skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My general approach is to start with a small-to-moderate assortment kit, and after each project restock the bins that are running low/empty with individual-value orders of 100 components or so-- Those are the values you're using a lot of, and so it makes sense to stock them more heavily.

I'd also recommend getting a kit of fixed-length jumper wires; it's much easier to analyze what you've built and turn it back into a circuit diagram when the wire connections are short enough to follow at a glance instead of chasing wires through a ratsnest.
>It’s reductive because it assumes that appearing human-like is equivalent to being human.

I don't read that assumption into BoiledCabbage's statement at all: "[..] when we understand it well enough to realize we're the same type of parlor tricks?" This clearly implies a (hypothetical) deeper understanding of processes in the brain and their specific qualities, rather than (as you seem to be implying) a mere comparison of the outputs.

Edit: anyway, the criticism section opens like this:

>Historically, positivism has been criticized for its reductionism, i.e., for contending that all "processes are reducible to physiological, physical or chemical events," "social processes are reducible to relationships between and actions of individuals," and that "biological organisms are reducible to physical systems."

This (at least the 1st and 3rd quoted item, while I think the 2nd one is just out of scope) is exemplary of the kind of things that are obviously true for anyone but a subset of philosophers clinging to magical and unprovable beliefs about the human mind. I asked you to elaborate your argument precisely because if it all boils down to simply rejecting physicalism (in philosophy of mind terms) there's nothing new to argue about. The recurring discussion about "AI can never be like humans" is only interesting when the participants do a little bit more than just staking out their own position in idealism vs dualism vs physicalism terms and regurgitating all the known debates between these camps.
Guidelines are not strict rules, as Captain Barbossa pointed out, but let's assume they are.

Since moderators have promoted this practice for at least a decade, it's much more likely your interpretation of the guidelines which is wrong.

Any moderately good rules lawyer would point out the guideline is "please use the original title" not "please use only the original title" nor the even stronger "use only the original title", which turns the polite request into a requirement.

Adding the year is not editorializing. Nor is adding "[video]" or "[pdf]", nor even adding the conference name and year as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216895 did 11 hours ago.

Since there appears to be a conflict between your understanding of the guidelines and that of the moderators, you should take it up with them at hn@ycombinator.com in hopes of resolving the issue.

After all, the guidelines say "If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." ;)
> If brutal honesty is not tolerated then people will just lie more.

If your honesty means being brutal, issue is you.

> If Hitler had believed that this speech mattered (and he was probably correct that it did not) then he would have just said something different and had the same actions carried out.

Hitler knew his speech mattered and that is literally how he became so powerful? He was literally the speaker of the party. He became party leader only after he established himself as a speaker whose speech matter. Also, what Hitler reiterated in that pre attack speech was what he wanted the troops to do and how he wanted them to act. He was talking about the destruction, because he thought his speech matter and destruction was what he wanted to achieve.

This has nothing to do with honesty being allowed or not - he literally threatens people with execution if they honestly disagree.
It's because a bunch of people here are addicted to screens, like I am, but don't want to admit it. Also, it's so much easier to let your kid watch something on YouTube
The aphorism is pointing out that if something is made a target, people will game the target, even if that has very bad effects on the company or product.

So even a good measurement is vulnerable to this problem.
Then your statement will also be obsolete in the future too, so what you are saying is never going to be right.
Right, right, you're 100% correct.

To further explain, in most financial jargon, one often call an index by its (historically) most traded tracking fund. That is, the NASDAQ 100 is often called the QQQ, the S&P 500 is often called "spider" (SPDR), etc.

But you're 100% right, in a comment about vocabulary, jargon has no place.
The thing about Alder Lake AVX 512 is that (actually was, but i still occasionally run it with AVX512 enabled, for some specific tasks) the Alder Lake is the only consumer grade CPU that supports AVX 512 FP16. It is very performant for ML tasks, not like a real GPU, obviously, but a lot, much much easier to use.

Besides Intel do not gurantee compatibility AVX10 with AVX512/256.
The Russian Luna-25 lander mentionedin the article crash landed a few days ago. They dont appear to be a serious contender at the moment.
Reminds me of how mapmakers will include fake locations so that they can catch others who simply copy their map (not sure if this is still a thing or just happened back in the day)
If you ask people in the street to name a famous living British technologist, they might come up with Tim Berners-Lee or James Dyson, but they are never going to name Sophie Wilson.

(I wonder what answers you would get?)
Metrics don't tell the full story and should only be a read, not the direction. Project management and customer needs or product needs should be the driver. We are at the point now where the KPIs have the wheel.

If they were just called metrics in most companies and not Key Performance Indicators (KPI), then they would get less focus. KPIs has been a heavy consultant pushed term but they are just metrics, they should never been seen as how to create value and develop a product.

People love to say "KPI" as much as "Agile" and "velocity" nowadays, both have been horribly twisted and ruin agility and value creation over value extraction. They need to be generic again... metrics, agility, delivery and usability.

When metrics are all you measure, you end up with problems [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator#Problems
They are probably talking about population genetics, which doesn't really allow for experiments
If "the year of the linux desktop" requires turning linux into a windows/macos clone, I am happy to postpone it.
It is more visible with image synthesis. Sure, the style can be freely switched in a few seconds, fitting compositions from trained concepts is very impressive.

But there still is no real creativity. No emerging concepts aside from complete accidents that cannot be replicated again. The same is true for the other direction with models like Clip could create an interpretation of generated images. It is impressive, but there are still clear limitations. You cannot expect linear growth here, it could be that the current AI approaches are wrong, we hit a plateau and need fully new approaches for significant improvements. What we now have is insane amount of data and more powerful hardware, it could be that we have years of iterative and slow improvement while people fine tune their models.

I think LLM have the same problem overall, it is just more difficult to notice.
But that would diverge away from the definition of a Turing Machine.
The Enchanted Vanuatu Trip
I think in many ways Arm is (or should be) a sort of large 'Mittelstand' [1] business. Long term focus, independence, customer focus etc are key to the success of this type of business.

Trouble is, its success and its sector has given it a profile that attracts attention from the likes of Softbank who have other ideas. A company doesn't need to have a Nvidia like P/E ratio to be successful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand
As this is identical to orhmeh09's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215578 I point to my response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37221400 .
At the start of spring or fall I take a walk down to my local creek and net some mosquito fish. Then I setup a few vases with water and a plant to make a nice habitat for the fish and the mosquitoes. I set these up around the house in shaded areas. The mosquitoes come by do there thing and promptly get eaten by the fish. The fish does its thing and the plant grows. At the end of the season I plant the plant and throw the fish back in the creek. Its overall a pretty pleasant experience.
Ah, I thought it's related to uBO.
There are plenty of projects for which solderless breadboards are unsuitable, but there are also lots for which they're perfectly fine. Lots of hobbyists and most professionals will outgrow solderless breadboards sooner or later, but they're still a good place to get started.
For me this post is very awkward because nVidia is the hassle-free graphics solution for the last two decades.

https://www.freshports.org/x11/nvidia-driver/

"Port Added: 2003-01-20 07:29:31"

As a FreeBSD user I haven't run anything else since 2005 and that has been the foundation of my workstation builds. Intel CPU/chipset and nVidia. FreeBSD driver was a bit slower to update to new version, and it never received any of the supplementary software, but that came along the line.

Edit : the summary of quality of drivers is right in the last paragraph in the article.
China’s Spying on Australian Drills from Space Sign of Shifting Orbital Balance
Three different methods of building a Go REST API
The first part of this series focuses on using the standard library for building a Go REST API, a simple and native way to create HTTP servers. The second part uses the gorilla/mux framework, which provides a more sophisticated way of creating HTTP servers with features like middleware and routing. The third article uses the Gin framework, which provides a comprehensive solution for creating REST applications.
Yes, I love their CPU but you have to commit to read the data sheet. I write my firmwares mostly with direct register access and light libraries.
That means co2 is not the bottom of the energy hill.
One of the things Amazon measures for engineers is revisions to PRs. This makes since at a very superficial level. If you're a better engineer, you make the PR right the first time.

Except what happens is either engineers game it by just canceling PRs, making the requested change and resubmitting it. Or fighting tooth and nail for everything. No I won't change the naming on this variable because then I might get out on PIP. Or even more insidious, the team just doesn't do real code reviews, they just rubber stamp each others work in a "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
>Use Firefox Nightly instead.

Don't. Use Fennec instead https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
It's four times larger than Singapore!
> Your phone works because engineers did it.

The engineers implemented results from GR.

> Why it there?

Not that it matters, but the answer is in the introduction.
I don't think GPT-4 is more conscious than a book. For consciousness, I think it is necessary for it to continuously process and alter its own knowledge.
This change is transforming a ton of peoples lives.

Just not yet of highly skilled labor.

So hn experience doesn't count if you want to measure the relevance or impact of this.
Business Intelligence and Monthly Active Users
All modern UK governments have been largely indifferent on protecting British industry, and when they do it normally blows up in their faces. It's now a case of 'fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me'.
Show HN: Breaklist – A Morning Briefing Printed on a Tiny Thermal Receipt
I built Breaklist to organize the essential info I need to start my day. It generates a personalized morning briefing, optimized for thermal printers.

The morning report currently includes:

Task list
Reminders
Weather forecast
Summary of latest top articles on Hacker News

The result is a tidy, receipt-sized report that I can print and take on-the-go each morning.
In the photosynthesis case the bottom of the energy hill is helium in the sun’s core.
> That sounds to me like an app built for 10.7 Lion would not run at all on 10.14 Mojave... something that is probably true for real Macs as well.

In practice, on real Macs, most apps built targeting 10.7 Lion will work on 10.14 Mojave. Some apps will be a bit buggy but still basically work.

If you asked about 10.7 and Ventura, then I'd give it more like a 50/50 chance the app would work (possibly via Rosetta 2 depending on your hardware).

Backwards compatibility on macOS is quite bad, and it has gotten much worse in the last few years in particular, but it's not quite as bad as some seem to imagine.
scale of team?
You have a … wat?
My car has a HUD which puts the current limit and the speed I’m doing on the windscreen
If this is consequentialism, then I wholly reject it on the basis that it allows logically (and morally) inconsistent views of reality.

No one creates good out of their own evil. Perhaps the question is only seriously posited in the face of an enemy whose defeat would seem to require use of evil means.

If that's what you're facing, dear reader, then stay strong and hold fast. Don't resort to evil means. If you do, the real enemy (evil itself) has won over you, you become part of the problem, and you may become an enemy to a better person than you.
No drama, the greatest difference seen on the walkable|sailable Earth is less than a tenth of sweet bugger all (as you noticed).

I just felt like pointing out a rabbit hole that some might like to dive into!
> You seem to be trying to replace a basic peer-review of an engineering design that typically involves a paid team with advice from poorly-known, pseudonymous strangers with reputation crowd-sourced from a web site's user-rating system.

Yes that's a correct interpretation! In fact, I almost wrote something like "even though this is forbidden on SO, it's one of the most common kinds of conversations within and across teams in the workplace in my experience".

I also agree with pretty much everything else you said about how these discussions do happen in project-specific ways on mailing lists and such.

But I disagree that a generic version of this couldn't exist. (Maybe it can't anymore though, because everyone will try to do it solely with AI now because that's what's hot.) I think before the existence of Stack Overflow, you could have said all these same things about the kind of questions that appeared there. Prior to having a good place for getting factual answers from "poorly-known, pseudonymous strangers", it was necessary to get those answers from professors or or teammates or consultants or independent research, just like it still is for these more subjective questions.

I definitely agree that this is a more difficult genre than factual Q&A, and I don't begrudge SO their choice in what content to focus on, but I think it was a choice to go that route, not an inevitability.
> Meanwhile, the reactors currently / recently constructed are massively over budget and years behind schedule. Nobody is willing to invest in them unless the government is willing to guarantee a massive subsidy on the electricity produced.

The massive costs are entirely due to excessive regulations. In places and times where the rules are reasonable, plants get built on time and under budget.
I get that content owners don't like people freely accessing, exchaning, using "intellectual property" that they're expected to pay for. Given laws and lore in many countries, it I even concede that you might call the "theft".

But I continue to take offense at calling that act "piracy". No ships are burnt or sunk, no hostages are taken, no sailors or passengers are murdered, tortured, no loot is split.
GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Rails engineers passionate about education
It's really weird the spin on this. Space X rockets (and others) blow up all the time, it's part of the R&D process. So not sure why this is being reported so negatively (well, actually, I do, of course...)
I would suggest that the problem is not KPIs (or Agile, or whatever else is ruining your particular company). It's shitty management. KPIs (and Agile, and $buzzword) can be useful, when done right. If you get hit in the face with a hammer, is the hammer the problem? Or the idiot who swung the hammer at you?

Time and time again I've seen managers come up with a Great Idea(tm). It works for a little while. And then it turns into a shitshow because it goes from being a useful idea to being dogma.
Given that all we know is that he failed, there's no way we can know what he could have done different to succeed. Perhaps he was just doomed to fail no matter what.
The profits have raced to the top, but the net wealth generated has also been massive.

This is hopeful because a few gradual policy changes over the decades could keep the wealth creation part and help with the distribution part.

You can’t distribute what’s not there.
It comes down to at some level the right measurement is useful.

The problem is the middle manager owes the VP 12 measurements. The clever supervisor picks the easiest to achieve metrics possible.
Because this was not an R&D mission?
Well, there's the Pitch Drop Experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
> The nuclear industry has been incapable so far of making it cheaper.

The government has been incapable of not overregulating it into massive cost overruns. Nuclear is quite reasonably priced under reasonable regulatory regimes.
I took borrowed a school account to a local ISP. Saving the setting file onto a disk and rummaging through it with ResEdit to my young surprise brought me the text I was looking for!

Unlike you, I didn't have enough foresight to attempt to block the dialing in number .. at all. But I had internet for most of the school year until, as per your story, it relatively came crashing down one day.

Same justifications of "borrowing" the account as well -- I wasn't using it during the school day itself, I was at school -- and it seemed so silly to waste such services for 2/3rd's of a day!

A Stern talking to and that was that... Imaging what would happen now!
A lot of people I've met that reverse malware for a living started out cracking copy protections. It's basically the same skill set. The old SnD forums had an entire section dedicated to it. They even had decompiled Stuxnet samples before anyone really knew what a Stuxnet was.

That entire scene is people just wanting to break protections for the challenge. Not necessarily just copy protections. The InfoSec, and RCE worlds in general, would not be where it is today if it wasn't for them cracking those old games and whatnot.
It was fundamentally about proving advanced rocketry & orbital capability: if we can land on the moon, we can incinerate your cities from the sky.

Once that was proved, and the technology to deliver long range nuclear weapons implemented, the motivation to push this stuff at all costs dropped.

Put another way: back then it was science in the service of warfare with an effectively unlimited budget. Now it's mostly just the science.
> Hitler could just as well be equally vicious while being factually correct

I think that it would be impossible for him to become equally powerful if he did not lied however.
As I have heard said, humanity’s first major experiment with AI was social media recommendations - we lost.
Thanks for the kind words. I actually agree a lot with what you say, and would just add my personal experiences, and be interested in learning more, but I don't think you established the tone for further conversation here.
I guess the use case is to quickly try out some C/C++ code snippet. Typically I can think of checking binary arithmetic operations behavior.

Say you have some buffer that you need to align on 4K blocks, you could quickly try out your "& ~0x1000" in the REPL. It may not be a convincing example, but you get the gist, sometimes you just want to quickly see the result of some one liners.
great analogy!
I worked at a giant mega corp as low rung salesman and the major KPI was sales numbers. Until about June when if sales were looking bad region wide it turned to waste(returns) as the major KPI. If you knew how to straddle the line, by about May you could pivot to the KPI of the moment.

Every year some new hire would go out and sale 15% of sales plan and would be praise as a superstar. The next year they'd be written up for some bs reason and after a few years they would be flushed out.

What did they do wrong? They out performed sales plan in the first year by 15% and that meant that now every other year their plan for the year would add 5% growth on top of the 15%. Since the initial 15% growth was unsustainable the waste grew and magically they were now failing at the 2 major KPI's.
Unfortunately, in order to do that you would have to rip out the core of American identity, individualism and capitalism.
Yes, but I guess my point is that we can conceive of the idea of pigs deserving rights, even if we don't act as perfectly as we could/should be.

This is different from how we treat rocks, or pieces of metal, or trees. AI is more conceptually similar to these things than to animals. I.e., if someone made a convincing argument that rocks are actually conscious, I don't think we would stop using them to build stuff. We'd just come up with a more useful concept than consciousness.
If everywhere you go smells like shit...
Sure you do not read "liquids which appear solid".

It is liquid.
> > Yes, the storage capacity is also an issue.

> Yeah, but a different one.

It is the same issue, and pretending that it isn't is disingenous at best. What's the point of "quickly scaling renewables" if they can provide 0.55% of their nameplate capacity?

> I don't know if it will be solved by

Indeed, no one knows how this problem will be solved (and if it can be solved), but it doesn't stop you from statements like "how much easier it is to scale renewables anywhere from multi-gigawatt down to however many milliwatts". Germany has easily scaled renewables to gigawatts. And yet even now, during the day wind is at 2.38% capacity, solar is at 43% capacity, and 15 GW has to come from coal even though if you look at numbers only, there's 67 GW of wind installed.

> especially here where the grid is basically guaranteed to work.

Currently the only reason is working is that countries burn copious amounts of coal and gas to keep up with demand. Even Denmark which is covered in wind turbines currently only utilizes 9.6% of installed wind capacity, and has to import 34% of its electricity from Norway.

But sure do tell me how easy it is to scale renewables without accounting for the actual reality we can observe literally right now?
there are no spy balloons over Australia, we need to stop exaggerating the China threat
From a Nondualist perspective, our brain is highly complex biological neural network that has a special ability to reflect pure consciousness giving rise to the mind and the world with it. A sufficiently advanced artificial neural network can also reflect the same consciousness but thier minds and world would be entirely unlike ours. However, consciousness will add a random component to the predictions and might make them completely useless as a tool. They might decide not to follow the instructions prompt given their internal state of mind.

That is a problem even now though. Sometimes LLMs just goof up for no reason. Maybe they are conscious.
Surprised it isn’t more common, I would expect nerdy abled people to show off to their friends their cool screen reading skills, just because it’s such a niche, technical, and weird thing to do.

I may try out during the weekend.
If there are self driving cars on the road with a "press here to instantly cause an accident" widget fixed to the dash it's a problem regardless. Testing involves trying out exceptional inputs to find out how the system responds.