust is trivial to acquire to the point of it taking only a few seconds
Help me out. I don't see the problem. If there are 100 suicides per 100,000 people in a year amongst a cohort and the next year there are 134 per 100,000, that's an increase in total suicides of 34%. I don't really see why that's not useful as an indicator of how much worse the problem is getting. To me, it would be nice if they were clearer about what that percentage represents, is it the average from 2000-2010 vs the average from 2010-2020?

A bigger issue to me is that small window of the data. It's hard to tell how bumpy this curve is over the long term. Like is a suicide rate amongst teens that fluctuates 34%, decade over decade typical?
> Something I've noticed since about that time as well is a growing unease and pessimism with our collective future (and even present!).

This is why I like movies and stories about the world coming together to overcome great difficulties. Like Pacific Rim, for instance. I'd love to hear more stories like that, no matter how far-fetched. I'd especially like to get some of the pariah states (North Korea, Iran) to be welcomed in for some more team high-fives. We really do need optimistic visions of the future to keep us going.
I was surprised by how the author called out Fuller's race at the end of the article as if that had to do with anything. The article read well up to that point, I was being convinced of his thesis. But after seeing his race comment tagged on at the end, I have to discount Martinez's whole presentation; there is a high probability it's just another woke hit-piece. I wish he would have put the racial stuff at the beginning of his writing so I could have ignored him sooner.
But OpenSSH is still in the picture, is it not?
I guess I'm glad I still have my static blog website (that I also use as a microblog if the occasion fits)
Attending a software conference recently and speaking to developers who I admire has inspired me to get off my ass, learn and build instead of consuming content.
I greatly appreciate your willingness to take a second look at it. Even though I would have made a different call in your shoes, it can't be emphasized enough that you do an outstanding job at a difficult and often thankless task. Thank you.
> Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.

The third paragraph in the article.
Seymour Hersh has decades of credibility from reporting the My Lai Massacre to the abuses at Abu Graib.

But he does often rely on sources who remain anonymous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh#Use_of_anonymous...

I did find it interesting in that Wikipedia article to read that The New Yorker's editor insists on knowing the identify of all of the anonymous sources that Hersh has used when his reporting is published in that magazine. That suggests to me that while Hersh can probably be generally trusted, his work is of a higher quality when it's published in an outlet like The New Yorker, as the editor-in-chief and other staff submit it to a more rigorous internal discussion. That's in comparison to probably no internal review or discussion by Substack.
Also think of how many people will sell their digital persona to sell AI generated spam for a little cash in return. Ain't nuthin safe from spam.
Obviously those are not questions that you can trust an AI language model with. You have social media or real life connections to discuss that.

In theory it is possible that sponsored content will creep in, but that does not invalidate the incredible benefits a well trained language model will have, even despite the occasional for-profit bias.
Are you saying that it's unlikely that the government might abuse it's power? Look at history.