skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(1) This is a tired, pointless semantic argument. "It doesn't have a goal, it just acts like it has a goal for all intents and purposes. But, you see, it's actually a machine and not a human and therefore it can't really have goals according to my narrow definition of the term." Either point to an actually relevant difference in the resulting behavior or stop objecting when people use human behavioral terms to describe the behavior of machine learning systems. We're all well aware it's a program; that's not the point. (Sorry, just a frustration I have with the larger discussion around this topic.)

(2) "I don't see any evidence of much generalisation" Seriously? So when I tell ChatGPT to rewrite a paragraph in the style of Shakespeare and it does it, despite never being trained to do that, never seeing the source or target paragraph before, and having no information other than my text prompt and its past training, that's not evidence of generalization? And that's only one of millions of different possible tasks that the same model excels at, despite being trained on nothing but a bunch of unstructured text and a few examples indicating its goal should be to follow instructions given in the prompt text. Up until a couple years ago this level of flexibility in a machine learning model would have been considered science fiction by nearly everyone, and now it's "[not] evidence of much generalization". Okay.
By far the best evidence is the ads one gets on Twitter now. I haven't been using it for about a month, but before I stopped, the ad deterioration was striking to the point of absurdity. It went from being like any other mainstream thing - sports or primetime on TV or google or instagram ads or whatever - to being the kind of stuff you get at 2am on local access channels. They struggled to have a competitive ad business for their size of audience before, and it could not be clear now that they are making absolute peanuts on ads now, and there's just no way subscription revenue is going to make up even a small sliver of that squandered advertising opportunity.
In other words, X is the new blockchain.
I would only for the “ping pong” advantage ;)
Linux Kernel Mitigated for “Zenbleed” Vulnerability Affecting AMD Zen 2 CPUs
For Potential PhD Students
I guess that is true, but the IP address space today is so large as to be unscannable. Practically speaking, you have to have some evidence that some host is there before you can start prodding at that host.
what did he "build" exactly? Can I see some code produced by him?
Meanwhile twitter is having some serious glitches since 3 days. Replies hidden, broken notifications.
The hard part of robotics isn't the actuators, it's the brains. We had vacuum cleaners (and pre-programmable factory equipment in the form of punch card looms) for a century before the Roomba.
Said everyone about spacex and Tesla too.

That doesn’t mean this twitter thing is going to succeed, but your always “dumb move” comment is not very well founded based on musks history.

The entire tone of voice of this thread is exactly what people said about Tesla 5 years ago and why so many were shorting it. Turns out - that was a bad move.
No, Oppenheimer is a blast from the past from one of the few Auteurs that can get that budget and promotion for a personal project but Barbie is a toy commercial, and I'm sure executives are already planning the sequel, as well as the Mattel cinematic universe where she teams up with He-Man and whatever toys they can think of that could use a promotion.
It still does for me. I guess the DNS changes haven't propagated fully yet...
Too many tabs open? No problem [Visual Studio]
Wouldn't AI need a body to have emotions? Aren't many of the emotions that humans/animals feel based on sensors/sensations outside of the brain? We feel when we SEE/HEAR a threat and our instinct triggers to short circuit thinking in order to address it (fight or flight). An AI can think many iterations faster than humans and would have no use for this shortcut or need for a such sensors to feel unless maybe it had limited memory and were placed in a body and needed these short cuts to address low battery, physical threats, or the need to clone/propagate itself.
the step resolution is such (80 steps/mm) on the axidraw v3 that this isn't really an issue. From their product page:

* Native XY resolution: 2032 steps per inch (80 steps per mm).

* Reproducibility (XY): Typically better than 0.005 inches (0.1 mm) at low speeds.
Clearly, from the asinine discussions in these comments, we can tell that a lot of people are into astrology now. This is getting really bad.

That said, arguing against it probably won't work, there's a whole framework of weasely excuses and rhetorical chaff people can deploy. It's much harder to argue against a religious belief that people can just pretend they don't really believe in when challenged.

My hope is that someone can come up with a pop-culturey alternative that provides the fuzzy feelings of astrology without rotting people's reasoning ability about the natural world.
SvelteKit and Tauri: fast Desktop Applications [video]
That's a view of copyright that predates Williams v. Bridgeport Music.
My 65, at the time, year old father figured out Android just fine. What point was your n of 1 example trying to make?

Please try to keep in mind there is a wide breadth of technical prowess, thought patterns, and comprehension out there. What works great for some people doesn't for others. Also something to keep it mind being able to "figure something out" or "use it" doesn't necessarily make it a good experience, or an ideal one.
SQLite-utils now supports plugins
haha what? The government has negative interest in purchasing a social media company.
If you want to make it a lifetime thing maybe consider giving 6+ month trials to hook people in and show skin. I considered this for this type of app. Congratulations on the launch!
FWIW, enabling gzip/zstd compression in your HTTP server could help.
It was absolutely a disaster and unexpected. There was an intentional and deliberate effort to divert more water from the Colorado River. This involves breaching the banks to allow some more water to flow out. Erosion at the bridge led to a failure Cascade to the point where more than 90% of the Colorado River was diverted from its current course to the Salton Sea. Closing the took several years to complete
Seems like you've got a solid math grounding. If you're looking to expand on your history knowledge, I'd recommend taking a look at Creasy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifteen_Decisive_Battles_o...
I was born into a cult adjacent / high-demand religion and then left in my mid-thirties. There are a lot of people who are extremely intelligent but have a corner of their world-view (religious beliefs, etc) that completely contradict the other rational areas of their beliefs.

I think it's much more helpful to consider their beliefs in this area irrational or illogical rather than assume that this lack of logic applies universally to all of their knowledge.

Every single human that has ever lived has, at one point in time or another, held beliefs that are illogical and irrational. And nearly all of us still do hold such beliefs.
> Haven't the latest LLMs shown us that a neural net trained to "just string together readable words" lead to at least simple intelligence?

LOL no. At least not for anyone outside of a few echo chambers. I have literally not spoken with a single human outside of one subset of the tech industry who says stuff like this.

> I agree. On the other hand, if I tell a bot "I'm going to turn you off now" and it tries to stop me, that implies it feels fear.

I wrote a Perl program (an IRC bot) that did this as a teenager. AI achieved /s
Huh. OK, here's something that might be interesting. I found another paper[1] that cites SHARD, but the citation is slightly different. Instead of being a CCA memo, it shows it as a Xerox memo:

Sunil Sarin, Mark DeWitt, and Ronni Rosenberg, "Overview of SHARD: A System for
Highly Available Replicated Data," Technical Report 162, Xerox Advanced Information Technology (May 1988).

EDIT:

OK, I think I get this now. I had read the Wikipedia blurb about CCA being acquired by Rocket earlier, but only just now did I keep reading further down to find this bit:

in 1984, CCA was purchased by Crowntek, a Toronto-based company.[8] Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to Xerox Corporation in 1988.[9] The balance of CCA was acquired by Rocket Software, a Boston-based developer of enterprise infrastructure products,[2] in April 2010.

So it seems like the portion of CCA that would be of interest here, is probably the bit that sent to Xerox. Maybe somebody at Xerox could help turn up the missing document?

I doubt it will help, but I took a stab at pinging them on <strike>Twitter</strike> X.

https://fogbeam.com/tweet_xerox_cca_paper.png

[1]: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA209126.pdf
Might want to add Blizzard to that list. I used to own a copy of Warcraft 3, but Blizzard revoked all existing copies when they re-released WC3 as "Warcraft III: Reforged". I would have to purchase the game a second time to play it again.
I feel like writers want to have their cake and eat it too:

- Make weirdly evocative titles

- Get more clicks because people are positively or negatively intrigued by such a title

- If someone protests it, though, they are being shallow and nitpicky
Reflect: High-performance sync for multiplayer web apps
To borrow a line from the classic movie Short Circuit, it's a machine! It doesn't get scared, it doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it just runs programs!

A computer does not have a consciousness that feels emotions. Sure, it can create output that seems like it does, possibly even well enough to cause humans to feel empathy. The movie "AI" explores this concept pretty well.

The world is going to become an interesting place once we create humanoid robots that you can actually talk to. We're at a point now where you can use ChatGPT combined with very convincing CGI face to talk to an AI.
Just like the moon landing: testing it out in Arizona before doing it for real. https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/coconino/?cid=FSEPRD611864
If true it would be fantastic, here are a few thoughts:

- It's not just that proteins like TDP-43 are mislocalized, it's also that they are misfolded and form aggregates in ALS.

- ALS cells have been scrutinized since two decades, how this was not observed?

- If there is such a scale of disorder in ALS patients, won't they would die in days instead of months?

- An excerpt form Wikipedia: "Mutations in VCP are an example of pleiotropy, where mutations in the same gene give rise to different phenotypes. The term multisystem proteinopathy (MSP) has been coined to describe this particular form of pleiotropy."
Without fully grasping how archetypes work, it is impossible to begin. It's a prerequisite, and without that one will always miss just how remarkably accurate (in field-like terms) astrological prediction can be.
This would explain things, if there was a credible suggestion for who's pulling the strings.

The theory of Elop destroying Nokia (consumer) makes sense, because he was at Microsoft, went to Nokia sold it to Microsoft at diminished value and stayed there for a good amount of time. But who would pay Musk for this? And how will he be compensated? Afaik, he's lighting a bunch of his own money on fire. Although, there has been a lot less news from him on Tesla and SpaceX, so maybe it was all a plan to keep him out of those spaces.
Interesting they are showing off products on that page they are removing end of this year... The ones that bring in money. Going to be interesting to see how they spin this.
Ah memories, we used the black tower version at work.
I think the article links to the wrong marky library. The one linked to is a node lib called marky-mark, which does not appear to support mermaid. I think the correct link is this: https://docs.rs/crate/marky
There are a lot of text posts already on TikTok, but they're just done as videos or slideshows. And some are very popular. Text memes or jokes or "witty observations" often are in this realm.

And it also turns out that these are shared quite often -- which is another metric that TikTok's algorithm uses.
I posted this on HN a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36035943 as a comment. I think it deserves a link post!
Achtung baby
My quibble is with the statement from the article: "it actually started out as an accident", it's just not good reporting.

It didn't start as an accident, there was a prehistoric lake there, occasionally inhabited. Because of the lake that used to be there the area has fertile soil. Humans diverted water there intentionally for farming. Some people profited off of this and have left residents and others to deal with health effects and pick up the tab of dealing with the problem.
X-Perience as an X-Man
> Isn't that completely torpedoing your point though?

why would it? You aren't everybody, or anybody else but you, so saying you wouldn't want to do it doesn't really have any affect on the point (especially since we're discussing ability, not ambition)
Also I would like to add that Musk himself has said he has Aspergers in that interview. So it’s self declared at least.
Depends on the car\manufacture...

Unsold electric cars are piling up on dealer lots

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/10/unsold-electric-cars-are-pi...
Trump did endanger America's democracy by trying to steal an election. So does advice from the left to defy the Supreme Court or to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans without Congressional approval or to enact climate policy through regulatory agencies without legislation.
I'm working on an inductive logic programming algorithm, and from my understanding the search space for logic programs is just as vast as other types of program synthesis. Do you have any information you can share about the polynomial time algorithm?
One has to wonder if the most optimal throat-choking to ball-holding ratio can be modeled
The monte carlo module includes the ability to break down outcome categories based on how far you make it during each trial. But I definitely want to add more metrics and customization to that mode over time. Expected shortfall (I assume from point of failure till end of plan?) sounds like a good one!
I don't understand how a microcode update could fix this. I assume microcode is used for slow operations like triginometric functions, and doesn't affect how registers are allocated or renamed. Or does the update simply disables some optimizations using "chicken bits"? And by the way, is there a list of such bits?
Prop 13s original beneficiaries were pre-boomer. It was sold as a means to allow grandma to stay in her home as property values skyrocketed around her and rising property taxes were actually pushing (pre-boomer) people out of their longtime homes.
Here's the the thing, the brain is just an object too.
Oh hey, it's you again!

I discovered projectionlab (formerly projectfi) on HN a while back and have been loving it. Every other "retirement calculator" I found was a dozen text fields and a simple output graph or two - Projection Lab gave me what I really wanted, which was the ability to do much more involved modeling of various scenarios:

- What happens if I buy a house in X years?

- What happens if my old company IPOs and I get a windfall of $Y in X years?

- What happens if I change assumptions on investment returns or inflation rates?

- What happens if I retire at various different ages?

- What happens if my salary increases by 2, 5, 10, 30% each year?

- What happens if we do this kind of mortgage or that kind of mortgate?

- All of the above, but also modeling my in wife's finances?

- All of the above, but with beautiful, interactive graphs instead of my ugly spreadsheet outputs

- All of the above, but without the several formula typos that I made while building my spreadsheet

Anyway, it's amazing, I love it, and nothing else out there really seemed to compare. I found your free plan more than met my needs, but I wound up subscribing just to support it. I'm quite hoping you're able to make this successful long-term so that I can keep using it until I eventually retire. :)
[warning: dangerously off topic rabbit hole]

Huh, according to Wikipedia (without citation, unfortunately), that ancient construction company pioneered the use of CAD for temple design. I wanted to see if I could corroborate this claim, so "kongo gumi cad" on Google lead to: https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi which makes a very similar claim. From what I can tell, this claim is echoed all over the (English) internet but originates from "worksthatwork.com".

The earliest wayback snapshot of that website from 2014 doesn't mention CAD, but the March 30, 2015 snapshot does. Looking at the wikipedia article edit history, there seems to be an edit war happening regarding the accuracy of sources (someone seems to believe very strongly that Nikkei Asia is not a reliable source): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&o...

The CAD claim seems to have originated in 2022, but the citation to "worksthatwork.com" was swiftly removed in a subsequent edit due to lack of evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%C5%8D_Gumi&o...

Well, this was a strange rabbithole to fall down. I'm interested to know from where this claim originates, or if "worksthatwork.com" just made it up in 2015. The answer probably lies beyond the English language internet.

I wish Wikipedia had a "blame" feature like git. If it exists, I couldn't find it.
I think you meant "recently published paper" but others are bringing up old stuff. I've always enjoyed Einstein's (translated) papers. They are both precise and readable, and his reputation for genius is well deserved!

This one is interesting, "On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light" you can read here: https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol3-trans/393. This was his initial stab at GR. It was a simple approach, later abandoned, that considered light to slow down in a gravity well rather than remaining constant and specifying that mass warps spacetime. I suppose I like the idea that he pursued an idea that didn't work, and was forced to do something far more complex. It's kinda relatable.
What's that all about then? I'd expect curl to deal with either/or

curl should especially live with a punycode version.

Unless the punycode from the OP is incorrect? From basic online tools, it looks like it simply converts to x.com
OP is a story about UK publications, but I've also seen a rash of US-based stories that have a "generated from outrage-tuned talking points" quality. They accompany a parallel faux narrative about gas stoves.

It's frustrating to see cheap PR tactics used against new technologies that are part of the solution to both burning fossil fuels, and indoor air quality.
Similar to a 'prepared piano'. By making your instrument unique you introduce interesting variation and improvisation.
They have the "Tips" application that has all of the features. It's on the front of a new app. What is stopping you from discovering it?
Wouldn't have helped you back then but LLMs are _spectacular_ at giving you the term that you don't really know what to google for.
At least most home routers (on connections that still get a public IPv4 address) are fortunately not symmetric, or STUN would not be working with them. (STUN only works if at least one endpoint is port-restricted or better, if I remember correctly; it might also have been both ends.)

Many carrier-side NATs are indeed often symmetric, unfortunately.
I'm not sure how much it will reduce your skepticism, but I believe NATS was actually created by the same person who created TIBCO RV: https://twitter.com/derekcollison/status/1163299967089254402

Derek seems like the kind of person who might know a thing or two about messaging systems.

I really like what NATS has become, and I do appreciate the simplicity of the protocol.
Maybe that's the joke?
People spend other people's money differently.

"Taxpayer funded" is a gross oversimplification, for any sort of government entitlement and college funding alike.

But anyway, I have seen students in college who were sent there by their employer. They work full-time, have families with young children, and they were expected to pick up several credit-hours to upskill. You've never seen a bunch of sleepier guys. A lot of people, sent by their employer picking up the tab, don't wanna be there, and it shows. They're really disengaged with the class, and that frustrates classmates and professor alike.

Then there's students whose parents paid for it, and family expectations on them finishing college so they get a "real job", or even support the parents and buy them a nice house soon.

Students who work their way through school adopt another distinct attitude. They will get tired too, but they make every credit-hour count. It's their own money and their own blood, sweat, and tears that bring them to the finish line.

There are students who apply for scholarships and get through college that way. There's all sorts of funding for scholarships: corporate sponsors, non-profits, churches, community-based organizations, philanthropic foundations. Someone came to speak at the fraternity meeting and she said she'd been awarded six million dollars in scholarships. I was unsure how you'd spend all that at a community college, but hey?

People who are spending, or supported by, other people's money spend it differently than if it were their own money in their own bank account with them watching the bills and transactions. The incentives are different. The risk/reward calculation is different. That's how it goes.
True! But this is not the silicon or the actual software programming but rather the program’s processing/out put as experienced by external users and systems.
I think it’s a great title. It advertises exactly the sort of persona that he presents.
If he wanted a better price he shouldn't have started purchasing talks by posting a ludicrous price on twitter before talking to anyone.

In the normal world, this is called being really stupid and bad at business
[first bit removed because I was wrong]

I imagine it is possible to do something wrong at the processor to make this not work, due to the device card number shenanigans you mention. But, are there really still processors who still do it wrong? The device card number is associated at the issuing bank, not at the processor (unless I am missing something).
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922>
I seems to be slowing down quite a bit after I double clicked, or maybe HN visitors coming in. Is this implemented with a Graph database?
Timex, AMEX
No.

These are police radios. All of the transmissions are recorded at the dispatch center and routinely get audited and used in various ways.
Basically Google
Quick reminder that the Salton Sea is a man-made lake that was created a massive geoengineering accident and is maintained solely by runoff from irrigation.

In a natural state without human intervention the whole thing would be a dust bowl today
Thanks, good point. I do grant extended trials on request (as described on the pricing page), but maybe I should make that a more prominent thing?
You could do that. It was that platform. As it increasingly loses its universality in favor of incentivizing subscriptions, it will increasingly lose that position.
>Brain is everything you know of today in GenAI space

I know ChatGPT, Midjourney, StableDiffusion, Adobe Firefly, And GitHub Co-Pilot in this space. Where’s Google?

Let me guess: Brain’s research led to those products? Even if that were the case, Google still failed to market and capitalize. Are they running an open research lab for the greater good? Or are they still interested in launching market-leading products?