skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoa this looks very cool! Instead of a standard go kart race, this would be 10x better if all partecipants had a Quest 3 on and we could "fight" to win.

Great project, keep it up.
For everyone reading neither the article nor the paper:

- both show neural networks can learn the game of life just fine

- the finding is that to learn the rules reliably the networks need to be very over-parameterised (e.g. many times larger than the minimal size needed for hand-crafted weights to perfectly solve the problem)

This is not really a new result nor a surprising one, nor does it say anything about the kinds of functions a neural network can represent.

It's an attempt to understand an existing observation: once we have trained a large overparameterized neural network we can often compress it to a smaller one with very little loss. So why can't we learn the smaller one directly?

One of the theories referred to in the article and paper is the lottery hypothesis, which states that a large network is a superposition of many small networks and the larger you are the more likely at least one of those gets a "lucky" set of weights and converges quickly to the right solution. There is already interesting evidence for this.
Would you be willing to make a way that lets users try it without making an account? Or at the very least, make an account with an email address? Right now, I can't find a way to do anything without logging in with a Google account, which I prefer not to do.
What are property laws if not an imposition? Do I get to decide what laws to follow because I don't like being imposed upon?
The video you linked to says that in the movie it's explained that Oppenheimer spoke German, and learned Dutch in a short amount of time. If so, him speaking Dutch with a German accent seems appropriate, if slightly exaggerated.

However a novice in a foreign language will speak more slowly than natives, not more quickly, even if reading a prepared speech (as was likely the case in that setting, and especially given the advanced language used that no beginner would have mastered), so not sure what the thinking was there.
Don't forget they intentionally move their UI around to trick users into clicking into something unwanted. https://i.sstatic.net/MwWWJ.gif
No, they're saying people intentionally misinterpreted what they'd done.

As an example of this sort stuff, maybe you carefully define "Must not be used" in your legislation for banning materials and then you later actually write that a material "Should not be used". If a bunch of people die you can say "Actually we said very clearly that it shouldn't be used!" but if instead a bunch of companies are annoyed by how expensive it is to find an alternative you say "Actually we didn't ban it - we only used the word 'should'".
"then aren't we asking too much from it"

Not according to the hype merchants, hucksters, and VCs who think word models are displaying emergence and we're 6 months from AGI, if only we can have more data
Everybody is selling something, especially graffiti artists. You just aren't the target demographic.
> home soil atrocities

I'm not sure what I think about it, but I have heard the statement that "Hitler didn't do anything that the Empire[0,1] hadn't done before him; his mistake was in not realising one was supposed to limit that kind of activity to brown people".

[0] or others: let's give Leopold a hand, everyone.

[1] Having been reminded by the recent unfortunate fall of an imperial cosplayer: I have lost an image that was floating around the innrnetz, of a stormtrooper in a locker room, half in (or is it half out?) of uniform, sitting dejected on a bench with their hands facing us and I M P E clearly tattooed on one set of knuckles, with the other set reading R I A L.
I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult.

Plus if it did have a taste for humans, we’d already have reports of people being attacked by now. So if there is a big cat, and that’s a big “if”, then it’s more likely the cat is at risk from farmers shooting a predictor to the farm’s livestock, than kids are at risk from the cat
Submit search to https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
Unfortunately I was astounded, horrified, and simultaneously pleased to discover that I was immediately able to decipher the "hard" (huh ?????) example.

Although if I was writing this myself, I would split it up like so:

typedef char *StringArray[];
typedef StringArray *Func();
Func **foo[][8];

Which is equivalent and much easier to read. (Although still not trivial. I have no idea what purpose this type really serves. The type names are placeholders as a result.)

C type declarations become particularly tricky specifically when people try to directly declare (or typedef) pointers to functions/arrays without an intermediate typedef for the function/array type.

So if you make it a rule to typedef array types before creating pointers to them (although this usually makes for some rather unreadable code so maybe try avoiding it in general) and to typedef function types before creating pointers to them, you will usually have much more readable code.

As a bonus, you can then use the function typedef to provide an early type-check for a callback function (even if it's a callback your code doesn't directly use). E.g.:

typedef int Func(int a);
Func foo;
int foo(int a)
{
return a * 2;
}

Or, you know, switch to a higher level language.
(note: bias because I'm founder of https://www.definite.app/)

Completely agree, chat is not going take over every UI that's been developed over the past decades.

One example: are you going to build a "Company Dashboard" in ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is good for "last mile" adhoc analysis (e.g. you already have all your data in a single file and you want to ask a few questions). But you're not going to build dashboards and standard reports in it just like you wouldn't run your CRM in it.
I was camping and hitchhiking in the Lakes with a friend about 12 years ago. We aimed to get over High Street (a large hill) and to the next bothy within a day but it was harder than we expected, so we ended up setting off down the other side well after nightfall. The moon was out so light wasn't really a problem, but we were both a bit freaked out by not really knowing exactly where we were or what the weather might do (this was in January, and a blizzard did come through the next day - but even in summer you have to be careful there). There was about 6 inches of snow over everything and it was hard going on the way down - with lots of tripping over hidden rocks and worrying about slipping into cracks or over the edges of waterfalls etc - so we were both getting increasingly agitated.

Anyway, about half way down we came upon some large animal footprints and stopped to look at them. They were very clear and we both thought they could have been big cat prints. They looked too big for a dog, and the location and time of year didn't make that much sense for casual dog walking and there were no other human prints around. We still had a few miles to go and camping out in tents or in a sheep shelter for the night was very much on the table, so I think we both decided to just put the idea of a big cat out of our minds, to the extent we took it seriously to begin with. Makes me wonder!
It’s the same trade off in all secure systems. Reducing false positives in exchange for false negatives. Implementing new secure standards would have disproportionate effect on preventing legitimate voters from voting, for very small gain in preventing bad actors. Research from some years ago had the ratio being a few orders of magnitude difference. Stopping 300 legitimate votes from being cast to prevent 1 fraudulent vote makes no sense. In any case, these shenanigans can get you a felony and we’ve repeatedly seen very low rates of this kind of fraud.

That is to say, you can swing more votes in more effective and legal ways than flubbing mail in ballots.

On the other hand, being able to land such a job with no substantial checks who you are is pretty crazy. You would think a six figure employee would warrant at least that amount of attention!
They kill the prey of large predatory birds. If we stop hunting them down ourselves and they have enough food, wind turbines are no threat to their population.

There are areas where wind turbines have been put up near population of eagles (Smøla in Norway for instance) and the population is increasing. Even though we know some of them are killed by the wind turbine.

Giving them a good habitat and not hunting them or their prey to extinction is orders of magnitude more important than not building wind power (as long as we’re not incredibly stupid about where we put them). And avoiding global warming is an incredibly important part of preserving their habitats. Also.. have you seen what oil spills does to birds?

Which is why the National Audubon society is cautiously positive to wind power.
> I don't know how intertwined OpenBSD and Linux' OpenSSHes are

There is only one OpenSSH, and it is developed by the OpenBSD folks and used by everyone else.
On the topic of counting things, I would like to mention this efficient and easily-implemented algorithm for finding the top-k items in a stream, which I think is perhaps not as well known as it should be:

A Simple Algorithm for Finding Frequent Elements in Streams and Bags

Karp, Shenker & Papadimitriou

https://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/karp.pdf
Overall, the current race to push AI-based UI everywhere is not handled with enough taste and restraint.

Microsoft and Google are just trying too hard with what I consider to be a pre-alpha quality UI, almost always with a degradation of the UX.

Apple is late to the game, but given their recent track record, I would not be surprised to see the same (lack of) strategy in action.

They could lose a lot of users quickly if they don't handle this better.
Paul Auster's Voice
We are removing 'years of experience' as a requirement for jobs at Remote
You wouldn't need to spin it up it if you don't use "async contexts", and the GC only collects objects freed during those contexts so it can be very limited. You could eliminate it entirely if your program threads periodically call into a cleanup function manually to process this queue. The point of the thread is to make this automatic since that's ostensibliy the whole point of smart pointers.
> More aggressive approaches have also been researched, where the pruning is driven by dynamic analysis, and applied using binary rewriting.

Any place(s) one can read more about this research?
Is it ? If you add an exception, won't you be tracked by all X icons on every other websites ?
I would guess Microsoft has a lot more government customers (and large customers in general) than Slack does. So I would think they have a lot more to loose if they went this route.
Apple Launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan
a nostalgic dial-up sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsVfElI-7oo
Although the researchers said they accounted for patient age I still wonder about care of a majors versus sergeant majors when the doctor is a captain. In that case the doctor out ranks the sergeant major but the sergeant major is almost always older than the other two and has positional authority the other two do not.

I also wonder how much intimidation is a factor. A captain doctor will not tell a colonel patient to stay on track or cut off any irrelevant conversation even when busy.
> while management whistles all the way to the bank collecting their bonus cheques for yet another awesome quarter

Assuming that wasn’t the point all along.
Having lived near mountain lions, it was hard to believe any could be hidden given how loud they are. Looking it up, their roars seem associated with mating or territory battles, so if there were only one it's possible it'd be quiet.
AI Search Startup Perplexity Adds Veterans of Google, Bing as Advisors
Berlin is colorful, live with it. If you place a gray wall somewhere, it will first be sprayed by some noobie. Then later by a better artist and a few years later, no one even dares to cross it because someone put a beautiful piece there.

Every shitty graffiti is about to be replaced by a better one!
Is there anything offending in there? I've skimmed it and it looks like most privacy statements I've seen recently.
Can you elaborate?

Sounds like a hell of a story.
Companies leasing data centers before they're even built
There was never a time when an oil field faced less opposition then a wind farm.
Used d3 on two different react projects. Charts weren’t the main feature but quite big still.
When the dust settled I got a feeling React+SVG had made d3 obsolete - there’s some value in d3 zoom and interaction code, but their intricate system of data sources and auto updating views felt out of time. Maybe it was cutting edge stuff during jquery years, but modern FE frameworks do it better nowadays. Without the need to learn yet another api.

Again, I’m not an expert on d3, just someone who spent ~12-18months maintaining couple visualizations (among other things)
I'm surprised by this and the feedback in this thread. I like the AI search results.
'GTA VI' Sets Fall 2025 Release as Take-Two Posts $2.9B Quarterly Loss
To think all these new features were added because OpenAI dropped ChatGPT. I refuse to believe that Google is adding all this LLM stuff because they have reliable metrics.

Looks more like they are shooting themselves in the foot. And we don’t yet know how hard LLMs are going to plateau, but it looks like Google doesn’t care about that either - they are fine with knowing that the LLM will make things up.
I would love to learn more, where would you recommend I look?
I'm not sure chat apps improve business communications. They are ephemeral, with differing expectations on different teams. Hardly what I'd label as "cohesive"

Async communications are critical to business success, to be sure -- I'm just not convinced that chat apps are the right tool.
Hey Ryan,

For now I prefer to just stick to Google Authentication as that is really secure and avoids me the "pain" of having to deal with password (which I value a lot).
Good point. You're isolating your logged in session but not the fingerprinting.
The decent performance is on its way, all that with enough modern hardware features to be a "big implementation" (à la x86_64).

Then RISC-V assembly will be the new C.

It is going to be a long road and a difficult one: the market is already saturated with mature micro-architectures with ISAs completely locked down with Intellectual Property and that by very few vendors. This is really hard, can still fail
Teslas are still quite cheap - VW's also historically have had problems with infotainment. The ones which are good (ID.7, BMW i4) are also more expensive - although arguably they are much better cars than Tesla in most areas.

But, if I would look for an electric car in Tesla segment I would look into Hyundai Ionic 5/6 or Kia EV6 - they are in general great cars, which have proper service networks and will be around for years, what sets them apart from a chinese tesla-killer du jour.
Yes, the main daemon needs to run as root so it can become any user. Once you're logged in you just run as a regular user.
Oh yeah, that bar in my screenshot is "context sensitive" too so it's constantly messing up your muscle memory as the options are in different places every time. I say "context sensitive" because the ordering seems to be more or less random in practice.

https://i.imgur.com/vER92wI.png

Yes Google, "maps" of rustlang are more relevant than "web" or "books" of rustlang. Round of applause.
Maybe try looking for 即刻. But I have good results by just googling "jikeapp".
> Type V light wood frame of up to five stories built over a single story of Type I fireproof podium

Five stories of timberframe? How is it good to have a fireproof ground floor, if you happen to live on the fifth?
> The average car in the netherlands is driven about 8000 miles a year.

Could be (I don't know) because all the people living next to bike lanes and with good public transport have given up their cars, so the only car users left are the ones who really need to drive a lot, raising the average.
Red Bean Software
Again, they have the right to have that taste and you have the right to hate it. You both should have equal ownership over the wall. Therefore you should also have the right to paint something they don't like on the wall. Or paint over their art. Or paint a different wall in a way you like. Nobody should be prosecuting anyone for the case of a minor disagreement over personal artistic taste.
Where have you seen arguing?

Unless moderators purged a bunch of comments, seems like people are just discussing the history of terminals and how they could be improved going forward.
To add an additional point about Hinduism, it seems like a distinction is made between ritual use and recreational use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_and_religion (“In Hinduism, wise drinking of bhang (which contains cannabis), according to religious rites, is believed to cleanse sins, unite one with Shiva and avoid the miseries of hell in the future life. It is also believed to have medicinal benefits and is used in Ayurvedic medicine.[37] In contrast, foolish drinking of bhang without rites is considered a sin.[38]”).
The difference is SELinux shouldn't be disabled.
Yeah this seems on-brand. Graffiti artist imagines himself as the hero in some epic class struggle, anyone who opposes him must be an enemy sympathizer!

In reality we just want to live in a city that doesn’t have ugly graffiti all over it.

It’s OK, when you grow up you’ll understand. Walking little kids past a wall that reads FUCK because “the community” (aka a single edgy teen) decided it should is not a comfortable experience.
Do Panthers carry off their prey to eat? It seems surprising that there aren't regular reports of farmers finding sheep that have been half-eaten.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! Makes me wonder if the great pyramid was partially submerged, and if so, by how much.

This account lends some credence to theories of the pyramids functioning as some sort of ram pump in my opinion. (Check out John Cadman’s work if you’re interested).
I hardly ever see a popular science article about any kind of energy that gets units right or understands what they mean.

Usually they can manage when it’s a conventional power plant by parroting how many “homes” it could power. If it’s anything else forget it.
From Sockets to WebSockets: Packet captures for TCP Sockets, Ajax, SSE, etc.
Considering that we can even see in the real time the disappearance of rivers, I wonder how many rivers and branches have been lost in history.
Does it? I’d say the more likely commentary is that if you fire all your engineers you lose all of the institutional knowledge.
Can some native speaker tell me: is "count" the new "guess"?
"Self promotion" isn't often upvoted. If someone else submits your stuff, tho, you're allowed to comment in the thread.
I tried it out, and also couldn't distinguish the colors.

> Just to clarify, do you mean for the semi-transparent pieces (the generated ones without "locking in") or even the manually placed pieces?

Are these visually distinguished somehow? Are there four different colors of pieces?

The piece color also seems to be different depending on the background square color, and I wasn't able to distinguish what is what.
Earth's orbit has a circumference of about 940 million km. Divide that by 365.25 days x 24 hrs/day x 3600 seconds/hr and I'm getting in the arena of 29.78 km/sec.
Yes, I just turn off at that point. A working demo needs to be built into the app. Just feels like can't be bothered.
It’s time to build… somewhere over there please and yes as a private market evangelist I’ll use state power against private parties to protect my interests.
> once we have trained a large overparameterized neural network we can often compress it to a smaller one with very little loss. So why can't we learn the smaller one directly?

I feel something similar goes on in us humans. Interesting to think about.
I mentioned the brands as price comparison. My point is that there are actually many, many other brands you can pick from, depending on what kind of car you want.
Anyone got resources on how to grow crystal that are piezoelectric? Would be awesome to grow my own microphone or accelerometer.
The good news for FOSS is that the UX of most commercial software is also awful and generally getting worse. The bad news is that FOSS software is copying a lot of the same UX trends.
You can also use your pen to draw or doodle on your typewritten documents. Doesn't have to be one or the other.
Now look up how much houses cost to build anywhere but the West Coast and maybe parts of the Northeast, and the cost per mile of California’s new high speed rail vs almost anywhere else.

It’s not a technical problem. The technology is fine.
This is your choice to trust only statements backed by scientific rigour or trying things out and applying to your way of life. This is just me talking to you, in that you are correct.

Regarding “receiving a message”: my devices are allowed only limited use of notifications. Of all the messaging/social apps only messages from my wife in our messaging app of choice pop us as notifications. Slack certainly is not allowed there
Nice, and seems to conform to the the rule "do one thing and do it well".

And from the article, looks like more to come.
I think you could get a pretty good solution for that using RAG and some tricks with prompt engineering and semantic chunking. With google's very-long-context models (Gemini) you may also have good results simply with some prompt engineering. Preprocessing steps like asking the LLM to summarise themes of each section can be helpful too (in RAG, this info would go in the 'metadata' stored with each chunk, presented to the LLM with each chunk).

A key engineering challenge will be speed ... when you're navigating a document you want a fast response time.
Using the serial port (I recommend a cp2104 or cp2102N usb-ttl adapter) is extremely helpful.

You'll need to become familiar with u-boot. Then you'll be able to boot this board and any other board with ease.
> not realising the distinction between Europe and the EU

Respectfully, I disagree that they are not realising that. They are just using language differently, i.e. "Europe" in a political / legislative context can mean "the EU", i.e. a political / legislative boundary not a geographic one.

You can say" they're wrong" if you like, but use of language is more commonly viewed as descriptive not prescriptive: "how language is actually being written and spoken rather than trying to identify a correct way"

tl;DR People know what they're saying and you understand it, so what's the issue? what I said in the 1st comment.
Think about it this way, if we all owned all public structures, then we all have equal rights to paint it just as much as you have the right to paint your own house. The graffiti artist has the right to paint it, you have the right to hate it. You have the right to paint something they hate, or paint over their stuff. Nobody should be being prosecuted by a higher power for a minor disagreement about artistic taste. Unless someone is full on painting swastika-ridden explicitly racist murals or sth of that nature, it's not violent. The only reason the ruling class wants you to think it's violent is because property is important to them as a source of power, and therefore must be god above all under this system.
No they won't lose a lot of users, what's the competition or alternative? ChatGPT? Even more AI?

Youtube did like multiple redesigns, each time with massive complaints, clearly had no negative effect on youtube.

Reddit did that huge redesign, and lost like 50% of users initially. Their profits keep going up because they now control the ad distribution and can protect their valuable data from scrapers.

A UI/UX degradation simply isn't enough to turn away free users. You have to damage the fundamental value proposition like say Tumblr banning adult content.