skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> 1. To score positions in the training data. This is only training data, no search is performed when actually playing.

That's like saying you can have eggs without chickens, because when you make an omelette you don't add chickens. It's completely meaningless and a big fat lie to boot.

The truth is that the system created by DeepMind consists of two components: a search-based system used to annotate a dataset of moves and a neural-net based system that generates moves similar to the ones in the dataset. DeepMind arbitrarily draw the boundary of the system around the neural net component and pretend that because the search is external to the neural net, the neural net doesn't need the search.

And yet, without the search there is no dataset, and without the dataset there is no model. They didn't train their system by self-play and they certainly didn't hire an army of low-paid workers to annotate moves for them. They generated training moves with a search-based system and learned to reproduce them. They used chickens to make eggs.

Their approach depends entirely on there being a powerful chess search engine and they wouldn't be able to create their system without it as a main component. Their "without search" claim is just a marketing term.
Yeah, I've walked from my living room to the back yard on mushrooms, and the change in mindset was like I'd flown to another continent.
Well said.

Also, if people paid for news by the piece, it would mean that truly important news stories that aren't sensationalistic would be less likely to be done because there's no chance that they would bring in the bucks.

It's a bit like movies: the blockbuster schlock is necessary to fund the production of other movies that may or may not make a dime, but are of great value nonetheless.
This will be especially true if we have apps and windows that appear every time we enter a different room.
I was joking with someone who was asking about getting a walking pad for their standing desk that it would be psychologically disastrous for this reason, citing the ancient Greeks memorizing epic poems by walking places to make memory associations. Why would one purposely want to have an association made between something as mundane/regular as walking with working at a screen?!
Many psychological studies sound convincing but are hard to replicate and/or based on low sample sizes or poor experimental design. Seeing a plausible mechanism underlying a theory isn’t enough. So I’m writing this comment as a placeholder. Who here has checked the source studies?

Roughly speaking what is the total number of people in all studies pertaining to this claimed effect?
Instagram might let you use AI to write messages
I'm sure this will turn out well for spammers and who else?
Consider an acute care facility. Patient care supplies (IV bags, IV sets, catheters, dressing supplies) are usually in a side room called the supply room.

Ours was in a room behind a doorframe without a door. If I was getting dressing supplies in a state of flow/on auto-pilot, more often than not, I would blank as soon as I went through that doorway and would have to actively think exactly what the hell I was there for.
Funnily the top result for me after the crypto and similar apps, was ChatGPT.
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How is the theory falsifiable? What if I pass between two rooms that look identical? Has this been studied? (It seems to me that the underlying claim of episodic memory might not be able to tell a difference.)
Calling System Functions in a JIT
See also LLVM's data structures for more experienced handling of JITs: https://llvm.org/docs/JITLink.html#introduction
How do you do this? Do you use a modern smartphone?
Couldn’t agree more. For most people robocalls are an annoyance, but for millions of aging seniors they are a direct form of elder abuse. The amount of confusion, fear, and actual financial ruin I’ve had to deal with with family members makes me wonder how it’s had been legal for so long
For that matter, I don't know that any human besides myself is sentient. You could all be philosophical zombies. Science fundamentally can't answer this question, since sentience (i.e. experiencing qualia) is a subjective, first-person phenomenon, and science can only test objective, third-person reality.
In general the backup plan in Iceland is "Well, I guess we're having to wear all this clothing we put on so we don't die of exposure when we venture outside inside the house now.".

I think the hospitals have backup diesel electric generators, but in general nobody's got backup heating, except perhaps the odd free-standing electric heater.

I don't know, but I'd expect someone at the hospital there is thinking of running those in select places.

Icelandic media is now patiently explaining to people the upsides ("yay, heat!") and downsides (you might die) of running the propane gas heaters that have just sold out in enclosed spaces: https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2024-02-08-ad-ymsu-ad-hug...
Not to sound like a jerk, but why is NZ concerned about PFAs in cosmetics when they were so forceful about getting their population jabbed with the mRNA injections?
That’s a depends situation. If you’re using direct service integration instead of Lambda, it can be cheaper. And, if you use VMs only as the front-end to push batches of requests to serverless compute you get the best of both worlds and the cheapest by a long shot. Not everything can fit in that model, but the things that do are magically inexpensive.

I’m actually working on a product to make that architecture more approachable (and cheaper yet). I’d be happy to hear from folks running network services on VMs and wishing there was a better way.
Wonderful how society can elect people to represent a country that are like an "elderly man with a poor memory" - this goes for all sides politically.

I guess this says something about the political parties who help decide who gets to run too. They don't respect people enough to run someone who would actually represent their country, just a warm butt in a seat is good enough, as long as the curtains don't get pulled back.
> is there something I'm missing?

Affordable, mature hardware. The Talos systems are starting at 3k for a quad core CPU on a micro ATX board. Same thing happened to MIPS and Sparc. Performance and technical merit mean nothing vs cheap and ubiquitous hardware. It's a lot of cash for a what amounts to an experimental toy. They are also a bit finicky as a friend bought one from another dev that refuses to post for unknown reasons. So there is risk involved too, no one else is making these boards.

The performance gaps and architectural features that made these chips matter 20 years ago have been closed by commodity off the shelf x86 hardware and various Arm CPU's are eating everything.

The only reason Risc-V matters is that no one has to pay for licenses.
>notice the stark contrast of how difficult getting llama.cpp connected to some dumb JS app is compared to Ollama.

Sorry, I'm new to ollama 'ecosystem'.

From llama.cpp readme, I ctrl-F-ed "Node.js: withcatai/node-llama-cpp"
and from there, I got to https://withcatai.github.io/node-llama-cpp/guide/

Can you explain how ollama does it 'easier' ?
Downie on Mac
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"
My guy not looking for a fight. This man's loyalties are torn and he
is asking for help on a question of existential consequence.
It's quite likely that you'll need 124k for everything else.

$124k is $12.4k/month in non-rent/mortgage costs.

The costs you describe come nowhere close to $124k. You've described maybe $10-14k in other costs, a large portion of which are discretionary luxuries. $100/week in eating out for lunch? That's a luxury. The alternative is to do what most people do: bring a lunch from home. Sandwiches and pasta are cheap: $100 of pasta will feed a person for months.

Somehow, non-techies manage to make things work on way less than $168k/year.
Not really. I have built a fetch-like API for hermes on top of libcurl using generated FFI-bindings (they have a bindgen tool in the repo). All I had to do is just write the JS-wrapper that would call the underlying C-lib and return a Promise.

It feels wild, people have been calling UI-libs from JS as well: https://twitter.com/tmikov/status/1720103356738474060

I can imagine someone making a libuv binding and then just recreating Node.JS with the FFI
And Chrome doesn't have containers.

I think that it's not a UI/UX thing, honestly they are almost exactly the same thing (tabs, URL bar, webpage). The difference is that people use what they are given, and when you are Google it's easier to be seen by everybody.
I know that, but I think it would be extraordinary to defeat a (free) Google product that they advertise throughout their ecosystem.
It's the former.
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I hope it will evolve into a platform that prioritizes curation and fosters collaboration, rather than the chaotic free-for-all that defines npm currently.

For too long, npm has diverged from its original purpose as a collaborative package manager for a programming language, transforming instead into a battleground for popularity contests. The result is a landscape littered with neglected packages. Developers frequently bypass the opportunity to contribute to existing projects in favor of launching their clones, driven by the allure of glory and name recognition. While I fully support developers receiving the recognition they deserve, this approach undermines the integrity of the package ecosystem. The ideal state, where packages thrive rather than peak and fade within a mere six months, seems increasingly unattainable. All the name squatting and harmful packages are worth a whole another discussion.

I find myself nostalgic for the days of package managers that championed collective effort, building an ecosystem of functional components. Packages were often named for their functionality, leading to a landscape where one canonical package existed for each task. This approach, favoring practicality over catchy branding and endless turnover, is vastly preferable to the current state of affairs
> I was trying to be funny.

You succeeded!
That doesn't seem like a good idea. If Google/Microsoft really want to, they could get a big chunk of small businesses to allow them to do this. However there would be no way to build a competing service.

I feel like robocalls made on behalf of actual consumers in relation to actual b2c transactions should be allowed.
It would be quickly overwhelmed, especially for complicated math papers
Whelp, time to ban anchovies for climate change…
Upantheists.
FWIW, I built hraftd[1] many years ago to make it easy to play with a simple distributed system, but one that uses a production-grade implementation of Raft[2]. You can spin up a cluster in seconds on a single machine, kill nodes, watch a new Leader get elected, and so on.

It's written in Go, so it'll help if you are familiar with Go. But the code is not difficult to understand even if you don't.

[1] https://github.com/otoolep/hraftd

[2] https://github.com/hashicorp/raft
Here we go again. Getting close to the price of a Disney+ subscription when it first launched haha.

25% price hike on top of 40% a couple years ago. I've got basic needs here on an indoor camera and haven't used any of whatever features they've been working on :/
Gem-in-eye? Ouch!

Also, Gemini was appropriate for the space program because (a) there were two astronauts in the capsule and (b) because of the constellation, "aiming for the stars" and all that. For the Google project however I can't come up with a plausible explanation - Google doesn't even try to give a reason for the name either.
Looking at least at the US elections, I think there are plenty of people that do. Look at the whole Hillary's e-mails thing for example.
Can Jewish philosophers who flee Nazis not be bigots? What is the mechanism there?
Microsoft went with whatever Windows 8 was based on user research too. Just because someone did a few interviews it doesn't make it good. :)

In this case I have to agree though. Linking to LinkedIn is simply ridiculous. What's next, linking to a high school yearbook?
The game is rigged
I tried the "pull or push a glass door with mirror writing".

I feel it's a huge difference between GPT-4, which seems to be able to reason logically around the issue and respond with relevant remarks, and Gemini Gemini Advanced which feels a lot more like a stochastical parrot.

Gemini quickly got confused and started talking about "pushing the door towards yourself" and other nonsense. It also couldn't stay on point, and instead started to regurgitate a lot of irrelevant stuff.

GPT-4 is not perfect, you can still hit things where it also breaks down.
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Oh, and more background here: https://www.philipotoole.com/building-a-distributed-key-valu...
Get ready to get your sleeping/relaxation/stress/time management game to the new level.
When I see statements like this, I try to think "what would they do in response that would change the calculus?"

E.g. cutting off oil...not like that has ever led to unexpected outcomes (perl harbor).

Countries generally react to mitigate your actions. What are some of the potential reactions you could see if the PRC perceived that as an existential threat?
honestly the next gen of matrix clients built on matrix-rust-sdk should all qualify for this - whether Element X on iOS/macOS or Android, or Fractal on GTK, or iamb for TUI with vim bindings (or weechat-matrix-rs when it’s ready). nary a web browser in sight.
that's good news
I really want to thank you for this post. An upvote isn’t always enough.
This is why I love Google's new AI phone call screening feature. Some people get spooked by it and hang up, and sometimes spam calls get through via exploits like calling twice within a short time or somehow bypassing with a weird spoofed number (only happened 1-2 times so far)
Unrelated to the content of the article -- I've never seen an online article be truncated to tease a print version.
I only skimmed, but the two linked articles have ~50 participants or _fewer_ (college students) for each.
Let's work out precisely where we disagree:

1. Do you agree that it is rational to think that burning hydrogen in oxygen will produce water and heat (prediction A), and irrational to think that it will produce a juicy stake that can play tennis (prediction B)?

2. If yes to 1, do you agree that A is correct (or at least closer to being correct), and B is incorrect (or at least further from being correct)?

3. If yes to 2, do you agree that there must be something against which A and B are both measured that makes one right and the other wrong?

4. If yes to 3, do you agree that the thing against which A and B are measured must be independent of them both?

5. If yes to 4, do you agree that there is a reality independent of our observations, and which our observations presuppose and are caused by?

I think you're saying that we can reasonably think that our sensual perceptions and ideas are all we know, and that we can reasonably doubt that they ever refer to reality, but I want to confirm this.

> And if you say "but there is still a reality, none of those people would just know it", then I can ask, how do you know we don't fit that same bill, where some other observer could look at us and say "those guys are all seeing an illusion, its actually this way"

See point 1, above. I suggest that nobody really systematically doubts their observations. But if you honestly disagree with point 1 then let me know.

> But what determines who is right? That is my question.

Obviously that is sometimes impossible to answer, depending on the situation. But sometimes (more often) it's not. Again, do you disagree with point 1 above?
100% agree
There's a simple statistical argument behind it: the variance drops as you increase the number of tests.

Let's say your true ability is A and you have one measurement M1. The variance (or, let's put it in another way: the probability that your M1 is waaaay different from your A) goes down if you also get M2, M3, M4 and take an average.

In other words: your measurements become more precise and the stress goes down a lot
Web is always best choice for your business.

You will never know when Apple decides to change rules and your app is banned from store forever.
It doesn't matter what I attribute it to; I'm not an expert.

An obvious alternative explanation - really the null hypothesis, IMHO - is competition from Google. Google has much greater brand power, engineering resources, and marketing power than anyone. They could advertise Chrome across their incredibly popular ecosystem, including on the (possibly) most popular page on the Internet, https://www.google.com.

Chrome is a pretty good product, too, and didn't have legacy code like Gecko to deal with. I'm not sure what any Mozilla CEO could do.

Maybe facing those odds, it was better to invest in other things too. Mozilla's mission isn't a web browser, but to make the web free and (private).
Please don't start or perpetuate flamewars on HN. They're tedious, nasty, not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
yeah, as little as 3 at most infinity.
There are several region dependent different name lists, just have a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming
The only reason why people can do dangerous things with an SSN is because it's used for authorization - i.e. as a secret - not just as ID. That's broken by design, but there's no reason to repeat that design.
The title sounded really cool but after watching four balls bounce at me for 10 seconds I closed the page. I was very intrigued but I am not intrigued by a pile of JavaScript.
I did that (scrolled for 15+ minutes) around a dozen times. I kept waiting for the algorithm to serve me that really great addictive content, but I only found a couple actually good creators.

Most of the best videos I saw were Vine compilations
Apple: Our devices must remain walled gardens so only the highest quality, legitimate apps are able to be installed. And we require a 30% rent on every transaction for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of our garden.

Also Apple: Lets in thousands of scam apps as a matter of course
When do they test you?
Alright, I'll bite, because I bet there's somebody out there that knows: why isn't it allowed? What rule by the ATF says that 150mm isn't an arm allowed by the second amendment?
QuickJS 2024-01-13
Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
Or an insurance scam by the owner?
Ah, I was thinking about compatibility. Didn’t realize the performance was that bad? Thanks for the warning.
Prices of two dozen roses went up by 50% just in time for St. Valentine's Day.
I worked at Mozilla because I saw John Lilly (CEO at the time) speak in 2009.

Someone snarkily asked him about Chrome, and he responded that Chrome was a victory for Mozilla – the mission was an open web, and choice was what Mozilla was fighting for. I thought it was a very healthy view.

Source: https://wordpress.tv/2009/07/08/john-lilly-mozilla/
pljs (https://github.com/plv8/pljs) is a postgres language plugin that also uses quickjs. given how much faster the startup is compared to v8, and that most postgres functions are very small and do very little compared to a node.js program, it is quite good.

I can definitely see aws' lambda operations gaining quite a bit from this.
Amazing that's exactly what I thought of as well.
I think it’s an unpopular opinion but I think it’s actually not an impossible goal today. One well run org making an OS for phones that put the user not profits first is possible. Just like Linux was in the 90s.
You can say you don't like them or they're subjectively not good, but you're wrong that there's only one. Also, Pocket is actually pretty good, and Mozilla VPN is Mullvad, which is also pretty good. I know I'm probably digging into a low-effort, dismissive comment here, but I'm hoping this isn't just flippancy.
> Lamport's paper "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"

I know this article is a classic. I studied it at school but I've always found it very hard to understand. Maybe I'm wrong but I have the feeling that relatively few engineers use these formalisms as their mental models when designing distributed systems.
>Sure, but a lot of cars don't have them, and that's just the speedometer, not the speed limit or navigation directions (which are usually what I'm glancing at my phone's map app to check)

Most automotive HUDs show speed limits and navigation directions alongside speed.
Though according to The Crown, they are constantly jabbering on the phone. After some designated member of staff dials it with a dialing glove, no doubt.
Get some term life insurance (assuming you are not wealthy enough to self-insure).
Can't be a person without a cute Magpie River-Chan avatar.
A perverse aspect of human nature is that it's easier to feel really lonely when you're surrounded by people than when you're actually alone.

Loneliness comes from a lack of meaningful interaction with people. When you're surrounded by people you don't have meaningful interactions with, it makes that loneliness more present and obvious.
If I don't know the number, I answer with "Hola. Buenos días."
Used VSE for a project. It was painful but we got something out of it. It was certainly the best free software video editor at the time.

Working on a new version now, using Final Cut Pro.
Same, I use Firefox 90% of the time and I have no idea what all the complaining is about. My only real issue is that fullscreening videos on macOS sucks (ie, it takes forever).

I certainly don't personally care about declining market share, that's not my problem. Mozilla makes a good product. Chrome has become the default browser thanks to Google's muscle (and also making a good product), and I dunno what grand strategy is supposed to compete with that.
Because someone working on something on the side will be much less efficient than someone working full time. If that certain someone is contributing good stuff, you want to make sure their incentives are aligned with your interests.
This is not true in Idaho. A stop sign is a yield for bikes. They call this the "potato" laws.

The practical reality of this is that if you're stopped at a stop sign, a bike may be coming from behind and will pass you on the right as you're trying to make a right turn.

AIUI, in this situation the bike has the right of way.
How do you do it—in layman’s terms? Is it like meditation, or is there a more active method?
Fraud is a misrepresentation to induce reliance in another. This statement absolutely qualifies. Duh.
Gas station pills and ninja stars are how I imagine Joe Exotic became the Tiger King.
That's nice. How do they prove that the voice was AI generated, and how do they go about punishing the caller?

It seems like we have been trying to legislate away spam callers for a while now, but enforcement is pretty lacking.
I'm not talking about paying by the piece. I'm talking about buying today's paper the same way I would if I went into 7-11. I just want to be able to spend 50 cents or a $1 or whatever a newspaper costs these days to get the paper without giving up all my personal information and a bunch of time.
What does "pivots to data privacy" mean, in this case? They're getting out of software (firefox, seamonkey, etc)?
In the unregulated scenario, you at least know the score. In the current scenario, you have a false sense of security that this must be the real deal, because Apple reviews the app submissions.
UAC is less secure than a password right?