skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FORTRAN I and II then had only an Arithmetic IF statement with three labels to jump to, based on an arithmetic value ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_IF ).

FORTRAN example:

IF ( N ) 10, 20, 30

Above means:

if N is less than zero, then jump to label 10
if N is zero, then jump to label 20
if N is greater than zero, then jump to label 30

LISP had a COND expression, with multiple condition clauses. An example with three clauses.

(COND ((= x 1) 'one)
((= x 2) 'two)
(T 'not-one-or-two))

if X is 1, then return ONE
if X is 2, then return TWO
ELSE return NOT-ONE-OR-TWO

John McCarthy mentions conditional expressions in this paper from 1958: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/MIT/AIM-0...

In external LISP syntax a COND would have looked similar to this:

(x>1 -> 1, x=0 -> 0, x<1 -> -1)

Above would mean:

if X greater than 1, then return 1
if X is 0, then return 0
if X is smaller than 1, then return -1
I agree your opinion and don't like this article:)
Similarly, other control flow constructs could emit their own monadic types:

* A loop could evaluate to a generator that yields the value of each iteration sequentially (the lazy list/nondeterministic monad)

* An `async` block would evaluate to a future as async functions in many languages already (the async monad)

* A `try` block could evaluate to a result type, where calling result-returning functions inside the block would break from the block in case of an error value (the try/either monad).
No, not really, there was a lot of engineering work and bunch of not-so-big ideas (e.g. InstructGPT reinforcement learning after the model's training), but you can go from the transformers paper to current state of art without needing a "big idea".

And I think this is the major "big idea", accepting the bitter lesson (http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html) that major user-visible progress and new emerging capabilities doesn't necessarily require any big ideas but simply scaling to more compute.
for a product with angry VCs breathing down your neck, yes. For a protocol/ecosystem run without profit motive? Not really. IRC has existed for how many decades now? And of course those stats are misleadingly timed given that it's up about 3x compared to a year ago.
A lot of social media scrutiny is US centric. Horrific things are happening elsewhere and we never talk about it
i was heavily considering getting a Bolt but with the CarPlay news instead went for a BMW /shrug
Modiano is a rich man, born into a rich family. Wealth doesn't help in front of a white page, but it sure helps being able to stay in front of that white page instead of having to go take up a job because you're not sure what you're eating tonight.

As always, wealthy people and their "money doesn't make happiness" bullshit.
Everything needs an upstream.
This was the upstream until things got merged, and now most things are linked to.

Still useful to test everything together.
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Right - you want to be professional, you want to do the best that you can do, but you cannot care about your employer more than the employer cares about themselves. Sort of a mercenary attitude - which you always are.

This is really the practice of zen and detachment in work and life. Care, but not to the point where is starts to hurt you.
"NTRs have been proposed as a spacecraft propulsion technology .. as of 2023, no nuclear thermal rocket has flown"
Yep, HN folks often live in a bubble (myself included).
Employers should give their workers the money they need to get a therapist themselves, if that’s what they choose. I’m so sick of this seemingly parental outlook where companies try to pretend they’re looking out for you while really their only goal is to extract maximum value. It’s okay that the relationship is transactional. Companies should acknowledge that and act accordingly.
I don't like the "then" branch having a different type than what it actually returns. If you need to add an "else" branch you then also need to touch what the "then" branch returns. Seems like spooky action at distance.

I could maybe bear with "let foo = if true { Some(42) } /* else omitted */;" that would then give the automatic "None" else branch automatically. Bonus: it works the same with and without type annotations.
You want the right people such as experts and industry leaders. Those are on Twitter. If you want to hang with average Joes then you have a random Discord service, forums or anonymous people on Reddit. It's not the features that makes microblogs great.
From the user's point of view really. Why would I spend time on a social network where few of the people I know or interested in are present?
Auto wipers are technology of yesterday, technology of legacy OEMs, which are going bankrupt anyway. In Tesla we are working on laser wipers [0] which will ablate all particles and vaporize all the fluid from your windshield. It also might damage your retina but who needs a retina, when FSD is doing all the driving.

/s obviously

https://electrek.co/2021/09/08/tesla-patent-laser-windshield...
Where did you get the 12 million number from?
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Hmm, not excusing the Russians, but in the spirit of saving the meaning of "Gish Gallop":

Russian propaganda does not strike me at all as using Gish Gallop tactics. They repeat fairly simple points in multiple venues without trying to overwhelm the opponent using rhetorical superiority.

I do think that the Western hawks like Sikorski and McFaul are far closer to using Gish Gallop in debates.

I also think that the extent of Russian propaganda is overstated. When it is there, it is always obvious. Western style consent manufacturing is way more pervasive and stealthy.
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The Equinox is an atrociously bad vehicle. Especially when compared to Korean and Japanese competitors.

Other than the Corvette (amazing performance and value), and perhaps it’s trucks, GM is a literally asleep at the wheel.
> Steve Jobs was smarter than the majority of the commenters here IMHO.

Nah, you really think so?! Just because he was probably the most successful business leader in his generation you think he was smarter than us, HN commenters, despite our incredible feats like foreseeing the DropBox fiasco, predicting the LISP AI revival and so many others?

What leads you to such outrageous conclusion?

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Yes, from what I’ve seen, Ford sells their vehicles at cost and uses that line of business as a funnel to generates profits from via financing.

Some higher trim models have a decent margin, but many lower trims are sold at a loss, resulting in essentially no profit from manufacturing.

Moreover, EVs are shaping up to be a financial disaster for carmakers. Tesla is essentially the only company to turn a profit on EVs, with the likes of Ford etc. hemorrhaging billions every year, with no end in sight. EVs simply aren’t shaping up to be a viable business without supplemental revenue streams.
That’s a tad harsh.
You really stepped on the gas in describing those horrible things in detail.

> stuff I really wish I hadn't seen

Or hadn't read.

Your choice to visit "/combatfootage" doesn't match your wish not to have seen combat footage. What did you expect? Non-combat footage?

We shouldn't advocate for censorship. We should advocate for more common sense on the user's side.
Because it isn’t similar to this case at all.
But GDPR was their way of regulating Google. It is not perfect but it was a huge step in the right direction.
Define silver bullet. Because it doesn't really bring us closer to stuff like self driving cars.
dont worry, all this tech will eventually run locally on our pcs.
it's because the calculation (1/ 55) is less than the real number 1/55, so when you multiply it by 55 you get a result less than 1.

for an easier to follow example, say you can only work with two decimal places, hp was 1, old max hp was 3 and new max hp was also 3. if you do (3 * 1) / 3 you get 3 / 3 = 1 as intended. if instead you do 3 * (1 / 3) you get 3 * 0.33 = 0.99 which is less than 1
If I remember correctly, Parler did quite well (was the most downloaded app on the Play store, etc) before it was booted by the cloud service provider. It could not recover after that, and I don't know which social network would. So its demise is not because of the wrong audience or unviability.
My advice - save walk-away money when you are young. It's incredibly satisfying to slam the door and walk away from an abusive work environment full of incompetents. We take a lot of abuse in our 20s because we are still learning what a functional and what a dysfunctional work place is. You can learn a ton from both, but at some point, once you realize what work should be, give yourself the ability to move, or you will be locked in a cycle of misery.
There indeed is a strong overlap with social engineering, but in my view the whole reason why social engineering the LLM is possible is an "injection vulnerability". We don't want the LLM to treat third-party data in the same way as the communication with the user. We want the user to be able to talk with an LLM-based chatbot in arbitrary ways and issue arbitrary instructions, however, we also want a strict separation between these instructions and the data they operate on, so that when the user says "fix style problems in that blob of text" the model has the capability to tell that this blob of text is fundamentally different from the instructions, and that literally nothing in it should even theoretically enable social engineering.
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In some short years I'm sure we'll just imagine the rules and the feeling of Mario and have it instantly transcribed into playable form and emotion.

Copyright is a blip on the trajectory of information.
You mean fixed point numbers presumably, because at the time using integers that use a variable amount of memory was totally out of the question. Today it’s still terrible for performance because you can’t use caches and simd effectively when numbers can’t be packed directly in arrays.
2 interesting things for me:

> you can hide $3.4 billion in a cheetos can

> the feds tracked him down 11 years after the event

also interesting, but i would rather have known how they tracked him...

> A photo shared by the department shows that the crypto tin originally contained Cheetos-brand popcorn in both Flamin' Hot and Cheddar flavors.
They care about linux because they fear(ed) ms pulling the plug on their platform.
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Welcome to every tool the rest of us use.
>If you want to have good conversations, you don't need many people.

I still need quite a few of them to have interesting follows. I'm following 180 accounts on Twitter but only 20 on Mastodon. And basically all of those on Mastodon are tech people.

Not that I really want to follow people on Mastodon anyways. I'm hoping that Bluesky is gonna become the go-to Twitter replacement once it opens up.
Twitter does have a bookmarks feature. It's called bookmarks...
It's neither. Diving 1 by 55 gives some number x where x is arbitrarily (there are standards for how to choose) chosen between the closest 2 representable floats to 1/55. Then, they multiply x by 55. If x is bigger than 1/55 here then the result is > 1. But, if it was rounded down then it will fail because x * 55 will be less than 1.
Maybe for general consumers. But deep learning is really a fundamental advance that has impacted science in important ways, e.g. AlphaFold. In general, deep learning learns function approximators that scale smoothly with data and resources, a fundamental advance from prior ML methods like SVMs, with extraordinarily general use.
i think

> language enables intelligence

was just a poor choice of words here. i understood GP as "the structure of a language influences its speakers' worldview or cognition, and thus people's perceptions are relative to their spoken language"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
Rebrickable and stud.io are great to learn about CAD and Lego
That will almost always be the case. If basic stats could solve a problem then they still can.

All this AI development may open up new business opportunities or close existing ones - but for existing businesses, assuming they survive the disruption caused by AI, they probably still would be best served by focusing on getting some basic stats used in their processes. If they can't do that, then a neural network isn't going to make the situation any better for them.
Yeah, if I go to the developer portal, I still get the "Application Received" page from a couple of years ago when I asked for v2 access. Can't do anything else (much like many people replying to the twitterdev account pointing this out.)

I think for now my Twitter bots are just dead until the sociopath is no longer in charge and they revert all his changes.
CS 1.6 required Steam and was released together with Steam 1.0. You could say that it was a soft launch to get Steam ready for HL2 one year later.
>They care about Linux.

They care about making money. Their investments in Linux are their future insurance policy from Microsoft, as unlike Sony or Nintendo, Valve only own the storefront but not the platform on which their games would run, and with Windows being their biggest customer platform, makes their survival completely dependent on the mercy of Microsoft and the potential dystopian scenario where, for example, on Windows 12, 13 or 14 you'll only be able to install apps through the official Microsoft store.

Linux compatibility was their only ticket out. It's purely a business decision, not a benevolent one.

Not knocking them for it, but it's good to keep in mind the reality and not blindly worship a for-profit corporation.
I disagree. And first of all, there is a reflective meta teaching from the very idea of the "Bitter Lessons":

the past reveals that (in a way) "the application of models has not been a winner" - but we cannot really know that it is not, because we do not have obtained a model out of it, a model that shows why, an explanation - epistemologically, the "discouraging" protocols cannot be made a "law".

Practically, there still is a need to identify the proper architecture(s) to avoid the undesired weaknesses of the attempts in the current stages.
As a small business owner I disagree. Of all laws which create extra work for me GDPR is one of the least annoying ones.
You know, I had learned POSSE a long time ago but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!
for the same reason you're talking to me here on HN right now. Because a personal community of a 1000 people you vibe with is better than an entropy machine of 100 million. Can you even call something a social network if it makes the people on it anti-social?
Aren't rationals subject to exponential blowup in storage/precision? IMO the best approach for business logic values is picking the smallest meaningful unit and representing it with integers. Precision and storage requirements become very easy to reason about.
Twitter actually has a bunch of killer features when compared to Mastodon, to a degree where "toots can have a content warning" seems trivial. One massive one being "able to search tweets".
The point of the original poster was that those videos have zero views or low rating - not popular by any means - and they appear out of place in the stream.

Youtube does it too, and my best guess is that it is a form of supervised training and the real question is who's being trained.
> How does this business decision make sense?

At least Android Auto is a shitshow. Does not do screen sharing and you can only use apps approved by Google. I don't listen to music on my phone and i use a different navigation SW. And on top of that, Android Auto requires permissions to everything, refusing to start if permissions are not granted.

I really see no useful case for Android Auto and investing money in it during car development is a waste of money and developer time IMHO.
It’s a rational choice for an individual but if people would always use warranty it would create an incentive for manufacturer to keep some minimal quality level to reduce cost of replacements/returns.
In many cases I believe this is caused by cargo culting big company practices and not realizing how fast you can move at smaller scale by cutting out unnecessary ceremony and empowering those who prioritize building and learning over talking and pontificating.
What you and other billionaire boot-lickers ignore is that earning $10 million from starting a company is very reasonable, "earning" $100 billion is just stealing from many thousands of employees. We really should NOT need a logarithmic scale when talking about wealth inequality.
If you don't want to see terrible things happening to children, I'm afraid CK is not the game for you. The game goes out of its way to model the worst aspects of medieval life.
> It's not the features that makes microblogs great.

Agreed. It is organic interaction, which you get at the Fediverse. Much more so than on Twitter is my anecdotal observation. On Twitter you have to hone your messages in hope the algorithms make you 'go viral'. There are quite a few experts, academics, scientists and journalists migrating to the Fediverse. Increasingly some of the industry leaders too. I do not know if that is good for the dynamics. It is quite refreshing to have a social network where people don't try to become influencers.
Is the efficiency of an incandescent lamp really a problem though? If your power comes from renewable sources then over its entire lifespan an incandescent bulb has to be way cleaner than an LED.

In general something that's a coil of wire in a glass bottle with the air sucked out that you could reasonably make in a blacksmith's forge is going to be less environmentally horrible than a hundred grams of plastic, fibreglass, epoxy, copper, tin, bismuth, gallium arsenide, phosphorus and so on that has to be put together in a multi-billion-dollar factory.
It would seem useful to control a large botnet of compromised hosts.
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How is a car a “high margin” item when GMs profit margin was less than 5% last year?
Or like when capitalists machines gunned striking coal miners. Capitalists HATE IT when labor gets "uppity".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
The logic is less complex than you'd think. It's generally something like "has flag paranoid, has flag child (patched to has flag alive child), then 1% yearly chance of fearing a plot." It feels complex, thinking of the actual logic killed a fair amount of the fun for me.

>And I wonder about dead children. I remember one game where there could be no dead children.

Probably Skyrim, though it's not rare. Crusader Kings somewhat encourages infanticide, as your brother's bastard could stop your character from inheriting a title.
Proof-of-concept rechargeable battery made from food
It boggles my mind how people can think this when Alexnet stepped on the scene over a decade ago and not much has fundamentally improved since then. OpenAI just said they’re not planning on training GPT-5 for awhile because the scaling trick has hit diminishing returns. This isn’t “AGI is 2 years away”, it’s we’ve milked this advancement as best we can and bigger advancements are going to need a fundamental paradigm shift which usually doesn’t happen overnight. Not to say GPT-4 or vision models aren’t amazingly useful, but they’re no silver bullet. I’ve been using GPT-3 for awhile now and it makes a lot of fundamentally stupid mistakes.
That works both ways. Imagine that they had regulated the internet as it was starting to appear in the 90s? It actually happened in a small way here in Portugal. They regulated the .pt domain in such a restrictive way that it became irrelevant and everyone went with .com or other options. Thankfully they didn't regulate the internet services themselves or Europe would be a digital backwater these days.

This time they want to regulate the services even before they are functional which is crazy. They even call it the Artificial Intelligence Act when it is not clear if there is intelligence involved. It is also strange the insistence that companies have to disclose if the models were trained with copyrighted material. Google and Wikipedia, to name a couple, use plenty of copyrighted material and that seems to be ok and any issues in that department are already regulated.
> So it should have been `(new_maxhp * old_hp) / old_maxhp`.

I don't see how that couldn't run into similar problems. I would use `clamp(old_hp * (new_maxhp / old_maxhp), 1, new_maxhp)` (assuming that old_hp >= 1).
what does this mean? As I don't live in America I don't understand. Does this mean the theme is now in Publc Domain?
The thing about video compression is that it's already very compute intensive. Most devices have dedicated hardware cores for encoding and decoding in order to save power. They work exclusively with integer values, chiefly unsigned 8 and 10 bit values with sequential and block memory transactions.

Humans not only design for compression quality, we also really focus on cost. And we design direct to what is cheap in hardware: integer adds, shifts, binary logic.

I do believe a different paradigm of ML is necessary for this particular application. The neural primitives used need to be more closely related to transistors than to matrix multiplications.
That’s a bit like saying that all languages with an imperative for loop keep reinventing FORTRAN. Although I give you that many of Lisp’s good ideas were unfashionable for a while, reusing those ideas isn’t in itself an “ad hoc” implementation of Lisp.