skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve read this over and over, and believe it - but it’s so easy to forget when it absolutely nails something like debugging or suggesting a CMake edit or finding 5 letter combinations that are reversible with a vowel in the middle, or etc.

It’s just still mind blowing I can get a sarcastic summary of an email in the theme of GlaDOS from Portal and in the same screen get an email proofread.

It’s funny how far “what should the next word be” can go.
Motorola phones where using Qualcomm modems. There is nothing really special about it. Even the Nexus had the same modems during that time period. Pixel phones didn't have widespread modem issues until they switched to Samsung modems starting with Pixel 6. Not sure what is there to tell about it other than Qualcomm makes good modem. Even the iPhones with Intel modems where inferior to Qualcomm modems and thank god they switched back to Qualcomm with iPhone 12.
I mean helping others execute semi-custom work based partly on qualcomm designs, to clarify
Well, my son is a meat robot who's constantly ingesting information from a variety of sources including but not limited to youtube. His firmware includes a sophisticated realtime operating system that models reality in a way that allows interaction with the world symbolically. I don't think his solving the |i+1| question was founded in linguistic similarity but instead in a physical model / visualization similarity.

So -- to a large degree "bucket of neurons == bucket of neurons" but the training data is different and the processing model isn't necessarily identical.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing as much as perhaps questioning the size of the neighborhood...
I mean, I work with every version of Windows Server since 2012 R2 up through Server 2022 on a daily basis...
Previous: Android vendors, don’t kill my app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18901006 - Jan 2019 (407 comments)

I'm not sure if it's been updated since then.

Still lists Sony as "toxic" for having an opt-in battery extension feature which warns you of the trade-offs (which I've found very useful when I really wanted to, well, extend battery life, e.g. when hiking or travelling). I told them this back in 2019, and that they got this so utterly wrong AND have failed to fix it leaves me rather distrustful of the entire page.
The details are outdated now, I guess, but I don't know if there's any more inspiring reading for an aspiring graphics programmer than Fabian Giesen's "A trip through the graphics pipeline" https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...

As for a place to actually start, I think Computer Graphics From Scratch is a good place https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scrat.... A great thing about the book is it gives you many ideas for where to go next once you work your way through to the end.
All embedded applications and libraries can be declared with no_std, removing the std dependency and heap allocation.

Shared libraries are also possible.
On backtracking, I thought tree-of-thought enabled that?

"considering multiple different reasoning paths and self-evaluating choices to decide the next course of action, as well as looking ahead or backtracking when necessary to make global choices"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601

Generally with you though, this thing is not leading to real smarts and that's accepted by many. Yes, it'll fill in a few gaps with exponentially more compute but it's more likely that an algo change is required once we've maxed out LLM's.
"But, you see, what we're really trying to do here is redefine the mattress industry, from providing a passive product into more of a compelling interactive sleep experience..."

(/s? I hope?)
> I heavily doubt that Qualcomm is even capable of working in such a role. In fact, the C-suite probably believes that their core competency is lawsuits and not modems, anyway.

It's not 1 of capability. They're trying to force everyone to use the full SoC and not just the modem.
Donations are to the non-for-profit, but now that there is a for-profit arm, private investors can purchase "stock" if you want. Share of the company that grants them some percentage of the company profit (when it eventually starts turning a profit).

And they can also resell those "shares" to other people, at whatever prices people are willing to pay for them.

The only restriction is there is a 100x cap on return. So if you paid 1 billion for your "shares", once they've returned you 100 billion as a profit percentage, or by reselling the "shares" to other people, you can't make anymore money for the profit sharing.

But if you still have "shares", you can still sell them to others at whatever price they want.

So for example, say I buy 100 shares worth 100$ each. That's worth 10k total. My cap is thus at 1 million.

Say there are 1000 shares total, that means I'm owed 10% of the profit OpenAI makes. But after making 1 million, it stops and I'm not owed anymore profit.

That said, I still have 100 "shares". They just stop returning me a percentage of the profit. But I can sell those shares to someone else at whatever price they want. So I could sell them to someone else at 200$ each. And the person that receives them is now owed profit from the percentage of share he owns up to their own cap, which for them would be based on a 200$ price, so they can make a profit return up to 100x of 200$.
Browsers can just limit the codecs they claim to support to those that the system supports in hardware.

I believe that's what Safari did for a while with VP8 or VP9 – it was only available while plugged in on my old Mac if I remember correctly. There was a developer option called "support VP9 even on battery power" or something similar.
I checked out some of the other videos and their website and this looks really cool. I've attempted liquid light shows with an overhead projector and can never get it to turn out right. These liquid discs look like an easy alternative for a similar effect.
If it makes money who cares if it counts as real intelligence? If we can automate ourselves into a post scarcity society then everyone and everything is free to be as intelligent and as stupid as it desires.
> Apple switched when bash switched from GPL2 to GPL3

Apple just didn’t update. It took them years to finally switch to switch to zsh.

> The older bash is still available.

Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.
to be clear, lithium is not a rare earth.
No, the orca 2 paper mentions more of a counter point towards NSFW and stuff, like if you gave it a NSFW prompt, it would retort back against it, which is arguably a good thing, but really lost in RLHF
Plenty that are less than 3m
WSJ Video Interview: Sam Altman, Mira Murati 1 Month Ago
This is 1 month old, so pretty current. Wanted to see Sam speak unfiltered rather than just read about him.
Very interesting, so exercising the body IS exercising the mind!
I can see how you got there from where you started, but I'm not sure it's accurate ;)

HN is useful but like all new sources and social media sites, it's not the unbiased pure stream of news and educated opinion that we'd like. Humans are weird.
Great stuff! I would love a way to set the interval, e.g. play this sound every 4 bars. Could mash together some cool jams that way
Here is my thumb-rule and I hope things haven't changed in the last few years -- Structural Layout in CSS Grid; Content Alignment in Flexbox.
I dunno. Don't you think this could happen with other replies from ChatGPT? I think this is the "it" about this tech - it really, really does trick us some times. It's really good at tricking us, and it seems like it is getting better!
Ok but what are you saying? After understanding the math, are you suggesting that people need to use that understanding to interface with the graphics hardware at a level below Vulkan?
Don’t kill my battery
bash became the default shell in 10.3. tcsh was the default before then.
This is all exactly in line with my own experience. Welding itself is a very small fraction of producing welded articles, the prepwork is by far the majority of the work and consistency is an enormous part of that. Without consistency in the supply chain (size, thickness, impurities, surface cleanliness, pre-heat and so on) and in the environment you can just about forget about automation.
it’s contextual as most things. need to actually use and work on the machine? use whatever shell you want to make your life easier.

need a script to run on many different systems and/or need to write a script to be managed automatically by a service account? probably you want a shell with syntax that is guaranteed to be the same on all your systems.
> After being contacted by Reuters, OpenAI, which declined to comment, acknowledged in an internal message to staffers a project called Q* and a letter to the board before the weekend's events, one of the people said.

Reuters update 6:51 PST

The Verge has acted like an intermediary for Sam's camp during this whole saga, from my reading.
The Google style guide doesn’t disagree with you, it says to code exclusively for bash where possible (ie mostly everywhere inside Google) and to prefer [[ over [ and test:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html#s6.3-tes...

In a scenario where you also need to support shells other than bash, Google’s shell style guide doesn’t say to use [ over test.
musk fanboyism is a religion, it doesn't have to be grounded in facts to be true to people who believe in it

musk is sending strike breakers to sweden to make it so that unions there can't do their job to protect workers so he obviously can't give a damn about his employees' safety

doesn't change the fact that people will still log on blogs and websites everyday to defend him like he's the second coming of jesus
> I feel very comfortable saying, as a mathematician, that the ability to solve grade school maths problems would not be at all a predictor of ability to solve real mathematical problems at a research level.

At some point in the past, you yourself were only capable of solving grade school maths problems.
I'm staying out of all of this, but i'll opine on the legal side - defamation requires statements of fact and not opinions.

To the degree his rant deals with facts - like claiming someone did or did not do a thing, that's at least possibly actionable.

But the opinions are not actionable as defamation.

So for example:

"bob murdered someone" - actionable

"i don't like bob" - not actionable.

Depending on what gets said, etc, it may be actionable as something other than defamation.
Yes, they're great tools, but even more dangerous than plasma cutters because they don't seem quite as dangerous.
Tech Stack at Amo
You’re not wrong. They were among the top 10% of people I worked with in terms of passion, commitment, and creativity. They weren’t among the top 10% in terms of their skill in navigating Dilbert-land corporatism.

A significant number of the people in Area 120 projects were folks who were stifled and/or wasted in their previous Google jobs. One explicit purpose of Area 120 was to prevent the loss of these entrepreneurs to outside startups. Not incidentally, this was a form of cultural reinforcement - Area 120 burnished Google’s reputation as a good home for entrepreneurial mindsets.
You're right, it's good value for what it is, not a piece of junk. But it doesn't compete in the same segment.
> It's the same story with ChatGPT: Google had the tech but not the freedom to let it loose.

I wouldn't be so sure, in my case ChatGPT passes the bar of being mildly useful but Bard is still absolutely useless. I can see two equally likely explanations for this: they simply can't manage to pull it off due to their culture or they can't release something that isn't massively more nerfed than the competition.
Sam is the entrepreneur / vision guy so he gets all the love here as opposed to the actual tech guy

It's modern Jobs / Wozniak and Hacker News, despite the name, is ultimately fan service for the archetype of the former, not the latter
Let's say a model runs through a few iterations and finds a small, meaningful piece of information via "self-play" (iterating with itself without further prompting from a human.)

If the model then distills that information down to a new feature, and re-examines the original prompt with the new feature embedded in an extra input tensor, then repeats this process ad-infinitum, will the language model's "prime directive" and reasoning ability be sufficient to arrive at new, verifiable and provable conjectures, outside the realm of the dataset it was trained on?

If GPT-4,5,...,n can progress in this direction, then we should all see the writing on the wall. Also, the day will come where we don't need to manually prepare an updated dataset and "kick off a new training". Self-supervised LLMs are going to be so shocking.
We could have that same level of data protection for everything, not just medical devices. There’s no fundamental reason not to.
I'm not sure what org chart you looked at, but VP's make up less than 0.5% of the company.
If a game that runs bleeding edge features on windows can be made to run on Linux, then it’s safe to say that anything can run on Linux.

If autocad or photoshop don’t work it’s not because Linux can’t handle it, it’s because the authors of those programs don’t want you to. It’s DRM, every time; not some limitation on what wine can do.
One place where you learn not to use [ or [[, or be very careful about them is autoconf shell scripts (and that applies to more than `if`, like globs, sed, awk, etc.). Because square brackets are quote characters in autoconf. https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/a...
> because its pretty easy to get reasonable welds in mild steel

Getting good welds consistently is hard, even in mild steel. They may look good, but you only know for sure if you check them (destructively or non-destructively). I've seen some pretty hairy stuff that looked nice on the outside but wasn't all that good on close inspection.

With Aluminum it is actually harder to make a weld that looks good but actually isn't.
>should have accepted slow progress

Sure, should have. I think indicators in the last year have pointed to the domain developing much faster than anticipated, with Ilya seemingly incredulous at how well models he spend his career developing, suddenly started working and scaling incredibly well. If they thought billions of "donations" would sustain development in commercial capabilities X within constraints of the mission, but got X^10 way outside constraints, and their explicit goal was to to make sure X^10 doesn't arrive without Y^10 in consideration for safety, it's reasonable for hard liners to reevaluate, and if forces behind the billions get in the way, to burn it all down.
It seems much more likely that this was just referring to the ongoing situation with LLMs being able to create exceptionally compelling responses to questions that are completely and entirely hallucinated. It's already gotten to the point that I simply no longer use LLMs to learn about topics I am not already extremely familiar with, simply because hallucinations end up being such a huge time waster. Persuasion without accuracy is probably more dangerous to their business model than the world, because people learn extremely quickly not to use the models for anything you care about being right on.
Nice, what kind of rig do you have?
Some more discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38381894
Bug Bounties Tips from the Triager
How on earth could you evaluate the scaling path with too little information. That's my point. You can't possibly know that a technology can solve a given kind of problem if it can only so far solve a completely different kind of problem which is largely unrelated!

Saying that performance on grade-school problems is predictive of performance on complex reasoning tasks (including theorem proving) is like saying that a new kind of mechanical engine that has 90% efficiency can be scaled 10x.

These kind of scaling claims drive investment, I get it. But to someone who understands (and is actually working on) the actual problem that needs solving, this kind of claim is perfectly transparent!
After signup I see a typo in :

The trace URL will also be outut via the Rails log.

And the local usage section is hard to read white text on light blue background in this safari browser.
It's a side project. Appreciate the function over the form. Could you design something that looks as 'good' as HN? If you're judging your side project as if it's a product for sale, then it's more of a side hustle and you should find a designer. Even then you could still get the functional parts working that could then be made more pleasing. If the problem is also structuring the UX, then try to get better at it, or again find someone to work with.

I myself am a back-end dev and have not let plain/simple UIs detract me from launching a product. I've done it a few times, but I never put in the marketing/sales effort to carry it. My shortcoming was being motivated in that 'side of the business'. If possible find someone to work with who also has that unless you can take that role too.

Last thing to consider is why you're working on the side projects. If it's to learn, then keep doing it and get better at all aspects you find interesting or important. If it's to make money be realistic as to what that requires and either put in the time/effort/learning or partner up.

The best situation is that you're solving a problem for target users where if the product works at all, they will gladly pay to use the product regardless of how it looks. Think of what internal tools at a company look like, usually very utilitarian. This can also work for the right customers. The rule of thumb is to think of what your target customers ~want~ *need* first, rather than make a product then look for customers without knowing specifically what they want or why. That's to say make sure it's specialized for them and choose the 'them' that you want to serve first. If you find out they have an even bigger problem, you should solve that, rather than pass and look for customers that want the product you built. If a customer's hair's on fire, they won't pause and reconsider because of the color of the blanket that can put it out.
Yes, Dear app developers, different users want different things.

The primary uses of my phone are (1) multi-factor authentication, and (2) as a GPS beacon whereby family can locate me if I'm injured in the wilderness. I definitely value battery life over app snazz.
They're getting high on their own supply.
The Morris worm wasn't the first example of what we now call malware. Take this highly amusing war story:

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/xerox.txt
Yes, it is! I've written about the contributing factors (and some remedies): https://leadership.garden/zoom-fatigue/
Good, but honestly they should have retained the questions too!

And yeah, the leaderboard appears to be down with a nice Python stacktrace.
2023 LLVM Dev – Mojo: A system programming language for heterogenous computing [video]
> Aside from it being bash (a great reason not to use it as far as I’m concerned) it’s now a 17 years old version of bash.

I thought people liked macOs for its vintage feel? Remember a time when computers could only render a single menu bar in a fixed location, feel the experience of SYN floods, run a version of bash that is old enough to vote in the next presidential election.
So a brain is "just" a bunch of neurons communicating, and while no single neuron is intelligent, the whole is intelligent. And ants exhibit somewhat intelligent behaviour as a whole, while none of them are themselves something we consider intelligent.

I think this is super interesting and we can go completely off the rails taking this to its logical extremes. Like, the entire planet earth is an intelligence that arises from all interactions between all living things on the planet. In this sense, the speed of thought must be considered extremely slow, with even the most minute decision taking decades if not centuries.

There is a theory of consciences (using theory very lightly) that says that conscience is an inherent property of the universe (like gravity) and that any and all systems has conscience. Most of these are not recognizable by conscience humans (although we all seem to agree that we have a sub-conscience, so we are open to the concept of different types of consciences).

"Waking up: a guide to spirituality without religion" has a good chapter on this, where he starts with how people who've had their corpus callosum cut, and through experiments we can see that the two halves work independent, but the person is unaware of this. Their experience is still one conscience, even though their do things or know things that is not apparent to the conscience that outsiders generally would communicate to. He then goes on to argue how there can be multiple consciences that are unaware that they are "trapped" and not in complete control.

The author is not the only one to bring out this argument, but I thought it was well put in that book.

I really like this theory, while at the same time considering pretty far out.
Just a little nitpick, the phrase is "bar none".

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2451
I had the same problem. Take online courses.

And now, you can use AI to be “inspired”
It should be the opposite though? Don’t kill the battery, don’t degrade system performance, etc?
But he also has the incentive to exaggerate the AI's ability.

The whole idea of double-blind test (and really, the whole scientific methodology) is based on one simple thing: even the most experienced and informed professionals can be comfortably wrong.

We'll only know when we see it. Or at least when several independent research groups see it.
I do hope that will be the case. Certainly far better than the alternatives.
'Tis but a SMOP: a Simple Matter Of Programming.
It's also hard to know what the LLM has reasoned out vs has memorized.

I like the very last example in my tongue-in-cheek article, https://nt4tn.net/articles/aixy.html

Certainly the LLM didn't derive Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares under the hood (and, of course, very obviously didn't prove it correct-- as the code is technically incorrect for 2), but I'm somewhat doubtful that there was any function exactly like the template in codex's training set either (at least I couldn't quickly find any published code that did that). The line between creating something and applying a memorized fact in a different context is not always super clear.
A more realistic comparison for webdev is using plain JS vs using frameworks.
Oh nooo. Honestly, I dont want to miss out on PWAs.Oh well, guess I have to wait and see and potentially switch to another Chromium based one. Time to figure out which ones will adobt the new manifest.
Most apps on my phone were strong armed on me by trend-following (or outright data grabbing) businesses. 99% of them could've been just a website - but no, I can't reschedule my doctor appointment via website, because "our app is so much better and has so much more features!"

So fuck yeah, kill them all! And if they dare to start on their own, kill them more!
You know that know-it-all should be hyphenated, right?

…

;)
oh, yes, script. False friends in translation.
Yeah, my son only knows about imaginary numbers as far as the veritasium "epic math dual" video.

As far as I can tell he inferred that |i+1| needs the Pythagorean theorem and that i and 1 are legs of the right triangle. I don't think anyone ever suggested that "absolute value" is "length". I asked him what |2i+2| would be an his answer of "square root of 8" suggests that he doesn't have it memorized as an answer because if it was he'd have said "2 square root two" or something similar.

I also asked if he'd seen a video about this and he said no. I think he just figured it out himself. Which is mildly spooky.
As other have said, Brother. Just get the one from Sam’s Club or Costco. They also seller the toner.