skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Profit is not taken to pay employees by definition. Profit is gross less all liabilities. Liabilities include payroll. Payroll is revenue.
Memory and storage live migration across hosts and pools is possible with Xen too.

See VM.pool_migrate and VM.migrate_send https://xapi-project.github.io/xen-api/classes/vm.html. Those features got introduced in Xenserver 4.0 (2007) and 6.1 (2012).

Disclaimer: I work at XenServer.
Italy's far-right claim The Lord of the Rings – but they've misread its message
I have a simple project journal/log text file I add to at the end each time I work on the project. This allows me to easily get back to the context next time I decide to move the project further.

I usually keep a couple of ideas to do next, outlined at the end.

If I forget what I was doing previously or am stuck on ideas on what to do next, then I just skim back up the file.

This works for me, and it’s dead simple.
I don't really disagree with anything you just said, but it feels like a response to a different thread. Nobody here is arguing that randos who approach university people are generally bringing valuable stuff to the table, or arguing that uneducated laypeople are likely to successfully unify QM and GR, or solve P=NP, etc.

The topic at hand (at least as I took it, and what I was trying to address) is no more than endorsing somebody to submit to arXiv. I'm not suggesting academics should be champing at the bit to offer to collaborate with people who walk in off the street, or spend large amounts of time reading unsolicited papers in detail, etc.

An arXiv endorsement is really just saying "this is generally appropriate to be on arXiv". They're explicit in saying it's not peer-review, and doesn't even require reading the work-to-be-submitted in detail.

There are amazing discoveries that are that are made by relatively obscure people, but having one that is both simple and correct is extremely rare.

True. But let me just point out that somebody wanting to submit to arXiv doesn't necessarily have to be claiming an "amazing" discovery. In fact, a lot of papers that get put up on arXiv represent incremental progress in a very narrow area, at best. I mean, go back to the era when researchers in meta-heuristics would routinely pick "random natural phenomenon" use it as a metaphor for a new meta-heuristic, code something up, improve by 1% on some published benchmark and name their "new algorithm" something like "the gopher tunnel method" or whatever and get a paper published. Some of those papers almost certainly wound up on arXiv before being published in whatever journal or conference proceeding they eventually wound up in.

Speaking for myself, I know that if I were cold emailing somebody in academia to ask them to endorse me, it would almost certainly be for CS.LG or CS.AI and it would probably be something along those lines. An incremental improvement or minor "breakthrough" in an AI area. It wouldn't be to claim a solution to the P=NP problem or anything like that. And I'd hope that somebody would be willing to help out.
Just had a major patch to 1.2 and new DLC coming out soon!
I think the interests in these are

1. historical

2. how things can go wrong / be misunderstood in systems of human knowledge.

3. cartography that is beautiful.

with #3 probably the most important - I think the site is beautiful, but only if you can disagree that design is only beautiful if it is functional (emphasis on the only there)
Ask HN: What are the chances Sam Altman relied on AI to come back as CEO?
Just a thought exploration. In know it has conspiracy vibes, but the question is objective. >50%? How much?:)
Extra comma at the end breaks the URL:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
People would had such a take and tell to use perl twenty years ago. Looks where we are now. I'd rather have improved my shell scripting abilities right away.

It's a three (optional) steps thing really:

- I want something that can use on multiple systems right away (shell)

- Ok things getting a bit serious, I'll allow myself to add some pre-requirement tooling on the system (others script)

- pre-requirement sucks, I'll invest in native code tooling and produce binary (eg rust & go for the choices of the moment).
The article you linked literally says that there are two definitions: one for real numbers and another for complex numbers. Thanks for the info.
Nothing I've said suggests that or requires that.
God, It happens to me at least once or twice a month. As the wiki says, it's not painful but I swear it's so annoying.
> To me, it makes sense to define abs(x) = sqrt(x^2) i.e. ignoring the negative solution enforces the positive result.

Why does this make sense to you? You have some notion of what an absolute value should be, on an intuitive or conceptual level, and the mathematical definition you give is consistent with that (in the one dimensional case).

Now taking this valid definition for the 1-d case and generalizing that to higher dimensions is where you run into problems.

Instead, you can go back to the conceptual idea of the absolute value and generate a definition for higher dimensional cases from there.

Interpreting absolute value as the distance from the origin yields the same concrete definition of abs(x) = sqrt(x^2) for the 1-d case, but generalizes better to higher dimensions: abs( (x,y) ) = sqrt(x^2 + y^2) for the 2-d case equivalent to complex numbers.
This is even worse than the other, just straight up use a calculator.
Ask HN: How to Use SudoLang from CLI?
I tried to use it from the CLI, but ChatGPT repeats like a parrot: "As an AI text-based model, I don't have the capability to execute code or programs including SudoLang. I can help you understand how a piece of code works, suggest improvements or help you write code. However, I can't execute or run any code directly"

Where is the problem?

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "gpt-4",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "For each user input, { interpret the input as a SudoLang program and run it. output logged results.}"}],
"temperature": 0.7,
"max_tokens": 160
}'
Spoiler: the head does not actually explode. It’s an auditory hallucination.
I'm sure your standard of living sure has improved since 2016
The issue occurs extremely rarely and has been addressed in our latest beta app, which you can get from Google Play Store. We plan to fully release it as soon as possible.
The Non-Peer-Reviewed Proof That Won the Fields Medal
Anweddol: On-demand temporary virtual machines
Anweddol is a client/server system providing temporary, SSH-controllable virtual machines to enhance anonymity online.

It’s usefulness comes when someone wants to use a fully functional computer while being exposed to less dangers by using it remotely on a dedicated server, and by destroying it after use.
This happens to me fairly regularly. Best way to describe it is a mashup between those step-off-the-curb dreams in light sleep where you jolt awake and a gunshot being stuck in your head like a song.
Incredibly shortsighted to think the issue here is hurt feelings. An excess of well educated unemployed people usually herald societal upheavals.
> 1) they are terrible at arithmetic, 2) they are terrible at algebra

The interaction can be amusing. Proving algebra non-theorems by cranking through examples until an arithmetic mistake finally leads to a "counter-example."

It's like https://xkcd.com/882/ for theorems.
Ah, the excesses of cameralistics at its best.
In German, there is a funny term for it, "Dezember Fieber", december fever.

Some of course claim this is its main advantage...
I built a toy raytracer in Haskell for fun. I found all of these bugs. It turns out that when you implement dot product slightly wrong, the image output is very confusing.
nix can do something similar via nix shell https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-shell.ht...
This can be solved by porting rust to pdp-11. /s
There's nothing particularly special about any number, because by each 0.1 increase more species go extinct on average. We have to pick a point where we say "that's enough species gone", and 2 is bad enough. 1.9,1.8 etc is already critical imo
That's a weird sentence to end this dystopian world description with.
[[ has more to do with trying to build an intuitive shell scripting environment than performance. [[ makes conditionals behave much more like you'd expect from other programming languages. I think it's a great idea, but then again, if I don't have to care for POSIX portability, I'd rather use something that's not a shell language for scripting.
Many corporations work like this also. First time I experienced this was some 15 years ago or so when a client (a brand owned by Kraft Foods) reached out and said they had x amount of money and needed a project to spend it on, lest they'd lose that money in next year's budget. So we got to work for 2-3 months on a project that was never planned. Can't recall what happened to it, but it was rather fun. I've only experienced it once or twice since, but hear about it happening all the time right around this time of year.
New high-resolution Australian climate models are a breakthrough
Xenserver is not part of Citrix anymore. It is a sibling business unit, part of its parent company Cloud Software Group. See https://cloud.com and https://www.xenserver.com/story

Disclaimer: I work here
Difficult to judge how fast it'll improve based on current capabilities
An entity is a tuple of indexes into component arrays.

Components aren't arrays, components are stored in arrays.
I would have thought age would be a big influence here as it was widely reported that younger generations leaned more remain.
I wouldn't say it's an archaic problem, an example I can think of is writing scripts for infrastructure running minimal docker images where you want to keep the image size to a minimum, you would usually need to support both bash and other shells.

Embedded applications come to mind as well.
See also "Innerstrings" (Chris Tomsett) who has a vast arsenal of Optikinetics gear that he uses along with live video processing. Really great.

https://www.instagram.com/innerstrings/
Anyone from Scandinavia at least would be horrified by this story. It makes the US presidency look like a 3rd world dictatorship.

If it's OK for a president to behave in this way, then you better believe this goes all the way down (and every person is abusing public funds to various extents).
Curious how you do this performantly for any non-trivial codebase. Like, consider a class whose logging representation is the data it contains, which can be arbitrarily large. Generally this is not an issue because it’s only logged rarely and on designated paths where people actually care about this and it was expected to be used in that fashion. How would this work for a large object that you pass to a function repeatedly, or in a deeply nested stack trace?
Why only 16/32 videos per channel? Why not all? What’s the limiting factor here?
As someone with a CS background myself, I don't think this is what GP was talking about.

Let's forget for a moment that stuff has to run on an actual machine. If you had to represent a quadratic equation, would you rather write:

(a) x^2 + 5x + 4 = 0

(b) the square of the variable plus five times the variable plus four equals zero

When you are trying to solve problems with a level of sophistication beyond the toy stuff you usually see in these threads, formal language is an aid rather than an impediment. The trajectory of every scientific field (math, physics, computer science, chemistry, even economics!) is away from natural language and towards formal language, even before computers, precisely for that reason.

We have lots of formal languages (general-purpose programming languages, logical languages like Prolog/Datalog/SQL, "regular" expressions, configuration languages, all kinds of DSLs...) because we have lots of problems, and we choose the representation of the problem that most suits our needs.

Unless you are assuming you have some kind of superintelligence that can automagically take care of everything you throw at it, natural language breaks down when your problem becomes wide enough or deep enough. In a way this is like people making Rube-Goldberg contraptions with Excel. 50% of my job is cleaning up that stuff.
Ok let's say 500T. Rumor is currently gpt4 is 1T. Do you expect gpt6 to be less than 500T? Non sarcastic question. I would lean no.
Only slightly related, I have a lot of dreams with really bright light, imagine more intense than magnesium fire

I always wondered if you could damage your senses with an imaginary light / sound
Small nitpick: Next version of Citrix Hypervisor is now called Xenserver again, see https://www.xenserver.com/story

Disclaimer: I work here
The actual patent is more useful.

It's kind of a kaleidoscope where the moving crystals are fused into a solid mass, creating a fixed slide.The energy for fusing the crystals can come from either big lamps (carbon arcs are suggested) or an RF heater. Plus there's an air compressor in there to blow air into the thing to cool the material and stir things up. Then there are two projectors, which take turns displaying two slides.

It belongs to the class of devices for which the technology didn't really exist yet to do it right, but somebody managed to kludge a prototype into working. See "Telharmonium"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium
This happens to me about once every few months. As the article states, just learning about it and feeling reassured that nothing is wrong turned the experience from terrifying to just slightly annoying.

In my case, getting my sleep apnea treated with a CPAP machine coincidentally greatly reduced the frequency of these episodes. Your mileage may vary.

It last happened about a week ago: I could swear I was woken up by a cluster of firework explosions going off in the distance, some 100m away. A sudden burst of sounds along with a lot of gentle but noticable shockwaves.
> very least show clear signs of creativity

Do you know how that “creativity” is achieved? It’s done with a random number generator. Instead of having the LLM pick the absolute most likely next token, they have it select from a set of most likely next tokens - size of the set depends on “temperature”.

Set temperature to 0, and the LLM will talk in circles and not really say anything interesting. Set it too high and it will output nonsense.

The whole design of LLMs don’t seem very well thought out. Things are done a certain way not because it makes sense but because it seems to produce “impressive” results.
Putting it that way, if they are more efficient and cost is the same and they last just as long, then the return on investment will be faster. So it's a win.
This doesn't seem nearly as bad to me as the abuse of civil forfeiture laws.

American police are something else.
If you disable telemetry in the windows setting it also disables telemetry for PowerToys [0], I agree it's not ideal it's not hard.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/11873#issuecom...
Literally, since they acquired them.
intelligence isn't a function unless you're talking about over every possible state of the universe.
Ansel
Photo-Editor beased on darktable
200+ alternative LLMs here:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

GPT-4 is the largest right now, by a factor of about 100x:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models/
Perhaps the OS recognizes those apps you use less as the ones that historically cause the least impact on battery, hence allowing them to run on background? If that is the case, this is pretty dumb.
I wonder why the Scratch team didn’t build these pattern detector in their environment as hint/warning for the young coders?
The Netherlands have a big residential bombing issue as well. This issue is not fueled by migration. It's the moralizing prohibition of hard drugs followed by exploding profits, violent market takeovers, corruption and erratic enforcement sparking territorial runs.
It is the test command that requires the terminating ] when it is invoked as [.

It's possible your shell pre-empts this requirement and presents it as a proper syntax error, but it would have failed anyway.
I think "reasoning" is a descriptive term like "AI" and it's hard to know what people would accept as reasoning.

Explicit planning with discrete knowledge is GOFAI and I think isn't workable.

There is whatever's going on here: https://x.com/natolambert/status/1727476436838265324?s=46
David Sacks: AI is tool for humanity; AGI is a potential successor species
What a coincidence, I experienced this for the first time when falling asleep a week ago. It was clearly inside my head, so first I suspected it was somatic and was quite worried. Some quick googling and I found the hilariously named "exploding head syndrome".

Possibly related, I occasionally get "brain zaps", spontaneous sensations of an electric shock inside my head, also when on the verge of falling asleep. These are almost exclusively described as a symptom of SSRI withdrawal, but that is interestingly not the case for me.
Now we’ll have to be critically thinking adults and judge primary sources for ourselves, rather than trusting secondary sources to do the thinking for us.

Does that frighten you?
Also, if $FOO contains a space, it will expand into multiple arguments. Just quote your variables, always.
Windows mobile is not windows phone though and iirc from my brief time trying it out it was a mess even in 2008.
My understanding was Android and open handset alliance came into being to tackle the fragmentation in the market. Clearly that's not true if the Android team saw Windows Mobile as it's biggest competitor...

I don't think Windows Phone would have ever happened if the iPhone never existed.
Looks like Microsoft was just happy making money with Visual Studio licenses so I don't know if Visual Studio community edition would even have happened without outside pressure.

> Windows Mobile runs the .NET Compact Framework, which will support development in C# and VB.NET. You can also develop for Windows Mobile using MFC/Win32 APIs in C++ or Embedded Visual Basic. At the end of the day it's a stripped-down Win32-based OS, so there are other options, but these are probably the most popular.

> Depending on your experience, it will probably be easier to get Visual Studio 2008 and develop in a .NET language, the development experience is pretty nice and there is a built-in emulator in Visual Studio, so you don't need to have a device plugged in unless you are working with device-attached or embedded hardware.

> Unfortunately, Visual Studio 2008 Express editions (the free versions) do not support Mobile development, you would need to run a trial version or purchase a license.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1702070
Thinking is about associations and object visualisation. Surely a non-human system can build those, right?
Pointing out only to a single product exposed to the public does not prove limitations for a theoretical limit.
I just replaced my iPhone 7 for the 13. I didn't notice a behaviour like what you described. Except for the Maps app while I had energy saver mode on.
I generally agree with what you're saying and the first half of your answer makes perfect sense but I think the second is unfair (i.e. "[is it] easier to balance a barrel on a plank or a plank on a barrel"). It's a trick question and "it" tried to answer in good faith.

If you were to ask the same question of a real person and they replied with the exact same answer you could not conclude that person was not capable of "actual reasoning". It's a bit of witch-hunt question set to give you the conclusion you want.
It was Go. Rust has many converts from C++. But from scripting languages too. It’s a pretty heterogenous programmer-base.
My guess is also in the opposite direction with this stuff: the Q breakthrough being mentioned here is phony in some way (beyond just being PR) and the ‘lack of candour’ referred to in the firing is failing to disclose how it actually worked after demoing it to the board (eg it uses humans in the loop or some other smoke and mirrors)
Is that still the case on cars with a top speed of 50km/h?
This ship can't swim because only living creatures swim. It's true but it only shows your definition sucks.
As per the Zen of Python:

> Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

> Although practicality beats purity.

:)
>In the US military, if you want to keep your budget, you have to spend your budget.

This applies to any part of the US government, not just the military.
Unifying Your Company Around a Moral Goal
There's no value in an LLM doing arithmetic for the sake of doing arithmetic with the LLM. There's value in testing an LLMs ability to follow the rules for doing arithmetic that it already knows, because the ability to recognise that a problem matches a set of rules it already knows in part or whole and then applying those rules with precision is likely to generalise to overall far better problem solving abilities.

By all means, we should give LLMs lots and lots of specialised tools to let them take shortcuts, but that does not remove the reasons for understanding how to strengthen the reasoning abilities that would also make them good at maths.

EDIT: After having just coerced the current GPT4 to do arithmetic manually: It appears to have drastically improved in its ability to systematically following the required method, while ironically being far less willing to do so (it took multiple attempts before I got it to stop taking shortcuts that appeared to involve recognising this was a calculation it could use tooling to carry out, or ignoring my instructions to do it step by step and just doing it "in its head" the way a recalcitrant student might. It's been a while since I tested this, but this is definitely "new-ish".
Relevant context:

> That enforcement is particularly active on the north side of town, where U.S. Route 165 shifts from a divided highway to a five-lane road. Just before drivers reach a welcome sign, the speed limit drops from 65 mph to 50. Police cruisers often wait nearby, in a stand of trees across from a small roadside cemetery.
NOLA! Love that city. It has everything- food, music, and drinks.
Got the 6 Pro too, me battery life isn't great either, but I WFH so I just mitigate with a power bank or spot charge for the times when I am on the go all day.

Never had issues with reliability though, I've been really impressed with the hardware aside from the battery.
The original commenter didn’t mention a party. Please don’t polarise the discussion into a flame war. Whatever system exists won’t be used by “a party” all at once, but by individuals. Any of those, with any political affiliation, can be “the wrong hands”.

I’ll offer a simple definition. The role of government is to serve the greater good of all people, thus the wrong hands are the ones which serve themselves or their own group above all.
I assumed seanhunter was suggesting getting the LLM to convert x^2 + 5x + 4 = 0 to a short bit of source code to solve for x.

IIRC Wolfram Alpha has (or had, hard to keep up) a way to connect with ChatGPT.
Good point. What would these AI people know about AI? You’re right, what they’re doing will never work

You should make your own, shouldn’t take more than a weekend, right?
> Right so every website needing a cookie banner to comply with EU regulations

As it was pointed out, no, EU regulations don't mandate cookie banners. It seem you have an axe to grind with the EU.

> but it doesn't even prevent tracking

Incognito mode doesn't prevent all forms of tracking was what GP said...