skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for responding to that point - it's the one most on my mind.

So OpenAI's large embedding model has 3072 dimensions, though in practice far fewer are probably used. Clearly you can't compress 1M tokens down to 3072. Yet those 3072 numbers are all you've got for capturing the full meaning of the previous token when predicting the next one; including all 1M tokens of modifying context.

So perhaps human language is simply never complex enough to need more than 3072 numbers to represent a given train of thought, but that doesn't seem clear to me.

Edit: Since Gemini is relevant here, it looks like their text embedding model is 768 dimensions.
If you consider the best frontier LLM in the world "not that impressive," I'm curious to know what you think is
He said next project is personally meaningful, It doesn't seem that he will join other big company in the short term.
That might be because he didn't like what he discovered, or the results didn't make sense to him. But it was the intuition that got him there in the first place.

But you have a good point. Ilya got us so much closer to AGI, but he might not like the results now.
Honestly I think testing these on fiction books would be more impressive. The graphene thing I'm sure shows up in some research papers.
So you don't feel it is an issue, when you say "prince fund bad, random fund good" that it is fraught with all kinds of ethical issues to bring money and knowhow into a country that has public beheadings?
ok, use a flaming trash can instead. Same result.
Oh thanks so much!

I didn't consider checking the old domain, I updated my bookmark at some point.
A machine with the 12” Macbook form factor and an e-ink display with optional orange glowlight for night running something akin to Classic Mac OS would make for a very zen, highly portable writing machine. Would probably get battery life measured in weeks, too.
My bet is he joins Ive
This reminds me of how, if I recall correctly, in the original paper on adversarial attacks, the authors found that adversarial attacks on one neural network would generally have some success on other neural networks if they were trained for similar tasks (say, labeling images).
In no world is anyone wasting resources to run an AI model to parse a page that may or may not include an email address. Even running a DOM parser is more than they’d typically do. This is silly.
It's immediately obvious when you realize that despite all of the games he has invented, Magic, Robo Rally and King of Tokyo are his only real hits...

...and I think King of Tokyo/New York is absolute rubbish.

Some of his other games have their niche of players but very small by comparison. KeyForge was very flash-in-the-pan in terms of popularity.
Show me culturally dependent beheading please
I guess as CTO you're already at the top, but if the owner thinks you're doing bad work and you have to fight for resources despite meeting reasonable goals, what's the actual payoff working there? You'd be paddling upstream forever, I can't imagine the owner would agree to bonuses or promotions, and I'd reasonably expect the owner would be looking for a replacement CTO at the end of that.
What's next? Cannot write a lewd letter to your partner? Too many suggestive emojis?

I have to imagine more than one erotic publishing house has content hosted on Google Docs.

Random website claims that 39 million printed romance novels were sold in 2023.
Nostalgia or not, I let myself get sucked back into MtG in 2021, after discovering the unofficial format Premodern [0], and a major component of that is the artwork on the cards in those sets with the black border. I'm sure it really is just nostalgia but I truly enjoy playing games in that format and looking at the artwork, especially cards which I've never really seen before because they weren't meta back in the day or cards that are just infrequent or that I'd forgotten.

[0]: https://premodernmagic.com/
You can attach a small permanent magnet somewhere on your bike's frame and it will trigger the ground loops. They're a common add-on for motorcycles, too.
The Athletic seasonals are way better than their "always available." And the Free Wave is better than the Run Wild for the always available beers. They had an Irish Stout (Emerald Coast) that was indistinguishable. I could have blind taste tested them. There's some fantastic single-hop beers too.

I couldn't get into the Untitled Art. Just too sweet.
Firefox being solid is what got people to move off ie6 to ff1.5

And tabs. That was a cool idea.
> If it works on Linux to mix debug-enabled objects with "release"

it definitely does not. MSVC's debug mode is akin to for instance using libstdc++ with -D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG which does change the ABI. Just passing "-g" which enable debug symbols is very different from what Microsoft calls Debug mode, which adds very extensive checks at all levels of the standard library (for instance, iterators become fat objects which track provenance, algorithms check preconditions such as "the input data is sorted", etc.)
not that one, the other one.
With how small the space of PINs are, is there any point in hashing? To make brute-forcing every PIN infeasible you'd have to make the hash difficulty time intolerably long.
Very cool! Do you have a link to a demo to see what it would look like?
I think it's always e-ink, their patents, their evergreening patents, and their lawyers.
I hadn't thought about that in movie context before, but it totally makes sense.

I've worked with other developers that want to build high fidelity wire frames, sometimes in the actual UI framework, probably because they can (and it's "easy"). I always push back against that, in favor of using whiteboard or Sharpies. The low-fidelity brings better feedback and discussion: focused on layout and flow, not spacing and colors. Psychologically it also feels temporary, giving permission for others to suggest a completely different approach without thinking they're tossing out more than a few minutes of work.

I think in the artistic context it extends further, too: if you show something too detailed it can anchor it in people's minds and stifle their creativity. Most people experience this in an ironically similar way: consider how you picture the characters of a book differently depending on if you watched the movie first or not.
This is interesting and helpful! Thanks a lot for sharing.

I'm building an AI Note app focusing on ADHDer and find that this resonates well:

> We were too unfocused in our target market, and ended up as an “everything app.”

I'm still trying to find traction and the specific use cases for it but not sure whether it's clear enough. Would be great if you can have a look on the app and share your thoughts - https://saner.ai/
They are improving all the time.

Some are really good. If you like german weissbeer then Franziskaner Alkoholfrei is more or less indistiguishable to me.

There are other good ones too.
TIL that "Hockey romance" is a genre.
I once tested a watermarking system (Digimarc?) and found that while it was robust against all sorts of noise and scaling, it failed with even a 1% rotation of the image. I wonder if it was a Fourier Transform based algorithm.
“Working a lot” doesn’t necessitate “staying late”
I think of it in terms of the anchoring bias. Imagine that your most important decisions are anchored for you by what a 10 year old kid heard and understood. Your ideas don’t come to life without first being rendered as a terrible approximation that is convincing to others but deeply wrong to you, and now you get to react to that instead of going through your own method.

So if it’s an optional tool, great, but some people would be fine with it, some would not.
> The difference is that on Linux, "compile my program in debug mode"

"Linux" does not have a "compile my program in debug mode" magic toggle (or Release or whatever for what it's worth). Different IDEs and toolchains may have different defaults and expectations. "g++ -g" is not debug mode, it's debug symbols.
The cuts in the video are so distracting that I genuinely couldn't watch it past the first minute. Why on earth was every sentence recorded separately and then spliced together?
Making sure generalized AI benefits everybody is the new Don't Be Evil
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

- well known missive from decades ago
I interpreted is as: "There are more-recent examples than the 90s, which may make for better evidence and/or a better retort."
> Switching to static linking using a sane libc (not glibc) can be a pain initially but you end up with way less overhead IMO.

how does that work when you app needs access to the gpu drivers ?
Dublin-NY portal temporarily shut due to 'inappropriate behaviour'
The Horseshoe Theory of Google Search
The UK lacked an accountability framework and instead agreed to "Cider House rules" with a communist country, and so its agreement was an idealistic rather than a meaningful one.

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

The bigger question is whether social media companies should enable censorship and repression for profit rather than suspending operation and not bowing to pressure from totalitarian regimes.
You can run it by compiling transformers from source: https://huggingface.co/google/paligemma-3b-mix-448
I find personal email to be almost useless for anything other than mailing lists and online shopping messages. I don't consider it fixed; we already left it to burn.
Why would llvm be particularly good at optimizing vliw code when there’s no demand for it to be? You can’t believe everything else would remain the same in the hypothetical I posed.
My thoughts:

- Is this the first I/O that released _zero_ new hardware?

- Very very sad to see them make EVERYTHING in this conference about Gemini

- Google video search is crazy interesting

- Google Search being AI-first is definitely not.
Battle over billionaire's private Bay Area beach access goes to trial again
How many years until my Pixel phone locks up as I'm writing a lewd text to my wife?

Thanks Google, for appointing yourself as the Sunday school snitch.
The New Queue
OpenAI has the model advantage.

Google and Apple have the ecosystem advantage.

Apple in particular has the deeper stack integration advantage.

Both Apple and Google have a somewhat poor software innovation reputation.

How does it all net out? I suspect ecosystem play wins in this case because they can personalize more deeply.
I have a feeling Apple will make a play for him.

Apple is considered to be seriously lagging behind in ML. Just his name alone is probably enough for the time being - They can give him his own lab to do whatever he wants. Ilya will attract enough talent, at least some of whom will be willing to take up responsibility over commercial stuff in the coming years.
I would argue that beheading is a more merciful execution than the electric chair or lethal injection.
I think Duplex is still in use; it's just in the background doing its thing.
One of the benefits of privacy is that you're free from someone misinterpreting your data.

This is why my cloud-stored backups are encrypted prior to upload.
> flashing yellow arrow to mean "okay to cross if no oncoming traffic"

That's already a thing, unless I'm misunderstanding you. We've had flashing yellow left turn arrows for years. I'm in the PNW, but I've seen it in other places in the US, we're definitely not unique.
It depends on the context, all copyrights are subject to fair use. You can use exact copies of content as a human, for example when educating, critiquing, or commenting on.

Why should machines built and run by humans be treated differently?
I think the key insight is that the true benchmark is bytes/second (bandwidth) of the lexer/parser, so reducing the size of the output data (tokens/AST nodes) is a massive gain in the amount of data that you can process in the same amount of time.

The fewer bytes you can pack data into the more data that you can process per second. Computers may be the most complex machines ever built but the simple fact of having fewer things to touch means you can touch more things in the same amount of time remains true.
I remember all that.

Also as a Floridian, I can confirm for HN that it was definitely hot today and I am not presently underwater. Dispelling both the impending ice age predictions from the early ‘80s and the Florida will be underwater predictions of the ‘90s.
> I didn't ask about

Well what did you (intend to) ask for then?

The ball's in your court to clarify, because the phrase "taxes went up" could mean total collections in real dollars, it might mean total collection in real dollars per capita, or top theoretical marginal income rate, or average effective rate (which you just denied), or just income taxes and not other taxes, or income taxes and payroll taxes, ad nauseam.

There's no point finding historical examples only for you to declare that it doesn't count because it doesn't match your unstated hidden idea.
Just don't use Apple products, just don't use Microsoft products, Just don't use ... Until when?
There is nothing illegal about an adult romance novel. There is no regulation that prohibits it. As usual, Google overstepped.
It's unclear if this has any of Firebase's signature real-time capabilities.

Certainly, Supabase is living proof that there's major demand for the ergonomics of Firebase with the established SQL ecosystem; however, there still seems to be a gap of a real-time, syncing, relational data store.

That's what we are still hard at work creating at Triplit[1] while others are making strides to add this functionality to Postgres directly[2].

[1] https://github.com/aspen-cloud/triplit
[2] https://electric-sql.com/
Much better is to simply not respond. What you respond to, you feed.
I'm wondering if it's literally about hockey or if it's a euphemism for something else
I truly enjoyed the read, my only criticism is about the « internet »

Yes, down to the core it’s indeed just transmitting electrical current from one side to the other.

But I believe Franklin would be amazed by the sheer ingenuity that followed.

The absurd hacky ways we found to make video games.

The protocols. The encryption and all the people that make completely useless stuff, just for the beauty of it.

Like implementing a Turing complete machine inside the game of life, to build a game of life from it
> It was not at all immediately obvious that moxes and black lotus would be good, and people did not understand either "card-advantage" or "tempo" for many months after the game was released.

Yeah, to echo this point exactly: as a kid I remember that it was distinctly disappointing to open a pack and get a boring mana-related card, such as a mox or dual land, in the rare slot. We all wanted cool big creatures instead!

Pretty soon, the usefulness of those mana cards became clearer. But I still recall finding it ridiculous that moxes were selling for a steep $15 at a gaming convention.

I stopped playing a few years later and sold all my good cards. I cringe seeing how much even a lowly Arabian Nights mountain sells for these days...
A Thread on "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective"
How well does it perform when evaluating itself? Can it bootstrap?
Big Tech wasn't what I expected, it seems there's almost a forced perspective that individuals don't make a difference (they do)
Show HN: Vestaboard Message Review/Approval Quest
Indeed, this needs to be factored into your threat model when considering the security of your data.

Sometimes people forget that part of security is availability.
Nah man come on lol. (source: worked at Google 2016-2023)
Voynich manuscript: the solution (2017)
And US real estate holdings by everyone (all entities) are $119 trillion

there is a lot of privately held notional value here. we can go back to doing in-kind tax payments, cattle and land, and to the tax authority, if it came to that. some austerity measure in the future.

a lot of countries don't have this quirk where the government owns a lot, earns a lot, has natural resources, as well as privately held holdings that eclipse all of it
And as usual with Google, you have no recourse.
I was nodding my head as a member of the choir until

> The only future of the internet is, sadly, proof-of-person and proof-of-residence on every public network interaction

Yeah, go away. The problem is that Google has monopolized web aggregation. Without it these sites wouldn't be worth making. I've got to show ID to post something online to kick that can down the road?

The way I see it this is a self resolving problem. Ad driven search engines rank ad driven blog spam, people get tired of it and use methods of finding content that don't show that garbage, these guys, along with their multinational trillion dollar benefactor, go out of business. Problem solved.
I'm confused why it's said to be backwards (in the article and by you).

This paragraph shows that with a format string with an int format specifer, and then a string format specifier, the token list shows is exactly that, and the type it returns is a function that takes an Int and a String as input and returns a new string.

> For example, if the format string was "%d %s", the tokenization would be [IntFormat, NormalChar ' ', StrFormat], so the resulting type would be Int -> String -> String`. This might be confusing because it's a post-order traversal of the list, and might feel kind of backwards.

Isn't that exactly the order you'd expect?

I'm confused why it's called backwards, and why they say "post-order" traversal of a list, since I'm only used to hearing about traversing trees that way.
Google has a deep addiction to AdWords revenue which makes for a significant disadvantage. Nomatter how good their technology, they will struggle internally with deploying it at scale because that would risk their cash cow. Innovator’s dilemma.
I was going to write something similar: if I had been in creative control back in 1993, I definitely would have fallen for the trap of thinking that I was making things better by forcing the artwork to have a homogeneous, consistent feel to it. In retrospect, the idiosyncratic uniqueness of each card made it like a little piece of art that you could own. As a young kid, that made it so cool! I think a lot of young kids only bought a relatively small batch of cards and never even played the game much. I remember owning a scant few cards but that made me treasure my favorites that much more.
Reading through all this, I just think about restricting travel.

Just reading through this page:

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

The courts have even put it above taxes!

The U.S. Supreme Court in Crandall v. Nevada, 73 U.S. 35 (1868) declared that freedom of movement is a fundamental right and therefore a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them.
I think all of this is great, except that you’re triggering my biggest pet peeve about linear types: the name :)

Seriously, though, every time I hear it, I think “hehe, ‘linear’ is like ‘affine’ but even more restrictive. Math is great!” (I hope there’s some better justification for the name.)

Maybe a more descriptive name like “must_consume” would be better? I very much appreciate how Rust took the concepts of covariant and contravariant types (and invariant types, which are not the same as what programmers think of as “invariants”) and made the user-facing feature be “phantom” instead. It’s much, much easier to remember what a phantom does than to remember which style of variance is “co” and which is “contra.”
Dude this is honestly probably the best technical book I’ve ever read. It’s also pretty advanced, but very generous to ward the curious learner.

For reference, I read this book to learn Go. Also I learned how to implement Raft from this book . 10/10
I can't wait to try it out, it sounds too good to be real.

It will be fully available in Eu with the GDPR compliance?
Very cool, I was just asking for something like this today to reflash community machines instead of having tons of user restrictions.

Freedom!
Don't forget the even-more-specific "bands with other" ability from Legends!

I still have a hundred of those Legends rules insert cards somewhere in my basement. Sadly they aren't in demand by collectors.
Might have been a joke on "exactly once" ;)
> A lot of time was spent integrating social features that no one uses. That time could have been spent on quality & latency.

Goodreads integration is the best! I track books I want to read with it and then when I’m ready for a new book use the integration to download a sample on the spot
> How does one conclude from genetics that he had hepatitis B?

Hepatitis B uses reverse transcription as a part of its lifecycle like a retrovirus, leaving some genetic markers in the host.
I just want to point out holodeck episode in Star Trek preceded Star Wars by 3 years.
Hold on. She's not locked out. She couldn't share it with someone else . Completely different.
Hedging maybe. But there's no real competition currently.
From the Instagram of the mentioned 2nd author who had a similar issue:

But, I did find out google thought I was spamming people. Which I’m hindsight is kind of funny. Sharing your first chapter with 80+ people on a google doc link I guess would look a little sus. Oops.

There may be more than meets the eye to this one as well.

Not unrelated: a previous HN discussion complaining about getting spam from Docs/Drive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34933173
Ah yes, the 1900 census, where you're either self-reported "White" or "Colored," very accurate data there.

The country peaked pre-civil rights era? Before the computer industry?

Why did you choose that username?