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Leave it to HN to spend checks 57% of the toplevel comments debating whether the word "lie" in the term "lie to children" is in fact literally correct.

My bleeding linguistic descriptivist heart dies a little every time I walk into a debate like this. Does it really matter what we call it, as long as we can all agree on what it is we're talking about? At which point we can have insightful debate about whether the concept to which the term refers is a helpful, or unhelpful, one to engage in.

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Personally I think it is; as another commenter already mentioned, "all models are wrong; some are useful". Any oversimplification of a real-world concept is bound to fall down at some point, and lots of oversimplifications are useful right up to that point.

Many times as a kid I asked for an explanation of a real-world phenomenon from a grown-up and received something that had way too much detail or nuance to hold my attention span, or for me to comprehend at the time. Usually I dropped pursuit of whatever had led me to ask the question in the first place, and as a result it would take years for me to accomplish something I could have accomplished much earlier.

Other times I asked for an explanation and received one that was oversimplified but perfect for what I needed, and was able to stay focused on, at that point in my life. Those were golden moments; more often than not they resulted in leaps in my education, and I was later able to "correct" the explanation I'd received once I ran up against its limitations.

And it's not just children; many adults who aren't subject matter experts get overwhelmed if you try to present things in a way that's as technically correct as possible. I honestly believe the ability to simplify to exactly the level one's conversant needs for their situation is one of the most underrated skills on the planet.

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(There's an undeniable irony to how long this comment is. Ah well; to paraphrase Mark Twain, if I'd had time I would have written a shorter comment.)
you should mention primatejs -- since it supports all those frameworks
AI-related startups raised nearly $50B in 2023
Wow, how do you even test bit flips from the procurer side (Airbus in this case)?

I work in industrial manufacturing (although not as mission-critical as a plane) and suppliers have surprisingly amount of problems in their parts and we can't (and shouldn't) need to stress-test every single part we buy from 3rd parties.

Just last month we found out one of the bluetooth chips we use is giving kernel panics seemingly randomly once a week. It can only be fixed with a power-cycle. Supplier just shrugged and asked us to run some diagnostics software, we gave up on using bluetooth for this product instead (we had a physical display as an extra addon, but now it is mandatory). Note this is a million-dollar product and we were lucky to have caught this problem before release.

We actually accounted for a similar problem for our network communication messages by adding CRC to our messages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check

But bit flips inside a microcontroller or memory is beyond our capabilities to detect or simulate.

Note I am not one of the embedded engineers they might have some safeguards for this on top of trusting the hardware error-correction that I don't know about.
> One of the most famous people in probability theory even claimed that it's the ones with finite moments that are rare in practice. (But I couldn't find this quote back, I thought it was Poisson or Laplace)

That sounds more like Kolmogorov than like Laplace. Someone more interested in mathematical issues than in practical questions.
The risk is non-linear advances

That's what everybody said about AI, then sudden advances ~2013 led to the situation today.
I think there's a bit of language problem here. In the way physicists use the word in 2024, making gravity "quantum" means something very different to just having discrete "quanta" particles.

It means a theory with stuff like superpositions of classical states,interference and entanglement. It also means having a theory which can consistently interact with other quantum stuff.

The standard through experiment goes something like this. Take a particle with some mass (maybe am electron, maybe a bowling ball), general relativity tells us what its mass does to space-time around it. Now take that particle and put it in a superposition of being located at point A and point B (you can do this if the particle is quantum). What the heck is it doing to spacetime now? GR doesn't tell us, because GR can't deal with quantum particles. Naively it seems like space-time should also be in a superposition, but we tried to make theories like that and they didn't really work.
I don't think this is about principles, manipulation or anything that is usually a subject of heated and never settled debates. Saying processed food causes illness is a generalization which is very largely true, and considering that a large percentage of the population does not even think of food on the healthy/harmful axis, stating this as publicly as possible is actually the opposite of dumbing down. It is raising awareness for many people, or solidifying a message that others have already heard, and it's raising eyebrows in a smaller percentage of the population, who either already know this and are nitpicking about the message detail, or are generally bothered by the state/media/influencers interfering in how one leads their own life, or fear that such generalizations incorrectly put some traditional food in a bad light (see above comment about cured meats).
Boron is scarce; it's one of the x-process elements, and those inherently have low abundance (although the boron-to-carbon ratio in the Earth's crust is enhanced over the solar system ratio, I believe.)

Boron nitride is weirdly analogous (indeed, isoelectronic) to carbon in that there's a graphite-like form (hexagonal BN) and a diamond-like form (cubic BN).

One thing that would hold back BN life is that by themselves B and N form more stable compounds than carbon does. Nitrogen in particular forms molecular nitrogen, which is annoyingly tightly bound.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39675735
Custom JS scrolling in this day and age is a HUGE no-no. Just don't.
I like Bitwarden but I just find the UI so clunky.

The option to add save or update a password after a successful login just seems to flash so quickly, it's hard to catch it - Fedora/Fx. The icons in the browser extension - why is a key icon for 'copy'? Why is 'edit' all the way at the top in the same colour/font as body text?

It seems to be the best of the bunch when it comes to password managers but I do find the UI a pain.
It was irrational not to mention illegal for eBay to harass some obscure blogger with death threats, yet it happened.
Information may want to be free, but most people also want to live.
Even if not mandated by the standard, concrete standard library implementations do provide bound checking on span (and vector, and optional, etc.), but, even when meant for production use, are disabled by default.

And I don't see a big push in the community to enable them. I think the committee is just an expression of the community on this front.
How does it fare in leader boards?
The distance was also known in 16th century as per Hindu hymn of hanuman chalisa - https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/10370/did-our-a...
Imo phones where never used or intended to be used as computers. This is not just about monopolies; a touch interface offers a completely different UX than a keyboard and affords very different relationships with the hardware. I am not even sure if any alternative to this user experience and relationship exists (and I am not talking about geeks and hackers who are gonna make anything out of anything).

And you are not even free to switch really except between android and ios. I do not know what others here used their phones as, but for me it is a lot about essential and quasi-essential apps ranging from banking, mobile paying, 2fas, chats, and several service-related apps. A lot of these are almost essential in everyday life and not replaceable by something else. I do not want to risk to get some custom OS that offers some interoperability and discover one day that app X that I need cannot work there. I do not really use my phone as something that replaces my computer.
Why do people keep doing this? At this point I consider it a sign they'd rather be fancy than usable, which I can only imagine must be how they write their other software as well.
Show HN: Submind – record memos, make notes, do todos and much more..
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How to customize Rails console setup without modifying the project
No, you won't trigger a loss of trust if you do it the right way. This year, my 7-yr-old, for the first time in his life, asked me clear questions about Santa and all this stuff (we had more of that going on). Having been asked a clear question, I of course gave him a clear answer.

First he was sad - he liked the world of Santa, little gnomes hiding sweets for him in the woods when we were out hiking, things like that. But my clear answers just confirmed the suspicions he already brought home from school.

Then we talked about how this was a nice game adults and older kids play for the younger ones - and he got that immediately, kids inherently understand (and like) role playing games. So now he's in the role of those who know and play the game for the younger kids in our broader family - and he's proud of it :)

Before that happened, I actually was afraid and unsure about how to get out of this storyline without breaching trust. But it all played out smoothly.
Crows also pass on their knowledge.
Precisely. Our legal system has two issues. First, the definitions are imprecise, non-objective and tethered to historical meaning that is no longer relevant. And second, law you can't enforce is nothing at all, even if defined perfectly.

AI is working on the scale of seconds, and nanoseconds. The legal system is working on the scale of years. It's too slow and dysfunctional even for human matters. But for AI it's hopeless. It's like a tree trying to catch up to a running cheetah.
For pure SVG-based animations you should take a look at Boxy SVG: https://boxy-svg.com/blog/21
> Do you have more examples of companies that are not feature factories?

Actually, none of them are. They're just managed as if they were.

In a factory, you can literally have a machine that stamps out 1000 widget blanks an hour and if the operator does an hour of overtime, that's an extra 1000 widgets produced that day.

You've got your workers on 8-hour shifts and sales signs a contract to deliver 8,500 widgets per day? Then you know right away you're going to need 10-hour shifts, or regular overtime, or a second 8-hour shift, or a second machine, and you can figure out how much each of those would cost, and whether you've got enough car parking for the extra workers.

Whereas in software, your feature factory produces ???? per hour, sales promises customers ???? and an hour of overtime achieves ???.
Fantastic read. Anytime the gov forces away free speech, it should result in jail time. No.. I'm sorry. If you sent the email to X or Meta or Youtube, you should do time. "following orders" should not work.

The reason there are people who "don't trust the science." is because of stuff like this. Harvard and the like are tainted, and "oops" with no plan to fix things is what we're left with.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say, but I don't think so.

If I'd like to, say, fold custom envelopes for less than minimum wage while I'm watching TV, no crime is being committed, and society is not being harmed.

There are certain social restrictions that are set to prevent social harm, and then there are those that are set because some people thought it would prevent social harm but in fact does the opposite; minimum wage falls into the latter.
Undetectable AI
Dynamic Kernel Stacks Proposed for Linux with Big Memory Savings
Of course they are. They're literal wage slaves.
That is only true in everyday latent space/vocabulary. In the ones underlying arxiv papers, cryptography and LLM, attack has the latter meaning.
Yes, but also.... Phalic symbolism is a source of inspiration for all.

Also, it's a cosmic balance for all the triangle engineering of ancient times.
> An S&P 500 corporation hiring a hitman to murder a witness is beyond "unusual"

It doesn't have to be the corporation itself, it could be an ambitious sociopathic underling of a security officer who was himself known and hired for his edgy/dirty attitude and "fix anything" reputation. This is essentially what happened in the eBay case; death threats in the mail aren't that far removed from actual murder, and got people sent to prison (proving the 'legal deterrent' to agents of corporations doing irrational and illegal things isn't perfectly reliable) You keep setting up strawmen to make the thing sound implausible.
That doesn't make sense, what if car cost 50k (or more), do you think anybody would ever want to drive in it? Family traumatized by just looking at it, heck any similar car, ever ?

Low cost would be ie in your backyard, jump from the bridge (with added 3s thrill), OD on opiates or some poison you don't feel or similar. Or go fight russians if you really stand up for western values, that may actually cure the need if you make it through.
Or, just make the vehicle being sent to Mars sufficiently large. Shielding mass needed goes as r^2; vehicle mass and volume as r^3. Just storing the cargo and propellant on the outside of the vehicle and the crew in the center should suffice for a sufficiently large vehicle.
> It's absolutely useful to tell 4th-graders that x(t) = vt + x₀

Why is this useful? Where and when are they going to use this equation until they learn the correct one?
What does "space is expanding" mean? That the distance between objects is increasing? How can you tell the difference between "space expanding" and "objects moving in a non-expanding space"? Is there any way to tell the difference or is it just that all objects are moving away at the exact speeds that satisfies the "space expanding" explanation and nothing else?

But then, I'm back to what does "space is expanding" mean? What is doing the expansion?
We may well look back in future years and view the underlying approach introduced in Reexpress as among the more significant results of the first quarter of the 21st century. With Reexpress, we can generate reliable probability estimates over high-dimensional objects (e.g., LLMs), including in the presence of a non-trivial subset of distribution shifts seen in practice. A non-vacuous argument can be made that this solves the alignment/super-alignment problem (the ultimate goal of the line of work in the post above, and why I mention this here), because we can achieve this behavior via composition with networks of arbitrary size.

Because the parameters of the large neural networks are non-identifiable (in the statistical sense), we operate at the unit of analysis of labeled examples/exemplars (i.e., the observable data), with a direct connection between the Training set and the Calibration set.

This has important practical implications. It works with essentially any generative AI model. For example, we can build an 'uncertainty-aware GPT-4' for use in enterprise and professional settings, such as law: https://github.com/ReexpressAI/Example_Data/blob/main/tutori...

(The need for reliable, controllable estimates is critical regardless of any notion of AGI, since the existing LLMs are already getting baked into higher-risk settings, such as medicine, finance, and law.)
Better part of it is it requires far less resource to run.
Note that this is changing fast as laptops get rid of all ports in favor of USB-C which can carry DisplayPort. In practice many laptops sold today do not support HDMI but support DisplayPort albeit through a different connector.
Any reference to it? I couldn't find anything about Facebook taking action on a domain ending with gram. Was your domain similar to instagram?

Because telegram is still out there.
Intel Lunar Lake Allegedly Offers a 1.5X Multi-Threaded Performance Boost
I guess all of humanity is in this condition with regard to modern technology. One solar flare and we re-learn what it’s like to dig in the mud in the cold covered in parasites and then die of plague.

Life is layers and layers of fragile.
I have 1 one year old boy and I often think about how should I behave. While the Santa issue is trivial to me, I decided I will lie, or hide the truth for that matter, about some topics to protect his innocence until he's mature enough to understand.

> your kids will know that there are things you will lie to them about

And that's part of growing up. I now know that the dog I barely remember (when I was almost 3 years old) didn't "went with his mom that came to pick him up one day", and understanding why they lied is part of growing up. Instead of triggering a loss of trust now I can say "I see what you did there, now I understand".
> At least in Spain, it's common to see strawberries with unmarked origin or, even worse, "Origin: Spain" but it happens to be a Spanish company that brings them from Morocco

The import switch trick exists, but is nonetheless illegal. So is mislabeling food origin (even from within the EU). For instance, I know that the health authorities in France go to open-air markets and road-side stalls to check that produces have labels, and that the country of origin is correct. (EU onions, as an example, is not an appropriate labeling. Nor is labeling Italian onions as regional onions..)

Of course, the local authorities might not have the will or incentives to strictly enforce your consumer rights..
Yes USB3.0 is 500 MB/s but are you sure your bus is 3.0? It would imply your machine is 10+ years old. Most likely it's 3.1 or newer which is 1000 MB/s. And again, benchmarking /dev/zero is invalid anyway as I explained (transparent compression)
Of course, cost goes up linearly with mass and thus cubed with `r`. Mars missions are expensive enough as it is without making the launch vehicle much bigger than required for the mission.
> ...but it took at least 6 hours...

Rsync cannot transfer more than one file at a time so if you were transferring a lot of small files that was probably the bottleneck. You could either use xargs/parallel to split the file list and run multiple instances of rsync or use something like rclone, which supports parallel transfers on its own.
I'm not sure but long-term, increased competition might be a win for AAPL stock and force them out of their slump and light a fire under them again.
> but it will require paradigm shift, so there will be a lot of resistance before revolution.

I think the main point of resistance is the incompatibility with observations. All Tired light models have been falsified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tired_light#Specific_falsified...

If you're aware of a model that can fit some or all of our observations, please share it!
Intuitively I agree with you, despite the unexpected ‘success’ of current approaches. What formalisms do you suggest?
Note: this is only for charged particles such as happen in solar flares, and only in space. Your personal shield against bullets and the like is still impossible, sadly.
Works for:

Bitext mining: Given a sentence in one language, find its translation in a collection of sentences in another language using the cosine similarity of embeddings.

Classification: identify the kind of text you're dealing with using logistic regression on the embeddings.

Clustering: group similar texts together using k-means clustering on the embeddings.

Pair Classification: determine whether two texts are paraphrases of each other by using a binary threshold on the cosine similarity of the embeddings.

Reranking: given a query and a list of potential results, sort relevant results ahead of irrelevant ones by sorting according to the cosine similarity of embeddings.

Etc etc.

These are MTEB benchmark tasks https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.07316.pdf . If you have no need for something like that, good for you, you don't need to care how well embeddings work for these tasks.
Oh, I thought you were! I remember you from many nuclear related topics on here. Didn't remember anyone else tho, so in my book you're the expert. Haha! :)

Holy shit you were there? That's interesting. Sounds like an Aussie survey team observing the test? But from your description of the conditions it seems India was a very wild place back then.

Well your account of it supports the sincerely ignorant thesis for this. Again, the questioning could be a ruse, or different parts of the US bureaucracy, but it's very interesting. And it sounds like you've made up your mind that it was sincere ignorance. It's all new to me so I'm keeping an open mind but I appreciate your perspective and facts. A healthy does of real experience is always welcome to counter all the narratives pushed every which way.

Regarding the Aussie survey team you were a member of being coincidentally present at the time of the test that to me sounds like just the kind of thing that (presumably Aussie) intelligence services would organize, a non confrontational and covert way to collect some data on it maybe? I don't know.

Sounds as if you're non too happy with how the US has massaged perceptions of various things, including possibly things drawn directly from or related to stuff you've contributed to, and want to speak truth to that power or at least expose the truths and lies. Well good on you! A strong system should never be afraid of the truth, and flip flops on truth send a discouraging signal about competence, etc.

Always full of surprises your account is haha! :)
This is a public forum.

If I have a strong feeling on something, why do you feel I should not talk about it?

It is your opinion that I am wrong. It is not a fact that I am wrong.

You say you have a cabin - I’ve booked Cabins in the Hocking Hills area of Ohio (not via Airbnb). They’ve never had cleaning fees.

If they can handle this, why can’t you?
Does the performance picture change with Int8?
The end is very funny. Mars trip costs 1200 mSv, NASA cap is 1000. Should we just send old men to Mars? Oops, they dropped the cap to 600, we need this tech now.
Ask HN: Which tool to use to analyze call transcripts for product insights?
I believe there is gold in there, but I cannot get it. Any recommendation is appreciated.
Manufacture in space.
When doomers predict that AI will steal our jobs, we picture remote and futuristic scenarios. The real threat is mundane and it’s happening now, right before our noses.
If going to Mars is worth doing, it's worth doing at scale. Considerations of "it's too expensive" mean one should work to make it cheaper, typically by reducing launch cost. It looks like we'll have launch costs of a < $10/lb to LEO before anyone seriously goes to Mars.

Just say no to flags-and-footprints (and SLS); say yes to large scale Mars activities.
FWIW, I opened a PR that adds Windows support: https://github.com/rkaehn/cr_task.h/pull/2

I may play with the C11-standard `threads.h`, but note that it was not implemented by MSVC at all until quite recently: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-threads-in-visual...

Edit: Made a C11 threads.h implementation as well. https://github.com/rkaehn/cr_task.h/pull/3
> which I always interpret to mean probably 100% non-EU

They still need some of the product to come from the EU to be able to claim "EU", but if they don't go through the effort to write on the packaging which parts come from where, the product is possibly mostly non-EU, yes.. :-P

And you can put your money on it that they have lobbied hard so as not to have to put the exact countries of origin on their packages. All under the "That would make the packaging confusing for consumers" guise. Or the "Our product chain is too complex, and that would be very inconvenient" guise..
Do you have any models to recommend? Especially some that could last in harsh environments (dust, high temperature, insects, ...).