skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would probably get my point across to a native russian speaker better if I use pokazukha rather than Potemkin Village

Agreed, you would. Potemkin X is not a russian language word or saying, it is more like a “obscure historical event idiom” that has no attachment to a particular language at this point. And that changes how often you would hear it used every day. I would guess absolutely any native russian speaker would know what “pokazukha” is. But with Potemkin X? Yeah, less likely.

I think I got a perfect analogy with another idiom to describe what’s going on here using an example - Sisyphean task (and its modern english equivalent “beating a dead horse”). If you try to get your point across to a native english speaker, I bet you would also have a much higher success rate using “beating a dead horse”. Try doing it to a native russian or italian speaker, and they would be confused. But if you try “Sisyphean task”, I bet you would have a much higher rate of succes in that specific case.

Not sure about other languages, but “beating a dead horse” idiom doesn’t exist in russian at all, despite it being used way more often than “sisyphean task” in english. While “sisyphean task” actually exists in russian.

Same with Potemkin X and pokazukha, but flip the language to russian. Both are used in russian language, but the native slang word for it (pokazukha) is way more frequently used in daily life. However, Potemkin X is an idiom that, while transcening the languages and international borders, isn’t used as frequently in real life as the original language analogues. But outside of those origin languages, no one would really use or know of those analogues.

Which is why it is kinda funny to see people trying to make “pokazukha” (aka flexing) or “smekalka” (quick-wittiness) into a “real” english word, given none of those are unique words describing something that isn’t already described well in most languages. As opposed to “schadenfreude”, which doesn’t have a perfect analogue in other languages, so it makes sense that it would widely spread and get adopted beyond the origin language.

TLDR: chart with two axi, one is popularity outside of the origin language and the other is usage in everyday life in the origin language. Potemkin X and Sisyphean task max out the first axis and are below average on the second axis. Pokazukha and “beating a dead horse” are very low on the “outside of the origin language” axis, but are high on the “everyday usage in the origin language”.

P.S. I am aware that “beating a dead horse” exists pretty much unchanged in German too, but that’s an edge case that doesn’t really change the overall idea.
> the terms are used interchangeably in most contexts

Counting and estimating are not used interchangeably in most contexts.

> because in the real world all counting methods have some nonzero error rate.

The possibility that the counting process may be defective does not make it an estimation.

> We talk about ‘counting votes’ in elections, for example, yet when things are close we perform ‘recounts’ which we fully expect can produce slightly different numbers than the original count.

We talk about counting votes in elections because votes are counted. The fact that the process isn't perfect is a defect; this does not make it estimation.

> That means that vote counting is actually vote estimating, and recounting is just estimating with a tighter error bound.

No. Exit polling is estimation. Vote counting is counting. Vote recounting is also counting, and does not necessarily impose a tighter error bound, nor necessarily derive a different number.

> The situations where counting is not estimating are limited to the mathematical, where you can assure yourself of exhaustively never missing any item or ever mistaking one thing’s identity for another’s.

So like, computers? Regardless, this is wrong. Estimating something and counting it are not the same thing. Estimation has uncertainty, counting may have error.

This is like saying addition estimates a sum because you might get it wrong. It's just not true.
Gravel bikes with wide forks and MTB tires already exist. That was my point with the salsa cutty example.

Classic gravel tires do not have very aggressive knobs, but there are some that do.

Gravel is odd as that can be hard packed dirt, small rocks, larger, up to mountain road (babyheads). For some of those conditions, the sidewall of a MTB is overkill and there is a stronger desire for a supplier, faster tire. Basically a cross country MTB tread.

So, there are already wide forked gravel bikes, and there are conditions where a 38 tire is plenty. To fit a 2 inch or 3 inch tire also requires trade offs for the down tube. Which is to say, it's arguably different bikes you want fir some Kansas gravel compared to northwest mountain passes.

As well, the upper limit will probably be at 2.5 inches.

Last, a lot of MTB tires are designed for folks that drive up to a trailhead and then ride down a trail. Those tires need to be solid, and just solid. So, I think it will be the variety of tires that change. More tires suitable for "light" cross-country MTB and ranging in between the spectrums.
i think their other linked example of "Belvedere" is far more impressive because it's building an 'impossible object' out of lego rather than making a normal object and distorting it with photography after the fact

https://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/belvedere.html
With Skate or Die, it’d pull a byte off the genuine disk and use it to decrypt (xor) a loop immediately after the current PC.

I think it went through about five iterations.

My crack was to step it with the original disk to decrypt the encrypted part and modify the code to jump over the decryption. It was pretty sophisticated for the day.

To another extreme, Ocean disk games had a “IsGenuineDisk” style function. It returned 1 or 0 in the accumulator. I could crack it in under a minute with a disk sector editor.

Oddly, I ended up doing Mac copy protection years later.
What if it satisfies an as-of-yet undiscovered set of axioms?
Then I hope they learned an important lesson about boycotting referenda.
A gem in the middle of the article:

> A wristwatch Type-1 variant was also produced, though a pocket-watch movement on your wrist makes for an enormous wristwatch, and it was very outdated with a noisy ticking sound.

> The old joke was that during the war, the Germans didn’t have to seek out any Soviets — all they had to do was listen for their ticking watches and shoot in that direction.
I kind of wish the author of the talk worked with smaller increments, so you could get an idea of how the world was deviating from the original. By the time he gets to e, everything is completely warped, but it's hard to grok in what way it's warped.

My take away from the entire talk was, if you change pi, the walls move. But I still don't understand how they move and what changing pi is actually doing.
People have been educated. Education can't overcome mis-education. People will always choose to believe an obvious lie that affirms their preconceptions.

Any educational program on detecting BS will be challenged as propaganda, unless it's watered down to the point where it's useless.
Yes. My naive intuition about this is you need the extra parameters precisely to do the learning because learning a thing is more complicated than doing the thing once you have learned how. There are lots of natural examples that fit this intuition eg in my mind "junk" DNA is needed because the evolutionary mechanism is learning the sequences which work in a similar way. You don't need all that extra DNA once you have it working but once you have it working there's little selection pressure to clean up/optimise the DNA sequence so the junk stays.
Knulli Linux – Custom Firmware for Retro Emulation Devices
Fun fact:

I find that, at least with dentists, the quality seems to be an inverse function of their experience.

I've gone through a lot of dentists recently (long story, but nothing to do with quality of dental work), and I've consistently found that the younger/"inexperienced" dentists use more modern/advanced[^1] techniques, whereas the older ones tend to favor sticking to what they learned in a medical school years ago, plus an occasional conference or such. As opposed their very foundation being based on more up-to-date knowledge.

[^1] Unlike in software, this often translates to "better", at least from my experience as a patient.

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Apparently this is somewhat of a problem in computer science for 50-something year olds, where one can sometimes find it hard to find a job. Companies prefer younger, more "malleable" candidates.

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There is also the general fact of life that experience often brings hubris & arrogance. This is definitely not always true, but it's another case where more experience is actually worse.
> there are fewer local minima in a higher dimension

Is it actually proven, or another hypothesis? What is the reason behind this?
I was being a little facetious with my example; the point is that home insurance includes more than loss insurance for the cost of the actual structure

This forum can't take a joke or read intent at ALL -- bunch of fucking stiffs

"self insuring" a house that's not built to code is like driving a car without insurance because you finished paying it off. If someone is harmed by your property and you don't have accidental death and dismemberment liability insurance you are f. u. c. k. e. d. fucked.
I think it would be better as a subheading for your actual headline, maybe inside a badge or something. Really great work! How long did you work on it?
As well all know thebcrration of universe is considered to be a mistake by most.
One aspect over long periods of time is the number of single-parent households, as some of those would have been combined in the past. That increases pressure.

Reduction of "roommate/quasi-renting" because of tenancy laws. That increases pressure.

Proliferation of AirBNB - that increases pressure.

Everything is increasing pressure, but the number of new dwelling units isn't increasing as fast as needed.
I suspect they know they are lying, but anti-EV articles get clicks. Look at this article from the Financial Times:

https://www.ft.com/content/1f18cf1f-8b28-446a-81d2-86555f52a...

Headline is:

> Tesla and BYD sales fall as concerns mount over electric shift

From the body:

> …from BYD as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles, after the Chinese company posted a 42 per cent fall in quarterly EV shipments to 300,114.

But they are talking about a drop from a record Q4 (normally the highest quarter) to a record Q1 (normally the lowest). Not apples to apples. Q1 this year is better than last year - sales are up. The graph even shows it.

Image of graph: https://ibb.co/qdDwP3V

Just straight up lies.
Yes, it's an environmental red herring. I do outdoor events and I do not allow plastic straws there because they end up in nature. Plastic in nature is obviously bad. Landfills are cheap, plentiful, and safe (even tested regularly for leachate) in the industrialized world.

And more importantly, the people who actually DO pollute by the ton want you to be more worried about your straws than the laws that allow them to do it. Don't fall for it.
The engineering team was really great. Perhaps that helped the site persevere for as long as it did. I credit $randomduck for a lot of the site's technical success. He is a top-notch engineer and a great tech manager.
Suppose you have town A where food costs $10/unit and housing costs $2/unit and town B where food cost $2/unit and housing costs $10/unit.

According to statistics, the average cost of food and housing in the country of ABCland (consisting only of town A and town B) is $6/unit food, $6/unit housing. From this one concludes completely incorrectly that food and housing are as expensive for the average resident of ABC land.

Except... that's not true at all. No matter where you are in ABC land, housing and food have extremely different costs. Now suppose, wages are $12 in both A and B. Do you think the results will look the same in town A and town B? Why? or why not? Will both suffer the same problems? Why or why not?

And that's the point, if DOL says that wages are on average $60k, that says nothing about what the cost of living is in any particular area. For all you know the poster above could live in a high cost of living area, in which case, this is a modest wage. Or he could live in a low cost of living area where this is exorbitant. Or he could live in a place where food is cheap, but housing expensive, or vice versa. Without knowing the details of where the wage is being used, it's impossible to form a coherent narrative.
A typewriter?

I mean writing is the most important part of writing a book.

Good luck.
I have never seen Bluey but from the software you linked it is clear that it looks 2D because of how inconsistent the character looks at different angles, for example when you rotate the character the mouth changes position, the hands jump from one sprite to another, it's cel shading with a lot of 2D element on top, it works with simple animation but for anime I'm not optimistic.
Thanks, have seen this - however, it seems like this article is jumping to conclusions about what this means. Could it be that executives at OpenAI are scared of what they built, or could another interpretation be that the senior leadership doesn't see what they are building as an actual threat because it isn't? (I personally do not believe that we will accomplish anything close to AGI with our current strategies, and I think the leadership at openAI is somewhat aware of this).

Seems like wild speculation.
worth to remember:

There's a jokey truism in software development that the first 90% of the problem takes 90% of the time, and then the last 10% of the problem takes 90% of the time. Autonomous driving is like the fractal version of that. Every last 10% takes 90% of the time, and every last 10% of that 10% also takes 90% of the time.
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Tuxedos are really American, not British.
Before scrolling down, the first images tell me this was fake. The laminate is the all wrong. Intimately aware of laminate devices & materials used during the period.

Source: me, during that time I oversaw security at a Fortune 500, issuing thousands (literally) of IDs for "limited access" areas (DataCenters, SOC, etc) in multiple facilities.
Why would increasing the amount of income that's subject to social security payroll tax deprive Jerry of his OADSI?
Yes, we'd have both serde1 and serde2 features.

Published this library years before I started at Oxide.
My history book says the Soviet regime committed numerous ethnic cleansing, genocides, etc.

Anyway, that wouldn't keep me from wearing a watch made there. A watch isn't a symbol of political alignment and I don't believe they can be haunted or anything.
> A solution I saw in the wild is at http://reddit.com/r/generative

This subreddit is actually moderated. And it contains a quite heavy handed rule:

> To avoid disappointment, do not post AI-generated work here.

Which is kinda absurd if you realize the direction generative art is going. (in 50 years, do you think the discussion between generative art with code vs generative art with AI will make sense?)

But, such a rule helps maintain the space on-topic and avoid re-litigating the AI discussion every time someone posts an AI-generated picture.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390831

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391382
The screenshot of the tweet thread at the end seemed to indicate that the alignment team wanted to explore other avenues(or models) to get to AGI, while the company leadership wanted to keep improving on the transformer models.

From the business point of view, continuing to improve the goose that is laying the golden eggs makes sense, but as a researcher they might have already ended up seeing the limit of adding compute and data, and wanted to pivot. As someone who worked a mid level manager/engineer, I can understand the frustration involved in making the management level understand what's really happening on the ground level.
I think Twitter/X just broke links with their recent change to x.com.
The logic does not generalize to things outside of the training set. It cannot reason about code very well, but it can write you functions with memorized docs.
Bend has no tail-call optimization yet. It is allocating a 1-billion long stack, while C is just looping. If you compare against a C program that does actual allocations, Bend will most likely be faster with a few threads.

Bend's codegen is still abysmal, but these are all low-hanging fruits. Most of the work went into making the parallel evaluator correct (which is extremely hard!). I know that sounds "trust me", but the single-thread performance will get much better once we start compiling procedures, generating loops, etc. It just hasn't been done.

(I wonder if I should have waited a little bit more before actually posting it)
The biggest thing higher rates is doing is preventing people from moving when they might otherwise want to, because going from 3% to 7% will double their monthly.

This results in fewer people "upgrading" into new construction, which further constricts the "starter home" pool (nobody builds starter homes).
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All the posts here addressed the immediate cause, zoning and NIMBY. If you look into the issue from the viewpoint of American policy, the US has a long tradition of promoting home ownership as it is viewed as promoting a more responsible citizenry who care about their neighborhood and will make good long term decisions.

The fact that this stated goal of American policy is out of reach for many means American policy is broken. There are now too many vested interests against new home ownership.

If you ask many current homeowners they will tell you they have debt up to their ears. Their one asset is their home which they will borrow against, reverse mortgage, or sell to fund their retirement. That is they will do everything in their power to prevent their homes from losing value.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Crystal oscillators typically have an accuracy of about 20ppm, which is 1.73 seconds per day.

Keep in mind that those number are a guaranteed worst-case performance - real-world performance is often much better.
"When you shoot at the king and miss, things tend to get awkward."

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai...
I’d at least like to be able to choose colors for posters, and auto-collapse some. There are a few very-active posters who basically never post anything aside from confident but poorly-informed flamebait on a wide range of topics (but “HN nice” enough that they don’t get moderated for it, though their threads often get nasty). Making it easier to spot and ignore them would solve most of my problems with HN’s comment section.

[edit] and, flip-side, there are some I’d like to easily be able to spot in large threads, because they’re consistently good.
It sounds like it might be possible to build if you still have a Mac with an nVidia GPU? https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/wiki/MacOS

Edit: I guess you'd also need to be on a version of macOS old enough to support CUDA.
The algorithm uses less memory, but more CPU time because of rather frequent deletions, so it's a tradeoff, not just generally better algorithm, as article may suggest.
I think you might enjoy reading Ralph Ammer's work:

- https://ralphammer.com/how-to-get-started/

- https://ralphammer.com/the-creative-switch/

I wrote about a related subject here: https://sonnet.io/posts/hummingbirds/

Also, the difference between children and adults when it comes to creativity is a bit deeper. I agree that it's bread out of us. Two semi-random examples:

- shaming kids for making mistakes or just doing things differently, but also

- just the mere fact that they're starting to learn how the world around them operates and responds to their actions,.

At the same time it's likely that children achieve it through different internal processes, without a strict split between divergent and convergent thinking demonstrated by CT scans.

https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/the-science-of-creativit...

(I can't find a better source atm, so posting YT video, sorry! also, check his sources)
> it's considered more toxic then goto

Again I ask, considered by who? This is the kind of language that wikipedians would call "weasel words". Of course you shouldn't misuse eval or goto, and it's fine to have a rule of thumb to discourage it.

What's not fine, and strikes me as no better than superstition, is to make vague "everybody knows"-type statements that convey almost no information. If it's bad you should be able to say (or provide reference to) specifically how it's bad and what convinced you this was the case.

And yes, I deliberately wrote a perverse function because it was funny, but if you did a real fold instead of my fake one with strings then it wouldn't be so perverse. And wasn't it more pythonic to use a generator?

Not embracing Perl's tmtowtdi is fine, but until you solve the halting problem some people will write "x+x" and some will write "2*x" and some will write "x<<2" and those can't sensibly be unified.
I thought so at first too, but if you look at the link they included [1] it seems like it can actually be quite clear for some datasets

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/...
It is baffling where the polarization comes in.

The idea that we argue about safety... Seems reasonable to me.

The argument about its usefulness or capability at all? I dunno... That slider bar sure is in a wierd spot... I feel ya.
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Honestly, I just don't get this view - moderation provides clear, obvious value. You know what, we can have an experiment. I'll provide a list of things that are handled by moderation, and you pick which ones you think should be moderated.

* Spam
* CSAM
* Gore
* Porn
* Doxxing
* Threats
* Libel
* Personal attacks
* Racism/other 'isms'
* Flamebait/ragebait
* Advertisements
* Insults
* Duplicates
* Off-topic
* Low-effort commentary
* Swearing
* Tone/sarcasm
* Memes
* Concern trolling/sealioning/etc.
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