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LotR is such a lightning rod for these kinds of debates because there are so many layers of "true fans." I know two fantasy nerds who are boomers with a deep attachment to Tolkien's work, one of them loved the movies and one of them hated them. It's not about how much you do or do not care about "immersion." I suspect it's a facet of personality. I'm not enough of a know-it-all to try and armchair analyze these two men, but I am enough of a know-it-all to gesture in that direction and slink off.
well, idk. just four years ago, I had a PC with 8 GB RAM and it was enough for firefox, CLion and a Windows 7 VM in virtualbox.

I have several VMs with xubuntu 24.04, and they're doing fine with 2 cores and 3 GB RAM. but yes, I rarely have more than a dozen tabs open.
>And that post is alive and well and not flagged

Because dang turned flags off for that post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40586961
It sounds like a packing problem. I'm not deeply familiar with the field, but I don't believe there is a general solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_problems
"can perform science more effectively than any human" is very disputable.

If they are so much better, why does anyone get up off their couch and do field research? Just let the robots do it.

Besides, it's human nature to explore, in person. As George Mallory said, "Because it's there."
Use the appropriate forum to debate topics in the manner you prefer instead of trying to force others to conform to your standards.
There's nothing related to FFI calls in this quote.
AIPAC is one such group. Here's an article about their spending in 2022: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/11/american-israel-pub...

and also a story from earlier this year: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/aipac-israel-spendi...

The MO is basically to try and defeat democrats in primaries who aren't giving carte blanche in terms of spending or support. If their candidate wins the primary, it doesn't matter much who wins the general election, since they have support of R's.
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Whether or not it is from Israel themselves or funding here for Israel is kinda a moot point

It's not at all a moot point and you're coming pretty close to a generic 'dual loyalties' trope.
It's crazy that AIPAC is not registered as a foreign agent. They funnel orders directly from Netanyahu to our politicians.
Yeah, I know, that's why I mentioned it being a target. I realize it's meant to be used for extremely low-level stuff. Which is fine, I don't get annoyed at x86_64 assembly being difficult to write.

As I said, the thing that bothers me is when people act like Vulkan is a replacement for OpenGL (presumably because they've never actually written either and they just saw some YouTube demos), and it really isn't, or at least that's an incomplete picture. It's a replacement for OpenGL in the same way writing JVM bytecode directly is a replacement for Java; they fundamentally do the same or similar things, but one is sort of categorically different in its goal.

I do wish that there was a more consumer-friendly API announced in addition to Vulkan though; I'm fine with replacing OpenGL with something newer and better-fitting for newer cards, but that's not what we got. That's why I was trying to say that I was annoyed that Apple didn't open source Metal, because I feel like it really could have taken that role.

Also, while I'm aware that Vulkan doesn't inherently imply "graphics", I would also like to point out that CUDA and rocM are also considerably easier to write than the Vulkan equivalents, at least in the little examples I played with, though I will acknowledge that I felt Vulkan was better than OpenCL.
There is some discussion here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40587325
Actually, the paper isn't in press at Nature - it's only published on arXiv. It seems a little bit unusual that Nature would publish this sort of news article for a work that hasn't been peer-reviewed.
A spacex falcon 9 contains ~as much fuel as a 747. Note: fuel, not fuel + oxidizer

Edit: falcon 9, not starship
And how does it behave on "gamelles"? Asking the important questions in this thread.
Bro. Don't literally admit to engaging in ad hominem attacks, and then get all pissy and try to gaslight and then condemn calling out your behavior as an illegitimate ad hominem attack.

We can read the the entire thread.

Take your L and go home and cry.
IMO one shouldn't rely on motivation to do things.

You don't need to be motivated to do things. You can do things even though they suck. There'll be good days when motivation is there to cheer you on, but that fucker is the ultimate fair weather friend, so there will also be days when it's a slog and motivation isn't even picking up your calls.

It's a complete misconception of human psychology that motivation precedes action. It's the other way around. Act first, become motivated later. That day you wake up full of motivation and fly out of bed and there's eye of the tiger and you're running up and down stairs airboxing in sweatpants, that day isn't ever coming.

I think the notion that one needs motivation to do things comes from the educational space, where there's a lot of talk about motivating students to do this or that, and somehow this has been internalized into a notion that this is how we also operate ourselves, that we somehow need to bribe or intice ourselves to do the things we want to be doing, which when you think about it, doesn't really make sense.
In retrospect those defending Boeing there and attacking SpaceX (and Eric Berger's reporting) are just hilarious.
My personal opinion of NYT is that their record is mixed on the subject.

If you'll allow me to change the subject to one that is less presently divisive to provide an instructive example, NYT's conduct in the lead-up to the Iraq war is a great example of where they acted as a pro-war propaganda mouth piece, and maybe the institution doesn't deserve our total trust.
How do you propose we determine the fine line between the antisemitic "The Jews run the World" and "being critical of their actions"? What would e.g. be the piece of evidence that convinces you that we're dealing with antisemitism and not legitimate criticism?

We shouldn't shut down conversations about Israel with antisemitism but we also shouldn't shut down conversations about antisemitism with "being critical of their actions".

There are many other groups lobbying for various causes in the US, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_lobby_in_the_United_State...

"According to ProPublica, 4 of the top 10 governments lobbying in Washington are Arab, in terms of spending. The United Arab Emirates places first, having spent $10,914,002 in 2007 and 2008. Iraq, Morocco and Saudi Arabia also each spent over $3 million, and the non-Arab, Middle Eastern nation of Turkey also spent over $3 million."

Why the focus on Israel here?
> My personal favorite is LR(1) CFG grammars: you are guaranteed to get unambiguous and linear-time parsing grammars, or else the grammar will fail to compile.

We can both agree that LR(1) is great; it parses a large and useful subset of CFLs; had the minimal LR(1) parser been discovered before YACC was written, I probably would never have moved to PEGs; hopefully we can all agree that LALR parsers are terrible?

As a side note, I don't consider LR(1) parsers to be CFGs since they can only parse a subset of CFLs (actually only a subset of DCFLs if I remember my rusty CS correctly).

[edit]

Also TFA argues for Early parsers, which seems to me to be a poor choice for parsing programming languages.
The Play button, immediately leading to another gate asking for the e-mail address, feels like a bait-and-switch (but I suppose that means I made it to stage two in the funnel).

How about combining the two screens into one?

Design your dream cake,
We bake and deliver to you!

[_Email Address_______]

( Let's get started! )

Otherwise, I like the idea for the drag-and-drop designer (and I can imagine a number of "assembled" foods where this model could apply: pizza, sandwiches, etc.).

Will there be a gallery to showcase other peoples' creations so I can order those, myself?

Happy Birthday, by the way!
I keep hearing about the pending death of Stability, but here we are with another release. I am rootin for them.
It makes more sense to have a permanent human presence on the Moon than to aim for Mars.

The Moon is both very near and very easy to communicate with so it is the perfect first place to learn about building a "colony" before moving on to Mars.
Why is Proof of Work less ethical than Proof of Rich a.k.a. rich being gradually more rich without doing anything?

Not saying PoW is safer (it's not), but less ethical is pretty a bold claim.
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I happen to know that the biggest ski resort reservation system in Scandinavia contains a function called MaybeOnATuesday(), but to my knowledge it's never called.
Most criminals are unbelievably stupid, particularly when it comes to risk assessment.
Note: the first section, using the conservative estimate, is correct. The second using the tighter bounds is not. I multiplied where I should have divided, leading to an error of a factor or around 10^48 in both tables. E.g., for generating 1024 bit primes with 5 tests the trillion people civilization generating a million primes a second per person would see one error around every 10^12 years, not one ever 10^60 years.

For 64 bit primes they would need to do around 48 tests per prime to get down to a similar error rate.

For
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I am interested in this sort of thing, but we seem to have a rash of bad tenants in the news who have stopped paying rent for a myriad of reasons, strapping the owner for tens of thousands of dollars. Needless to say our landlord/tenant folks operate much too slowly to make ownership of rentals a viable option unless you are ready and prepared in case you get stiffed for years.

It really should be nearly risk free. But not where I live unfortunately.
Should I focus on GitHub stars or forks for my open source project?
I don't know of any government department in Canada, Mexico, the UK, France, Germany, Australia that target U.S. law makers with fake social media accounts.

Do you know of any? Can you cite them?
Hi HN,

We have been in a pretty interesting case where the forks/stars ratio has been > 30% and growing steadliy in this ratio.

We understand that stars might be a vanity metric and hence we are focusing more on the number of forks and talking to developers using us.

Wanted to know about the experience on stars v/s forks towards growing the community and the overall project as to what worked best and what things we can avoid. I do undertand that every use-case might be different.

Thank you.
Once money gets involved, you inherently have a commercial interest. What's the ROI?

I personally think people misunderstand to whom "freedom" is granted and defended in the US, it is demonstrably not freedom of the individual, but of the powerful.
What a shame for something that could have been completely free from copyright issues given the training source… (And they're still no legal ground on such a license claim since training hardly qualify as creative process on their side)
Dang, We get you’re frustrated but he’s just stating his opinion. It’s not out of line relative to the other discourse in this thread.
> Planes and helicopters do not have the ability to safely eject passengers mid-flight. We largely accept these conditions as a risk of those modes of travel. Why is LES/LAS a unique requirement for space shuttles?

That's a fair point, although my understanding is that parachute systems for small planes are becoming more common.

My view is that flight rate is the fundamental issue at hand. Airplanes and helicoptors fly many orders of magnitude more than these capsules, which means we know they are many orders of magnitude more reliable.

They've also generally been through a long process of refinement - the original airplanes were extremely dangerous compared to modern variants.

Additionally, aircraft can afford to have a lot higher margin of safety baked in to them. Because of how high gravity is on Earth and the nature of the Rocket Equation[1], it's just not possible to have a lot of margin in rockets of capsules. They need to be extremely svelt to launch at all.

And lastly, we have experience with human spacecraft without an LES/LAS - it was the Space Shuttle. And it killed 14 people - easily the most dangerous spacecraft ever created. No one has any desire to build on that particular legacy.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
I've seen a surprising number of these (a dozen? maybe more?), given the years they were introduced... the "Ideal Paper Clip" in particular keeps popping up somewhere every few years.
Environmental impact of the proof of work algorithms is my understanding.
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Every time I call out the absurd interpretation of "Open Source" in this space in general, I get showered with downvotes and hateful attacks. One time someone posted their "AI mashup" project on reddit, that egregiously violated the terms of not only one, but several GPL-licensed projects. Calling this out earned me a lot of downvotes and replies with absolutely insane justifications from people with no clue.

No one cares. Not in this space.
We don't have sufficient understanding of human thinking and mental processes to make any claims like the ones you are trying to make. If we did, psychology would be a quantitative hard science; it most definitely is not.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeYw1bm53Y

https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-incredible-way-micha...
planes/helicopters have a fuel source that is orders of magnitude less volatile, and are also able to safely land without power
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I am volunteering in an housing rights organization in France, and I am and have been tenant in a city with high price and housing shortage.

There will always be many people taking "illegal deal" as sometime you have no other other solution, or other solution are even worse. And many many landlords are doing illegal things, including public housing.

Tenant don't have the same bargaining power / freedom / agency than landlord. Fighting illegal stuff that do landlord is long (usually longer than kicking out a squatter) and difficult. And you have little incentive to do it as a tenant : being in a fight with your landlord = being sure to have problem down the line

My feeling is that your comment ignores this asymmetry.
mtime atime ctime? If it's good enough for logrotate it's good enough for /tmp.
Neat, at first glance the -w option is almost required… this often means it should be bare args, skipping the option syntax. Maybe relax the mandatory quotes too?

zfind —-csv size gt 20k and name = foo
I think rockets in this design space have frequently been closer to prototype quality rather than commercially deployment quality.

Those other systems have other redundancies and safety mechanisms.
To make that enforceable, it would be nice to prove the AI was trained on it.

You might insert a "sleeper/activator" pair. The sleeper is a watermark that the AI will recall verbatim. To make it provide the sleeper, we give the AI a special activator prompt.

Demonstrating that your public repo successfully poisoned the AI with a watermark could become a court admissible proof of unauthorized scraping.
How do they know its not that the LLM ingested a couple Alice in Wonderland analyses?
I can't tell whether Norvig is making a subtle's point that artificial general stupidity is still an important form of artificial general intelligence, or he whether he somehow vastly overestimates AI model performance on non-memorization and summarization tasks.
Commercial real estate has been bad since the dot com bubble. Its been a complete zombie since 2008. Just take your lumps old men, you made a bet and its a bad one.
I've always been confused by how these decisions go. Everybody agrees that the user has the right to make a copy, so when the company puts a
"digital lock" on it, the fight is whether the user has a right to break the lock. But if I have a right to go through my door, and somebody has put a padlock on the door to keep me out, the right question shouldn't be whether I'm allowed to pick the lock, it should be why the padlock is legal.

If customers may legally make a copy of the e-book you sell to them, it should be on you the merchant to ensure customers are able to do so.
"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself." ― Chuck Close

Close is a complicated person but the quote holds up.
Doesn’t creating a raw socket need elevated permissions?
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There is no planet where the opinion above represents "force." Stop telling people who disagree with you to shut up.
So it's ok to do something wrong, if others do it too?
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"in my possession" lol. I read things same as you, I don't hoard them. I also have something called a memory.
Agree. Very unclear why they won't simply use a secure socket or why a user space tunnel will be needed.

I surmise that the reason might be that a user space tunnel might be faster (like maybe they can do UDP over TCP or something to gain speed improvements).

Good post nevertheless.
The wild part about this, at least to me, is the wholesale incompetence demonstrated by Israel in this regard. If I couldn't google the talking points the bots make and see Israeli officials saying the same things, one would think these bots were Iranians acting with the intent to make Israel look bad.
I flagged it because it's really boring to see people go through the same predictable, tribal motions on a topic that's been covered to death by every media outlet.
Its eye opening how accessible and affordable this hardware is. Portable pump ~$300 (AC so will require additional $100 1KW inverter). Spreaders from $60 for half a Ton to $200-1000 for a 1 Ton one. ~$hundred for custom locally sourced hydraulic line.

Or $2-4K for hand actuated 8-28 Ton version from https://www.enerpac.com/en-us/hydraulic-wedge-style-flange-s...
The extremely cheap ones might be fake, they're computing estimated CO2 based on VOC, rather than actually measuring it with NDIR.
Trump was the head of the government agencies at the time he was banned from Twitter. You're going to have to go down some strange rabbit holes to find the logic to work that out. It's perfectly reasonable that the people running Twitter didn't agree with Trump's politics and picked a reason to ban him.
This looks like the one that got leaked a couple weeks ago, so i guess they decided its better to open source at this point after the leak [0].

[0]: https://x.com/cto_junior/status/1794632281593893326
They also have better produced livestreams in general, making it worth checking in in advance.
But it doesn't just recognize characters though? It recognizes things happening on video and scenes in pictures without text. for example, you could prompt "find my photos and videos with dogs in them"
money speaks louder than words

it was an amazing sales pitch though
> The existence of an "inner monologue" isn't really a falsifiable claim.

Another possibility is that inner-monologues (ones not forced by conscious effort) do exist, but are just a kind of false-memory, something one part of our brain generates after-the-fact to explain/document the outcome of another non-language part.

Kind of like how certain reflex-actions can occur before certain decision-making area of the brain light up, yet humans will believe that they sensed the event and made a thinking choice.
I play games on my Mac, but I don't use Steam. I just play World of Warcraft which is a native Apple Silicon game, and a few other games that don't require Steam.
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If there are influence operations online is it ethical to counter them with your own? Obviously none would be preferable.

We need to better define what propaganda is. To me it's misleading or false information with the purpose of facilitating a political outcome. Or deceptive information not meant for selling a product.
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