skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought I would get fired every day during the first six months. There was no one there to tell you what to do. In the military, there was a change [sic] of command. At SpaceX, you ask yourself, "How do we do this thing? How do we do it safely? How do we do it so that it's a good value for our customers?" Then you figure it out. [emphasis added]

This guy was never a full-on member of the active duty military or he'd have a different take on this. The cadet life is very different from active duty. As a cadet, much of your life is already detailed for you, even down to when to get up, when to eat, when to exercise, when to relax (this changes over the years as a cadet, but it's still very regulated). If he'd been able to serve in the active duty, having graduated from West Point he would have been an officer.

Officers do not just look around and wait to be told what to do or ask their CO to hold their hand and walk them through their day. They have to figure it out, too.

Hell, even as a cadet you don't get coddled and still have to figure things out.
Nice idea, did you manage to get into YC?
I don't know. I'm unsure whether scientists do either. Chances are that it wasn't really any different than it is now. The resurfacing means that the surface is new - many fewer impact craters.
My buddy works at Tesla here at the gigafactory in Berlin and says the same thing. It’s all on-premise run using open stuff. Which isn’t horrible but the culture seems to be we will build it ourselves.
I'd say it's not new. Take fluid dynamics as an example, the navier stokes equations predict the motion of fluids very well but you need to approximately solve them on a computer in order to get useful predictions for most setups. I guess the difference is the equation is compact and the derivation from continuum mechanics is easy enough to follow. People still rely on heuristics to answer "how does a wing produce lift?". These heuristic models are completely useless at "how much lift will this particular wing produce under these conditions?". Seems like the same kind of situation.
Maybe progress forward will look like producing compact models or tooling to reason about why a particular thing happened.
There's no free lunch™, so from what I can tell there's some pathway loss here. E.g. some Jacobi trajectories definitionally exclude higher temperature paths. Which might actually be a positive given data retrieval (but a negative if we want to maximize for creativity?).
3.0 has a "bug" that makes it risky to use materials without very careful attribution:

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-...
User: which is the larger number, 3 or 2?

ChatGPT: The larger number is 3.

User: If I have one apple, pick another apple and then get an apple from a friend, and Alice has two apples, who has more apples?

ChatGPT: You have more apples. You started with one apple, picked another, and got one more from a friend, so you have three apples. Alice has two apples.

[edit]:

User: what does good will hunting say to the know-it-all at the bar?

ChatGPT: After Will Hunting outsmarts the know-it-all student in the bar, he spots the student's female friend outside a shop later on. To tease the student further and show his wit, Will taps on the window to get her attention and, holding up his phone number, famously asks, "Do you like apples?" After she nods, Will triumphantly says, "Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples?" This line became quite iconic and is one of the memorable quotes from the movie.
Biden could make it a law to show final price. But it's hard to get through senate and congress. The other part is even if they make it a law, the courts are backlogged for years.

US corporations are pretty good at breaking laws and making it a cost of doing business.
This is the answer. "AI safety" in most cases has nothing to do with actually keeping anyone safe, it's about avoiding being the party responsible for handing someone information that they use to commit a crime.

Google can mostly dodge the issue because everyone knows that they just point to other people's content, so they block a small set of queries but don't try to catch every possible workaround (you can find dozens of articles on how to catch shoplifters). OpenAI doesn't believe that they'll get the same free pass from the press, so they're going ham on "safety".

It's not a bad PR move either, while they're at it, to play up how powerful and scary their models are and how hard they have to work to keep it in line.
Do you mean in a real time conversation?

Because I definitely dont "have an internal monologue about what I'm going to say" in the 100ms between when someone asks a casual question and I respond to it.
You say they're doing things that are cheap and trivial, but isn't the major innovation of Neuralink the fact that they're using very fine wire probes? No one else has done this and instead used relatively hard fixed arrays of needles. This causes damage to blood vessels among other things. Neuralink's advantage is they exactly void this type of brain damage.
You basically picked the worse possible task for ChatGPT and are applying it as a broad conclusion.

ChatGPT is _very_ good at taking human-language descriptions and transforming that into code. It works even better when instructions are concise and clear. I theoretically believe this stems from the fact that there’s a lot of human description of code for the LLM to train on. However, there’s relatively very little machine to machine code available.

The tasks you’re looking to accomplish will likely have much better success if you break it into two “human-to-code” steps.

1. Ask ChatGPT to explain what the Python code is doing, line-by-line

2. Then ask ChatGPT to write the equivalent Lisp code for the description.
Copilot likes to swallow my } in C++ for some reasons. E.g. if you generate a new function at the end of a namespace block, it will usually use the bracket of the namespace block at the terminator of the function, leaving you one short.
Do you trust yourself or your coworkers to write correct code, without being tested or even run? Do you really expect an LLM to do better?
Realtime means different things in different contexts. If I can watch a webcam of freeway traffic, than 5 seconds delay is, for all intents and purposes, realtime.

If we talk about medical equipment, it may be very different based on the equipment.

Real time OSs advertise maximum guaranteed latencies. 0 latency does not exist in the physical world, the speed of light can’t be convinced to hurry up, unfortunately.
SpaceX is a defense contractor and Mars is the cover story.

Just read up on Elon's cofounder and their work on SDI.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield
I would argue that we shouldn’t bother to build CRC checking of memory into programs and that ECC RAM should just become the norm eventually.

99.9999% of memory operations aren’t CRC-d so trying to fight against flaky hardware is a bit of an uphill battle.
But decentralized CAs for identity verification still have the same problem, you have to trust someone. They said zero-trust, which I don't think is possible.
depends on the bus factor...
I view this as they are trying to lay bare the disagreements that everyone has about how these models “should” work. People from all different backgrounds and political affiliations completely disagree on what is inappropriate and what is not. One person says it is too censored, another person says it is revealing harmful information. By putting the policy out there in the open, they can move the discussion from the code to a societal conversation that needs to happen.
> a tiny gap in the core increases the relaxation time — a term used to describe the period over which the capacitor loses charge

> materials are layered like pasta sheets in a lasagna

Isn't this similar to how current lithium cells are made? An anode and cathode with a gap layer sandwiched between them (just on a different scale)?
I may have missed something. What are saying specifically?

Okun's law shows a strong correlation between GDP and employment. Which runs counter to your previous claim – as I understand it (please forgive me if I'm not understanding it correctly.)

Did you make a comment somewhere else that I missed?
Does this use eBPF? Can it be expanded to work with other syscalls besides exec? I find myself using not only execsnoop.bt but also opensnoop.bt, statsnoop.bt, tcpconnect.bt etc.
> In an age where few people use bookmarks anymore, many sites rely on SEO get regular traffic.

I don't follow the logic here. Are you saying you believe that traffic to websites has significantly declined because they don't use bookmarks? But if they're searching for the site and click on it, that's still traffic to you either way. The alternative would be that they couldn't find it and gave up, which I also find unlikely if they were someone who already knew about it to begin with (as one of the "bookmark" people).

> If their goal was to get more people to the site, and coming back to use it regularly… they’d make the site quick and easy to use with useful features.

Are you sure that SEO doesn't derive WAY more traffic than a small optimized page? I think the vast majority of the world population simply doesn't care about that.
> Although we expected C++ programmers to see Go as an alternative, instead most Go programmers come from languages like Python and Ruby.

This absolutely fascinates me. I'm primarily a C++ programmer and have been for decades. When I explored Go, it never occurred to me that it was meant to be a C++ alternative at all.

> The answer can be summarized like this: Do you think less is more, or less is less?

Both, and neither. Less is not automatically more. It can, in fact, be less. On the other hand, too much gunks up the works and reduces utility -- in that case, less is, in fact, more. To a point.

That said, I do think C++ crossed into the "too much" category years ago.
> I think and speak in increments of ideas

extremely common among (but not unique to) people with ASD, those "increments of ideas" are called "gestalts".

https://kidtherapy.org/helpful-articles/what-is-gestalt-lang...
How does loaning books work?
Show HN: SimBricks – Modular Full-System Simulation for HW-SW Systems
Hi HN,

we are building SimBricks, an open-source simulation framework for heterogeneous systems, especially with custom hardware. SimBricks modularly combines existing simulators for machines, networks, and hardware, allowing you to build, test, and evaluate intricate complete systems in a virtual environment. Head over to the SimBricks website (https://simbricks.github.io/, also has a quick demo video) to learn more. We have pre-built docker images, and you can even immediately play around on codespaces.

Concrete use-cases:
- Evaluate HW accelerators, from early design with simple behavioral models, to simulating complete Verilog implementations, both as part of complete systems with many instances of the accelerator and machines running full OS and real applications (we did a university course on this with SimBricks).
- Test network protocols, topologies, and communication stacks for real workloads in potentially large systems (we ran up to 1000 hosts so far).
- Rapid RTL prototyping for FPGAs, no waiting for synthesis or fiddling with timing initially (we simulate the complete unmodified RTL for the Corundum Open-source NIC with their unmodified PCIe drivers).

SimBricks originally started out as an internal research tool, for helping us build and evaluate our research ideas on network protocol offload, but has since grown into a separate open-source project.

Would be great if you give it a shot and let us know what you think!
This is missing the fact that the stainless steel from the ultra-durable umbrella is also easy to recycle. In fact, steel is far easier to recycle than any kind of plastic.

Also, the whole work seems to skip over the huge problem of insufficient customer information: There is a remark in there, that lots of people (about half) seem to choose the ultra-durable umbrella, rather than one of the less resource-intensive ones. The reason for this imho isn't that people don't care about the resources. It is rather that everyone has been conditioned to assume that products are crappier than specified. People do not and usually can not know how durable each product they are offered will be. And buying something ultra-durable-seeming at least gives you a chance at a decent product lifetime. All the rest is usually crappier than expected.

One reason is that the environmentally friendlier alternatives are often also materials of lesser quality. E.g. recycled plastic degrades and is more brittle than "fresh".

The other reason is greedy manufacturers, saving on necessary materials, making products less durable. And maybe intentionally building in weak points, limiting lifetime to sell more stuff.
Securing Git Repositories with Gittuf
By data I meant between the client and server, nothing actually related to how the program itself works, but just the fact that it's controlled by a proprietary third party.
It’s because the photos are of an existing Portal installation in Lublin, Poland and Vilnius, Lithuania. Lublin is my city and this thing has been running for a few years now. Everyone loves waving at it and seeing if anyone on the other side waves back. It’s quite silly but also rather touching.
Lab leak?

Vincent Racaniello, a leading virologist (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/) seems to think that the genetic sequence of the covid virus and the bat version of the virus are nearly identical. That genetic evidence seems to suggest that the covid virus had a natural bat source.

Vincent talks about and shows safety practices for a "level 4 biolab" (https://www.bu.edu/articles/2013/video-offers-glimpse-of-bio...)

It might be the case that the biolab safety protocols were not followed. This seems unlikely.

It might be the case that there was a cross-species transfer of the virus. This is a frequent event between species.

Scientifically, a lab leak is less likely than a species-transfer. Politically, a lab leak is
the only possible (i.e. politically useful) explanation.

So your sources of information comes from a world-leading virologist and a state department spokesperson.

You decide.
Possibly forming concrete underground? Doesn't concrete absorb CO2 while curing?
> whoever builds a military moonbase gains the ability to target and destroy any place on earth

By turning the 20- to 60-minute flight time of an ICBM into a three-day trip? What?! This is like people with zero knowledge of orbital mechanics getting uppity about nukes in orbit.
Well that's easy, jets can't walk.
I'm not in the US so I'm not sure longbets would work (AIUI it's set up to do some charitable-donation tax arbitrage that only works for US taxpayers and means you can only take your winnings via a US 503(c)?) but I'm up for that second bet if we can nail down the criteria a bit more.

(My reason is that I've seen standards come and go and have found e.g. old files easier to open when they're in nonstandard-but-popular-in-the-past formats than when they're in a standard format that didn't see wide adoption.)
> countries with tensions, people will start mooning the portal

would make for a beautiful realisation

"how petty our differences become, when we realize we all use the same butt"
get my band The Jephries a gig so we can come down from Anchorage and eat some of your Turkish dishes! hehehe
There was a downswing awhile ago because the macro users switched to using digital modes. People who want to make handmade CW contacts are still having fun and that is attracting some people to the space.

Also, knowing Morse has been my escape room superpower. Escape room designers love Morse.
It's still live. https://xkcd.com/2916/

Machines that make it into the overall public version can be permalinked, but there's no permalinks for individually created things that don't get selected via the moderation queue. This was an intentional decision to avoid the risk of hosting unmoderated user-generated content on the comic's domain.
Yeah, I have family and friends who are teachers, definitely aware that there's no time. Fundamentally the modern way we deal with education is broken. It's not even mostly the funding, but the way we try to measure it, package it and distill it and spread it around equally. The only way to do that is the same way McDonalds does, strip it down to the barest essentials done by rote , crammed into as small a time unit as possible with as little variation as possible. It works, but it has all the same problems.

Education as a whole needs a re-work in how we approach it, for many reasons but also to make time for this sort of careful nurturing; even if it means we don't cover as many things. We can no more teach all the children all the things in 18 years than we could have them listen to all the music ever produced in that same time. And to my mind then we'd be better served doing everything we can to nurture and encourage children's natural curiosity and desire to learn and do on the absolutely necessary of the things necessary that will quash that curiosity.

How do we do that? I don't know. I have thoughts, but there are certainly going to be no easy answers, and decades of bureaucracy and infrastructure around the current system will not go quietly even if we had the answers in the first place.
Search, Assistant, Google, Gemini, ... It's all gSiri
A member of the community has been creating an index: https://github.com/scpso/incrediblexkcd
Just install little snitch and you'll see how MUCH gets sent back to the mothership. and that is just macos.
Alright, but now picture this: it's now open to the masses, meaning an individual could probably even do it.
You could ask someone in Dublin to pass on a message, walk over to the portal coming from the “other side”, and maybe receive your message back from someone in Japan or something :-)
> Version 0.0.1

Thank you for semver-ing!
I meant the effort required for the pace, not the literal speed. For a skilled swimmer, 20min per km can be maintained for a few hours, like a runner maintains marathon pace for a few hours.
The former is costlier. It's litteraly a gamble that your one IT guy won't:

- just leave

- get sick (including burn out)

- move to another country

- get hit by a bus

It just doesn't make sense in the long term.

PS: bot even counting that the negociating power of that single guy is incredible.
Haha, of course!

So when you click a button on the G600 (and most other mice with side buttons), the button fires when you press down, just like the Mouse 1 or Mouse 2 button. On the G600, there is a third click button to the right of the right click, which is called G-Shift. When pressed, all of the side buttons have secondary assignments. Since you have to hold G-Shift to access this other layer, the macros are often referred to as chords in mouse customization software like Steermouse, since it requires two buttons to fire.

To configure this, you need the G-Hub software, which is in a nightmarish state on macOS. To get around this, I use Steermouse. Steermouse lets me get around this, however with one trade off. If a side button has two assignments (one when pressed by itself, another when pressed with the G-Shift), then the button does not actually fire when its pressed, but instead fires when the button is depressed/let go of. I imagine this is just how Steermouse handles buttons which have more than one assignment.

I haven't found a suitable replacement that is as robust as steermouse. Its one of the first apps I install on my mac, but this is one killer feature that I've only found in the G-Hub app.
> 2. Will it degrade further? Are follow-up surgeries needed?

They said in the weeks following and it doesn't seem to have continued to happen. However I would expect things to degrade eventually as this is still very early days.
An Army of AI Agents
wrote a bit about how I view the agent space. mostly aimed at a non-technical audience, but I do "delve" into some more concrete examples and predictions in the longer blog post version. btw this blog post started our as my mission statement when I was working on Agentic during HF0, so just happy to have finally published it.

would love any feedback :)
In some ways it's the other way around. Musk (currently holding assets of ~195B) is able to spend billions by selling his ownership in SpaceX (currently valued at $180B) and Tesla (currently valued at ~$550B). Musk doesn't need to sell billions for SpaceX to go to Mars or Tesla to make a new car if he never cashes out in the first place. That's why the hard part is (usually, outside of ideological effort) "then why would they bother to keep doing all the work if they don't get anything out of it?".

It's also a reason wealth is a hard thing to really track when you want to limit it. Is that corporate jet 1/5th the CEO's because he is 1 of 5 that uses it or is it not part of the CEO's wealth at all? There's not really a clean way to cut this sort of thing that I've seen that doesn't either lop off things that aren't personal wealth by accident or allow squirreling away personal wealth in ways it doesn't get counted. That's the hardest part of this kind of thing IMO.
What kind of things are they doing with AI?
Agreed. It's straightforward to check that a token was the argmax, but it seems difficult to check that a token appeared with the probability you wanted it to. You could still do the fine-tuning step I guess, where you train the trajectories to approach n-token completions with the statistics you want, but I can't see how you can replace the "check for a fixed point" step. Maybe "check the result was above this fixed threshold for likelihood".
We have one in Lublin, PL for the past several years. I’m not sure if ours will be moved or if they are building a new pair.

There’s no audio. Webcam quality isn’t a pretty bad, maybe 720p with lots of compression artifacts. It’s not a 4k screen, reminds me of digital signage used for highway billboards.

It’s still entertaining but every time I see it I long for 8k and a gigabit uplink.
Not the op, but I could imagine a series of portals in a circle formation at each site; maybe like 12 or 13 simulcast connections would be insane.
Ollama doesn't have their own inference engine, they just wrap llama.cpp. But yes, it will be awesome when it's more generally available.
Is this still based on AOSP or fully separate? The article implies that it is separate but this has been claimed for AOSP forks before.
As much as I hate to spoil the illusion, the kludging you mentioned is basically the sum of the natural drawbacks faced in virtually all game design. Whether it's a skybox, an NPC, or a virtual bullet, it's all basically cheating through constraints and illusions.

Great example: Space Engineers, a very popular game in which you can build ships, bases, etc. with an incredible consideration for automation, moving things around, etc. One of my favorites. But the game intentionally (1) limits the top speed of all entities to 100m/s, (2) doesn't actually simulate orbital mechanics despite having planets, and (3) forces you to construct things on a 'grid'. All of these constraints are arguably shortcomings, but they also enable the physics engine to live and collisions to work.
"Do one thing well", a common Linux design philosophy, was blatantly ignored here. Search is not the place for this, sibling comment is likely right about trying to reach wider audience.

Claude.ai and chatGPT have become my go to for translation over Google Translate, they provide better idiomatic context. They aren't perfect for code, but I can chat with them in target languages (outside of English) and they're pretty fluent.
Interesting

I think soon we are going to realize that we don’t really need training the models

We just need good indexing and sampling

Essentially at some level any LLM is equivalent to a DB of the dataset, with a great NLP interface on top

Both are just different methods of navigating stored data