skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm somewhat skeptical any time anyone references "the fundamental theorem of poker" (like that wiki page), given that Sklansky definitely doesn't understand game theory and the "fundamental theorem" is just wrong. This Morton's theorem shows one example of that.

For people who don't know the so-called fundamental theorem of poker[1] was proposed by David Sklansky who was definitely more mathematically-minded than most poker players of his generation but was not really a mathematician. It's gained a lot of mindshare even though it's clearly at odds with game theory. Probably this is because it's very simple to state and seems intuitive. It is usually stated as something like "Every time you play a hand differently than you would have if you could see all your opponent's cards you lose and they gain and vice versa, and conversely every time they play a hand differently from how they would if they could see all your cards you gain and they lose and vice versa".

This is one of those things that sounds sort of obviously correct and so is very seductive as an idea, but it completely fails if you just think for a second about the fact that you can't see their cards and they can't see your cards. In that world (actual poker), we know that the optimal strategy is a Nash equilibrium in mixed strategies(we know this is true for all games of hidden information). By definition that means you are sometimes doing something different from "what you would do if you could see their cards", because you have a mixed strategy (ie you don't do exactly the same thing every time but choose options with some randomness). The same is true for the opponent. Therefore we can see that it follows trivially that the "fundamental theorem" can't be correct.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_poker
Japan has a bunch of issues with agriculture and too-small farms is part of it:

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/11/25/japan-strugg...

* https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/japans-farms-wea...

* https://thediplomat.com/2014/09/japans-agriculture-dilemma/

Small family farms are good when a country is still developing and has excess labour, but once industrialization gets going folks move to urban areas for factory jobs and farms need to consolidate and mechanize. This has been the story over history for all countries have been 'developed', and in the post-WW2 is generally true of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Though this mechanization never really happened in Japan.

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region goes over this quite well:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16144575-how-asia-works
The formal name for the school part of Harvard, where students learn, is the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

https://www.fas.harvard.edu/
Traditionally, professors ran universities, merely overseen by a small board of overseers, until a quiet coup in the 20th Century created the administrative state.
No, they were thinking about how to effectively kill as much people as possible at a distance.

Remember that apollo program (just like soviet one) was an offshoot of military wanting to erase a nation on the other side of the world with efficiency.
Who knows what there will be besides LLMs. I don't really get why AI can't exceed the human brain in everything someday unless you are religious and see some supernatural aspects to the brain
Individuals don't run public toilets normally. My guess is the accused is the owner of the business that operates those toilets.
rqlite creator here.

Yes, you still need the data at every node. rqlite is not about edge-compute specifically (though many solutions have come along after rqlite was created to address that need, I guess I should have responded to that demand much earlier instead :-)). One of my primary goals with rqlite has always been ease-of-deployment and ease-of-use. I wanted to build a quality distributed database that was both really reliable and super easy-to-use.

Check out the FAQ, which might answer some more of your questions: https://rqlite.io/docs/faq/
"Billion Dollar Brain" is missing. (1967)
As a counterpoint: NASA has an _extremely_ careful process and their success rate is high. It's expensive, though, and you have to develop an engineering process that supports it.

When you're sending a probe to Mars, the trial runs are very expensive. They spend a lot of time making sure that the mission will be successful. I'm skeptical that anywhere near the same level of care is going into the private missions, but I the reason is cost, not that they can't bootstrap themselves up with Earth-environment experimentation.

Yes, I'm aware at least one of the Mars probe missions totally failed. I don't think that detracts from the overall point. They weren't screwing up a bunch of missions before they got one right.
It moves fast at the start so maybe not for the complete beginner, but I can really recommend "Lisp in Small Pieces" by Christian Queinnec: https://www.amazon.ca/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d... It's a bit old now (early 90s) but Lisp is timeless :) I think it's out of print now. It goes through the implementation of both interpreters and compilers for Lisp, in Lisp.

It starts with a very minimal meta-evaluator for something similar to McCarthy's original Lisp, and then explains why all the changes from Lisp 1.0 since were made. Why did language designers change things in the first place? And then it shows you how those differences are implemented. One of the first lessons is the problems with the semantics of dynamic scoping, and the implementation of dynamic vs. lexical environments. I personally worked through the book writing in SML. Despite the name and approach, it's not really a Lisp book; it's a compiler implementation book.
When will we get good AI quests and characters in video games? To me, this is one of the most exciting aspects of AI. I can imagine a very cool future where the dialog isn’t written, each character is just given a “this is your motivation” prompt like an actor might get. The replayability factor will be huge.
An unwelcoming view glared at Armstrong. Where the orbital maps indicated a smooth plain, there was instead a vast crater field and collections of truck-sized boulders. Flying manually and low on fuel, Armstrong leveled off and searched for a smooth spot.

https://www.space.com/26593-apollo-11-moon-landing-scariest-...
The UK is absolutely doomed because those with wealth and power are content with gaining a larger percentage of a smaller pie for a minor overall increase rather than growing the pie and having a smaller percentage potentially but a fair amount more pie overall because that takes more effort.

It's classic feudal class system thinking.

At least in the US there's this mentality of wanting to grow the pie under the assumption you still want to grow your percentage of it but at the very least you end up with more pie either way and as a side effect others end up with more pie.

I know loads of people who want to leave the country.
This is exactly it. Doctors have neither any incentive to actually treat nontrivial cases, nor any accountability over whether they do.

Combined with the prestige of the profession, many turn into egoistic know-it-alls whose real competence is equivalent to a car mechanic who tells you you're just driving your car wrong when you come in with anything that's not obvious from a 15s inspection because they get paid anyway.

I would be surprised if most of the doctors I've seen could outperform even GPT-2.
To quote from the rqlite FAQ[1]:

"Why would I use this, versus some other distributed database?

rqlite is very simple to deploy, run, and manage – in fact, simplicity-of-operation is a key design goal. It’s also lightweight and easy to query. It’s a single binary you can drop anywhere on a machine, and just start it, which makes it very convenient. It takes literally seconds to configure and form a cluster, which provides you with fault-tolerance and high-availability. With rqlite you have complete control over your database infrastructure, and the data it stores.

That said, it’s always possible it’s too simple for your needs."

[1]: https://rqlite.io/docs/faq/#why-would-i-use-this-versus-some...
I'm also an archivist. I've created http://arquiva.me/ from scratch which is archiving tweets (and other sources) related to people in Portugal. That archive preserves history in open format that anyone in the next centuries can access.

As archivist, we both need to pick our sources manually at some point. Nostr is quite a good tool for archives, since its format is flexible (long term preservation) and can work even fully offline.
China again signals desire to shape global IPv6 standards
> We think of epic poetry as some kind of high literature. They were more like Marvel movies of the day.

Homer was considered the highest litterature at the time, so I’m not sure what this analogy means?
Infinitely Nested Window Management
Still going to have margins of error with both the measurements and the corrections, right? If those margins are higher than what the Moon forgives…
> 2000 acres is a "small" "family" farm??

The 'farm vlogger' channel Laura Farms operates a 2000 acres (800 hectares; 8 sq. km) farm:

* https://www.youtube.com/@LauraFarms/videos
If you put it this way, solving a differential equation numerically also provides an answer similar to human. But you don’t call Matlab an AI.
This is a tricky part. The middle element is still part of the search range if we go "left" (≥). After we compare against it, the search range length becomes either floor(n/2) or ceil(n/2), in the latter case including the middle element (we will never compare against it again, but it still needs to be the first element of the search range).

To avoid additional checks and branching, we can just always make the next search range length ceil(n/2), effectively adding that middle element to the search range in case we go "right" (<).
Celebrating Alan Rickman
Whoa this is awesome, I have a “throw away” tablet that loads all my bloatware apps that’s unfortunately necessary for a lot of home automation and messaging stuff. I just install the app and either use a home assistant or matrix plugin. I can now store my tablet in the server room instead and access it remotely!
We probably can’t buy our way out of it
No, they were in gay conversion therapy, or having to walk 3 miles just to use the only colored restroom on the campus.
Maybe we can or cannot build such a thing. We have no natural example for some exponentially self improving intelligence.

We also cannot build living animals from scratch or are anywhere close to it - maybe some forms of AI are much tougher to do than we think.
I've gone through similar books at some point. The closest that comes to "Crafting Interpreters" is "Writing an Interpreter/Compiler in Go" by Thorsten Ball. You can tell that these authors really took their time to describe everything going on with the code presented and carefully guide you through testable code leading to a full functioning interpreter at the end without having to look elsewhere outside the book.
> Mobile games are filled with ads and in-app purchases and I never found a simple game I could play and enjoy while waiting for public transport.

I bought Threes for $3 in 2014, and I still play it for hours each day -- on the subway, while waiting at restaurants, while watching TV, wherever.

A lot of people play 2048 because it's free, but it's not nearly as polished.
Exactly. I've spent ten years too disabled to leave my home and most doctors are just bullies who would rather insult you than consider that their initial evaluation of "it's just stress" might be wrong.
The prerecorded message seems sufficient for that use case. If I had a relative in that situation, I'd want her to be able to talk to a human - it might be an actual emergency or problem, but even if not...
Not really. By the time Apollo came around, erasing the nation on the other side of the world was pretty much a solved problem. 400,000 people were employed on Apollo and they weren't military (well, a few were) and were not thinking about nuclear weapons.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2009 sent back pictures, yes.

It clearly didn't put the conspiracy theories to bed.
AGI won’t be an LLM same as it won’t be an LSTM or CNN. But it’s an impressive step towards AGI.
...but only after the dot-com bubble burst
Interesting question.

I'm not sure what total junk-mail volume is, but the USPS moved 127.3 billion "units" (pieces of mail) in 2022, down from a peak of 213 billion in 2006.

First-Class mail volume was 48.9 billion in 2022, single-piece (which I presume means non-bulk) 12.9 billion.

"Marketing mail" volume, 67.1 billion.

<https://facts.usps.com/table-facts/>

First-class letter max weight is 3.5 oz (100 g).

Assuming an average weight of 100g per item, that's 6.7 million tonnes of marketing (junk) mail, give or take an order of magnitude.

A tractor-trailer rig can carry a maximum of about 45,000 lb (20 tonnes).

The junk-mail delivered in a year is roughly 400,000 such truckloads of mail. Or assuming 5-day/week delivery, about 2,000 trucks operating daily for a year.

(I'm using round numbers as the initial estimate is rough, just trying to give rough scope to the scale.)
The budget, for one. It was 2-3% of the GDP at the time. These commercial efforts have nothing remotely close to that. Also failure was seen as a bigger deal for all involved (due to the soviet threat). So, they'd rather waterfall the hell out of that program rather than fail and do things iteratively. I'm sure these commercial projects will eventually succeed. But it takes time.
I bookmark this page and load it whenever something starts circling/passing overhead:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?SiteLat=##.####&SiteLon=##.#...

Regular plane noise is a regular thing where I live - I'm right under one of the regular flight-paths for a nearby very busy airport and very close to another busy airport.

One idea I've had for a while is to take my eInk raspberry-pi accessory and poll this data and have a constantly updating "what's overhead" display.
How to get Spotify to stop playing music: Take headphones off.

Its fucking wild to imply that Spotify prevents mindful listening to music, what the hell does it mean that its designed for engagement?

I dont think I've ever listened to a song I didn't want to listen to on Spotify.
Google absolutely don't want to be accused of racial stereotyping.

Remember, Google is in the business of advertising, and the last thing most brands want is to be labeled as racist. Anything Google does that can be interpreted as racist is going to cost them, as advertisers pull away to avoid the association.
I'm well aware and agree with of all of the points you make. I've lived on this rock for nearly 60 years and have seen all of the scams and bad behaviour and avoided them.

My parents were avid readers of "Which" magazine who's raison d'être was to educate and inform their readers in the UK about consumer protection issues and how to spot when something smells a bit off. This rubbed off on me in my teens.

This is why provided Secretlabs as a likely example of a continued breach of our own laws regarding "sale" prices.
LLMs are trained with a form of imitation learning, they imitate human (and other) text. It seems indeed not likely that pure LLMs will advance far beyond human ability, since even a perfect LLM could only imitate human text perfectly. But other approaches will follow.
Irrlicht Engine – A free open-source 3D engine
Anecdatally, I have a collection of ~50 vinyl records and don't own a record player.

I have some pretty high-end audio gear, so I'm sure one day I'll get one, but until then it's just my preferred way of supporting the artists I like. I've never really thought about it, it just happened that way.
Would a BRICS Common Currency Work?
In this case, the high customer satisfaction resulted in additional high net worth customers, which made them more susceptible to a bank run!
That criticism seems pretty tangential to BYOL's stated goal of learning C.
> Video Games for example are 20x-50x bigger then Porn.

I wonder how these two can be compared. Adult entertainment often resides in the dark economy.
I think keyboard emulation was always the way most barcode readers operated.
Asking LLM from things they learned in training mostly result in hallucinations and in general makes you unable to detect by which amount they are hallucinating: these models are unable to reflect on their output, and average output token probability is a lousy proxy for confidence scoring their results.

On the other hand, no amount of prompt engineering seems to make these LLM able to do question and answer over source documents which is the only realistic way by which factual information can be retrieved

You're welcome to bring examples of it tho if you're so confident.
You don't know what funny is our you don't know what a hoax is?
Deno.dev (deploy) uses a different, proprietary runtime than Deno. I believe Ry mentioned at a recent talk that on deno.dev, the kv will be synced across all instances. Obviously this can’t be the case for stock Deno.
Cassette tapes have made a similar niche comeback for a very similar reason. There's the tactility in the experience of fast forwarding, rewinding, pressing play. If you're using a walkman, you can even feel the tape turning as it plays in your hand or in your pocket. The rituals involved with using a tape are so intentional in a way that it just isn't when listening to music on a streaming service.

It also is basically the epitome of DIY ethos so popular in punk and indie music, what with creating your own mix tapes, sometimes imperfectly. The relatively low fidelity of the medium also adds to the charm. "stealing" music by taping it from the radio, another cassette, or from a cd.

It just plays heavily towards nostalgia in a way that I don't think CD will ever be able to. Though I do have fond memories of burning mixed CDs, it just doesn't have the same charm as sitting at a tape deck and carefully pressing record and stop.
It is simple as that. Software engineers were working to "kill" the jobs of others pretending they are helping progress.

Now it is there turn. Our society is based on cannibalism and arrogance and such phenomena are normal in this context.

Disclaimer: I am a software engineer.
Honest question: How do you know it is a step towards AGI?
I mean, it's already really useful today
Wait, you're daily driving Kali on bare metal? Pretty sure it's not meant for that
Me too to all. Listening to full albums and not using infinite playlist is why, for me, Spotify is not really any different than the older tech and I don’t feel the need to jump on the vinyl train. I’m not a collector/hoarder of physical objects, I know I’d actually listen less if I had to search the shelf and drop a needle. Maybe because I developed these habits earlier in life, well before streaming or even Napster. It is interesting to see how the younger digital natives are interested in analog music now.

“Supporting the artist” is a commonly cited reason. In the part, we bought posters, shirts and concert tickets to to accomplish this.
I am confused. In my book vendor lock-in would refer to a situation where a user or customer would be unable to switch vendors or only with prohibitivly large cost and often under the notion that they were unknowingly lead into that situation.

So first of all, _you_ can use whatever ORM or database solution you like in general so _you_ specifically choose which technology you want to invest in. If you want to hand craft your kubernetes cluster for your database nodes and put them on GCP or Azure, then go for it. You want redis? Go for it. If you want to use supabase, firebase, planetscale or whatever, use that. If you want to choose a KV store that's built into your runtime then that's great. Believe it or not but people use lowdb in production and their database is literally a json file. I would argue whichever you choose, switching from one hosting provider, database solution, managed or unmanaged platform to another will always incur cost and how high that is will depend on your depth of integration and familiarity with it. I am most likely going to use this feature and I am happy it exists. Also let's not ignore that there is a large breadth of different needs that developers have. Would I build a massive modular corporate CRM system with BI features with it? Probably not. Am I going to build my next D&D game tool, habit tracker or Tinder for sneaker trading for it? Maybe!

I sincerely wonder what specifically you loose from this feature simply existing.
india has a real chance to develop fully if the BJP can tread between development policies and induist fascism, at worst talent will move to uae or usa
In no way shape or form is that true

https://www.mercatus.org/sites/default/files/d7/Chart1-Spend...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/15/ad/cd15adf1636f18595439...
Correct, as long as they become ROI positive/business backed, one module per profession.

In the future, this extends to robots, of course.
I've had ChatGPT build a fire nctioning website, write a DNA server, fill in significant portions of specs, all without the problems you describe. I'm never going back to doing things from scratch - it's saving me immense amounts of time every single day. The only reasonable conclusion is that the way you're promoting it is counterproductive.
Handwaving, along with no data. Also, you have zero idea about my volume or the volume of my clients.

Also, you assert, again without data, that knowing a provider's criteria for acceptable email is what would justify the energy needed to try to bypass it. Imagine that!

"Spammers: you have to not use spammy servers."

Spammers: "Let's start using 100% completely legitimate email servers."

Sorry. I think you just don't understand how ridiculous that is.
> Systems change, libraries change with them, leading to potential compilation issues amongst other things.

This project is

* Written in C

* Small

* Built with './configure && make'

Maintenance is almost certainly never going to be needed for this guy. It was done in 2014. Indeed, I just built it on my "bleeding-edge" Gentoo box and it runs just fine.
Nice educational project. In terms of entertainment... I wonder how cool would be a ChatGPT in a box. I think... how interesting would it be for isolated people...
I was a founding engineer at a Legaltech company that had buyer lined up before it was founded. Not just buyers, customers lined up before it was formed. Their execution was terrible. They actually did not understand customer need, did not talk to customer to understand their real problems.

It might seem safe, but you can still screw up.
A good alternative to binary search on modern hardware that should not be overlooked is indexed sequential search.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/indexed-sequential-search/
Report describes Apple’s organizational dysfunction and lack of ambition in AI
> they were thinking about how to effectively kill as much people as possible at a distance.

And rockets that can navigate precisely are a nice side-effect of that.
This is normal. This is a bragging thread, so you're getting the subset of people who have something to brag about.

For me, most of my mental energy goes into my day job, so I'm often just tired of programming and tech stuff after hours. I tend to have to balance - either put my energy into work work, or work work can suffer while I put my energy into personal projects. I also have family and other hobbies that take up time, and there's only so much of it.

I've also found that if I'm not careful, I'll get too obsessive over this stuff and everything else suffers, so I have to try to keep it in check or I'll end up burned out, more tired, and have half-finished projects - which can be even more mental overhead.
Ask HN: What is your longest lasting code?
Which of the software you authored continued to be useful the longest? What do you think caused it to last longer than other software you've written?
Top Twitter influencers flee to Bluesky amid Musk’s continued debasing