skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also: https://neal.fun/password-game/

(Point is, some "quizzes" are made cynically to demonstrate a flaw in some design. Don't get your ego all bruised up because you got some questions "wrong" on the internet.)
It's a long way from the targets. The US has silos in the center of the country, but near the northern border; presumably they'd fly over the Arctic. The Soviets would put those launchers in Siberia, by that reasoning.
This is reasonable, but for the sake of your power budget I hope you use a wait-for-interrupt instruction instead rather than just spinning :)
unrelated to anything in this thread but I've noticed a lot of tech is like that as well. lol
Probably. I don't remember when Altavista's "heyday" was.

Tru64 was after Compaq bought DEC in 98.
That would get you to the assembly generated, but not the behavior of the CPU in the question, which goes to show it's a pretty silly position to hold.
If we spend $1M in year one to build a platform, we will surely spend more than $1M in year two maintaining and extending it, and keep doing that until almost the day we finally abandon it. Depreciation might make sense when the actual investment was heavily front-loaded (compared to the revenue) but in our industry it almost never is.
I mean, I don't think many care about your personal use of art. You can take copyright images and shit post and Disney won't go suing your workplace.

But many big players do want to use this commercially and that's where a lot of these lines start to form. No matter how lawsuits go you will probably still be able to find some LLM to make Thanos fighting a volcano. It's just a matter of how/if companies can profit from it.
I have this issue on desktop. They made some changes to the address bar that were essentially a no-op, boasted about it in a blog post I think, introduced some async race issues while making those changes, and left it broken for years after.

Still better than a google browser, even if I have my gripes...
Its expensive right now. Compute cost always drops like a rock
If you want to destroy a statue, I suspect a sledgehammer is easier to apply, cheaper, faster, more newsworthy on video, and considering the need to drill holes to use this, possibly stealthier too.
Great. The ability to track cars used in smash-and-grab theft will be a huge benefit. No more excuses once we have data on where the criminals are hiding out and fencing stolen goods.
> the reality is there were far more of these claims than there could be primary targets

The USSR peaked at nearly 40,000 nuclear weapons, one for every 10,000 people in the US with 15,000 to spare for allies.
You are right, I read it as a defense rather than an explanation.
Is flying in a thin atmosphere harder?

Sure, there is less lift... But there is also less drag. So your rotors can go far faster with the same power input - and, roughly, it looks like the power needed to hover (for a craft of a given mass and size) is actually less on mars due to the lower gravity, despite the rotors moving super fast.
It depends on the strength of the seed dataset in diversity of tasks and the initial power of the seed model, I’m guessing. If a wide enough array of diverse input is generated then it may not be overfitting.
GraphQL more clearly makes sense if you're designing some public API used by third-party devs, like Facebook did. It can also make sense for large private APIs. But I wouldn't jump to it unless the "regular" way is presenting problems.

Like one time, I was working on a social kind of app. I thought, lemme give a separate endpoint to get each kind of object (user, post, etc) so the client can cache stuff. Frontend devs instead wanted everything needed to render each page in one call, which is understandable. I gave them that, but often they'd later need something I wasn't sending back yet, which slowed down development. So I started sending extra fields back just in case, e.g. sending a full public user object for some page that only needs the name and avatar. In short, it got wasteful, but not the end of the world. GraphQL would've made it cleaner, but it also had an upfront cost.
> The ad model is no longer needed, or even desired.

I'll believe that when YouTube is dead and gone.
then why not post a standard C example?
The thing that he knows that (most of) the rest of us don’t is quite a lot about AI.
> Having lived through MAD

It's still going on, and things are more unstable with Russia and the US Republicans opposed to treaties or disarmament and embracing aggression and violence on principle, and China adding a third nuclear force to balance.
q* were some theory about openAI from the time sam altman was fired. This is meta
I don't think many startups are thinking 15 years out. 15 months maybe.
A cycle is far, far easier to maneuver to avoid an accident than a truck.

Some years back in Seattle, a truck driver was charged with murder because he hit a cyclist that crossed in front of him.

It was established in the trial that the cyclist had darted out from between two cars, and it was impossible for the driver to have noticed, reacted, and stopped in time. He was acquitted.

Around here, they painted stripes for a bike lane. Good. Then the cyclists like to ride on the stripe, and randomly weave back and forth across it. As a driver, I have to spend all my attention trying not to hit those suicidal cyclists, who never look back to see if it is clear when they drift into the car lane.

It's madness. I don't understand them at all.
Techniques for Safe Garbage Collection in Rust
I also had multiple Pi's doing nothing, and took advantage of the Covid shortage to sell them to folks who may be doing something.

Now waiting for my Pi 5.
Didn't know that was possible. I think I'd be too afraid.
Yep. PG&E + EBCE/AVA runs around $0.52/kWh on the low end to $0.68/kWh on the high end out here. Generation is about a third of that, the rest is delivery. Using PG&E for both distribution and generation would add 5% to the total cost. PG&E got a 13% rate hike approved this for year, and they're asking for another hike in March.

As we race towards $1/kWh I wonder where the breaking point will be.

I'm on a time-of-use plan so the costs vary both on when and how much you use.
I used to identify as a copyright abolitionist (I really love Nina Paley's TED talk, "copyright is brain damage") but the more I look at the history of it I see the compromises of interests, copyright is there so art is not locked up between artists and their patrons.
>> Hah I'm still trying to understand how software developer pay should be a deduction at all

Because it is an expense maybe?
It really is amazing that over 50 years later, we are only finally getting languages that are working on replacing C. Most went in the direction of being Big Idea languages that tried to supplant domains like C++ and Java. The language that is probably the closest is Zig, but I hear Odin is pretty good too (the website specifically mentions it as a C alternative)

The things I like about C aren't really about the language itself. There just aren't many programming languages that do these things well

1. Cross platform across Linux, MacOS (Intel and Arm), Windows (Without the use of MinGW And Cygwin), *BSD

2. Ability to create an executable

3. Small programs that start quick

4. Simple syntax that does not obfuscate when allocations are occurring

For GCed languages GO is probably the one that best fits this criteria for most people.

Sometimes I wish someone just took C and improved it. Instead of looking at C++ and thinking "what features should C have that C++ has" It should look back at C and go "What features does C not have, that it should"? Some that come to mind are

1. A better syntax for creating pointers and dereferencing them

2. Fixed const so that it works with array initialization

3. Modules instead of headers

4. Cross platform string types that encoded length
5. Hash tables

6. Remove preprocessor macros and replace common use cases with things built into the language

7. Build system that didn't rely on Make, Cmake, Ninja, Autotools, configure etc

8. Easy interop with C

Maybe this is a lot to ask, but most languages I see are solving waay more problems then this.

2,4,5, can be done without leaving C, which is why most people homebrew their own solutions. I think Pascal actually comes close, but it's held back by the fact that the editor support is pretty poor. Pacal-Mode in Emacs is not good, and Lazarus with its multiple floating windows is infuriating to have to alt+tab multiple times to switch to and from it. Plus I could never actually get it to build my programs properly without throwing some dwarf errors.

Recently I've been playing around with Gambit-C and it seems to suit most of my needs. It compiles to C, and then the C code is compiled with Clang, MSVC, or GCC depending on what your platform is. I get the benefit of a language that has more features than C with it being R7RS (but still being small because it's Scheme) and implementing the most common SRFIs (including hashes), but with all the portability of C. It also has dead simple interop with C using the C-Lambda and C-Define special forms (you can write C directly inside the Gambit code)^1 which means you can leverage C code with hardly any effort. There are tradeoffs with this approach, but IMO almost all of them are ecosystem related which can be fixed, as opposed to language related, which might be impossible to fix without breaking compatibility with existing code

1. https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/gambit-c-scheme-and-c-a-matc...
Yeah, maybe that is something that should be changed, eh?
We could!
Huh, I didn't consider than angle. I said "I don't know" based on the fact that it could exhibit UB if the char container is signed and small enough that it cannot hold 32 * 13. Good to know though that you can't rely on the platform using ASCII!
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do you think that you know what "equivocal" means ?
Even if it is overfitting, in some ways this is arguably fine tuning at some subset of the LLM’s capabilities. I can imagine this being a very powerful technique with Mixtral.
It's quietly broken in favor of local LLMs over the past month. I say this as someone who was a huge skeptic until maybe 2 weeks ago. It's not GPT-4 but it doesn't need to be.

StableLM 3B can handle RAG inputs. This is huge. 7B models can't run on consumer mobile hardware:
https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1747451790969184682?s=20

llama.cpp got examples for iOS / Android in December. It can run on all platforms via one library: https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1748852554920849579?s=20

retrieval/vector DB can run on all platforms via one library:
https://github.com/Telosnex/fonnx
I knew all these. I came from a time when portable code had to work on an incredibly diverse range of platforms with many different compilers, some proprietary, and all of these corresponded to real issues, not language lawyer nitpicking.
The point would be to enforce it on corporations, political parties, etc. - to prevent the powerful from using it destructively.

Also, it's not clear that an individual can do it nearly as well as a well-resourced company with scientists and lots of processing power.
>That’s very different from DRM which encrypts things and prevents access to unprivileged users.

Well you can call it a captcha if you want. The point here is to make it harder to access for bots (but not impossible) while inconveniencing honest actors in the process. It doesn't sound like there's a straightforward answer to "are captchas DRM" either.
I agree with the bulk of what you are saying but at the same time there are different levels of threats, gait analysis and access to massive troves of data is state-level or central corps.

Where most ordinary people run into trouble is decidedly very well down that particular foodchain.
I don't believe it's a "doesn't deserve to exist" situation, because these things genuinely can be used for the public good.

However - and this is a big however - I don't believe it deserves the legal protection to be used for profit.

I am of the opinion that if you train your model on data that you do not hold the rights for, your usage should be handled similarly to most fair use laws. It's fine to use it for your personal projects, for research and education, etc. but it is not OK to use it for commercial endeavors.
My favorite part of that paper is the ending: “The paperweight souvenir is no longer available for purchase.”
This is just moving the goalposts and sophistry at this point. Your initial statement was Taiwan was measurably better per capita than Singapore, though the GDP and economic statistics show otherwise. You can also look at various happiness indices, where Singapore is #1 in Asia, since happiness is correlated with GDP per capita.

and If you really believe $70,000 is no different from $35,000, I urge you to donate all your income excess of $35,000 to me. I take Venmo, Cashapp.
Not sure what you use google for but I use it to find web sites on the internet. It's not a problem an LLM is even trying to solve.

(I'll acknowledge that LLMs might eat a layer off the top of that where people are seeking knowledge .... but it's never even going to come close to replacing the traditional core business)
Wait, isn't it an incomplete example? How much money did you start with? In other words, you had to pay the developer some salary before any revenue came in.
To show them. To their friends or enemies. The main purpose is probably intimidation, or pretending to be more dangerous, sick or cool that you really are.

Mental issues and stupid rituals should be very marginal cases.
Last I used it, even pretty small grammars took forever to build. I had to be very diligent not to let the grammar cpp-file depend on anything else in my codebase.
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Self-replying to add on, if you just want to see the original table (as opposed to as my ASCII version), here are screenshots of the question. I just can't share the full test since it's paid material. (Sharing one question for the purpose of commentary and criticism is obviously fair use.)

Question: https://i.postimg.cc/wvn7tRf8/Screen-Shot-2024-01-20-at-7-00...

Answer Key: https://i.postimg.cc/90TzyXK4/Screen-Shot-2024-01-20-at-7-02...
> Either you will have complexity maintaining a bunch of endpoints, keeping track of where each one is used, what is returned, where the contracts are defined, writing tests to make sure nothing breaks, .... Sure, you might not have much abstraction and it will be cleaner that way, but it will be a nightmare to maintain, especially in the phase when you are moving fast and breaking things as you find market fit

Yeah, I hear this argument a lot, but it hasn't been a problem in my lived experience. Certainly for small teams (and absolutely for apps written by one person), it's not that hard to keep track of the endpoints. Even for larger orgs, teams tended to want to keep their endpoint counts low, and would push back on the sorts of expansions in back-end complexity that these frameworks (i.e. GQL) make "easy" (but in reality, just kick the technical complexity can down the road; it's a lot easier to see the horrible DB queries when they're not invented dynamically by the one GQL query you didn't think of, written by some Future Intern who doesn't know any better).

I can see how this becomes more of a concern when you've got a massive org that has doubled down on microservices, but that's not most orgs.
I'm trying to understand what regulation would look like. Perhaps an easy one would be no AI based surveillance of citizens.
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The other avenue you can go down is to get a used mini pc from Lenovo/HP/Dell. These are great because the providers are delivering huge volumes meant for corporate America. This means there is competition, and the build quality is good, not expecting the hacker market to throw together a printed case. I recently picked up a used HP with 16GB RAM, 512SSD, AMD5 series chip, and an OEM Win10 license for ~$150. Untested, but the idle power draw on it is supposed to be 10-15watts. My only complaint about the unit is that I wish these were powered by USBC PD. More common is to be powered by a 19V barrel jack, which would make replacements more of a pain if the external power supply dies.

Serve the Home has an ongoing series about evaluating these: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
An analogy that springs to mind is the difference between an access control mechanism such as a door with lock and key versus whatever magical contrivance that prevents entry to a dwelling by vampires uninvited.
I have a System76 Serval and I highly recommend it, especially for your use case.
I wish people had a bit more confidence about making art. Not everything needs to be a flashy colorful realistic looking drawing. I'd argue they weren't talentless, just unconfident and narrow minded towards what art can be. Grab a canvas and go wild. People will be surprised with how easy it is to make art and you'll quickly shape your own unique art style.
I just hope ChatGPT could see it was a joke
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The URL link piece just requires training with the urls in the data. Results spit out urls. Updating the model is tricky, but the hardest part about replacing Google is solved, and will be open source.
If that indeed is the original blog, it's a little sad to see that the comments are (all?) spam. But the entries and photos appear accurate.
For 32-bit types, the undefined behavior is where I expected it to be, but it is the opposite for the 16-bit types. Why are the 16-bit types different?

To make things weirder, I tried 8-bit and 64-bit versions. The 64-bit version behaved like the 32-bit versions, but the 8-bit versions had no undefined behavior checks. Why is 8-bit so different?
This was an incredible read! I'm diving into my own hobbyist IoT project and it was super interesting to see how this spelunk turned out. The extra bits about NetThings exploits are the icing on the cake!
There are for sure studies on this. I remember seeing one from Seattle specifically, but others as well.

Speeding up and slowing down causes an accordian effect that results in slower speeds for everyone. The time it takes to reduce speed or stop, then recover to a higher speed is higher than just cruising at a middle speed.
It's wrong that an AI system is more limited than a human brain. Obviously there's computability and Busy Beaver stuff, as well as other earlier practical limits to computation, but that's not a limit to "general intelligence" if you mean the level of a human brain. Human brains approximates and hardly want to recurse at all, and there's no reason an AI can't do the same thing.
It's just false. There was no way NATO or Ukraine was attacking Russia, in ten thousand years. NATO can barely be bothered to fund their militaries even now, and the US Republican party can't be bothered to fund Ukraine. Even after Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014 (and Georgia before that) the NATO countries were still making gas and other trade deals, thinking they would bring Russia into the fold of peaceful, free-trading nations. Trump tried to work with Putin; Obama did the big 'reset', etc., etc.
The webpage here seems more like promotional blogspam. The paper has been on arxiv for 2 days now.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051279, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061399
There are formally verified CPUs, they're just not the lovely high performance ones you probably want.

For what it's worth, this is a common sentiment people have when they first come to blows with formal. "If you can't verify everything, why verify anything?" is a reasonable question to ask but it's not a practical position to hold since formal does increase the quality of software/hardware. Don't argue for less formal, fight for more!
Google still solve the "searching", AI still searches, or comes up with facts that they can't verify themselves, so probably an halucination.
This is not utility infrastructure. It’s a submeter connected to a set of current transformers.

In general in the US, for commercial buildings, everything beyond the utility transformer secondary is the responsibility of the customer. For a residence, anything beyond the meter socket is the responsibility of the customer.

I’m unfamiliar with UK utility standards though so perhaps it’s different there.
Why do you think computers would most efficiently learn the way we do? They don’t do anything else (eg arithmetic as an obvious example) anything like humans normally do.
SDGE started breaking down our energy usage by "type" a few months ago. Not exactly sure how but they can categorize things as laundry, lights, entertainment, computers, always on, etc.

There are some screenshots here that kind of give you the idea:
https://www.sdge.com/energy-management-tool
The odds a random US plug will be 240v is essentially zero, unless you’re standing next to an electric range/stove/dryer. And those plugs typically have one outlet and it’s already in use.

Unless the prior owner was a welder anyway. Then you might have a few in the garage.

Either way, not convenient for kettles.
It's terrible, but it's reliably terrible. You always have exactly one layer of distortion between the evidence and reality: one human being. And that human being can be held accountable for willful misrepresentation.

(Hearsay, when there is more than one human in the chain, is treated differently.)
I appreciate my Google hubs with Google photo backgrounds. It really great to see old memories pop up when I check the time.
Being formerly in the materials industry at an individual contributor level, I think Asia’s preponderance of materials development firms is less about what the U.S. incentivizes and more about how poor the quality of life is for the engineers compared to what they could be doing. Asian engineers will put up with a lot more B.S. than Americans, and they have low birth rates to show for it.
You're so right. Berlin has one store like that left, and I make sure to hit it as often as I can to help it survive. Because that's an ETA of an hour to the missing part, and not 2-3 days (local supplier) to weeks (AliExpress).
To put it bluntly - treating workers wages as capital investment is the exception, not the norm, and even when done usually involves only portion of them and in very special way, as an exception (I've seen a case where tax collector considered employees who installed a system to have done "improvements" to it, and thus increased its value, and that increase had to be estimated and based on it and time spent by workers on it, their wages appropriately amortized in portion).

It's not normal to consider salaries fully to be capital expenditure.
You start off confident that the first answer is 8.

Then you admit that the microcontroller world presents exceptions.

You've now arrived at "I don't know" the answer.

The article never said "using mainstream C compilers".
Why are you relying on #free as the toggle when free/busy is an actual native attribute of an event in Google calendar?
You can probably double the ram (or more) again by then.
Any experienced C programmer knows this is undefined behavior.

But taking this test, would you really check "I don't know" if you do know it is UB, when there is no option "platform specific" or "UB"?
1st approach) you don't

2nd approach for when you ignore the first) you use a type that doesn't "own" the pointer, and have the FFI side that allocated it free it

3rd approach for when you find out you can't do the 2nd) hope that the "owned" type is actually generic over the allocator used, and make an allocator that doesn't free (or even better, calls the correct free over the FFI boundary). `allocator-api` is the effort in this direction.
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