skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just chinese room. But also, I disagree that the languages would not share properties. A novel is too small. Consider a network trained on GPT-3 scale datasets in 1000 alien languages. The shared structures behind the sentences will be the same, even if the grammar is completely different. Stars will be stars, moons will be moons. I'd bet you that the model would be able to translate shared concepts between those languages even if it had not been trained on the same novels, same as GPT can translate terms that it has not seen in dictionary pairs.

(I have no idea if it can! But I'm confident enough that I'm willing to just say it can, at risk of being proven wrong. If GPT can't do that, I'm fundamentally misunderstanding how it works - that is, I don't have a paper offhand showing that GPT shares concept neurons between languages, but I'm willing to bet I could find one if I went looking.)

In other words, if you co-trained GPT-4 on Earth Internet and Alien Internet, there's a good chance it'd end up able to translate English to Alienese, purely as an emergent ability, if it had the concept of translation at all.

Intelligence is compression. With sufficient abstraction (layers) and sufficient volume (dataset), any description of the same reality will assume the same structure. And no learning algo worth its salt will keep two identical structures around.
I find it absolutely reprehensible to give a raise of any kind to the C-Suite while doing massive layoffs.

If there's a massive amount of overhiring happening, then the CEO takes responsibility for that. It doesn't make sense to give a raise to someone doing a poor job.
I can't find the details now bit in the early 19th century an MP introduced a bill to parliament to make it illegal for trains to go over 30mph because in his opinion it would be impossible to breath at that speed.
Lol 0.015mm key travel is something to brag about now? Is it secretly made by apple?
I’ve moved away from most services offered by Meta ages ago (as well as Google to a large extent), but I can’t ditch IG overnight (getting there tho).

Edit: I don't use IG to browse (it’s cringe), just to upload my drawings (always a bit later than on open web).

Some of the people who follow me don’t know how to use rss or ActivityPub. Moving people away from these services takes time. Most of my friends are patient enough to, say, have installed signal instead of WhatsApp because I refuse to use it, but again - it’s hard to do this overnight.
It's unethical to be the honey in the surveillance trap of any communications system that is not e2ee always and by default. You're exposing your friends and associates to easily avoidable and unnecessary hazards.
Interesting. This is how I sometimes feel about physics

The field completely appropriated and redefined so many terms of common language, that now it’s hard to talk in plain language with someone formally trained in physics about physical phenomena

For example, everyone has some sort of intuitive idea about what Energy is. But if you use that word with a physicist, watch out, for them it means something super specific within the context of assumptions and mathematical models and they will assume you don’t know what you are talking about because you are not using their definitions from their models

Same thing happens with infinite in math
Wow I started reading thinking that this was going to be an interesting article about body posture! Leaning back now !
The few cents for larger flash or the one-time cost to write less bloated firmware would cut into their budget for gambling, drugs and hookers.
You didn't even mention Ewoks. If people hadn't grown up with them, they'd get Jar Jar Binks-level hate.
I haven't done a ton of FOSS work lately, largely because... past a certain size of app it takes a lot of time.

But I helped with the Text Inputs feature on ESPHome, fixed some issues that made Armoria unable to work without a cloud CDN, worked on some bugs for CustomPiOs.

I've found lots of random bugs in Python libraries over the years.

I've also answered a lot of questions on Reddit, and made lots of bug reports.
Fair; I linked that for others evaluation.

I don’t tend to tie what I know to Wikipedia until I’ve done the research; too many things I’m knowledgeable about are blatantly wrong there.

My personal feeling is that it’s likely he did these things. At no point is there more than circumstantial evidence he actually did them. That evidence is strong (his job, it did happen, etc) but I don’t think there’s a signed order or the like that would cement it.
Irrelevant. The community decided which thread was more interesting, and it wasn't the one with fewer upvotes. You can downvote if you don't agree. That's what downvotes are for.

At least put a link to the other thread, or put a mark on the post that shows that its ranking was manipulated against the community's will.

I'm not here to see a list of dang's favorite posts. This is unacceptable.
We desperately need a modern open source replacement for tesseract built on current SoTA ML tech. It is insane that we are resorting to using LLMs — which aside from being the wrong tool and far too overpowered for the job also are prone to hallucinations, have insanely expensive training and inference costs, etc — for this purpose because the “best” non-LLM solution is so bad it can’t even correctly ocr monospaced hi-res scans of ascii text with sufficient accuracy.
Long time ago, I had a similar - but worse - experience with Sony, with a Vaio laptop.

Ultra-high end laptop, and I had also paid for and fitted an Intel X25-E, the very first and single-cell ultra high performance SSD. Laptop was 2k euro, drive was another 700 euro.

After a year or two, the fan begins to run loud - that's fine, normal event.

Laptop is sent back under warranty for fan replacement.

Laptop returns with a new motherboard (and as such, the SIM I left in the motherboard was missing).

Windows does NOT like having the motherboard changed underneath it, and was royally confused on boot, and no longer worked correctly.

I explain this to Support, and that it takes a month for a fresh install of Windows to be fully up to speed.

Laptop is sent back again.

Support then sends me an invoice : their solution to having fucked up Windows is to remove my 700 euro X25-E drive and charge me 400 euro to install a new standard Sony spinning-platter drive with a fresh install of Windows on it.

I gave up with Sony, got my laptop back, reinstalled Windows, and never had anything to do with them again.
Once again demonstrating that mainstream media is both trustworthy & fake, and not, simultaneously.

Democracy though, that's purely legit.
Real life pro tip in the comments, thanks anon o7
Yeah but as a counterpoint, its too damn slow man. We don’t need to treat drivers like imbeciles.
One of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_rights_organisatio...
As a speaker of Romanian, Kazan is a funny name for a submarine. 'Kazan' means 'boiler' or 'cauldron' in Russian. In Romanian, 'Cazan' has the same meaning, as both words are traced to a Turkic word with the same meaning. However, in Romanian jargon, 'cazan' is also used to describe an old beaten down car or machine, a jalopy, clunker, rattletrap.
"In the long run we are all dead." - Keynes
NYT uses WordPress, so that goes some way to the size...
Most of the secrets and symbols are available in publications and online for a very long time.
RAG Planner
I love the term "weirdware": I've seen systems like that built (and used!) first-hand multiple times in my career.

They can sometimes be very odd force multipliers in unexpected ways.

My favorite example is a home-rolled payroll applications specifically for sales people from over a decade ago. When I first arrived at the org I thought they were absolutely insane to have created such a thing. But its killer feature was that it allowed our org to pay out commissions rapidly (same day) and also allowed negotiating on a per-account residual commission basis as well as giving management the option to buy-out residuals. Off-the-shelf solutions at that time kinda-sorta did this but required either massive upfront $$$ and a ton of integration work. A plucky startup couldn't afford it. This was built, tested, and rolled-out in 45 days by 2 engineers and basically allowed them to poach top sales people because they knew they could get paid faster and had more flexibility on residuals.
Is this at all related to the major migration from Postgres to MySQL?

Previously discussed on HN (294 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585
And what do you call when you call that API? wgpu in Firefox and Dawn in Chrome.

wgpu is an implementation of webgpu with the raw rust bindings rather than the C-API it also provides called by Firefox.

Unless you want to dig into the implementation details of the various subcrates.
I love that table! He did a great job.

Intel _tried_ to update the standard with BTX in 2004.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTX_(form_factor)

I worked on 1 or 2 boxes designed like that, and they were just annoying. Instead or a "redesign" that I agree with you we need; Simply described, it's an upside down ATX.
I was amazed too! 40 Mb for a save file is astounding, a thousandth of the Kiwix package of the whole text of Wikipedia. How many objects is it saving?
Not really forced, but nudged towards. The trivial approach would be something like significantly higher taxes and social contributions for each subsequent adult year of childlessness. Wouldn't be unwarranted since you're a greater burden overall to society over your lifetime and you're not contributing to the next generation. Countries could then use that money to either subsidize other people having kids (optimistic solution) or compete on attracting young people from other countries (more realistic solution).

People seem to think "oh, I'm paying my social contributions, that should be enough for my retirement", but the whole formula really doesn't factor in a sharp drop in workforce we're about to experience. We're papering over the monetary deficit with credit all over the world, but that's not feasible long-term, and the "who's actually gonna do it" aspect will become much more important. Writing a check doesn't change the senior's diaper, nor anything else.

As for practical solutions, first you have to make it possible for young people to obtain real estate again somehow (crucial), then to subsidize kindergartens / child care of all kinds heavily, and only then go more radical.

Another radical angle could be some sort of education reform where people are somehow incentivized to do all the post-BSc education in their 30s instead of 20s. How to achieve that without horrible side effects is up to debate. Subsidies for parents on every corner and every aspect of life (including education) would probably work, but how much is the optimum and how to implement it is a serious question.
Are those still being used? I haven't used Konqueror in awhile.
This article is in the context of stream processing, which is a bit of a special case, but:

Whenever somebody is making a lot of hot air about consistency in their chosen SQL database, they tend to conveniently sweep under the rug how common it is to use read-only replicas that are fed by asynchronous replication and caches that are updated when the programmer remembers to / that use consistency-ignoring TTLs.
Spambots as a service, that's what this is to be brutally honest.
It's for this exact reason that the role of ombudsman was created for many newspapers, although the role has been dying for a while now. Having someone on staff whose job it is to keep everyone accountable makes things easier on everyone.
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the cashier at the local gas station convenience store was wearing a body camera. I asked him if he was required to wear it. He replied that he bought the camera himself to back up his side of the story when customer complaints are made about him to management.
If using the Raspberry Pi 5 I wouldn't go for a battery-powered solution because it's pretty power hungry. But you can run this screen just fine off of a Raspberry Pi Zero, or ideally a microcontroller if you want basically no power draw while it's sleeping. I was just lazy.
I never realized just how thin these displays are. Very cool!
Yes I don't understand why so few manufacturers wdo partnerships with projects such as lineageos or /e/os from the very start. It seems to me there is a large intersection of people who want an alternative device format AND degoogled phone.

I am very interested with this device but only if I can have a firmware without the usual google + manufacturer's crap.
And you would've been right. I'm still worried about their sanity to this day. Btw it's not just devs, most regular users I deal with on daily basis hate it (be it Teams or whatever), they just don't know why it's such a crap. And they don't have to.
Most houses are owned by people who do not work for it. It's the rent from their other houses that give them even more money, effectively doing nothing. Let's not think those people deserve our praise for their parasitism.
Play fantasy strategy game over email
You would be right in other cases, but the site also reports and summerizes on research about the topic

https://www.population.fyi/t/family-research
The main site is based on WordPress? That is wild.
There's also virt-install, which is part of the Virt Manager package. https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/blob/main/man/v...

curl --output-dir $HOME/.local/share/libvirt/images/ -LO https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/bookworm/20240507-1740/debian-12-genericcloud-arm64-20240507-1740.qcow2
virt-install --import --osinfo debian12 --disk size=20,backing_store=$HOME/.local/share/libvirt/images/debian-12-genericcloud-arm64-20240507-1740.qcow2 --controller type=scsi,model=virtio-scsi --cloud-init
> Journalism is supposed to be free of conflicts of interest.

I didn't disagree with this.

>> American labor law to protect employees from retaliation

There sure are. Saying bad things about your boss, in public, is not one of them. We have the right to speak freely. That mean that the government can not curtail it. It does not mean that you can Scream fire in a crowded theater. It does not mean you can slander people (Alex jones). It does not mean your employer cant fire you over what you say... saying bad things about your CEO isnt protected, neither is being a racist, or an assholee or..

> Business owners can't just do whatever they want.

No they cant, there are laws... however if you shit on your company or your boss they can fire you, legally:

https://nysba.org/can-you-get-fired-for-speaking-your-mind-o....
Windows won't take screenshots of everything you do after all, unless you opt in
I agree but would be a little more precise:

Our current testing to measure IQ has racial and class biases.

I don’t think IQ itself (as a concept) is the issue; it’s our quantification of it that is flawed.
> Of course, at work, I use Windows.

That's not "of course" at all! I've used Linux on my laptop in all of my last four jobs. Five jobs ago I had two computers and one of them was mandated to have Windows...
You are NOT a journalist.

If you want to be a CEO of a respected newspaper you better have your shit together or expect one of your journalist to write negative things about you.
Definitely I will. I’m actually using the WXT framework which has support for Firefox, but I have not successfully been able to get my extension to work with it. However, I would love to. Please reach out if you would like to beta test for Firefox.
I've pondered a bit more about it and I was the one who was mistaken. I think the author made great observations. It's just that I don't want to go back to non token thinking. I don't want there to be a 13x13xE final output from the CNN. I really want there to be a visual vocabulary from which tokens are chosen. And I want this visual vocabulary to be fixed/untrainable/deterministic. That'd be very cool.

But why only choose 13x13 + 1? :(

I'm willing to bet that the author's conclusion of embeddings coming from CNNs is wrong. However, I cannot get the 13x13 + 1 observation out my head though. He's definitely hit on something there. I'm with them that there is very likely a CNN involved. And I'm going to put my bet on the final filters and kernel are the visual vocabulary.

And how do you go from 50k convolutional kernels (think tokens) to always 170 chosen tokens for any image? I don't know...
If you're a layperson interested in these sensory questions, I highly recommend the book An Immense World by Ed Yong. It's a 400-something page tour through the many senses animals have and we (mostly) don't. It might have the highest density of truly cool animal facts per page of anything I've ever read, despite being written for adults who maybe haven't considered themselves the audience for fun animal facts in decades.
The solution would be to wear your own body cam, similar to how you want your own dash cam for your side of the story.

The same problem exists with police too, since their body cams can be "turned off", or go missing, or the data get "corrupted". Although, you might want yours to be capable of live-streaming to the cloud so it can be saved there.

I'm surprised schools don't have cameras yet, as that is where some of the most vulnerable populations are. Especially to deal with bullying.

Once everyone is recording their point of view, and it can be referenced to later, then disputes should be more easily resolved.

But then the problem moves up to how does one know the video has not been altered.
> Because I don't buy this narrative from the article or in medical research that there are two kinds of autism.

I'd like to preface this by saying I don't feel strongly about the naming issue in either direction.

Initially I figured the authors were using the word "Autism" as used in DSM-5, where it's a blanket term for a range of conditions. But, their repeated assertion of "two types" of autism doesn't line up with that theory: DSM-5 defines three levels, not two.

They definitely aren't using the DSM-IV definition of Autism (the stricter definition that you prefer), and they also aren't following the taxonomy laid out in DSM-5. Where did their definition of Autism come from?

Was it implied that their two-level model was derived from the results of their tests? If so, I missed that part. They mention a correlation between brain overgrowth and severity of symptoms, but they don't mention a clear separation in the test data that would justify classification into two distinct groups.

I understand that DSM isn't gospel, but if they're going to make up their own taxonomy, they should provide some rationale for it.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601754

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604353

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605203

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606768
> Worse than that people who do that work also bitch about how shitty the results are too, but then continue writing garbage because that’s the best they can do.

True, but the only solution to this is "get good". Because using vanilla JS isn't going to make them any less likely to make a foot gun.

In my experience, the most brittle projects I've worked with tend not to be component-based SPAs. Maybe not necessarily because they're SPAs, but because they're component based, which in JS world, pretty much always requires the use of ES modules.

Even if someone makes some horseshit you can iterate away from it easily because (at least in the case of Vue), it's incredibly difficult to leverage global state (and discouraged, in programming in general, but also specifically bt Vue) and everything you do is encapsulated in components.

The JS projects that give me nightmares are the ones that use globals that are defined/populated/hydrated across different JS files, so the JS files have to be loaded in a certain order, or you get undefined reference errors and the like everywhere.

All of this is sorted out for you by bundlers and frameworks. And if you're not using a framework, you almost have to be good enough to make a framework to avoid all those pitfalls yourself.

At least that's been my experience with vanilla JS vs. framework JS in enterprises.

I really think the web purist rage about it comes from the fact that these individuals have dedicated years to perfecting exactly this craft (building little frameworks for themselves) and now complete noobs can make websites that look equally as sophisticated in 5 minutes. I don't think it really has to do with practicality as they claim. (E.g. gatekeeping)

Many webpages can and should exist with as little JS as possible, but the moment UX matters more than whatever bespoke concern is causing that restriction, you start having to think about the JS as a full fledged app vs. just some scripts bringing life to HTML (or you just delegate a bunch of UI code to the server).

I think if the website is primarily for reading static content, it makes sense not to use a framework. But once you are managing forms, reactivity, and rapidly changing demands from user feedback, it stops being easy to balance between creativity/flexibility in design and robustness.

And the reality is, most web developers are just working on some version or component of an ERP, which is a reactive data driven app that changes constantly to keep up with the business it's built for.

Frameworks usually facilitate rapid iteration in such products.

But I agree, installing 40 npm packages to build a blog is silly.
That's clearly a broken analogy.

If you're smart enough to put this thing together -- then you're smart enough to see this fact as well.

What you've created here is a cheating tool, straight up.
Huh. I think St. Michael might be clever. The second line goes through areas where there are many Michael named locations. Often disproportionately.

Cyprus: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@34.8439762,3...

Rhodos: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@36.5898973,2...

Thessaloniki: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@40.9052893,2...

Croatia: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@44.8895084,1...

Switzerland: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@47.0545837,8...

France, almost right through Paris notably: https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@48.823467,2....

England, Exeter area (bunch of Michael churches): https://www.google.com/maps/search/st.+michael/@50.7123109,-...

Many are actually kind of notable in that they bunch fairly near the geodesic like in Croatia. They might be the birthday paradox, definitely a possibility. Yet quite a bit of clustering along that route.
It's one of the things that I find fascinating about Naval tech. From the sonar from each boat to the network of devices like SOSUS net[0], you have to be very good and deliberate to sneak around in the oceans.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS
That's a great point. If your experimental methodology is flawed, it doesn't matter how big your sample size is. A study like this lets you gather some compelling evidence that you may have a real effect. Then you can refine the technique. Autism is a very active area of research, so I suspect we'll see other groups attempt to replicate this study and adapt its techniques while the original authors refine the technique and get funding to perform larger studies.
I think the bioweapons take is really strange. My experience of AIs is that they have an extremely large breadth of knowledge, but when you get into any real depth, they are lacking.

Any decent graduate student is infinitely more capable in their field of expertise than a layperson with an LLM (not to mention likely has equipment that ordinary people don't). We don't ban biology or physics degrees for fear of people making WMDs, why should we ban LLMs, which are comparably way less dangerous?