skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that ie. paralyzed people don't have consciousness?
Ah, Demoscene, my favorite of the Ancient Greek philosophers, who once wrote, 'In the realm of pixels and sound, true wisdom lies, not in what is seen, but in what is rendered in the mind's eye.' He was quite ahead of his time as you can see.
Draw My UI
My native keyboard layout is Icelandic so I'm not holding my breath. I ordered one with a blank ISO layout.
LLMs don't create new information, they only compress existing complexity in their train and inference data sets.

Humans definitely create new information. (Well, at least some humans do.)
Appreciate it — will take a look!
Definitely agree with the solution - but unfortunately the transit-as-tech organizations (as well as auto manufacturers, the oil industry, real estate, etc.) also lobby to ensure that funding remains low and infrastructure decays or that costs/time become prohibitively high for infrastructure expansion.

It's definitely one of those things where the goal is clear but the changes necessary to get there are complex.
I don't think they meant that interpretation was overly narrow. More like the interpretation was already stretching things well past the intended limit.

That is, the interpretation was meant to justify what people might be tempted to do.
7 ways GPT-4 with Vision can uplevel your Streamlit apps
Jared Diamond mentions several attributes which make a species suitable for domestication. Humans fit all but one: we are almost too altricial to be suitable for economic exploitation.

Imagine the contribution to GNP if we in practice, like Bokanovsky* (by Ford!) in fiction, could greatly reduce the 10-30 year lead time currently required to produce new employees...

Edit: * cf https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/notes/notes47/notes47.html
> humans have been using tools for longer than we've been human

It depends on how you define 'human'. Our line spit from chimpanzees 7 million years ago (mya); we walked upright 6 mya. Tool use began ~2.58 mya (possibly 3.3 mya, depending on some uncertain evidence).
Oftentimes the download just is left short. And I recall it not even giving error, just sending a part of the file, which of course is a corrupted archive.

OneDrive sucks and organizational structures that buy OneDrive sucks and the company that produces it really sucks.
Yes, and go upvote this .NET feature so we can make portable .NET WASM libraries: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/86162

.NET WASM performance is actually very impressive, especially with AOT enabled.
Funny. So do I. Military specs are governed through something call MIL-STD, not through NIST unless it directly references it. For instance BSSC 2005 gives guidelines on coding standards for Java, but no one follows them.

If you were a contractor then you would know all specifications are waived unless specifically designated by your MOL and documented in GSA/SOW.

So here is one of these internet know it all's that doesn't know anything.
every time i tried Firefox with Wayland, WebGL stops rendering
What wireless frequencies were allocated to Apple?
The MI300 is a massive GPU compared to even the new H200.

It was designed as a combined CPU/GPU for supercomputers, with shared memory. But then the AI craze hit, so AMD spun a variant into a pure GPU AI accelerator real quick, which they could actually pull off because the GPU silicon is modular.

...So thats why it cost a fortune. Its really a jury rigged HPC product.
I have been trying to find information on this - but couldn’t find any real scientific literature. Anecdotally, it’s true for me and my current psychiatrist was the first one to recognise the link and start treating my ADHD instead of the depression and low energy and fatigue that I went to her for. Not there yet. But can confirm that the meds help a lot.
Very nice.

I don't personally follow her all the way to some of those conclusions but the delivery was awesome
Masterwork is not independent of its time, context, etc. It's hard to say AI will be creating masterwork, especially when focused for each person.
It’s the best scifi movie out there by far. Of course everyone remembers it.
So why isn't my social security number 4 bytes? I could just be "$jA9" when ascii encoded.
Ah, I didn't read closely enough x_x
Ah, but HN is a platform for not just any software engineer, but the entrepreneurial type.
That's one code change away from not working though
The odd thing about this article is that the Warren Commission's conclusions were based on the doctors who worked on JFK at the hospital [1] (Warren Report, pages 18-19):

The Commission based its findings primarily upon the testimony of
the doctors who had treated the President at Parkland Memorial
Hospital in Dallas and the doctors who performed the autopsy on
the President at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Has anyone seen the documentary? Do they explain if they changed their minds?

[1] https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-repor...
Ask HN: What Is Your Take on Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"?
There's online version of the book here: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
How on earth is he hurting your trans friends?

I KNOW you voted for far left wingers, who all voted against gay marriage at one point, so tell me cold pie in minnesota, how do you possibly support those that actively voted against your beliefs? Explain that. How do you reconcile that?
>but they're being fed, housed, and receiving healthcare at taxpayer expense even without opting-in

All slaves receive these things. Its in the interest of the slave owner to keep the slaves healthy enough to work. Modern companies shouldn't get a discount by using slave labor. If the prisoner wants to learn a "skill" that is profitable to a company then they should be paid the minimum wage.

Its less awful, but I also believe unpaid internships should also be illegal unless they are purely observational. If the intern is contributing in anyway to the profits of the company, they should be paid.
> I wondered if perhaps this WASM use case for a cross-language library was already just as possible and ergonomic using language bindings and maybe thats why this use case doesnt seem like a big deal to people.

Yeah that’s the reason. You don’t notice it a lot of the time, but FFIs are everywhere already. The most common foreign function interface is basically the ability to call C code, or have functions made available to C code. C is used because everyone knows it and it’s simple. And most languages either compile to native code (eg rust) - which makes linking to C code easy. Or the runtime is implemented in C or C++ (eg V8, Ruby). In languages like that, the standard library is already basically implemented via a FFI to C/C++ code.

I’ve got an iOS app I’m working on that’s half rust and half swift, with a touch of C in the middle. The bindings work great - the whole thing links together into one binary, even with link time optimizations. But the glue code is gross, and when I want to fiddle with the rust to Swift API I need to change my code in about 4 different places.

Most FFIs are a one to many relationship in that if you write a clean C API, you can probably write bindings in every language. But you don’t actually want to call naked C code from Ruby or Javascript. Good bindings will make you forget everything is done via ffi. Eg numpy. I haven’t looked at the wasm component model proposal - I assume it’s trying to make this process cleaner, which sounds lovely.

I maintain the nodejs bindings for foundationdb. Foundationdb bindings are all done via ffi linking to their C code. And the API is complex, using promises and things. I find it really interesting browsing their official bindings to go, Java, Python and Ruby. Same bindings. Same wrapped api. Same team of authors. Just different languages. And that’s enough to make the wrapper wildly different in every language. From memory the Java ffi wrapper is 4x as much code as it is in Ruby.

https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/tree/main/bindings
To be fair, it's any of the exalted professions that the blessed extend their expertise to. Doctors, lawyers, software engineers. they (we) start with the notion that I'm a smart person, so from first principles, I can conquer the world. nevermind that that's an existing body of work, with their own practitioners to build off of.
I found that three weeks + water worked when I had a similar issue. To be honest the water felt good. I envisioned peeing as a way to flush the badness out despite knowing that’s just not really how it works.
Do they though? Or do humans just combine things they have learned about the world?
Rice is not a vegetable, the question was if you can live off vegetables. Thats why I said you would struggle to hit your caloric needs without processed grains and oils.

You could maybe make it if you ate a couple pounds of beans a day with dirt on them. I really think your digestive tract would struggle though.
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Yeah, it's only software people. No one else has unfounded opinions.

But... a parrot has a body. And sure, you'll say "they don't literally mean parrot".. but it's a vague term when you unpack it, and people saying "we are stochastic parrots" are also making a pretty vague comment (they clearly don't mean literally). Anyone who has a small child and understands LLMs is shocked by how much similar they seem to be when it comes to producing output.
Why can't living things live forever? (2015)
> Sounds more like this is just an exhibit of the replication crisis.

Do you have evidence of that, or are you saying it looks the same?

The replication crisis on HN is replication of these comments in every discussion of social science research. The papers that they tried to replicate at least were at least based on evidence, and the conclusion was not that they were completely wrong but that, for many papers (not all by any measure), the conclusion was replicated but the evidence wasn't quite as strong as in the original.
Macros recording a series of mouse clicks: That's what I did when I was a finance intern many moons ago. Knew nothing about programming at the time.
I'm confused at how you get left out of the loop. Do they just not include you in group chats?

I have a group chat right now with my sister who is also iPhone and my mom who is Android, we all have zero issues in group chat.

Only thing that changed is the group chat goes from being iMessage blue bubbles to just all green chats due to the one Android user.

Everything else is the same. Well when my sister like reacts to our messages because she doesn't quite realize that it's not a group iMessage but just a group SMS then iMessage sends `<sister> liked "<message she liked>"` texts to the rest of us but shows the like reaction to her.
Same way trillions of galactic citizens can just "forget" the Jedi in ~20 years. Imperial Propaganda (supported by actual Sith magic) must have been amazing.
In 2008 there was a Demoparty sponsored by Nvidia https://demozoo.org/parties/554/
We just need some cows to eat the vegan diet for us to digest and unlock these difficult to obtain nutrients. Then we can eat them to get the nutrients.
If you live in an area with a lot of microclimates within one city, weather forecasting is honestly no better than astrology.
If you think it seems like bad timing, I suggest you read closer: They very specifically say that emerging technologies (like the recent advances in ML systems) are still subject to the CASA theory.
The problem isn't so much the admitting of eyewitness testimony, it's the weight given to it and, in your example, the addition of racism that leads to false convictions. As long as there is racism, there will be false convictions.
1. The majority of restaurants fail for reasons that a lender will spot in the loan application process. Inexperience, location, undercapitalization, etc... The rate of failure for a restaurateur that manages to secure a loan is nowhere near 80%.

2. If a person with a gambling problem takes out a home equity loan and bets it all on black and wins, the most likely outcome is that they then keep betting until they eventually lose. So while one bet may have close to a 50% change of paying off, the real world expected value of giving someone $100k to go to a casino is much less than if you'd given that same $100k to a random person who wants to start a restaurant.

3. Opening a failed restaurant isn't something that someone is likely to do more than once. It's hard to find exact numbers, but the number of people who will ever start a failed restaurant is less than a tenth of a percent. The number of people who will experience a gambling disorder at some point in their life is 1-2%.

4. Even assuming a person does have some kind of problem and wants to keep trying and failing to open restaurants, the process of opening a restaurant takes a lot more time and effort than betting on roulette.
How are you defining "create new information" ?
>Inflation oscillated around 0 for most of American history and our economy did great.

I've heard it said that the British pound was worth the same in 1914 as in 1614.
That 50X is only if you can afford one thousand NVIDIA H100.

There cannot be more than a handful of companies in the entire world that could afford such a huge price (tens of millions of $).

In comparison with a still extremely expensive cluster of 64 NVIDIA H100, the difference in speed would reduce to only two to three times, and paying several times less for the entire training becomes very attractive.
Does anyone here remember .kkrieger? the first-person shooter in a 97 kb file. The demoscene was comprised of some truly talented people.
Why four? How about mine as the fifth, I wrote it back in college, it almost works.
I like this article but this is actually a good point. "The rich" is mostly used in a negative way.

I'd argue this is because most attempts to reduce large groups of people to an idea like "the rich" or "the poor" are done in bad faith.

A support of this would be, within academic sociology or economics these terms will be used in a non slur way and it's because they actually have a reason to be thinking in terms of these groups instead of throwing them out as stawmen for some argument
Those who don’t understand a concept are doomed to reduce it to concepts they do understand.

I’m currently reading I Am A Strange Loop, a pretty extensive dive into the nature of consciousness. I’m reserving final judgment on how much I agree with the author, but I find it laughable to claim consciousness itself is on the same level as an LLM.
I always enjoyed the stories of 'clock work' people (robots).
> indicates there is a much bigger systemic problem that needs to be dealt with: namely, big tech functioning as essentially the landlords of the Internet and skimming profit off of everything that happens there.

Seems like you haven’t been paying attention as this is precisely what has happened. Or are you being ironic?
I believe there is research into rapid eye blinking followed by slow blinking causing the brain to "calm", so perhaps an external source has a similar effect?
The original implementation of SNOBOL was broken into 2 parts, the actual SNOBOL interpreter and the runtime support. The interpreter is written in a "machine language" called SIL (SNOBOL Implementation Language), and the runtime support was typically a mishmash of assembly code that interfaced with the operating system and typically some high level language's libraries (e.g. the 360 version of SNOBOL used FORTRAN's io libraries). SIL itself was meant to be a set of assembly macros. One would implement the individual macros, run an assembler and "poof" you had a SNOBOL interpreter.

SPITBOL was a response to a comment that "SNOBOL could never be compiled". The original SPITBOL implementation was on the IBM 360 (and the source code is in the linked repository). There is a 370 version of the code (basically it's just the updated version of the 360 code) that is laying around on the internet. (I have a copy of that code and at some point am planing on adding it to the above github collection).

After the IBM Mainframe versions of SPITBOL, Dr Robert Dewar came up with a portable version of SPITBOL called MACRO SPITBOL which like SNOBOL, used an abstract machine language that one can process into some native machine language. The abstract machine instructions are called MINIMAL. Again the layout of a SPITBOL compiler is the compiler source code (a huge monolithic chunk of code), a set of programs that translate the MINIMAL statements into some targeted machine code and the os interface code which is again a mishmash of some assembly code that interfaces with the operating system and some other language's runtime libraries (e.g. for the x86_64 the os interface code is written in C and uses some of C's runtime).

Internally SPITBOL has 2 phases. The first phase reads and processes SNOBOL statements and compiles the statements into an internal executable with what is basically a JIT compiler. The 2nd phase is the execution of the internal executable. MACRO SPITBOL itself doesn't create a standalone object file that could be linked and executed (though the 360/370 could).

Part of the reason for not creating a traditional object file is that the SNOBOL language has 2 functions, EVAL and CODE which allows one to write dynamic code. Both of these functions require the use of the parsing and code evaluation used during the phase 1 stage.

One interesting thing that Dr Dewar came up with was an interpreter for the MINIMAL statements, MICRAL. The process here was to translate the MINIMAL statements into a compact binary format and a simple interpreter that read that binary format.
I'm assuming that, like all other EVs, range plummets with the heat running.
Pour one out for the decline of human exceptionalism! Once you get material-reductionist enough and accept yourself as a pure function of genetics, environment, past experience, and chance, this conclusion becomes inevitable. I also expect it to be the standard within a decade, with AI-human parity of capabilities as the key driver.
Reminded me of the South Park guys (et al.) take on Deep Fakes from a few years ago, especialy the bit with Michael Caine :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM

(Of course they used a real fake voice for all of them.)
First of all, paralyzed people do have bodies. And sensorimotor functions.

Second of all, it wouldn't matter if individually they did or did not. The species does and now our species has developed consciousness. It's part of the package.

If you wanted a counterexample, you should look to plant life. There is some discussion on whether or not plant systems have a form on consciousness. But, then again, plants have bodies at the very least.
I am not talking about consequences for failure. I am talking about consequences for crimes.

Let them quit. They were trying to fire them anyway. They shouldn't even have their jobs at this point anyway...they should be in prison.
Sorry, it's just hilarious to me that there is an article worrying about the uncoolness of Android in a publication called "Android Police." Maybe people who want to be cops aren't the right group to ask about how to be cool? Do they go around handing out violations to people who don't love Android enough?
I was diagnosed a few years back and use the same drug - the difference is night and day for me. Astonishing difference to my life!

When people ask if I'm frustrated/angry that it took until I was mid-30s to get diagnosed, I respond by saying how I'm proud of myself for achieving what I have so far unmedicated/undiagnosed - and excited about what the future might hold.
> But he could understand so much more than he could say. If you asked him to point to the vacuum cleaner, he would.

Perhaps worth noting that it is possible to teach infants (often starting at around 9 months) sign language so that they can more easily signal their desires.

Some priority recommended words would probably be:

* hungry/more

* enough/all done (for when they're full)

* drink (perhaps both milk/formula and water† gestures)

See:

* https://babysignlanguage.com/chart/

* https://www.thebump.com/a/how-to-teach-baby-sign-language

These are not (AFAICT) 'special' symbols for babies, but the regular ASL gestures for the work in question. If you're not native English-speaking you'd look up the gestures in your specific region/language's sign language:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sign_languages

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_language

† Another handy trick I've run across: have different coloured containers for milk and water, and consistently put the same contents in each one. That way the infant learns to grab a particular colour depending on what they're feeling like.
It is just… rain? I’m very confused if I’ll be honest. Your jacket gets wet, or you carry an umbrella so you stay dry? It rains 7-8 months of the year here, I genuinely never thought of it as a reason to drive so might be the wrong person to answer. As long as I’m not drenched (never happens unless i’m out for a rainy run on purpose), who cares the jacket will dry once I get in.
I'm willing to try it, I'm just waiting for a few more benchmarks regarding memory usage. Last time I checked I could only find the Benchmark Game [1] for AoT measurements, but they're from .NET 7.

Memory usage is important to me and golang is very good at that being light, but I really hate writing it for various personal reasons.

If I had more free-time I'd just simply go with Rust but you know, free time is limited :P.

[1] https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/csharp-vs...
Hack ADHD with an annoying timer you can't ignore
Hm, ok so it seems there has finally been progress since I stopped looking (around a year ago, I was very actively following developments for a couple of years before that but got tired). I will check wit-bindgen and jco and see if I can finally make my little compiler emit code that can be called from other languages and vice versa without myself generating any JS glue code.
American wire gauge is better. They defined zero as 8.251 mm diameter so for thicker wires they had to use multiple zeros. And for some reason many Americans write it as (1/0) which looks like one divided by zero. And its pronounced "one aught." It also has no resemblence to barrel gauge for firearms even though they follow a similar principle of increasing gauge leading to decreasing diameter. For example a 12 gauge shotgun barrel is much larger than a zero gauge wire. Interestingly firearm gauges never hit zero. Total disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge_(firearms)