skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Communication is exchange of information.

exchange actually does too much heavy lifting here. This almost passed, but no; communication is the transfer/movement of information.

One-way communication can convey (even if requiring a previously agreed upon compression mechanism) information - even a single bit or even the existence of a signal at all can be used - think about using the time between signals as a medium, etc.

Heartbeat signals (inverted dead-man switches) exchange information; it doesn't have to be the same type. The beat source explicitly proclaims it's existence in space-time and the receiving end can infer it's existence at a certain time.

Like natives' smoke patterns of Morse code of radio waves, using periodicity to convey bit value
I think in the end, whoever chooses to block these apps(Trillian, Pidgin, etc) too hard will be the ones left in the dust.
It's not a criticism of you, and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt! But I think there's plenty of folks who might take away the wrong lesson here.
Really worth going to the actual paper[1] instead of this rather shameful press release - the second sentence in particular deflates the optimistic mood:

"The effectiveness of FunSearch in discovering new knowledge for hard problems might seem intriguing. We believe that the LLM used within FunSearch does not use much context about the problem; the LLM should instead be seen as a source of diverse (syntactically correct) programs with occasionally interesting ideas. When further constrained to operate on the crucial part of the algorithm with a program skeleton, the LLM provides suggestions that marginally improve over existing ones in the population, which ultimately results in discovering new knowledge on open problems when combined with the evolutionary algorithm.

Another crucial component of the effectiveness of FunSearch is that it operates in the space of programs: rather than directly searching for constructions (which is typically an enormous list of numbers), FunSearch searches for programs generating those constructions. Because most problems we care about are structured (highly non-random), we hypothesize that solutions are described more concisely with a computer program, compared to other representations."

It is perhaps unfair to say that DeepMind has brute-forced generating programs rather than brute-forcing a single program that generates an answer - but effectively that's what they did, and it's a very cool idea! They did the same with "DeepTensor" or whatever their program for finding matrix multiplication algorithms was called. I am not denying that this is a useful direction for computational mathematics research - I have personally spent a lot of time blindly fiddling with SAGE hoping the computer will spit out a nicer answer. Having this process automated seems useful.

But saying that this tech "outdoes human mathematicians" is pure dishonesty, very much like saying MATLAB "outdoes human physicists" at understanding fluid mechanics. FunSearch doesn't understand what a set is (or even what a number is), any more than MATLAB understands what viscosity is. LLMs are still much worse at actual quantitative reasoning than pigeons or mice, let alone humans.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6
Pidgin supports a good number of chat clients :) They lost the battle for a while there when walled gardens went up, but then won later on and regained support.

https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=

No iMessage, of course, but you might find it helpful to see the list of supported clients.
Sorry, I legit just forgot to paste a URL there, I do not in fact think random readers here are familiar with a weirdo podcast I'm on.
What if you already have access to it and don't need to "take" it from anywhere?
Make simulators. Anything. Finite elements, diffusions

soon enough you'll learn about gradients, curls, and how to implement them

Oh, and play kerbal space programs
> I think my next attempt will be a handful of hand crafted rules on daily data. I'm definitely never going to try day trading scale strategies or try to pick good points intraday to buy. It should be resilient to the price difference over a day or two

Not sure why HN won't let me reply directly w/o replying this way at times.
If tree-planting robots are uniquitous, and any tree you plant will get shaded by their established ranks of trees .. it might be nice to plant a tree now but it's not going to pay any bills.
Surprisingly intuitive :)
attention? this has brought beeper _tremendous_ publicity. i think it’s naive to think that beeper didn’t expect this—its win-win for them no matter what.

they could and so they did.
Like others have said on threads about Beeper, it is a great app, but will just be a cat and mouse game for eternity, until it gets shutdown or a lawsuit is filed by one side. I don't expect this to be the last outage.
It's really bizarre that to speak out against any atrocity you must first speak out about all other atrocities of equal or greater measure.

The funny thing is, the illegal occupation and oppression of Palestine and Palestinians is approaching a century, millions have been permanently displaced over generations, and Israel continues to illegally steal land that is internationally recognized as illegally occupied. The only "peace" deals that Israel has ever offered were ones that cemented and legalized their theft of the majority of Palestine's original land.

So, yeah, when you put it that way, the Palestinian cause against the Zionists in Israel is really close to being, if not the most, one of the most outrageous perpetual atrocities of our time.
That's assuming that you know that the extension is the cause. A bad extension doesn't always kill perf as soon as you install it.
CNN is now owned by a right-wing nut, so CNN and Fox news are about the same now.
Ah but nowhere to see a livestream of from JWST right now?
Porn site issues you a unique token. You have an age verification service sign that token using a blind signature. You return the signed token to the porn site. The porn site can verify the signature using the public key of the verification service.
Ah yes, makes sense
Nobody really wanted a generic engine, they wanted an smtp engine

No, when sendmail was king of the hill, the whole world wasn't SMTP, so being able to mung addresses 'generically' and deliver messages between wildly different, non-RFC822 schemes was critical functionality. Sure, that's not how things are now, but you have to consider the context when it was created.
Reminds me of ... I think it was All Your Bridges Rusting? (Niven) Mostly about teleportation, but it's basically the whole "if you bring a 747 back to 1912, can you do anything at all for the Titanic" thought experiment.

(So this could be surprisingly difficult even with major propulsion leaps...)
You need enough food to feed enough fighting age men in order for the economics of raising to even work. If a band of 50 or so loses more than a few prime age men they might not be able to feed themselves.
I used to play with a guy who had a deck named “Judge Problems.”

I don’t know what all was in it (I never played against it) but remember being regaled with tales of what happens when Opalescence and Humility come into play together as part of an effect that puts a bunch of permanents into play all with the same time stamp.
>It's funny, people frequently assume this would be true but reality doesn't really bear this out. It's typically pretty average to even below average which contributes to the talent pipeline problem.

This, I went into programming over 40 years ago. At the time I worked in a warehouse, I had to take a 5% pay cut (IIRC). But in the long run it was worth it. Most people there stayed in the warehouse/manufacturing due to the pay.
NVIDIA would charge their customers an ARM and a leg.
Ideas are a dime a dozen in the sense that the same idea will often occur to dozens of people, on a dime's worth of effort. Relativity theory wasn't anything like that. Einstein made predictions that no one else was making. When one of them from GR was confirmed a few years ago, Lenny Susskind famously marveled at the foresight, saying "they didn't call him Einstein for nothing!".
Isn't there? You can use iMessage via the Messages app on a Mac and tools like BlueBubbles already have hooks to send and receive iMessages using the official client.
What's wrong with coding tests and how to do them right
No pirhana water, I'm sad.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution
Pretty sure they're buying actual Mac minis and using those device IDs. If you have evidence to the contrary I would be very interested in seeing it.
Simpler solution - remove the fuse for your fuel pump. No one will ever figure that one out
Airbus did an interesting job reinventing aviation typefaces, including handling ALL CAPS scenarios explicitly: https://b612-font.com/
Ah the classic: How do I improve quality in an org 'without any regard for quality'? :)

But assuming that everyone cares about quality (I know, a big leap), what has worked for me is: tagging stories as bugs/regressions/customer-found-this and reporting on time spent. If you're spending too much time fixing bugs, then you need to do something about it. New bugs in newly written code are faster to fix, so you should be able to show that bug bashes make that number going down quarter over quarter which contributes to velocity going up.

Alternately (and not scrum specific) I've had success connecting a CSM/support liaison to every team. Doesn't give you a full bug bash, but even one outside person click testing for 20m here and there gets you much of the benefit (and their incentives align more closely with QA).
There is actually a record player needle onboard alongside the gold record.
But now this makes the subsidies angle make more sense: You subsidize initial construction and then the domestic plant remains online indefinitely because the construction is a sunk cost and the incremental cost of upgrades over time is sustainable.
Not once in the article does it mention tax cuts. It mentions tax abatements, which are very much not the same thing.

Any abatement of this size is going to be inherently political. I would be surprised if someone at GM used this web form to put in a request, even.
> Why not just slap a "here there be dragons" warning on untested extensions and let users have at it?

We essentially had that as part of pre-release builds. Same with about:config.

The argument we'd then hear from people is, "but I want the stable channel with the 'here be dragons'" stuff. The reality is, though, that the "here be dragons" stuff probably affects stability more than running beta does anyway; people who shat on us for that wanted to have their cake and eat it too, and it just doesn't work that way.
Love that https://soulforge.net/ is an actual site. Sad that it doesn't continue the joke
Vulkan 1.3 has pointers, thanks to buffer device address[1]. It took a while to get there, and earlier pointer support was flawed. I also don't know of any major applications that use this.

Modern Vulkan is looking pretty good now. Cooperative matrix multiplication has also landed (as a widely supported extension), and I think it's fair to say it's gone past OpenCL.

Whether we get significant adoption of all this I think is too early to say, but I think it's a plausible foundation for real stuff. It's no longer just a toy.

[1] https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/graphics-gam...
I believe the ARM chip in Playdate is 32-bit, but yes to the rest!
When threads get deep, there is additional delay in the normal place you find the reply link. From what I understand, this is done because most often this happens when people arguing.

If you click on the timestamp of the message you want to reply to, you can reply sooner, like I am here :]
>The last time Voyager 1 experienced a similar, but not identical, issue with the flight data system was in 1981

I would love to read about specifically what went wrong in 1981.

The closest I could find was this old article from 1981: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/28/us/swivel-on-voyager-stil...

But there isn't nearly enough detail in it. Is there an analysis anywhere online of that event?
Ask HN: What browser are you using?
I have Chrome, Brave, Safari, Orion, and FireFox installed, and see merits to all of them. And it feels like I'm hearing of more every day (Mullvad browser, Arc, etc)

I've mostly been using Brave, but it's feeling awfully heavy lately with Brave Rewards, crypto Wallet, Leo AI, etc all built in.

What are you using these days and why?
Looking at the data sheets, seems to have phosphates in it, which are questionable for the environment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphates_in_detergent
Yes - the HFT space would pay a lot of money to use it if it's available.
GPUs are huge, TPUs etc are also quite large, and CPUs are tiny. I'm no expert on any of these, but intuitively you're losing something cramming that functionality into a way smaller chip. Probably something to do with bandwidth (where big helps) vs latency (where small helps).
An admissions ticket to the super exclusive club of other people who know what that means
> Initially designed to last five years

NASA tech often seems to outlive its initial mission length by a massive margin. The Mars rovers spring to mind. It's incredibly impressive, and almost embarrassing! Surely this isn't accidental. Is the kit massively over-specced? Do the uncertainties and risks necessitate such a depth of redundancy that when stuff goes kinda smoothly the thing lasts 9 times longer than it was designed to? Is it a political thing: they set their success criteria low just in case something goes wrong, but actually intend a much longer lifespan?

Sorry if this seems an incredibly cynical way of looking at the world. I actually love all this stuff - I'm just curious if there is a pattern here and what the reason is if so.
I think is is overstepping what I need the FCC with my life. But you know what I want them to do? Increase the number choices I have. Breakup local monopolies on cable/fiber and make tax deals with local municipalities illegal or fair to competitors so we can avoid "I get one choice in internet provider".
Sure being attractive helps the attractive person more than anyone else, but I think there's enough surface area + network effects that a company full of attractive people will generally outperform a company of unattractive people of the same skill? For example while I'm sure I'd pretend it wasn't something I'm considering, given two similarly attractive offers and one very attractive interviewer I'd be foolish to consider myself unentangled in making that decision, try as I might.
After the Instagram subscription debacle, no thanks.
There’s no reason to trust Meta with any of your data, they have to sort out their privacy policies first.
>Communication is exchange of information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Models_of_communication#:~:tex....

One-way communication is a valid type of "communication".
Here's a super neat Strange Loop talk about implementing and animating SICM: https://youtu.be/Jv2JgzAl5yU?si=_dHboDt-MKXon2-c
Theft of services, since Apple owns and maintains the iMessage system that Beeper is trying to use without compensating them (despite charging their own users for that access).
Oven cleaner is a better bet.
Oh, that's a good point, you could even determine that your hypervisor doesn't touch any changed microcode paths, and just pause the VMs, take the update, and unpause. (Still seems... brave, maybe? Or at least involves more information that I'd expect anyone outside of intel to actually have, I guess.)
Independent Consultant
(my guess)
The analogy is off in a meaningful way: you're using a "fake ID" to get the locksmith to give you a copy of your own house key because the locksmith won't accept your real ID. No prosecutor is going to throw the book at someone trying to access their own house.

Apple claims I'm in control of my messages. They're on my devices. Apple refuses access to Android. Why can't I use technology to make my messages work on Android? They're my messages!

You might respond that this impacts someone else. For example, me using Beeper means that anyone messaging me is impacted. My counterpoint is that the user is always the weakest link. I can share messages sent to me with anyone I like, and that's legally fine to do. So why can't they be shared with a different software service that I trust? (People use all kinds of 3rd party email clients which could be untrustworthy, and yet we still mostly trust email.)
Maybe not enough. Today's most explosive headline:

"One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Admit They Cheated in 2020 Election"

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/par...
Stay on track: Cloud storage. Not a buffet. Cloud storage.

Lots of business need gigabytes. Lots of business need terabytes. That's a 1000x difference. That ratio is not very buffet-like!

People who need terabytes of cloud storage are not like people who try to scam buffets by taking home food in their pants. They are not like people who do unspeakable things to the free bathroom. They are just people with lots of data. There are business that have lots of data. It is a common business problem in today's world.
> The development workflow on linux is an order of magnitude better than on OSX.

I guess your workflow doesn’t include getting Linux to work.

As in, if you run into an issue, you’re somewhat on your own because of your unique Linux setup. Maybe except if you’re on Ubuntu or something.

On Mac, you can more easily Google search for people with similar environment settings who failed building dependencies in the same way
Can you stop posting your rage-inducing, overdramatic comments everywhere?
Nice! Thanks for the tip.

Anyway, I appreciate this conversation and am going to make some coffee.
I understand why you've picked D3D11, but people have to understand that comes with serious limitations. There are no subgroups, which also means no cooperative matrix multiplication ("tensor cores"). For throughput in machine learning inference in particular, there's no way D3D11 can compete with either CUDA or a more modern compute shader stack, such as one based on Vulkan 1.3.
I bought my games and then it was free to stream.

I loved it
I find it interesting how they use “aging spacecraft” and “exceptionally long lifespans” of these devices. In terms of the age of the universe, or the time that light from a star has travelled to us, it’s minute. Aging in relation to human life maybe.
Don't those OEMs tend to design around Intel? I think they'll be ok when it comes to integration.
LOL @ CNN blocking Firefox! "Browser Blocked

We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.

We recommend you use a different browser or disable the “EasyList Cookie” filter from your “Content Filtering” settings (found under “Settings” -> “Shields” in the Brave Browser)."
Intel spent more than a decade under Otellini, Krzanich and Swan. Bean counters. Gelsinger was appointed out of desperation, but the problem runs much deeper. I doubt that culture is gone. It has already cost Intel many opportunities.
Firefox.

Safari is OK, but I have everything in FFox.

Chrome is a no-go because Google nonsense, and Brave is a no-go because crypto nonsense.
What of COBOL code?
Given how banks were pushing the limits of paper back then, I can't imagine the complexity of a modern banks. I just don't know enough about finance to really even have an idea of where.
A client that can interop with multiple services isn't adding a new standard.
> based on your karma

Haha I guess I might get in there too then. How embarrassing would it be to guess my own comments wrong!
KMS? Secrets manager? Are those offered by a particular vendor or what
> Ochigava did not remember how he got on the plane in Copenhagen. Ochigava also would not explain how or when he got to Copenhagen or what he was doing there. When asked how he got through security in Copenhagen, Ochigava claimed he did not remember how he went through security without a ticket.

he didn’t know why he was in copenhagen, which would suggest a minimal at best awareness of itinerary. was he in a daze when he got the ticket? nobody checked for his name on a connecting flight?

there is an explanation, but not enough data to assume this a normal event. or otherwise. not yet. right now it is just very, very strange.

like what exactly was he on to make him think taking the cabin crew’s chocolate was ok? highly unlikely some just fell in his lap. he was in an addled state where he couldn’t stop eating and wasn’t sleeping, and though sleep deprivation was no joke, he navigated the airport successfully without attracting enough attention to keep him off of the plane, then stole chocolate? sure, sleepier, international flight, perhaps.

but there’s a lot of suspension of disbelief required to make this a series of coincidences. so far.
Because their power supply is shitty and it's easy to transform the chopper that is used in the switching power supply to behave as an oscillator instead, which will start to emit harmonics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply)
i have personally known four, and heard of others. probably HN people would not accept them out of atheistic/materialistic bias, so IMO it's not worth saying more.
That's cool to hear. I also like the periodic table on your team's site haha. Looks like great philosophy
I've been getting iMessage spam long before Beeper existed.
You're in the game! dang recommended you earlier
Profits.

By allowing Android <--> Apple communication, Apple has potential "loses" as they loose their lock in ability of forcing people buying a new iPhone for Christmas.

iPhone $800, Android $200. If an Android can do what iPhone can do on the messaging front there's no purpose in buying an iPhone.
I guess the problem is lead time. You want overspecced because you get one shot every 10-20 years between design, launch windows and the all too present political angle.
Because Dropbox acquired Boxcryptor -- one of the tools that easily let people encrypt files before upload -- to be replaced with "plans for end-to-end encryption"

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcrypto...
A diversity agenda is only flawed if it mindlessly picks applicants without academic and other considerations.

A 95th percentile scoring black student raised in the projects with no societal or peer pressure to succeed, could be just as successful as a 99th percentile Asian student raised in a distraction-free, parental-pressured and peer-pressured environment.

In fact, maybe the black student could be better suited to handle the stressful study and work period that medical interns go through.

And that's just the medical field. There's plenty of stories of tech companies and technologies being built by people that weren't high academic overachievers.
Interesting. In UK it was common (and still has I think?) for contracts/deals to include lots of free SMS texts but even then most people have readily moved to WhatsApp, Messenger etc.

In my mind texts quickly became like voicemails, something older people would use cause that's what they know but not something I'd want to use regularly if given the option.
I mean, it varies. I got curative (or, what was intended to be curative) doses of chemotherapy for my cancer, and I felt a bit worse after the first round (which is often intentionally harsh so the oncologist can dial it in afterwords) but as my cancer burden shrank I began to feel better and better. Getting more use of my left lung, which had been crushed by a mass the chemotherapy shrank, definitely helped. But I didn't get nausea from my first-line chemotherapy, either, which likely means I'm some form of genetic freak anyway.