skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She’s one of the only people to bridge the AI communities of the US and China, which will be a crucial factor in preventing a state level arms race of AGI. BSc Chemical Engineering, MA from Georgetown, spent the rest doing research on what the future looks like.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NNnQg0MAAAAJ&hl=en
The original Q* algorithm is from 1973

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437...
Any technology installed in a home will be obsolete in under a decade. It's silly to deeply embed this stuff into the framework of the house.

Remember all the people who spent big money running CAT5 to all the rooms? Then we got in-home WiFi and all of that cabling was just forgotten.
AC is a niche series, historically no other games played like it. Chrome Hounds or MechWarrior are/were also niche for that reason.

the newest release is the least niche AC ever gameplay-wise, similar to newer MechWarrior. The controls now play similarly to an over-shoulder shooter rather than being pan/scan limited and tracking focused, and not much maneuverability is lost during any high speed segments like boosting/etc.

those control differences in the past excluded a large player-base due to perceived awkwardness, thus the reverse-controller meme associated with the franchise. Understandably a lot of fresh blood has joined now that it plays more similar to what is expected in gaming trends.

and if we're just nitpicking due to the meaning of niche, i'd argue that the entire mecha segment of entertainment is niche.
This mirrors my impression.
The complaint is less whether it would work, and more a question of taste. Obviously taste can be a personal thing. My opinions are my own and not those of the BBC, etc.

You have a small C program that processes this data in memory, and dumps it to stdout in tabular text format.

Rather than simplify by stripping out the problematic bit (the text output), you suggest adding a large, cutting-edge, hard to inspect and verify piece of technology that transforms that text through uncountable floating point operations back into differently-formatted UTF8.

It might even work consistently (without you ever having 100% confidence it won't hallucinate at precisely the wrong moment).

You can certainly see it being justified for one-off tasks that aren't worth automating.

But to shove such byzantine inefficiency and complexity into an engineered system (rather than just modify the original program to give the format you want) offends my engineering sensibilities.

Maybe I'm just getting old!
Their whole deal is opaque complex financial structure, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they have access to such money but are not technically holding it or whatever.
Mistral AI – open-source models
If you’re a developer, App Review is pretty responsive, you can dispute/escalate, and even schedule a call

For all their faults, don’t put Apple in the same bucket as Google or Facebook
I think the broader issue is that there is little valuable empirical evidence that the stuff people say is clean code actually makes things simpler. Likewise I find it unlikely that there is one way to make things simpler and its the way associated with the book. It's all vibes.
How many ways can things can go hilariously wrong if they try to properly switch it over to x.com?

Until then calling it "twitter dot com" is still accurate.
ACLU Amici Curiae in Support of Data Colada and Free Speech [pdf]
We actually leverage LLMs very sparingly. We do not generate the transformed data directly as this would not just introduce significant latency, but also quality and reliability issues. Rather, we use LLMs to produce high-level mapping/transformation logic in a language of our design that is deterministically executed to produce your desired data. So this means LLMs are used only when you introduce new data formats that requires new logic, and used surgically even then. The vast majority of usage so far in terms of volume leverages the logic created in the underlying pipeline and will not have latency issues. This also allows for building reliable and stable pipelines with our APIs, which is a requirement that's difficult to meet considering the non-determinism of LLMs.
I wouldn’t use YTD as we had a market dip/recovery nearing that time. For example look at the stock market YTD vs over last 2-5 years
Use “aws s3api list-objects-v2”

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3api/
Some of the problems here might have been logic problems by inept coders; however, the underlying theme of this scandal is corrupt management. Even the erroneous code was an explicit piece of fraud that almost certainly was done under order by someone in the management chain.
So the money is in UAE after all?
are these papers supposed to impress us with her AI there-ness, or what?

None of them are about chemical engineering, which has nothing much to do with AI, anyway, so I don't know why you mention that.

when did she go over to the Dark Side?
This is why the Xfinity “10g” commercials are so disingenuous. They make it sound like the limit in homes for high quality simultaneous streaming and gaming is the cable internet connection instead of the home wifi network.
> We reported our findings to Microsoft, but a fix is not planned.

The old Microsoft is back then?
It may have been accidental. There were storage rooms absolutely filled with data tapes from Apollo. These were mostly recordings of the Apollo science instruments, which were left on the surface and kept broadcasting seismic and other data for years. Of course the first couple of tapes had all the mission data, but it’s likely the people reusing the tapes thought it was just already-processed (and duplicated) seismic data they were wiping. It wasn’t until 2009 that NASA realized the error.
I think it's a signal of changing market dynamics. Old John Deere just needed to sell the best tractors. They built a reputation and that was good enough.

Today's JD needs anti-repair policies, subscription pricing, and closed source code. It's easy to blame JD and maybe they do deserve blame but with so many companies pulled these shenanigans I think it's just a symptom of a wider economic pressures in the industry.
And 75% by wealth would be an even smaller section.
Must be a very reliable power grid.
And QQQ rose 47% this year. This does not seem surprising at all. The entire market went up in 2023.
Writing Code Is the Same Thing as Writing Prose
> Fast Compilation
Onyx's compiler is written entirely in C and features incredibly fast compilation. The web-server for this website was compiled in 47 milliseconds.

Ok, that got my attention. Its refreshing to see a new language which doesn't takes 10 seconds to build a Hello world example.

Couple of questions;

1. The Windows installation is a bit tedious. Any plan to support Scoop for installing Onyx?

2. Given that gamedev seems to be a focus, with the raylib integration, how is the performance compared to something like c. Will a comparable onyx program get me to at least 50%+ of the performance of c? I haven't used webassembly much so I am curious how this works out.

I was just thinking of creating a new project to try out Raylib 5. So your post has perfect timing for me!

Best of luck to your language. Looks lovely in the online playground. Now going to set it up on my device
I think the original blog post is badly worded. We can see by the proposed refactor that in fact those 10 lines were not identical - they were only similar. The formulas for resizing the top-left corner of a rectangle are different from the formulas for modifying the bottom-right of an oval. They look quite similar, but one will have a + instead of a minus here and another one there etc.

The complexity is built into geometry itself in this case, and "abstracting" it away is only moving the mess around, it fundamentally can't (perhaps there is some clever mathematical abstraction that could using some special number group, but unless you have that built-in, it'll probably be much harder to implement the special arithmetic using built-in ints than you gain).
Its presumably llama just like Mistral.

Everything open source is llama now. Facebook all but standardized the architecture.

I dunno about the moe. Is there existing transformers code for that part? It kinda looks like there is based on the config.
Indeed. Standardizing certain components may reduce some potential innovation, however I've long thought that the public sector would be better off buying modular systems with well-defined interfaces rather than the behemoths do-it-all oh-so-often fail.

At work we're a small team, providing a B2B application to perform a small, but very important task for our customers. We integrate with tons of other systems, at our largest customer we talk to 30 other systems. We're highly specialized and we rely on being good at exchanging data with other systems that are good at what they do.

This allows us to innovate and provide great value for our niche, while the other systems can focus on getting better at what they do, rather than implementing a half-assed solution because it's not their core focus.
Does anyone know if the performance regressions between 5.7 and 8.0 have been fixed? I no longer use MySQL regularly so I haven't been following this.

If I recall correctly, this was one of the major reasons why people were deferring this upgrade.

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> Most notably, we encountered a problem where queries with large WHERE IN clauses would crash MySQL. We had large WHERE IN queries containing over tens of thousands of values.

The need to rewrite queries is mildly concerning. If this was part of their Rails codebase, I'm curious if these patches will make it into the ORM.
The other side of "why do I have to remember this when I could write it" is "why do I have to write it when the compiler already knows it?"

I love complete inferred type systems, using one has completely changed how I think about types and what I expect from a programming language. I feel ill every time I have to use go or typescript. Like I am teaching the compiler how to compile. This is not my job, it's a waste of time and energy, it should already know. Things like rescript and ocaml are where my attention is going for typed languages in the future.
This Week #14: JSON Schemas, Devbox 0.8.3, and Non-Default Nix Outputs
Article 254a of the Polish Penal Code addresses the obstruction of railway operations and other critical infrastructure. Violating this law can result in a prison sentence ranging from 6 months to 8 years.

It doesn't matter whether the act was committed as part of a company's operations or as an individual's private endeavour.

To all software engineers: please refrain from engaging in criminal activities. If you are instructed to do something illegal, it is important to report it to the relevant authorities.
this is a show HN with a little more info on why is needed and with a link.
It's okay to not like something. For us sometimes/casual gamers it was a godsend and fun as hell.
Nearly every single letter .com was registered by an Jon Postel who didn't want corporations to own the commercial rights to single letters.
Sure. But we weren’t talking about non-programmers maintaining software.
There are two possibilities:

1. The entire premise of the blogpost is completely fabricated and they are lying through their teeth.

2. The downtime was unrelated, from a product that doesn't actually have the best track record here in general.

So ... what do you think?
Well, having classes doesn't mean that you will necessarily use inheritance. There are programmers (ab)using it a lot, but for me, like for many others, classes are primarily a way to organize code: they provide a convinient way of representing something and specify functions that only make sense in the context of that something, while ensuring that you don't accidentally re-use those function for something else or lose track of which functions are meant for which component. They also provide a way to make collaboration easier, as you can agree on classes' interfaces and then each one goes on to implement it's own classes without having to worry about implementation details of other classes. It is true that you usually also have inheritance with classes, but I'm unsure if having it is a requirement to call something a class. IIRC from a theory perspective, classes are just an abstraction of some concepts, and the fact that a class' instance is called an object reflects this.
sounds a little like support/bug ticketing systems that support responding to a ticket by email with the ticket ID in the subject line - eg support@domain.tld
I've replaced the USB port (i.e., bottom module) in two of my (Fair)phones, both times because of wear or damage of the port.
The EU hasn't made any laws mandating that all software must be open source, so I don't see why they would care about Google closing the source on new Android components. For all the EU cares, Android 14 (or at least its non-GPL parts) may as well be closed source under license, which was the norm before Android came along in the first place.

The EU has made anti-gatekeeper laws, targeting Apple, Google, and other gatekeepers.
Yes, this is a very common activity in electronics manufacturing. Big names, amongst many others are White Horse, Smith & Associates, Rand Technologies, etc.

Depending on the sensitivity and risk to a particular product, it's not uncommon to have a suite of testing done on a sample from every received shipment of a particular good, or set of goods. Testing typically goes beyond counterfeit detection to being within manufacturability and usability specs (e.g. solderability, lot code validation, date code validation, etc.)

Usually priced out of the hobbyist range, think 2-3k to do basic suite verification on a sample of 5 components. That would not include de-capping and die examination.
I think insurers would just put pressure on the companies. They would just not pay for the medication unless it was proven to not put their customers at risk, lest they have to pay for the treatment of the treatment.
https://nitter.rawbit.ninja/MistralAI/status/173315051239503...
The idea that "Q*" represents a fundamental breakthrough toward the goal of "AGI" seems overblown to me, as the supposed breakthrough is limited to closed-domain reasoning problems. Defining a reward function that can be evaluated in an automated way is straightforward for narrow tasks like math or chess. But most domains lack an objective measure of quality or truth, much less one that could be evaluated without human involvement.
It has been discussed to death already. There is e2e encryption if you need it.
"completely unencrypted" is just false.
Sadly they stopped looking when they realized that. In actuality, modern equipment could probably read and recover the previous data from the tapes, if the tapes still exist. It is very hard to fully erase data with equipment from that era.

Also I wonder if there is some Soviet storeroom somewhere that has a copy? They surely would have been listening in.
I don't see how what you're proposing makes sense.

It can't provide value to laypeople who're cutoff from the internet if all that's passed around is a URL.
An angle you may not have considered is passenger safety.

Imagine if this happened to an airliner in flight: there'd be criminal charges for sure, not to mention huge damages and lawsuits from the families of the dead if some of the control systems locked up in mid-air.

Trains are not quite as susceptible to disaster arising in the course of operations as airliners, but a Newag Impuls 45WE runs at up to 160km/h in service with up to 218 people on board. (Their speed record is considerably higher.) A sudden breakdown in service is at a minimum going to cause timetable havoc and knock-on delays for other trains and at worse could lead to a mass casualty accident.

(John Deere tractors don't usually carry 200+ passengers and Apple computers don't usually get deployed in safety critical situations. So, different!)
The rotating avatars have some uncannyness to them due to the eye gaze not fixating on a target as it moves around. I think slowly rotating the camera around the model would have done better. Perhaps also some background elements so it's clear that the avatar isn't moving, the camera is.

I'm hoping this technique can be used in video games because it's significantly better than what we have now.
Same reason we don't have to type `(((2int + 2int)int) / 8int)int`. Type inference already exists in any ALGOL-like. Modern languages just tend to remove the arbitrary restriction that variables are the places where types must be added.
This list is strange because their methodology excludes :"The ranking excludes first-generation fortunes and those fortunes controlled by a single heir."
How do you make sure the gate-keepers don't do exactly that?

Because gate-keepers also fail once in a while. And the same things that help deal with their failures can also be applied directly to deal with failures from the developers.

It's a robust and very counterintuitive finding that quality verification of human processes do not increase the final quality. You still need quality control, but people will adjust for any universal checking you add to their work.
i'm certainly one of those old-hat players. The entire game/physics/movements/animations just felt like a re-skin of Elden Ring to me; I think the 'obtuse' controls aided in the feeling of magnitude/momentum/mass.

I enjoyed the game for the technical design and world-building and so on, but the gameplay left me on the shore, and I missed the tactical aspects of ACV.
They observed just crashes and they didn't try to research exploitability. Absent more details, and knowing the usual exploitability distribution of C crash bugs, this would seem in doubt still.
> Then we got in-home WiFi and all of that cabling was just forgotten.

Those folks just plugged APs into all that “forgotten” cabling and ended up with the best backhaul for their WiFi possible.
> This is the equivalent of that Nikola demo of their electric car, where they set it up to roll down a hill so that it looked like it was working.

Idk how the Gemini demo (a thing that actually does work and do the things displayed, just not in the exact way shown) is "equivalent" to a literally non functioning car...

> The inputs to the AI are still frames, not video.

A video is just a sequence of frames. The input is always going to be frames when it actually goes into the model, and you don't need every single frame to understand what's happening in the video.

> The prompts were provided as text, not audio as shown.

That's trivial to do now. Using Whisper, you can just turn voice into text and do the exact same thing. They don't really need to demonstrate that.

So sure, they definitely embellished, made it seem real-time and as if it didn't need more target-specific prompting per task. But saying it is completely fake is foolish.
>> You won't be able to run this on your home GPU.

Would this allow you to run each expert on a cheap commodity GPU card so that instead of using expensive 200GB cards we can use a computer with 8 cheap gaming cards in it?
Then you can for moral reasons refuse to do business there because you don't feel like playing in a crooked game. That in turn might have the effect of improving the world a bit.
After numerous failed attempts at reading Clean Code, I'd say (1) and (2) are very much at odds.
All of Netflix's HDR video streaming is now dynamically optimized
They can make plenty by offering consulting fees for finetuning and general support around their models.
Given the config parametes posted, its 2 experts per token, so the conputation cost per token should be the cost of the conponent that selects experts + 2× cost of a 7B model.
What does 4+2 GB mean? I tried googling Redmi 4+2 GB but it only returns Redmi 4 from 2017 that has only 2GB of ram. Surely that's not what you're talking about?
According to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity, change in California will only happen after it completely collapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
Archiving is piracy!
I already have access to Q* via ChatGPT. Is that an OpenAI bug or an early invitation?
I would say it's more greed than pressure.
I think they’re trying to limit it to “families” being more than 1 generation and more than 1 person.
I don't think it should be run to every room but ethernet cables to the main places where you want solid internet connectivity would be good. Like an ethernet line to your TV for good connectivity on streaming devices and if you're going to use a room as an office. Everything else can be wifi. Maybe a few others just in case.
based mistral casually dropping a magnet link
FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
It really puts into perspective the billions of dollars in hardware and software research that I routinely mobilize to ask ChatGPT banal questions: Are farts funny?
What are you giving these people in return for asking them to do the impossible for your company?

Let me guess, a salary that is below market's standards and yet you still expect the best from them.

That only makes you an entitled hypocrite.
We literally had world wars with millions dead because of the technological breakthroughs.

You should be blind not to see how technological advancements driving the increasing gap between classes and put pressure on governments in developed countries all over the world.

No one says that people will go extinct, but throughout the thousands of years you mentioned we had periods of very very bad times. It is very naive to think that high paying tech job will protect from the outcomes of other people losing their jobs en masses.
Okay, whatever. Pretty sure they private sector corruption isn’t worse in the west than in other parts of the world but if you want to disagree I won’t be able to change your mind
It's actually really simple: nobody is being forced. Tesla doesn't have to accept a collective agreement, they can just pull out of Sweden and nobody would bat an eye. But what they can't do is to expect Swedes to work as though they are Americans on American soil. It's Tesla that is the guest here, and as a guest you abide by the customs of your host. Don't like it? Don't visit.
The latest release of memtest86+ can actually run on UEFI computers.
Same one that tripped me up. I looked at it a while thinking it was some outside-the-code commentary thing pointing out the line to me, and I couldn’t figure out why. Wasn’t until I spotted the more-familiar-to-me => ligature elsewhere that I realized what was going on. And even then I wasn’t sure what you type to get a triangle (obvious in hindsight, but not at the time)
I will take weights over docs.

Its does remind me how some Google employee was bragging that they disclosed the weights for the Gemini, and only the small mobile Gemini, as if that's a generous step over other companies.
what an absolute insane article, I hope they come back to reality soon
> The language might be "objectively" simple, but it's not at all a simple language.

You could say that it's simple but not easy
Mainly I just wanted something short because I knew I would be typing it a lot, and "biff" just popped into my mind.